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Speaker 1: The mother of all data breaches, What you need to

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Speaker 1: iPhone security feature you should enable pretty much right now,

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Speaker 1: and why you might be able to file your taxes

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Speaker 1: What's going on in Rich Dumiro And This is Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech broadcasting live from Los Angeles, coast to coast.

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Speaker 1: This is the show where I talk about the tech

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

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Speaker 1: place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe

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Speaker 1: the tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open

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Speaker 1: up the phone lines at triple eight Rich one oh one.

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech dot tv hit the link that

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Speaker 1: says contact. We got some great guests on the show

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Speaker 1: this week. Juan Carlos Bagnell, some gadget guy on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: will join me to review the new one plus twelve

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Speaker 1: smartphone getting a lot of good reviews, and I think

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Speaker 2: We'll hear from him.

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Speaker 1: Mitch Goldstone of scanmyphotos dot com is gonna explain how

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Speaker 1: small businesses can secure a portion of a five point

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Speaker 1: five billion dollar payment card settlement he helped secure and

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Speaker 1: I got the letter right to my house and it

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Speaker 1: says it's time to file your claim. So I will

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Speaker 1: explain why why he did that and how you can

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Speaker 1: get some money out of that. And John Faulkner of

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Speaker 1: Clean Fleet Report will join to review the Kia EV nine.

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Speaker 1: This is their new three row suv. Well it is

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Speaker 1: bring your wife to work day. Bobo brought Britney in,

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Speaker 1: his beautiful newlywed wife, so thanks for joining us here

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Speaker 1: in the studio. She might she may pick some mus

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Speaker 1: I picked the first song, so well, maybe let her

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Speaker 1: pick something. Uh okay, So this is really wild. I

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Speaker 1: switched to the Samsung Galaxy S twenty four Ultra this

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a big deal because it changes everything, right,

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Speaker 1: but I really wanted to see kind of like it's

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Speaker 1: what it was like, and it's been amazing. This phone

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Speaker 1: I will say the one little issue I have with

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Speaker 1: The one thing I will say I've noticed about is

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Speaker 1: But Apple, you really really created a division amongst folks

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Speaker 1: But that's what people do. They proceed to pull out

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Speaker 1: this doesn't work. Just Coulick, go get a new one. Like, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Everything's like all gobbledygook and this and that, and I said, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, why, Well, my phone. My TV's not working.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean your TV's not working? I would

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if you know, but like troubleshooting

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Speaker 4: Hey Rich greeting from Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Yes, greetings from New Jersey. So I had to turn

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Speaker 1: wrong with you? They assess you the trioge I was

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Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I still don't know. I

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Speaker 4: tried everything. I swapped out the USB cable, I.

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Speaker 5: Tried the plug and the wall I moved that.

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Speaker 4: I tried changing the port on the HDMI port on

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Speaker 6: Nothing would work.

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Speaker 4: I think the actual stick is just dead or it's

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Speaker 4: I probably not. I mean she she couldn't, so I

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Speaker 1: I was impressed though she was able to pull the

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Speaker 1: I was trying to describe like the micro USB power

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Speaker 4: So I gave up on the fire sticks all together

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Speaker 4: I'm like, let me just download the apps that she

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Speaker 4: was a process what so it wasn't logged into what?

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Speaker 4: It wasn't logged into any Wi Fi? So I connected

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Speaker 4: let me do the update. Ten minutes later, comes back

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Speaker 4: little password symbols through the control, the remote control.

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Speaker 7: So I do that.

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Speaker 4: Then I had to before I could do anything. Now,

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Speaker 4: I had to create a Roku account account.

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Speaker 1: And you sent me a screenshot of this. And what's

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Speaker 1: the first thing I said? Because you handed over all

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Speaker 1: of her personal information right.

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Speaker 4: Asked for was like her social her birth data, birth

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Speaker 4: her ads, like her full address, Like.

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Speaker 1: No, you're just kidding about the social but but look,

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Speaker 1: Roku is a data play. They're getting data right off

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Speaker 1: the top because they do make money on ads, and

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Speaker 1: so you put all that in in there and then

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Speaker 1: you download it all the apps, and I imagine you

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Speaker 1: crowdsource the passwords for the apps from various family members.

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Speaker 6: I contacted everybody I know, my sisters, my friends, my

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Speaker 1: And now she's using the remote that came with the TV,

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Speaker 1: Jim in Claremont, California. Jim, you're on with Rich Hi.

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Speaker 8: Rich.

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Speaker 9: I heard that the new Android phone might have some

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich to me Zo

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Speaker 1: also have a new one plus phone, the one plus twelve,

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Speaker 1: and this is a powerhouse of a phone as well,

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Speaker 1: very different than the way Samsung approaches things. But joining

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Speaker 1: some gadget guy on YouTube. I highly recommend that you

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Speaker 2: So one, thanks so much for joining me.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm really stoked.

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Speaker 11: We need to make this a tradition because we got

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh was that last year that we did.

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Speaker 1: I did not even realize that when I called you up.

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Speaker 1: I just watched your review and I was like, all right,

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Speaker 11: You're absolutely right. We've got a lot of fun stuff

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Speaker 1: So this phone, you know, it's got the specks that

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Speaker 11: So right now, I mean, just like we know with

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Speaker 1: good on this thing.

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Speaker 10: Chier very very good.

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Speaker 11: So one plus is moving up the food chain. The

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Speaker 11: one plus eleven was a nice sort of balance of

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Speaker 11: budget and compromises. There really are no compromises here. These

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Speaker 11: are extremely competitive cameras. I think they're better cameras than

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Speaker 11: what are on the iPhone fifteen non pro and the

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Speaker 11: Galaxy S twenty four non Ultra. But the screen gets

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Speaker 11: brighter than any other phone that's been released in North America.

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Speaker 11: The battery is larger, but even though the battery is

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Speaker 11: larger than even the most expensive Samsung, it charges substantially faster.

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Speaker 11: Their charge standard on this phone can go from completely

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Speaker 11: empty to completely full in roughly thirty three minutes.

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Speaker 1: Wow, So that's eighty that's the eighty watt fast charging.

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Speaker 10: That's the eighty watt fast charging.

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Speaker 11: And then you you also mentioned they do have a

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Speaker 11: it's a unique standard for them, but it is a

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Speaker 11: wireless fast charging that can charge faster wirelessly than a

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Speaker 11: Samsung or an Apple can charge plugged in with a cable.

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Speaker 11: So they're not going light this This phone is coming

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Speaker 11: out swinging and it's an aggressive play at this kind

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Speaker 11: of performance per dollar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what I always think of when

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Speaker 1: it comes to one plus. It's like if you want

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Speaker 1: to spend your money and get like a lot for

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Speaker 1: your money, like you're getting you know, you might not

462
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Speaker 1: be getting the best camera on the pro phones that

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Speaker 1: we see out there, but you're getting a really good camera.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like really good camera. The cameras have

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Speaker 1: gotten better too. But tell me a little bit about

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Speaker 1: one plus, like in general, like if you know, cause

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Speaker 1: dec you don't. I don't think you see ads on

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Speaker 1: TV for one plus like you put Samsung, Apple and Pixel.

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Speaker 11: So one plus is a subsidiary of a larger brand

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Speaker 11: internationally named Opo, and this is their arm that they

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Speaker 11: sell in certain regions. And they made a lot of

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Speaker 11: waves early on in the company's history, before they were

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Speaker 11: directly under Opo, they were this kind of flagship flagship

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Speaker 11: killer rebel brand, so really really low cost devices that

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Speaker 11: were like sixty percent of your premium tier phone, but

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Speaker 11: you spent a lot less.

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Speaker 10: Over time, they've kind of matured into.

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Speaker 11: More of just a direct premium handset maker, and for

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Speaker 11: a while they were showing up in T Mobile stores.

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Speaker 11: They had a carrier partnership with T Mobile that ended

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Speaker 11: in between the ten and the eleven, where I think

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Speaker 11: the brand, especially OPO, was looking at their footprint internationally

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Speaker 11: where they were really selling phones, and it didn't make

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Speaker 11: a lot of sense to build phones to carrier specs

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Speaker 11: and then just have them sit on store shelves like

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Speaker 11: this is one of those brands you would see in

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Speaker 11: the dusty back corner of a carrier store. They weren't

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Speaker 11: paying to really put them up right next to Samsung's

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Speaker 11: and Apples.

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Speaker 10: They've they've kind of scaled back on.

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Speaker 11: That operation, but this is still uh they've still got

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Speaker 11: relationships in North America distribution. These are going to be

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Speaker 11: showing up in Best buys if you want to play

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Speaker 11: with them, Yeah, that's gonna be really exciting. Is I'm

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Speaker 11: not every best buy unfortunately, but you will see some

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Speaker 11: of these start to show up where you can actually

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Speaker 11: handle them and look at them and play with them

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Speaker 11: before you have to commit money into ordering one. But

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Speaker 11: this is a new strategy. OPO is saying, we're going

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Speaker 11: to go very very marginly. We're going to sell the

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Speaker 11: most aggressive technologies that we can get our hands on.

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Speaker 11: We're gonna cut prices as much as we can, and

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Speaker 11: in a way, I bet you they are probably balancing

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Speaker 11: out some of those costs against their previous carrier relationships.

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Speaker 11: So this is a very exciting strategy for a brand

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Speaker 11: that has consistently delivered very good value for the money

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Speaker 11: and now trying to push that strategy even a little

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Speaker 11: bit further.

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Speaker 1: All Right, So the camera, that's the thing that everyone

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Speaker 1: wants to know about. How are the cameras on this.

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Speaker 10: These are so good?

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Speaker 11: One plus has stepped up significant. This is the fourth generation.

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Speaker 11: They're saying Hasselblad. They have a partnership with the photography

514
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Speaker 11: company Hasselblad, the company that sent cameras to the Moon.

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Speaker 11: So every single time we see one of these pairings,

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Speaker 11: the phone camera just gets better, like a Zeiss even

517
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Speaker 11: back in the day Schneider.

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Speaker 10: So these sensors are some.

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Speaker 11: Of the most bleeding edge sensors for the types of

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Speaker 11: photography that we see in a phone. This is the

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Speaker 11: newest stacked sensor from Sony that's coming in for the

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Speaker 11: main camera sensor. There's a new omni vision, so it's

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Speaker 11: not the furthest reach, but the telephoto is a very

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Speaker 11: big sensor that is excellent. It's soaking up light, so

525
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Speaker 11: an older Galaxy could reach farther across the soccer field

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Speaker 11: when your kids are playing in sunshine. But this is

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Speaker 11: the kind of sensor that is really good at taking

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Speaker 11: like a fun candid indoors right. The image doesn't fall apart.

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Speaker 11: You can still catch a moment of people laughing or hugging.

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Speaker 11: You're not shoving your phone right into their face to

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Speaker 11: try and get like this moment and distract from what's

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Speaker 11: going on. It's a really good candid lifestyle kind of

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Speaker 11: photography solution. And the Ultra Wide is similarly a very

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Speaker 11: high resolution, high performance sensor. So I would still say

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Speaker 11: like an iPhone Pro or a Galaxy Ultra is likely

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Speaker 11: going to outperform this phone, but at hundreds of dollars more.

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Speaker 11: And when you put this up against the phones that

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Speaker 11: cost the same from Apple and Samsung, these cameras are

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Speaker 11: noticeable improvements in terms of hardware the physics of how

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Speaker 11: we capture and play with light. One plus has the

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Speaker 11: win in the sub one thousand dollars but still premium

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Speaker 11: category of phones.

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Speaker 1: This year, anything that you don't like about this device,

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Speaker 1: any red flags, anything people should be aware of.

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Speaker 11: I think that kind of goes back a little bit

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Speaker 11: more to the company's relationship in North America with consumers

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Speaker 11: and some of their branding strategy, Like the one Plus

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Speaker 11: ten had a PRO version and a T version. The

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Speaker 11: one Plus eleven just came out on its own. The

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Speaker 11: one plus twelve is coming out with a twelve and

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Speaker 11: a twelve R. If you really try to follow the

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Speaker 11: roadmap of what one plus devices have been, it's really

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Speaker 11: confusing to know which phone am I getting. Am I

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Speaker 11: getting the best phone that they offer? Am I getting

555
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Speaker 11: the nicer phone? Am I getting the more budget friendly phone.

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Speaker 11: You can look at the price tags, obviously, but I

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Speaker 11: feel like that is part of the education. That's part

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Speaker 11: of the on ramping to someone who's considering one of

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Speaker 11: these is you do kind of need to do your

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Speaker 11: own research. It's not as established as iPhone, iPhone fifteen,

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Speaker 11: iPhone fifteen Pro, Galaxy S Series twenty four to twenty

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Speaker 11: four plus Ultra. We kind of understand this a little

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Speaker 11: bit better. But when I go dollar for dollar, there

564
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Speaker 11: really isn't anything I find on an iPhone fifteen plus

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Speaker 11: or an S twenty four plus that I would recommend.

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Speaker 11: There's better screen tech, better charging tech, longer battery life,

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Speaker 11: bigger battery, better camera sensors. One plus has a very

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Speaker 11: very clear shot at I think what is the weakest

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Speaker 11: segment of Apple and Samsung currently, Apple and Samsung doing

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Speaker 11: way better Above one thousand dollars. One plus is seeing

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Speaker 11: a clear opportunity to kind of hit Apple and Samsung

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Speaker 11: where they're most vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna leave it there. One plus twelve

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Speaker 1: coming in at seven hundred ninety nine dollars available on

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Speaker 1: February six. You can do a pre order now, and

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Speaker 1: they've got some deals. You can check them out at

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Speaker 1: a best Buy as well. One Carlos Bagnew, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining me today.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, pleasure, and I'll make sure to leave a spot

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Speaker 11: on my calendar for the one plus thirteen planning ahead.

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 1: Go follow on some gadget guy on YouTube, some gadget

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Speaker 1: guy on YouTube. All right, if we're on a link

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Speaker 1: to that phone, Rich on tech dot TV, coming up,

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Speaker 1: more of your calls, Triple eight Rich one on one plus.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about the mother of all data breaches.

