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Speaker 1: the notes for today's show. All right, we got a

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Speaker 1: full slate of guests this week and they are all excellent.

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Speaker 1: Jason Lucking, co founder of Payback, is going to explain

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Speaker 1: how their website helps you get money back when airfare

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Speaker 1: so we're going to talk about how that does, how

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Speaker 1: that works, and see Scott Brown, senior editor at Android Authority.

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Speaker 1: He's been on the show before. We were both at

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Speaker 1: the Google Pixel event in Brooklyn. He is going to

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Speaker 1: later we've got a senior editor from XDA to share

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Speaker 1: little behind the scenes, you could see me in my

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Speaker 1: Chucky Cheese T shirt today. Yes, I'll talk more about

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Speaker 1: my visit to the new Chucky Cheese concept later, but

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Speaker 1: this week, Yes, in New York City in Brooklyn for

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Speaker 1: the Pixel event. I actually I told you my mom

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Speaker 1: to me, it was more of a lesson in like

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Speaker 3: Hello, Thank you Rich for doing this what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: I have this MacBook Pro A nineteen I'm excusing nineteen

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Speaker 2: So if you happen to see a Chuck's arcade.

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Speaker 1: This week I was also surprised because I woke up

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Speaker 1: We've got Jason ring the bell. Okay, Jason. So tell

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Speaker 1: me explain the Payback website, Like, tell me how this works.

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Speaker 8: So, so Payback was driven out of my own personal

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Speaker 8: travel experiences as well nuts and bolts of it. Payback

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Speaker 8: is a AI driven flight optimization tool, so we automate

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Speaker 8: the process of optimizing optimizing your flight price for an

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Speaker 8: already purchased ticket.

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Speaker 1: And so as I understand, like basically, all I did

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Speaker 1: was sign up for the website.

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Speaker 2: It's free.

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Speaker 1: You phear your confirmation from one of the major airlines,

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Speaker 1: and then it just watches the price and as soon

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Speaker 1: as it drops to a certain threshold, it will go

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Speaker 1: out and request that refund. It's really a credit from

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Speaker 1: the airline.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 5: Correct.

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Speaker 8: So again, you're going to book directly with the airline,

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Speaker 8: and we focus on American Delta, United Alaska, and we're

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Speaker 8: in talk with some of the other airlines as well

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Speaker 8: to grow that.

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Speaker 5: And then you, just as you said, you ford the

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Speaker 5: ticket to us.

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Speaker 8: We monitor it throughout the day and so whenever that

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Speaker 8: flight price drops and a thresholder is nothing below ten dollars,

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Speaker 8: so any drop over ten dollars, we automate that process

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Speaker 8: to get you a credit or a refund for the difference. Now,

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Speaker 8: most of us book non refundable tickets, and non refundable

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Speaker 8: tickets get you future flight credits and refundable tickets, which

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Speaker 8: are you know, you pay a bit of a premium

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Speaker 8: for them, you end up getting that back as a refund,

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Speaker 8: back to the original method of payment.

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Speaker 1: So this surprised me because I think I plugged in

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Speaker 1: like three flights that I had, and two of nothing

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Speaker 1: really happened, and this one is I mean it's just

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, out of the blue. I've bought

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Speaker 1: four tickets, so I got twenty dollars each ticket times

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Speaker 1: for eighty dollars. What kinds of refunds are people seeing? Like,

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Speaker 1: are you seeing a lot of like a fluctuation in

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Speaker 1: these prices and people kind of capturing these refunds.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, So you know, when we started this again, it

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Speaker 8: was kind of like a personal thing to start off with.

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Speaker 8: I'm both a frequent flyer and we fly a lot

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Speaker 8: with the family, so for me I was thinking this

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Speaker 8: would be great for frequent flyers, maybe saving on economy classes,

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Speaker 8: but it's happening on every single class, Economy, business, first class. Obviously,

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Speaker 8: the ranges vary. We've seen tickets drop once, and we've

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Speaker 8: seen them drop as many as five or eight times.

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Speaker 8: Now sixty percent of the time the price has been

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Speaker 8: dropping below what somebody's originally purchased it for. And the

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Speaker 8: average if you kind of take an amalgamation of all

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Speaker 8: those savings, the average savings is two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 8: dollars per saving, So that might be somebody's getting twenty

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Speaker 8: dollars here, twenty dollars fifty dollars here.

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Speaker 5: And we've seen drops as high as nine thousand dollars.

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Speaker 8: Now obviously that was an international first class ticket, but

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Speaker 8: we're still seeing these big drops on the domestic economy

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Speaker 8: tickets as well.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's wild. So people are definitely capturing it. So

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the fares it works with, so not obviously

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Speaker 1: not an economy basic fare. I'm guessing right, because there's

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Speaker 1: no changes to us.

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Speaker 8: The only one that's out is basic economy, which, as

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Speaker 8: you know, you know, basic economy you have to buy

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Speaker 8: a seat belt and an issue to the toilet. You know,

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Speaker 8: it's it's meant to be bare bones at that point. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: it's anything above basic economy.

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Speaker 2: And so how are you getting these refunds? Are you?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I assume it's some AI involved in here, Like,

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Speaker 1: how are you actually reaching out to these airlines?

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Speaker 5: Yes, so we use we use AI to monitor it.

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Speaker 8: We use AI to converse with the airline on your

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Speaker 8: behalf to get you that credit for the difference. Now,

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Speaker 8: what one important thing that we think is really key

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Speaker 8: is we don't cancel your ticket and rebook you. What

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Speaker 8: we do is we get it reticketed, so you end

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Speaker 8: staying on the same confirmation number in the same seat

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Speaker 8: and I will say ninety nine percent of the time

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Speaker 8: in the same seat. They may move you from one

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Speaker 8: aisle seat to another if you're flying with one specific airline,

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Speaker 8: I wouldn't mentioned that one. But same flight, same seat,

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Speaker 8: nothing changes for you. You just end up getting a

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Speaker 8: future flight credit to use on a future flight. And

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Speaker 8: for me, anybody that is a flies more than three

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Speaker 8: times a year.

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Speaker 5: This is this is a key thing.

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Speaker 8: You know, credits are like cash at that point you're

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Speaker 8: going to be using them again.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so I know because I book a ton

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Speaker 1: of flights, and here's here's how most people do it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I mean this is how I do it. I

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Speaker 1: research the heck out of it before I book. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I sit there, I track it, I look at it

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Speaker 1: every day. The price goes up, the price goes down,

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Speaker 1: it goes around, and all of a sudden, I finally

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Speaker 1: book and I never think about it again. So all

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Speaker 1: that fluctuation still is happening. I'm just no longer monitoring

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Speaker 1: it is that kind of what most.

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Speaker 8: People exactly, So even in that time of you doing

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Speaker 8: the initial look and the time you're purchasing it, it's

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Speaker 8: probably fluctuating throughout the day. I mean, we've seen drops

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Speaker 8: happen for one hour. We've seen them drop for you know,

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Speaker 8: multiple days. The precipice of payback is to say when

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Speaker 8: is the best time to book? You know, I'm a

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Speaker 8: super analytical person, and I was always thinking, you know,

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Speaker 8: follow these fads. It's on a Tuesday at six am,

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Speaker 8: clear your cookies.

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Speaker 5: Make sure you know mercury is in retrograde. All these

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Speaker 5: like running baths on social media.

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Speaker 8: And what we wanted people to be able to do

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Speaker 8: is say, when is the right time to book?

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Speaker 5: The right time to book is now?

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Speaker 2: Is right now?

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Speaker 5: To worry?

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Speaker 8: You book when you want to make that initial decision,

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Speaker 8: and if the price drops, we're going to optimize that

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Speaker 8: for you anyway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because the price is going to go up no

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Speaker 1: matter what, Like it eventually goes up, like when you

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Speaker 1: get closer to the date. But like you said, there

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Speaker 1: might be these things where it just drops and I

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Speaker 1: and you can see when you log into the website

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Speaker 1: that you see that graph of like what the flight,

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Speaker 1: what the price has done for that flight over time.

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Speaker 1: So here's my big question though, because I've seen similar

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Speaker 1: startups like this before. Now that this is happening and

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Speaker 1: you know, people can tap into this thing that probably

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Speaker 1: was never tapped into these refunds, the airlines are like, oh,

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Speaker 1: not so fast. We're just going to change our terms

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Speaker 1: and conditions and you can no longer get a credit.

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Speaker 2: Are they going to do that?

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Speaker 5: So we don't believe.

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Speaker 8: So in twenty twenty, United announce that they were removing

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Speaker 8: change fees forever, permanently, never coming back. One of the

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Speaker 8: things that you're building towards is partnerships with the airlines

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Speaker 8: directly we want to integrate into the airlines, and here's

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Speaker 8: the reason why, is because people that use payback become

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Speaker 8: more loyal to that specific airline. We recently did a

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Speaker 8: study that showed sixty seven percent of our users that

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Speaker 8: receive a price drop are more likely to book with

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Speaker 8: that dedicated airline again for two reasons. One they feel

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Speaker 8: better about the ticket that they're flying with, and two

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Speaker 8: they've got a credit to use with the airline, which

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Speaker 8: you either.

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Speaker 5: Use it or you lose it, and if you use

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Speaker 5: it amazing.

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Speaker 8: Our whole ethos is we want people more, do more

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Speaker 8: of what you love, go out and see the world,

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Speaker 8: whether that's domestically or internationally, and that's kind of a

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Speaker 8: a deep rooted element of payback. So there's a huge

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Speaker 8: loyalty element with the airlines that we drive forwards.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because my holiday flights that I was booking

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Speaker 1: for the holidays like Christmas, I was waiting and then

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Speaker 1: when I heard about this website, I actually just booked.

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Speaker 1: I said to my wife, we could just book these

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Speaker 1: because if the price goes down, which is what we're

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Speaker 1: waiting for, we'll just get a credit.

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Speaker 2: And that's what happened. By the way. So that's the

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Speaker 2: flights that we got, and his exactly.

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Speaker 8: Price goes up, we do nothing about it. You know,

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Speaker 8: if the price goes up, let it keep going up.

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Speaker 8: You know that you paid the best price two months ago,

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Speaker 8: three months ago, whenever it was that you initially booked

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Speaker 8: that ticket.

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Speaker 1: Right, I've got about thirty seconds. What's the cost here?

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Speaker 8: So we don't charge anything upfront. We charge a twenty

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Speaker 8: percent service fee on whatever we save you, so we

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Speaker 8: don't want it to be any friction of you to

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Speaker 8: question it.

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Speaker 5: Only when you win do we win.

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Jason Lucking, co founder of payback pai back dot app.

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Speaker 1: I'll put the link on the website rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv can find it in the show notes. Get

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Speaker 1: your money back if your airfare price drops. Great idea.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me, Jason. Coming up on

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Speaker 1: one three six. Hel In Seemi Valley, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 9: Well, thanks, thank you, Rich. I've got a strange problem.

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Speaker 9: My icons are no longer medium, my preferences medium. They're

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Speaker 9: larger than small and smaller than medium. The print underneath

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Speaker 9: them is smaller when I go into my folders and smaller.

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Speaker 9: I've tried scaling. I've done whatever research I can do,

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Speaker 9: and I said, well, I don't think it's a virus.

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Speaker 9: I've run anti virus, and no matter what I do,

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Speaker 9: it just seems to be smaller.

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's on Windows.

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Speaker 10: Yes.

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Speaker 9: The only other thing I can tell you about that

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Speaker 9: is unusual, and maybe it's at about the same time

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Speaker 9: I wasn't paying that much attention is about every ten seconds,

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Speaker 9: my icons will blink off and on against.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it sounds like it sounds like a scaling issue.

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Speaker 1: If you ask me, it sounds like somehow your the

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Speaker 1: scale of your screen got changed. So did suddenly everything

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Speaker 1: on the screen get smaller?

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Speaker 9: Well, I didn't notice it right away, but everything on

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Speaker 9: the screen, all the icons and the words underneath them

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Speaker 9: are smaller. And I tried customs scaling I have for

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Speaker 9: my word documents. I have it set at one hundred

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Speaker 9: and that's all there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and that's but that's that's a setting that is

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Speaker 1: just for the word app. So there are you know,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to these computers, there's like global settings,

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Speaker 1: and then there's settings inside the actual apps. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to tell you the places to look that I

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Speaker 1: think will help fix this. And I think the first

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Speaker 1: thing is number one, you have to just look at

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Speaker 1: the scale of your screen. So when you go into

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Speaker 1: your Windows settings, you can just just go to your

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Speaker 1: desktop actually and write click and you can go and

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Speaker 1: hang on, I gotta move something around here so I

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Speaker 1: can see what I'm doing here display settings, so that

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Speaker 1: that's the number one place to look. And make sure

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Speaker 1: that your scale is the right scale. So mine's at

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five percent. It's based on the monitor,

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Speaker 1: So just play with that number a little bit and

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Speaker 1: see if things look the way they used to be.

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Speaker 2: So that's number one.

