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Speaker 1: A new search engine that you pay for. Microsoft Reveals

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Speaker 2: What is going on?

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

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Speaker 1: Richdmiro once again, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Thanks so much for tuning in. Got a

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Speaker 1: lot of folks listening today on Facebook. What do they

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Speaker 1: call it? Live audio rooms? Live audio rooms? This is

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Speaker 1: a new thing on Facebook. I've been testing out and

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Speaker 1: it's pretty phenomenal. It's basically their version of clubhouse. But

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Speaker 1: the reason why it's so cool for me personally is

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Speaker 1: So let's see, I'll I don't know, it's always nerve wracking,

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Speaker 1: Why not, Well, this is a big week in so

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Speaker 1: many different ways. Number One went back to KTLA for

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Speaker 1: So I've been reporting from the studio at KTLA in

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Speaker 1: and it was really cool to see my family hang out,

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Speaker 1: This is really really interesting because we are so used

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Speaker 1: But I have to say, I think they are definitely.

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Speaker 1: on my iPhone, I don't think the widgets are that fantastic,

437
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Speaker 1: But I like widgets. I like seeing stuff when I

438
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 1: do go to my desktop. It is kind of fun

439
00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,919
Speaker 1: to see new information. So Windows eleven there is a

440
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Speaker 1: public beta out now, but this all things point to

441
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Speaker 1: an October launch for the actual Windows eleven update, which

442
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 1: I'm sure during that time we'll hear all the people

443
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Speaker 1: complain about how they don't want.

444
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Speaker 2: To update because it's gonna mess up.

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Speaker 1: What they're used to, all right, Sandra says, Hey, Rich,

446
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 1: You've been so helpful with your wonderful reviews of the

447
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,200
Speaker 1: new tech stuff that's always appearing. Your advice is easy

448
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 1: and pertains to the everyday user of technology.

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00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I have a question regarding streaming iHeartRadio stations to my iPhone.

451
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Speaker 1: I'm a big Dodger fan. I enjoy listening to the

452
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 1: games of my twenty year old Walkman radio, but that's

453
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 1: about to bite the dust. If I listen to the

454
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 1: Dodgers on my iPhone while away from home, will use

455
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Speaker 1: up the data that I have allotted for my iPhone

456
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Speaker 1: Verizon plan I do not have unlimited.

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Speaker 2: Thanks again, Sandy.

458
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Speaker 1: Sandy, the answer is yes, it will definitely use your

459
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Speaker 1: data unless you are on Wi Fi. So if you're

460
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Speaker 1: on Wi Fi and you can find a Wi Fi network,

461
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 1: you can log onto that and your iHeartRadio will come

462
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Speaker 1: through there. But yes, iHeartRadio as an app. The way

463
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Speaker 1: it works is that it does use the data from

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Speaker 1: your phone, so your cellular data would be used in

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Speaker 1: that instance. Now, if you want to keep it from

466
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Speaker 1: using your cellular data, you can actually go into the

467
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Speaker 1: settings on your iPhone and you can turn off cellular

468
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 1: data for the iHeartRadio app and that will force it

469
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Speaker 1: to never use cellular data. It will only work if

470
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Speaker 1: you have Wi Fi, So that's a kind of an

471
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Speaker 1: easy way to if you don't want to think about it.

472
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,399
Speaker 1: And if you happen to be in a Starbucks or

473
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Speaker 1: in a place, or you're even in your house listening

474
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Speaker 1: and you want to just make sure that you're only

475
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Speaker 1: using your WiFi, you can do that. It's kind of

476
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Speaker 1: an extreme measure, but it's definitely an option. Now there

477
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Speaker 1: are radio station apps that you can get that do

478
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Speaker 1: use an FM tuner on your phone, but in the

479
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 1: US they are increasingly hard to come by. I know

480
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Speaker 1: that TCL with their last phone, the TCL ten Pro,

481
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Speaker 1: they did have it built in.

482
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Speaker 2: It's a rarity, but if.

483
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Speaker 1: You put the headphones in the phone, the headphone cord

484
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,920
Speaker 1: acts as an antenna which can actually pick up an

485
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Speaker 1: FM radio station and it does not use your data.

486
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Speaker 1: So that's another option on iPhone that's never possibility. It's

487
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: just never existed, and it's even on Android phones. It's

488
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Speaker 1: very hit or miss. Like Samsung, I know, has built

489
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Speaker 1: the technology in there in the past, but a lot

490
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Speaker 1: of the carriers have disabled it because guess what turns

491
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: out this cell phone carriers want you to use their

492
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Speaker 1: data because it costs you money. So that's, you know,

493
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: just one of those things. But the radio app, I

494
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: think it's called like ant an ant radio or.

495
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Speaker 2: Something like that.

496
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Speaker 1: So if you look it up you can see there's

497
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff written about it online that people

498
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Speaker 1: talk about. But yeah, here in the US, not that popular.

499
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Speaker 1: But there are some phones that actually lets you do it.

500
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Speaker 2: It's just it's not always possible. So good question.

501
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: And again this this question falls under the you know,

502
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure if this is a stupid question,

503
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: but you know what, it doesn't matter. There are no

504
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 1: stupid questions here, so that's that's just that's kind of

505
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Speaker 1: how I roll, you know. All right, let's see I

506
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 1: brought on Fred. Let's see if Fred wants to come

507
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: on and actually speak. But in the meantime, while he

508
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: figures that out, let's talk about travel sites. This is

509
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: a story I did on KTLA and you know traveling.

510
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Speaker 2: I was, it's just clearly.

511
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Speaker 1: People are traveling. I mean, believe me going to New Jersey.

512
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Speaker 1: The when I went to New Jersey from LAX. I'm

513
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: not kidding. I've had my routine down for years. You know,

514
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 1: I travel a decent amount, and I'm not joking. We

515
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: were running to basically make it to the gate because

516
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: I well, Number one, I made a reservation at the

517
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Speaker 1: wrong parking place, So that was that was fun. When

518
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Speaker 1: I when I went in, it like didn't open, and

519
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: I was like, that's weird. So turned out I made

520
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Speaker 1: a reservation at the wrong place. That was my first mistake.

