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Speaker 1: Amazon has a new Echo and an even better new

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Speaker 1: privacy feature. Airport USB ports are they safe? iPhone trackers?

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Speaker 1: The Yolo app, How to focus without your phone? Plus

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Speaker 1: your pressing tech questions.

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Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro.

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

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Speaker 1: about this stuff I think you should know about happening

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Speaker 1: in the tech world. Plus I answer your tech questions

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Speaker 1: with the help of producer Megan.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Producer Megan?

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Speaker 3: You know, just it's Friday.

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Speaker 2: It is Friday, Happy Friday.

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Speaker 1: Normally we record this on Thursdays, but this week I

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Speaker 1: was on death's door.

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Speaker 2: Is that what you call it? Or deathbed?

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Speaker 4: What do you call it when you're basically knocking on

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Speaker 4: my door?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Death was knocking it still is. You can tell.

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Speaker 3: And I thought you said you aren't sick.

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Speaker 2: Well I'm you feel it's your mentally.

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Speaker 1: I feel great. Physically, I am like a bag of ashes.

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Speaker 1: Basically I'm about one step away from being dead. But

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Speaker 1: you could probably hear it my voice. I feel like

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Speaker 1: my mind is just as good as it always is,

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Speaker 1: even on all these day quill meds. So yes, I

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Speaker 1: am a little under the weather, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: sick for China. So I'm getting over that. So bear

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Speaker 1: with me as we get through the podcast. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be just as good of a show as if

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Speaker 1: I'm not sick. The other thing is, uh, maybe you've noticed,

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Speaker 1: but we do have kind of it's kind of a.

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Speaker 2: New show this week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because if you look at the artwork, we now

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Speaker 1: are officially under the KTLA banner.

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Speaker 2: So so exciting. Oh wait, whoops, that's not it isn't

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Speaker 2: there clapping? No? Okay? I yeah, as you can see,

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Speaker 2: the show is just as good as ever. Don't we

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Speaker 1: Anyway, So if you notice, the show is now part

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Speaker 1: of KTLA. So this is kind of a big deal

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Speaker 1: for me here at KTLA because I've been doing this

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Speaker 1: podcast on my own for a while and KTLA's had

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Speaker 1: of a separate thing. Now it's part of KATLA. So

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Speaker 1: there's no more swearing, Megan, no more potty mouth. Yeah

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Speaker 1: you got it, no more swearing. A couple of things,

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Speaker 1: A couple listeners we have to say goodbye to No.

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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. It's all good.

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Speaker 1: So basically nothing changes for you at the home audience,

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Speaker 1: but for us it just means that it's like just

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Speaker 2: Bit more official.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: We have a new host as well, new podcast host,

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Speaker 1: not like me, but like I thought you.

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Speaker 3: Were actually firing me podcast.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I just wanted to tell you, Megan.

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Speaker 3: She starts on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, we have like a new like Art

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Speaker 1: nineteen is our new host. So basically now there's like

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Speaker 1: I didn't care how many people listen right now of

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Speaker 1: How many downloads? But again, none of this changes for

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Speaker 1: the questions, Megan, I we've talked about Economy Basic before

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Speaker 2: How was it?

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Speaker 4: And I was like, uh rich literally just had this happen.

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Speaker 2: So how was it? I mean, you get out the board,

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Speaker 4: So I should have just, you know, I should have

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Speaker 1: You don't get your seat in advance, you can't use

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Speaker 1: Still yeah, still not good. Let's get into the first

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Speaker 1: story of the podcast. This is Amazon launching a new

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Speaker 1: Now that's electronically, which means it can still be hacked

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Speaker 1: It's on sale right now pre order, but it will

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Speaker 1: But you can now say a delete everything I said today,

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Speaker 1: the scenarios when you need this, right, Like, what are

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Speaker 2: That's so bad that like you need to delete? Delete

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm like, what like we'll say.

