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Speaker 1: cool to watch movies inside this thing? Absolutely? It was

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Speaker 1: It is incredibly cool, but it's incredibly expensive, which makes

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Speaker 1: it out. Thanks for the call, Jannis. Coming up, digital

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: So for me, I think the idea is that I

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Speaker 2: So I think at first I was trying to keep

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Speaker 2: a conversation with my wife and not be distracted by

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Speaker 2: the notifications on my phone because I'm not deeply attracted

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Speaker 2: to it anymore.

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Speaker 3: Even when we go on a trip.

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Speaker 2: I do have a smartphone that I keep for international

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Speaker 2: trips because when.

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Speaker 3: I'm international, I don't know the language.

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Speaker 2: You know, I may not be able to figure it

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Speaker 2: out all the things that I have figured out here

443
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Speaker 2: in my local context, but even when we go international,

444
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Speaker 2: I'm definitely more present, more available, you know, in my

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Speaker 2: personal relationships. I can go to a place and not

446
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Speaker 2: take my phone and I don't feel wow, oh my gosh,

447
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Speaker 2: like what's going on in the world out there, because

448
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 2: I get to cherish the experiences. When it comes to work,

449
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 2: I finish quite faster, you know, just because I don't

450
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Speaker 2: have a lot of distractions pinging me or grabbing my attention.

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Speaker 2: You kind of remain more focused in your work, and

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Speaker 2: you do it faster, and then you get more time

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Speaker 2: for relaxation and other activities that I want.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever feel like you're missing out?

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Speaker 2: I do miss out, But I think that's a mindset

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Speaker 2: that you had to accept. I did not start this

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Speaker 2: in order to have the niceties of the twenty first

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Speaker 2: century and the principles of the twentieth century and then

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of like interact back and forth between them.

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Speaker 2: I started this as a lifestyle change. I wanted my

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Speaker 2: lifestyle to change. I wanted to start interacting more with

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Speaker 2: print media. I wanted to kind of have a little

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Speaker 2: bit more of a slower life. So, yes, I am

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Speaker 2: missing out, but I'm okay with that. I have accepted that,

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Speaker 2: and that's one of the hardest parts.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: I've missed out on a couple parties that my friends

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Speaker 2: organized because I'm not in the group message or I

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Speaker 2: don't have that app that everybody has. I missed out

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Speaker 2: on quote unquote posts that are important, and one time

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Speaker 2: I did miss out on some email communication that was

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Speaker 2: pretty prompt.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't a super emergency.

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Speaker 2: Because this is something that I tell everybody, if it's

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Speaker 2: a true emergency, somebody will find you somehow someway. They

476
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Speaker 2: will call you, they will get your coworker, they will

477
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Speaker 2: try to find your family member. Because when it's a

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Speaker 2: real emergency, they will do that.

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Speaker 1: You run a website called dumbphones dot org. Tell me

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Speaker 1: about the website and what that helps people do.

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Speaker 2: So about three years ago I started this website and

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Speaker 2: the animus or the idea was to help people find

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Speaker 2: their perfect phone. When people hear dumb phones, they usually think, oh,

484
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Speaker 2: it's an old flip phone, it doesn't have any capabilities,

485
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Speaker 2: but actually they do. It's just that you know, it's

486
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Speaker 2: not in the media as much. You don't get the

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Speaker 2: shiny new announcement from Samsung or Apple out there. So

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Speaker 2: if you go to the Dumbphone Finder, you can find

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Speaker 2: the perfect phone for you. So the website just runs

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Speaker 2: different filters and you can explo and it has a

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Speaker 2: lot of other useful resources for people to start the journey.

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Speaker 1: What's a dumb phone run these days? And do you

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Speaker 1: have a top pick?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I do have three top picks, and they all

495
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Speaker 2: range from different price points. I think most people associate

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Speaker 2: the sub one hundred dollars, but they can go all

497
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Speaker 2: the way to three hundred dollars, like the light phone.

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Speaker 2: You know, the light phone is more of a minimal device,

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Speaker 2: you know, something that you really want for a lifestyle change.

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Speaker 2: The Cats twenty two flip is more of the smarter device.

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Speaker 2: You can still have apps and you know, all of

502
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Speaker 2: the nice city and convenience of the world. That one

503
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 2: runs you about seventy nine to one hundred dollars, depending

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Speaker 2: on the condition. You can get them on Amazon. And

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Speaker 2: then something more like in the middle will be a Nokia.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's still Nokia devices out there. The twenty

507
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Speaker 2: seven to eighty can run you eighty bucks or so,

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Speaker 2: and there is everything in between. You know, different companies

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Speaker 2: are coming out with different concept and I'm really excited

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Speaker 2: about the space growing in the next few years.

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Speaker 1: If I'm not ready to give up my smartphone and

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to get a dumb phone, give me

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Speaker 1: a tip to sort of be more intentional and have

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Speaker 1: less screen time. I'll give you two quick tips.

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Speaker 2: The first one is give your screen time password to

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Speaker 2: someone else. So that's one of the biggest things that

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Speaker 2: has helped me. Whenever I go, you know, and I

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00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 2: have to use my smartphone for whatever reason, my wife

519
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 2: has set up the screen time passcode. So if I

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00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 2: try to bypass it, I can't because I don't know

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Speaker 2: the passcode. And if I really want to do it,

522
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 2: I'll have to factor reset, and I really doubt you're

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Speaker 2: going to do that.

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Speaker 3: The second one is find an app that works for you.

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Speaker 2: There's one that is called unpluck with a queue or Brick,

526
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 2: which is the Brick app. They both lock you down

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00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 2: with physical devices. You tap the physical device and it

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00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 2: blocks everything from your smartphone, and if you tap it again,

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00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 2: you have access to it again, so you can leave

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Speaker 2: it at home. You can have a relaxed day. You

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Speaker 2: come back, you may not need to have to check email.

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00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 2: You tap and then you have access to all of

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Speaker 2: the things again.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jose, this has been great. Tell folks how

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Speaker 1: to how to find you online.

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00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 3: So the best way is to go to the don't

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Speaker 3: phone finder.

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Speaker 2: Dombphones dot org is my main website where I run

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Speaker 2: all the things for digital minimalism. I also have a

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Speaker 2: personal website at Jose brionez dot org and you can

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Speaker 2: find email and different ways in there to contact me.

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Speaker 1: Jose Brione is a founder of dumbphones dot org. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining me today. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: All right, I will link up all of Jose's websites

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Speaker 1: on mine. Just go to rich on tech dot tv.

546
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: Lots to unpack, their lots to think about.

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Speaker 5: Could you give up your smartphone?

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Speaker 1: Give me a fall Triple eight rich one oh one.

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one.

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

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology at triple

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Speaker 1: A rich one oh one. Phone number for the show

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. You can also go to the website richon

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV. Hit contact and that will send me

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Speaker 1: a message. Let's go to Rod in Los Angeles. Rod,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Hey, Rich, you're doing I'm doing great.

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Speaker 8: So I use one of the well known anti virus programs,

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00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 8: and they're often trying to get me to buy additional

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Speaker 8: services from them, right, And I was kind of wondering

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Speaker 8: if you have any opinion on the value of these things,

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Speaker 8: Like they've got dark wed monitoring, they've got one that's

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Speaker 8: the driver updated, and I think they've got one that

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Speaker 8: does registry updates.

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Speaker 1: I think the the dark web stuff might be useful,

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Speaker 1: the registry updates, and what was the other one you mentioned,

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00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: the driver updates in you're on Windows. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: a lot a lot of that stuff is like built

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Speaker 1: into the operating system, so I wouldn't I wouldn't worry

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00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: about that too much. Are you having a lot of

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Speaker 1: issues with your computer.

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Speaker 8: Other than just slow but it's necessarily small processor and

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Speaker 8: that's really the main thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so that's the thing. Yeah, So these

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00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: things sort of prey upon you know, every computer user

576
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: has issues with you know, whether it's slow startup, whether

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00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: it's things not working perfectly. So of course, you pay,

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00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: and you pay, and you pay, and doesn't get any better.

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Speaker 1: So I think that you could probably ignore most of

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Speaker 1: those things. I do think that the when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the actual dark web stuff and all that personal

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Speaker 1: information stuff, that might be worth it because there is

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Speaker 1: surprisingly a lot of information about us on the dark web,

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Speaker 1: and just in general. Have you done the Google results

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00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: about you yet? Okay? So if you look up Google

586
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Speaker 1: results about you. This is a free service that Google

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Speaker 1: offers where it will search on the web for public

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Speaker 1: displays of your name, your phone number, your email address,

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Speaker 1: anything like that that's been involved in some sort of

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Speaker 1: data leak or on one of those like data websites

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Speaker 1: like a you know, name shopping website kind of thing,

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Speaker 1: and it will offer to take those down for you. Now,

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Speaker 1: it only takes those down from Google search results. It

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Speaker 1: does not actually take it down from the website. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to take that down from the website,

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Speaker 1: there are tools, probably this Dark Webfinder tool that you're

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Speaker 1: talking about will assist you with that. Mozilla also has

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Speaker 1: one which is called Mozilla Monitor that's brand new. You

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00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: can check that out and they will help you get

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Speaker 1: things down as well. You can also go through and

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Speaker 1: kind of diyatt too, so you can go through, there's

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Speaker 1: a website just delete Let's see, it's just delete me.

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00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: And I got to always find this such a bookmark this,

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00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: but they have if you look up, let's see it's

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Speaker 1: I think it's just delete me DIY. But there's a

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Speaker 1: way if you look up, like you know, any of

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Speaker 1: these websites that offer to sell your information. Towards the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the website, there are instructions for how to

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Speaker 1: opt out of that, so you can do that as well.

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Speaker 1: But those are the things that I would recommend. I

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00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: also did an article for KTLA about starting the year

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Speaker 1: off with a clean computer, and basically my general steps

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Speaker 1: are to uninstall any programs that you no longer use,

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Speaker 1: look at your web browser any extensions that you no

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Speaker 1: longer use. Obviously, check all of the software updates, whether

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Speaker 1: it's for the system or for the apps, clear your

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Speaker 1: browsing data, and get rid of anything in the trash

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Speaker 1: and that should go a long way to make your

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Speaker 1: computer running better. If The other thing I would check

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Speaker 1: for you is to see sort of what programs are

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Speaker 1: starting up when you start up your computer. So if

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Speaker 1: it's a program that just keeps opening every time you

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Speaker 1: open up your computer. That's using resources. So I would

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Speaker 1: get rid of those as well if you don't need

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Speaker 1: them to open up as soon as you do that.

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00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: But yeah, these programs, they will sell you on anything,

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00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: believe me. You know, they make a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: You see them on the news all the time or

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Speaker 1: you know on TV where it's like, hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: speed up your PC? Do they really work? So sometimes

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Speaker 1: they do more damage than they actually help. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to uh Mark, Mark and Lake Elson or Mark you're

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00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: on with Rich?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Hi, Rich, Hi, I get the cell phone issue.

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Speaker 9: When it's a little coiler there we go like normal.

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Speaker 9: I'm on about the two years of the life of

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Speaker 9: my cell phone. I'm having issues with the screen. I

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Speaker 9: want to upgrade it. I really don't want to spend

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Speaker 9: another thousand bucks for a song for two years. Been

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Speaker 9: shopping for other stuff, and you know, I'm looking at

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Speaker 9: phones for anywhere from one hundred and fifty barks up.

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Speaker 9: If I go with something like a Motorola I think

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Speaker 9: it was a five G five What am I going

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Speaker 9: to lose in quality and stuff versus going with the

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Speaker 9: newer Samsung you know the S series.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're going to lose a lot. So Number one,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that everyone needs the Samsung S series

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Speaker 1: of phones, which are you know, Samsung has the premium s,

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Speaker 1: they've got the budget A and then they've got the

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Speaker 1: foldables which are their Z line. So I don't think

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Speaker 1: that anyone needs or that everyone needs the S lineup,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Samsung Galaxy US twenty four, Ultra S

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Speaker 1: twenty four, S twenty four Plus. So I think really

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Speaker 1: what it comes down to when you get these budget phones,

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Speaker 1: it comes down to the processor. It comes down to

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Speaker 1: the quality of the materials. A lot of times they're

657
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Speaker 1: plastic versus you know, glass and metal. The camera is

658
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Speaker 1: really where you take a big step back with a

659
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Speaker 1: lot of these cheap phones. Software not only the blow

660
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Speaker 1: on there, but also the updates that you get like

661
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Speaker 1: how long is this phone supported? And also you know

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Speaker 1: the memory, the RAM, so whether it's two gigs or

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Speaker 1: maybe four gigs, you're you're probably gonna get less of that.