521
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: Then I totally misjudged timing and how everyone is understaffed

522
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: right now because they have not been able to staff

523
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Speaker 1: up because they were operating at such a lesser extent

524
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 1: ur in COVID, and all of a sudden everyone just

525
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: started traveling and now it's like, oh, we need to

526
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: get these people back here. And so you know, checking

527
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: in luggage, all that stuff just took a really long time.

528
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: But I will say the woman that checked me into

529
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Speaker 1: the plane, the woman who scanned my boarding pass, did

530
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Speaker 1: say she was a big fan, so that was that

531
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Speaker 1: was nice.

532
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 2: On the plane, I was like, do.

533
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Speaker 1: Big fans get a big upgrade to first class? Turns

534
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: out no, no upgrade to first class.

535
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 2: That's you know, it's kind of funny.

536
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 1: You always read these things to say, if you dress

537
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,919
Speaker 1: real nice at the airport and you walk up to

538
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: the stand with confidence and you ask for a first

539
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: class upgrade and you tell them you're on your honeymoon,

540
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: you might just get it. That does not work. It

541
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: has never worked. Maybe it worked like in the sixties,

542
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: but are you kidding me? They have such sophisticated algorithms

543
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 1: that determine who is going to get that upgrade to

544
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Speaker 1: first class. And by the way, they have such good

545
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: algorithms that it used to be, you know, you can

546
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Speaker 1: get a first class upgrade, you know, days and weeks

547
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Speaker 1: in advance. Now the algorithms are so smart that they

548
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: try to sniff the money out of your pocket right

549
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: up until like the moment that you walk on that plane.

550
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: So a lot of times you can still purchase an

551
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Speaker 1: upgrade to first class, like up until the last moment,

552
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Speaker 1: and you might even bump someone out.

553
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: That got a free upgrade.

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Speaker 1: I've I've seen that happen, and so people have told

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00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: me that. They said, ah, yeah, I had the upgrade,

556
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: and I guess someone paid for it, so they you know,

557
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do. It's like anyway, I was

558
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: in first class once I got an upgrade a long

559
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: time ago.

560
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Speaker 2: This one.

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Speaker 1: I traveled a lot lot, so i'd like, you know,

562
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: the automatic upgrades, and it didn't happen very often, but

563
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Speaker 1: one time it didn't.

564
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 2: They actually tapped me on the back and they said, ah,

565
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 2: you gotta gotta head back to basic.

566
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: Not basic economy. It was just a con you know,

567
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: whatever it's called. But it was like it was like

568
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: doing the Walk of shame because I had to go back.

569
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Speaker 2: It was like romp rope.

570
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Speaker 1: I brought my little drink with me, though I already

571
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Speaker 1: had an orange juice I was working on, so yes,

572
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: it was just orange juice all right. Trip it number

573
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: one in my informal Twitter poll. Everyone loves trip it.

574
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: I use to use trip it a lot back in

575
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: the day when I traveled a ton. Then I kind

576
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Speaker 1: of started using Google Travel or Google Trips because it

577
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: would do a lot of the same things. But then

578
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: as part of the story, I started testing trip it

579
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: again and I found out that yeah, it does actually

580
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: work really well, and to get the most out of it,

581
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to go pro for forty nine dollars

582
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: a year. But check with your company because a lot

583
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 1: of companies give it you for free, mine included, so

584
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: definitely see if your company gives you trip it. The

585
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: only thing I don't like about that, and this is

586
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: probably why I stopped using it. All my personal trips

587
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: were showing up on my corporate expense reports and stuff,

588
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 1: and it was kind of odd that I was like, wait,

589
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: why do they keep knowing about all these trips? And

590
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: so you just have to there's a way to separate it,

591
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: I think, But yeah, it was just kind of weird.

592
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: Google Flights if you're looking for the best place to

593
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: shop for flights, I truly think Google flights is the best.

594
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: I love how you can put your dates into the calendar,

595
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: or not even put dates in, just put your destination

596
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: in and Google flight will show you the cheapest days

597
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,479
Speaker 1: to fly. They're highlighted in green, and then you can

598
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: click those days. Typically what I do is I'll click

599
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: the best cheapest days and I'll see if they're okay

600
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: for my travel dates, and then I will look for

601
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: the cheapest flights on those days, which Google also helps

602
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: you identify. The other feature I really like is how

603
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 1: you can track your flight prices, so you can pick

604
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 1: your exact flight price or sorry, your exact flights, and

605
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: you can hit track and Google will tell you when

606
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: the prices go up or down. Now I will tell

607
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: you a majority of the time.

608
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: They go up.

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00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: And this is why I always say, if you find

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Speaker 1: a good price and it works for you, just book it.

611
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: The trip that I've been tracking to New Jersey for

612
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: later in the year was about two hundred dollars when

613
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: I first started tracking it. Then it went up to

614
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Speaker 1: two thirty now, then it went up to two fifty,

615
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: and today it went up to six twenty seven. So

616
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: these things, you know, if you keep keep an eye

617
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: on them, they definitely go up in price. And it

618
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: is it does pay to book when you see a

619
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Speaker 1: price that you think is right. There's no right time

620
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: to book. It just really has to do with the price.

621
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: If you fly home to New Jersey all the time,

622
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Speaker 1: like I do. I know the average price is about

623
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Speaker 1: three hundred dollars. And so if I see a price

624
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: at two twenty or two oh seven, like I have

625
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: enduring coronavirus, you know I should have booked those prices.