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Speaker 1: So again, just write, click on the screen and once

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Speaker 1: you write click, you're going to go into display settings

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Speaker 1: and look under scale and layout and just tap that

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Speaker 1: and you can change your scaling. Now, once you're in there,

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Speaker 1: you can actually check your text size. That's also in there,

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Speaker 1: so you can go in there, and this is under

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Speaker 1: accessibility actually, but if there's like a quick link, so

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Speaker 1: you can go in there and check your text size,

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Speaker 1: and right now, minds at one hundred percent, you can

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Speaker 1: make that much bigger all the way up to once

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Speaker 1: I tap this, I'm never going to be able to

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Speaker 1: go back one hundred let's say two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: five percent. So there's a little slider. So again that's

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Speaker 1: under text size, and you could just search text size

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Speaker 1: in the Windows search bar at the bottom. The other

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Speaker 1: thing to do is I think your icons. You said

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Speaker 1: your icons were looking a lot smaller. So if you

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Speaker 1: right click again this desktop, you'll see where it says

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Speaker 1: view and you'll notice there's three options large icons, medium icons,

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Speaker 1: and small icons. So you might have somehow selected the

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Speaker 1: medium or small and maybe you still want the large,

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Speaker 1: So those are the.

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Speaker 2: Places do it.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is, and it sounds like you already

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Speaker 1: found this, but if you want a shortcut to just

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Speaker 1: in general, this is probably a good thing to know

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Speaker 1: on Windows. But if you just you know, if you

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Speaker 1: have any vision issues or you want to see something

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Speaker 1: closer up and you don't want to change a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, you can just press the Windows key

696
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Speaker 1: and the plus sign on your computer at the same time,

697
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Speaker 1: and it will bring up the accessibility magnifier and you

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Speaker 1: can zoom into like any part of your page. So

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to read something that's got tiny text,

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Speaker 1: or you're just you know, having issues that day, maybe

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Speaker 1: you just woke up, you know, and you can't see

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Speaker 1: as well in the morning, just the Windows plus the

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Speaker 1: plus key will take you there so and then minus

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Speaker 1: will take you the other way. So those are the

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Speaker 1: main places I would look how I think those one

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Speaker 1: of those will fix it. It sounds like because you

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Speaker 1: said the icons were blinking, that sounds like some sort

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Speaker 1: of screen scaling or refresh rate kind of thing. So

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Speaker 1: it looks like something got a little tweaked in there.

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Speaker 1: But hopefully you can just go in and change those

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Speaker 1: settings and find something that works for you. Good question today,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Eight eight eight Rich one O

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 2: Let's see, do I have time for another one? Probably not.

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Speaker 1: Let me do this, so let me tell you about

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Speaker 1: the pixel Watch four. Pixel Watch four I mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 1: They had the Pixel w the Pixel Phones, the Pixel ten.

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Speaker 1: They also unveiled a new watch and so the thing

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Speaker 1: the headlines to know about the pixel Watch four is

721
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Speaker 1: that it is the first smart watch that can call

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Speaker 1: for help with satellites. So we know we have this

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Speaker 1: on our phones, some of the recent model phones have this.

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Speaker 1: Now the watch has it for the first time. And

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Speaker 1: the only thing to know about this is that it

726
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Speaker 1: has to be the cellular that what pixel Google calls

727
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Speaker 1: the LTE version of the watch, so it's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be the regular watch. You do have to have that

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Speaker 1: cellular modem inside the watch, so it is the more

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Speaker 1: expensive watch. But if you are some of that hikes,

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Speaker 1: you're always out in the middle of nowhere without your

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Speaker 1: phone and you know you just have your watch on. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you could have cellular, but now you can have the

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Speaker 1: satellite emergency, which is really cool. So that's that's their

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Speaker 1: number one new feature. It is free and included on

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Speaker 1: the device. Then they also have this new domed display.

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00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: I didn't really notice a crazy different dome display, but

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Speaker 1: it definitely looked like the screen was bigger when I

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Speaker 1: saw it. The battery life has improved, so thirty hours

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Speaker 1: or forty hours fast charging is improved better, Gorilla glass

741
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: easier to fix this thing, and of course everything's more accurate.

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Speaker 1: All the tracking, sleep trackings more accurate. All these things

743
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Speaker 1: are more accurate. So they upgraded the sensors on this device,

744
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: and then of course they added this personal AI health

745
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: coach with Gemini. This is similar to what Samsung did

746
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: and similar to what Apple did. Obviously, AI is making

747
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Speaker 1: its way into every part of our lives. But the

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Speaker 1: other nice thing they have on this is the Gemini AI,

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Speaker 1: which you can just lift your wrist up to your

750
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Speaker 1: mouth and just start talking to AI, so you don't

751
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Speaker 1: have to like activate it with a button or anything

752
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: on screen. You can just lift your wrist, which is

753
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Speaker 1: something you've been able to do with Siri for many years.

754
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: But let's be honest, Siri is definitely not as helpful

755
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: as Gemini AI because you can get answers to anything

756
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: in the world with Gemini. It is a really cool feature.

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Speaker 1: Three hundred and fifty dollars for the Wi Fi version,

758
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: up to five hundred dollars for the biggest LTE version

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Speaker 1: in stores October ninth, eighty eight rich one oh one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you focking technology triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight A seven four

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

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Speaker 1: show rich on Tech dot TV. Visit there for the

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Speaker 1: show notes. Also, you can check out the stories I

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Speaker 1: do for TV. They're all right there, and follow me

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Speaker 1: on Instagram at rich on Tech. You see the theme here. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I posted a couple of things to Instagram this.

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Speaker 2: Week, and one of them was.

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Speaker 1: I'm at the airport and I'd use the self checkout,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough, it asks me if I would like

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Speaker 1: to leave a tip?

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Speaker 2: Why would I leave a tip for a self checkout?

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Speaker 1: Kiosk, I'm not leaving a tip, and it defaulted to

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Speaker 1: let's see here eighteen percent. By the way, I was

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Speaker 1: already paying seven dollars for a bottle of water, and

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Speaker 1: everyone commented is like, well, why would you pay seven

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Speaker 1: bucks for bottle water? Number one when you're in an arena,

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Speaker 1: a sporting event, or an airport, there's something or a

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Speaker 1: movie theater, there's something called suspension of pricing disbelief. You

782
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Speaker 1: have to just imagine that a Coca cola cost twenty

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Speaker 1: dollars when you're at a movie theater or an airport.

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Speaker 1: And that's the same thing with the water. Now, I

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00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 1: did bring my own water bottle. Yes, I do travel

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Speaker 1: with a water bottle. When I filled it up at

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Speaker 1: the airport at one of their fillers, it was hot water,

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00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: like literally hot, and I just did not feel like

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00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: drinking hot water. So that's why I bought the bottle

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00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: of water. Anyway, you can see that there. You can

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Speaker 1: also see My Chuck's Arcade My Chuck e Cheese Arcade video.

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Speaker 1: But we went to you know, if you check my

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Speaker 1: stories too, you can see we went last night to

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Speaker 1: Dave Matthews's band. We watched them and it was great.

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Speaker 1: It was a nice show. It was if you like music,

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Speaker 1: it was a great show. Right didn't play all the

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Speaker 1: songs that I knew, which I thought was kind of annoying,

798
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Speaker 1: but you know, what are you gonna do? I can't

799
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Speaker 1: tell him what to play, but it made me think

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Speaker 1: about something because we knew exactly what time he was

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Speaker 1: taking the stage, exactly what time he was leaving exactly. Well,

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00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: you know people have the set list or whatever. But

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00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: like it made me realize, in this world, we don't

804
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: leave anything to chance anymore, right, Like everything is planned

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00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: out in advance. Like there was a time and I've

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Speaker 1: lived this life where things were mysterious. Right, your favorite band,

807
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: like like Counting Crows, Dave Matthews, they would just show

808
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: up on stage whenever they felt like. You didn't know

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Speaker 1: what time they were supposed to come on, you didn't

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Speaker 1: have access to Reddit, You didn't know the set list

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Speaker 1: because you didn't look it up online. Right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are the things that we just do now. How

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00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: about going to a restaurant. You go to a restaurant.

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Speaker 1: So many people I know they study the menu for

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Speaker 1: hours before they go to the restaurant. What about being

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Speaker 1: surprised at what's on the menu at a restaurant? Why

817
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Speaker 1: can't we just be surprised?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: My wife and I debate on that because she loves

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Speaker 1: to look at the menu. I never ever thought about

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Speaker 1: looking at the menu at a restaurant before until I

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Speaker 1: met her. And now it's like we're analyzing the whole menu.

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00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: You know, we've got like everything figured out beforehand. What

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Speaker 1: about maps? You know, I was we were going to

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Speaker 1: the concert yesterday, and you know the maps. It's like

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Speaker 1: we knew where to take the turns. You know, ways

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Speaker 1: is like all it takes you all over the city.

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Speaker 1: You know, it takes you a million left turns whatever.

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Speaker 1: But it's like, what about the days when you just

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Speaker 1: literally drove, Like even on my ride home, I know

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Speaker 1: exactly where I'm going.

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Speaker 2: I still put on my maps. Why.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, It's just something we do movies. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are apps that will tell you the exact time

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Speaker 1: to leave the theater. She can go to the bathroom,

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Speaker 1: run pe. I think it's called. I mean, there is

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Speaker 1: no more mystery in our lives, in a modern life,

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00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, there's no more mystery. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: why people are so unhappy. It's nice to have some

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Speaker 1: mystery in life. What about when people called, they would

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00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: call you on the phone, you would just pick up

842
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: and say, hello, who is this? Now it's like you

843
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: know exactly who's on there. You know who's on the

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Speaker 1: other end. You don't pick it up half the time.

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Speaker 1: Picture same thing. You used to take pictures on your camera,

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00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: you know, and you'd get it developed. Remember that anticipation

847
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,240
Speaker 1: of waiting for the film to be developed.

848
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 2: We don't have that anymore. Now.

849
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Speaker 1: You take a selfie, you look at it the second later,

850
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Speaker 1: and invariably someone's like, I don't like it.

851
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: Let's take another one. Sports same thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, instant highlights on your phone packages, Oh this one.

853
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: I like package tracking. Like you would order something off

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Speaker 1: the TV sight on scene. You'd be like, oh, that

855
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: looks cool, let me order it. Six to eight weeks

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00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: it was a mystery. You would call the thing, or

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Speaker 1: you'd mail in and order perhaps, and then six to

858
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Speaker 1: eight weeks later someone will show up on your doorstep.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is it's really this stuff. I get

860
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Speaker 1: to think about all this stuff all week long. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: I remember to mention it. Sometimes I don't.

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Speaker 2: John writes in from Orange, California.

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Speaker 1: I want to continuously video my game room so I

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Speaker 1: can make a collage of clips when someone makes a

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Speaker 1: great shot. What type of camera should I use? I'd

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Speaker 1: like to have it remote control and wired charging, so

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Speaker 1: I don't have to keep it taking it down. I

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Speaker 1: will tell you, John, I've had my Google Nest Cam

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Speaker 1: running twenty four to seven for over ten years now,

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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. For ten years, the thing has

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Speaker 1: not missed a beat. And you can pay Google to

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Speaker 1: record in the cloud twenty four to seven. You know,

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Speaker 1: you have to pay a little bit every month, but

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's the way to go. I've had

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00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: this thing plugged in and literally it is never stopped

876
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: for ten years, ten plus years at this point. And Google,

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Speaker 1: when I met with them a couple months ago, they

878
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: said that actually, what people like about their devices is

879
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: that they last a really long time. Like I have

880
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: the Nest thermostat, the original one that's been up for

881
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: eleven years now in my house, and I do have

882
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: to replace it because it's gonna stop working. But I mean,

883
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Speaker 1: that's a great run. Eleven years of not having to

884
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: think about this stuff. Let's see, Paul's been waiting for

885
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Speaker 1: a while, and Hammett, Paul, you're on with Rich. I'm

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Speaker 1: here myself. Paul, sounds like you're listening. Paul, you on?

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Speaker 2: No, okay, Paul, you were? How do I get this

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Speaker 2: on hold again?

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Speaker 3: Particular one?

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to Karen in Bakersfield. Karen, you're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich Hi.

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00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 6: Rich love your show.

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00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 11: You're a great teacher. And my question is you could

894
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 11: recommend a rogue buck antivirus software where when you purchase,

895
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Speaker 11: then every time you scan, you aren't getting suggestions for

896
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Speaker 11: adding utilities and.

897
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Speaker 5: All these things.

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Speaker 11: You know, you never feel like you're you're completely protected.

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Speaker 11: And I know that there'll be you know, enhancements and

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Speaker 11: so forth, but studies are just you know, bobarding you

901
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Speaker 11: to add on.

902
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they crawl, They slow your computer down to

903
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Speaker 1: a crawl. And it's it's horrific. I mean, it really is,

904
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: like honestly, the and I know a lot of people

905
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: are gonna like me saying this, but this whole anti

906
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: virus kind of thing has gotten out of control. There

907
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: are a lot of people, a lot of tech experts

908
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: out there that do not believe you need anti virus

909
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: on your computer anymore.

910
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Speaker 2: Now. I think I'm somewhere in the middle.

911
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: I think that there are we are still up against

912
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff when we are on the internet.

913
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Speaker 1: And I think two things. Number one to know. Number one, uh,

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Speaker 1: Windows computers have built in uh now uh you know

915
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Speaker 1: they call it Defender let's see, I think they just

916
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Speaker 1: recently changed the name. I think it's all under like

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Speaker 1: Windows Security now, but they have that built into your computer, so.

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Speaker 2: You can use that. As long as it's up to date, you're.

919
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: Going to be just fine for like ninety nine percent

920
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Speaker 1: of things that happen on your computer.

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Speaker 2: So that's number one.

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00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: If you want to just go into there, you can

923
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Speaker 1: just type in Windows Security and it will bring up

924
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Speaker 1: all of the security functionality that's built into Windows.

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Speaker 2: So you've got virus in.