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Speaker 2: They probably say a lot of weird stuff.

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Speaker 1: But here's the other thing, Like if you were law enforcement,

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Speaker 2: We're just curious.

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Speaker 1: producer Megan, Yes, I do you have a question for me?

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Speaker 1: with the eight, don't go with the seven, go definitely

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Speaker 1: simply and link up with them. And you might be thinking, well, rich,

443
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Speaker 1: if we have a language barrier, how would we be

444
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Speaker 1: talking to each other. Well, sometimes you just might meet

445
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Speaker 1: up your person and be like, Okay, when's the party

446
00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,040
Speaker 1: tonight or whatever, and like they'll just text you like

447
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Speaker 1: some information, you know what I mean?

448
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, got it?

449
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Speaker 1: Like you don't always need to have like a full

450
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Speaker 1: fledged conversation, you know, yeah, or they might send you

451
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Speaker 1: more information or a.

452
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Speaker 4: Picture they just translated themselves.

453
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Speaker 1: Depends, Yeah, I mean, and you could you know, you

454
00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,840
Speaker 1: can always copy and paste. Or they might speak a

455
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Speaker 1: little bit of English sometimes you know, and they can

456
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Speaker 1: you know, or you might speak a little bit of

457
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Speaker 1: probably not Chinese.

458
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Speaker 3: I didn't tell you I speak Chinese.

459
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was wondering you've been you've been working on that.

460
00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:34,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, language, so WhatsApp is just fine. I wish this

461
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Speaker 1: is my wish for all of the world. I just

462
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Speaker 1: wish there was a standard. And I know people say like, oh,

463
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,399
Speaker 1: can't I message just be everywhere? No, my message should

464
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Speaker 1: not be everywhere, like I would like a I would

465
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Speaker 1: like a set of standards for messaging so that these

466
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Speaker 1: apps can interact with each other, because my message is fantastic.

467
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Speaker 1: If the other person's using an iPhone, and you know, megan,

468
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Speaker 1: as soon as I switched to an Android, all hell

469
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Speaker 1: breaks loose, right, and it's just like we were chatting

470
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Speaker 1: on three different screens the other day because it.

471
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Speaker 2: Was so insane.

472
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Speaker 1: So I wish there were some standards that people and

473
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,040
Speaker 1: text messaging is a standard, and so is RCS, which

474
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Speaker 1: is the next standard for texting.

475
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Speaker 2: But nobody has adopted it yet.

476
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Speaker 1: And so until that's adopted in a big way, and

477
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Speaker 1: Apple is kind of like the holdout there, it's just

478
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Speaker 1: not gonna happen because people on iPhone don't even know

479
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Speaker 1: there's a problem with messaging, right.

480
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

481
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Speaker 5: It's funny too because I have a friend who lives

482
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Speaker 5: in London and she's the only reason why why I

483
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Speaker 5: have a What's Up account, and so like I'll text

484
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Speaker 5: her on I Message and she won't respond to me

485
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Speaker 5: for weeks, and then I'll go on WhatsApp and I'll

486
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Speaker 5: be like, did you get any of my I messages?

487
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Speaker 5: And she's like, I don't check I message. So it's

488
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Speaker 5: just hard to like even think that way.

489
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Speaker 1: Yeah, It's just it was funny because I was going

490
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Speaker 1: through my wife's phone like I normally do, not just

491
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Speaker 1: kidding me, but I see on my wife's phone that

492
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Speaker 1: she had WhatsApp, and I'm like, wait, you have WhatsApp?

493
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Speaker 2: Like here. It is like all the.

494
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Speaker 1: Time I've like try to figure out how to like

495
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Speaker 1: message my wife because she knows I'm always using like

496
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Speaker 1: a different test her phone, and I, you know, I

497
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Speaker 1: see WhatsApp on there. I'm like, oh my gosh, you

498
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Speaker 1: have WhatsApps to go. Oh yeah, my friend in Rome

499
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Speaker 1: asked me to sign up, so I did. I'm like,

500
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Speaker 1: you sign up for Like I have not asked her

501
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Speaker 1: to do that because I thought it was like so

502
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Speaker 1: complicated to like say.

