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Speaker 1: Google and Facebook take on Zoom, a new robot just

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Speaker 1: for kids. Plus one of my favorite Android apps for

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Speaker 1: wallpapers makes its way to the iPhone. Finally, Plus your

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Speaker 1: tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich d'miro and

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Speaker 1: this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk

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Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about.

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Speaker 1: Plus it's the place where I answer the questions that

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Speaker 1: you send me. My name is Rich Damiro, tech reporter

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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Usually producer Megan

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Speaker 1: wasn't there last week. She's not here this week spoiler alert,

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Speaker 1: but I do believe she will be back next week.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but the at home thing

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Speaker 1: has been challenging. I think this is week number six,

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Speaker 1: is different. Oh this is really sad, this is really depressing.

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Speaker 1: Oh this is actually not bad. I can deal with it.

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Speaker 1: But at this point we're all sort of at a

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Speaker 1: for the first time in six weeks. I mean, that

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Speaker 1: is just unheard of. I've been working from home, as

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Speaker 1: spare room, and you know, the kids are right next door.

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Speaker 1: So it's been very disruptive, but at the same time,

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Speaker 1: there's been some benefits and that is kind of the uh,

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Speaker 1: I have learned one thing about myself, and I think

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this in a previous podcast, But what I've

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Speaker 1: learned about myself is that I really crave routine. And

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Speaker 1: what I mean by that is that I actually find

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Speaker 1: myself getting very stressed out throughout the day because normally,

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Speaker 1: when I'm going into the office at KTLA, I have

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Speaker 1: a pretty standard routine. I get to work, I prep

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Speaker 1: answer my emails in that time, and then I write

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Speaker 1: story and then I go home. Well, with working from home,

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Speaker 1: will make it through, folks, Yes we will, all right.

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Speaker 1: One of the big stories of this week is that

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Speaker 1: everyone wants to capture some of the magic that Zoom

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Speaker 1: When you want to do a video call with someone,

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Speaker 1: And it's so crazy because we've seen FaceTime in the past.

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Speaker 1: And so this week Google said that they're making meet,

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Speaker 1: which is their premium video meeting offering free to everyone.

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Speaker 1: This is something that you had to have a school

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Speaker 1: there are some benefits to Google versus Zoom, and most

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Speaker 1: it was a sore spot. They say that their video

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Speaker 1: So Zoom does this. It plays a little game with

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Speaker 1: the Brady Bunch style, the grid view, which I think

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Speaker 1: All right. That is normally when producer Megan would come

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Speaker 1: I think that that's the problem. So that's what I

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Speaker 1: It's impossible. The box never closes the same way. That

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Speaker 1: from Google. And that was problem Number one is that

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Speaker 1: weren't very good. I don't remember them staying in my

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Speaker 1: they do build in the Google Assistant. And so the

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Speaker 1: Pixel Buds are one hundred and eighty dollars. Google did

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Speaker 1: also love, and your first three projects are totally free

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Speaker 1: on that one, so you can make this whole thing

430
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Speaker 1: for free, and that gives you one hundred percent approval

431
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Speaker 1: of everything, like you do it all yourself. And the

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Speaker 1: other program, of course is iMovie, but that's a little

433
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Speaker 1: bit more complicated, but it will let you do everything

434
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Speaker 1: yourself and you have total control and it is free

435
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Speaker 1: if you have an Apple product. The other thing you

436
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Speaker 1: can look into is Google Photos. So Google Photos does

437
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Speaker 1: have some built in ways of making a kind of

438
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Speaker 1: video montage with pictures and videos, and so that is

439
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Speaker 1: totally free as well. And the cool thing about Google

440
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Speaker 1: Photos is it will make it for you. It kind

441
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Speaker 1: of does the legwork and then you can tweak it

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Speaker 1: so you still have full control over that even after

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Speaker 1: it's done that. But those are the programs that I'd recommend.