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Speaker 2: What you need to know.

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

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

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Speaker 1: on one and that's eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Playing some Michael Jackson songs

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Speaker 1: this weekend because last weekend, after the show, I went

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Speaker 1: and saw the MJ play. It was great, but it

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Speaker 1: was raining, And I'll tell you this is how people

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Speaker 1: get scammed. Had nothing to do with the play. We

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Speaker 1: had a great time at the play, but it can

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Speaker 1: happen to anyone. And I the main thing when you're

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Speaker 1: getting scammed is that you're under some sort of pressure,

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Speaker 1: whether it's time, whether it's money, whether it is someone

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Speaker 1: else telling you to do something. And so that sort

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Speaker 1: of happened to us, and we did end up getting

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Speaker 1: scammed in a huge way. But I'll explain basically, after

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Speaker 1: the play, trying to get a ride home, right called

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Speaker 1: the Uber Uber circling around. It's pouring in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Now La shuts down when it rains because people here

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Speaker 1: do not know how to deal with the rain. We

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Speaker 1: don't have umbrellas, we don't have boots, we have nothing.

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Speaker 1: We were wearing shorts and flip flops most of the time,

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Speaker 1: and so when it rains it gets pretty wild anyway,

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Speaker 1: So I was under pressure after this play ended. As

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Speaker 1: you can imagine, there's thousands of people spilling out onto

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Speaker 1: the streets of Hollywood Boulevard and I can't meet up

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Speaker 1: with the car. And my wife is like, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: What's happening? And I'm not blaming her, but it's like

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Speaker 1: one of these things where you want to get home

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Speaker 1: like you're done, you know, and so.

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Speaker 2: The car is not. I'm just not linking up with

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Speaker 2: the uber.

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Speaker 1: So I see this taxi at the at the curb

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know what, let's just get in

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Speaker 1: the taxi. So we jump in the taxi. It's pouring rain,

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Speaker 1: we're soaked, and we start on our way home. And

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Speaker 1: about three minutes into the ride, my wife is like,

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Speaker 1: where's the meter. I'm like, oh, no, there's no meter,

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Speaker 1: there's no sign it was it was a taxi, but

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Speaker 1: I think the person was off duty and just picking

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Speaker 1: up rides, and so I was like, oh no, we're

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Speaker 1: going to be taken here, Like I have no idea

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Speaker 1: how much this ride's going to be whatever, you know,

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Speaker 1: are they going to request cash, I don't know. So

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Speaker 1: long story short, we got home safely, which was my

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Speaker 1: main goal. The ride ended up being about three times

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Speaker 1: the price of the Uber, but I was perfectly fine

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Speaker 1: with that because we were home safe. But my lesson

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Speaker 1: learned is that when you're under pressure, that's when you

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Speaker 1: are susceptible to being scammed. When you're trying to do

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Speaker 1: something fast, you're doing something hasty, stop and think. Because

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Speaker 1: if I would have thought like why is there no

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Speaker 1: light on this car? And when I get in, why

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Speaker 1: is there no meter in this car? Those would have

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Speaker 1: been two red flags that would have made me get

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Speaker 1: out of that car.

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Speaker 2: Knock, get in.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Lauren in San Diego. Lauren, you're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 12: How did you and you love your lovely wife? Like

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Speaker 12: like the taxi ride I gave you last week?

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Speaker 1: That was you great? Well, you are a great driver.

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Speaker 12: Do you want to tax you?

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Speaker 5: Just kidding you?

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Speaker 12: One quick question, Rich, would you recommend key mobile five

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Speaker 12: G home Internet to just the power of one of

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Speaker 12: device That would be a thirty two inch Samsung Smart TV.

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Speaker 12: I like to watch the two b TV movies and

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Speaker 12: like YouTube movies, documentaries and I think also.

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Speaker 7: A game show like Match.

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Speaker 5: Game with jeene Ate Burn and Charles Nelson Riley.

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Speaker 7: Would you recommend that?

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Speaker 12: Should that work out?

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Speaker 5: Per month?

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Speaker 9: Just just well, what do you what do you have

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Speaker 9: right now?

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Speaker 7: Nothing?

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Speaker 5: No internet whatsoever? Just a smartphone?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 2: And what brand is your phone?

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Speaker 8: Like?

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Speaker 1: What what carrier are you on?

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Speaker 8: AT and T?

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Speaker 12: And I have a Samstung smart.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're on AT and T. So do you know

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Speaker 1: if T Mobile works at your home?

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Speaker 12: No idea, I take it it does.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, are you in like a main area?

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right, so in that case, I would

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Speaker 1: recommend this. It's it's not as cheap as it was.

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Speaker 1: They have raised the prices recently, but it's a great

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Speaker 1: way to uh, you know, to get internet quickly at

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Speaker 1: your house. There are two other services. You have T

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Speaker 1: Mobile Home Internet and also Verizon has their own home Internet,

681
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Speaker 1: and then AT and T has one which I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to remember what's it called, like Airplay or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember what the name of THEIRS is, but

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Speaker 1: THEIRS is not available in many locations. But let me

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Speaker 1: see AT and T five G Home Internet. I gotta

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Speaker 1: find out what this name is. Internet Air there it

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Speaker 1: is AT and T Internet Air. So I would go

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Speaker 1: on the web and I would check all three of these.

689
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're getting targeted ads for this T Mobile one,

690
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Speaker 1: which is just fine. But the main thing is if

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Speaker 1: you don't have a good wireless signal at your home,

692
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be that good. So the good

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Speaker 1: news is none of these have contracts, so you can

694
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Speaker 1: call up you can get this thing shipped to your house.

695
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: It's basically plug and play. You plug it in your window,

696
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: it pulls in that signal and then it broadcasts that

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Speaker 1: signal out as a so it takes in a cellular

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Speaker 1: signal and converts that into a Wi Fi signal that

699
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Speaker 1: you would then connect this TV too. So that's what

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Speaker 1: I would recommend. See which one I would start with

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Speaker 1: AT and T just because your service is through AT

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Speaker 1: and T and you know it works. So I would

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Speaker 1: check to see if their Internet Air is available at

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Speaker 1: your location. It is in very limited areas so it

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Speaker 1: may not be, but I would check to see if

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Speaker 1: that one's available first. Then I would move on to

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Speaker 1: Verizon T Mobile to a price check, see which one

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Speaker 1: is cheaper for what you get and the speed you

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Speaker 1: get and I think as far as this powering what

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Speaker 1: you want to do, which is just stream stuff on

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Speaker 1: your TV, it will absolutely work one hundred percent. So

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Speaker 1: if you're streaming stuff on your phone already, it's the

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Speaker 1: same thing, it's the same signal. It'll just be on

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Speaker 1: your big screen TV. So good question, Lauren, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: calling in today from San Diego. Let's see we got

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Speaker 1: an email question here. Let's see. Jay says, I would

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Speaker 1: like to connect my mom's phone remotely to assist her

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Speaker 1: with installing apps or guide her on how to use

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Speaker 1: the phone. Is there a free app that we can use.

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Speaker 1: What would be your suggestion? She has a Samsung Galaxy

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Speaker 1: A fourteen. Thank you, Jy. I would recommend the free

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Speaker 1: app called team Viewer. Team Viewer they make an Android app.

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Speaker 1: They also make an app for basically every platform, whether

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Speaker 1: it is Windows, whether it's Mac Os, whether it's Linux, Chrome,

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Speaker 1: Raspberry Pie. You know what that is Android and I

726
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: so you can download this for free. It's a paid

727
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Speaker 1: service if you're a company, but for personal it is free.

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Speaker 1: And so if you just type in team Viewer Android

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Speaker 1: on Google, you can search it. You can install that

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Speaker 1: on her phone. Then you can install it on your desktop,

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Speaker 1: and what you do is you basically there is a

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Speaker 1: special code that the app will generate on her phone.

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Speaker 1: You ask her for that code and you can log

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Speaker 1: in from your device and basically take over the screen.

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Speaker 1: And that should work with no problems. That's the app

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Speaker 1: that I use for my mom's computer and it works

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Speaker 1: just fine. And of course you have to do it

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Speaker 1: with their permission, and there's like a one time access

739
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: or you can link them up permanently and have more access.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the email, and let me tell you about this.

741
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: The mother of all data breaches. Massive data breach with

742
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,720
Speaker 1: twenty six billion records was discovered Onlines, probably the largest

743
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: data leak in history. Not necessarily new, but it was

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Speaker 1: compiled from thousands of previous breaches. So they took all

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Speaker 1: this information that was flowing around. They put it into

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Speaker 1: one megaaload usernames, passwords, emails, phone numbers from places like LinkedIn, Twitter, Tencent, MySpace.

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Speaker 2: Uh, what do you need to know?

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Speaker 1: You need to know that you should not be reusing

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00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: your passwords and enable multi factor authentication. There is a

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Speaker 1: website cybernews dot com which will allow you to put

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Speaker 1: in your phone number or your email and it will

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00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 1: tell you if it's part of this breach. I recommend

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00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: you do that. If it is, change those passwords. This

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Speaker 1: is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at triple eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. This is the show

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00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you

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00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: should know about. It's also the place where I answer

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Speaker 1: your questions. Coming up this hour. Mitch Goldstone of scanmyphotos

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Speaker 1: dot com.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Not only does he run a small business, but he

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Speaker 1: actually helps secure five point five billion dollars in a

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Speaker 1: settlement about how payment cards are processed with small businesses.

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Speaker 1: So you might have gotten an envelope in the mail

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Speaker 1: if you run a small business that says you can

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Speaker 1: claim your share of the five point five billion dollar

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Speaker 1: settlement if you accepted Visa or MasterCard from January first,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and four through January twenty fifth, twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and you might have thrown you might have be ready

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Speaker 1: to throw it out and say, wait, this is probably

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Speaker 1: junk mail.

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00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 2: No it's not.

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Speaker 1: He will explain what that's all about and how he

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Speaker 1: won that much money from these credit card processing companies.

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00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: I finished watching Killers of the Flower Moon. This is

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00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: a epic three plus hour movie that's trying to get

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00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: through all the Academy Award nominees, and this, I think

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00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: takes the cake as the most paused movie I've ever

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Speaker 1: watched in my life because it was three hours and

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00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: thirty minutes or something like that, and with two kids

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Speaker 1: and two jobs and a wife and some other things

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Speaker 1: happening in the world, I can't sit in front of

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Speaker 1: a TV for that amount of time without getting up

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Speaker 1: and pausing, and so I think I paused this movie

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Speaker 1: probably like thirty seven times, also over two days. But

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Speaker 1: I did switch to a new app for my movie watching,

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Speaker 1: and I think that you should check it out. It

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00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: is called just Watch, and I was using one called

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Speaker 1: Real Good r ee L g oo D, but I

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Speaker 1: find that just Watch is actually kind of easier, and

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Speaker 1: I'm really digging it. I haven't paid for the pro

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00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: they give you everything for free, but there's one pro

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00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: feature that's actually kind of nice, and it lets you

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Speaker 1: sort your movie list like your little watch list, by time,

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Speaker 1: like the run time, So if you only have, like

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're Friday night, you don't feel like

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Speaker 1: staying up very long. You want to see the shortest

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Speaker 1: movie on your list, you can sort it by runtime,

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Speaker 1: but they charge you two dollars and fifty cents a

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Speaker 1: month for that, so I subscribe for a couple of

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Speaker 1: months just to you know, why not right anyway, the

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00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: app is called just Watch. And if you know me,

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Speaker 1: if you listen to this show, you know I refuse

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Speaker 1: to watch any movie that that are not streaming on

807
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Speaker 1: one of my services because I pay for so many

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00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: of them. So I've got all of the Academy Award

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00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: movies on my little list here, and it tells me

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Speaker 1: where they're playing and if they're playing for free. So

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Speaker 1: I think next up is going to be The Holdovers

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00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: because that's on Peacock, and so I can watch that

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00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: for free since I pay for Peacock. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Stanley in Bettsville, Ohio.

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Speaker 2: Stanley are On with Rich.

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Speaker 5: Hello rich On Tech. Hello, Hello from the Great Lakes

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Speaker 5: region of America.

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Speaker 1: How is it there? Is it cold?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 5: It's forty okay, well not nice cold, but dreary, rainy

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Speaker 5: and snow tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well.

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Speaker 5: Wait, my friend, yeah, anyway, my question, Rich is I've

824
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Speaker 5: had an INSPI on twenty four inch all in one

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Speaker 5: unit from a major computer manufacturer in round Rock text.

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Speaker 5: I know who, you know who I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: Sure we can, we can deduce.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I enjoyed it tremendously. And again it's the

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Speaker 5: all in one CPU and screen all in one package. Well,

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Speaker 5: looking to upgrade to the twenty seven inch version after

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Speaker 5: several years, and I opted for the package they offer

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Speaker 5: to transfer data from the old twenty four inch PC

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Speaker 5: to the new twenty seven inch PC. Do those things

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Speaker 5: actually work well? And I'm thinking, if it's going to

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Speaker 5: work anywhere, it will from the same manufacturer to the

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Speaker 5: same manufacturer. What's your experience?

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Speaker 2: So is it?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Do they give you software that's or like,

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Speaker 1: what what's the old computer?

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Speaker 2: Like version of.

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Speaker 10: Windows on Windows ten?

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00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 2: Okay and the new one has eleven?

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Speaker 13: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is software that when you're getting this

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Speaker 1: new computer, they just bundle it in and say for

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Speaker 1: an extra forty bucks, we'll give you this hard driving

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Speaker 1: more or whatever.

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Speaker 5: That's the way I understand it. I don't know if

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Speaker 5: it's all software or if there's a physical connection between

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Speaker 5: some ports or something. I don't know.