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Speaker 1: Threat protection, account protection, firewall, device app and browser control,

927
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: and you can tap into something like virus in threat

928
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: protection and you can see when the last time your

929
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: computer was scanned, when the last time it found something,

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00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: what you need to do, the updates that you have,

931
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Speaker 1: and oh this is actually something I think someone's someone

932
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Speaker 1: emailed about this. But there's also like ransomware protection built

933
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Speaker 1: into your computer as well, so you can turn that on.

934
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Speaker 1: So I mean, I think Windows has a lot of

935
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Speaker 1: stuff that's already built in and I think is fine

936
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Speaker 1: for most for many many people. The thing that I

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Speaker 1: think we're up against the most these days is actually

938
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Speaker 1: clicking a lot or being misled online, and so for

939
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Speaker 1: that reason I really recommend people using Chrome because Chrome

940
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Speaker 1: has built in tools that will actually scan the websites

941
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Speaker 1: that you are visiting and the links that you're visiting

942
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Speaker 1: to make sure that they are not filled with malware

943
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Speaker 1: or viruses or some sort of fishing or whatever. And

944
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Speaker 1: so if you go into your Chrome settings and let's see,

945
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Speaker 1: I think we go under I got to find where

946
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Speaker 1: this is privacy and security. Let's see here, Yeah, privacy

947
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: and security. So under that you can tap security, and

948
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Speaker 1: they've got this thing called safe Browsing, and the standard

949
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Speaker 1: protection is pretty much I think that's just turned on

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Speaker 1: for most of Chrome. But if you really want the

951
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: best protection from Chrome to protect you in real time

952
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:54,919
Speaker 1: with AI, go in and select this enhanced protection under

953
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: safe Browsing, and it will warn you about dangerous sites.

954
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Speaker 1: It will scan suspicious downloads. I mean, it really does

955
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to make sure you're protected. And

956
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: I check I unlike what you should be doing. I

957
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: click a lot of these websites that are that are

958
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Speaker 1: bogus or scammy to see what they try to do.

959
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: And there are some that literally just try to download

960
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: a virus to your computer or malware right away. And

961
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Speaker 1: there's others that will just try to, you know, take

962
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: your information things like that. So this will protect you

963
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Speaker 1: from a lot of that. The other thing I like,

964
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Speaker 1: I do like malware bites. I think that's a pretty

965
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: good way to scan your computer. There is a website,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Karen called avdash test dot org. And

967
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Speaker 1: if you look at all of the ratings for these

968
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: these antivirus software, they're all almost the same at this point.

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00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: So what it really comes down to is, like you said,

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Speaker 1: something that doesn't have a ton.

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Speaker 2: Of bloatwear involved.

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Speaker 1: And I think there is one that I think is

973
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Speaker 1: pretty good, this sofos s O p h O s

974
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Speaker 1: sofos dot com. It is a little more expensive, and

975
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Speaker 1: you know, it's not gonna have like things like VPN

976
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Speaker 1: all that stuff necessarily does it I don't think it does.

977
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Speaker 2: But it does have real time protection.

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Speaker 1: It does have a lot of good things, and I

979
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Speaker 1: think their whole business is just protecting you. So I

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Speaker 1: think that's what you want to look for, is a

981
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Speaker 1: system that is just simple and not trying to sell

982
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: you on a thousand other things. Once they have your

983
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Speaker 1: email address and once they have you So those are

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Speaker 1: the things I'd recommend to do. I think that's going

985
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Speaker 1: to protect you in like ninety nine percent of the circumstances.

986
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: I really think a lot of it comes down to

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Speaker 1: these links that people are clicking. They're getting malware, they're

988
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Speaker 1: getting scammed, and I think that's what we need to

989
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: be protected more so than just the random viruses. It's

990
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 1: really the malvertizing and all these pop ups and websites

991
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: that we're seeing that I think is the biggest issue

992
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: out there right now. So stay protected out there, and

993
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: you know, just be smart about what you click and

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Speaker 1: what you're looking at. Great call, Karen, appreciate the question.

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

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up

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Speaker 1: this hour, We're going to talk to see Scott Brown

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Speaker 1: about the pixel of and I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 1: which streaming service is raising prices.

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Speaker 2: Next, this is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 2: On Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four.

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Speaker 2: Two four one zero one. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: I feel like this. I feel like Mark is a

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Speaker 1: regular here. Mark and Woodland Hills Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 7: Goon, sir, how's.

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Speaker 12: Going we're looking at selling our house and buying another,

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Speaker 12: and when we move into the new house, we would

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Speaker 12: like a comprehensive home security system. And I'm wondering if

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00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 12: there's any conventions, you know, like home improvement conventions upcoming

1012
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 12: that you know, have all the displays and the tables,

1013
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 12: and instead of calling blindly around and having some salesman

1014
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Speaker 12: pressure us into a system we'd like to, we'd like

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Speaker 12: to do it hardwired. Also because you know, we know

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Speaker 12: that the burglars are using Wi Fi jammers now to

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Speaker 12: overcome people's wireless systems. I was wondering if you have

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Speaker 12: any suggestions or know of any of these conventions coming

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00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 12: up for home improvements here.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 1: Well, I'm actually going to one. I think it's in

1022
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks CDA CE D I A. I

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00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: believe it's in Denver this year. But that's really the

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Speaker 1: home expo for the professional things like you're talking about,

1025
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Speaker 1: like if you want a wired camera system, you want

1026
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: you know, the TV that's indoor outdoor, you want the

1027
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Speaker 1: built in you know at Crestron System all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm going, so I want to learn more

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Speaker 1: about these things. It's been a while haven't gone to

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00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: the show in like ten years, but that is the

1031
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: main one. So that's the first place I would I

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Speaker 1: would check cedia xpo dot com, c E d I

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Speaker 1: A e xpo dot com. And not only will this

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Speaker 1: give you an idea of the show, but you can

1035
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Speaker 1: also look at the exhibitors too, and that'll give you

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Speaker 1: a good idea of who's at this show and who's

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Speaker 1: showing off stuff. Because these brands are not necessarily the

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Speaker 1: brands that you would find at a Best Buy or

1039
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Speaker 1: a home depot. You know, these are more professional installers

1040
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Speaker 1: use these brands for the cameras and things like that.

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00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: So that's the first place i'd look. You said you're

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Speaker 1: in Woodland Hills, so I would look at the UH.

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Speaker 1: I would just go to the you know, Google and

1044
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Speaker 1: I just typed in home shows and they've got a

1045
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of California home shows and they've got one

1046
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Speaker 1: on Riverside, San Diego, Lodie, Sacramento. Now, the problem with

1047
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: these home shows, a lot of it seems like it

1048
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 1: is you know, baths, closets, remodeling. But yeah, the techie

1049
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: stuff might not be there on display. But that's the

1050
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: kind of show you want to look for. You want

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Speaker 1: to look for some sort of home show that's like

1052
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: more tech focused. I personally, you know, the ones I

1053
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: go to CS always going to have all this stuff,

1054
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: But the Cedia one is also going to have a

1055
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff that you're talking about. But yeah,

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00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: I mean, look, this is this is what people want

1057
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Speaker 1: these days. They want the full house. Everything has a camera.

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Speaker 1: They want to be able to remote control access it.

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Speaker 1: I think some of this stuff, you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: just like a regular person, you just want like the

1061
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Speaker 1: beauty of this is that you can do a lot

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Speaker 1: of this yourself nowadays. And that's what I think has

1063
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Speaker 1: really been the biggest change in the consumer electronics space

1064
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Speaker 1: in the past ten years or so, is that it

1065
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Speaker 1: used to be you had to have someone come to

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Speaker 1: your house and install this stuff. But when we had

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Speaker 1: the I think the ring video doorbell really kind of

1068
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Speaker 1: transformed an entire industry because it was the first time

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Speaker 1: you could just literally go outside your front door pop

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Speaker 1: a camera up there, and now with Wi Fi, you

1071
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Speaker 1: can see what's happening outside your front door. And I

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Speaker 1: remember doing a story on the very first ring doorbell.

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Speaker 1: It's called Doorbop back then, and people it was such

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Speaker 1: a foreign concept that number one, nobody's WiFi was good

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Speaker 1: enough to reach to the outside of their front door.

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Speaker 1: So everyone thought this thing sucked because it was like, oh,

1077
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: this thing doesn't work. No, your Wi Fi signal was

1078
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: ahead of its time. Your WiFi signal had not caught

1079
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 1: up to this technology. And then you know, as soon

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Speaker 1: as we got that, we got all kinds of other cameras.

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Speaker 1: And then when Whys came out with their twenty dollars

1082
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Speaker 1: camera and Blink with their inexpensive cameras, suddenly it's like

1083
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: you could have a camera everywhere and it was really

1084
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: really cheap. And so people that want a professional system,

1085
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: there's always going to be those people. But for everyone else,

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00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: the fact that you can do this very easily with

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Speaker 1: these mainstream brands is really really neat.

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Speaker 2: You might have heard the.

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Speaker 1: News that the government is taking a ten percent stake

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Speaker 1: in Intel. What the government putting ten billion dollars into Intel,

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Speaker 1: So I guess this was the amount that Intel was

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Speaker 1: supposed to get under the Chipsacked grant to build new

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Speaker 1: factories here in the US. But now this is actually

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Speaker 1: an investment by the US. So if Intel does well

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Speaker 1: I guess the US does well. If Intel doesn't do well,

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Speaker 1: then the US loses their money. But I think they

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00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,359
Speaker 1: could just print more. So what's you know? It's all fake,

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Speaker 1: It's all phony money anyway, right, I'm not giving this

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Speaker 1: is not financial advice. I have no idea. I'm just

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Speaker 1: making a joke. I'm not sure how all that stuff works.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where the government gets ten billion?

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Speaker 2: Is it from me? Is it from Bobo? I think

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Speaker 2: it's from US. I really do.

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Speaker 1: I think we own Intel now at some point, you know,

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00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. Intel recorded nearly a twenty dollars

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Speaker 1: twenty billion dollar loss in twenty twenty four. It's first

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Speaker 1: lost since nineteen eighty six. It is struggling. This company

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00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: is struggling. I love America, I love American companies. But

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Speaker 1: Intel has missed the boat on everything mobile. All the

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00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: chips inside your phones, they're either made by Samsung or

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00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: TSMC or another company Media Tech. They are not made

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Speaker 1: by Intel. Intel did not figure out how to make

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00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: these chips for the phones work, so they just never

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Speaker 1: really took off. Now, before you yell at me and

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00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: say how dare the government investing companies, yes, they've done

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Speaker 1: this before.

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Speaker 2: I have to look it up.

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Speaker 1: Financial crisis two thousand and eight, US invested in a

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00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,879
Speaker 1: City Group and Bank of America two thousand and eight,

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Speaker 1: AIG government owned nearly eighty percent of it after one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty billion dollar rescue, GM Chrysler, Amtrak Airlines

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Speaker 1: Post nine to eleven.

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Speaker 2: So yes, this has happened before.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking

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Speaker 1: technology triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four to one zero one. I

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Speaker 1: see the calls, I see the phone lines. We will

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Speaker 1: get to you in just a little bit. But we've

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Speaker 1: got a great guest. Actually, the person I was sitting

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Speaker 1: next to in Brooklyn at the Made by Google event,

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Speaker 1: c Scott Brown, Senior editor at Android Authority, also has

1134
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: a great new YouTube channel of his own name and

1135
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: is just doing really well. He's just basically focusing on

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Speaker 1: his love of pixel and all things pixel.

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Speaker 2: So Scott, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 13: Thanks very much, it's great to be here. And yeah,

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Speaker 13: thanks for being my seating buddy at the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I guess, what's your first impression, your initial takeaway

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00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: from this Google Pixel event.

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00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 13: Well, obviously, I mean maybe not obviously, but it's been

1144
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,919
Speaker 13: quite controversial. I think a lot of the traditional tech

1145
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 13: fans have been very upset about it because it was

1146
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 13: very silly. They didn't focus on hardcore specs, they didn't

1147
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,800
Speaker 13: even really go over pricing and availability. They just pretty

1148
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 13: much had this fun show with all these celebrity guests.

1149
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 13: And yeah, I think a lot of people are really

1150
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 13: upset about it. But I think I think it was

1151
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 13: great because it sort of bridged the divide. You know,

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00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 13: it brought in people who might not care about a

1153
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 13: smartphone launch, made them watch it, and now those people

1154
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 13: might be like, huh, these pixel phones seem pretty cool,

1155
00:54:58,640 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 13: maybe we should check them out.

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Speaker 4: Which those are the.

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Speaker 13: People we're trying to convince, Like the farmcore techy's like me, like,

1158
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 13: we're already convinced. Like, you don't need to convince us

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00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 13: to get excited. You got to convince you know, the

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00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 13: moms and the dads and the people who just don't care.

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Speaker 13: You know.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting because you say don't care, but I

1163
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 1: think the people that have pixels actually care more because

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00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: the people I see with pixel smartphones, I usually they're

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00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: a little bit elevated, like they they kind of like

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00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,879
Speaker 1: sought out that phone for a specific reason and that's

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00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:34,320
Speaker 1: either the Google software or integration, or also the camera

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00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: or they they're like, I don't feel like a lot

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00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: of people have a pixel that are just they have

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00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 1: it happenstance, right, Like they seek this phone out, I

1171
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: feel like, and maybe Google knows that, and that's why

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00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: they don't focus on specs and all that stuff.

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00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 2: They say, Okay, the people that want.