626
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: Now they're going up to regular prices three fifty four hundred,

627
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: and if you're looking at the week before, it's like

628
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: game over, they could be really really high.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

630
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: Flight Aware this is a website that helps you track

631
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: your flights, and one feature I just really like about

632
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: it is the get Notifications. So if you have a

633
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: person that's picking you up at the airport, or you

634
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: just want to get updates, or you want to send

635
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: updates to a family member or a friend or whatever,

636
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: you pop in your flight number and look for the

637
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: get notifications banner in the upper right hand corner, and

638
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: then you put in your friend's email address, and they

639
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,959
Speaker 1: will get updates when your flight takes off, when it lands,

640
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: if it's delayed, if it's diverted, whatever, it's canceled. And

641
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: believe me, I've had every single one of those things

642
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: happen to me. I've had flights canceled I've had flights delayed.

643
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: I've been diverted several times. One year, I think I

644
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: had two emergency landings in different places. Thankfully, it wasn't

645
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: the plane that was the problem, it was people on

646
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: the plane. I actually I shouldn't say thankfully.

647
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

648
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: In two cases it was very scary. You know where

649
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: they say is there a doctor on board? And when

650
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: you hear those words on a plane, it is it

651
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: is very wow, like wait, what, uh? Okay, my next.

652
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: This is probably my biggest travel tip. And maybe I'm

653
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: spending too much time on this, but Google things to do.

654
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: I know it sounds like I just love Google, but

655
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Speaker 1: I do. Some of these things are really cool. But

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Speaker 1: this is my biggest I didn't want to share this

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Speaker 1: secret on TV because I just think it's so fantastic

658
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Speaker 1: that I wanted to keep it all to myself. But

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Speaker 1: if you search the name of a city on Google Plus,

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Speaker 1: the words top sits, So this works no matter where

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Speaker 1: you are. It doesn't have to be a big city.

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Speaker 1: It can be a small city, it can be a state,

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Speaker 1: it can be anything. So you can type in California

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Speaker 1: top sites, you can type Los Angeles top Site. You

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Speaker 1: can type Malibu top sites. Let me see, can you

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Speaker 1: Malibu top? Oh see, I'm using Neiva, so I have

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Speaker 1: to switch to They have a feature on there, so

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Speaker 1: they do. But let me go to Google and just

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Speaker 1: type in Malibu top sites, and sure enough, here it is.

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Speaker 1: Top site in Malibu is Point Doom, then el Maattotor Beach,

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Speaker 1: and then Zooma Beach, which is one of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: So you can also narrow down by kid friendly outdoors, museums, beaches.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic. It is absolutely my best kept secret for travel.

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00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: Type in any city and just top sites and you

675
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: will find the best things to do in that place.

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Speaker 1: And they're not always like a paid thing, and they're not.

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Speaker 2: Edited by a curator or whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's just Google using Google's knowledge to kind of, you know,

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Speaker 1: figure out what people are clicking on, what has the

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Speaker 1: most websites directed to it. All that good stuff, all right,

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Speaker 1: Moving through uproad. This is an app that replaces toll transponders.

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Speaker 1: When I first talked about this on KTLA, everyone poop

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Speaker 1: pooed me. Oh, Rich, come on, come on, come on.

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Speaker 1: It's such a cool idea. I just wished it worked

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Speaker 1: for rental cars. But if you Uproad continues to expand

686
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Speaker 1: the amount of roads that it works on nationwide, So

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Speaker 1: if you have this app installed in your phone, you

688
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: basically can use easy Pass in a lot of different places.

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Speaker 1: Of course, check to see if it works on the

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Speaker 1: roads that you're going to be going on before you go.

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Speaker 1: There are some convenience fees involved with it, but it

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00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. And finally, this is something I didn't

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Speaker 1: get to check out personally, but I thought it sounded

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. It's called Hotels by Day and this lets

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Speaker 1: you rent a hotel room by the day or just

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Speaker 1: like a hotel pool, so if you want to just

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Speaker 1: hang out by the pool, lounge around. You can rent

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Speaker 1: these rooms in blocks of three to twelve hours. And

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00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: right now they have two thousand properties. They say there

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Speaker 1: should be sixty.

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Speaker 2: Five hundred on board by the end of the year.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Next question comes from row heat. He says, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I love your Facebook feeds. Can you please suggest a

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Speaker 1: video editor, a free and a premium version. Well, rohe,

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Speaker 1: my favorite video editor is Adobe Rush and it is

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Speaker 1: it's not necessarily free. I think some parts of it

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Speaker 1: are free, but if you really want to get the

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Speaker 1: most use out of it, you have to pay ten

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Speaker 1: dollars a month, but I'll be honest, I've been using

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Speaker 1: it without paying and it seems to still work. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know if there's like premium features that I

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: don't get. I know it says every time, hey upgrade

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Speaker 1: for four K, but honestly, I don't need four K

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Speaker 1: for my social media stuff, so I've been I mean,

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Speaker 1: that app is just is just amazing. I absolutely love it.

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00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: It is so good, it's so easy, it's it's simple,

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Speaker 1: and even if you even if you do have to

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Speaker 1: pay ten dollars a month, which you don't have to,

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Speaker 1: you can try a free trial of it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it might it might beg you to kind of or

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Speaker 1: nag you to, you know, continue subscribing. But I think

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Speaker 1: once I canceled, I'm still using it. It's on my phone,

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Speaker 1: it still works, and maybe maybe there's certain features I

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Speaker 1: can't use, but it seems like it works pretty well,

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00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: and so that is my favorite. Otherwise, I mean, I

727
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: don't really have another option. I mean, I use Final

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Speaker 1: Cut Pro as my desktop editor.

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Speaker 2: That's good.

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Speaker 1: You can also get iMovie on the iPhone. He sent

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Speaker 1: sent his email from the iPhone, so you can get iMovie.

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Speaker 1: There's something called clips Apple Clips which you can use.

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Speaker 1: There's also Majesto m A g I t O. You

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00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: can also use Google Photos to edit. They have some

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00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: photo video editing features built into that. But my overall

736
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: favorite is definitely Adobe Rush. It is phenomenal and that

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00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: is that is what I'd recommend using. So good question,

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00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 1: good question, good question.

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Speaker 2: All right, if you.

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Speaker 1: Use venmou, this is Oh my gosh, it's so again.