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Speaker 1: I think, start with Magisto and just try it out,

445
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Speaker 1: see if it makes the thing that you need, and

446
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: if you love it, there you go and happy birthday

447
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 1: to your niece. All right. This is interesting because I

448
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: was looking for an app and I stumbled upon an

449
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: app that did exactly what I wanted and it little

450
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 1: did I know that it launched literally that day. So

451
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 1: this week I had, you know, I get a couple

452
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,920
Speaker 1: packages sent to me every so oft and from tech

453
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 1: companies with stuff that they want me to test out.

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Speaker 1: Plus I order stuff and ninety nine percent of the

455
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Speaker 1: time I'm ordering stuff from Amazon, their app will tell

456
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Speaker 1: me on my phone when it's getting delivered. But sometimes

457
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 1: I order stuff from other companies like all Birds. I

458
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 1: ordered a pair of their new sneakers this week, and

459
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Speaker 1: I wanted to track them just to see, like, hey,

460
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Speaker 1: can I track when these sneakers are going to be

461
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Speaker 1: delivered to my house? And so I searched on the

462
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Speaker 1: web for a package tracking app that you can just

463
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Speaker 1: pop a tracking number into and see when you're you know,

464
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: get a notification or see where it is on a map,

465
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 1: and I came up with an app called shop and

466
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 1: so I downloaded it. It did exactly what I wanted.

467
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: I popped in the two tracking codes I had, and

468
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: on the screen on my phone, I can see where

469
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Speaker 1: these packages are when they're going to be delivered, and

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Speaker 1: it was very simple. Now, little did I know that

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Speaker 1: Shopify launched the app like literally on the day I

472
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: downloaded it. And it's a kind of a rebranding of

473
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Speaker 1: an app called Arrive, which is a package tracking app,

474
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Speaker 1: but shop now has package tracking capabilities. But it also

475
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Speaker 1: allows you to see a feed of recommended products and

476
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Speaker 1: use shop pay for one click checkout and shop pay.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever used Shopify, it's a very popular e

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Speaker 1: commerce platform online. The secret to that is that you

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Speaker 1: shop once on one website. Next thing you know, your credit

480
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Speaker 1: card is saved and you go to another website with

481
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Speaker 1: it and it's like one click. They sent a code

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Speaker 1: to your phone it says do you want to check out?

483
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: And your boom, You're done. So it makes things very easy.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like Amazon, but for you know, various

485
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Speaker 1: smaller websites and so that that's what I used to

486
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 1: order my all birds and so anyway, I thought this

487
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: app was pretty cool. I think it's kind of nice.

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Speaker 1: Well I continue using it, I don't know, maybe I'll

489
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Speaker 1: just use it till I get my sneakers and I'll

490
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,439
Speaker 1: get bored of it. But the thing is that I

491
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 1: think is the killer app is how they can scan

492
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Speaker 1: your email Gmail to get all of your tracking numbers,

493
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: so anything you order from any website is just automatically

494
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Speaker 1: populated in this app. The only problem I have with

495
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: that is that you do have to give them access

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Speaker 1: to your entire Gmail. And we've seen this before with

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Speaker 1: other apps like Ernie, and I used to really be

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Speaker 1: okay with that, but now the more I get kind

499
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Speaker 1: of into privacy, I'm kind of like, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I'm just ready to do that. I wish that

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Speaker 1: Google would come up with a way of an API

502
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Speaker 1: that would just allow these apps access to like just

503
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Speaker 1: my tracking, like just my email confirmations from orders, instead

504
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: of all my Gmail. I just worry about giving it

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Speaker 1: access to all of my Gmail because basically they can

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Speaker 1: download every email in your Gmail account. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think they're doing that or looking at every email, you know.

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00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: What they tell me is that they look at the

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Speaker 1: headers of the email, and if it doesn't come from

510
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Speaker 1: like a Bloomingdale's or an Amazon or you know, all birds,

511
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: they just disregard that email, like if it comes from

512
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Speaker 1: my mom, they're not going to look at that email.