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00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: This thing are going to look at the specs eventually,

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00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 1: we're going to focus on what this can do for you.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, And that was even reflected in a little behind

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Speaker 13: the scenes knowledge. So when when companies have big launches

1178
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 13: like this, they give journalists the information ahead of time.

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00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 13: They say, we're going to launch this. This is what

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00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,280
Speaker 13: it looks like. You know, you can expect the expects

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00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,360
Speaker 13: and all that kind of stuff. Here's the pricing whatever,

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00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 13: And then they give us a date and a time

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00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 13: and they say, you can't talk about this until this

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00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 13: date and time comes. And that date and time this year,

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00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 13: for the first time ever, was an hour before the

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00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 13: launch even started. So I think what Google was planning

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00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 13: was was like the nerds, you know, like me, They're

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00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 13: going to get all the information they need well before the.

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Speaker 4: Event even starts.

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Speaker 13: But then hopefully they'll be like, hey, well I already

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00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 13: know everything that's going on, but maybe I should check

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00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 13: out this show. So I think Google very intentionally made

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00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 13: the show the way that it was. And yeah, tech

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00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 13: geeks are upset about it, but you know what, like tough,

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00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 13: it's not all about you all the time stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what do you think of the new phone?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've got the Pixel ten, Pixel ten Pro,

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Speaker 1: the foldable. What kind of struck you with the improvements

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Speaker 1: that you think is the best?

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Speaker 13: Well, the interesting thing is that all the improvements are

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00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 13: under the hood. If you, you know, hold the two

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00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 13: phones that last year's Pixel nine series and this year's

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00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 13: Pixel ten series, if you stack them all next to

1204
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 13: each other, even I, you know, it's my job to

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00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 13: be able to tell the difference between them, and even

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00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,319
Speaker 13: I would be like, you know, squinting a little bit,

1207
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 13: like which ones which because they all look exactly the same.

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00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 13: And so yeah, all the actual updates are under the hood,

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00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 13: and there are a lot of them, and I'm sad

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00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 13: to see that a lot of people online, a lot

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Speaker 13: of the commentators and comments on YouTube and stuff with

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00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 13: people saying like, you know, they didn't change anything, these

1213
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 13: phones are just a rehash, and it's like, no, there's

1214
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 13: so much going on. There's a brand new processor that's

1215
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 13: that's you know, the first of its kind from Google,

1216
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 13: that's you know, much more powerful, and there's a lot

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00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 13: more cool stuff, tons of AI features, new camera upgrades,

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00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 13: better speakers, you know, better display.

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Speaker 4: Like I mean, just the list goes on and on,

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00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 4: but you have to go looking.

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Speaker 13: You can't just look at the phone and say it

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00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 13: but yeah, but specifically answer your question. The thing that

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00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:58,479
Speaker 13: I'm the most excited about is probably the new ask

1224
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 13: photos feature, which I think is super cool. Basically, the

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00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 13: way it works is that if you take a photo

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00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 13: and you open it up in photos and you want

1227
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 13: to edit it, you usually have to like use your

1228
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 13: your fingers and treat things and fissknobs and move sliders

1229
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 13: up and down whatever.

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00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 4: Now you can just ask.

1231
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 13: You can just put the button and say, hey, you know,

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00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 13: make this photos lighting better, or you know, remove the

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00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 13: person that's.

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Speaker 4: Standing behind me or whatever. Edit you can. You can

1235
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 4: imagine and it'll just do it.

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Speaker 13: And I think that's going to be a game changer

1237
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 13: for once again the normal person who just picks up

1238
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 13: this phone, it's like, well, why why should I get

1239
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Speaker 13: this over an iPhone? That alone, I mean would be

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00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 13: something that I think a lot of people would be

1241
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 13: really interested in.

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00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how many times have you wanted to change

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Speaker 1: something in a picture but you don't even know where

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00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: to start, Like, oh, I'd like to make the sky bluer,

1246
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: or the I want to remove this object or whatever.

1247
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a million crop it zoom in. You know,

1248
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 1: people don't know where all these tools are. I mean

1249
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: the super nerdy techies do, but like the rest of us,

1250
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: well the rest of people, you know, they may not

1251
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: know where to I mean sometimes I don't even know

1252
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: because I'm not like a photographer person. Say so, I

1253
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: think that feature is great and it can of course

1254
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: go into AI with like if you want to add

1255
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: stuff to your picture too, you can do that. I mean,

1256
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 1: the Google Photos editing on this device is truly like

1257
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: next level, Like it's like everything you need in one place.

1258
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: What about the idea of snapping on the magnetic accessories?

1259
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like that's really cool to have,

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00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: But I feel like all the cases already had the

1261
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: ring in it, so it's like you're getting it, but

1262
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:25,919
Speaker 1: you know you're already you're going to put a case

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00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: on this thing anyway that has that.

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Speaker 13: I Well, for me personally, I love it because I

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00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 13: don't have a case. I go, I go nude with

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Speaker 13: my phones. Oh wow, But I think that for yeah,

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00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 13: for a lot of people who are already adopted into

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Speaker 13: the too that ecosystem, you know, that's they're.

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Speaker 4: Probably not too impressive.

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Speaker 13: But the thing that's going to be cool about this

1271
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Speaker 13: is that now that Google's on board, now there's going

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00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 13: to be more products.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 4: Now it's not just going to be.

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00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 13: We made this product for an iPhone, because the iPhones

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00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 13: are the only major manufacturer, are the only major smartphones

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00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 13: that have this technology now pixels involved, and then you

1278
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 13: know Samsung is right around the corner now, and then

1279
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 13: you know one plus and what a role All the

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01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 13: brands are going to start adopting this now that Google has,

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01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 13: So yeah, that's just going to be more stuff, you know.

1282
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 13: Sure it may just be like slight revamps of what's

1283
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 13: already available for the iPhone, but hey, I'll take it.

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01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 13: You know, I'm excited to be able to join the

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01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 13: party of what iPhone users have been using for a

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01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 13: long time.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: Now, you have recently started your own YouTube channel called

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01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: c Scott Brown. Definitely follow him, and it's become quite

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Speaker 1: popular because you are focusing It's called a pixel user's perspective,

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01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: so you are focusing on what you love about the pixel,

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01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: what makes this phone unique. And I've been using the

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01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: new one now for twenty four hours and I'm I'm

1294
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: in love with it. I'll be honest, like, every time

1295
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 1: I go to the pixel, I remember how smart a

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01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: smartphone can be compared to what I talk about in

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01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: the iPhone, it's all about hunting and pecking, I call

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01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 1: it because you're always hunting for something to do and

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Speaker 1: pecking to do something, whereas the pixel puts so much

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Speaker 1: information in front and center when you need it, and

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Speaker 1: it's just like less hunting and pecking.

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Speaker 2: That's the way I describe it.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, No, I'm I'm loving the new phones, and yeah,

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Speaker 13: I have a new channel that's specifically dedicated to pixels.

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Speaker 13: I'm not I don't only talk about pixels. I have

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Speaker 13: talked about Samsung phones and other phones throughout the thing.

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Speaker 13: But it always, like you said, it's a pixel user's perspective.

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Speaker 13: It's somebody who is using pixels and is deep in

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Speaker 13: the Google ecosystem, his perspective on what's going on in

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Speaker 13: the world of tech, which is not common. And that's

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Speaker 13: probably why the channel has been so popular so quickly,

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Speaker 13: is that a lot of people, even within the Android space,

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Speaker 13: a lot of tech creators are iPhone users. You know,

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Speaker 13: you can tell you watch their video and they talk

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Speaker 13: about how great the pixel is.

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Speaker 4: But then in the next video you see their Apple Watch,

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Speaker 4: you know, or or they or they you know.

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Speaker 13: They show themselves walking around town like you're doing like

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Speaker 13: photography tests or whatever, and you can see the iPhone

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Speaker 13: in their hand.

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Speaker 1: And the iPhone has the iPhone says, you know, the

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Speaker 1: cellular carrier on the top, and the other one they're

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Speaker 1: tech has like no signal.

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Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, so yeah, so I kind of saw this

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Speaker 13: gap and it was like, you know, we don't have

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Speaker 13: like a genuine personality somebody who is really a pixel user.

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Speaker 5: What do those people think?

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Speaker 13: And the response has been overwhelming because, like I said,

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Speaker 13: like this just hasn't existed. So yeah, I'm very excited

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Speaker 13: about the earliest success of the channel, and it's been

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Speaker 13: really magnificently all right, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, I've got one less than a minute. What do

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Speaker 1: you think I said, this is the year if you're

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Speaker 1: going to switch to a pixel, this is the year.

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Speaker 1: I said that with Samsung with their foldables, they got

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Speaker 1: those to a place where I think they're about perfect

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Speaker 1: for now. I think the pixel is about perfect for

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Speaker 1: now ten years in. Why do you think someone should

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Speaker 1: try this out and switch?

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Speaker 13: I think that the number one reason is because Google

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01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 13: is doing everything it can to make you switch. Google

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Speaker 13: is welcoming you Apple. You know, if you're an iPhone user,

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Speaker 13: no shade to you or anything. But at the same time,

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Speaker 13: like Apple is keeping you prisoner. Apple is working hard

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Speaker 13: to prevent you from leaving by doing all sorts of

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Speaker 13: dirty tricks behind the scenes, and Google is doing the opposite.

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Speaker 13: Google is opening up its doors wide and saying, come

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Speaker 13: on in and stay as long as you want, don't

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Speaker 13: you know, bring your current accessories. You've got all those

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Speaker 13: mag safe things, keep them.

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Speaker 4: Come on over.

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Speaker 13: You want to talk with your friends using you know,

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Speaker 13: specialized chat features and stuff like that, We've got that too.

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Speaker 13: It's Google's attitude is very much like come on over,

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01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 13: whereas Apple's attitude is very much the opposite. So I

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Speaker 13: think that's the number one reason why people should consider,

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Speaker 13: you know, finally getting out of the Apple prison.

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Speaker 5: For for maybe a little bit.

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Speaker 4: See what we'll see what it's like on the other side.

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Speaker 1: All Right, them are some fighting words. For sure, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna leave it there. See Scott Brown. Check them out

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. See Scott Brown. Good to see you this

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Speaker 1: week in Brooklyn, and keep up the good work.

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Speaker 2: On the YouTube channel.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: Man, all right.

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

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Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. Coming up, I

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Speaker 1: will tell you streaming service that is raising prices. Next

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Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking

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Speaker 1: technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. While

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Speaker 1: you're there, sign up for my newsletter. It is free.

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Speaker 1: It's delivered every weekend. They are long, they're involved, but

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Speaker 1: you know, it's all the stuff that I think you

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Speaker 1: should know about in the world of tech.

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Speaker 2: Kind of like this show. Let's see what else this week?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Apple TV? Apple TV plus raising prices. There are only

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Speaker 1: two three things we know in this world to be

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01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: true death taxes and streaming service prices will go up.

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Speaker 1: That's all we know to be true in this world. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Apple TV plus US raising prices to thirteen dollars a month,

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Speaker 1: up from ten dollars a month. The price he takes

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Speaker 1: effect August twenty first for new customers. Existing users will

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Speaker 1: see the change on their next bill within thirty days.

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Speaker 1: They've had several price increases. It launched in twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: at five bucks. Now what does Apple say? You didn't

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01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 1: think F one was gonna pay for itself, did you.

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01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: I mean, look, they're spending so much money on these

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Speaker 1: things they're doing, and so it costs a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: I'm not defending them.

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Speaker 1: I mean this is you know, I do the Apple one,

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Speaker 1: so I pay, like I think it's thirty eight bucks

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Speaker 1: a month for all their stuff, and that price went up,

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01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: and so I'm wondering if that's going to go up

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Speaker 1: now because of this new price increase on Apple TV Plus.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, you really got to figure out what you

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Speaker 1: want out of these streaming services at this point, David

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01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 1: writes in from Dallas, Oregon, listening on KFIR in Oregon.

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Speaker 1: As I used to say before I moved to California,

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Speaker 1: or on no It's organ he said, I added a

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Speaker 1: four digit pin to my phone. Now I regret it

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01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: because I just want to swipe to one lock like before.

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01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 1: I can't seem to figure out how to remove the

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Speaker 1: lock screen and go back to the way it was.

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Speaker 1: Is there any hope of eliminating this extra step. Yes,

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Speaker 1: of course there is, but you don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: I cannot recommend that you go out into this world

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Speaker 1: of ours with a phone without a lock on the screen,

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Speaker 1: because there's way too much personal information on your phone.

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Speaker 2: I remember my dad when.

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Speaker 1: I set him up with the I don't know I

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Speaker 1: was doing something with this phone. I gave him a

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Speaker 1: new phone, new iPhone, and was used iPhone. It was

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Speaker 1: one of my old ones, and I said, all right, now,

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Speaker 1: set up your fingerprint. I don't want a fingerprint on there.

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Speaker 2: Why not. I don't want my fingerprint.

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Speaker 1: I want to just be able to look at my

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Speaker 1: phone and it opens and I'm like uh, or he said,

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Speaker 1: I swipe it and I said, Dad, you have to

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Speaker 1: have this on there is very important and anyway, it

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Speaker 1: was a whole thing, but he did put it on there.

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Speaker 2: But yes, some people just don't want this. You gotta

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Speaker 2: have it.

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Speaker 1: You got to add add a pin code, add a fingerprint,

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Speaker 1: face off, whatever, because there's just too much info on

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Speaker 1: your phone. But yes, David, to answer your questions, you

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Speaker 1: can go into settings security on your phone and remove that.