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Speaker 1: This goes back into the thing of when these sites

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Speaker 1: start out, all these tech startups. Venmo, good example, how

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00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: in the world does venmo make money. They don't charge

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00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: you anything to send money to your friends. Yeah, they

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00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: charge little things like to you know, if you want

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00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: your money out instantly and show up in your bank account.

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00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: And yes, they might make a percentage on all the

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Speaker 1: money that people keep in there in their bank accounts

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Speaker 1: or their accounts rather, and they might make interest on

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Speaker 1: that money.

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00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 2: I guess they call that word float.

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00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm not a financial expert, so maybe that's not

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Speaker 1: what it's called, but you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 1: if I keep one thousand dollars in my Venmo for

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00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: a month, someone's making some interest on that money because

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00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: someone else is putting that money to good use, not me.

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00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: It's just sitting there. At the end of a month,

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00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: it's still a thousand dollars. But if you keep a

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00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: thousand bucks in a savings account at your bank, at

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Speaker 1: the end of a month, you might have one thousand

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00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: dollars and three cents because there's not much interest they're

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Speaker 1: paying anymore on these accounts.

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Speaker 2: So with that said, Venmo is going.

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Speaker 1: To start charging a fee for people that use it

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Speaker 1: as a business transaction. Venmo was created for person to

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Speaker 1: person payments and it has worked very.

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00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 2: Well for that. But guess what.

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Speaker 1: A lot of business people have, especially independent contract have

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Speaker 1: become hip to the fact that if I pay you

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Speaker 1: via Venmo, you get the full amount and it kind

771
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: of goes under the table. And Venmo knows this. They're

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Speaker 1: not dumb and so but of course Venmo wants to

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Speaker 1: They want to make as much money as possible because

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Speaker 1: they're part of PayPal. And guess what, when everyone was

775
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: using PayPal back in the day to pay each other,

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00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: it was the same thing. Soon as you're identified as

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Speaker 1: a business, next thing you know, you got charged fees

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00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: on your account. And now Venmo all the people flock

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00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: to Venmo to use it for free, and guess what,

780
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: same company and same issue, and now Venmo saying we're

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00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: gonna do the same thing. So according to recode on vox,

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Speaker 1: one point nine percent of the transaction plus ten cents

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00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: from the money that is sent to the seller. But

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Speaker 1: here's how they're making it legitimatized. Is that the word

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00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 1: they're saying that once you do this, you'll be eligible

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Speaker 1: for Venmo's purchase protection program, which does make a little

787
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: bit of sense, because if there's a problem with a

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00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: business transaction and you do it through Venmo, you have

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00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: no recourse because guess what, you bought something from someone online,

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00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: You sent them money via Venmo and they don't ever

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00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: send you the gadget or the product or whatever. And

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00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: you go, oh, what's my recourse and they say, I

793
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: don't know. You just sent me twenty bucks for sushi.

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00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: That's what it's said on your Venmo And so how

795
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: do you, you know, have any recourse when this was

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00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 1: not a legitimate quote unquote business transaction. So that's what

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00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: their argument is, and I do see a side of that.

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00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: As people use Venmo, you can get scammed by Venmo.

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Speaker 1: So it could actually protect you in certain ways because

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Speaker 1: people have to register as a seller. I'm just giving

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00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: you both sides. I'm not saying you know one way

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00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: or the other. But you know, look, I ran a

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Speaker 1: business when I sold my book, and it is expensive

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00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: to have a business. I have an LLC for that,

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00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: and it's it's expensive every year in California. You got

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00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: to pay eight hundred dollars just to have that. My

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00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: taxes are more expensive because I got to pay for

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Speaker 1: you know, a schedule. I think they used to call

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Speaker 1: it schedule. See now I think it's just whatever they built.

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00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. My point is, if you're running a business,

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Speaker 1: there are fees associated with running that business, and not

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Speaker 1: all of them are exciting to pay. And believe me,

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00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: when I was doing when I was selling my book

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Speaker 1: and I sold it in person the way I personally

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00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: felt would I would say, if you wanted, I'd accepted Square,

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Speaker 1: right that little thing where you swipe the credit card

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00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: when I do like speaking things, people would come up

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Speaker 1: at the end and buy my book.

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Speaker 2: And so I was so happy.

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Speaker 1: To pay the three percent or whatever it was on

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Speaker 1: top of the fee to sell my book through Square

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Speaker 1: or when I sold it on Amazon, it was like,

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Speaker 1: I think they took thirty or forty percent of a

824
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Speaker 1: profit or whatever a rake because of all the stuff

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Speaker 1: that they'd let me.

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Speaker 2: Do on there. And I was so happy to pay,

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Speaker 2: even though I saw these huge.

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Speaker 1: Numbers going by my eyes, going, oh my gosh, look

829
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Speaker 1: how much money I paid to Amazon this month, or

830
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: look how much I paid to Square in a lesser extent,

831
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Speaker 1: but I was so happy to do it because guess what,

832
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: I was making money at the same time. And so

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00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: my feeling as a business person and this is just

834
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: my feeling, and I get it. Business people you can

835
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: argue with me, but it's like there is a cost

836
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: associated with doing business, and I get it.

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Speaker 2: You feel like, oh, this is such a waste, Like

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Speaker 2: why does.

839
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Speaker 1: Someone have to you know, why do I have to

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Speaker 1: pay to Venmo to get money from someone?

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00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 2: Well, there is it.

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00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: There are people that have to program that app, and

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00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: there are people that have to you know, work the

844
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: app and work the customer service and all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: So there are fees involved.