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Speaker 1: So my advice when it comes to these budget phones,

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Speaker 1: I would actually go with a brand like OnePlus. So

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Speaker 1: they've got a great series called the Nord series. Have

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Speaker 1: you heard of that?

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Speaker 9: No, not at all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is a this is a company that's

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Speaker 1: a little bit off the radar. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: in the tech world know about it, but the one

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Speaker 1: plus Nord is just a great value. It's like probably

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Speaker 1: the favorite budget phone out of most reviewers out there.

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Speaker 1: So what I like about it is that not only

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Speaker 1: is it less expensive than the big phones, but it's

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Speaker 1: the software is really good, and so I think that's

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Speaker 1: a big advantage here is that your phone is not

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Speaker 1: going to low down. Now, I will say Motorola, I

679
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Speaker 1: will give it credit. They actually do a pretty good

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Speaker 1: job with the software on their phones because they keep

681
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Speaker 1: it kind of clean, but I think it ends there,

682
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Speaker 1: like the cameras on the Motorola phones have really just

683
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Speaker 1: not been that great, even for their higher end phones. Now,

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Speaker 1: the phone that I would recommend without any hesitation immediately

685
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Speaker 1: is the Pixel seven A or the Pixel eight And

686
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Speaker 1: those two phones they're gonna be a little bit more expensive,

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Speaker 1: but I think the reality of those phones, like especially

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Speaker 1: if you got the Pixel eight mark, they are supporting

689
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Speaker 1: that phone for seven years, so you're talking you would

690
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Speaker 1: not have to worry. I mean, yeah, is it going

691
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Speaker 1: to slow down in the next seven years, Probably, But

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Speaker 1: you've got software support for seven years, So do the

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Speaker 1: math if that phone costs you. Now that phone, the

694
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Speaker 1: Pixel seven A is about five hundred dollars it goes

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Speaker 1: on sale. I would definitely recommend waiting for it to

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Speaker 1: go on sale. The Google phones always do. The Pixel

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Speaker 1: eight is a little bit more expensive. I think it

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Speaker 1: starts at six ninety nine. Let's see how much that is,

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Speaker 1: and I know we're getting up there in the price. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's six ninety nine. But again, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: do that math over seven years, that is a pretty

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Speaker 1: good deal. And again that will go on sale. So

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Speaker 1: my advice, look at the OnePlus Nord, look at the

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Speaker 1: Pixel seven A. I think that's overall your best bet

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Speaker 1: for a budget phone that is not going to give

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Speaker 1: you any grief, and it has an incredible camera up

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Speaker 1: and amazing software. Those are my recommendations. But I think

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Speaker 1: that a lot of these budget phones give people more headaches.

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Speaker 1: They save the money in the short term, but they

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Speaker 1: give them more headaches in the long term, So just

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Speaker 1: be aware of those limitations. Great question, Thanks for calling

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Speaker 1: in today from Lake Elson or all right, rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech website, richontech dot TV phone number for the show

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

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Coming up, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you about the big Meta outage this week and

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Speaker 1: what in Instagram is doing to upgrade messaging. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology at triple eight Rich one O one. That's

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

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Speaker 1: Did you survive the big Facebook outage of twenty twenty four?

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Speaker 1: It happened. Uh believe it was this week now now

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. Was it this week?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It was this week? Yes, sorry, it was Super Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Okay, thank you, Bobo. Uh get my weeks

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Speaker 1: mixed up here. So this was a global outage that

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Speaker 1: lasted over two hours. Everyone was freaking out. It actually

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Speaker 1: started with my mom. She texted me and said I

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Speaker 1: can't log into my Facebook and I said that's odd,

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Speaker 1: and then the flood of message I mean, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: everyone emailed me and was like, Rich, what's going on.

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Speaker 1: I can't get onto Facebook marketplace, I can't get onto Instagram.

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Speaker 1: I can't do this. And I said, well, why are

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Speaker 1: you emailing me? What can I do about this? But

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Speaker 1: that was enough to set the wheels in motion for

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Speaker 1: me to figure out what was going on, which you know,

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Speaker 1: looking at the Facebook status pages, the meta status pages,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, it was. It was a big outage. Everyone

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Speaker 1: of course wondered was it due to hacking, was it

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Speaker 1: due to cybersecurity. There was lots of reports of various things.

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Speaker 1: You know, they've got three billion users for Facebook, Instagram,

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Speaker 1: Meta Quest, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger. There are so many people

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Speaker 1: that use this stuff, and everyone went to Twitter. That's

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Speaker 1: where people went. Everyone went to Twitter to complain and

746
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Speaker 1: to talk about it. Of course, Twitter owner Elon Musk

747
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: took a job at Meta saying, if you're if you're

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Speaker 1: reading this, our plur if you're if you're seeing this,

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Speaker 1: our servers are working. And you know, the funny thing

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Speaker 1: is that Twitter probably had the most issues back in

751
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: the day when they were just starting that they had

752
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Speaker 1: this thing called the fail whale, and whenever Twitter wasn't working,

753
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Speaker 1: you would just see this picture of a whale that

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Speaker 1: was failed. And that happened probably the most out of

755
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Speaker 1: any platform I can remember. But the difference now is

756
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Speaker 1: that these platforms are bigger and bigger and bigger, Like

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Speaker 1: we saw with the AT and T outage huge affects

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Speaker 1: large swaths of people because these companies keep getting bigger,

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Speaker 1: so when they go down, more people are affected. So

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Speaker 1: what was this all about? A technical issue? They said,

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Speaker 1: some sort of software technical issue caused it, and that's it.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do. You can't file your grievances

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00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: because it's all free now. Instagram did roll out some

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00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: major updates to their messaging this week, so a couple

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Speaker 1: things to know. Number One, if you send a direct

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00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: message to someone, you now have fifteen minutes to edit

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00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: that message, which is kind of cool. So just press

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Speaker 1: and hold on the message. You'll get a little edit icon.

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00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: You can tap that just like I message. You can

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Speaker 1: edit that message for fifteen minutes. And you can now

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Speaker 1: pin up to three chats for quick access up at

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Speaker 1: the top of your messaging you know the messaging screen

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, So if you always message no your partner

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Speaker 1: or your group or whatever, you can pin those to

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Speaker 1: the top, press and hold press the pin. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that is available just yet, but it is

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Speaker 1: coming soon, so go into your messaging and just let's

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Speaker 1: see if I can do that. Nope, not there just yet.

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Speaker 1: I think you have to swipe on them to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's not available on my app just yet. And then

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Speaker 1: the other thing is read receipts. So you know how

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Speaker 1: when you look at someone's you send someone a message

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Speaker 1: in that you see that little scene at the bottom

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Speaker 1: where it says they saw the message. You can turn

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Speaker 1: off that ability for someone to see if you've read

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Speaker 1: their message. You can go into your read you can

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Speaker 1: go into your messaging settings, and so how do you

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Speaker 1: do that? Go to your profile, Tap the three lines

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Speaker 1: in the upper right hand corner, Tap settings in privacy,

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Speaker 1: tap messages and story replies, tap show read receipts, and

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Speaker 1: you can toggle that off. I know that's a lot,

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00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: but if you want to see those instructions, just go

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Speaker 1: to my Instagram and look for the one that says

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Speaker 1: new Instagram feature. You can now turn off read Receipts.

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Speaker 1: The downside to this, if you toggle this off, it's

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Speaker 1: a two way street. If you toggle off read Receipts,

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00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: you will no longer be able to see when people

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Speaker 1: read your messages. So they kind of made that as

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Speaker 1: an incentive for you to leave it on, because you

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Speaker 1: can't sneak around Instagram thinking, oh, nobody could see when

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00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: I read my messages, but I'll see when other people

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00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: read them. Uh huh, doesn't work that way. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Let's go to Jenny, Jenny and San Diego. You're

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Speaker 1: on with Rich Hi there.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to France and Netherlands next month, and I

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Speaker 4: just got new phones from Spectrum which they do not

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Speaker 4: have an international plan, and I'm on TEAE with them,

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Speaker 4: so I don't believe that I can use an ETHM.

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Speaker 4: So I've been looking online for different like pocket Wi Fi,

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Speaker 4: like hip pocket and some other things on Amazon, and

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Speaker 4: I was just wondering if you had any you're familiar

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Speaker 4: with hip pocket, or if you have maybe there's something

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Speaker 4: else I'm not thinking of.

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Speaker 1: So hip Pocket is a is a Wi Fi rental.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually not familiar, but I've heard of the the

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00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: you know the way this works. These used to be

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Speaker 1: very very popular. So you rent the Wi Fi over

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Speaker 1: in Europe and then they ship it to you here

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Speaker 1: in the US, so you have it before you get there.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you can either do that or you can like

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Speaker 4: reserve it and when you get to the airport, or

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Speaker 4: they'll send it to your hotel. But I have enough

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Speaker 4: time where they could ship it to my house and

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Speaker 4: then when I get there, me and my husband, you know,

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Speaker 4: to connect on it because it said it could connect

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Speaker 4: it to like kid devices.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a hot spot, so it'll you know, it'll

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Speaker 1: connect any of the devices that you know, just like

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Speaker 1: any other hot spot. So I'm looking at their plans,

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Speaker 1: so you can get a fourteen day rental plan which

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Speaker 1: includes delivery to the US. So it seems like the

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Speaker 1: more you pay, the more they'll deliver it to the US. Right,

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Speaker 1: So if you're getting like the cheaper plan, you have

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Speaker 1: to get it delivered to your European hotel, which I

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Speaker 1: personally think that would be a pain to do because

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Speaker 1: you're going to want your connectivity from the airport the

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Speaker 1: second lang yep, yep.

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Speaker 4: Because you're going to have to, like if you're going

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Speaker 4: to do uber or exactly figure out where you're going

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Speaker 4: and things like that.

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Speaker 1: So I'd rather have it at your house, you know.

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00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: So it looks like for fourteen days rental in Europe,

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00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: they're looking at ninety six euros, which is probably what

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Speaker 1: a little bit about one hundred dollars in US dollars.

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Speaker 4: That would actually cheaper than when we had Verizon. They

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00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 4: would charge you ten dollars a day, you know, So

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Speaker 4: it's expensive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is. So there's a couple of other ways. Well,

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Speaker 1: so what I used when I went to Europe, I

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Speaker 1: tested a product called Solace Wi Fi s O l

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Speaker 1: I s H. But this is something that you purchase,

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Speaker 1: and so that's the so that these Wi Fi rental

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Speaker 1: hotspots used to be super popular, Like any country you

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Speaker 1: went to, there used to be one hundred different companies

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Speaker 1: that would rent these things out. That has gotten way

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Speaker 1: less over the years because people have hot spots on

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Speaker 1: their phone, they have the e sims, they have the

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Speaker 1: international calling plans, so those are all things that have

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Speaker 1: have lessened this product. So while I can't vouch for

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00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: the hip pocket Wi Fi, it's definitely an idea that

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00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: has been around for a long time and it's been

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00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: very successful. I have done it in the past. The

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00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: company that I used in the past is no longer

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Speaker 1: around due to these you know, it's just the demand

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Speaker 1: for this is not as great as it used to be.

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Speaker 4: Okay, And then what if I have a phone that

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Speaker 4: that when I replaced it, I have like an old

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Speaker 4: note Sansung Note twenty that's unlocked. It's and I don't

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Speaker 4: know if if I don't know, should I or I

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Speaker 4: could take that.