513
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: But at the same time, that's going on blind faith,

514
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: and I don't really know what they're doing. So I

515
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: did not give a shop access to my Gmail. But

516
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: I did manually pop in the two tracking numbers, which

517
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: is fine. It's just not as efficient and so if

518
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Speaker 1: I keep doing that, I probably won't use the app

519
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: as often. But if I did do the automatic Gmail thing,

520
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: I'd probably get much more use out of the app.

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00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 1: So we'll see if I continue to use it. But

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Speaker 1: I did want to make you aware of it because,

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Speaker 1: especially now when we're all at home, we're probably ordering

524
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Speaker 1: more stuff online and that kind of app is popular.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's see question question question question, All right,

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Speaker 1: Bradley Phillips says, I need to get a new iPhone.

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Speaker 1: I have the iPhone six and I'm debating on getting

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Speaker 1: the iPhone eleven or the iPhone S. Which one do

529
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Speaker 1: you recommend that we'll have a lasting phone? Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Bradley Phillips. Not to be confused with Bradley Cooper right

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Speaker 1: iPhone eleven iPhone S. So, the iPhone eleven and the

532
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Speaker 1: iPhone se are sort of Apple's two budget phones, and

533
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Speaker 1: the iPhone se more so because the iPhone se is

534
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Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety nine dollars, whereas the iPhone eleven is.

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Speaker 1: I think it starts at oh gosh, oh, put me

536
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Speaker 1: on the spot here. Oh how much is that one?

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00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: Six forty nine? I think it is. I see, I

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00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 1: know all this stuff when these things launch because they're

539
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Speaker 1: fresh in my head. And then it's if it's been

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00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: a few months six ninety nine, okay, six ninety nine

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Speaker 1: for the iPhone eleven, So iPhone eleven versus the iPhone

542
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: S so he wants a lasting phone. They're both going

543
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: to be lasting phones. But the difference is that with

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00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: the iPhone eleven, you're going to get a wide angle

545
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: lens and so you're gonna get and a better camera.

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00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 1: So it's gonna have a better camera and a wide

547
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: angle lens and a bigger screen. So those are the

548
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: three major things that you're gonna get and also face

549
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: ID So just comparing them, the iPhone eleven is six

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00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: point one inches on the screen versus four point seven

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00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: You have a retina sorry, a four point seven inch

552
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: screen with the fingerprint ID, so you got touch ID,

553
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: which I personally think is better than face ID in

554
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 1: many instances because it gives you more control over when

555
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: you unlock your phone. They both have the same processor,

556
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: which I love, love, love A thirteen, which is Apple's latest.

557
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: So when Bradley says he wants the most lasting, they're

558
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: both gonna last equally long. They're both gonna get the

559
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: same amount of iOS updates as far as I know,

560
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: because they both have that same processor. You do get

561
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Speaker 1: night mode pictures on the iPhone eleven, so again, your

562
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 1: camera is going to be better. So really, Bradly, I

563
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: think what it comes down to is do you want

564
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: a better camera? And I believe the camera on the

565
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: front and the back is going to be better. I

566
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,479
Speaker 1: need to confirm that because I know the let's see,

567
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: I'm looking for the camera on the front of the

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00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven and let's see, I can't be sure on

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00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: the iPhone eleven camera. I do believe that the front

570
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: facing camera does four K so video recording, yeah, I

571
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: have to look for that, but I'm not sure. But anyway,

572
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: so I would say it's a toss up. Do you

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00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: want a smaller phone with touch ID and a lesser

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00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: camera or do you want a bigger phone with a

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Speaker 1: better camera and face ID. Personally, I, out of these

576
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: two phones, would go with the iPhone eleven. I just

577
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: think that the bigger screen is more useful. I think

578
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: face ID is fine, it's not a deal breaker. And

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00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: I'd rather have that wide angle lens because, believe me,

580
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: there comes a time when you're taking a picture that

581
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: that white angle is so nice and it really does

582
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: add a lot to your picture. And I just think

583
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: it's a better phone. So SC I think is perfectly

584
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: fine and I have no qualms recommending it, But you

585
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: have to be prepared for that smaller screen. And so personally,

586
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: I've had a big screen phone for many many years

587
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: now I cannot go back. And for that reason, I'm

588
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: gonna say the iPhone eleven. But you are talking three

589
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: let's say four three hundred, and what I say it

590
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: was I said it was a six ninety nine, so

591
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: seven hundred versus four hundred, so it's three hundred extra dollars.