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Speaker 1: I just can't recommend that. Reggie is in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, how you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic. What's up?

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Speaker 13: Hey, I'm in the Mac could say.

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Speaker 2: Tracking advice, and I just got.

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Speaker 3: A little criteria.

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Speaker 9: It can't be expensive. I don't need my subscription.

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Speaker 2: It has a.

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Speaker 14: Good range and more importantly, it actually works.

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Speaker 1: Can you have me?

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Speaker 2: Well, we can try.

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Speaker 1: I can give your options, but without having you know,

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Speaker 1: here's the deal with the cart, with the tracking of

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Speaker 1: the car. So a lot of these free trackers, which

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Speaker 1: we're talking in air tag are similar. They're all going

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Speaker 1: to work by the beauty of other phones being around them.

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01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: So they work on a crowdsourced platform.

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01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 2: Now, when you.

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Speaker 1: Talk about an iPhone or an Android, they are everywhere.

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Speaker 1: So as long as your phone is are your car

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Speaker 1: with this little tracker inside is passing another Apple device

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Speaker 1: or an an Android device, you know you're gonna be okay,

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01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna get a lock, but it's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: real time. Like, you're not gonna be able to track

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Speaker 1: your car in real time because these trackers just don't

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Speaker 1: have that built into them. You'll be able to see

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Speaker 1: an approximate location and you'll be able to see the

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Speaker 1: last location, but not in real time. So you have

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Speaker 1: to understand the limitations of these trackers before you put

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Speaker 1: one in your car. But with that said, plenty of

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Speaker 1: people have one of these hidden in their cars and

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Speaker 1: they use it and they have an idea of where.

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Speaker 2: Their car is.

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Speaker 1: Chances are unless they bring your car into the middle

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Speaker 1: of nowhere where it never sees another smartphone or the

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Speaker 1: internet again, you'll be able to get a location on

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Speaker 1: your car. So couple of options. Number one, obviously, air

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Speaker 1: tag is you know, the number one option in this area.

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Speaker 1: Apple invented this entire genre of Bluetooth trackers and so

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Speaker 1: that is probably your number one option if you have

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Speaker 1: an iPhone and use all Apple products.

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Speaker 2: Because that's what they work best for.

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Speaker 1: So air Tag is probably my number one because it

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Speaker 1: is the easiest, it's simple. You pop it in your car,

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Speaker 1: you see where it is on your phone. You're good

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01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:25,480
Speaker 1: to go. Now, on the Android side of things, Android

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Speaker 1: has something called the Find My Device Network, and so

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Speaker 1: you can get things that work with that one. And

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Speaker 1: they've got different brands. Chapolo is one of them. Chapolo

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Speaker 1: is one of them. There are just there's pebblebe there's

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Speaker 1: so many of them, but Chaipolo is pretty good. They've

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Speaker 1: been making trackers for a long time, so I'd look

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Speaker 1: at them and they're going to work with your iPhone

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Speaker 1: or sorry, you're Android, and so you can have this

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Speaker 1: set up with your Android and basically see where your

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Speaker 1: car is on your Android device. Now, if you want

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Speaker 1: something that's a little bit more into Hendon, there is

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Speaker 1: the tile Trackers. And tile trackers are platform agnostic, which

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Speaker 1: in rich On tech World, I love that. I love

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01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 1: when things don't just work on one platform or another,

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01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 1: they work across all platforms. And so that's what you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get with the with the tile Trackers, which is

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Speaker 1: now owned by Life three sixty and you can install

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Speaker 1: this and the trick to know about the Tile trackers.

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Speaker 1: Not only do I really like them, I think they

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Speaker 1: work really really well. I've got one on my bag.

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Speaker 1: The thing to know about them is that if there

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Speaker 1: is not a person in the area using the Tile

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Speaker 1: or Life three sixty app, you're not going to get

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Speaker 1: a location. But Tile will even tell you when you

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Speaker 1: log onto the app, it will tell you how many

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Speaker 1: people around you are using the Tile app. So those

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Speaker 1: are gonna be the people that are gonna help you

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Speaker 1: find this car if it ever goes missing, lost, stolen, whatever.

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Speaker 1: And then finally, there is one other device that I've

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Speaker 1: not personally tested but people seem to like. It's called

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Speaker 1: the track Ye t r a c KI and they've

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Speaker 1: got a couple of GPS trackers I think specifically four cars.

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Speaker 1: The trackers twenty bucks. I'm trying to see if there

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Speaker 1: is any monthly fee here.

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01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:13,360
Speaker 2: Today. Yeah, the lowest monthly up. So there you go, Reggie.

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01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 1: This does not pass your your smell test here for

1515
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: the nine to ninety five a month.

1516
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 2: But with that said, this is uh, this.

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01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:24,680
Speaker 1: Is actually a GPS tracker, So there actually is GPS

1518
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,680
Speaker 1: built into this device, and so that means you are

1519
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: going to get an exact location of your car.

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01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:32,640
Speaker 2: No matter where it is, as long as there's GPS.

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01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: Great question, Reggie, Thanks for calling in from Charleston, South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Eight to eight rich one on one eighty eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 2: More rich on Tech coming your way right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging

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01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology, 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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01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:05,759
Speaker 1: PlayStation Sony PlayStation five raising prices. This week, Sony announced

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01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 1: a price hike for PlayStation five consoles in the US

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01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: effective well, it's already been effective August twenty first. New

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01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 1: prices are as follows. PS five Standard five hundred and

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01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:19,000
Speaker 1: fifty bucks up from five hundred, Digital Edition five hundred,

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01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:22,719
Speaker 1: up from four to fifty. PS five Pro seven hundred

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01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:26,559
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars. Wow, that's a lot. Sony says it's

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01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 1: responding to a quote challenging economic environment. Prices for accessories

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01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: is going to stay the same. So yeah, there you

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01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:42,439
Speaker 1: have it, Sony raising prices on the PS five. Let's

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01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 1: go to ron in Corona.

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01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:46,479
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.

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01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, doesn't everybody have a challenging economic situation nowadays.

1541
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially if you have kids and a wife, and

1542
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 1: there's various there's various aspects to that.

1543
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 6: Yes, for sure. The reason I'm calling is I've been

1544
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 6: an Android user. I liked forever, been on the Verizon

1545
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 6: family since it was Nextel in the eighties nineties. And

1546
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 6: a couple of days ago, my S twenty two hit

1547
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 6: the ground and cracked.

1548
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:17,840
Speaker 2: Ouch, did you have a case on it?

1549
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 6: I had an Otter case on it. Really still I had, yeah,

1550
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 6: and cracked in the upper right hand corner where I

1551
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 6: cannot communicate with the keyboard. So I talked to Verizon.

1552
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 6: They sent me an S twenty five ultra right. And

1553
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:39,759
Speaker 6: now my situation is I can't communicate with the old phone.

1554
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 6: By the way, when I got the new cover two

1555
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 6: weeks ago, the guy says, well, that looks pretty good.

1556
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 6: I should give you a trade in moving on, I

1557
01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 6: can't communicate with it. So, just like Scott said on

1558
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 6: your phone call, he's got a brand new phone with

1559
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:59,800
Speaker 6: no connections at all, and I need to get that

1560
01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 6: information off my old phone.

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01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: Any suggestions, I have a couple, So first off, you

1562
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 1: this a Samsung.

1563
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:08,840
Speaker 6: Samsung twenty two.

1564
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:09,760
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so.

1565
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 1: You you can plug this into monitor and you can

1566
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 1: see what's on the screen. Can you see what's on

1567
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: the screen or you just can't tap what's on the screen?

1568
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 6: I got I can see about eighty percent of the screen,

1569
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:24,680
Speaker 6: starting with a little bit down from the top. That's

1570
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 6: what I suggested to the Gallop Rises this morning, and

1571
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 6: she said, yeah, but then you still can't communicate with it.

1572
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 6: That's the problem.

1573
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 2: What do you mean tap on?

1574
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 1: You can't tap? Okay, what about plugging a mouse into

1575
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:35,920
Speaker 1: the bottom of it? You can do that.

1576
01:14:37,400 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 6: I haven't tried that, but I can't see I have

1577
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 6: a green screen. Oh I see old blue screen screen.

1578
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 1: Oh so the screen is is completely bonked as well. Okay, yes,

1579
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 1: well that could be a problem. Okay, so that hmm yeah,

1580
01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: without having a wait, now, is this backed up? Are

1581
01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 1: you trying to get stuff off of here? Is that

1582
01:14:58,040 --> 01:14:58,599
Speaker 1: what's happening?

1583
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:03,280
Speaker 6: It's backed up about two months ago. I've got you

1584
01:15:03,320 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 6: know a lot of my apps and photos especially that

1585
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,600
Speaker 6: are backed up back to about two months ago. But

1586
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:10,559
Speaker 6: I haven't even tried to get them. I'm just trying

1587
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 6: to recover the phone if I can.

1588
01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, recover the phone. I don't think you're gonna

1589
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: be able to recover the phone the phone data, oh,

1590
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 1: the phone data. Okay, well, I mean you're probably gonna

1591
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:25,439
Speaker 1: have to bring it somewhere because you're there is a

1592
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: way to let's see here, I'm trying to see if okay,

1593
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:31,639
Speaker 1: hold on, I'm looking at this. Yeah, so a couple

1594
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Samsung. What they suggest, you know? Number one? Yes,

1595
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:38,000
Speaker 1: connect your you'r to a TV screen or a monitor.

1596
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 1: So what you could do if you had I mean,

1597
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 1: this is one way of doing it. You can connect

1598
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:45,439
Speaker 1: it to a TV screen or a monitor, but you

1599
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 1: would also need to connect that mouse because you have

1600
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 1: to tap as well. So that's that would be I mean,

1601
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:51,559
Speaker 1: there is a way to do this. I don't think

1602
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: there's there's lost hope.

1603
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 6: I just think get that I've got a I've got

1604
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:55,639
Speaker 6: an adapter that I can.

1605
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 5: Say the bottom.

1606
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 1: Okay, So that might be your best way to do it,

1607
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 1: is you connect it to a screen and then also

1608
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: connect a mouse into it, so that way you can

1609
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 1: see it on the screen and you can use the

1610
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 1: mouse as well. So I think that's probably going to

1611
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: be your best solution. I mean a lot of people

1612
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 1: don't realize that you can do that. But it should

1613
01:16:12,560 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: just show up right on the screen as soon as

1614
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: you plug in that adapter, whether it's a you know,

1615
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:22,559
Speaker 1: a just a standard USBC thunderbolt or an HDMI if

1616
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:24,760
Speaker 1: you have one of those adapters. But yeah, Like I've

1617
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,719
Speaker 1: got this monitor in my office where I just plug

1618
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 1: into Samsung to like charge it, and the screen just

1619
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: it immediately mirrors onto the big screen. So you can

1620
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:35,679
Speaker 1: do that and then plug in a mouse as well.

1621
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: The trick is plugging it both in at the same time.

1622
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 1: You could if you plug it into a monitor, you

1623
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:44,320
Speaker 1: might be able to plug the mouse into the monitor

1624
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 1: and then you can it might that might pass through

1625
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 1: to the device to control it as well, So that's

1626
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 1: probably your best bet. And then once you have all

1627
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 1: that done, you know you can go through and just

1628
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:56,679
Speaker 1: get that stuff up to the cloud. But I would

1629
01:16:56,680 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 1: say ron for future reference. I know, people, it sounds

1630
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:02,600
Speaker 1: like you had some of this stuff backed up, and

1631
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna say, but you've gotta you

1632
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:08,640
Speaker 1: gotta check these backups, yep, you know, because this is

1633
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: the thing. It's like every time I travel, I take

1634
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred and two hundred pictures out and about.

1635
01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, what if I drop my phone right now

1636
01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: into the water or you know, I dropped it crack?

1637
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,640
Speaker 1: Do you lose all that stuff? So now that's a

1638
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 1: different situation, but the same thing kind of sticks is

1639
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: like you just have to Some people go into their

1640
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: iPhone and they don't even realize that it hasn't been

1641
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 1: backed up in like months because of something that's stalling it.

1642
01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 1: So just you know, whether you have an iPhone or

1643
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: a Samsung, check the backup. And Samsung makes it super

1644
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 1: duper easy to back up. You can even back up

1645
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: to a USB drive.

1646
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 2: Did you know that?

1647
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 6: Yeah? So I read that and the same thing. I'm

1648
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 6: gonna try that also.

1649
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can literally, I mean, it makes it

1650
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 1: so easy you just literally on that's funny.

1651
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:52,639
Speaker 2: I'm on the on the Pixel right now.

1652
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:55,799
Speaker 1: But on the Samsung, you can go into your your device,

1653
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 1: into your settings and you'll see a section let me

1654
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: see if it's called back up. Let's say, okay, sorry,

1655
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 1: I've got like ten phones here in front of me

1656
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Let's see if we go into accounts

1657
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 1: and backup right there, so you can see backup data

1658
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: Samsung Cloud, it will tell you the last time it

1659
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:16,080
Speaker 1: was backed up. Or if you don't want to deal

1660
01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:18,439
Speaker 1: with the cloud, you can literally just say backup data

1661
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 1: to Google Drive or external storage. You can just plug

1662
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: in a USB drive to the bottom of your phone.

1663
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,719
Speaker 1: It will back up everything. Have a backup of these devices.

1664
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 1: Because Ron, you did everything right. It sounds like you

1665
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 1: had the otter box you had, you know, but it's

1666
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:34,720
Speaker 1: just this is life. It throws a curveball, so it

1667
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 1: all right, Well, keep me posting eight.