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Speaker 1: There, Yeah, use that as a hotspot and use.

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Speaker 4: That and then use that phone as a hotspot for

873
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Speaker 4: our phone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That that's just I thought of that and I wasn't

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Speaker 4: sure if if that would work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll work. I would do that. So if you

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Speaker 1: have that old phone, I mean that's a you have

879
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: a note, that's a pretty big battery on there, So

880
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: that's gonna work pretty well. Uh yeah, I don't I

881
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: don't see any problem with doing that. So you set

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Speaker 1: up the phone. What I would do is I would

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Speaker 1: format that phone, like I would clear it out, like

884
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Speaker 1: I would do a factory reset so that there's nothing

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Speaker 1: on it. Set it up fresh, you know, get the

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Speaker 1: E sim on it. I like RL A I R

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Speaker 1: A l O. There are others. But you can get that.

888
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: You can get a you probably want a pretty big

889
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,959
Speaker 1: allotment on there, and then you can flip that into

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Speaker 1: a hot spot. The only thing is that's going to

891
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: be just a little bit trickier, and that's going to

892
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: be a little bit more unknown and a little bit

893
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: uncharted than the hippo. So the Hippo is giving you

894
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: one hundred megabits. Let's see if high speed four g

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Speaker 1: l t E unlimited internet and unlimited data in Europe,

896
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Speaker 1: so you're getting unlimited for about one hundred dollars. You know,

897
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,760
Speaker 1: travel is expensive to begin with. I think one hundred

898
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Speaker 1: dollars is pretty reasonable. Are you going for more than

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Speaker 1: fourteen days?

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Speaker 4: No, they're going out just under okay, twelve days.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think that this little hippo thing is

902
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Speaker 1: probably a pretty nice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just put I'm kind of leaning towards but

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Speaker 4: I just I'm so glad I got to talk to

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Speaker 4: you because IVE been thinking about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I would. My only thing is I

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Speaker 1: would I would try to find some real reviews. I'm

908
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: just looking at the website, which looks legitimate and it

909
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: looks fine. I would just try to find some real

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00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: reviews from people on you know, maybe search, you know,

911
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: just search the web for some good reviews from like

912
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: actual travelers that you trust, people that run a decent blog,

913
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Speaker 1: and just make sure that this is legitimate. But it

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Speaker 1: seems like it is, and I love the fact that

915
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: they will deliver it here to the US. You have it,

916
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: you get off the plane, you turn it on, your

917
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: phone's are already linked up to it and it works.

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Speaker 1: I've had a couple of trips in the past, Jenny,

919
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Speaker 1: where I've landed and my phone does not work, and

920
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: it is the most frustrating thing you could ever imagine.

921
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: That trip from the airport to the hotel is probably

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Speaker 1: the longest trip of your life when that's happening. So

923
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 1: make sure this works. But I think that's a good

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Speaker 1: way to do it. And the other phone would work

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Speaker 1: as a hot spot, but it's a little bit more involved,

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Speaker 1: and I would say it's probably not worth the headache,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, because.

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Speaker 4: It's it's kind of an older phone. Yeah, all right, well,

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Speaker 4: thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jenny, thanks for the call, and have fun.

931
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Speaker 1: I'm jealous. We've been trying to plan a trip to

932
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Speaker 1: the dream trip to Paris and London with the kids,

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Speaker 1: and it's a lot. You know, travel it's expensive. I

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Speaker 1: used to travel when I was coming out to California,

935
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: when I was just myself, it was one ticket. It

936
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Speaker 1: turns out when you have a family of four and

937
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: you're traveling, you're buying four tickets and that's just the

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Speaker 1: entry price. Travel gets very very expensive when you have

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Speaker 1: a family, and believe me it is. Travel is not cheap,

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Speaker 1: so enjoy it, have a great time, and stay connected.

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Speaker 1: All right. Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight

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

943
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Speaker 1: me a call if you have a question about technology.

944
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Speaker 1: Coming up, I'm going to tell you about the new

945
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Speaker 1: website that lets you search old newspapers. Very cool. You

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Speaker 1: are listening to rich on tech. Welcome back to rich

947
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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: Let's go to uh Craig in Des Moines, Iowa. Craig,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 10: Yea, that's how you're doing Rick.

953
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Speaker 1: I'm doing great.

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Speaker 10: I have a Dawnton S twenty four, one of the

955
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Speaker 10: new phone, and I want to know, Yeah, I can

956
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Speaker 10: get the website like poor emudgency, like the enderware or

957
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 10: whatever the phone got.

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Speaker 1: Oh good question.

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Speaker 10: I don't have the one with the dialist Okay, so't

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00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 10: have that one. I have the little one.

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Speaker 1: You've just got a standard Samsung S twenty four, which

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Speaker 1: is a great phone, brand new. It's it's uh you know,

963
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: it's the smaller of the Samsung's. So the Samsung devices,

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00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: they're actually lagging a little bit in this emergency area,

965
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: which is not very good. So if you look at

966
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 1: the iPhone, they've got not only the newest models, have

967
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: emergency satellite service, so if you are in the middle

968
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: of nowhere and you need help and there's no cellular,

969
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: they will use satellite to get you help. That's incredible.

970
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: But they also have fall detection and they've got car

971
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: crash detection. So those are some really useful things that

972
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: will help you get help in an emergency. Now, the

973
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 1: Pixel does not have this. That's Google's phone. They do

974
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: not have the satellite service, although it's rumored that it

975
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: is coming soon to the Pixel, perhaps with the next model.

976
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: But they do have car crash detection, and so if

977
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Speaker 1: you're in a car in a crash, it will attempt

978
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 1: to dial nine one one. And the Watch also has

979
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 1: fall detection. So when it comes to Samsung, they have

980
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: something called Emergency SOS and that is it basically. But

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Speaker 1: as far as I know, none of this is automatic,

982
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: and so that is the thing that you need to

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00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 1: know is that you can set up the emergency SOS

984
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: feature on the Samsung, but it's not gonna be automatic

985
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have satellite, so you are going to

986
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 1: be at the mercy of the cellular networks. So to

987
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: set this up, go into settings Safety and Emergency and

988
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 1: look for something. There's a couple of things that you

989
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: want to fill out. Number one your medical info. Number

990
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: two your emergency contacts. Number three emergency SOS. Get familiar

991
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: with that, and that involves turning on the feature and

992
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: when you press the side button five times in emergency,

993
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: it will call the emergency number and it will send

994
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: an SOS to your emergency contacts. And then the other

995
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: thing they have is called emergency Sharing, and so emergency

996
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,439
Speaker 1: Sharing is another feature on the Samsung that will share

997
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: your location another info with your emergency contacts if you

998
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: need help. So you can share with your emergency contacts

999
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: that you set up earlier, and it will actually share

1000
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 1: a picture of your front and rear cameras and include

1001
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: them the message and also a five second of audio

1002
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: if you ever need to activate that feature. So it's

1003
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: not as automatic as some of the other phones, but

1004
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: that's the feature that you get. I think that because

1005
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,280
Speaker 1: Apple has had this SOS feature now for two years

1006
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 1: on the last two phones they've put out, the iPhone

1007
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: fourteen and the iPhone fifteen. That is a huge feature.

1008
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: And there are some third party products that would give

1009
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: you that feature, notably the Motorola Defy satellite link. But

1010
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: the problem with that is the company that makes it

1011
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 1: is I believe they filed bankruptcy. They licensed the Motorola

1012
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: name from them, and I think the company that puts

1013
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: this out is trying to reorganize or something. So the

1014
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,439
Speaker 1: fate of that product is up in the air right now.

1015
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: So where does that leave you, Craig. That leaves you

1016
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: with setting up the emergency SOS feature once again. Go

1017
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 1: into settings, look for safety and emergency and just go

1018
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,439
Speaker 1: through all of those settings and get that set up

1019
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: because that is very important to have that on. Great question.

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00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call today from des Moines, Iowa. I

1021
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,280
Speaker 1: always feel like I'm gonna say des Moin wrong because

1022
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: it's looks like des Moines. All right. My Heritage has

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00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: launched a new website. This is pretty cool. It's called

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Speaker 1: oldnews dot com. This helps you explore historical newspapers. They

1025
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:29,240
Speaker 1: have scanned millions of newspapers from various countries, including the US,

1026
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 1: and you can search for them. You can search a name,

1027
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: you can search an event, you can search all kinds

1028
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: of stuff. I've had a lot of fun with this website.

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00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: This week, I searched my own name. I found an

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00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: article about myself from two thousand and seven in some

1031
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: newspaper from Maine. I was on the Today Show showing

1032
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: off an antenna actually our guests last week, and you know,

1033
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: we were talking about anyway, there's an article about how

1034
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: that went viral back in the day and they were

1035
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: selling out. But it's cool because it shows you the

1036
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: actual newspaper article and it highlights your search term in yellow,

1037
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: so you can see what it looked like on the page.

1038
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: You can download that newspaper page. And what's this good for?

1039
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: This is good for obviously ancestry reasons. You want to

1040
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: look up obituaries, you want to look up birth announcements,

1041
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: you want to look up events. You want to look

1042
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,720
Speaker 1: up your hometown. You want to look up your high school,

1043
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,720
Speaker 1: anything that happened in your hometown when you were young.

1044
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 1: It's really cool, it's really good. I don't know how

1045
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: thorough it is with the newspapers, but it looks like

1046
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: it has a lot. It is not free, but they

1047
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 1: do offer a free seven day trial, so if you

1048
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: want to try it out, I recommend signing up for

1049
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: that and canceling immediately so that you don't get charged,

1050
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: no surprises, and then if you want to later on

1051
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: you can sign up. If it's really amazing, you can

1052
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: sign up for an annual plan. The problem is they

1053
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 1: don't offer a monthly plan. They only offer an annual plan.

1054
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 1: It is ninety nine dollars for the year, twenty five

1055
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: percent off for the first year. Again, the website is

1056
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: oldnews dot com. You can find a link on my

1057
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: website go to richontech dot tv. All right, coming up,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk the future of streaming TV and

1059
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 1: why you should download an app called VLC. You are

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

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

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1064
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Speaker 1: so if you have a question about technology, give me

1065
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Speaker 1: a call. If you want to link to something I mentioned,

1066
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Speaker 1: just go to richon Tech dot TV. Yanco Rutgers is

1067
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Speaker 1: author of the low Pass newsletter. He has written about

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Speaker 1: TV and our changing world and streaming for many many

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Speaker 1: years now. Uh Janko, welcome to the show. So tell

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Speaker 1: me about the newsletter real quick. What do you write about.

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Speaker 11: I write about a VA streaming, all the fun stuff

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Speaker 11: that's basically on the intersection of technology and entertainment.

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Speaker 1: It's so wild because you know, I just find got

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00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: my hands on the Vision Pro in my home and

1075
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Speaker 1: I watched an episode of Hijack, like an Apple TV show,

1076
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: and it was quite incredible. Like I was like looking

1077
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: at people's faces and stuff. I'm like, this is like

1078
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: extremely clear and vivid and pretty amazing. It's just so

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00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,760
Speaker 1: darn expensive that it's like, are people going to experience

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Speaker 1: this anytime soon?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 11: It's a I think it's gonna stay a small, small

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Speaker 11: footprint device for some time to come until they come

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Speaker 11: out with somebody said the vision on Pro.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were debating names today. Maybe it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: like Vision Vision plus Vision Pro. So we'll see. But

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Speaker 1: they need they need different pricing tiers for sure. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the story this week. I always know something's

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00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: the story when people email me A bunch and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are very upset about this Roku situation.