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Speaker 1: I was at a restaurant in New Jersey and there

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00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,479
Speaker 1: was a big sign at the cash register that said

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Speaker 1: we will charge three point nine to nine percent on

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Speaker 1: top of any credit card that you use here. And

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00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: I said, what I mean, And I've seen this before,

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00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: the signs that say we don't accept credit cards or

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00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: we have to do a ten dollars minimum, and you

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00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: know with that restaurant. I posted it to my Facebook

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00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: page and people were chiming in. But the reality is like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I get that you have to pay four

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Speaker 1: percent and it's you know, covering the fees on the

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Speaker 1: credit card, and you want me to pay cash, but

858
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,959
Speaker 1: like it's much more convenient to pay with a credit card,

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Speaker 1: and now I have to pay, you know, another way,

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Speaker 1: because I'm not paying four percent on top of my dinner,

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Speaker 1: which is already expensive. And so we ended up the group,

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Speaker 1: we ended up paying cash. And this was the best part.

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Speaker 1: And I if my dad is listening to this podcast,

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Speaker 1: this is all in good Jess. But it was so

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Speaker 1: funny because we're at the table and you know, we're

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Speaker 1: all splitting up the bill and my dad said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, you just put in this much and you know,

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Speaker 1: I was using my credit card or no, I was

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00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 1: putting cash in and my dad sees the four percent

870
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: thing and he's like, oh, he put his credit card

871
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: down and he said after he saw it, he goes, oh,

872
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: I'm not paying four percent, so I'll I'll just put

873
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: cash in. But he was short some of the cash,

874
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: so by him saving money on that four percent transaction fee,

875
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: I had to put in like an extra like thirty

876
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 1: dollars onto the bills. I said, hold on, you saved

877
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: the transaction fee. I got to put an extra thirty

878
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: dollars on top of the cash already put in.

879
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 2: It gave us a laugh, but it was funny.

880
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I do not mind putting in my

881
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: fair share, but it was just so funny how it happened, like, oh,

882
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: the restaurant site or you save your four percent, but

883
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: I don't. Well, you know, you listen to this podcast

884
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: because you're hearing rich on tech, and you know what,

885
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: if you don't want to hear my stories, then uh,

886
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: don't listen. But you know what you're you're guaranteed to

887
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: get a little, a little bit of my stories built

888
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: into this podcast because I like telling stories and I

889
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: like I like sharing a little a little insight on

890
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: my life with you. So thanks. All right, I think

891
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: it's time for another question. Enough about me, Enough about Venmo.

892
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 1: Let's get to another question. Patricia Nelson woos. Patricia says,

893
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 1: my ten year old granddaughter loves to draw. Her birthday

894
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: is coming up in late July. I would like to

895
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: buy her a tablet so she can draw on, but

896
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: does not h but I've been overwhelmed by the choices.

897
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: Ideally it should be able to run independent of the computer,

898
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: but those look very expensive.

899
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 2: Our home computer is a MacPro.

900
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: If using a computer is required for my need, which

901
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: would be okay, as long as she can be drawing

902
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: on her tablet as well as a screen, I appreciate

903
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: it if you can help me make a choice. Thanks Patricia. Patricia,

904
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: here's the deal. I think what you're referring to with

905
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: the ones that have to be connected to a computer

906
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: are there's a certain type of like super high end.

907
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: I forget what the brand name is, but it's what

908
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: all the graphic artists use, and it connects to your

909
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: computer and you can draw and you can do all

910
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: kinds of amazing stuff. I don't think your ten year

911
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: old daughter granddaughter needs that. What I think she'd be

912
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: perfectly suited with is an iPad. And there's two choices here.

913
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: So the iPad as it stands, the three hundred and

914
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars basic iPad you can get that. The

915
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: latest model does have a touch sensitive screen for the

916
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: Apple pencil, but you have to use the old Apple

917
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: pencil with that one. And the old Apple pencil is fine,

918
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: but it's not amazing. It was kind of the first

919
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: generation and it lacks some of the features that I

920
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: think are a little bit better with the new Apple pencil.

921
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: And also the new iPad that is a little bit

922
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: more expensive. But here's the thing, it gets kind of expensive,

923
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: and so that's the problem. The new iPad that you

924
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 1: know you have to get would be the iPad Air,

925
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: and the iPad Air starts at five hundred and fifty

926
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: dollars if you do the education pricing, plus another one

927
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for the Apple pencil, so you're talking six

928
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: hundred fifty bucks. I don't know how much you were

929
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: planning on spending on your granddaughter, but that sounds like

930
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: a very expensive present.

931
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 2: I don't know.

932
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:41,919
Speaker 1: I bought an iPad for my niece, and I think

933
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: I got her the iPad Air. I can't remember at

934
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: this point. Maybe I got the regular iPad. No, I

935
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: think I got the regular iPad plus the pencil I forget,

936
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: but anyway, it's been a while. It was last year,

937
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: but anyway, But I would say the reason why I

938
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: like the iPad air with the Apple pencil is that

939
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: the Apple pencil is a better It just has a

940
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: better feel to it, and it also magnetically attaches to

941
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: the iPad on the side, and it also wirelessly charges

942
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: through that magnetic connection, and so for all those reasons,

943
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: it's a much better setup. But your granddaughter's ten, I

944
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: don't think she's really gonna care. It's just, honestly, I'd

945
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: be more worried about the fact that the original Apple pencil,

946
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: when you want to charge it on the iPad, you

947
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: have to plug it into the bottom of the iPad,

948
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,720
Speaker 1: and it's this weird like looks like an ice cream

949
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: pop like a popsicle stick with the iPad pencil as

950
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: the stick and the iPad as the popsicle part, and

951
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: it can break really easily. So for that reason, I

952
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: think that the other one's better. But those are the

953
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: two things I'd recommend. Just go to the Apple store

954
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,879
Speaker 1: and definitely check out both of those choices and see

955
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: which one you think will work. Better for you, all right,

956
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: Hallmark is this is a neat I thought this was

957
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: really cool. It didn't do as well as I thought

958
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: it would online. Nobody cared as much as I did.

959
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: But I think it's really cool. So, you know, you

960
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 1: send a card. Some people still send old fashioned cards

961
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:08,919
Speaker 1: that are handwritten. My mom and my mother in law,

962
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: I think, are the last two people that send send

963
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: me handwritten cards. And so you know, they go to

964
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: the store, you go to Target or wherever you buy

965
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: a card, and you buy a card, you fill it out,

966
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 1: and you put a stamp on it, and you put

967
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: it in the mailbox. That is all going to go

968
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: away in the future. I feel like like it's just

969
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: it's just dwindling at this point already. So Hallmark of

970
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: course sees that writing on the wall no pun intended.