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00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be. I mean, here's the thing. So

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Speaker 1: Number one, I typically don't. I don't transfer computers to

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Speaker 1: the next one like I've done, you know, many upgrades

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Speaker 1: over the years. I always start fresh because I feel like,

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Speaker 1: if you're bringing your old computer over, unless you have

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Speaker 1: a specific reason to why bring all the baggage that

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00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,479
Speaker 1: comes with that computer that you've run for so long

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Speaker 1: onto a new, fresh computer that's going to run nice

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Speaker 1: and fast and clean. So I personally always install things

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Speaker 1: with a fresh start. But if you don't want to

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Speaker 1: do that, there's a couple of ways around this. Number One,

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to use a program that's going to

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Speaker 1: bring over, like the applications and things like that can

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Speaker 1: get kind of tricky, so I don't typically recommend that.

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Speaker 1: But if you want to bring over your software, your

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Speaker 1: files and things like that, you know you can dump

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Speaker 1: those all into something like one drive which is built

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Speaker 1: into the Windows computer on the you know, the old one,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, on the new computer just reaccess

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Speaker 1: those and bring those over. Now, you may have too

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Speaker 1: many files and that's not going to work, and so

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Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to spend the money on

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Speaker 1: buying cloud storage for that to happen, but you can

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00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: also just put them on an external hard drive and

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Speaker 1: you can back them up to a drive and then

876
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: bring that drive over to the new computer. The main

877
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: thing is that you're probably still going to have to

878
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 1: unless you're cloning a drive, You're probably still going to

879
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: have to bring over your applications, which means you're gonna

880
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: have to reinstall those on the new computer as well.

881
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: Now Windows used to have sort of a migration tool

882
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 1: built in. They do not anymore, which is probably why

883
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 1: this computer company is offering to sell you some software.

884
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 1: The popular software is PC mover from LapLink. That may

885
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: be what they're selling you forty bucks online. So if that,

886
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, if you want it to be easy and

887
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: simple and you want to use the software transfer, then

888
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: go ahead. It's it's going to make life a little

889
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: bit easier and you know everything's going to be pulled

890
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: over to the new computer. Personally, I'm just much more

891
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: hands on and I like to know what's happening and

892
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: what's being pulled over and what settings are changing and

893
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So I would like to

894
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: do this myself. But I don't see any problem with

895
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: doing this. If you want to make life easy for yourself,

896
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: go ahead. That's probably the best way to do it.

897
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call there in Bettsville, Ohio. Stanley appreciate it.

898
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: Let's go to Richard in Saint Charles, Illinois.

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Speaker 2: Richard, you're on with rich Hi, I've got a problem.

900
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 7: I've got a computer that has Windows pen on it,

901
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 7: and it keeps every few days saying you have to update.

902
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 7: It'll do it when you turn it off, if you

903
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 7: tell it to or whatever, and eventually, and I always say,

904
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 7: forget it. I never want any updates. How do I

905
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 7: get it so I don't have to have these things

906
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 7: screwing up my computer all the time?

907
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 2: Oh? Good question.

908
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: Well, first off, I do recommend doing the updates, and

909
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: I know people don't want to do updates because it

910
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: changes things, it changes the way their computer works. But

911
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: there's a reason for these updates, and it is mostly security.

912
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes they do throw in an update that will change

913
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: the way your computer works. But if you want to

914
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: just do the updates that are security related, when you're

915
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 1: looking at that update screen, you should have the choice

916
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: to choose the individual updates that you want to do.

917
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: You could tell which ones are security related. Because they're

918
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: typically marked that way, but other times there's a bigger

919
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 1: update that will change some of the things on your computer.

920
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: So I would say it's best to do the updates

921
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: just if you want to keep your computer protected. There

922
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Speaker 1: is no way to stop the updates easily, as.

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Speaker 2: Far as I know.

924
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: On Windows, there are some ways to pause them for

925
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: seven days, and you can repeat that if you want

926
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: to pause them for a period of time, but there

927
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,439
Speaker 1: really isn't a way to stop them forever. Looking here

928
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: and seeing if there's a way to defer some of

929
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: these updates, yeah, I mean it's one of these things

930
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Speaker 1: where there are some ways to just defer them for

931
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: a while, but there's not a way to keep them

932
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Speaker 1: from never happening. I mean, really, you can defer them

933
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 1: for as long as you want to keep them from

934
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: happening for a certain period of time, but eventually you

935
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: know you're probably gonna have to do these things, and.

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Speaker 2: I do recommend you do them.

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00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: I think with any any device that you have, whether

938
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: it is your phone, whether it is your computer, these

939
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: software updates are put there for a reason, and they're

940
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: put there to protect you from the exploits that are

941
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 1: discovered in the wild, and so especially on a Windows computer,

942
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: that is the most common platform out there, and so

943
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that can affect this,

944
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: and so by not doing these updates, you are putting

945
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: yourself at a disadvantage. I understand it changes things. I

946
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: know sometimes you get these things on there and they're

947
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: just you know, they change the way your computer works

948
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: or runs. But they still are very important to do.

949
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Speaker 1: So my advice is to always do them. I know

950
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 1: it changes, but if you want to put them off,

951
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: you can pause them for a while and keep them

952
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: at bay for just a little bit. But I always

953
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: recommend doing them all. Right, coming up, let's see what

954
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: can I tell you about. Speaking of security, if you

955
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: have an iPhone, there is a new security setting that

956
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: I definitely think you should turn on. And Apple is

957
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: changing big changes over in Europe. I'm not sure they'll

958
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: trickle here to the US, but Apple is overhauling its

959
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: app store in response to this new European Union digital law,

960
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: and so I will tell you what you need to

961
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 1: know about that, plus the website. Rich on tech dot TV.

962
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Speaker 1: If you have a question for me, you can call

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Speaker 1: in Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at

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Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. By the way,

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Speaker 1: if you hear something I mentioned on the show and

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Speaker 1: you want to link, just go to rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv slash wiki wiki and that will give you

972
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Speaker 1: the live show notes for the show that you are

973
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: listening to right now. You can always get the show

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Speaker 1: notes later at richon tech dot tv, but if you

975
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: go to wiki, it will give you the ones that

976
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: are basically happening in real time, like everything's being written down.

977
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Gordon. Gordon is in Costa Mesa. You're

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Speaker 1: on with Rich.

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00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 8: Hey, Rich, I.

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00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 14: Have a Asis laptop seventeen inch and it's eleven years old

981
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 14: and it's starting to fail, and I wanted to know

982
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 14: what brand is a good brand, whether I should stay

983
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 14: with Windows or Mac. I don't do a few bills

984
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 14: on the computer, but nothing really much.

985
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: Uh as you're thinking of switching to Mac, well, I

986
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 1: don't know.

987
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 14: I have never used the Mac. I always use Windows.

988
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 14: But a friend of mine was saying it was easy

989
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 14: to learn, but I.

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00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 1: Don't know, I think it's easy to I mean, it's

991
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: definitely a change. I think that uh, you know, a

992
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: really really good MacBook, the MacBook Error is an excellent choice.

993
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 2: But what do you What do you do on the computer?

994
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 14: Mostly emails and just kind of surfing and you know,

995
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 14: we might get a wireless bill and I just and

996
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 14: it's paid with a credit card or bank account, so

997
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 14: it's not really on the computer that I have a

998
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 14: bank account number such and such.

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00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean the main thing is that you're

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00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna be fine with any computer. I think

1001
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: it's really the specs that matter with these things, because

1002
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: I assume you're just going to like go to get

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00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 1: like best Buy or something like that to buy one.

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00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 14: Is that or are you going to try either that

1005
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 14: or Costco?

1006
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 10: But oh yeah, I don't know.

1007
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 14: I need I need somebody to assist me to transfer

1008
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 14: everything I have on the other computer to the new one.

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00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's also, well, that would be yeah, I mean

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00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: that would be a consideration, especially with this computer that

1011
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: you have that's been around for a while. But again

1012
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: I would recommend just you can dump all your files

1013
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: onto like an external hard drive, and that's an easy

1014
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: way to do it. But uh, okay, So when it

1015
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: comes to the question of Mac versus PC, so you

1016
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 1: already know PC, you already know how it works, so

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00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,399
Speaker 1: I have no problem with you sticking with that. I

1018
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: personally think that the MacBook Air is a really easy

1019
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: to use computer that is.

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00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 2: Going to last for a long time.

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00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 1: I'm impressed that you got eleven years out of this

1022
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: current laptop, so kudos to you for that. But you know,

1023
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: when it comes to the new laptop, I think it

1024
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:16,760
Speaker 1: really comes down to the specs. So and Costco you mentioned,

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00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: that's a great place to start because they typically only

1026
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: have a small selection of laptops, whether it is a

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00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: couple of Apple laptops or a couple of Windows laptops,

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00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: and they're all excellent. So you really cannot go wrong

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00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: with something that you buy at Costco. So if that's

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00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: if you do have a membership there, I would go

1031
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: in there see what they have. And when it comes

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00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: to laptops on the Windows side, you know they have

1033
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: some gaming laptops and things like that. You don't need those.

1034
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: But if it's just a standard laptop like an a

1035
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 1: sus or an Acer. I would get something that has

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00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 1: sixteen gigabytes of RAM. That's kind of the minimum that

1037
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 1: I would look for. And then for the hard drive,

1038
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: probably like a one terabyte hard drive. You could probably

1039
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: be okay with a five to twelve gigabyte, but I

1040
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: think a one terabyte drive along with sixteen gigabytes of

1041
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: RAM is going to be best. And then when it

1042
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: comes to the processor, when it comes to Intel, the

1043
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: higher the number the better. And so if you're looking

1044
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 1: at like say an Intel, you know they usually go

1045
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: by Core I five, Core I seven, Core I nine.

1046
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: If it's like a three, that's probably going to be

1047
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: you know, that's on the low end of things. I

1048
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: look for at least a five or a seven on

1049
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 1: the Intel processors. So that's really what it comes down

1050
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,240
Speaker 1: to is look for those specs. Make sure you're getting

1051
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: something that that it's decent specs that's going to last

1052
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: you a long time, versus something that's just you know,

1053
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars a best Buy and it's like a

1054
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 1: chromebook style thing and it's not going to last you

1055
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: very long because you got a long time out of

1056
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: this last computer. I'm very very impressed Now, when it

1057
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,879
Speaker 1: comes to the Apple side of things, the Apple the

1058
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: MacBook Air M one is a little bit older. But

1059
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: this thing was on sale for like seven hundred and

1060
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: fifty dollars over the holiday, so I'm checking to see

1061
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: what the price is now. Oh, it's still seven hundred

1062
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 1: and fifty bucks. And so if you want to switch

1063
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: to the Apple side of things, this MacBook Air from

1064
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: twenty twenty has an M one chip. It only has

1065
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: eight gigs of RAM and a two hundred and fifty

1066
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 1: six gigabyte hard drive, so that on the on that aspect,

1067
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: the spect are not very good. But this is going

1068
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: to be a very fast computer and I think that's

1069
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: and it's going to last a long time and there's

1070
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: not a lot of bloatwear on the Mac computer. So

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00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: I hope that helps. But I would say go to

1072
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: Costco and that's probably the best place to start. And

1073
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: if you need to, you can email me a picture

1074
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,919
Speaker 1: of those the two that you're trying to decide between. There.

1075
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: Believe me, people have done it before, so that might

1076
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 1: be the best way to do it. All right, Thanks

1077
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: for the call. Gordon calling in today from Costa Mesa. Okay,

1078
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 1: so there is a new feature on the iPhone if

1079
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone that you need to enable. It

1080
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: is called stolen Device Protection. This is an iOS seventeen

1081
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: point three, So if you haven't updated your phone to

1082
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: iOS seventeen point three, you'll need to do it. I

1083
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 1: talked about this. This is all because of the Wall

1084
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: Street Journal. If you turn on the setting, it will

1085
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: now require your face ID or your fingerprint, or a

1086
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: one hour delay before allowing big changes to your account

1087
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: like changing your Apple ID password or disabling fine min

1088
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: and so this will add an extra layer to your phone.

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Speaker 1: In case someone steals your phone and also figures out

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00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: your passcode, they won't be able to make major changes

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00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: to your phone that will enable them to not only

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00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: steal your phone, but also rob you of your identity

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00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: and your data and your financial apps. So it basically

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00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: puts one level of protection between you and the bad people.

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00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,280
Speaker 1: Go to iPhone settings face ID, and it's under Stolen

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00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: Device Protection. If you don't see that new feature, you

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00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: got to do a software update again. iPhone Settings face ID,

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00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: Stolen Device Protection.

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Speaker 2: Turn it on.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next. Mitch Goldstone from scan my Photos dot Com.

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

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00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one

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Speaker 1: oh one, that's eighty eight seven four two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one joining me in the studio Mitch Goldstone of

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00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: scan my Photos dot Com. Mitch, thanks so much for

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00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: joining me today, Rich.

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00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 3: Pleasure is always for the guys.

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00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: You. You're actually one of only two people who have

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00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: been in studio. First, yeah, you were the first, and

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00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: now you're actually the third because we've only had Jefferson Graham,

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00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 1: my friend.

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00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 2: I know Jeff is the greatest guy in there. I

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00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 2: know he is a great guy.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Oh and oh, Bobo reminded me, yeah, my son.

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00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: Do I have both my sons on? Yeah? Okay, no,

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00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 1: just one, just one? Okay, Parker was over the phone. Anyway,

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00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: So the reason you're here, we'll talk about scan my

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00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: photos dot Com and the fact that you run this

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00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: great business that helps you ble scan all of the

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00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: old photos and film reels and all that stuff. But

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00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: you also did something really interesting. You run a small

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00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: business and you somehow secured a five point five billion

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00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: dollar payment card settlement, and it all relates to this

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00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: you brought into prop. Tell me if you can hear this,

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00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: if you're of a certain age when you went to

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00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,399
Speaker 1: the store. That's the sound you heard when you checked out.

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00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: It is a credit card. What do you call this thing?

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00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:27,479
Speaker 1: Credit card?

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00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,959
Speaker 3: Imprinter with carbon copy receipts took three days to send

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00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 3: those to Miami. Millions of merchants took three days to

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00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 3: get their money. And that sounds so I have to say,

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Speaker 3: I'm humbled to be here today after last week's show

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00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 3: with my other hero, Joanna Stern.