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00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: So you have to decide, Bradley, are those things that

593
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: I mentioned worth the extra three hundred dollars, That is

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00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: up to you, all right, Moving on now, something I

595
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: have been loving, and you've probably if you've listened to

596
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: this podcast before. Something that I've been loving as i've

597
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: been home has been my Bowflex spin bike that I bought.

598
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: And I bought this. I saw it at CS. It's

599
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: called the Bowflex C six. I saw it at CS

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00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: and I said to myself, Okay, I've been thinking about

601
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: a spin bike, even though I don't really need one,

602
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: because I had a gym membership that has been on

603
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: paused lately. So anyway, I bought the Beloton. I called it.

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00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: I just mixed Bowflex and Peloton. I bought the the

605
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Speaker 1: Bowflex after CS because I fell in love with it.

606
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: It was one thousand bucks versus the twenty five hundred

607
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: dollars that Peloton charges. And my reason being is that

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Speaker 1: if I'm going to have a bike at home and

609
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: a gym membership, I can't pay for both. Right, I'm

610
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: not paying for my gym membership and a bike because

611
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: that just gets into crazy times. Right, twenty five hundred

612
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: bucks for the bike plus another I think fifty or

613
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: forty or fifty bucks for the peloton membership seemed insane

614
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: to me, so I had to have one or the other.

615
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: And I didn't want to give up my gym membership

616
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: because I do like having the gym for the weights

617
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: when I end up do doing weights, and I like

618
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Speaker 1: the steam room, so you know, I do like those

619
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: aspects of it and the gym. You know, it's different.

620
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: You're not in your house. Well, now that we're all

621
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Speaker 1: in our house, it turned out to be the best

622
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: thing I ever bought because I can get a great

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Speaker 1: workout here in my home. And shout out out to

624
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: my pal Raoul in San Diego. He's the anchor I

625
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: work with there on Fox five San Diego. He invited

626
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: me at like ten o'clock at night one night. I

627
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: get a text before I'm going to bed, He's like, dude,

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00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: nine point thirty am tomorrow a ninety minute ride on

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Speaker 1: the peloton. I'm like what. And even though I have

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00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: so okay to finish my story. I got the bowflex,

631
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: but I use it with the peloton app on an iPad.

632
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: So the beauty of the of the bowflex is they

633
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: saw a need here for people like myself that don't

634
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: necessarily want a Peloton, but it has the perfect place

635
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: to hold an iPad on the bike. Who's got a

636
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: perfect iPad holder? So I pay twelve dollars a month

637
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: in theoretically because it hasn't started yet, I get ninety

638
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: days free right now, which you can get free too.

639
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: Peloton did that, and I just do the same exact

640
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: thing you do on the bike on the Peloton, except

641
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: on the Bowflex, and the difference is you do okay.

642
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,479
Speaker 1: So everyone wants to know what do you get? You

643
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: get The Bowflex has bluetooth which connects to the Peloton app,

644
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Speaker 1: and I can get my cadence, which is the important

645
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: thing they always talk about in the spin classes, your cadence.