503
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Speaker 2: Hey, can you get this third party messaging app?

504
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Speaker 1: So when people communication will find a way making exactly.

505
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Speaker 1: So there's an article in the Washington Post this week

506
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Speaker 1: that kind of tells us stuff that we already knew,

507
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Speaker 1: but when you see it written out, it's kind of scary.

508
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Speaker 1: But the writer there, Jeff Fowler I believe, wrote about this.

509
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Speaker 1: He basically hooked up his iPhone to a little monitoring

510
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Speaker 1: app to kind of see how much is being how

511
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Speaker 1: much data is being sent on his phone without him knowing, you,

512
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Speaker 1: like all these trackers and stuff, And he found that

513
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Speaker 1: fifty four hundred app trackers were on his phone.

514
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Speaker 2: So he used.

515
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Speaker 1: He just basically plugged his phone in at night. And

516
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Speaker 1: what happens is when your iPhone is plugged in all

517
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Speaker 1: your apps, it's like a free for all.

518
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Speaker 2: They're like, oh my gosh, we've got power.

519
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Speaker 1: So the operating system on iOS lets them kind of

520
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Speaker 1: do whatever they want when there's power, with limit limitations.

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Speaker 2: Right.

522
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Speaker 1: But because you have power, your phone saying okay, you guys,

523
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Speaker 1: if you need to go talk to your servers or whatever,

524
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Speaker 1: go ahead, like Facebook, go talk to your server, WhatsApp,

525
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Speaker 1: talk to your server Google Photos.

526
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Speaker 2: You can kind of refresh your photos whatever you want

527
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Speaker 2: to do.

528
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Speaker 1: Because it knows it has a power source, right, it

529
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to use your whole battery up by letting

530
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Speaker 1: these things what's called background refresh. When your phone is

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Speaker 1: on just a cellular plan, So when it gets on

532
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Speaker 1: Wi Fi and it gets plugged in, does that make sense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Everything just goes to down.

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Speaker 5: It's really funny though, the way you describe it and

536
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 5: makes it sound like it's like a little cartoon.

537
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Speaker 2: It's like a little party.

538
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Speaker 3: They go do what you need to do.

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Speaker 2: It's like they're all like, yeah, we got like six.

540
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Speaker 1: Hours, yes exactly, that's they all run and they're like, okay,

541
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Speaker 1: let me report back everything I can in these six hours.

542
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Speaker 1: So he found fifty four hundred trackers, mostly in apps Yelp,

543
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Speaker 1: all these all these different trackers sending back data like

544
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Speaker 1: his phone number, email, exact location, digital fingerprint of his phone,

545
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 1: all these different things. And it sounds really scary, but

546
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Speaker 1: the reality is this is what happens on your phone.

547
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Speaker 1: These are how apps are free. A lot of this

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Speaker 1: stuff is just nonchalant. It's like, you know, Facebook wants

549
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 1: to know where you are because they can serve ads

550
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Speaker 1: in your area, or Yelp wants to know where you

551
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Speaker 1: are so they can say, hey, we found a great

552
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: you know Vegan restaurant near you, and.

553
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Speaker 2: We notice you like Vegan. So a lot of these

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Speaker 2: things are like that.

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Speaker 1: A lot of it is just tallying the data from

556
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Speaker 1: the day, like Google Maps track your location the whole day.

557
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: Now it's sending it all back to Google so that

558
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 1: it can put it in your timeline. But it's kind

559
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Speaker 1: of scary when you see it all laid out there, right,

560
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Speaker 1: And so there's no real solution offered up in his article.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could turn off background refresh on your iPhone,

562
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Speaker 1: but you would really severely limit what your apps do,

563
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Speaker 1: so I don't really recommend that.