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00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:42,720
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's great.

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00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: She awesome, She is awesome and every time and she

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00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,320
Speaker 1: emails you to say, hey, join and we come on show. Absolutely.

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00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: When when do you need me? Okay, So let's talk

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Speaker 1: about this settlement. So five point five to four billion

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00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: dollar anti trust class action settlement for merchants who accepted

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Speaker 1: Visa MasterCard from twenty four to twenty nineteen. So what

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00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: started you on this journey to try to get the settlement?

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00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: What was the problem?

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00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 5: Rich?

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00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 3: The problem was my business partner and I, Carl Berman,

1145
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 3: ran the photo business, and we realized that everything got

1146
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 3: less expensive and faster, much like Moore's law, everything but

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00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 3: one thing. Even with scanning. We digitized two pictures and

1148
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 3: a second slides one every second, but credit card fees

1149
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 3: kept on going up, so we were concerned. I reached

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00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 3: out to Visa and MasterCard. The biggest mistake they never

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00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 3: took my call from Purchase New York and in San Francisco,

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00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 3: and all I wanted to do was ask why are

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00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 3: these rates going up?

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Speaker 2: So what are these fees? Just explain what those fees

1155
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 2: are like.

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00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,240
Speaker 1: Every time when you use a credit card at a company,

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00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: or even a debit card or is this just credit

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00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: credit and debit card, they take a little patient, they

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Speaker 1: take a little portion, which is a big portion.

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Speaker 3: It's tens of billions of dollars a year. Back then,

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00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 3: when you had the credit card imprint and carbon copies,

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00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,800
Speaker 3: it was cost based. But what happened was I reached

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Speaker 3: out and found the most awesome law firm, Robins Kaplan

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00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 3: in Minneapolis. Out here in Century City, Craig Wildfang, Ryan,

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00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 3: the whole group. They're the ones that took on the

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00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 3: tobacco industry. Mister Wildfang was Janet Reno. Worked with Janet

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00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 3: Reno Department of Justice, and we got together and they

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00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 3: explained to me that Visa and MasterCard were both owned

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00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 3: by the same banks, Wells Fargo, ba of a chase,

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Speaker 3: all of them city and they also had the same

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00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 3: board of directors, and twice a year, millions of merchants

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00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 3: like scan my photos would get a letter saying your

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00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 3: rates are going up. But we got two letters, one

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00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 3: from Visa, one for MasterCard and on the same day

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Speaker 3: and the same rates.

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Speaker 2: So I'm thinking, I don't want to throw out a

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Speaker 2: term like collusion.

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Speaker 3: But five point five billion dollars in collusion took eighteen years.

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00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 3: Carl and I started in two thousand and five with this.

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00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 3: It's collusion, anti competitive price fixing. So the best part

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00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 3: about the lawsuit is once I followed as lead plaintiff,

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00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 3: Visa and MasterCard immediately went public, which confirmed that there

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00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 3: was a problem. And then they did the second thing

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00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 3: almost instantly, they created a separate board of directors because

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Speaker 3: the same guys are on Visa. So it took eighteen years.

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Speaker 3: It's a massive, its largest antitrust suit in US history.

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Speaker 3: And I know every one of your listeners around the

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00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 3: country right now who are business owners, are thinking, well,

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00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 3: how do I get involved?

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Speaker 2: How do I get this money?

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Speaker 1: But eighteen years, eighteen years, this took, and it's all

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00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: because of you, Like literally you.

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Speaker 3: Well, but yeah, it's kind of like, you know Aaron

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00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 3: brockovic promos.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have a story about that.

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00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 3: I mentioned at cees at the Netflix Pavilion, I ran

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00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 3: into our dear friend Lance all and Off and I

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00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 3: was chatting with him, and as soon as I left him,

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Speaker 3: these two guys came up to me and said, I

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00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 3: overheard what you guys were talking about. One is movie

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00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 3: producer and another is a screenwriter. And they were saying,

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is like the next Aaron Brockovitz

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00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 3: two point zero.

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Speaker 1: We're going to see a movie with mention it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: more like Matt Damon.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot I don't know, but it was really

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00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 3: it was so inspiring. They were excited with it. But

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Speaker 3: the point now is people aren't taking this seriously. You know,

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00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 3: if you have a class action envelope, you throw it away,

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00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 3: it's for a penny or a coupon. Rich this is thousands, tens,

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Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of dollars based on the size of

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Speaker 3: the business.

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Speaker 1: It is huge.

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Speaker 3: So I helped design When people go to the scan

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00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 3: my Photos website, all the information is there. You'll see

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Speaker 3: the claim form. Carl and I helped design it. We

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00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 3: have barcode in it, so you just scan the barcode.

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00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 3: It takes a second. So now there are all these

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Speaker 3: other companies that are trying to help businesses with undisclosed fees.

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Speaker 3: One company all over on TikTok Social is saying for

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Speaker 3: forty percent will handle everything for you.

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Speaker 1: No please everyone. So so just to get this straight,

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Speaker 1: there is a direct way to do this where you

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01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: can file you know, your claim, I guess. But then

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Speaker 1: there's these other klingon companies that are coming out of

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Speaker 1: the woodwork saying, hey, we'll do this for you. You

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Speaker 1: tell us how much. We'll fill out all the information,

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Speaker 1: but we're going to take a cut of that. Don't

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Speaker 1: like a third party, you don't want to do that.

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Speaker 3: No, and you received one as well in the mail, right.

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Speaker 1: So is this real?

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01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 5: This is?

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Speaker 6: So?

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Speaker 2: This is the real one.

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Speaker 5: That is it?

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01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 3: And all you have to do is fill it out.

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Speaker 3: It takes a second. There's a bar code in it.

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Speaker 3: And because there's so many millions, I never thought i'd

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01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 3: be moiles. There are millions of merchants, businesses that are

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01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,439
Speaker 3: in business that are also no longer in business. So

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01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 3: we're sending out a million a day, a million of

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Speaker 3: those every day. And the important thing is all the

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Speaker 3: giant big companies know about this and they're having.

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Speaker 2: People figure it out.

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01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: Right.

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01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 3: I want all small businesses to take advantage of this.

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01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 3: The average is like five percent of people ever redeemed. No,

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01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 3: this needs to be one hundred percent. We need every

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01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 3: small business And the problem is if you don't fill

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01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 3: that out, it just goes into the pool. So everyone

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01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 3: who did gets more. But if you're no longer in business,

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Speaker 3: and I know a lot of people that listen to

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01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 3: rich and tech from you and from years ago, may

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01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 3: no longer be in business, you still get it from

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01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 3: two thousand and four to twenty nineteen, and all you

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01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 3: have to do is fill out the form. We put

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01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 3: everything on the scan my Photos website as well. If

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01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 3: you just go to in the news or the blog,

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01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 3: right up front all the information and there's a direct

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01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 3: link to help with the claims administrator. All of that

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Speaker 3: so really easy.

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Speaker 1: So the official website is Paymentcard Settlement dot com. Right okay,

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Speaker 1: scan my Photos dot com will also have a link.

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01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: You might have gotten a letter in the mail that

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01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: says it's time to file your claim for your share

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01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: of the five point five plus billion dollar settlement if

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01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: you accepted Visa or MasterCard from January first, two thousand

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01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: and four through January twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, and it's

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01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 1: it comes from the payment card Interchange Fee settlement. So again,

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01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: if you ran a small business and you know, even

1272
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 1: if you're not running that business anymore, you may have

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01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: a portion of this money coming your way, but you

1274
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: have to put in the claim for it.

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Speaker 3: You do, and we want as many people as possible.

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01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 3: That's way even on Twitter at the scan my photo

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01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 3: c or credit card. So on Twitter the address is

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01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 3: scan my photo CEE. Just reach out to us, ask

1279
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 3: us any questions, let us know did you get one

1280
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 3: of these? Did you not? Do you have any questions

1281
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 3: and we'll put your right in charge with the claims adjuster.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So now that you did this, Mitch, I mean,

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01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: has anything changed with the way credit cards are taken

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01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: at businesses? Everything?

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01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 3: All the technology has changed because back then you'd have

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01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 3: to swipe the card. Now they're all the security features

1287
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 3: are in it with the the chip, the chip, all

1288
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:57,959
Speaker 3: of that. So all of the reasons the bank said

1289
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 3: we need to charge lots of money because of fraud.

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01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 3: Fraud has been vastly reduced because of how easy and

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01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 3: quick and instantaneous. When you use a debit card and

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01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 3: you go and you swipe it, money is instantly taken

1293
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 3: out of your account, yet the merchant is still being

1294
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 3: charged and interchange.

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01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: Right because of that convenience. I always find it interesting

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01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 1: when I can't use my own card, when they're protecting

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01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: me from myself. I'm like, no, you're just protecting your bank.

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01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 1: You know that, you don't really care. You know, I've

1299
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: been in Japan, I've been an other most of the time.

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01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: It happens when I'm traveling and all of a sudden,

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01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, you try to use your card

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01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: that first you step off the plane. You try to

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Speaker 1: use your card, even debit or credit, and it's like

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Speaker 1: it gets locked up, and you're like, oh no, now

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Speaker 1: I got to deal with this card being locked up.

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Speaker 1: So thank you for doing that. It's very exciting. And

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Speaker 1: quickly before we go, give me an update on scan

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Speaker 1: myphotos dot com. This is a huge business that you

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Speaker 1: run just keeping people's memories digitized forever.

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Speaker 3: It is well, we have crazy big news tomorrow. I'm

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Speaker 3: kind of precluded from talking about it yet, but people

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Speaker 3: will see it all over the country today with you, though,

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Speaker 3: I'd rather focus on the credit cards than the other part.

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Speaker 3: Things are going great and on that side, but this

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Speaker 3: is more about the millions of businesses out there, tiny

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Speaker 3: little businesses, big businesses. Please fill out the claim form.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely you heard it from the man himself, Mitch Goldstone

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Speaker 1: of scan my photos dot com. Five point five billion

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Speaker 1: dollar payment card settlement. Go to the website payment Card

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Speaker 1: Settlement dot com or scan my photos dot com to

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Speaker 1: get more information and to submit your claim.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me in studio today.

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Speaker 1: You're the best. Appreciate it rich On Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: Of course we'll have a link as well coming up

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Speaker 1: more of your questions at triple eight rich one on

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

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Speaker 1: Plus I will tell you about how Apple is making

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Speaker 1: some changes to their app store because of a European law.

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Speaker 2: Coming up.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Just had Mitch Goldstone in

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Speaker 1: here to talk about his Aaron Brockovic moment five point

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Speaker 1: five billion dollars. So if you ran a small business

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Speaker 1: between twenty four and twenty nineteen, accepted Visa and or MasterCard,

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Speaker 1: you might have some money coming your way. The website

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Speaker 1: once again payment Cardsettlement dot Com. Well, this week Apple

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Speaker 1: made some or is announced some major changes to the

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Speaker 1: way it's doing business in Europe, all in response to

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Speaker 1: this new Digital Markets Act, which takes effect in March

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Over in Europe. This is all for

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Speaker 1: the EU. The reason I'm telling you this is because

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Speaker 1: a it is a huge shift in the way Apple

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Speaker 1: does business, because Apple historically, traditionally has run a very

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Speaker 1: clared shop. You buy the iPhone, they make the phone,

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Speaker 1: they make the software, they make the hardware, they make

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Speaker 1: the app store, they make the payment system. It is

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Speaker 1: all very apply and then all the accessories you buy

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Speaker 1: are mostly Apple stuff.

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Speaker 2: As well.

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Speaker 1: Over in Europe, they are trying to break down those walls,

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Speaker 1: and so Apple is making some changes to comply with

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Speaker 1: this new law. So number one, users are going to

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Speaker 1: be able to download apps from competing app stores outside

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Speaker 1: of the Apple App Store. That's for the first time

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Speaker 1: ever on Android We call this sideloading, and it's been

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Speaker 1: available and Android for many, many years. This is the

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Speaker 1: first time it's available on the iPhone in a big

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Speaker 1: way without jail breaking. Banks and other services will be

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Speaker 1: allowed to offer competing payment methods inside their apps, so

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Speaker 1: you no longer have to use Apple Pay as your default.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you want to use Samsung Pay, Maybe you want

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Speaker 1: to use PayPal pay, maybe you want to use Venmo pay,

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Speaker 1: maybe you want to use Google Pay.

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Speaker 2: Whatever you want, you'll be able to do it.

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Speaker 1: The new iPhones will show users an option to download

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Speaker 1: a different web browser like Chrome and Firefox as an

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Speaker 1: alternative to the Safari. You could already set a default

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Speaker 1: browser that is not Safari on the iPhone, but they

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Speaker 1: are going to also allow a different version of the

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Speaker 1: web browser to run. It's a little complicated, but basically

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Speaker 1: any web browser that you run on the iPhone still

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Speaker 1: in the background sort of runs the Safari framework. They

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Speaker 1: are now going to allow Chrome and Firefox to run

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Speaker 1: their own framework. The whole point of these changes is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's to limit the power of big tech

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Speaker 1: companies like Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft in areas like

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Speaker 1: app stores and payments, because right now they have a

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Speaker 1: lot of power. You buy the iPhone, you subscribe using

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Speaker 1: Apple Services to any app that you want to download

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Speaker 1: in there. Now, this is going to have profe implications,

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Speaker 1: mostly over in Europe, and I think that I don't

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Speaker 1: really see a lot of this stuff happening in the

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Speaker 1: US unless Apple is compelled to do it here for

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Speaker 1: some reason. But in Europe this is a huge shift,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be honest, there's a big debate online about

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Speaker 1: whether this is going to be good for consumers or

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Speaker 1: bad for consumers. I think that you can see both

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Speaker 1: sides of that. So on the one side, let's say

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Speaker 1: your kid plays roadblocks, and if you buy roebucks from

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Speaker 1: roadblocks directly on the iPhone, maybe they're cheaper than if

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Speaker 1: you buy the roebucks through Apple's payment system, and so

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Speaker 1: in that way it will be nice. But on the

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Speaker 1: flip side, and Apple has said that this is going

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Speaker 1: to open up a lot of security and privacy risks

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Speaker 1: for fraud, for hacks, and the reason for that is

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Speaker 1: that you can now get tricked much more easily on

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Speaker 1: an iPhone because you are using methods to pay, methods

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Speaker 1: to download apps that are not vetted, and so there

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Speaker 1: will be many opportunities where people will stumble because you

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Speaker 1: think you're buying one thing and it turns out you

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Speaker 1: might be buying another. So you're taking outside of that

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Speaker 1: guarded security wall that Apple offers right now, and it

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Speaker 1: is going to be kind of a free for all.