646
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,479
Speaker 1: And I can also see my resistance, which I believe

647
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: matches up one to one, because usually it's from one

648
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Speaker 1: to one hundred. My resistance on the bowflex is what

649
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Speaker 1: the instructor calls out in the peloton class. Okay, get

650
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Speaker 1: up to a resistance of twenty five. I think they're

651
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Speaker 1: the same. They seem to be. So the only thing

652
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: I'm missing is the leaderboard, which a lot of people

653
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: in Peloton fall in love or fall in love with

654
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Speaker 1: the leaderboard. I personally am not that competitive. I don't

655
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: really care. So I personally love saving the fifteen hundred

656
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: dollars that I saved on this bike versus the Peloton. Now,

657
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: with that said, if you do not have a gym membership,

658
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: I would recommend getting the Peloton over what I got

659
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Speaker 1: because it's your only thing, right, so you can spend

660
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And also I think that the

661
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Speaker 1: Peloton experience is pretty amazing. The reason I say all

662
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Speaker 1: this is because, very long story for a short piece

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Speaker 1: of news, Peloton had their largest class ever during the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three thousand people both tuned in Okay to a

665
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Speaker 1: live workout on Wednesday. Oh hold on, Oh no, there

666
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Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, twenty three people tuned in to a

667
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Speaker 1: live workout on Wednesday. So that's pretty amazing. Twenty three

668
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Speaker 1: thousand people all at once in one Peloton class. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was cool. I was doing one of the

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Speaker 1: classes that had like eleven hundred people in it at

671
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: the same time. I cannot imagine twenty three thousand. I

672
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: think that's pretty amazing. So Peloton. I think I did

673
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Speaker 1: my first story on Peloton back in twenty fifteen. I

674
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: think it was and I did not understand it. I

675
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: got on the bike for five minutes. I wish I

676
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: would have seen the magic of Peloton. I just didn't

677
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: get it. Now I am a total believer, and I

678
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: truly think they are onto something. I don't know if

679
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: someone's gonna buy them or they're gonna be able to expand,

680
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: but I do love what I have experienced with Peloton

681
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Speaker 1: in the past couple of weeks. I don't even have

682
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Speaker 1: a Peloton. I've got a cheapy version, but I do

683
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Speaker 1: love what I have. All right, next question, moving right

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Speaker 1: through the show here, let's see question from Joel. Joel says,

685
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Speaker 1: hi is sir, my name is Joel. I have a

686
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Speaker 1: Samsung Note ten plus. I'm wondering how I can have

687
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Speaker 1: calls forwarded to another number. I know how to set

688
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: up on an iPhone, but I can't seem to figure

689
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: it out on the Note ten. Is it even possible?

690
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: I hope, so hope you can help me out with this.

691
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: Thank you for the assistance, Joel. Joel, great question, and

692
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Speaker 1: this is something that perplexed me because when you're on

693
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Speaker 1: an iPhone to forward your call, it's built right into

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Speaker 1: the iPhone phone calling settings, and maybe not for every carrier,

695
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Speaker 1: but at least for AT and T T Mobile, I

696
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Speaker 1: believe maybe even Verizon. I should look on my phone

697
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: right now, but I'm not gonna do that. But it

698
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: is built in and you just go call forwarding, you

699
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: toggle it on, you put in the number you want

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00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: to call forward to, and boom. It's done on the

701
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Speaker 1: iPhone in about thirty seconds. On an Android, they don't

702
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Speaker 1: necessarily have that built in. And the reason and it's

703
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Speaker 1: not built in is because there are so many different

704
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Speaker 1: flavors of Androids, so many different carriers. So what you

705
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: have to do is type in a special number, so

706
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: you need to Google call Forwarding and then ATT or

707
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: Verizon or Sprint, and it's actually a code that you

708
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Speaker 1: put in, so for instance, for Verizon, it's Star or

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00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: yes Star two to one Star and then the ten

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Speaker 1: digit number, so Star two to one Star three one

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Speaker 1: Oho five five five one two one two pound and

712
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: that will forward your number or your calls to that

713
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Speaker 1: phone number. And then if you want to stop doing it,

714
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: you press a another number, which you should also, by

715
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Speaker 1: the way, figure out before you set this up. Make

716
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Speaker 1: sure that you get them both, because you don't want

717
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Speaker 1: to set up call forwarding and then not be able

718
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Speaker 1: to figure out how to stop call forwarding. I have

719
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: done this in the past, uh with success. So it

720
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: does work. But again, it is a code that you

721
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: need to find from your carrier. And if you're worried that,

722
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: you know there is wireless and there's landline, so do

723
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: make sure that you are looking up the wireless code,

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Speaker 1: not the landline code. And when you do it successfully,

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00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: you should get a little kind of code, it's like

726
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: it or something like that that it makes on your phone.