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Speaker 2: But it's just a.

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Speaker 1: Great article to read. And again we've said this before

566
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Speaker 1: in the podcast. When you're getting something for free, you

567
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 1: are the product, right like your data, your stuff, and

568
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Speaker 1: you know, there's little ways you can limit this stuff,

569
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Speaker 1: but not really like you can't limit the trackers. And

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Speaker 1: if you go to like a major website, even like

571
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Speaker 1: ktla dot com, there's a million trackers that are looking

572
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Speaker 1: to do different things to serve up ads, to see

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Speaker 1: who you are, to you know, track how long you

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Speaker 1: spend on the way website, And a lot of this

575
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Speaker 1: stuff is actually useful data because like for me, let's

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Speaker 1: say you go to rich on tech dot tv. I

577
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Speaker 1: can see kind of the things that you looked at,

578
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Speaker 1: so that I know, like one of the most popular

579
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Speaker 1: stories on the website, how far down did you scroll

580
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Speaker 1: on this story? I don't really look at that, but

581
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Speaker 1: that's something you could do if you're really smart. I'm

582
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Speaker 1: not that good, but again, these are things you can do.

583
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Speaker 1: How many links did you click on in that story?

584
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: So you understand your user. So the better an app

585
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Speaker 1: is at this, the better they can use that information

586
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Speaker 1: to make the app better, but also make the experience

587
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Speaker 1: better as well.

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Speaker 2: Cool, that's your Cueh's right, I know there's no audio

589
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Speaker 2: this time. Let me try to keep you on your toes.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So this next question is from Shana and Bob Hi.

591
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Speaker 3: Rich.

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Speaker 4: You gave me a great recommendation for a laptop for

593
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Speaker 4: my oldest daughter four years ago. I need one for

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Speaker 4: my other daughter.

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Speaker 5: She is starting college but is also an artist, drawing

596
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Speaker 5: and painting. She isn't sure what she wants to do yet,

597
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Speaker 5: but I wanted to get her a laptop that would

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Speaker 5: accommodate both educational and artistic qualities. Any recommendations mid price

599
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Speaker 5: range if.

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Speaker 4: Possible, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Well, as soon as she said art and computer, what

602
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Speaker 1: do you think came to mind?

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, the surface I was gonna say.

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Speaker 3: Like a Microsoft.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like like Apple is good for creative stuff.

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Speaker 1: But like if you're thinking of like art, which I

607
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Speaker 1: think of like drawing on the screen, like you can

608
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Speaker 1: do an iPad pro, I guess you could do that,

609
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Speaker 1: but that's really expensive. So is the surface surface not cheap?

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Speaker 1: But I would recommend probably a surface there's so many

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Speaker 1: of them now, the surface I would recommend the Surface

612
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Speaker 1: Studio too. It's like it's like three thousand dollars, but

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Speaker 1: it's beautiful.

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Speaker 2: It's like a giant screen. It's really nice.

615
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Speaker 3: What about just a MacBook?

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Speaker 1: No, because the MacBook you're not gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: do any art on, Like you can't draw on the screen,

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Speaker 1: there's not really any touch functionality.

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Speaker 2: So I don't I don't think that would be very good.

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Speaker 1: I really think that a surface pro would probably be

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Speaker 1: your best bet. The problem is the surface pro is

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Speaker 1: not cheap. It's I think, let's see how much does

623
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Speaker 1: it start at? Surface Pro six starts at eight hundred dollars,

624
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Speaker 1: So I mean, but if you do it over time.

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Speaker 1: If you think about if you're using this thing for

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Speaker 1: four years, like you said, our last computer recommended was

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Speaker 1: four years. You know, it's two hundred bucks a year.