971
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: And what they're doing is they have a new feature

972
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: called Sign and Send, And I think this is brilliant

973
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: because it's a mix of the two things that we do.

974
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: So now you can use your smartphone to send a

975
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: card and it's a real Hallmark card that you send

976
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:49,919
Speaker 1: right from your phone.

977
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 2: But here's the twist.

978
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: You write your message on a blank sheet of paper,

979
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: right and then with a real pen, and then you

980
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: take a picture of that message with your phone, which

981
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: then scans your message into the phone and then prints

982
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,479
Speaker 1: exactly what you wrote in your handwriting inside the card.

983
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: I think that is super super cool. The service is free,

984
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: which is also really cool. And I think that again

985
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: Hallmark sees the writing on the wall, they need to

986
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: offer this in a very competitive way. Otherwise it's like, okay,

987
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: either offer this for free, or we just don't have

988
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: people buy as many cards. And so you can do

989
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: this right from your smartphone. The cards start at three

990
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: dollars plus. You know, there's like they go up to

991
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: like you know, cards can get expensive. They could be

992
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: like six bucks depending on how elaborate they are, but

993
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: three dollars is the starting price. And it's kind of

994
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: funny because when I went to try I always like

995
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: to try things out. I didn't try out the actual

996
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 1: scanning of my handwritten message. I will do that soon,

997
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: but I just kind of put a card in my

998
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: in my car online and I kind of went to

999
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: check out and it said two dollars and fifty cents

1000
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: for this service, but then it was crossed out, and

1001
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: so in my blog post, I wrote, you know, like

1002
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: this is two dollars and fifty cents, but you know

1003
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 1: right now it's being offered for free, and Hallmark actually

1004
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: emailed me to say no, Rich, no, no, no, we are

1005
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: actually going to offer this for free, like indefinitely forever.

1006
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: I said, well, why do you have two fifty written

1007
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: on the website and they said, well, we want people

1008
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: to know that it's a value of two dollars and

1009
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: fifty cents, which I said, well, that's confusing because that

1010
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 1: to me seems like this is going to be two

1011
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: dollars and fifty cents in the future, Whereas I think

1012
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: if they're trying to get people to adopt it, you

1013
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: should just tell people that this is going to be free,

1014
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 1: like this is something that you should come back for

1015
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: every single time, because if I just did that one

1016
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: time card for two fifty, I might or you know,

1017
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: with that two fifty scratched out, I might think, well,

1018
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm not going back to that because two fifty is

1019
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: going to be with the prices in six months and

1020
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: I'm not paying that. So I think they need to

1021
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: be more clear about that, and hopefully they will be.

1022
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 2: But anyway, long.

1023
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: Story short, you can get your first, your first card,

1024
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: completely free, so I'm talking even the price of the card.

1025
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: I've got the instructions on my website, Rich on tech

1026
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: dot tv, but definitely try it. I mean, this is

1027
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: such a cool thing. My niece's birthday is coming up,

1028
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: the one that I bought the iPad for actually last

1029
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: year on our birthday. That's coming up again this year,

1030
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: and so I should have done this, but now it's

1031
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: too late because it's gonna be blated. I guess they

1032
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: do belated cards, right, So I guess I can send

1033
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: a belated birthday card. But it's called Sign and Send

1034
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: from Hallmark. I think it's the coolest thing ever and

1035
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: just such a smart way of getting us to send

1036
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: cards that kind of feel like they're personalized, even though

1037
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: we didn't actually write in them.

1038
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 2: But you know, pretty cool, all right.

1039
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: Eric writes in hey, Rich, there are so many shopping

1040
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: apps and it's so confusing. But I'm looking for a

1041
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: free app that will give me the price of an

1042
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: item in a store when there is no price tag

1043
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: on it, just a barcode or a QR code, and

1044
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: when no one can be found to help. I don't

1045
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: necessarily want to compare prices from other stores. I just

1046
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: want to know what the item costs in the store

1047
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: I'm shopping, like the in store price check kiosk in

1048
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: some retailers. Does that exist? Thanks very much, Eric, Well

1049
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: Eric number one, I think that these things, these kind

1050
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: of things did exist for a while, but to be honest,

1051
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: the price comparison apps are few and far between at

1052
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 1: this point, and the reason for that is because Amazon

1053
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: has become the default shopping search engine. So when people

1054
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: that use Amazon are searching for something to buy, they

1055
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: don't really pop it into Google. They pop it into

1056
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: Amazon and then they just buy it. And you know,

1057
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. And so a lot Okay,

1058
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: So the answer to your question is a couple things.

1059
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: Number One, you can use the Amazon app, and a

1060
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: lot of stores will actually price match Amazon. They don't

1061
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: really advertise it, but they will definitely do it, especially

1062
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: the big box retailers. So that's one way of doing it,

1063
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: and they handle they've got a barcode reader built in.

1064
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: You can do it that way. The other app is

1065
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: a red laser. This was big back in the day.

1066
00:49:56,239 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: It's it's still around, but it's just you know, the

1067
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: results may not be that good.

1068
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: But they still have it.

1069
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: But I think the real answer is you kind of

1070
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: have to use the the retailer's own app if you

1071
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: want to get their pricing info. So if you're inside Target,

1072
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: like I have the Target app on my phone and

1073
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: it's fantastic.

1074
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 2: I love the Target app. It's so great.

1075
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: If you're not using it, I think I already talked

1076
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 1: about this, but you should definitely be using it.

1077
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:26,919
Speaker 2: And what's the other one.

1078
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: If you're inside best Buy, they have an app that

1079
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: you can scan things with if you're inside what's the

1080
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: other one?

1081
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 2: I mean it's just Target.