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Speaker 1: I guess they saw a message on their screen that said,

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Speaker 1: we have some new terms of service and people just figure,

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00:56:57,719 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: you know, you can cancel out of it. You couldn't,

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Speaker 1: You couldn't proceed unless you accepted this.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, and all companies do this all the time. But

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Speaker 11: they sort of revised the terms of service, or in

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Speaker 11: this case, it was sort of the dispute resolution terms,

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Speaker 11: basically saying you can't sue Roku, but they decide to

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Speaker 11: put it front and center and you had to agree

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Speaker 11: to it right then and there on the TV screen,

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Speaker 11: and that ended up being a major hazard for many

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Speaker 11: people because you know, if you build up your TV system,

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Speaker 11: maybe you have a sound Ball, maybe every Universe or remote,

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Speaker 11: maybe even use the other device to reallydo all your

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00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 11: streaming and connected Xbox, and you don't even touch the

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Speaker 11: Roker remote anymore. So some people didn't have the remote anymore,

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Speaker 11: and then they couldn't agree to this, and they couldn't

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Speaker 11: access any of their other stuff anymore either. They've basically

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Speaker 11: been stuck for like days in this weird limbo of

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Speaker 11: having to agree to these terms that they can't agree to.

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Speaker 11: So they really messed up how their world is out.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I didn't realize that aspect of it

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Speaker 1: that people were you know, yeah, that's so true. Like

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Speaker 1: if you didn't if you don't have your remote handy,

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Speaker 1: if you're using like a third party device and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, this pops up on your screen and

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00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: you just want to be like, please dismiss, you know,

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Speaker 1: like you want to use your voice or something. But

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Speaker 1: that's wild. Now people were saying, you know, I saw

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Speaker 1: an article that says the only way to opt out

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Speaker 1: is to write Roku's lawyers a letter. Do you think

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Speaker 1: that's worth it?

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Speaker 9: Here?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is there any reason why someone's going to

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Speaker 1: sue Roku? Like they don't like to show they're watching

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Speaker 1: and they want their money back.

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Speaker 5: I mean, so here's the thing about this.

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Speaker 11: Roku is a streaming device maker and now they make

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Speaker 11: TVs as well, but they make all the money with

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Speaker 11: the advertising and with the advertising that comes from downsides

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Speaker 11: when it comes to like profiling collecting data on people.

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Speaker 11: So sometimes people do get upset about it. And there's

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Speaker 11: try lawyers obliviously who want to make money with that,

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Speaker 11: collect make class action lawsuits. And this was all about

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Speaker 11: Rocu saying no, you can't do a class action lawsuit

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Speaker 11: against us for any of those things because you have

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Speaker 11: to go into arbitration. And again, a lot of companies

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00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 11: do that. You know, maybe it's not the greatest thing

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Speaker 11: for consumers, but it's just the wealthy we live in today.

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Speaker 5: But in this case, they just messed up the role up.

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Speaker 1: Ah, that makes sense, okay, because they do collect a

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Speaker 1: lot of data. Speaking of data, So Walmart bought Visio

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Speaker 1: and Visio actually I feel like they had a big

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Speaker 1: class action lawsuit over their data collection practices a while back,

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Speaker 1: So this is a big data play, right, Like Walmart,

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Speaker 1: why are they buying Visio.

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Speaker 11: It's basically the same story for Visio and Roku, all

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00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 11: these companies that make relatively affordable TV. So you can

1149
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 11: go into a store right now and you can buy

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Speaker 11: like a fifty five inch TV for three hundred bucks,

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00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 11: which is insane, right because ten years ago you had

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Speaker 11: to spend ten x as much. So TV prices have

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Speaker 11: gone down completely. They're not making money on hardware anymore.

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Speaker 11: Everybody's making money on advertising. As soon as you turn

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Speaker 11: these things on as ads on the home screen, you

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00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 11: get a lot of free channels on there. All of

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Speaker 11: them have advertising, any third party ads or do any

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Speaker 11: of those TVs has to share ad revenue or slots

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Speaker 11: with them. So that's where the money is. And that's

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Speaker 11: why Walmart also wants again and they want to grow

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Speaker 11: more revenue. They don't just want to sell your stuff,

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Speaker 11: but they want to then have a way to make

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Speaker 11: money with that stuff that they already sold you every

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Speaker 11: month for years to come, and TVs are a good,

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Speaker 11: good avenue for that, so that's why they wanted to

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Speaker 11: get into this space.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty wild. I don't think people realize just

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Speaker 1: how much these TVs collect. I mean, everything's a smart

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Speaker 1: TV now and they're all collecting so much data that

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Speaker 1: is monetized and you know Roku and all these things,

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Speaker 1: like they make a cut on even the streaming services

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Speaker 1: that they have on there, like you think I downloaded

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Speaker 1: you know, HBO Max or whatever, like they have these

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Speaker 1: deals that they somehow get a little piece of the

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Speaker 1: action for ads that are even served up on these

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Speaker 1: third party services.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right, and I mean, to be fair, it's

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Speaker 11: the only way that can make money. And we all

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Speaker 11: like GPS, right, so that's the downs that we have

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Speaker 11: to accept with that. And to be fair, if you

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Speaker 11: buy a really expensive TV, if you go out and

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Speaker 11: buy Samson TV for two thousand dollars, it's still gonna

1183
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 11: have the same ads on there, it's still gonna have

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01:00:58,080 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 11: the same services, and it's still going to collect this

1185
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Speaker 11: type of data. Now, some of these team makeers, you

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01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 11: can actually opt out of some personalization.

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Speaker 5: If you google that.

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Speaker 11: There's articles that tell you how to opt out of

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Speaker 11: a lot of the data collection. You're still going to

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Speaker 11: you know, there's still some service level profile. You never

1191
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 11: can completely opt out of it unless you like go

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01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 11: back to DVD's correct you over the antenna basically.

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Speaker 5: But that's just the world we live in these days.

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01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: And I guess you could disconnect it from Wi Fi

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01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: if you're not using it as your you know, primary

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Speaker 1: uh streaming service like my tea. I just got a

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Speaker 1: TV and I opted out of all of the uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, the data collection stuff. But they make it

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Speaker 1: sound really scary. They make it sound like your TV

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Speaker 1: is not going to work, you know, like we make

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Speaker 1: your experience better and we make sure you know. They

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Speaker 1: they at one point tried to sell me on they

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Speaker 1: scan what you're watching to adjust the TV picture to

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01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,520
Speaker 1: look its best or something, and I'm like, oh, come on,

1205
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: like give me a break. Okay. So Max is the

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01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 1: latest to say they are going to crack down on

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Speaker 1: password sharing. This has gotten really bad, I mean really

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Speaker 1: sad for us, well people who people have been sharing

1209
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 1: their passwords for a long time, and I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of families and households and things. You know, no

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01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: one ever enforced it, and now they're enforcing it in

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Speaker 1: a pretty big way. And Max is the latest to

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Speaker 1: do this. When's that starting.

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Speaker 11: They haven't put a firm data on it, but they

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01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 11: have said later this year and possibly up into twenty

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Speaker 11: twenty five.

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Speaker 5: And it's all because Netflix.

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Speaker 11: Was the first company to come up with this, and

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01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 11: obviously they have the biggest streaming company, they have the

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Speaker 11: biggest footprint, so they also were at some point seeing, oh,

1221
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 11: accounts aren't beingly growing anymore in the US, but people

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01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 11: are still obviously streaming a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 11: different households, so they start to experiment with it, and

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Speaker 11: actually it turned out to be really successful for it.

1225
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Speaker 11: Netflix added like thirty million around thirty million subscribers last year,

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Speaker 11: which was like almost ten million more than the year before,

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Speaker 11: primarily because of this aicond sharing stuff. So now everybody

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Speaker 11: else is trying to do it as well. Disney is

1229
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Speaker 11: trying to do it, Hulu is trying to do it.

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Speaker 11: I think YouTube with their premium so has started. Now

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Speaker 11: Max is going to be the next one. It's somewhat

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Speaker 11: under standable. I think for these companies they do have

1233
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Speaker 11: to make money somehow, but I think it really comes

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Speaker 11: down to how they implement it. With Netflix, you can

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Speaker 11: decide to either like spin someone out, so if somebody

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01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 11: is used your account and they have profile data and

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01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 11: then they're like, oh, okay, I guess I have to

1238
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 11: pay now. They can actually take so all the stuff

1239
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 11: that you're collected in the past, like they're watch listens

1240
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 11: of what to that new account, which is quite quite nice.

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01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 11: And you can also decided, you know, if it's your

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01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:29,440
Speaker 11: parents and they're maybe not technical savvy and they don't

1243
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 11: want to set up there on Netflix account, you can

1244
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 11: pay to keep them on your account.

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Speaker 5: That's a pretty way to do it.

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01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 11: I don't know the details and how Max is going

1247
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 11: to do that, and I think the devil is always

1248
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:41,640
Speaker 11: in the detail on how they rule it out, how

1249
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 11: they frame it and really how consumer affact did they

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01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 11: make it?

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Speaker 1: So in your newsletter this week We've just got about

1252
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: a minute to go, you mentioned you kind of had

1253
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: a deep dive on this app that is kind of

1254
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 1: the Swiss Army Knife of video apps called VLC. So

1255
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 1: why do you think someone should learn about VLC and

1256
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 1: download that app?

1257
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 5: App?

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01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 11: It helps with playing anything that you might have on

1259
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 11: your heart drive, any old family videos, any videos you

1260
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 11: may have downloaded somewhere years ago and you can't really

1261
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,919
Speaker 11: quite figure it out. It can play any video file,

1262
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 11: basically any music file. It's just a really good thing

1263
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 11: to have, and it has been downloaded five billion times.

1264
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 11: It's available fourmacs, four PCs, so people have a Linux system.

1265
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 11: It's mobile apps spread so basically anywhere. It can play everything.

1266
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 11: It's always a good thing to have in your back pocket.

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01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always been something that I've had downloaded, and

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01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: it's surprising sometimes. I mean I think it's even available

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01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: for like iOS and Android right right, right right, so

1270
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Speaker 1: you can it's just yeah, like all those weird formats

1271
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 1: that like maybe you have like in your Google drive

1272
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 1: somewhere that you're like, how do I open this? Like

1273
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: nine times out of ten. It just figures it out exactly.

1274
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: And is it open source?

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Speaker 11: That program it's free, it's open source, and it's basically

1276
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 11: one of the most popular open source projects ever. Point

1277
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 11: it's around, been around for twenty years. They just had

1278
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 11: a big open source community around that supported it. Yeah,

1279
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 11: and that's been going strong.

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Speaker 1: And the it's like video land player, I think, like

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01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 1: the website is a little bit it's like video land

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01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: dot org. So don't get thrown off by the website.

1283
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: But it's VLC is the media player. All right? Tell

1284
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: folks how they can find the newsletter.

1285
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 11: It is lowpass dot CC, so that's l Owpass dot

1286
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 11: CC and otherwise you can also just google it, all right.

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Speaker 1: Yanco Rutgers, author of the low Pass newsletter, thanks so

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01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 1: much for joining me today anytime, all right, more of

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Speaker 1: your calls coming up next at triple eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. I'll tell you what's new with

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Speaker 1: Rivian and what's new with iOS seventeen point four. You

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Speaker 1: are listening to rich on Tech. 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 at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to h. Richard in Lancaster. Richard, you're on with rich.

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Speaker 12: Hello rich Hi, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what can I help you with?

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Speaker 12: Okay, I have a Window seven computer and I need

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Speaker 12: to get security software. Do you have one that you recommend?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 1: What do you what do you mean by security software?

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Speaker 12: Well, like I've been using McCafe okay.

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Speaker 1: So like antivirus kind of software. Yeah, oh okay, so

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Speaker 1: Windows seven. You've had this computer for a while huh yes,

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Speaker 1: and you're not you're not ready to give this up?

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Speaker 5: Huh correct?

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Speaker 1: Why is that just curious?

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Speaker 12: Well, because it satisfies my needs for what I do

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Speaker 12: on the computer. First of all, I won't tell you.

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Speaker 12: I don't do any banking or online purchases on it.

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Speaker 12: Just search the internet.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Now I'm curious because I don't have a Windows

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Speaker 1: seven system anymore. But does like Chrome and all these

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Speaker 1: are I mean, what do you use like your web browser?

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Speaker 1: And is it still supported with updates?

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Speaker 12: It notifies me that it will not accept Windows.