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Speaker 1: So we'll continue to watch that. But again, big changes

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Speaker 1: in the way that Apple is doing business over in Europe,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to be a big deal. Ed is

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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas? Ed, you're on with Rich?

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Speaker 5: Rich?

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Speaker 12: Here you doing?

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01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:31,520
Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic?

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Speaker 10: How are you good?

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Speaker 6: Good?

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Speaker 13: Good? I appreciate your show. I was listening to Leo

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Speaker 13: for years and said hi to Cam. That was great

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Speaker 13: to talk to her about. My question? Is here in Vegas?

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Speaker 13: And I never hear you mention it that they advertise

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Speaker 13: something called Tableau Ta b L Tableau TV and says

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Speaker 13: you can even record TV shows. It's supposed to be

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Speaker 13: I guess, kicking your table company to the curb getting

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Speaker 13: better TV service. Don't know much about it. Is it

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Speaker 13: worth looking into? Do you know anything about it?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I just met with them when I was in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas at CS a couple of weeks ago. Right,

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Speaker 1: it feels like forever ago, but it was just recent, right,

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Speaker 1: But yes, so and I and I used Tableau extensively

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Speaker 1: for the old model. I've not tested the new model,

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Speaker 1: but they are sending me that. And so the new model,

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Speaker 1: which is the one you're probably seeing advertised, looks like

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Speaker 1: a circular puck.

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Speaker 2: It's got an.

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Speaker 1: Area on the back where you can attach a antenna,

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Speaker 1: so you'll need an antenna, and then it has a

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Speaker 1: built in DVR and there's no subscription, so it is free.

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Speaker 1: And so what you do is you plug in the

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Speaker 1: antenna into this device. You got to make sure you

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Speaker 1: have a good signal for that, and it will allow

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Speaker 1: you to record shows and you know, just like you

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Speaker 1: would on a TVO back in the day or any

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Speaker 1: other DVR. And there's really there's really no downside to this.

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Speaker 1: You get fifty hours of internal storage, you can add

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Speaker 1: external storage.

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Speaker 2: It works over Wi Fi.

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Speaker 1: And the cool thing is anything that's recorded onto this device,

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Speaker 1: you can watch it on any device in your home.

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Speaker 1: So inside the house, this little device becomes almost like

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Speaker 1: a you know, like a DVR for every device. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to watch the show on your phone,

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01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:21,760
Speaker 1: you can watch it on your phone. If you want

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01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 1: to watch it on your smart TV. You can watch

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Speaker 1: it on your smart TV. It's pretty easy to set up.

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01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 1: You get a fourteen day channel guide for free and

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01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:33,080
Speaker 1: again no subscription fees. So the main things you don't

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01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: get no four K support, no you know, no watching

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Speaker 1: outside of the house. And it is a little buggy.

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Speaker 1: From my friends that have used this, they say that

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01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:47,479
Speaker 1: there are some software bugs. But Tableau this is brand

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Speaker 1: new for the second generation of it, and it was

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Speaker 1: just purchased by Scripts, by the way, the big news company,

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01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: and so they are pushing this thing hard. And I

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Speaker 1: believe the price is about one hundred dollars, so I

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Speaker 1: say one hundred percent. If you have a good signal

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01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: over the air and you want to get over the

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01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: air shows and you want to record them, absolutely go

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Speaker 1: for the Tableau. I think it's a fantastic device. Just

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Speaker 1: be aware of the software bugs that you might encounter,

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01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: but know that they are continually upgrading and making this

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Speaker 1: thing better. Thanks for the call today, Ed in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Another hour of the show coming your way,

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Speaker 1: plus time for your calls to Triple eight Rich one

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

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. This is a show where I

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01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 1: talk about technology and answer your questions. It's the tech

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01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's a lot

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01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: of stuff to tell you about here, But silly me,

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01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 1: I've been telling you all these you know, different web

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Speaker 1: addresses to go to. But the easiest place I forgot

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Speaker 1: about this feature on the website that has a nice

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Speaker 1: big banner at the top. So if you go to

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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv, just tap the big red

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01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 1: banner at the top and that'll take you right to

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01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 1: the links for today's show. So I know I've mentioned

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I mentioned that just watch app

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01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: for the streaming services. I mentioned this sole and device

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01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:20,040
Speaker 1: protection for your iPhone that you should turn on. I

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01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:23,519
Speaker 1: mentioned the link to check if your data is involved

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01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 1: in that mother of all data breaches. We mentioned the

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Speaker 1: one plus twelve smartphone, the payment card settlement, Tableau TV,

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01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 1: so many different things. So if you want links to

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Speaker 1: anything that I mentioned, just go to rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv hit the big red banner up at the top.

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Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, I'm gonna tell you about being ghosted.

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Speaker 1: What the Better Business Bureau says, you can get ghosted

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Speaker 1: by your tax preparer. You don't want that to happen.

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Speaker 1: New Pixel features coming soon to the Pixel that. I've

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Speaker 1: played with them and they are pretty cool. Plus, we

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Speaker 1: have a guest, John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report is

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Speaker 1: going to have his review of the Kia EV nine.

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Speaker 1: This is the three row s u V e V

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Speaker 1: first of many. First, let's go to Matt in Seal Beach, California. Matt,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Rich. Hi, welcome to the shop.

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Speaker 9: I've got a networking question for you. I recently upgraded

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01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:29,879
Speaker 9: my internet service to two point five gigabits. They provided

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Speaker 9: me with an euro Mesh system, okay, which is which

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Speaker 9: is great, works awesome. The problem I'm having is on

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Speaker 9: the Euro there is there is a one gigabit jack

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Speaker 9: and a two point five bigabit jack. I would love

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Speaker 9: to get two point five gigabits coming out of that

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Speaker 9: through a hard line, but I'm unable to because the

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Speaker 9: only two point five big a bit jack is taken

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Speaker 9: up by the connection from the O n T to

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Speaker 9: the mesh system. And I'm basically looking for a unit

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Speaker 9: that has you know, multiple two point five out or

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01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:04,759
Speaker 9: a solution to get that that hard line.

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Speaker 1: Oh so you're saying that the two point five jack

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01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:11,679
Speaker 1: is taken up by the INN and the out is one.

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01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:13,640
Speaker 9: Yeah, the out of the one, So I can I

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01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 9: can only get one out, which is you know, I

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01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 9: get It's great, I get like nine and eighty up

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01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 9: and down. Yeah, really like the two point five.

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Speaker 6: If I could.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can get well, okay, So first off,

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01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 1: what you have is like relatively new and very high speed.

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01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, most of these home networking solutions that are

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01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:34,000
Speaker 1: out do not have capabilities for that just yet because

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01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: it is so new and it's so high end. Now

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01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:40,400
Speaker 1: with that said, there is a new euro called the

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01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 1: Eero Max seven and it is it's pretty intense. I

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01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: mean you're talking. This thing is five hundred and ninety

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01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 1: nine dollars for a one pack, and uh, if you

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01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:55,719
Speaker 1: look on this thing, this is meant for these super

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01:15:55,920 --> 01:16:00,760
Speaker 1: high internet standards that you're that are now starting to

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01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 1: come about. Like at my house, I have a one

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01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 1: gigabit connection, but they actually I think it goes up

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01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:08,280
Speaker 1: to five gigabits in my house. I've not upgraded that

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01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:11,360
Speaker 1: because I just don't need that much, but it is

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01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 1: nice to have if you can, so I think the

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01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 1: short answer is most of these are not meant for

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01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:21,559
Speaker 1: that type of speed just yet. We're just starting to

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01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: see them come into the marketplace. So if I were you,

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01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:26,559
Speaker 1: I would take a look at the super high end

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01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: offerings from You already have euro so it may be

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01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 1: worth it to just see if you can add one

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01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,320
Speaker 1: of these. It's called the EO Max seven. See if

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01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:39,439
Speaker 1: you can add that to the mix. And I think

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01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 1: it should be backwards compatible with your other devices. So

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01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: you would have to spend six hundred bucks on this thing,

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01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 1: which is a lot. I don't know if this thing

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01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: has gone on sale just yet, you know, I mean

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01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 1: it's on sale, like available. I don't know if it's

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01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 1: actually been discounted yet. But that's probably the one that

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01:16:57,760 --> 01:16:59,640
Speaker 1: you want to look at to see if they have

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01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:03,960
Speaker 1: if that'll do what you need. But this one definitely

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01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: handles speeds up to nine point four gigabits wired and

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01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 1: wireless up to four point three gigabits, so that would

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01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 1: definitely take care of what you need if you're looking

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01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 1: for that high end speed. Otherwise, you know, I'm looking

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01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:18,720
Speaker 1: at the back of it by the way, and there

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01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:21,559
Speaker 1: are one two, three four ports on the back and

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01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 1: there's two two point five gigabit ports and then ten

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01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:28,720
Speaker 1: to ten gigabit ports, so you would be covered with that.

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Speaker 2: But that's six hundred dollars.

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01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 1: So that's probably the easiest way to add it to

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01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: your system is just to go with the Eero Max

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01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:38,760
Speaker 1: seven and that's probably going to take care of it.

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01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:40,759
Speaker 1: But again, if you want to switch to a different system,

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01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:43,599
Speaker 1: I would just take a look at the super high

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01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:47,200
Speaker 1: end like ORB or TP link whatever they have that's

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01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 1: like they're almost their their max or there you know,

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01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:53,599
Speaker 1: pro level systems, because that's what's going to have these speeds.

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01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:55,519
Speaker 1: But we're going to see much more of this come

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01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 1: about in the next six months to a year, probably

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01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: see many more of these. K for the question, Matt,

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01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: You've got some serious speed. Matt's got a serious need

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01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 1: for speed there in Seal Beach. Thanks for the call today,

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Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Gary writes in Hey, Rich,

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01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:18,799
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Samsung is providing seven years of security

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01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:20,720
Speaker 1: updates with the S twenty four. How long will they

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01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: provide monthly updates. Samsung doesn't make it easy to find

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01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 1: this information. The S nine started with monthly updates, then

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01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:30,160
Speaker 1: went to quarterly, then semi annual. Their mid range phone

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01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 1: start with quarterly then go to semi annual. Is Google

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01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,679
Speaker 1: any better in this regard? Do they offer monthly updates

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01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:37,720
Speaker 1: for the seven years on the Pixel eight? I'd like

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Speaker 1: an Android phone that provides monthly security updates as long

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Speaker 1: as possible. Thanks Gary, Well, Gary, you're right that the

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Speaker 1: new Samsung does offer seven years of OS and security updates,

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01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: and on the Pixel eight lineup, they're also offering seven

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01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,879
Speaker 1: years of updates as well. Now here's the thing. Nobody

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01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:00,639
Speaker 1: is guaranteeing the frequency of those updates. So with Google,

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01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: they used to guarantee that the updates would come out

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01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: on a monthly basis, the first Monday of the month.

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01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,479
Speaker 1: They have gone away from that. And the reason they've

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01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:09,920
Speaker 1: gone away from it is because people were setting their

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01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: calendars to it and then getting angry when they didn't deliver,

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01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:14,800
Speaker 1: and that puts a lot of pressure on the company,

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01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: especially over seven years, to come out those software updates.

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01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: So Samsung has said, yes, we will support this for

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01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,800
Speaker 1: seven years, but we're not going to give you a

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01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 1: rundown of exactly the timeline of that, so it may

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01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:31,160
Speaker 1: come out, you know, when necessary, but they will keep

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01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: it up to date. Same thing with Pixel phones. They

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01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: are now just coming out with the updates as necessary

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01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: when they can, on their own schedule. So that's the

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01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: deal with that. Tony writes in Hey, Rich, after listening

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01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: to your podcast, I heard a caller talking about Verizon

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01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: quietly raising their prices without us knowing. I immediately checked

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01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:52,680
Speaker 1: my bill, and yes they are. I'm tired of their antics.

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01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: Living in New Jersey and I travel along the East coast,

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01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:58,880
Speaker 1: Verizon is dominant. I'm thinking of at least switching to

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01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: their Visible and going with a thirty five dollars plan.

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01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 1: I drive all night and I stream a lot. My

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01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 1: question is if I switch my iPhone and Apple Watch

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01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 1: to Visible and then next year upgrade my phone, it

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01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: doesn't give Visible as a provider when I check out

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01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 1: and using Apple's finance for two years, it only gives

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01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: AT and T, T Mobile and Verizon. Would I just

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01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: choose Verizon as always? Thank you sir for what you do, Tony. Uh, Tony, No,

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01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:26,719
Speaker 1: you could not just choose Verizon. You can you can't

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01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 1: just choose Verizon because you're that's for a Verizon plan.

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01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:32,599
Speaker 1: So if you're going with a visible plan, the whole

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01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 1: thing is that you would actually get a cheaper price

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01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: on the plan over the couple of years. So they're

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01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:40,840
Speaker 1: not going to give you that financing deal. Now, if

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01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: you've heard from me, I don't recommend financing in general.

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01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: I always say save up for it and buy it

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01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 1: out right if you can. I understand that most people

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01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 1: don't like to do that these days, but you know,

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01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:54,720
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what I feel. But Apple does

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01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 1: have a program called the Apple iPhone Upgrade Program, and

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01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:01,920
Speaker 1: that is basically their own own version of a financing

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01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 1: program that gives you a new iPhone, you know, every

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01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 1: twelve months or every year, whatever it is.