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00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: When you do have that successful call forwarding, then you

728
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: can have a friend call. You make sure it rings

729
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: the other phone and you're all set up. If it

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00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: doesn't work, you know, just make sure you have it

731
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: right before you do it, because you want to get

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00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: it right. And it does work. I think it works

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Speaker 1: with almost all the carriers. They all should have a

734
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Speaker 1: forwarding number. So good question. It is possible. It's just

735
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: a little different on Android versus iPhone. All right, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, or almost at the end of the show here, wow,

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Speaker 1: can you believe it? I am looking at Facebook and

738
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Speaker 1: I've got it streaming live on Facebook right now. So

739
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: if you are watching, I've been doing a lot more

740
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: live streaming on Facebook, mainly because we're all at home

741
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: and we need stuff to do. So if you can

742
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Speaker 1: listen to me on Facebook while I do my show,

743
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: why not. Let's see next story I want to man.

744
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: I love an app called Adobe spark and Adobe spark

745
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: Post is the app that I like the most and

746
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: the reason why I like it. I don't use it

747
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: very often, but the few times I do use it,

748
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. And what it is is, if you ever see,

749
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: if you follow a bunch of influencers or businesses on

750
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: Instagram and other places, they always have these fancy graphics,

751
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: you know, like whatever, like a quote or a sale

752
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: that they're having, or an infographic, whatever it is. Ninety

753
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: nine percent of the time they're making those in one

754
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: of two places, Canva dot com, which is really cool,

755
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,479
Speaker 1: or Adobe spark Post. And Adobe spark Post I really

756
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: like because it's on my phone, it's mobile. That's the

757
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: one I first started using versus Canva, and I've just

758
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: gotten used to it. They both do very similar things.

759
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: But the cool thing about spark Post and Canva is

760
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 1: that you let's say, like, my kid needed a thumbnail

761
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: the other day for his new YouTube channel that he

762
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: convinced me to let him set up. And so you

763
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: go right into Adobe Spark Post and it gives you

764
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 1: the template for a YouTube channel thumbnail and not just

765
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel. So it's like anything you need you

766
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: can get. So, let's say you want an Instagram post,

767
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: it will give you an option of a square post

768
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: that fits perfectly into Instagram. Or maybe you need a

769
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: thumbnail for a YouTube video. You can start with a

770
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: template that is a thumbnail of a YouTube video. Maybe

771
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: you want a Twitter instream photo. It will give you

772
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: the perfect setting for that Instagram story. It will give

773
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: you the perfect setting for that. So you can work

774
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: with these templates that they have and remix them, and

775
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: Adobe Spark does a really good job of having the

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00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: template and then you are able to remix in a

777
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: million different ways. Now, as far as I know, the

778
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: app is totally free, but there are paid upgrades if

779
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: you want to do things. And right now, the reason

780
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 1: I tell you all this is because they're offering two

781
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: free months of Adobe Spark Individual Plan, which gives you,

782
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: I guess, premium features. I don't really know what the

783
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: premium features are. I've never paid for that. But if

784
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: you want to do it, and you have a small business,

785
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: and right now you're trying to tell people like, hey,

786
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: we're doing takeout, we're doing delivery whatever, We're coming to

787
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,959
Speaker 1: your house and you know, leaving food outside the door.

788
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: This is a great way to make little graphics. So

789
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: that's the reason I tell you that. And not just

790
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: for businesses. You will if you download these apps, you

791
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: will find a million and one uses for them. But

792
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: if you're an instagrammer or a youtubeer or whatever you

793
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: want really fancy stuff, this will help you do just that.