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Speaker 1: Seven also, Okay, I was curious because I'm looking at this,

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Speaker 1: so there's a good website endof life dot date and

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Speaker 1: I'm looking up Windows seven, Windows seven Service Pack one,

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Speaker 1: so let's see it was released, Oh my gosh, this

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Speaker 1: was released thirteen years ago. The software support active support ended,

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Speaker 1: let's see here ended nine years ago, and then security

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Speaker 1: support ended four years ago, so not too bad with that.

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Speaker 1: But that means that this computer has not gotten any

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Speaker 1: active software updates with relation to you know, software, but

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Speaker 1: also more importantly security for four years. So what does

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Speaker 1: that mean. I'm sure you're aware, but that means that

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Speaker 1: any exploit that has been found with this software could

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Speaker 1: be used and there's no patch available for that as

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Speaker 1: of this point because the security updates ended on January fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So it's a good it's a good idea

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Speaker 1: to eventually upgrade this and to start planning for that upgrade,

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Speaker 1: mostly because you know, you don't want to be put

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Speaker 1: in a position where someone is able to access everything

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Speaker 1: on this computer or can exploit some sort of security

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Speaker 1: issue with this system that is that is in the

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Speaker 1: ut wild. So what happens is anytime you have software

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Speaker 1: that's been around for a long time, it's no longer

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Speaker 1: actively supported. You know, there's there's forums and things that

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Speaker 1: percolate with this information and people know like, hey, this

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Speaker 1: is a known exploit of this software, let's find machines

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Speaker 1: that are running it, and let's actively, you know, explore it.

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Speaker 1: So with that said, I did a quick search of antivirus.

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Speaker 1: So the way I usually look up antivirus software as

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Speaker 1: I go to avdash test dot org. I like their

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Speaker 1: ratings of antivirus software and a vast is typically highly rated,

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Speaker 1: and I searched a VAST for Windows seven, and it

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Speaker 1: turns out they say this is They actually have a

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Speaker 1: whole landing page set up for this. It says, protect

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Speaker 1: your Windows seven PC with a VAST free antivirus. Microsoft

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Speaker 1: no longer supports Windows seven, but a VAST does. Our

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Speaker 1: top rated antivirus protection will stay fully updated on Windows seven,

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Speaker 1: and that is a free download. A Vast obviously has

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Speaker 1: paid services, but you can get the free service as well.

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Speaker 1: So I would probably say go for that and download it.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, they have a whole fact on this

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Speaker 1: page faq is Windows seven still safe to use? And

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Speaker 1: it says Microsoft doesn't provide updates anymore? How do I

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Speaker 1: protect Windows seven from viruses? But I would go with this,

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Speaker 1: So a VAST Windows seven antivirus looks like it's still supported,

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Speaker 1: but I would again think about getting this system updated

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Speaker 1: in the near future. So good question, Richard. I understand

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of hesitation to upgrade things, but because

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Speaker 1: they people want things to work the way they've always worked,

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Speaker 1: and if it's working for you, why not. But you

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Speaker 1: have to remember that there are people that are looking

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Speaker 1: for these exploits, so keep yourself protected there. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the question. Triple eight rich one on one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Rob says,

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Speaker 1: I'm an Android user from day one. My oldest daughter

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Speaker 1: now works for Apple and her position involves travel to China,

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Speaker 1: so she purchased an iPhone fifteen Promax for me for

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Speaker 1: Christmas and she would like me to switch over, as

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Speaker 1: any good daughter that works for Apple would. Is there

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Speaker 1: any app that will transfer my text messages and associated

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Speaker 1: foot potos from my Samsung to the iPhone without losing

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Speaker 1: the texts and the photos. Apple actually makes their own

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Speaker 1: app called move Let's see. It's called Move to iOS

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Speaker 1: and you can download it on the Android device. So

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Speaker 1: if you go on the Google Play Store, you can

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Speaker 1: download move to iOS on that device. It will create

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Speaker 1: an ad hoc Wi Fi network that the iPhone will

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Speaker 1: then latch onto and transfer all of your stuff. So

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Speaker 1: what will it transfer? Let's see it will transfer. I

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Speaker 1: got to find the information here, message history, contacts, camera photos, videos,

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Speaker 1: photo albums, files and folders, accessibility settings, display settings, bookmarks,

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Speaker 1: mail accounts, WhatsApp calendars if they're available on both Google

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Speaker 1: Play and the App Store. Some of your free apps

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Speaker 1: will also transfer, so this is probably your best bet.

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Speaker 1: That is the official way move to iOS app. If

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Speaker 1: you want some unofficial ways, there are some apps Doctor Phone,

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Speaker 1: dr Phone, Foe from wonder Share. We'll also do something

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Speaker 1: similar in an app called any trans a n Y

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Speaker 1: t r A n S. These are probably just a

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Speaker 1: little bit more full featured, a little bit more robust

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Speaker 1: when it comes to what you can transfer and the

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Speaker 1: control that you get. The Apple one is going to

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Speaker 1: be very basic. It's just going to move things over

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Speaker 1: and it's going to be a very basic way to

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Speaker 1: do that. But there you have it. Three good options.

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Speaker 1: But hey, kudos to you for having such an awesome

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Speaker 1: daughter to work for Apple and get to travel to China.

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Speaker 1: That is super cool, very very cool. All right, speaking

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Speaker 1: of iOS iOS, seventeen. Update this week new Emoji podcast transcripts,

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Speaker 1: on Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another hour of rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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

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Speaker 1: talk about the Rivian. This is a hot car, the

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Speaker 1: Rivian R two. I was at the launch event this

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Speaker 1: week in Laguna Beach, which by the way.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 1: There was a TV show, what was it, Laguna Hills

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Kathy in Denver, Colorado. Kathy, you're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich Rich.

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Speaker 13: Thank you so much for taking my call. And I

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Speaker 13: want to thank one of your prior callers, also named Rich,

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Speaker 13: because he asked you a question about Windows seven and

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Speaker 13: some antivirus software. I too have a Windows seventh laptop

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Speaker 13: and I wanted to find out if I can upgrade

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Speaker 13: it or if I just need.

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Speaker 7: To go out and buy a whole new laptop. So

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Speaker 7: that's my question.

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Speaker 8: I wasn't I'm just not sure what to do next

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Speaker 8: to get it upgraded.

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Speaker 7: Can I upgrade it?

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Speaker 1: It probably is upgradeable, but it's probably not easy at

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Speaker 1: this point. So it was free to upgrade these computers.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm trying to see let's see a Microsoft's

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Speaker 1: free upgrade offer ended on July twenty ninth, twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: so it's been a while. Let's see the installation path

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Speaker 1: to obtain the Windows seven eight free upgrade is now

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Speaker 1: removed as well. Upgrades to Windows eleven from Windows ten

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Speaker 1: are still free, so it doesn't look like it's free anymore.

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Speaker 1: It also, when you go into your settings, does it

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Speaker 1: allow you to update or no, to say, doesn't say

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Speaker 1: Windows ten or eleven anymore?

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Speaker 13: Huh no it doesn't.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so don't paying for it. I just didn't know

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Speaker 7: if I could update, you know, update my current Lenovo,

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Speaker 7: or whether I have to spend the bigger bucks and

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Speaker 7: go buy a new laptop, or whether the constant of

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Speaker 7: being about the same.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I let's see here. So Windows seven to

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Speaker 1: Windows ten upgrade take place in your existing device, although

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Speaker 1: Microsoft recommends using Windows ten on a new PC to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of the latest features and security improvements. So

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Speaker 1: that is the main thing. I think with Windows ten,

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Speaker 1: they introduce some new security like some there's like two

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Speaker 1: types of computers, some that take advantage of these new

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Speaker 1: security systems and some that do not. So the older

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Speaker 1: computers are not and so that's probably where yours is

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Speaker 1: going to fall into that category. So my advice, if

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Speaker 1: you can, I would say it's probably a good idea

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Speaker 1: to get a new computer. Does that mean you can't

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Speaker 1: upgrade from Windows seven to Windows ten or eleven? No,

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Speaker 1: But is it going to run very well on your computer?

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Speaker 1: Probably not. You're looking at a computer that is pretty

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Speaker 1: old at this point, and so these modern operating systems,

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01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:57,600
Speaker 1: you know, they take a lot of resources, and so

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01:17:57,880 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: I just don't know if it would be the best

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01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: experience to do that. With that said, if you want

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01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: to go ahead and try it, you can, and you

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01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:09,560
Speaker 1: probably will have to pay, So I will post the

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01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 1: instructions on you know where to look to do that

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01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:14,760
Speaker 1: on the website in the show notes rich on tech

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01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,760
Speaker 1: dot TV. That's probably where i'd go. But I think

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01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:21,759
Speaker 1: at this point it's, you know, again, you're talking something

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01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 1: that's very, very many years out of date. And I

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01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:27,720
Speaker 1: know that a lot of people did not want to

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01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 1: go to Windows ten at the time because they were

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01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 1: happy with Windows seven, and there were some holdouts. But

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01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: at this point, Windows ten, Windows eleven is the way

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01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 1: of the world for Windows and it's probably a good

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01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:40,640
Speaker 1: idea to either get the modern machine that can handle that,

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01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 1: or see if your machine can upgrade through the Windows website.

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01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 1: So I will post the link on that when I

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01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 1: have a little bit more time to get that for

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Speaker 1: you not live on air here. Thanks so much for

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01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:55,479
Speaker 1: the call. Kathy in Denver, Colorado. Do appreciate that if

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01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:57,600
Speaker 1: you have ESPN or if sorry, if you have a

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01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 1: Spectrum TV, if you're paying for Spectrum TV, you can

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01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 1: now get ESPN Plus included at no extra cost. So,

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01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:07,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, a couple months ago,

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01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:12,600
Speaker 1: I announced that Disney Plus was free for Spectrum TV customers.

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01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: So now they're doing the same thing with ESPN Plus.

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01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 1: They said they were going to do this, and now

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01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 1: they're actually doing it. So if you have a Spectrum

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01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:26,280
Speaker 1: TV Select, then you can get this ESPN Plus. So

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01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:29,639
Speaker 1: ESPN Plus what does it have? It's usually ten dollars

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01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 1: a month, ten ninety nine a month, as over thirty

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01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 1: thousand live events, UFC, NHL games, college sports, just a

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01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff to watch if you like sports.

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01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:40,800
Speaker 1: So how do you get this? You have to go

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01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 1: to the website Spectrum dot com slash ESPN Plus and

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01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:50,560
Speaker 1: just like the Disney Plus and the Disney Plus is

1541
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:52,800
Speaker 1: still that offer still stands as well. So if you

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01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:55,680
Speaker 1: go to Spectrum dot com slash Disney Plus you can

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01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 1: get that. But ESPN and it looks like it's the

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01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: plus sign. It's just kind of weird. Let me just

1545
01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: make sure. I just want to be sure that I'm

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01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 1: sending you to the right website. Let's see here, ESPN YEP,

1547
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: ESPN and then the plus sign after it. So ESPN

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01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:15,639
Speaker 1: Plus it says now available with your Spectrum Plan start.

1549
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 1: If you're on the Spectrum TV Select Plus plan, you

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01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 1: can sign in with your ESPN Plus account. And I

1551
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 1: would read all of the questions and answers before you

1552
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:28,360
Speaker 1: do this, because there is some confusion if you're already

1553
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 1: paying for it. If you already have a sign in,

1554
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna need both sign ins. You're gonna need your

1555
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:35,799
Speaker 1: Spectrum sign in and you're also gonna need your ESPN

1556
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:40,160
Speaker 1: Plus account. So just read through everything before you embark

1557
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 1: on this. But if you're paying ten nine a month

1558
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: and you're also paying for Spectrum, you might as well

1559
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 1: get it. So it's a nice thing they've been doing there.

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01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:53,639
Speaker 1: Speaking of internet, FCC is saying the Affordable Connectivity Program

1561
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,760
Speaker 1: funding is out and that program is going to end.