1668
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 6: Right only to the ground.

1669
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will.

1670
01:18:40,880 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 6: I keep you posting on that.

1671
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks a lot, Ron, appreciate the call. Thank you.

1672
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: I think what happened there with Ron's phone is that,

1673
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: you know, if you if your phone falls let's say

1674
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:53,439
Speaker 1: five times, right, and you look at the screen, you're like, oh, who,

1675
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:57,080
Speaker 1: nothing happened to it. It might be developing micro cracks

1676
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 1: and tiny little things in that that are that are

1677
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: lessening the strength of that screen. And then finally on

1678
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 1: that number six drop, that's when it just goes so sorry,

1679
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:09,920
Speaker 1: we can't deal with this anymore. The pressure is too much.

1680
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: Kind of like, uh, you know sometimes in life, he

1681
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: just crack. You just I had I'm not kidding. I

1682
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:19,960
Speaker 1: had a flight attendant on the flight that I thought

1683
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: was going to I thought they were gonna crack. They

1684
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:27,599
Speaker 1: were people were this is I mean, the person next

1685
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:30,880
Speaker 1: to me was asking for a drink, like a sparkling water,

1686
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: and the guy's like, we have three different types, which

1687
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: one would you like? And she's like and you know,

1688
01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 1: it's tough to hear in the plane, so like she's

1689
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: talking to him and he but this guy, he was

1690
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 1: not having it.

1691
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:44,639
Speaker 2: He was like he was just kind of going off.

1692
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, this is why I always say,

1693
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: because I always order a sparkling water. They've got they've

1694
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:50,280
Speaker 1: got three types. I always say, whatever one you've got,

1695
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: I'll take. I don't care, I don't care what flavor

1696
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: it is, just give me it. But you know some

1697
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:56,920
Speaker 1: people have this flavor preference. Anyway, I was cracking up

1698
01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:59,760
Speaker 1: because then I watched him throughout the flight and he

1699
01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: was character. I mean, he was talking with everyone. He

1700
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: was you know, people were ordered.

1701
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 2: He was just a character. But he didn't he didn't crack.

1702
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:06,880
Speaker 2: He was a nice guy.

1703
01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:10,439
Speaker 1: But he really gave the passenger next to me a

1704
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 1: hard time about not knowing which drink He's like, can you.

1705
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 2: Look at the menu.

1706
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,360
Speaker 1: We put the menu right in front of you. So

1707
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 1: here's my solution. Okay, because I'm always looking for ways

1708
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: of optimizing things. If you're listening United Airlines, that little

1709
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,120
Speaker 1: menu that you put in the seatback when you get

1710
01:20:25,120 --> 01:20:28,120
Speaker 1: on the plane, tell people to look at it. Say hey,

1711
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 1: we're going to be serving you a drink in about

1712
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: an hour. Take a look at the menu. Now have

1713
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:35,599
Speaker 1: your drink selection ready. Everyone looks at the flight attendant

1714
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:39,080
Speaker 1: and asks them for every drink that's available. Let's see,

1715
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 1: we have apple juice, we have orange juice, we have

1716
01:20:41,439 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: coke products, we have that. No, why are they doing that?

1717
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 1: They're wasting time? It could be much more efficient. All right,

1718
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:50,960
Speaker 1: I digress. Let's go to Craig in de Moin. Craig,

1719
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: you're on with rich Oh Craig, welcome back to the show.

1720
01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. What can I help you with today?

1721
01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:06,040
Speaker 10: Okay? Ibouh I sixteen plus okay, I'd stay in the

1722
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 10: house of that left me kpie and my batteries rowed

1723
01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:15,560
Speaker 10: up to a hundred each time, and I let it

1724
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 10: go down to seventy five, maybe seventy percent, and then

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Speaker 10: I'd plug it back in, the charge it up to

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Speaker 10: a hundred, and I'd leave it plugged in all night

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01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:34,719
Speaker 10: to listen to KFI, of course, and did that hood

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01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:37,719
Speaker 10: the battery? Oh y'all read it go all the way down?

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Speaker 10: Or what?

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Speaker 2: Let's put it this way.

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Speaker 1: You are you are putting a lot of stress on

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Speaker 1: that battery, on that phone by keeping it plugged in

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Speaker 1: all the time and going through those charging cycles. Now

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Speaker 1: with that said, you know, is it going to ruin

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Speaker 1: your battery? You know, probably not. I mean I've got

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Speaker 1: I've got my phone from last year. I'm at ninety

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Speaker 1: seven percent capacity. You can go into your iPhone, by

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01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 1: the way, and check they actually put this whole setting

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01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:07,960
Speaker 1: in there battery. So go into settings battery and you

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01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 1: can check battery health and you can see how much

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Speaker 1: capacity you have. After a certain amount of time, the

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01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 1: battery capacity goes down. It's just a function of lithium

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01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: ion batteries. And then you can see the cycle count

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01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 1: as well on your device, so you can see the

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01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,639
Speaker 1: number of times the iPhone has used your batteries capacity

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01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:28,360
Speaker 1: and you can learn more about that. But the reality is,

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01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: I use and abuse my phone. I do not care

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01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:32,800
Speaker 1: how I charge it, how much I charge it, what

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01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 1: I do with it, and I'm at ninety seven percent

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01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 1: after a year of heavy, heavy usage and not caring.

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01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, by keeping your phone plugged in and streaming

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01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: all the time and using it twenty four to seven,

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01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: it's going to put a lot of stress in that battery.

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01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: And so you may want to look at the charge

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01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:52,839
Speaker 1: limit inside your phone and either change that or toggle

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01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 1: on what's called optimized battery charging. And those are two

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01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: settings that Apple recently added to the iPhone to make

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01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: the blast a little bit longer, especially if you're keeping

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01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:04,840
Speaker 1: your phone for a long time. Craig, thanks for the

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01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: call today, appreciate it. Good to hear your voice one

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Speaker 1: more time, or once again, I should say. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we are going to talk more about the tech news.

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01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:16,040
Speaker 1: I've got a Seattle startup that is bringing back the

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01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:18,559
Speaker 1: landline but just for kids. Plus we've got other guests

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01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 1: to talk about cleaning up your Windows PC. Right here

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

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01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:28,760
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. The

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01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 1: website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. You

1769
01:23:33,960 --> 01:23:36,680
Speaker 1: can go there for all the notes for everything I

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01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:39,800
Speaker 1: mentioned here on today's show, don't forget. You can get

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Speaker 1: this as a podcast as well. Just search rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech in your favorite audio app. So if you miss

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Speaker 1: an episode you want to listen to something again, listening

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Speaker 1: live is always the best way, but if you can't

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01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:53,040
Speaker 1: make it to the show or you need to catch up,

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01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 1: you can always just listen to it on your favorite

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Speaker 1: audio app. Just search rich on Tech, hit follow, and

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01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:01,320
Speaker 1: all the new episodes will be there. So there is

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Speaker 1: a Seattle startup that is bringing back the landline for kids.

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01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:09,720
Speaker 1: It's called tin Can. This is actually had a one

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01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:11,720
Speaker 1: of the one of my followers send this to me.

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Speaker 1: It's getting a lot of publicity this week. It's basically

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Speaker 1: they've got two products. They've got a the tin Can Flashback,

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01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: which looks like a phone that we had in our

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Speaker 1: bedroom back in the day, if you were lucky enough

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01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: to have a phone in your bedroom, you know, the

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01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 1: corded phone that kind of closes down on a on

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01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:34,679
Speaker 1: a you know, just like a two pieces. That's number one.

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Speaker 1: That's set's seventy five dollars. Then they've got the tin Can,

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01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:41,559
Speaker 1: which is their phone. It looks almost like a tin can,

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01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:43,880
Speaker 1: kind of similar to a phone, but it's it's got

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01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: phone styling, but it literally looks like a tin can

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01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:49,479
Speaker 1: and that's going to be a looks like one hundred dollars,

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01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 1: but it's seventy five on sale right now. So the

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01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 1: flashback phone looks like an eighties wall phone, but it

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01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: plugs into your router or Ethernet port, so you can

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Speaker 1: make calls on it. No Internet, no screen, no games,

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01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:05,800
Speaker 1: just voice calls. Of course, there's also parental controlling. You

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01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:08,760
Speaker 1: can say the hours that people can call or talk

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Speaker 1: in there, and also the contacts that are approved, and

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Speaker 1: then of course you can call.

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Speaker 2: Now here's the thing.

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01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: You can call other phones, other tin Can devices for free,

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01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 1: but if you want to call outside numbers, they're going

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01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,439
Speaker 1: to charge you ten bucks a month. That's coming soon.

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01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: Let's call the party line plan, so you can call anyone.

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01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,080
Speaker 1: So bottom line, you buy the device for seventy five

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01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 1: dollars either one of these devices, and you can call

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Speaker 1: other devices, other tin Can devices for free unlimited. So

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Speaker 1: let's say your kid has a best friend. You talk

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Speaker 1: to the other parent, you say, hey, let's get our

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01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: let's get our kids.

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Speaker 2: One of these tin cans. They can, you know, connect

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Speaker 2: it to the internet.

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01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:49,080
Speaker 1: And now they can call each other as much as

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Speaker 1: they want talk on the phone.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: It's cool, but I think this is a tough sell.

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01:25:56,520 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: Because, let's be honest, kids are already communicating with all

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01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: kinds of free apps, all kinds of FaceTime. Now, I'm

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01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:05,840
Speaker 1: not saying that's the best way to communicate because it's

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01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:08,640
Speaker 1: very distracting. Like these kids are playing video games and

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Speaker 1: they're they're chatting on FaceTime while they do that. This

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Speaker 1: I get they're trying to bring back the old days

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Speaker 1: of sort of that one to one connection. You're just

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01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 1: on the phone. You're sitting there at your desk, you know,

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Speaker 1: your feeder up, laying on your bed, got that long

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01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: cord on the phone, and you're just talking to someone.

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01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:30,639
Speaker 1: It's like a very classic phone experience. So we'll see

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Speaker 1: if it takes off.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's cool.

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01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:36,040
Speaker 1: You can accomplish the same thing by going with Umama

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01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 1: or a magic jack and just get a phone at Walmart,

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01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 1: you know, like a standard they still sell those old

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01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 1: school phones, not the rotary, but just like a standard

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01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: wired phone. So that's tin Can if you want to

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Speaker 1: check it out. Tincan Dot Kids and then Alaska Airlines

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Speaker 1: and t Mobile are teaming up for free in flight

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Speaker 1: Wi Fi. This can't come fast enough. So Alaska, I

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01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 1: guess Alaska and Hawaii, you know they linked up now.

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01:27:01,080 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 1: So Alaska's new frequent Flyer program is called at Most

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01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 1: Rewards at MOS at Most Rewards and starting next year,

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01:27:10,439 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: at Most Rewards members will get free Starlink powered Wi Fi. Yay.

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01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 1: Wi Fi on planes is so bad. It took me

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01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 1: an hour just to connect to the Wi Fi on

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Speaker 1: the plane the other day. Starlink I've tested it on

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01:27:22,640 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 1: Hawaiian airlines. It is incredible. It's so fast. You can

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01:27:26,600 --> 01:27:29,840
Speaker 1: literally Next time I fly on a flight that has Starlink,

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01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:31,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring my whole desk set up. I'm gonna

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01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 1: buy my little lamp. I'm gonna bring like a little

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01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 1: you know, water cooler. I'm just gonna s a little

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01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: plant I can put like near my chair, and I'm

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01:27:39,479 --> 01:27:42,000
Speaker 1: just gonna do business because you can literally get stuff

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01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:45,120
Speaker 1: done if you have Starlink. The other Internet that's all

1855
01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:47,400
Speaker 1: all over, like the satellite Internet they used to have,

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01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:51,719
Speaker 1: it's just horrible. It's really really bad. So Starlink cannot

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01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 1: come fast enough on these planes. Rollout begins twenty twenty

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01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:59,120
Speaker 1: six on select flights, with full fleet coverage by twenty

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01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:03,120
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Now remember United is also doing starlink. It

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01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: had like a false start. They put it on like

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01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: one or two planes and there's like a problem, so

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Speaker 1: they have to bring it back. I don't know what

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01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:11,120
Speaker 1: the status is of United with Starlink, but I cannot

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01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:13,720
Speaker 1: wait for that to be on my plane anyway. T

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01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 1: Mobile customers the whole reason. So everyone gets it for free,

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01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:20,480
Speaker 1: but T Mobile customers will get exclusive perks like seamless

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01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:23,760
Speaker 1: ad free log on to Starlink. So I guess you know,

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01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 1: with a lot of these free wifis, you got to

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01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 1: like watch like a little ad or something before you

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01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:27,439
Speaker 1: can access it.

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01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:30,320
Speaker 2: T Mobile customers won't have to do that.

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Speaker 1: By the way, if you are a T Mobile customer,

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01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:34,519
Speaker 1: you've got a phone number with T Mobile, nine times

1874
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:36,160
Speaker 1: out of ten you can access the Wi Fi for

1875
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 1: free on your plane.

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01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:38,879
Speaker 2: Just so you know, that.

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Speaker 1: Amazon Autos added a new customer. I guess Hurts will

1878
01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 1: be selling used cars on Amazon Autos. So remember we

1879
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:51,439
Speaker 1: talked about this last week. They're selling Hyundais through there.