1082
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: Well, Walmart they've probably I don't know, I don't have

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00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 1: the Walmart app, but I'm.

1084
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:39,359
Speaker 2: Sure they have it.

1085
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: But those are I'd recommend either you know, Amazon Red

1086
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: Laser or just if you shop at a place over and over,

1087
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: that's a good way of doing it. But Amazon's a

1088
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: pretty good one because they they have a lot of

1089
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 1: the they have a lot of the pricing in there,

1090
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: and plus it will give you an idea of if

1091
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: the price in the store is pre competitive with what

1092
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: you can get through Amazon.

1093
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 2: So good question there.

1094
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's talk a little bit about

1095
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: this Facebook Audio Rooms that I'm using. So this is

1096
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 1: a new feature on Facebook that we've got a couple

1097
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: uh folks listening over over one hundred people listening right

1098
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: now live. And what's really cool about this live audio

1099
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: rooms is yes, it is a complete clubhouse takeoff, right,

1100
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: but like I said in my last podcast, where every

1101
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: app is going to have a clubhouse, this is the reality.

1102
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: Is that something like you know Stories that that Snapchat

1103
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: kind of invented. Every app now has its own version

1104
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: of Stories, and now we're seeing the same thing with audio.

1105
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: And so you see all these apps introducing basically clubhouse,

1106
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: and what I think is bad about that is that, yes,

1107
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: it's a copycat and sad for Clubhouse because it came

1108
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: out of the gate first and now everyone just copies them,

1109
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 1: and you know, they're they're definitely lessening, lessening in strength

1110
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: as I can see it, Like everyone was talking about

1111
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: them six months ago and now I don't see as

1112
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: many people talking about them. But on the plus side,

1113
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: you know, you have to it's good to have the

1114
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: features that you want with the audience.

1115
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 2: That you have. So look at YouTube.

1116
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: They introduce something called Shorts, which is basically a ripoff

1117
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 1: of TikTok. But guess what if you have five million

1118
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: people as your audience that you are Let's say you

1119
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 1: don't even have five million. Let's say you have twenty

1120
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,919
Speaker 1: five thousand people on YouTube that you've you know, you've

1121
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: struggled to build that audience, or I should say you

1122
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: worked hard to build that audience. It's really nice that

1123
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: you can now address that audience using the latest kind

1124
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: of features that audiences expect, which are shorts on the

1125
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: platform that you have your audience on. Now, there's something

1126
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: to be said for building an audience on different platforms.

1127
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: But as someone who has a very fragmented audience across

1128
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: a podcast, across Instagram, across Twitter, across a little bit

1129
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: on YouTube, and a lot on Facebook, it is a

1130
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: lot of work to keep up with the different individual

1131
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: apps and all the different ways that they do things.

1132
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: So the fact that you can have one audience in

1133
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: one place and really concentrate on that audience and do

1134
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:17,320
Speaker 1: the things that they like, you know, like stories and

1135
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:22,439
Speaker 1: audio and video and whatever, you know, it's it's there's

1136
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: something to be said for that too. So audio rooms

1137
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: are now enabled for for certain people. I don't know

1138
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: if it's like for everyone just yet, but it's definitely

1139
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: enabled on my account, and you know, you just pop in.

1140
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: It's like listening to the radio, except you can participate.

1141
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: You can send stars. So people have been sending me

1142
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: stars all broadcast long, which is really cool because the

1143
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: stars actually somehow translate into.

1144
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 2: I don't know, it says by stars.

1145
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: So the stars actually translate into money, which is kind

1146
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 1: of cool for a creator that you know, is making

1147
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: a living on this, which is really cool. It also,

1148
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: if you send stars, it bumps you up to the

1149
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 1: front row, and so you can if you send those,

1150
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,720
Speaker 1: I can like shout you out, like right now, Diga

1151
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: Diga is in the front row because they sent me stars,

1152
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: and that's that's pretty neat. And then I can see

1153
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: people giving me thumbs up, which is, you know, it's cool.

1154
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: It's not stars, but it's a thumbs up, which is

1155
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 1: also nice. And you can purchase those in this room

1156
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: as well. So I think that they did a couple

1157
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: of cool things. I don't see anything specifically unique to

1158
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: Facebook to Facebook's version of Clubhouse except the stars, which

1159
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: you know, it is kind of nice that you can

1160
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: monetize your Facebook audios if you are making a living

1161
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: on there, there can be fifty speakers, no limit to

1162
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 1: the number of followers, and it's again, it's a really

1163
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: neat way of for me.

1164
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 2: My audience, a.

1165
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,439
Speaker 1: Lot of them is on Facebook, and so the fact

1166
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 1: that I can pop on Facebook and just sit there

1167
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: and chat with people that are following me, like even

1168
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: if I wasn't doing my podcast, that's a really cool thing.

1169
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 2: All right.

1170
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: Lindsay now has been bumped up to the front row.

1171
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 1: Not my wife, but Lindsay has been bumped up to

1172
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:08,880
Speaker 1: the front row because they have sent me some stars. Actually,

1173
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: so that's really cool.

1174
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 2: We're cool.

1175
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so I can I can see a little bit,

1176
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,439
Speaker 1: really cool Lindsay looks like they are standing in front

1177
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: of the big thing in Shanghai. It's like the tower.

1178
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 1: I forget what it's called, the Pearl Tower, mate, No,

1179
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 1: not the Pearl Tower. It's like the TV tower whatever.

1180
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: It is like this famous, you know, you know, it's iconic.

1181
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm I'm definitely gonna use this from now

1182
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: on the live audio rooms on Facebook. They're also introducing

1183
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: podcasts on Facebook that will come next. But to me,

1184
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 1: it's like any way that you can reach people in

1185
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: an easier format is really really cool. And as much

1186
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: as I love Clubhouse, I tried it once and I

1187
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: just I have zero audience there, So who is going

1188
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: to tune into my clubhouse?

1189
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 2: No one?

1190
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: And I don't feel like building a brand new following

1191
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: on Clubhouse because I already have a following in other places,

1192
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 1: So it's neat that we're getting these things in different places.