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00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: All right, Do I have one more question? Oh? I do?

795
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: DeAndre writes in what do you do when you feel

796
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: eyes on you in the privacy of your home and

797
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 1: a voice describing every move you make in detail. Because

798
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: of this, I googled x Ray game slash scanners and

799
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: learn that there are available applications that can be pared

800
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: to various electronics to enable you to see through walls.

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00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been silenced before on this podcast,

802
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: but I am. I am silenced right now. Feel eyes

803
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: on you in the privacy of your home. Okay, we've

804
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: all felt eyes on us and the privacy of our

805
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: home and a voice describing every move you make in detail.

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00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: That part I'm a little concerned about, because you shouldn't

807
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: hear someone describing every move you make in detail. DeAndre, Uh,

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00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have advice on that one,

809
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: but that is creepy. We need some Twilight Zone music.

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00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Do Do doo? That is

811
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Speaker 1: uh wow. I don't know what to say here. I

812
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 1: would look around for cameras, hidden cameras in your home. Uh.

813
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: The only thing I could suggest, if I'm being serious,

814
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: is that if you have one of those sort of

815
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: nest cams or any sort of security camera that someone

816
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: has hacked into and they're now watching you through that

817
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: camera and then using the speak functionality through the app

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00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: to speak to you, That's the only thing I can

819
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: think of. But I think you would know if you

820
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 1: heard the voice coming from the camera. But wow, good question. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's move on. I did mention at the beginning of

822
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: the show that one of my favorite favorite favorite apps

823
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: in the world is available on iOS. I have been

824
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: using an app called Backdrops on my Android devices for

825
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: as long as I can remember. I love their backgrounds

826
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: for the Android because they're so slick and cool looking

827
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: and they're just really really cool. So they have announced

828
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: that they are available on iOS, and I immediately again,

829
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 1: this is an example of an app that I've been

830
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: waiting to arrive on iOS for so many years, and

831
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: I just happened to be on Twitter and I saw

832
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: one of my friends mention it and I was like,

833
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: wait what, And so, yes, Backdrops is now available on iOS.

834
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: So the official handle on Twitter is Backdrops app, and

835
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 1: Backdrops is the app on iOS. If you search for it,

836
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: you may find a lot of apps that have that

837
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: Backdrops name. But maybe I should describe It's really tough

838
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: for me to describe the icon, but it just it's

839
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: like it looks like a wallpaper icon with a couple

840
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: other I don't know. I'll put the link in the

841
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: show notes because I want you to get the official one.

842
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: But I love it. Their backgrounds are so cool. I

843
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: always go with the abstract ones. They have such fun

844
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: little backgrounds. It's all free as far as I know,

845
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: I've never paid. But it's fantastic. So Backdrops on iOS.

846
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: Take a look and download it and get some awesome,

847
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: awesome backdrops for your phone. Can you believe it? That

848
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: is gonna do it. For this episode of the show,

849
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: we made it through solo. Thanks so much for listening.

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00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: If you'd like to submit a question for me to answer,

851
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: just go to richon Tech dot tv and hit the

852
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: email button at the bottom of the page. That will

853
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: get you your message to me. And yes, I do

854
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: see them all. I get a lot of messages, folks,

855
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: believe me, and I do reply to a large number

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Speaker 1: of them, but sometimes I just can't, or sometimes it

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Speaker 1: takes a while. Sometimes I get messages that are like, hey,

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Speaker 1: this is happening on Saturday, and I reply to it

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Speaker 1: like a week later, and I feel really bad. But

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Speaker 1: I am one person. I do this by myself, so

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Speaker 1: please keep that and take that into consideration. But you

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Speaker 1: will be pleasantly supplied surprised. I do reply to most people. Also,

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Speaker 1: I would love it if you would rate and review

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Speaker 1: me at rich on tech on social media. My name

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Speaker 1: is rich dmiro On. Behalf of everyone that gets this

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Speaker 1: show to your ears. Thank you so much for listening.

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