1880
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:56,080
Speaker 1: Now you can buy Hurts cars Amazon Autos. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, next, we're gonna talk about cleaning up your

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01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 1: Windows PC. I know you need to do this. I

1883
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:02,640
Speaker 1: know you need the infos. We're gonna give you the

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01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 1: step by step directions. Coming up next, I'm making your computer.

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Speaker 2: Run like new. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:13,519
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology the

1887
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot tv. If you want links

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01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:20,960
Speaker 1: to anything I mentioned here. All right, so we've got

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Speaker 1: We've talked about a lot on today's show, and one

1890
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 1: of the things that comes up over and over and

1891
01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:30,599
Speaker 1: over with Windows computers, for the most part, is getting

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Speaker 1: them to run smooth and fast and to their potential,

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01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:37,280
Speaker 1: because most of these computers are really good and they

1894
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:39,639
Speaker 1: can last a long time. But the problem is all

1895
01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:43,400
Speaker 1: this gunk that gets sort of like just collected over

1896
01:29:43,439 --> 01:29:45,639
Speaker 1: the years, and over time you download stuff, you try

1897
01:29:45,640 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 1: it out, you stop using it apps, you're trying to

1898
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:50,599
Speaker 1: get all kinds of stuff on your computer. So with

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Speaker 1: that in mind, we've got Joe Karas Scoria. He is

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Speaker 1: the let's see here senior XDA segment lead for OS

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01:30:00,920 --> 01:30:04,479
Speaker 1: and devices, I mean recently recently had a title change,

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Speaker 1: So congrats on that, and welcome to the show.

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Speaker 14: Hello, Thank you so much for having me. It's a

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01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 14: huge quessure to be here.

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01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:16,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, you wrote a great article for XDA Developers about

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01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:19,599
Speaker 1: how to deep clean your PC every year, and so

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01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 1: first off, just tell me, like, what do you write

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01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:22,639
Speaker 1: about typically?

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01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,000
Speaker 14: So, first of all, thank you for saying it's great.

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Speaker 14: I'm glad it resonated. Yeah, So what the kind of

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Speaker 14: stuff that I wrote about an XCA. Obviously, since I

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Speaker 14: am segment made for OS and devices, I do write

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01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:39,800
Speaker 14: a lot in those two segments as well, but especially OS.

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Speaker 14: I run a lot about Windows. More recently Linux I've

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01:30:43,080 --> 01:30:44,599
Speaker 14: been covering in one bit of both.

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Speaker 7: Whenever I can.

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Speaker 14: So yeah, and it's a lot about tips and tricks,

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Speaker 14: and it's not it's we do it less so from

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01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:57,519
Speaker 14: a how to perspective, and more so you probably didn't

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01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:00,920
Speaker 14: know you should be doing this, so like you should

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Speaker 14: be doing it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's like a lot of things

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01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:05,879
Speaker 1: because people don't even know what's out there, what's available,

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01:31:05,880 --> 01:31:08,960
Speaker 1: what they should be doing. So your first step in

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01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:12,679
Speaker 1: your article you talked about uninstalling apps, I mean that's

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01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 1: always like the first step. Explain how to do that

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01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: in the best way.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, of course, So you know, the standard way to

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01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:22,880
Speaker 14: an installer apps. You know, you go through your start menu,

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01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:25,559
Speaker 14: open the start menu, there's on apps button.

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Speaker 7: You can see all of them there.

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Speaker 14: You know, you can scroll down that list and don't

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Speaker 14: find a lot of things that you probably don't use

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Speaker 14: anymore or never used. If you've never looked at at

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Speaker 14: that list before and when you got your computers, that's

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Speaker 14: start going a lot of things there that you don't need.

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Speaker 14: So you can just scroll down that list and if

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01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 14: there's anything that you know you don't need, it can

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Speaker 14: write make it and there's an install button right there

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Speaker 14: to remove it. And if you're not sure, it's always

1941
01:31:50,600 --> 01:31:52,519
Speaker 14: a good idea to either google it or you can

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Speaker 14: just try.

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01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:54,800
Speaker 7: To launch it and see what it does in case you.

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Speaker 14: Don't know if you actually need it or not, and

1945
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Speaker 14: then you can decide whether to whether it's an installer

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Speaker 14: or not.

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Speaker 7: Yes, it is the standard way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean basically, if you don't if you

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Speaker 1: don't reckon, can you ruin anything on your computer if

1950
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Speaker 1: you want to install something that's like like need like

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01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: the system needs.

1952
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Speaker 14: Not really most of the system apps that are on

1953
01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:18,000
Speaker 14: Windows in the part of Windows, they can't be removed

1954
01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:21,559
Speaker 14: and words, you might break things that you're used to doing.

1955
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:24,040
Speaker 14: It's nothing that you can to restore if you know how,

1956
01:32:24,040 --> 01:32:26,160
Speaker 14: don't look it up. So it's never going to be

1957
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Speaker 14: permanent damage or very like that's very like going to happen.

1958
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:31,840
Speaker 14: But yeah, if you don't know what you're removing, then

1959
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:33,920
Speaker 14: you might end up with something that you used to

1960
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:37,559
Speaker 14: do that doesn't work anymore because you needed that specific program.

1961
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Speaker 14: But it is fixable, so it's never something that's permanent.

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Speaker 2: All right, your next step run a to blow script.

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Speaker 1: I mean that sounds like uh, I mean is that

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Speaker 1: something regular users can do or is that for just

1965
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Speaker 1: advanced users.

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Speaker 14: So this one is a little more complicated because because

1967
01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:55,519
Speaker 14: there's a lot of options here and some of these

1968
01:32:55,560 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 14: again can affect certain features that you might be used to,

1969
01:32:58,000 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 14: certain things that you might be used to using. And

1970
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Speaker 14: you know, one of these are programs that I might

1971
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Speaker 14: want to check boxes, and there might be a temptation

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Speaker 14: to just check all of the boxes and disable everything,

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01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 14: and this might have an impact on you if you just like,

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Speaker 14: if you disabled something like Microsoft Defender, which is the

1975
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:15,679
Speaker 14: anti virus in Windows and eleven, that'll be a problem

1976
01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 14: because then you'll have no protection against malware on the

1977
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Speaker 14: computer by default, So you know, it is something that

1978
01:33:22,960 --> 01:33:24,799
Speaker 14: you would want to be a little more tech savvy

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Speaker 14: before you do. Just you want to have some awareness

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Speaker 14: and take your time to read all the options available

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Speaker 14: in these scripts to make sure that you don't disable

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Speaker 14: anything that is essential to you.

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Speaker 1: Now, what about the startup apps, because this is another

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Speaker 1: thing where you restart your computer.

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Speaker 2: Next thing.

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01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:43,360
Speaker 1: No, it's like taking an hour because so many things

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Speaker 1: are popping up as a computer restarts.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 14: So you know, we only talked about an installing apps,

1990
01:33:50,479 --> 01:33:54,720
Speaker 14: and of course that's a very important first step. But

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01:33:54,800 --> 01:33:57,960
Speaker 14: even if you have apps that you do use and

1992
01:33:58,040 --> 01:34:00,679
Speaker 14: one of them will't create these entries in the startup

1993
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:03,800
Speaker 14: in the Windows startup and then will always launch whenever

1994
01:34:03,800 --> 01:34:05,680
Speaker 14: you turn on the computer, So it just starts to

1995
01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 14: bog things down more and more as you install more

1996
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Speaker 14: of these programs. And you don't always need these apps

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Speaker 14: running in the background. Sometimes you just want to have

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01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 14: them and you launch them and you need them, and

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01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 14: then you'll leave them alone. So you know, you can

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Speaker 14: go into the task manager in Windows on weven. If

2001
01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:23,679
Speaker 14: you open the task manager, there's a startup tab, which

2002
01:34:23,720 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 14: has a little icon that looks like a speedometer on

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01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 14: a car. And there's a lot of apps there, and

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01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:32,960
Speaker 14: you can see like whether those startup entries are enabled

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01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:36,360
Speaker 14: or not, and you can enable, you can disable, you

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01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:40,679
Speaker 14: can disable these pretty freely. This is even less risky

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01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 14: than an installing an app, because only doing is preventing

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Speaker 14: that app from running.

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Speaker 7: At startup. You can always launch launch it yourself if

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Speaker 7: you needed to function.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, so yeah, I'm looking.

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01:34:49,280 --> 01:34:53,720
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my list bing wallpaper, co pilot ever,

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01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:59,640
Speaker 1: no iTunes, helper three sixty five, co pilot teams, no

2014
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:03,360
Speaker 1: sh in one drive, phone link, so all these things

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01:35:03,520 --> 01:35:05,799
Speaker 1: are running as soon as I turn on my computer.

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01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:08,439
Speaker 1: I don't probably need all those things running every time

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01:35:08,439 --> 01:35:10,639
Speaker 1: I turn on my computer. So again, it just searching.

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Speaker 1: Uh the taskbar says task manager, and you'll see it

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01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:16,960
Speaker 1: looks like you said, it's like a little spetometer, says

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01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:19,559
Speaker 1: startup aps. Just go in there and disable the ones

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Speaker 1: that you don't need.

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01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:21,839
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 14: That's that's a great starting point because a lot of

2024
01:35:24,479 --> 01:35:26,479
Speaker 14: those that take it all. If you use something like

2025
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:30,879
Speaker 14: Adobe Photoshop, the creative concuite always starts with the computer,

2026
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:34,120
Speaker 14: and it's a pretty heavy piece of software. So that's

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Speaker 14: something I usually do every one's own because I only

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01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:38,400
Speaker 14: need it when I open photoshops, so I don't need

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01:35:38,400 --> 01:35:38,760
Speaker 14: it right now.

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01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:41,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's it's it's running as much as it

2031
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:43,519
Speaker 1: can to make things faster when it does open.

2032
01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:47,719
Speaker 2: But just open it up. Okay. What about the driver updates?

2033
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:48,800
Speaker 2: How do we check for those?

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01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 7: Okay?

2035
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:54,160
Speaker 14: So drivers, there's a few ways that they can be

2036
01:35:54,240 --> 01:35:59,320
Speaker 14: distributed because there's a lot of pieces to how drivers work.

2037
01:35:59,400 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 14: So Windows updates, you know, when you open the settings

2038
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:05,240
Speaker 14: out as the Windows Update section, some driver updates won't

2039
01:36:05,280 --> 01:36:08,599
Speaker 14: come through there automatically. And then on that page there's

2040
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:11,599
Speaker 14: also an advanced absence button, and if you go there,

2041
01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:15,040
Speaker 14: there's then an optional updates section and a lot of

2042
01:36:15,120 --> 01:36:18,200
Speaker 14: driver updates coming through there. They're not mandatory, but you

2043
01:36:18,240 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 14: can always install them. And then after that, it's also

2044
01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:24,840
Speaker 14: up to the manufacturer. So if your computer manufacturer will

2045
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:27,120
Speaker 14: have a website with drivers, you will have to look

2046
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:29,320
Speaker 14: up your specific model, So that's kind of vary from

2047
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:32,120
Speaker 14: person to person, but you'll look you can look up

2048
01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:33,720
Speaker 14: your model and there will be a page with all

2049
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:36,280
Speaker 14: the drivers available for your PC. And some of them

2050
01:36:36,320 --> 01:36:38,640
Speaker 14: might be newer. A lot of computers also come with

2051
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:43,599
Speaker 14: specific software that updates your drivers automatically, so you can

2052
01:36:43,640 --> 01:36:46,000
Speaker 14: do that a little more easily without going to the website.

2053
01:36:46,840 --> 01:36:50,040
Speaker 14: And then you know, in the case of the graphics drivers,

2054
01:36:50,680 --> 01:36:54,120
Speaker 14: a m D and then VideA and the dedicated software

2055
01:36:54,160 --> 01:36:57,960
Speaker 14: for them that updates drivers. Because graphics drivers are updated

2056
01:36:58,080 --> 01:37:01,320
Speaker 14: very frequently, so it makes sense to separate them a

2057
01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:04,240
Speaker 14: little bit from the computer or Windows, you.

2058
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:06,520
Speaker 7: Might want to have that dedicated software.

2059
01:37:06,720 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 14: So that's usually the best way to update graphics driverge

2060
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:10,519
Speaker 14: as well.

2061
01:37:10,760 --> 01:37:13,479
Speaker 1: Okay, and this is always uh, you know, people are

2062
01:37:13,479 --> 01:37:15,240
Speaker 1: always interested in this malware.

2063
01:37:15,840 --> 01:37:16,719
Speaker 2: What do you recommend?

2064
01:37:16,840 --> 01:37:19,880
Speaker 1: You know, people think their computers infected, there's something going on.

2065
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:22,919
Speaker 1: What do you recommend for scanning for malware?

2066
01:37:24,240 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 7: Right?

2067
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 14: So, by the FHONT you know, Microsoft Defender has gone

2068
01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 14: into indows eleven. I always believe that it's a pretty

2069
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:33,240
Speaker 14: solid solution, you know, for daily day use. But when

2070
01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:35,160
Speaker 14: you're doing a deep clean like this and you want

2071
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:37,839
Speaker 14: to make sure that you're getting as much as possible,

2072
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 14: like no little things still on your computer, the one

2073
01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 14: I usually use is called malware Bytes. It's been around

2074
01:37:45,479 --> 01:37:48,439
Speaker 14: for a while. It is to become specifically manware, bite

2075
01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:52,000
Speaker 14: sometime malware. But yeah, they have a very comprehensive solution.

2076
01:37:52,120 --> 01:37:54,679
Speaker 14: It's they do have a premium version that offers real

2077
01:37:54,760 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 14: time protection. But if you just want to run a scan,

2078
01:37:58,680 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 14: like on demand, it's free.