1562
01:20:57,400 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you remember this, but this

1563
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:01,960
Speaker 1: was during the pandemic. They rolled out this thing called

1564
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: the Affordable Connectivity Program and they put a bunch of

1565
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: money into it, and they were giving out discounts on

1566
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: your monthly internet to eligible households. It was thirty dollars

1567
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:15,680
Speaker 1: a month discount and it was if you were on

1568
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 1: different government programs, you would qualify for this program. So

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01:21:21,080 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 1: a lot of people took advantage of it, and now

1570
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: that funding has dried up, and so according to their surveys,

1571
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 1: they said more than two thirds of ACP households had

1572
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,880
Speaker 1: inconsistent or no connectivity prior to enrolling in the program,

1573
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:39,080
Speaker 1: and more than three quarters will have a service disruption

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01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 1: if the program ends. So what's going to happen is

1575
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 1: all the people that were on this program, they are

1576
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: going to pay either thirty dollars more a month, which

1577
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:50,600
Speaker 1: is going to bring their bill up, or they're not

1578
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: going to be able to continue because they're not going

1579
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: to be able to pay this. So what's happening, Well,

1580
01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: there are some senators and representatives that have introduced the

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01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:03,759
Speaker 1: Affordable Activity Program Extension Act, which would give an additional

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01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 1: seven billion dollars in funding for this program, but they

1583
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 1: have stopped accepting new applications and the last fully funded

1584
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:16,479
Speaker 1: program month is April. So at the end of April,

1585
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:19,439
Speaker 1: there will be some surprises for people in May, either

1586
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 1: their bill will pop up or they will have to

1587
01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:27,000
Speaker 1: cancel this. But I have a feeling that there will

1588
01:22:27,080 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 1: be a continuation to this program, just because it is

1589
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:33,920
Speaker 1: such a big program. The phone Affordability program has been

1590
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:36,599
Speaker 1: going on for a while and now they've got this Internet.

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01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where you know, you've got

1592
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,400
Speaker 1: to get people on both sides to agree to say yes,

1593
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: and it does help a lot of people. And I

1594
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:48,800
Speaker 1: believe the funding is through other people's bills. Don't quote

1595
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:51,639
Speaker 1: me on that one, but I think that the funding

1596
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:54,880
Speaker 1: for these programs comes from the people that pay their bills,

1597
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,680
Speaker 1: and there's like an extra couple of dollars a month.

1598
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't you know what strike from

1599
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 1: the record on Usher if that's true, but I think

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01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: that's how they do it. All right. Let me tell

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01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:11,600
Speaker 1: you about this cool app called clean my Phone. So

1602
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: if you have an iPhone and you've got all these

1603
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:16,839
Speaker 1: pictures on it that are always cluttering up your storage.

1604
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: Everyone's always asking me for a way to declutter and

1605
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:23,240
Speaker 1: optimize the storage on iOS. So this is a new

1606
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 1: app called clean my Phone. It evolved from Gemini Photos,

1607
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: another popular app I recommend it for many years, that

1608
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 1: was launched in twenty eighteen, but this one is kind

1609
01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: of a new version of that. So what it'll do

1610
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:39,320
Speaker 1: is scan your camera role for duplicates, blurry images, screen recordings,

1611
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: and anything else that might be unnecessary. Uses AI, oh

1612
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:46,599
Speaker 1: there's that keyword AI to analyze and organize photos into

1613
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,439
Speaker 1: folders based on themes or subjects. Whether you need it

1614
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:51,640
Speaker 1: or not, I don't know. And then it has a

1615
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:54,240
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird. It's got a network module which

1616
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:57,679
Speaker 1: lets you test your Internet connection speed inside the app.

1617
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 1: So the app, again is called clean my Phone. I

1618
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:04,759
Speaker 1: expect it to be very, very popular. It is twenty

1619
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: five dollars for the year, but they did a three

1620
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:10,680
Speaker 1: day free trial and I did download it. I did

1621
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:13,760
Speaker 1: sign up for the twenty five dollars for the year,

1622
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 1: but again you just cancel as soon as you sign

1623
01:24:16,439 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 1: up and you can still use it for those three days.

1624
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: You could do a lot of cleaning in three days

1625
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 1: if you want to organize your camera role. So again,

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01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 1: it comes from a trusted publisher called MacPaw, who I

1627
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:31,679
Speaker 1: like very much. They're actually based in Ukraine. They develop

1628
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 1: a lot of software. Another program I like called Clean

1629
01:24:34,040 --> 01:24:37,439
Speaker 1: my Mac. Now they are making clean my Phone. So

1630
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:38,920
Speaker 1: if you want to download that, I'll put it in

1631
01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: the show notes. Rich on Tech dot tv is the

1632
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: place to look for the show notes. All right, let's

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01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 1: give you the phone number one more time, eight eight

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one, the website rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot tv. Coming up, we are going to talk

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Speaker 1: about the Rivian R two launch. Seventy thousand reservations for

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01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:06,439
Speaker 1: this new electric car overnight. I'll tell you why so

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Speaker 1: many people are liking it. That's coming up right here

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

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01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:19,640
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at

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

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Speaker 1: to two, four one zero one. The website rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot tv. You can hit contact and send in

1645
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 1: your messages. I'll get to the feedback segment at the

1646
01:25:31,640 --> 01:25:33,160
Speaker 1: end of the show. So if you have a comment

1647
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:36,439
Speaker 1: about something that was mentioned here. Submit it now, go

1648
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:40,120
Speaker 1: to the website richontech dot TV, hit contact and I

1649
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 1: will read it at the end of the show. You

1650
01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 1: can also submit your questions, which a lot of you do.

1651
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:50,519
Speaker 1: Let's see Shamika says, I need to know the best

1652
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:54,920
Speaker 1: audio transcribing device for a conference room to record then

1653
01:25:55,040 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: type texts, to word documents to take notes. Well you're in. Look,

1654
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:02,799
Speaker 1: there's lots of ways to do this these days, especially

1655
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:06,720
Speaker 1: thanks to AI transcription tools. I will tell you my favorites.

1656
01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:11,960
Speaker 1: So number one, I mean, the easiest thing you can

1657
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:13,720
Speaker 1: do nowadays. I mean, there used to be apps like

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01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: Otter otter ai, o t t er Ai and that

1659
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:22,960
Speaker 1: app would transcribe things for you, and you know, but

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01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:24,680
Speaker 1: it was only give you like a certain amount of

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01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: free every month. But now the new phones have a

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01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 1: lot of transcription built in. So if you have a Samsung,

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01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 1: the latest SAMSUNGS, the S twenty three, the S twenty

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01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: four will give you transcription built into the recorder app.

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01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: The latest Pixels also give you transcription built into the

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01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 1: recorder app on those phones. iPhone does not have built

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01:26:44,439 --> 01:26:48,680
Speaker 1: in transcription, but you can use the audio app on

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01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:52,040
Speaker 1: the iPhone to record the meeting and then you can

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01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 1: transcribe it using one of these tools. So on Mac,

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01:26:56,200 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 1: my favorite tool is called mac whisper. And on Windows,

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01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,360
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'm trying to remember I the name

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01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:07,320
Speaker 1: of the app is evading me right now, But there

1673
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:09,760
Speaker 1: is an app on Windows that will give you the

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01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:11,799
Speaker 1: transcription as well. I'll think of that in a second.

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01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:15,600
Speaker 1: But those there's also another app called descript D E

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01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 1: S c R I P T, and descript will give

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01:27:19,040 --> 01:27:22,600
Speaker 1: you transcription as well. If you have a membership to

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01:27:23,200 --> 01:27:28,839
Speaker 1: Office three sixty five, there's actually a tool inside Office,

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01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 1: inside word that will let you upload an audio file

1680
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: and it will transcribe it there for you. So there

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01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: are many, many ways to transcribe things, and so many

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01:27:41,479 --> 01:27:42,840
Speaker 1: of them are free, and so many of them are

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01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 1: really good because of because of the AI systems that

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01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 1: they use on the back end. Oh, here it is.

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01:27:50,920 --> 01:27:57,639
Speaker 1: It's called buzz Buzz. So buzz is in an It's

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01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: powered by open AI's Whisper, which is a same one

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01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:04,519
Speaker 1: that mac whisper does. But I'm not kidding. Transcription used

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01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:06,519
Speaker 1: to be such a chore and it used to be

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01:28:06,680 --> 01:28:11,320
Speaker 1: so expensive. I now transcribe every single thing that I do,

1690
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 1: every interview that I do, all my radio shows, all

1691
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:18,479
Speaker 1: the podcasts, anything, if I'm in a meeting, I will

1692
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 1: just record it and transcribe it because it's so easy

1693
01:28:21,200 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 1: and it's so simple now, and then you can just

1694
01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:26,360
Speaker 1: throw that transcription into AI and it will summarize it

1695
01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:28,599
Speaker 1: for you. And some of the phones, like I mentioned

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01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:30,840
Speaker 1: the Pixel and the Samsung, they will summarize that for

1697
01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:34,720
Speaker 1: you as well. So so many ways to do that

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01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:41,559
Speaker 1: and it's just gotten so much, so much easier. Story

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01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:46,360
Speaker 1: this week about thieves using Wi Fi jammers to break

1700
01:28:46,400 --> 01:28:50,639
Speaker 1: into homes to disable the wireless smart home security systems.

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01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:54,200
Speaker 1: So there's multiple reports. There's one out of Los Angeles,

1702
01:28:54,280 --> 01:28:56,760
Speaker 1: there's one out of Minneapolis, there's one out of Arizona

1703
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:00,840
Speaker 1: about these Wi Fi jammers to block signs. And I'm

1704
01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:02,680
Speaker 1: not telling you this to scare you, but it's just

1705
01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 1: kind of to know what's out there. It's not really

1706
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:07,559
Speaker 1: a whole lot you can do about this. I mean,

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01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: the recommendation is that you can go with a wired

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01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: security camera system, but that's not very realistic. But some

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01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:17,439
Speaker 1: of these, you know, many of these security devices, these

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01:29:17,720 --> 01:29:21,599
Speaker 1: cameras use radio frequencies like two point four gigahertz, which

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01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:24,920
Speaker 1: can be overpowered by these jammers that send a signal

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01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:28,040
Speaker 1: on the same frequency. Now, these jammers are banned in

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01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 1: the US by the FCC, but that doesn't mean people

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Speaker 1: don't get them from other sources, especially online. So apparently

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01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:40,000
Speaker 1: these burglars research houses online before they burglarize them, and

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01:29:40,080 --> 01:29:43,799
Speaker 1: they target the primary bedrooms and steal high value items

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01:29:43,840 --> 01:29:46,439
Speaker 1: from there. So just be aware. A lot of people

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01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:49,000
Speaker 1: are blurring out their homes on Google Maps and things

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01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:52,320
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, you can do that, but just

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Speaker 1: be aware of this stuff. And I think having lights

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01:29:54,439 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 1: in a system and you know, signs will really go

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Speaker 1: a long way. Rivian this week unveiled a new suv

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01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:07,160
Speaker 1: that's smaller. It's called the R two forty five thousand bucks.

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01:30:07,400 --> 01:30:11,120
Speaker 1: It's set to launch in twenty twenty six. This was great.

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Speaker 1: They did this in Laguna Beach. I was there. The

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01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:18,479
Speaker 1: pricing is right, forty five grand for a small electric suv.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. It doesn't come out for another

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01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 1: year and a half two years. A lot can change

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01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:26,519
Speaker 1: in that time. But that did not keep them from

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Speaker 1: getting a lot of reservations. Sixty eight thousand reservations overnight

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Speaker 1: for the new R two. Reservation is one hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's a deposit that is refundable. They expect to ramp

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Speaker 1: up these cars when they start making them a normal

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01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:46,479
Speaker 1: Illinois that's where the plant is. They're expecting to make

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen thousand vehicles per year there. That

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01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:51,720
Speaker 1: may sound like a lot, but when you look at

1737
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 1: what Tesla's selling, they're selling a whole lot more. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, I've got interviews from my event at the

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01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 1: Rivian launch event in Laguna. We're going to talk to

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Speaker 1: the CEO. We're going to talk to the head of

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Speaker 1: design and some other folks all about the Rivian R two.