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01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:09,080
Speaker 2: They have their own sort of program.

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01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,719
Speaker 1: So that's if you want to split up that payment

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01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:14,680
Speaker 1: and not pay the full price outright, that is the

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01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:16,479
Speaker 1: program that you would have to choose. You can't just

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01:21:16,560 --> 01:21:18,240
Speaker 1: choose the AT and T or the team OB or

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01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: the Verizon because you do have to have an active

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01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 1: plan with those carriers to take advantage. And the reason

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01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: why is because they're making money on you staying with

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01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,519
Speaker 1: them and paying an inflated price every month to stay

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01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 1: with them. So yes, you can get the Visible service

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01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: for thirty five bucks a month or one of these

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01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 1: other MV and o's that are much cheaper. But if

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01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:39,800
Speaker 1: you're on one of these big unlimited plans, which you

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01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:42,519
Speaker 1: typically have to do to get that financing or that

1652
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 1: quote unquote free phone, they're making, you know, twenty thirty

1653
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: dollars off of you every month kind of built into

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01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:50,559
Speaker 1: the price of your plan. If you do the math

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01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: and you look at the old plans that used to

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01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:55,320
Speaker 1: pay for your phone, like let's say five, six, seven

1657
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 1: years ago, when you paid two hundred dollars for a smartphone,

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01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,800
Speaker 1: basically you would pay less for your phone, but more

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01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 1: for your plan. Now you just pay more for your

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01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 1: plan and are less for your plan and more for

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01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 1: your phone. It's all the same. The math works out

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01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:10,599
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, if you do it

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01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:13,320
Speaker 1: like three years, it's about the same exact price. They

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01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 1: just moved things around. It's like a it's like one

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01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,120
Speaker 1: of those games, you know with the cups and the balls.

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01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 1: Is there a name for that game? Bobo is laughing.

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01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: Bobo really perked up there. I don't know what I

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01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:32,080
Speaker 1: said it's a cups and balls game. I mean, come on,

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01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: that's what it is. I'm sure there's a name for it.

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01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 1: Let's see cups. I just keep saying cups and balls. No,

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01:22:39,600 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 1: it's a cups and balls game. It's a it's a

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01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:47,600
Speaker 1: magic game. Yeah, see Bobo. Get all right? Triple A

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01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 1: Rich one o one eighty eight seven four two four

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Speaker 1: to one zero one. Uh. Coming up, we're gonna talk

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01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:56,560
Speaker 1: to John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report. He's going to

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01:22:56,760 --> 01:23:00,639
Speaker 1: review the Kia EV nine. The website once again, rich

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Speaker 2: I am at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: it's a fun place you are listening to rich on Tech.

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01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking

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

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Speaker 1: eighty eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.

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Speaker 1: The website rich on tech dot tv. If you want

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Speaker 1: Rubyl wrote in on Twitter or I guess formerly known

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01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:54,639
Speaker 1: as Twitter now X. The cups and balls is called

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01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 1: shell game.

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01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:56,439
Speaker 2: There you go.

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01:23:56,520 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 1: See that's what I knew. There was a term I knew.

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01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:01,639
Speaker 1: There's the term. Bobo say, has never heard of it? Yeah,

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01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 1: it's like to shell It's something.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 1: Let me get through a few news news spots before

1700
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 1: we get to John Faulkner of clean Fleet Report to

1701
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:12,719
Speaker 1: talk about the Kia EV nine. It is tax season.

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01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're getting things going for the tax year.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about my favorite app by the way

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Speaker 1: is incredible. If you're a freelancer or you keep track

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01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 1: end of the year, fly finn uses AI to figure

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01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: out what those things might be. So you basically link

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Speaker 1: it up to your checking account or your credit card

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01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: or your debit card and all the little like items

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Speaker 1: the transactions it will identify and like, let's say you

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Speaker 1: make a transaction that you know, you buy a plane ticket,

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Speaker 1: It'll be like, well, was this for business? And you

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Speaker 1: can keep it and then give that's your tax person,

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Speaker 1: fly finn Ai really cool iOS and Android. Speaking of taxes,

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Speaker 1: don't be ghosted by your tax preparer. According to the

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01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:06,720
Speaker 1: They offer large or fast refunds, and at the end

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Speaker 1: tax return even though they prepared it. That is the

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Speaker 1: red flag. They don't use a prepare tax ID number,

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Speaker 1: Doesn't put you, you know, it doesn't take you off

1727
01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:31,000
Speaker 1: the hook if something goes wrong, but just the irs

1728
01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:33,360
Speaker 1: knows that someone helped you with your taxes. So what

1729
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:35,200
Speaker 1: these people do is they help you with your taxes,

1730
01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 1: they get you this big refund or whatever they promise it,

1731
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 1: and then they they're never to be found again, and

1732
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: then you're stuck with a major headache. So only allow

1733
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: your refunds to be deposited in your own account. Review

1734
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:50,640
Speaker 1: your return, make sure it has the proper signatures on it.

1735
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: Watch out for any of these pop up tax prep

1736
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:56,880
Speaker 1: places that may try to ghost you and leave you

1737
01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 1: with a major headache.

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01:25:58,320 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 2: Just be wary.

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01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:03,679
Speaker 1: This is really cool. I sat through talk about boring.

1740
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:08,599
Speaker 1: I sat through a government zoom session on this new

1741
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 1: IRS Direct File free tax filing, and it was great

1742
01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:13,840
Speaker 1: because I learned a lot about it. But it was

1743
01:26:13,880 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 1: like over an hour and it's like, Okay, can you

1744
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 1: get to the point here, like what you know? But

1745
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:21,720
Speaker 1: the IRS is launching this thing called direct File, and

1746
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:24,760
Speaker 1: this is a new free online tax filing service. It's

1747
01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:29,640
Speaker 1: a pilot with only twelve states this year, but it

1748
01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:32,639
Speaker 1: means you can completely file your taxes through the IRS

1749
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:39,640
Speaker 1: website for free. And they're doing it in Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts,

1750
01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Hey you say Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington,

1751
01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: and Wyoming. And so this doesn't necessarily have income limits,

1752
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 1: but it does have certain situations that apply. So if

1753
01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 1: you have like a lot of deductions, or you have

1754
01:26:58,360 --> 01:27:00,599
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of like interests or something like that,

1755
01:27:00,760 --> 01:27:02,280
Speaker 1: you won't be able to use it. But you can

1756
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:04,680
Speaker 1: look on the direct file website and see if you

1757
01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: can do this, and if you can, it's all free.

1758
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 1: And so this is for your federal tax filing. You'll

1759
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,200
Speaker 1: still have to file your state taxes the other way.

1760
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 1: But this is all because TurboTax, which was trusted previously

1761
01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 1: with the free tax filing, basically allegedly hid their free

1762
01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:25,519
Speaker 1: service from Google searches and tricked people into paying for

1763
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:27,759
Speaker 1: stuff they didn't need to pay for. So the IRS

1764
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 1: trusted into it TurboTax with the free file service for

1765
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 1: many years, and people would get there and they think

1766
01:27:34,520 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: they're filing for free, and then all of a sudden

1767
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:38,040
Speaker 1: they be like, oh no, you got to pay this amount.

1768
01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:40,679
Speaker 1: And so now the IRS is doing their own thing

1769
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:44,200
Speaker 1: and of course into it and TurboTax say they did

1770
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 1: nothing wrong.

1771
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 2: But you know, this is going to be much easier.

1772
01:27:47,600 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 1: So if you want to do this direct file thing,

1773
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 1: if you want to see if you qualify, it's not

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01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:53,599
Speaker 1: available just yet, but you can read about it on

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01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:57,880
Speaker 1: the website IRS dot gov gov. Do not go to

1776
01:27:57,960 --> 01:28:00,640
Speaker 1: IRS dot com. That is not an official website. You

1777
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 1: will be scammed, or at least you will be. Let's

1778
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: see what does that go to IRS dot com. That

1779
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 1: takes you to I'll see what. That takes you to

1780
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:14,160
Speaker 1: IRS dot gov. Slash direct file that will take you

1781
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 1: to the official one. IRS dot com is a okay,

1782
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:19,120
Speaker 1: it's a way to like pay your taxes and stuff.

1783
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:21,840
Speaker 1: But it's not affiliated with the government, so they're sort

1784
01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:24,240
Speaker 1: of come on, government, like, you should just take that

1785
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:27,240
Speaker 1: website because that's that's probably confusing to a lot of people.

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01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: New pixel features coming out January thirty. First, you now

1787
01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:36,439
Speaker 1: have two new pixel phones in Mint. Pixelate Pixelate Pro

1788
01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:40,599
Speaker 1: are available in this new Mint color. Pixelate Pro can

1789
01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: now take body temperature using the thermometer app. I tested

1790
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:46,679
Speaker 1: this out. It is so cool. It feels like the future.

1791
01:28:47,439 --> 01:28:49,759
Speaker 1: You take the phone, you wave it over your forehead

1792
01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:52,760
Speaker 1: and it will take your temperature. And it took a

1793
01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:54,840
Speaker 1: lot for Google to figure this out, but this was

1794
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: now we know when the when the Pixel eight pro

1795
01:28:57,479 --> 01:29:01,559
Speaker 1: first came out, had this little had this little temperature

1796
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 1: sensor on it, and we're like, this thing is pointless

1797
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: because you can only use it to take the temperature

1798
01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 1: of objects, like they said, you cannot use this on people. Well,

1799
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:10,680
Speaker 1: the plan all along was to get this thing to

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01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 1: a place where you could use it on people. And

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01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: it was very complicated because you're holding your phone over

1802
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:18,080
Speaker 1: your forehead and swiping it. So Google had to come

1803
01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 1: up with a lot of different things and algorithms and

1804
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 1: a way to help you do that. And it's really good.

1805
01:29:23,400 --> 01:29:25,080
Speaker 1: And so now if you have a Pixelate Pro, you

1806
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:28,599
Speaker 1: can update the thermometer app and it will take temperature

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01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:32,000
Speaker 1: of humans. The other feature coming out is circle to Search.

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01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:34,400
Speaker 1: I've already talked about how cool that is. You can

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01:29:34,479 --> 01:29:37,120
Speaker 1: search anything on your phone just by circling it or

1810
01:29:37,160 --> 01:29:40,639
Speaker 1: scribbling over it. That is going to make Instagram stalking

1811
01:29:40,720 --> 01:29:43,840
Speaker 1: so much easier. And I joke, but if someone shares

1812
01:29:43,840 --> 01:29:45,559
Speaker 1: a pair of sneakers that they have, like the other day,

1813
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 1: someone posted last night a picture of a meal they

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01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 1: were having and on the plate it said.

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01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:51,400
Speaker 2: The name of the place. I was like, Oh, that

1816
01:29:51,439 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 2: looks cool.

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01:29:52,200 --> 01:29:54,320
Speaker 1: So I just circled to search found the place and

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01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:56,080
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, that's a cool looking place. That

1819
01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,920
Speaker 1: would have taken me like ten extra steps to get

1820
01:29:58,920 --> 01:30:00,440
Speaker 1: to previous.

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01:30:01,160 --> 01:30:02,960
Speaker 2: All right, they're playing me off.

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01:30:03,479 --> 01:30:06,840
Speaker 1: Coming up, John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report, we'll talk

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01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:09,559
Speaker 1: about the Kia EV nine. My name is Rich Dumiro

1824
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:14,120
Speaker 1: and you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back

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01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:17,599
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out talking

1826
01:30:17,680 --> 01:30:21,759
Speaker 1: technology with you the website rich on Tech dot tv.

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01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:24,479
Speaker 1: You heard me mention something you want to get a

1828
01:30:24,479 --> 01:30:26,719
Speaker 1: link for. Just go to the website. Hit the big

1829
01:30:26,880 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 1: red banner at the top of the screen that says

1830
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 1: heard it mentioned on the radio, Easy as that there

1831
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:39,519
Speaker 1: are a whole bunch of three row electric SUVs set

1832
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:41,680
Speaker 1: to hit the market. One of the first is the

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01:30:41,680 --> 01:30:46,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Kia EV nine. John Faulkner of Clean

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01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 1: Fleet Report has driven it. John, Welcome to the show.

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01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:51,519
Speaker 8: Hello, Rich good speak with you.

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01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: Good to have you so welcome to the show. Let's

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01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:59,760
Speaker 1: talk about these three row SUV evs. First off, this

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01:30:59,840 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 1: is kind of like the Holy Grail for the US

1839
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:04,640
Speaker 1: because people love their big SUVs.

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01:31:05,080 --> 01:31:08,400
Speaker 8: I've been asked for so long, when is a company

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01:31:08,439 --> 01:31:11,719
Speaker 8: going to come out with a three row electric suv?

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01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:15,479
Speaker 8: A true three row. Now, there are SUVs that are

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01:31:15,479 --> 01:31:21,599
Speaker 8: electric that are still the habitaord row, but not really.

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01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 8: This one is a true third row. You can get

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01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 8: two full size adults in the third row with leg

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01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:31,280
Speaker 8: room and the back seat and a third row reclients,

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01:31:31,320 --> 01:31:33,639
Speaker 8: so you have nice headroom also, so.

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01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 1: This is uh, this is basically room for seven. Is

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01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:36,920
Speaker 1: that right?

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01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:40,920
Speaker 8: It's if you get the bench seat, you have seven.

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01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:43,880
Speaker 8: If you get the captains chairs in the second row

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01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:47,639
Speaker 8: you have you have six, two four six.

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01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 1: Okay, oh captains, Wow, they offer that. I remember when

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01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:52,320
Speaker 1: we were shopping for an SUV, we really wanted the

1855
01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:55,840
Speaker 1: captain's seats in the second row because then you don't

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01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 1: have to move the row or the you know, the

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01:31:59,200 --> 01:32:02,120
Speaker 1: seats every time you want to get into the back, which.

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01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:05,160
Speaker 8: Is really something that Key has done nicely. Onto EV nine.