1193
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: I think face Instagram would be a cool place to

1194
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: get this as well. And it's you know, you say, rich,

1195
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 1: why not just go live with video like you can

1196
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: do on all these things. Well, video brings a certain

1197
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: level of anxiety to it, not just for the speaker,

1198
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 1: not necessarily myself because I'm on TV, so for me

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00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 1: that's not that big of a deal. But for the

1200
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: average person, it's so much easier to just hop on

1201
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: audio then to think about video, because you have to

1202
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,280
Speaker 1: think about your setup and your background and your camera

1203
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: and do I look good and do I look presentable?

1204
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: And then not to mention the people that are listening

1205
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: that might want to come on as speakers. Ninety nine

1206
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: percent of people don't want to be on camera. They

1207
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: don't want to be on camera, and so you're you're

1208
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 1: cutting out a whole bunch of people if you're just

1209
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: going on video and asking people to log in on

1210
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: video and to be on your video podcast. So I

1211
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: think that this is the perfect solution, especially for a

1212
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: show like mine where I'm answering questions from regular people.

1213
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,879
Speaker 1: All right, let's see should we do one final question here,

1214
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: let's see bolts pro. Mike says, Hey, Rich, I saw

1215
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: a Facebook post that claims this new charger does amazing

1216
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 1: wonderful things.

1217
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 2: Have you tested it? I have not, Mike.

1218
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: And here's the answer that I give to every single

1219
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: person that that texts, that emails me about something they

1220
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: saw on Facebook. And after I just gave Facebook all

1221
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: this amazing you know whatever, I'll just say that I

1222
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: don't really like stuff that I see advertised on Facebook

1223
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: that people send me. A lot of it is either

1224
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: over dramatized or over sold, or it's high pressure sales,

1225
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: or it's you know, you can just get something that's

1226
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: similar on Amazon and it's it might be better quality.

1227
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: So I hate to say I don't know anything about

1228
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: this product that you asked me about, but when I

1229
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: look at the website it looks fine, but it's just

1230
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: it's again one of those things. Here's what I want

1231
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: you to do. If you see all the little pop

1232
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: ups that say, you know, Vanessa purchase from Washington, DC

1233
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: one minute ago, it's like, okay, give me a break.

1234
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: Like Amazon doesn't do that to me When I sit there,

1235
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: They don't tell me every person that just purchased, they

1236
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: don't tell tell me. You know, I've gone through this. Oh,

1237
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: Rachel just purchased from Columbia, South Carolina. But two things

1238
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: I want you to look at are three things. When

1239
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: you look at a website, I want you to look

1240
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: at the contact information and make sure that there's a

1241
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: real contact information there. Even call the phone number if

1242
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: you need to look at the website itself, make sure

1243
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: that it's not scammy. I had a family member that

1244
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: said they went to costco dot com today and they

1245
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: got to pop up this said, oh my gosh, every

1246
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: Friday we give free air pods to thirty people that

1247
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: come to our website. That just all they have to

1248
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: do is take a survey and pay for shipping. And

1249
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: so this family member sent me this and I said, oh,

1250
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 1: come on, this is totally a scam, even without knowing

1251
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: anything about it. Costco does not serve up pop ups

1252
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: that say we're giving out free AirPods. They just don't

1253
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: do that. Neither does Amazon. It just best Buy, No

1254
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: one does that. But this sounds like these scammy websites

1255
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: I see over and over, and so I said, send

1256
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: me a screenshot. They sent me a screenshot, and sure enough,

1257
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: it was just some trashy website that number one. If

1258
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: you look closely, it said mini pods. It didn't even

1259
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: say air pods. And so when I told my family member, like,

1260
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: come on, this is totally bogus, Like come on, you

1261
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: got to look out for this stuff, they said, well,

1262
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: I just got excited. And you know that's what happens.

1263
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:22,439
Speaker 1: They these things prey upon your enthusiasm for something that's

1264
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: free or cheap or too good to be true, and

1265
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,959
Speaker 1: you just have to be on your oh what's the word,

1266
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, You just have to be on it.

1267
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: Just just be be skeptical of anything you see, and

1268
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: that includes links that I post. You know, people you

1269
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: know will say, rich, oh this looks scammy. And believe me,

1270
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: I'm a real person that's posting real stuff that's been vetted,

1271
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 1: and I you know, and sometimes even when I tell

1272
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: you do something like, oh, check your permissions on Google.

1273
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: Go to Google dot com, slash whatever, and people are like,

1274
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna log into Google. Off this link. Always be skeptical.

1275
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: Always be skeptical of stuff you see online. All right

1276
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: before I go, Apple's baby software is out. So if

1277
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: you want to check out the latest software on your iPhone,

1278
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: you can. You go to beta Apple dot com. They've

1279
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 1: got it for iOS, iPad, mac os, tvOS, and watchOS.

1280
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: But my recommendation is do not install this on your

1281
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: device that you need on a daily basis. I did

1282
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 1: install it on a backup phone for the iPhone. I've

1283
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: been playing with it. I don't see a whole lot

1284
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: of huge changes cosmetically or otherwise, but there are some

1285
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: changes and a lot of them have to do with privacy.

1286
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: And believe me, the Apple is really really given these

1287
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 1: marketers a tough time with the privacy stuff they are.

1288
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 2: They are really giving it to them, Like oh my gosh,

1289
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 2: Like I can't believe.

1290
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: Like if I was a marketing person, like advertising in

1291
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: ad tech right now, I'd be like, Apple, why do

1292
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: you got to keep doing this to me? You just

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Speaker 1: it and it's good for the consumer, so that's always

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Speaker 1: nice as well. So all right, that music means it

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Speaker 1: So if you listen to me on this podcast, or

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Speaker 1: know me from TV because maybe you don't live in

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Speaker 1: what I'm like on real TV it's kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: My name is rich Tdmiro. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: There are so many ways you can spend an hour

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Speaker 1: of your time. I do appreciate you spending it with me.

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