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Speaker 1: Coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back

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01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:19,680
Speaker 1: to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with

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01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one.

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Speaker 1: So this week I went to the unveiling of the

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01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:30,799
Speaker 1: new Rivian electric vehicles. The company was expected to announce

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01:31:31,040 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 1: one smaller suv. They surprised the world by announcing three

1748
01:31:35,479 --> 01:31:39,160
Speaker 1: new cars. The R two, which is a smaller version

1749
01:31:39,240 --> 01:31:42,599
Speaker 1: of their suv. It's expected to go over three hundred

1750
01:31:42,640 --> 01:31:45,200
Speaker 1: miles on a charge, and it's going to cost forty

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01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. It is a five seater small suv.

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01:31:49,520 --> 01:31:53,040
Speaker 1: So first up, I talked to Rivian's head of design,

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01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: Jeff Hamoud. They kept saying throughout their entire presentation that

1754
01:31:57,360 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 1: Rivian is all about adventure, So I asked him how

1755
01:32:00,560 --> 01:32:01,360
Speaker 1: do they design for that.

1756
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:03,800
Speaker 14: When you think about adventure, we really have to think

1757
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 14: about broad strokes.

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01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:06,400
Speaker 5: What adventure could be.

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Speaker 14: I mean with obviously answer are things that we've shown

1760
01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:12,960
Speaker 14: on our one is whether that's camping, kayaking, surfing, things

1761
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:16,000
Speaker 14: like that. But adventure could be many things. Adventure could

1762
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 14: be moving to another city. Adventure could be taking your

1763
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,880
Speaker 14: kids off to college, or as I just said, adventure

1764
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:24,040
Speaker 14: could be going to Ikea. So we really want to

1765
01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 14: look at what are the things that people do and

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01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:28,120
Speaker 14: try to make their lives easier.

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Speaker 1: Two models of the Rivan, both the pickup truck and

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Speaker 1: the suv, have been out in the wild for a while.

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Speaker 1: I next asked Jeff how they learned from that experience

1770
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:38,639
Speaker 1: and what they improved on these new cars.

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Speaker 14: Well, with R two being able to scale and get

1772
01:32:42,240 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 14: a lot more people in our brand obviously is trying

1773
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:47,040
Speaker 14: to get something that is more affordable. The size of

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01:32:47,040 --> 01:32:49,400
Speaker 14: the vehicle as well, while having the vehicle be smaller,

1775
01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:52,080
Speaker 14: more more notevable, and more athletic. But there's things that

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01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 14: we also carried over from our one that we really

1777
01:32:55,040 --> 01:32:57,120
Speaker 14: appreciated in our too. We got a lot of positive

1778
01:32:57,160 --> 01:32:59,679
Speaker 14: feedback and have some of the details. As I've mentioned,

1779
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:02,840
Speaker 14: is the map pockets in the door. You know, how

1780
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:05,599
Speaker 14: do we use our UI screens? We still have two screens.

1781
01:33:05,600 --> 01:33:07,960
Speaker 14: We still think that's really important. Proved on things like

1782
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:10,599
Speaker 14: our steering wheel controls because I think there's was room

1783
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:13,559
Speaker 14: for improvement on that for our one, and carried over

1784
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:16,960
Speaker 14: some of the core features of accessibility, but with it

1785
01:33:17,080 --> 01:33:18,800
Speaker 14: with R two we went even further with It's like,

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01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:20,640
Speaker 14: well the car is smaller, but we know that we

1787
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:23,439
Speaker 14: had a lot of feedbackward customers. We're using the vehicles

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01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 14: to sleep in it, but with this smaller.

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01:33:25,120 --> 01:33:26,040
Speaker 5: Wheelace, what do you do?

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Speaker 14: So that's why the seats are able to fold flat completely,

1791
01:33:28,680 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 14: including the front front road.

1792
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:32,840
Speaker 1: Next to those curious who the R two is for,

1793
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Speaker 1: I think that RB two could be for everyone.

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01:33:35,960 --> 01:33:38,400
Speaker 14: Honestly, That's that's really what we're doing, and it's people

1795
01:33:38,439 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 14: that resonate well hopefully with our brand. You look at

1796
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,280
Speaker 14: the EV space, there's a lot of vehicles that have

1797
01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:46,679
Speaker 14: a lot of similar feeling, and I think for EV

1798
01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:49,719
Speaker 14: adoption to take off is the ability to have choice,

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01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:53,320
Speaker 14: and for Rivian having that very two box suv, higher

1800
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:58,000
Speaker 14: ground clearance, more capability off road or an inclement weather.

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Speaker 14: Being able to have that confidence really expands sort of

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01:34:01,439 --> 01:34:04,400
Speaker 14: the market offering out there and helps differentiate us from others,

1803
01:34:04,479 --> 01:34:06,559
Speaker 14: but still gives the customers the ability of choice.

1804
01:34:07,240 --> 01:34:10,599
Speaker 1: Rivian recently had layoffs, the stock price was at an

1805
01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:13,560
Speaker 1: all time low recently, so many are saying that this

1806
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:15,920
Speaker 1: is sort of a make or break moment for the company.

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01:34:16,160 --> 01:34:19,840
Speaker 14: I think this product is very important for us to scale. Absolutely.

1808
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:22,200
Speaker 14: I wouldn't call it our make or break moment, but

1809
01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 14: it's the ability to make Rivian become a global brand,

1810
01:34:25,280 --> 01:34:27,680
Speaker 14: to really expand our volumes and get the brand to

1811
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:30,479
Speaker 14: more people. The price point of our one, it's an

1812
01:34:30,680 --> 01:34:32,800
Speaker 14: excellent vehicle, but it's going to limit the amount of

1813
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:34,679
Speaker 14: people that can afford it, or even limit the amount

1814
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:36,960
Speaker 14: of see it people that see it, so it has

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01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:40,439
Speaker 14: a lot of reminiscence obviously of Our one, but that's

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Speaker 14: something we really wanted to build off of because this

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01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:45,120
Speaker 14: could be the very first experience that a lot of

1818
01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:47,920
Speaker 14: people have with the Rivian product. So we wanted to

1819
01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:50,120
Speaker 14: build off of what was great about our one, but

1820
01:34:50,240 --> 01:34:53,040
Speaker 14: offer it at something at a much more affordable price

1821
01:34:53,120 --> 01:34:55,400
Speaker 14: point so we can get more people into the brand.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the first electric vehicles I've seen

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01:34:58,160 --> 01:35:01,400
Speaker 1: that actually has Tesla's charger built in Natively, that means

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01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:04,640
Speaker 1: you won't need an adapter to use a Testless supercharger.

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Speaker 1: So I asked Jeff if he thinks that's going to

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Speaker 1: make a big difference here.

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Speaker 5: I think it will.

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Speaker 14: Test has obviously got a very amazing charging network and

1829
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:15,200
Speaker 14: being able to utilize that is going to help not

1830
01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:17,599
Speaker 14: only Rivian, but all the other brands that have signed

1831
01:35:17,680 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 14: up to do that. And that's something that I think

1832
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:22,920
Speaker 14: is really helpful for everyone to get ev adoption. We

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01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:25,679
Speaker 14: really need a lot of charges everywhere. With that, we're

1834
01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:28,479
Speaker 14: continuing to build out our adventure network, which is something

1835
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 14: we continue to add sites every day, which will also

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Speaker 14: help with.

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Speaker 12: A lot of that.

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Speaker 14: So being able to have options I think is what's

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Speaker 14: most important to people. Being able to charge at home

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01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:38,360
Speaker 14: is a huge one. I think if you've got the

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01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 14: vehicle at home, being able to plug it in and

1842
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:41,639
Speaker 14: just drive off.

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01:35:41,720 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 1: My wife first time, first time EV.

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Speaker 14: Owner was with a Rivin R one S and her

1845
01:35:46,560 --> 01:35:48,599
Speaker 14: being able to charge charge at home and never having

1846
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 14: to go into gas station again is a really great experience.

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01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 14: And I think the more people will get to live

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01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:55,360
Speaker 14: with these vehicles and vehicles, whether it's an EV or

1849
01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:58,000
Speaker 14: whether it's a Rivian or any other AEV, the really

1850
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:00,519
Speaker 14: starts to find the benefits of actually dry and owning

1851
01:36:00,560 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 14: an evy.

1852
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:04,439
Speaker 1: Next up, I spoke with John Reddinger. He is a

1853
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Speaker 1: popular YouTuber and he happens to own two Rivians.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I love it.

1855
01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 15: I've got thirty thousand miles on my R one T

1856
01:36:12,040 --> 01:36:14,240
Speaker 15: the truck. My wife has the R one S about

1857
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:16,760
Speaker 15: twenty thousand. I've had mine for two years, year and

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01:36:16,800 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 15: a half. It's been perfect. I just put my first

1859
01:36:19,439 --> 01:36:21,920
Speaker 15: set of tires on the truck after thirty thousand miles,

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Speaker 15: which is incredible. And I think the R two looks

1861
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 15: like a baby version of the R one S like

1862
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:30,920
Speaker 15: everybody's expecting, like Rivian's model why but I think what

1863
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:34,439
Speaker 15: they delivered is more of a Wrangular Bronco competitor kind

1864
01:36:34,479 --> 01:36:37,719
Speaker 15: of off road but with some luxury inside the price

1865
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Speaker 15: of forty five thousand dollars if it actually you know,

1866
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Speaker 15: prices are subject to change, right, if it comes out

1867
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Speaker 15: at that price, I think we've got a home run

1868
01:36:44,680 --> 01:36:46,639
Speaker 15: on their hands. I think there are two people buying.

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01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:46,960
Speaker 1: Tessels, right.

1870
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Speaker 15: They're those that are very into Elon, and they're those

1871
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:52,880
Speaker 15: that just want a cool electric car. I think for

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01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:55,320
Speaker 15: the folks that want a cool electric car, they're options

1873
01:36:55,360 --> 01:36:58,000
Speaker 15: from and I think this is going to be one

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01:36:58,000 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 15: of those many, many options.

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01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:02,320
Speaker 1: I'd get some time to chat with Rivian's forty one

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01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:06,720
Speaker 1: year old billionaire founder and CEO RJ Scringe. I was

1877
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:09,559
Speaker 1: impressed not only with his presentation he did the entire

1878
01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:12,559
Speaker 1: thing without a teleprompter, but his enthusiasm too.

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Speaker 5: Beyond excited.

1880
01:37:13,640 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 16: I mean, we've been working on these for years, and

1881
01:37:16,560 --> 01:37:19,599
Speaker 16: I think people expected to see R two, but it's

1882
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:23,280
Speaker 16: sibling platform variant. The R three was like to show that.

1883
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:25,400
Speaker 16: We were so nervous it was going to leak over

1884
01:37:25,439 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 16: the last few months. But I mean, it's such a

1885
01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:29,519
Speaker 16: cool product, so we're really excited.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I asked r J, how did you keep

1887
01:37:31,560 --> 01:37:32,360
Speaker 1: this so quiet?

1888
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:36,120
Speaker 16: Really carefully, really carefully. We don't put him out on

1889
01:37:36,160 --> 01:37:39,559
Speaker 16: public roads. We keep them even in the studio. There's

1890
01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 16: lots of security around not showing them. We had the

1891
01:37:42,400 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 16: same thing with R one where we didn't want it

1892
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 16: to leak. There was a few leaks around R two,

1893
01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:48,360
Speaker 16: but nothing with R three, which is great.

1894
01:37:48,600 --> 01:37:51,040
Speaker 1: I asked RJ, what do people need to know about

1895
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:51,519
Speaker 1: this brand?

1896
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Speaker 16: You know, when we think about Riven as a company,

1897
01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:56,920
Speaker 16: so much around the product is built around creating these experiences.

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01:37:57,200 --> 01:38:01,760
Speaker 16: So every decision, the interior, the package, the powertrain, the

1899
01:38:01,760 --> 01:38:04,720
Speaker 16: efficiency is designed to create amazing experiences to really drive

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01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:08,160
Speaker 16: massive adoption electric vehicles. And the market needs choice. The

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01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 16: market needs lots of interesting choices, so we need lots

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01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:13,200
Speaker 16: of successful car companies making lots of really interesting products.