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01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 8: The second row captain source chairs not only slide, but

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01:32:09,040 --> 01:32:12,280
Speaker 8: they fold, therefore getting into that third row even for

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01:32:12,360 --> 01:32:15,720
Speaker 8: a large person someone me, You're you're taller than me,

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01:32:15,840 --> 01:32:17,360
Speaker 8: you'd have no problem getting it at all.

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01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:21,240
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So this car gets anywhere from two hundred

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01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:23,400
Speaker 1: and thirty to three hundred and four miles of range.

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01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 1: You've got fast charging, you can get one hundred miles

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01:32:26,439 --> 01:32:29,680
Speaker 1: of range in ten minutes. Let's talk about kind of

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01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:32,240
Speaker 1: like the basics of this car. So what do you

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01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 1: get for this price of what fifty seven thousand starting at.

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01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 8: The yes, now well, including including the fourteen hundred ninety

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01:32:42,479 --> 01:32:45,080
Speaker 8: five dollars destination charge, which is mandatorque. You can't get

1871
01:32:45,120 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 8: around paying that.

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01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:46,479
Speaker 7: Wow.

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01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:49,759
Speaker 8: Base the base model light or wheel drive single motor

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01:32:50,560 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 8: is fifty six three ninety five and that's two hundred

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01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:57,479
Speaker 8: and two and fifteen horse power to fifty eight torque.

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01:32:58,120 --> 01:33:00,400
Speaker 8: Then you then move up and they have another single

1877
01:33:00,400 --> 01:33:03,680
Speaker 8: motor called the Light Long Range, and that gets you

1878
01:33:03,760 --> 01:33:07,479
Speaker 8: that three hundred and four driving range. Then you start

1879
01:33:07,479 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 8: getting into the all wheel drive models, and those are

1880
01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:14,559
Speaker 8: the ones that have all will drive dual motors. Two

1881
01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 8: hundred and thirty for the Wind, two eighty for the

1882
01:33:18,120 --> 01:33:21,600
Speaker 8: Land Model, and the one that I drove is the

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01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:25,760
Speaker 8: GT Line and that's two hundred and seventy miles, but

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01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:29,160
Speaker 8: that has the most horse power and power and torque

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01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:33,200
Speaker 8: and it's a So when it comes down to which

1886
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:36,479
Speaker 8: one you're looking for, this is a true family vehicle,

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01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:39,920
Speaker 8: and Kia has made a statement that they are going

1888
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:43,719
Speaker 8: after families, and so you have to make a decision

1889
01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 8: do you want because that is a price bread fifty

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01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:50,000
Speaker 8: six three ninety five to seventy five three ninety five,

1891
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 8: So you have to say, okay, do I want that?

1892
01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:55,680
Speaker 8: Extra horse power and torque when you get into the

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01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:58,080
Speaker 8: all will drive once you could tow up to five

1894
01:33:58,120 --> 01:34:02,160
Speaker 8: thousand pounds, So maybe that's the sideration. But if you're

1895
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:05,920
Speaker 8: just driving around town doing a lot of commuting and such,

1896
01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:09,160
Speaker 8: probably the best one is the light long range where

1897
01:34:09,240 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 8: will drive single motor. That's sixty thousand and sixty ninety

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01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 8: five and that's your three hundred and four all electric

1899
01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:17,320
Speaker 8: driving range.

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Speaker 2: Now, what's this?

1901
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:21,400
Speaker 1: I read in your review that you can pay for

1902
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:22,200
Speaker 1: boost mode.

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01:34:22,280 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 2: What's that mean?

1904
01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:28,320
Speaker 8: Yes, you could pay one time for boost so's it's

1905
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:31,080
Speaker 8: it's a subscription plan, but this one is a one

1906
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:33,920
Speaker 8: time payment and what that'll do is that will give

1907
01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:37,000
Speaker 8: you extra power for a short amount of time. Now,

1908
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:41,479
Speaker 8: you drove the EB six, yes, yes, and remember that

1909
01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:45,639
Speaker 8: had the boost button, so that's what this would be also,

1910
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:48,519
Speaker 8: but that does not come standard on any of these models.

1911
01:34:48,520 --> 01:34:49,640
Speaker 8: You have to pay extra for that.

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01:34:50,240 --> 01:34:51,920
Speaker 1: We're starting to see more and more of that where

1913
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:54,840
Speaker 1: it's like an add on after you purchase it. So

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01:34:55,080 --> 01:34:57,639
Speaker 1: the range, Now, because this is such a large vehicle,

1915
01:34:58,160 --> 01:35:01,240
Speaker 1: how does it compare to other evs on the market.

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01:35:03,520 --> 01:35:05,559
Speaker 8: Well, if you're looking at a if you're if you're

1917
01:35:05,600 --> 01:35:08,479
Speaker 8: looking at a vehicle that weighs in over this, like

1918
01:35:08,560 --> 01:35:13,240
Speaker 8: over five pounds, and it's a gasoline that's probably getting,

1919
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:18,639
Speaker 8: you know, in the mid twenties, high twenties, you can

1920
01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:20,799
Speaker 8: you can just kind of figure out what it would be. Also,

1921
01:35:21,160 --> 01:35:25,519
Speaker 8: the the the consideration though, obviously with any EV is

1922
01:35:25,560 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 8: how far are you going to go? And as soon

1923
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:30,759
Speaker 8: as you as soon as you load down an EV

1924
01:35:31,760 --> 01:35:36,280
Speaker 8: with people and gear, and then your range is going

1925
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:41,360
Speaker 8: to drop. And that's that that isn't a mystery to anybody.

1926
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:43,640
Speaker 8: So it really comes down to how are you going

1927
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:45,880
Speaker 8: to use this vehicle? If you're going to be doing

1928
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 8: a lot of driving, then in long distances, then you

1929
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:54,800
Speaker 8: may want to be going with either a hybrid or

1930
01:35:54,840 --> 01:35:59,880
Speaker 8: a plug in hybrid suv or a pure gasoline model.

1931
01:36:00,439 --> 01:36:03,040
Speaker 1: But if you're just driving to and you know, driving

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01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:05,240
Speaker 1: the kids to and from school every day, just like

1933
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: you know, general kind of day to day around town

1934
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:10,559
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and you have a charger at home,

1935
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:14,479
Speaker 1: that's really kind of the sweet spot, right well.

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01:36:14,320 --> 01:36:17,880
Speaker 8: It is, and the and even on a level one

1937
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:22,000
Speaker 8: one and twenty volt regular outlet at your house, you

1938
01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:25,599
Speaker 8: would still get about forty to fifty miles of range

1939
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:30,280
Speaker 8: overnight just plugging in for eight nine hours. And but

1940
01:36:30,360 --> 01:36:33,559
Speaker 8: then if you do invest in a Level two UH

1941
01:36:33,600 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 8: in your garage at your house, you're gonna you're gonna

1942
01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:38,479
Speaker 8: be putting in all the range you're gonna need. And

1943
01:36:38,520 --> 01:36:40,639
Speaker 8: if you're do need to go to a DC fast charger,

1944
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:42,840
Speaker 8: that's the beauty of this. That the eight hundred bolt

1945
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:45,519
Speaker 8: architecture that this vehicle has, you're gonna be able to

1946
01:36:45,560 --> 01:36:47,479
Speaker 8: you can be able to get that. You're gonna be

1947
01:36:47,479 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 8: able to get that extremely fast charging which is ten

1948
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:56,599
Speaker 8: to eighty percent and twenty five minutes, and that's that

1949
01:36:56,600 --> 01:36:59,840
Speaker 8: that that's that's fast. If you're on a road trip,

1950
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:02,799
Speaker 8: if you're going from here to here to Las Vegas

1951
01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:05,920
Speaker 8: and you need to stop, and again everyone listening, I'm

1952
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 8: in southern California. So if you're driving California to Las Vegas,

1953
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:11,840
Speaker 8: you want to stop halfway there, you plug it in

1954
01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:14,120
Speaker 8: and in twenty five minutes, after you've gone and gets

1955
01:37:14,160 --> 01:37:16,760
Speaker 8: over to eat and drink, you're charged up again. You're

1956
01:37:16,800 --> 01:37:22,000
Speaker 8: on your way again. So charging now is really not

1957
01:37:22,040 --> 01:37:25,639
Speaker 8: the issue anymore as far as speed goes.

1958
01:37:26,439 --> 01:37:28,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, as long as you find a charger that is

1959
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:32,479
Speaker 1: you know, is a fast charger from here to Vegas.

1960
01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:34,519
Speaker 1: Like you know, the last time I went for CS

1961
01:37:34,560 --> 01:37:37,280
Speaker 1: they they've even got more chargers than before. I mean,

1962
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:40,720
Speaker 1: that's that's you know, California is pretty well covered with

1963
01:37:40,840 --> 01:37:43,439
Speaker 1: chargers in places. It's it's when you get outside that

1964
01:37:43,479 --> 01:37:45,760
Speaker 1: it could be trickier. What did you think about the

1965
01:37:46,160 --> 01:37:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, since this is such a large ev what

1966
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:50,440
Speaker 1: do you think about the ride, the handling, acceleration.

1967
01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:57,200
Speaker 8: I'll tell you this, this was so smooth and so quiet,

1968
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:03,000
Speaker 8: and it's incredibly comfortable. The GT line has twenty one

1969
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:05,280
Speaker 8: eighth tires on it, but these are these are designed

1970
01:38:05,320 --> 01:38:09,080
Speaker 8: to have load noise and and I mean it was

1971
01:38:09,200 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 8: quiet inside. I mean and if you if, if you

1972
01:38:14,240 --> 01:38:17,719
Speaker 8: really think that you need to drownd out any sound,

1973
01:38:18,200 --> 01:38:20,680
Speaker 8: you're going to have that fourteen speaker seven ohndred night

1974
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:24,120
Speaker 8: Watt Meridian Premium audio system that sounds the best thing

1975
01:38:24,120 --> 01:38:26,519
Speaker 8: you ever heard. So but you don't need that. It

1976
01:38:26,560 --> 01:38:29,320
Speaker 8: is it's really quiet, it's really smooth, The handling is

1977
01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:33,400
Speaker 8: really amazing. Obviously, with all wheel drive, which is the

1978
01:38:33,400 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 8: model that I had, you have you have a you

1979
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 8: have an electronic torque vectoring which basically in simple terms,

1980
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:43,080
Speaker 8: is it puts a power to the wheel that demands

1981
01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:45,840
Speaker 8: it the most, so you're going around the corner it

1982
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:49,479
Speaker 8: needs it needs power to the right front wheel or

1983
01:38:49,560 --> 01:38:53,360
Speaker 8: the left rear wherever. Once it does, it automatically seamlessly,

1984
01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:56,320
Speaker 8: the cars just it handles amazingly.

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Speaker 2: Well, got about a minute left.

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Speaker 1: What is uh?

1987
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Speaker 2: What what's the competition for this?

1988
01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:04,360
Speaker 1: I'm assuming early competition is sort of like the Rivian

1989
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:08,479
Speaker 1: that's very expensive. What's the competition a gas car?

1990
01:39:10,080 --> 01:39:13,960
Speaker 8: That'd probably be the gas car the So right now,

1991
01:39:14,200 --> 01:39:18,479
Speaker 8: the Model Y has a third row, but there's I

1992
01:39:18,520 --> 01:39:22,360
Speaker 8: wouldn't even put your smallest kid back there. The There

1993
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:25,920
Speaker 8: are other three row SUVs and Ribbean R one s,

1994
01:39:26,479 --> 01:39:30,799
Speaker 8: the Mercedes Benz eqs, and Balbo has the Ex ninety upcoming.

1995
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:34,320
Speaker 8: Those are all pure evs, but neither the Ribbean nor

1996
01:39:34,320 --> 01:39:36,800
Speaker 8: then Mercedes has a third row of the same size

1997
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:40,560
Speaker 8: as this. Plus they're all over the eighty thousand dollars

1998
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:45,240
Speaker 8: federal tax credit limit. For that you can they should

1999
01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:49,200
Speaker 8: qualify and all of the EV nine's fully loaded to

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01:39:49,240 --> 01:39:51,120
Speaker 8: fall under that eighty thousand.

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01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:53,599
Speaker 1: Range, and that's seventy five dollars credit. It's a little

2002
01:39:53,600 --> 01:39:56,519
Speaker 1: confusing because right now the initial models will will not

2003
01:39:56,600 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 1: have that, but eventually they will be eligible.

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Speaker 8: That's right, because the first ones that you can buy

2005
01:40:02,560 --> 01:40:05,439
Speaker 8: now are built in Korea. The next ones are gonna

2006
01:40:05,439 --> 01:40:08,000
Speaker 8: be built in Georgia, and that's later this year, so yes,

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01:40:08,040 --> 01:40:10,040
Speaker 8: they will Okay.

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Speaker 1: John Faulkner of a Cleanfleet Report Cleanfleetreport dot com you

2009
01:40:15,640 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: can read his review of the twenty twenty four Kia

2010
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:22,599
Speaker 1: EV nine. I should call it the flash drive because

2011
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:24,360
Speaker 1: you'll have a full review soon. But this is kind

2012
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:26,519
Speaker 1: of like your initial impressions and things like that, but

2013
01:40:26,600 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 1: it is quite thorough.

2014
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Speaker 2: So thanks for being on the show. Appreciate it today.

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Speaker 8: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Rich all Right, rich on Tech dot tv if you

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Speaker 1: want to link to that. Coming up, we are gonna

2018
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: do the feedback you have been emailing me all throughout

2019
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:44,280
Speaker 1: the show. I will share what you're saying coming up

2020
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Speaker 1: when rich on Tech returns. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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

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01:40:56,360 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot tv. Click the banner at

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01:40:59,880 --> 01:41:01,920
Speaker 1: the top if you want links to what I mentioned,

2024
01:41:02,800 --> 01:41:04,599
Speaker 1: and you can follow me on social media. I am

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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. Let's get through a couple of

2026
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: stories before I get to the feedback segment. Ring is

2027
01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:16,559
Speaker 1: sunsetting its request for assistance tool in the Neighbors app.