2079
01:38:00,920 --> 01:38:01,160
Speaker 2: Okay.

2080
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:04,040
Speaker 1: So that's the difference is that if the free one

2081
01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:07,559
Speaker 1: you have to do the scan. The paid one it

2082
01:38:07,600 --> 01:38:10,000
Speaker 1: will do scans in the background all the time, real

2083
01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 1: time exactly.

2084
01:38:11,280 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 2: Okay, good delineation, thank you. Okay. So it runs the

2085
01:38:14,240 --> 01:38:16,840
Speaker 2: scan and what it unearthed something?

2086
01:38:17,640 --> 01:38:20,479
Speaker 14: Yeah, generally it will. It's it's kind of a very

2087
01:38:20,479 --> 01:38:23,960
Speaker 14: good detection engine. So most of them malware out there,

2088
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:27,800
Speaker 14: I think I have very good experiences maware. It's very

2089
01:38:27,800 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 14: good at detecting things. If you look at my article.

2090
01:38:30,400 --> 01:38:32,800
Speaker 14: Actually I wasn't expecting to have any hits when I

2091
01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:35,560
Speaker 14: was writing that article, but I ran, I ran the

2092
01:38:35,960 --> 01:38:39,599
Speaker 14: scan in the room at all four four items there.

2093
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:42,760
Speaker 1: Oh you found four things that it flags is like, hey,

2094
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:44,760
Speaker 1: this stuff you might not want in there. All right,

2095
01:38:45,040 --> 01:38:48,439
Speaker 1: we'll run out of time. But finally delete temporary files.

2096
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:49,479
Speaker 1: What's the deal with that?

2097
01:38:50,360 --> 01:38:52,479
Speaker 7: Okay, So that's that's the final one.

2098
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:55,680
Speaker 14: There's this is the feature that's part of Windows and

2099
01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:59,839
Speaker 14: it's perfectly safe. There's if you're go into the settings,

2100
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:03,320
Speaker 14: they're in the system section, there's a storage page, and

2101
01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:06,719
Speaker 14: then within that there's a temporary files section, and this

2102
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:09,400
Speaker 14: allows you to do it all kinds of things that

2103
01:39:09,479 --> 01:39:13,920
Speaker 14: Windows stores to speed up certain processes, like there will

2104
01:39:13,960 --> 01:39:17,960
Speaker 14: be icons or things or thumbnails files like that.

2105
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:20,760
Speaker 7: There are storages to speed up certain things. You don't

2106
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:21,439
Speaker 7: really need them.

2107
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:24,360
Speaker 14: A lot of times they might be replaced by other files.

2108
01:39:24,920 --> 01:39:27,840
Speaker 14: So it's a good idea to run this scan. And

2109
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:30,080
Speaker 14: when you when you open the temporary files page, you

2110
01:39:30,080 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 14: don't automatically.

2111
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:33,559
Speaker 7: Scan your computer for all the temporary files on there.

2112
01:39:34,120 --> 01:39:35,559
Speaker 7: And aside from the.

2113
01:39:35,479 --> 01:39:39,200
Speaker 14: Downloads folder, which you shouldn't select because that we will

2114
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:42,759
Speaker 14: have most of your downloaded files. You can select everything

2115
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:45,000
Speaker 14: else and don't need all of it, and it will

2116
01:39:45,080 --> 01:39:46,200
Speaker 14: usually be perfume and fine.

2117
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:50,840
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's again just search storage and it'll it'll

2118
01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:53,719
Speaker 1: be right under the system storage. You'll say temporary files.

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01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:56,439
Speaker 1: All right, great information. I'm going to link up the

2120
01:39:56,560 --> 01:40:01,479
Speaker 1: article on the website rich on Tech, but if you

2121
01:40:01,479 --> 01:40:05,280
Speaker 1: want to Google search it it is XDA developers. You

2122
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:08,160
Speaker 1: should deep clean your Windows PC every year to keep

2123
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:11,640
Speaker 1: it running smoothly. Here's how I do it, and my

2124
01:40:11,720 --> 01:40:14,559
Speaker 1: thanks to Joe for joining us today. Thanks so much

2125
01:40:14,560 --> 01:40:16,360
Speaker 1: for joining me, Joe, thank you.

2126
01:40:16,400 --> 01:40:18,360
Speaker 7: So much for the invitation. It's been to wait time.

2127
01:40:18,600 --> 01:40:20,679
Speaker 2: All right. Now you know how to get your computer.

2128
01:40:20,720 --> 01:40:22,640
Speaker 2: You don't even need a new one, just clean it

2129
01:40:22,720 --> 01:40:24,200
Speaker 2: up so easy.

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01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:26,639
Speaker 1: All right, rich on Tech dot tv, I'll link up

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Speaker 1: that article and coming up we are going to open

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Speaker 1: up the feedback. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, what a great show it has been. It's

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01:40:39,800 --> 01:40:42,759
Speaker 1: not over yet. I'm just saying it's been a good show.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to you, Thanks to you, thanks to Bobo, thanks

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Speaker 1: to Kim. You know, it's a group effort here, little

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Speaker 1: part of me. I just posted this to my Instagram

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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech saw that there's a setting, it

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01:40:56,720 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: might be a new setting on Facebook where they might

2140
01:41:00,520 --> 01:41:05,280
Speaker 1: they might be scanning your phone's camera role. Yes, scanning

2141
01:41:05,360 --> 01:41:07,960
Speaker 1: the pictures on your camera roll. So there are two

2142
01:41:08,000 --> 01:41:11,600
Speaker 1: settings that basically the first one is less nefarious, but

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01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:13,840
Speaker 1: it's still like I don't want them scanning anything in

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01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:18,240
Speaker 1: my camera role. So the first one basically says camera

2145
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:21,920
Speaker 1: roll sharing suggestions. So the first one is get camera

2146
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 1: roll suggestions. When you're browsing Facebook and I've seen this before.

2147
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:27,960
Speaker 1: You're scrolling through Facebook says hey, you took this great picture.

2148
01:41:28,000 --> 01:41:28,600
Speaker 2: Do you want to share it?

2149
01:41:28,640 --> 01:41:30,320
Speaker 1: And it shows you one of the pictures you took,

2150
01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:32,800
Speaker 1: but it says, don't worry, this is private until you

2151
01:41:32,840 --> 01:41:35,439
Speaker 1: share it. Nah, just turn that off altogether. You don't

2152
01:41:35,479 --> 01:41:38,120
Speaker 1: need them looking through your pictures. That's number one. Now

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Speaker 1: here's the scarier one. Get creative ideas made for you

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Speaker 1: by allowing camera roll cloud processing processing.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: Not only are they looking at your pictures on your

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Speaker 1: camera roll, they're uploading them to Meta's cloud to analyze

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Speaker 1: them and maybe affect them with AI or something creative.

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Speaker 1: And then present you that picture and they said they're

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Speaker 1: scanning it for things like you know, we'll check for

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Speaker 1: safety and integrity purposes.

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Speaker 2: Huh huh, nah, no, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So I would go in personally and change these settings

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Speaker 1: to off. It looks like the first one is turned

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Speaker 1: on by default, which is the less nefarious, but the

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Speaker 1: second one is turned off by default.

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Speaker 2: But I would turn them both off immediately.

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Speaker 1: And I just posted how to find these settings It's

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Speaker 1: pretty easy. Actually, just go into your Facebook settings and

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Speaker 1: look for it's called camera. Let's see camera role sharing suggestions.

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Speaker 1: But I posted the full instructions on my Instagram at

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech, I would say take a look and

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, nobody. Nobody needs that time for the feedback.

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Speaker 1: These are your emails, your comments, your questions I get

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Speaker 1: from you. If you want to submit, just go to

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Speaker 1: richon Tech dot tv hit contact. Bruce writes in your

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Speaker 1: latest newsletter, you had to be talking about you. You

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Speaker 1: had to be talking about me being trapped in the

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Speaker 1: Apple eco system. I almost committed to grabbing a new

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Speaker 1: Pixel ten after reading about Magic Q. But with my

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Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen pro, max iPad Pro, Apple Watch, iMac, Apple

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Speaker 1: TV Final Cut Pro and all the Apple subscriptions, the

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Speaker 1: mountain to change would be too high to climb. What

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Speaker 1: do you run in here, Bruce? An Apple store? And

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Speaker 1: then that's the other thing in the back of my mind.

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Speaker 1: Google's reputation of dropping devices and services after everyone has

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Speaker 1: adopted them. Great work, Please keep it up.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Uh No from Pico Rivera writes in Hey, rich I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to share that my husband and I have

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Speaker 1: been using a cell service called Tello. Since twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: we've had no issues. We pay fourteen bucks a month

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Speaker 1: plus taxes for five gigs of data with unlimited talking text.

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Speaker 1: You can adjust the plan to fit your needs. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for all your tech tips. I enjoy yours newsletters and

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Speaker 1: TV segments.

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Speaker 2: Noura great.

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Speaker 1: Tello is excellent, excellent, excellent. I love them because you

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Speaker 1: can basically build your own plan and customize it exactly

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Speaker 1: the way you want. So if you just want five

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Speaker 1: hundred texts, no data and unlimited talk, you can do

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Speaker 1: that and it just does the plan price accordingly. George

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Speaker 1: from Reading Pennsylvania listening on WRAW thirteen hundred says the

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Speaker 1: caller who wanted to keep his old PC running asked

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Speaker 1: about cleaning it up. I always recommend downloading using Microsoft

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Speaker 1: PC Manager. It's a free and simple way to clear

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Speaker 1: junk files and keep things running smoothly. Yes, I've definitely

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Speaker 1: mentioned PC manager before. It is a easy tool. Just

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Speaker 1: make sure you're getting the actual official one from Microsoft,

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Speaker 1: not an impost Day from Eastern Washington writes in I

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Speaker 1: heard your show and wanted to share a couple of

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Speaker 1: free tools for editing PDFs. Try LibreOffice. They can do

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Speaker 1: it for free. It does have a learning curve, but

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Speaker 1: it works.

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Speaker 2: Also.

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Speaker 1: If you're having trouble changing file permissions, check out MCO

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Speaker 1: unlock it. I've used it when I couldn't manipulate a

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Speaker 1: file and it helped.

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Speaker 2: I'm not an expert, but both are worth a try.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Libra Office is is great. Libra is it, Libra

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Speaker 1: Libre Office lib It's like a free version of like

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Speaker 1: Microsoft or Microsoft Office. Luke from the UK rights in

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Speaker 1: wow are We're all over the place. I listened to

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Speaker 1: your show every week on the podcast and I enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: On a recent episode, you talked about securely erasing discs.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the methods you mentioned are secure enough.

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Speaker 1: If you're donating, recycling, or selling an old PC or

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Speaker 1: hard drive, it should be overwritten with zeros in one

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Speaker 1: several times. Windows reset only does this once. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it overroots the boot, overwrits the boot unless you

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Speaker 1: reinstall from the cloud. When I erase drives, I use

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Speaker 1: a bootable OS called shred os. It can do up

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Speaker 1: to seven passes to make sure that data is virtually

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Speaker 1: impossible to recover. The interface is text base. You navigate

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Speaker 1: with the keyboard, so make sure you pick the correct

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Speaker 1: drive if you have more than one for maximum protection,

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Speaker 1: erase with zeros and then physically destroy the hard drive.

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Speaker 2: All right, Luke, you're you're running.

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Speaker 1: Like the uh Fort Knox over there with your stuff.

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Speaker 1: Bob from Australia rights in man. We are worldwide. One

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Speaker 1: thing missing from your review of tank inkjet printers is

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Speaker 1: the cost comparison with cartridge models. It takes about three

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Speaker 1: to four cartridge replacements using Excel pricing before a tank

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Speaker 1: printer purchase really pays off, and for some people that's

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Speaker 1: a lot of printing. Ron from Washington says we've been

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Speaker 1: using the epsoin et twenty seven sixty for years. The

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Speaker 1: black ink tank lasted us two years. The color tanks

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01:46:21,479 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 1: are still a third full after three years. The issue

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Speaker 1: is the nozzle clog if we don't print enough. The

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Speaker 1: EPs and cleaning procedure works, but it's a long, repetitive process.

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Speaker 1: So I made a spreadsheet with colored stripes my printer

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Speaker 1: nozzle exercise A print one every Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Unscrap.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's see here, Okay, Amy says, I sign up

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Speaker 1: your emails because I love hearing you. I don't have

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Speaker 1: time to read them until today, but like you talk,

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Speaker 1: easy to read and understand. I'm a sixty eight year

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Speaker 1: old single lady. Keeping up with tech is important to me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Debrah New Milford, Connecticut. My wife

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Speaker 1: keeps oh, I said on my newsletter. My wife keeps

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Speaker 1: telling me my newsletters are too long. Dever says she's right.

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Speaker 1: But the more I read, the more I find useful information.

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful you're the one gathering the facts.

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Speaker 2: Kudos.

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Speaker 1: I like your newsletter, and Ted in Palm Spring says

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Speaker 1: I listen on one oh four point seven k news

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Speaker 1: FM in Palm Springs. Thanks for the outstanding show and

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Speaker 1: long live New Jersey. I grew up in Havertown, a

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Speaker 1: suburb of Philadelphia. Next week, Jefferson Graham Plus, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: explain quantum computing. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it.

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Speaker 2: Right here with me. My name is rich Dmiro. I'll

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Speaker 2: talk to you real soon