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01:38:13,200 --> 01:38:16,120
Speaker 16: So we hope these help give customers a choice to

1904
01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 16: move from the combustion world into the eving world.

1905
01:38:19,760 --> 01:38:22,320
Speaker 1: Finally, I was curious what keeps RJ going?

1906
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:25,759
Speaker 16: I mean, the team, the products, and then the importance.

1907
01:38:25,760 --> 01:38:27,840
Speaker 16: I mean, we're at such a critical juncture where we

1908
01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:31,200
Speaker 16: do have to electrify the world, and you know, how

1909
01:38:31,280 --> 01:38:32,560
Speaker 16: lucky are we to be in the middle of that

1910
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:34,439
Speaker 16: where we can help drive that change.

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Speaker 1: Now, for a little perspective, I talked to Abigail Bassett.

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01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:41,400
Speaker 1: She is a freelance journalist who is covering the Rivian

1913
01:38:41,479 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 1: event for The Verge.

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Speaker 17: It's a little bit, it's a little bit of a

1915
01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:48,000
Speaker 17: difficult time right now. They're sort of in the ev

1916
01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:51,559
Speaker 17: Valley of death, if you will, where their production costs

1917
01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 17: and their demand are geting each other. They can't make

1918
01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:56,839
Speaker 17: those things meet at this point. They've got some production

1919
01:38:57,280 --> 01:39:00,799
Speaker 17: issues with their factory. They're building a new in Georgia.

1920
01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:03,080
Speaker 17: We're really hoping that we'll be able to see these

1921
01:39:03,160 --> 01:39:05,439
Speaker 17: vehicles because there's a lot riding on them.

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Speaker 1: I was curious what she thought of these cars and

1923
01:39:07,760 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 1: how they compare to the Teslas of the world. I

1924
01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:11,680
Speaker 1: think the R two is really competitive.

1925
01:39:11,720 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 17: If you look at the market right now, you've got

1926
01:39:13,240 --> 01:39:16,280
Speaker 17: things like the Mustang Mode, You've got the Tesla Model Wide,

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Speaker 17: which all come in around that level at forty five

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Speaker 17: thousand dollars. Now, of course, you're talking about a base level,

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Speaker 17: so in order to get like all wheel drive and

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Speaker 17: a bigger battery pack, you're probably going.

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Speaker 1: To have to step up a little bit more. So,

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Speaker 1: I would expect, like if.

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Speaker 17: You want the top of the line features for the

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Speaker 17: R two, you're probably going to spend around around fifty

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Speaker 17: thousand dollars to get there, and then of course with Rivian,

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Speaker 17: it's inevitable that they'll probably offer a whole lot of

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Speaker 17: other features, things like bike add ons. You know, they

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Speaker 17: had the camp stove and the R one T which

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Speaker 17: they've since sort of discontinued to reconfigure, but you can

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Speaker 17: expect a whole lot more features that are available or

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Speaker 17: coming for the R two. I would say this is

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Speaker 17: for a different demographic. Ultimately, if you're a Tesla bar buyer,

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Speaker 17: you're buying into sort of the Elon Musk infrastructure. You're

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Speaker 17: buying in to his persona, You're buying into a lot

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Speaker 17: of that environment.

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Speaker 13: RJ.

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Speaker 17: Rivian, the whole environment that they're building.

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Speaker 15: Is very different.

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Speaker 17: They take a different sort of software approach to their consumers,

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Speaker 17: so it's a very different buyer I think. And I

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Speaker 17: think given sort of the politicized environment we live in

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Speaker 17: and the way that we express to our politics is

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Speaker 17: through what we buy or what we don't buy, I

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Speaker 17: think this will just be another option for folks out

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Speaker 17: there who want something that's adventurous, off rody.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of fun. You can put a reservation

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Speaker 1: down for the R two right now. It is one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars and it is refundable. The company says they

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Speaker 1: got over sixty eight thousand reservations in less than twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. The R two is expected to ship in

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Speaker 1: the first half of twenty twenty six. The R three

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Speaker 1: and the R three X expected to follow after that.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, it's the feedback segment or rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech coming up right after this. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: On Tech. Man, I'm still recovering from that tap dancing.

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Speaker 1: You know what, Once in a while you're really thrown

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Speaker 1: for a loop, and why not? I welcome it all

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Speaker 1: right Before we get to the feedback segment, just two

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Speaker 1: more items of no. Apple this week launched new fifteen

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Speaker 1: inch MacBook Airs and thirteen inch models with a new

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Speaker 1: M three chip. So I'm actually gonna buy one of these.

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Speaker 1: I was at the Apple store yesterday making my decision.

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Speaker 1: I bought the I think I got like a fourteen

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Speaker 1: inch MacBook Pro or something like that, and I just

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Speaker 1: I've hated it since day one because the screen is

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Speaker 1: just too small. So I got to get this fifteen

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Speaker 1: inch so I can have more on my screen. Here anyway,

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Speaker 1: these things are the new kind of go to MacBook.

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Speaker 1: Airs got support for up to twenty four gigs of

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Speaker 1: memory on board. They support two external displays when the

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Speaker 1: laptop lid is closed, and they've got Wi Fi six E,

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Speaker 1: so that's a little bit faster download speeds than the

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Speaker 1: previous generation. The thirteen inch model starts at one thousand

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Speaker 1: ninety nine. The fifteen inch model starts at twelve ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: They do have education pricing available. Don't forget about that.

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Speaker 1: My color is the Midnight looks pretty nice. The only

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Speaker 1: problem is, even though they said they put this coding

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Speaker 1: on it to make the fingerprints less of an issue,

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Speaker 1: there's still a fingerprint issue. Out of all the colors

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Speaker 1: I looked at yesterday in the store, the Midnight one

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Speaker 1: still has the most fingerprints on it. The guy at

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Speaker 1: the store said, Oh, it's just because a lot of

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Speaker 1: people touch it. I don't know about that. Dreamscape is

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Speaker 1: closing down their immersive VR experience. This is kind of

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Speaker 1: a local story in LA but they did have locations

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Speaker 1: planned or in other places, but that's it. They are

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Speaker 1: closing down the Century City Mall location. If you follow

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Speaker 1: me at all, you know I love this experience. Dreamscape

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Speaker 1: in Immersive was there for six years, and this was

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Speaker 1: kind of like a movie brought to life. So I

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Speaker 1: did like the Dinosaur one, I did the Aliens one.

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Speaker 1: I did the How To Train a Dragon one. You

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Speaker 1: put on all this VR equipment and then you go

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Speaker 1: into this little room and you kind of walk around

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Speaker 1: the room for the adventure, and it was very realistic.

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Speaker 1: It was very cool, but it was very expensive and

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Speaker 1: it was very tough to kind of scale because you

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Speaker 1: had to have a backpack on with all this VR stuff.

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Speaker 1: It took a long time to set it up and

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Speaker 1: it was very ambitious, and I just don't think they

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Speaker 1: could ever scale it to the way they wanted to.

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Speaker 1: AMC Movie theaters had like an interest in it. It

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Speaker 1: just never really worked out. So now they're going to

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Speaker 1: focus on education. They are partnering with the Arizona State

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Speaker 1: University to launch Dreamscape Learn, So a lot of the

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Speaker 1: company and a lot of what they did will be existing,

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Speaker 1: but in a different way. So it's closing on March tenth,

2018
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Speaker 1: so not much time to see it, but if you

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Speaker 1: saw it, it was really cool. I always recommended people

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Speaker 1: do that. All right, Now, time for the feedback. Segment

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Speaker 1: feedback plus the mailbag equals feedback. Let's see what you

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Speaker 1: had to say. Ken says, switching from Android to iPhone,

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Speaker 1: even with Apple's transfer program, is never perfect. Be prepared

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Speaker 1: for days of frustration and save your Android phone for

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Speaker 1: data that didn't transfer. Just because the app was created

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Speaker 1: does not mean the data will. Learning the iOS system

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Speaker 1: is another issue, absolutely, Ken. That's why I always recommend

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Speaker 1: that you really just don't do the switch programs. Just

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Speaker 1: try to move things over on your own accord. Gail says, Yo, Rich,

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Speaker 1: another great show. You just did it again. Transcription. Let

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Speaker 1: me get on this. I'm going to your web page

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Speaker 1: right now. I take a lot of notes as a

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Speaker 1: producer reporter on hundreds of stories. This sounds like something

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Speaker 1: I need immediately. Keep teaching me, and oh, keep teaching

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Speaker 1: all of us listeners. Gail, That, by the way, is

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Speaker 1: Gail Anderson. I work with Gail and I love Gail

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Speaker 1: at KTLA, and I'm not kidding. Every week Monday morning

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Speaker 1: I walk in and she's like, Rich, we got to

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Speaker 1: talk about your show for like an hour. Neil on

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Speaker 1: Broadcast HD. I was there when it first started, and

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Speaker 1: he got pretty decent signal on the main channel, although

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Speaker 1: early football was a bit blocky until they figured it out. However,

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Speaker 1: if you go there today, you'll find they've split their

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Speaker 1: channel into multiple sub channels where only a tiny bit

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Speaker 1: of the quality goes to the main and they have

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Speaker 1: a ton of really low quality subchannels for various reruns.

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Speaker 1: Why did they do this? Probably advertising anyway, Sorry for

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Speaker 1: the grump, Thanks for your service, Neil in Ohio. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that happens, Tom. When you discussed HP ink cartridges subscriptions today,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you mentioned the big downside. If you

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Speaker 1: sign up for automatic ink shipments for your new printer,

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Speaker 1: they remotely disabled that printer's ability to ever use aftermarket cartridges.

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Speaker 1: You're forced to only use HP OEM cartridges for the

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Speaker 1: life of the printer. They don't make this very obvious.

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Speaker 1: I suspect a lot of users are caught unaware. It's

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Speaker 1: buried in the fine print and seem somewhat deceptive. This

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Speaker 1: was the case when I bought my last printer a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and the reason I may ever

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Speaker 1: buy another HP printer. Huh Okay, that's interesting. I did

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Speaker 1: not know that, Pete says Rich. I understand that TikTok

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Speaker 1: is directly associated with the CCP, China's Communist Party, Why

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Speaker 1: then do you even mention its use. I personally wish

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Speaker 1: it were banned completely from its access on US soil.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's owned directly by the Chinese Communist Party,

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Speaker 1: but yes, it does have connections to China. It's very

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Speaker 1: complicated and I don't think anyone knows the specific answer,

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Speaker 1: but byte Edance owns TikTok. They both have offices in China.

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Speaker 1: They also have something in the Cayman Islands. They also

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Speaker 1: have an office in Los Angeles. This is why there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of debate around TikTok. There is a lot

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Speaker 1: of unknowns and I don't have a good answer for

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Speaker 1: you on that, but thanks for the feedback there, And okay,

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Speaker 1: I think that's it. Oh, let's just end with Bruce

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Speaker 1: love your show, Bruce and Claremont. We'll leave it there,

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Speaker 1: all right, if you can believe it, that's going to

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Speaker 1: do it for this episode of the show. If you

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Speaker 1: want to find links to everything I mentioned, you can

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Speaker 1: go to the website. Just go to richon tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: I keep really good notes something new I'm doing. If

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Speaker 1: you want to check out the show on YouTube. I'm

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Speaker 1: actually putting in some time codes on YouTube, so if

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Speaker 1: you want to skip to a particular topic or a guest,

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Speaker 1: you can go into the show notes on YouTube. You

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Speaker 1: click the time and it will bring you directly to

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Speaker 1: that area of the show. It's audio only, but some

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Speaker 1: people like to listen on YouTube. Even though it's YouTube's

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Speaker 1: primarily video, the show is just on audio. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you can find me on social media. I am at

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Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. Thank you so much for listening. There

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Speaker 1: are so many ways you can spend your time. I

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Speaker 1: do appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to everyone who makes this show possible. My name is

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro. I will talk to you real soon.