2028
01:41:16,640 --> 01:41:19,360
Speaker 1: So this was for law enforcement. If they needed help

2029
01:41:19,400 --> 01:41:22,800
Speaker 1: with an investigation, they could put out a request for

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01:41:22,880 --> 01:41:26,680
Speaker 1: assistance to people that may have ring video doorbells in

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01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 1: the area and get the video from those doorbells. But

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01:41:30,400 --> 01:41:32,920
Speaker 1: of course, with the user permission, they would submit it.

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01:41:33,280 --> 01:41:35,400
Speaker 1: But Ring says, you know what, We're not going this

2034
01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:39,440
Speaker 1: direction anymore. Agencies can no longer use request for assistance

2035
01:41:39,479 --> 01:41:43,519
Speaker 1: to obtain videos now they need a warrant. So they're

2036
01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:46,439
Speaker 1: still inviting public safety agencies to post tips, updates, and

2037
01:41:46,439 --> 01:41:49,880
Speaker 1: events in this app. But critics didn't like this. They

2038
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:52,360
Speaker 1: thought that they turned ring doorbells into too much of

2039
01:41:52,400 --> 01:41:56,799
Speaker 1: a surveillance tool that was unchecked, and so law enforcement

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01:41:56,800 --> 01:41:59,360
Speaker 1: now will need a warrant to request video. They could

2041
01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:01,479
Speaker 1: still go door to door and ask for this stuff,

2042
01:42:01,479 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: but it's not going to be an easy request for

2043
01:42:04,439 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 1: assistance tool now inside the Neighbors app. Neighbors is kind

2044
01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:11,840
Speaker 1: of like Rings version of Citizen. New Egg has a

2045
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:17,000
Speaker 1: new refurbished program so you can buy resale products top

2046
01:42:17,120 --> 01:42:21,719
Speaker 1: pre owned products at competitive prices, Apple products, GPUs abs,

2047
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:26,760
Speaker 1: gaming PCs, monitors, laptops, tablets, phones, vacuums. It's all part

2048
01:42:26,760 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 1: of New Egg Refreshed, and you get a ninety day

2049
01:42:30,400 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 1: guarantee with this, so ninety days New Egg refresh if

2050
01:42:34,240 --> 01:42:37,840
Speaker 1: you're looking for refurbished stuff at a cheaper price. US

2051
01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:40,519
Speaker 1: Mobile this is maybe a carrier you haven't heard of,

2052
01:42:40,560 --> 01:42:42,680
Speaker 1: but they have a very competitive plan now if you

2053
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:45,519
Speaker 1: pay for the whole year in advance, fifteen dollars a

2054
01:42:45,560 --> 01:42:49,759
Speaker 1: month for a ten gigabyte data plan, unlimited talking, text,

2055
01:42:50,080 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: ten gigabytes of hotspot, and international calling and texting. They

2056
01:42:54,160 --> 01:42:56,759
Speaker 1: even have better plans that are a little bit more,

2057
01:42:56,800 --> 01:43:01,599
Speaker 1: but US Mobile with a really really competitive plan fifteen

2058
01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:04,360
Speaker 1: bucks a month for ten gigs of data, unlimited talk

2059
01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:08,599
Speaker 1: and text, hotspot and international calling. Google has an app

2060
01:43:08,640 --> 01:43:14,840
Speaker 1: called art Selfie two. This uses AI to transform your

2061
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:18,799
Speaker 1: selfies into over twenty five different historic art styles works

2062
01:43:18,880 --> 01:43:25,320
Speaker 1: inspired by Claude Monet, Johannes Vermiir Renoir, and more. And

2063
01:43:25,360 --> 01:43:27,280
Speaker 1: the cool thing about this not only is it fun

2064
01:43:27,360 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 1: to see yourself in these styles, but then you get

2065
01:43:29,479 --> 01:43:32,679
Speaker 1: little facts about the art style you so you're learning

2066
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:35,720
Speaker 1: while you're having fun with Generative AI. It's basically their

2067
01:43:35,760 --> 01:43:39,240
Speaker 1: secret way of teaching you about art by doing something fun.

2068
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Speaker 1: Art Selfie two is available through the Google Arts and

2069
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:45,800
Speaker 1: Culture app, So if you're a teacher out there, it's

2070
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:48,200
Speaker 1: kind of fun get this for your students. Google Arts

2071
01:43:48,200 --> 01:43:51,360
Speaker 1: and Culture. It's available on iOS and androids called art

2072
01:43:51,400 --> 01:43:52,120
Speaker 1: Selfie two.

2073
01:43:52,200 --> 01:43:53,120
Speaker 2: It's inside that app.

2074
01:43:53,560 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 1: If you have a Honda Accord from twenty eighteen to

2075
01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:58,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, you can get a retro fit to

2076
01:43:58,439 --> 01:44:01,840
Speaker 1: get wireless Apple Car Play. They're going to offer this

2077
01:44:01,920 --> 01:44:05,559
Speaker 1: starting late this month in January. You do have to

2078
01:44:05,600 --> 01:44:07,880
Speaker 1: go to the Honda dealership to get this done. It

2079
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 1: is a software update and it will probably cost something.

2080
01:44:10,760 --> 01:44:12,360
Speaker 1: But if you want to get rid of the cables

2081
01:44:12,400 --> 01:44:14,519
Speaker 1: on your Apple Car Play and you have a twenty

2082
01:44:14,560 --> 01:44:17,160
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty twenty two Honda Cord, this is going

2083
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:19,960
Speaker 1: to be an easy way to do that. If you're

2084
01:44:19,960 --> 01:44:22,080
Speaker 1: waiting for that Apple Car to launch, well, it's been

2085
01:44:22,120 --> 01:44:24,559
Speaker 1: pushed back. The car that we've heard so much about,

2086
01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 1: but yet see no evidence that it's coming out twenty

2087
01:44:28,240 --> 01:44:30,880
Speaker 1: twenty eight at the latest. One hundred thousand bucks for

2088
01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:32,479
Speaker 1: this car and it's not going to be as self

2089
01:44:32,560 --> 01:44:36,799
Speaker 1: driving as Apple wanted. Apple. I'm telling you just buy Lucid,

2090
01:44:37,320 --> 01:44:40,640
Speaker 1: solve all your problems. Buy Lucid today. You can have

2091
01:44:40,680 --> 01:44:45,280
Speaker 1: an Apple car tomorrow. And Lucid basically operates like an

2092
01:44:45,280 --> 01:44:47,719
Speaker 1: Apple car. It's about this, It's very similar. It's expensive,

2093
01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:51,400
Speaker 1: it's premium, it's luxurious. It'd be a perfect match. Go ahead,

2094
01:44:51,400 --> 01:44:53,880
Speaker 1: buy Lucid and you could get your Apple car soon.

2095
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:57,040
Speaker 1: You heard it here first. And finally, T Mobile Tuesday's

2096
01:44:57,040 --> 01:45:00,679
Speaker 1: app it's switching to what's called Tea Life. This rolled

2097
01:45:00,680 --> 01:45:04,799
Speaker 1: out to iOS devices on January twenty fifth. Android release

2098
01:45:04,880 --> 01:45:07,280
Speaker 1: is coming soon. So basically, if you're using the T

2099
01:45:07,439 --> 01:45:10,320
Speaker 1: Mobile Tuesday's app, it is now called Tea Life and

2100
01:45:10,360 --> 01:45:12,479
Speaker 1: it has a whole bunch of other stuff inside the app,

2101
01:45:12,560 --> 01:45:15,320
Speaker 1: so it's like not your account information, but it's like

2102
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 1: more than just a T Mobile Tuesday's app.

2103
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:20,320
Speaker 2: All right, feed.

2104
01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:23,600
Speaker 1: Bag segment Mark says, I'm looking for a device that

2105
01:45:23,640 --> 01:45:25,960
Speaker 1: will mute commercials on TV automatically, so I don't have

2106
01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 1: to grab the remote, hit mute, then not leave the

2107
01:45:28,160 --> 01:45:30,600
Speaker 1: room so I know when to unmute. Is there anything available?

2108
01:45:30,880 --> 01:45:33,640
Speaker 1: Love Your Show on nine to ten am Detroit. I

2109
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:36,840
Speaker 1: don't know anything that's available to automatically mute commercials. Maybe

2110
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:38,800
Speaker 1: there is something, but I have not heard of it.

2111
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:41,800
Speaker 1: Pat says, hey, Rich, I just heard you talking about

2112
01:45:41,840 --> 01:45:45,360
Speaker 1: AI fake images and audio. I have several solutions in

2113
01:45:45,479 --> 01:45:48,320
Speaker 1: order of importance. Number one, people need to stop being

2114
01:45:48,400 --> 01:45:52,760
Speaker 1: so stupid. Number two, who answers a robo call these days?

2115
01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:56,360
Speaker 1: Stupid people? That's who? Well, I mean, you don't know

2116
01:45:56,360 --> 01:45:59,679
Speaker 1: if it has the caller ID number three. Why would

2117
01:45:59,680 --> 01:46:02,439
Speaker 1: appla it campaign think a fake AI robo call would

2118
01:46:02,439 --> 01:46:05,400
Speaker 1: be useful? Because people are stupid? See the problem here

2119
01:46:05,520 --> 01:46:08,360
Speaker 1: proved me wrong. The level of stupidity today is exponentially

2120
01:46:08,439 --> 01:46:11,640
Speaker 1: higher than it was thirty years ago, headed towards idiocracy

2121
01:46:11,720 --> 01:46:17,120
Speaker 1: at an accelerating pace. Pat, Yes, and no, I think

2122
01:46:17,160 --> 01:46:19,880
Speaker 1: that we just have more access to information and things,

2123
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:22,479
Speaker 1: and it's just, you know, we know more about this stuff.

2124
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:25,560
Speaker 1: If someone got a fake phone call years ago or

2125
01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:28,280
Speaker 1: saw an image on you know whatever sent to their house,

2126
01:46:28,280 --> 01:46:30,479
Speaker 1: they wouldn't necessarily be able to share it with everyone else.

2127
01:46:30,520 --> 01:46:33,800
Speaker 1: Now it's instant sharing everywhere, so we just know more

2128
01:46:33,800 --> 01:46:37,040
Speaker 1: people that are falling for stuff. Renee says, Hey, we

2129
01:46:37,080 --> 01:46:38,720
Speaker 1: heard you on your show talk about an app that

2130
01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:40,719
Speaker 1: can be put on the phone and control another phone,

2131
01:46:40,840 --> 01:46:42,920
Speaker 1: like adjust the volume, brighten the screen. I didn't catch

2132
01:46:42,920 --> 01:46:44,760
Speaker 1: the name, and I want to look into it. My

2133
01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:46,920
Speaker 1: father in law is constantly putting his phone on mute

2134
01:46:46,960 --> 01:46:48,800
Speaker 1: or darkens the screen. He lives far away, and I

2135
01:46:48,800 --> 01:46:51,120
Speaker 1: can help him a lot instead of calling the police

2136
01:46:51,120 --> 01:46:53,200
Speaker 1: for a welfare check, then they have to fix his phone.

2137
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:57,160
Speaker 2: Really wow, what is the name of this app? The

2138
01:46:57,200 --> 01:46:58,960
Speaker 2: name of the app was Team Viewer.

2139
01:46:59,240 --> 01:47:03,360
Speaker 1: Team Viewer. That was the name of the app. Randall says,

2140
01:47:03,360 --> 01:47:05,280
Speaker 1: I have an HP all in one twenty seven inch

2141
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:07,840
Speaker 1: Windows eleven PC. The RAM is sixteen. I like to

2142
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:10,599
Speaker 1: process raw files. Is upping my RAM to thirty two

2143
01:47:10,680 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 1: gigabytes helpful? The PC will slow down well. Doubling my

2144
01:47:14,080 --> 01:47:18,439
Speaker 1: RAM help absolutely. RAM will help with that. So I

2145
01:47:18,439 --> 01:47:21,080
Speaker 1: think you'll be very happy with doubling that and it's

2146
01:47:21,120 --> 01:47:25,960
Speaker 1: not very expensive to do that. Finally, let's read Steven's

2147
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:29,400
Speaker 1: email iPhone issue. I got hacked last week. Within three minutes,

2148
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:32,160
Speaker 1: I lost all my data on my iPhone thirteen. Apple

2149
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:35,080
Speaker 1: support is useless. A hacker can change my phone number

2150
01:47:35,080 --> 01:47:37,120
Speaker 1: and password and Apple cannot change it back. They say

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Speaker 1: it's a security issue. I was in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a conversation when my phone shut down. Opened it up again,

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Speaker 1: and the message told me I had been locked out.

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Speaker 1: Conversations with Apple Support was a They said nothing they

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Speaker 1: can do. As the day passes, there are more inconveniences

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Speaker 1: to overcome. My Apple idea is worthless and I have

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Speaker 1: zero help. Backstory. I got an email from Apple Support

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Speaker 1: inform me I was charged thirty dollars. I checked there

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Speaker 1: was no such charge. I clicked here, being busy, I

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Speaker 1: received the email. I thought nothing of it. Three minutes later,

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Speaker 1: I was locked out. With as careful as I've always been,

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Speaker 1: I got sucker punched. Yes, this is a huge issue.

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Speaker 1: You were fished and they do this all the time.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven. Please be careful and like I

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Speaker 1: said with my taxi story, when you're doing things fast

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Speaker 1: and hastily, that's when you fall victim to this stuff.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I feel for you. Believe me, sorry that

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Speaker 1: happened to you. If you can believe it, that's going

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Speaker 1: to do it. For this episode of the show, you

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Speaker 1: can find links to everything I mentioned. Just go to

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Speaker 1: richon tech dot TV. Find me on social media at

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Speaker 1: rich on tech next week we'll talk about the Apple

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Speaker 1: Vision Pro which is launching. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: There are so many ways you can spend your time.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate you spending it right here with me.

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Speaker 1: My name is rich Dimiro. I will talk to you

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Speaker 1: real soon