628
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Speaker 1: So if you think about how much you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: using this computer. And here's the other thing. If you

630
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Speaker 1: sell yourself short and you get something that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit cheaper, like a chromebook or something, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to tap into that creativity that you're talking about.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: If you want to be an artist, you want to

635
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Speaker 1: be able to draw on that screen and to be

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Speaker 1: able to sketch things, and to be able to, you know,

637
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Speaker 1: flex your creativity. And I just don't think that another

638
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Speaker 1: computer is going to enable you to do that without

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Speaker 1: a touch screen. So my advice, I would say look

640
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Speaker 1: into two things. I look at the surface pro six.

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Speaker 1: You can look at the surface Go, which is a

642
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: much cheaper version. It starts at four hundred dollars, but

643
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Speaker 1: it's just not gonna be as fast, but you do

644
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Speaker 1: get a lot of the same functionality. So that's four

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks. Maybe try that, you know, And I'd also

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Speaker 1: look at the surf the UH. I'd go for either

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Speaker 1: an IP had Pro or maybe just an iPad because

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00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: now they have pencil support on those as well. Yeah,

649
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: but with both of these things, you're going to be

650
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: buying the device, which is basically a tablet, and then

651
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 1: you have to buy all the accessories.

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00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 2: Which is the pen which is the keyboard case.

653
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Speaker 1: You know, So you're looking at a couple hundred dollars

654
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: over the price tag. It adds up, It adds up,

655
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Speaker 1: It adds up quickly. Story we did this week on

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Speaker 1: KTLA is about the Yolo app and Megan, you were

657
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: very instrumental in helping us set this up because you

658
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: helped us find the teens to talk to. So I

659
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: saw an article about this app, which is an app

660
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Speaker 1: that sits on top of Snapchat, and Snapchat is kind

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Speaker 1: of all but dead for a lot of people, but

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Speaker 1: people still use it.

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00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 2: They still have I think like three hundred million or

664
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 2: four hundred million users. You still use it on a

665
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 2: daily basis.

666
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of, but not as much as Instagram.

667
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Instagram Stories really kind of took over, but there

668
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 1: are some hardcorees that are still on Yolo or on

669
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: a Snapchat that are still checking on a daily basis

670
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: just to see what their friends are doing or whatever,

671
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: or you don't want to miss that streak.

672
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,199
Speaker 2: Do you have a streak with anyone right now?

673
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 3: I have streaks my friends.

674
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, got to keep up the streak.

675
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: So Yolo is an app that sits on top of

677
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,479
Speaker 1: uh Snapchat, and what it does is it's basically an

678
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 1: anonymous Q and A app. So we did the story

679
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: about what parents kind of need to know about this.

680
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: The reality is these Q and A apps are very

681
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: quick to come to market, and they're very quick to

682
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: crash and burn. So they come out and they're popular

683
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: for six months and you never hear about them again.

684
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 2: There's been so many in the past.

685
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 1: So I remember doing a story here at Katla where

686
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: they came to my house to interview me like five

687
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: years ago about that one. It was called like I

688
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: think it was yik yak or something or oh yeah

689
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: it yak that sounds It was like, I mean, there's

690
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: been so many of them.

691
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 2: What was yak like the same thing? You just go

692
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 2: on It was just an app and you go on.

693
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 4: Wait, was that related to like colleges?

694
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 2: Yes, I had that.

695
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, yes, I remember that so well.

696
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 3: We used to use that all the time.

697
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 2: Totally.

698
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: We used to write the Weirdest Yes, so this was

699
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: back in twenty thirteen, and you could call yes and

700
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: you can comment, and of course it was all anonymous.

701
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 2: Anyway, what happens with anonymous messaging apps.

702
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: You think it's gonna be great, right, You find you

703
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: know the person you have a crush on and.

704
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 2: They tell you, yes, it's me.

705
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: Or you figure out you know something that you wanted

706
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: to know that you you know, people think you're beautiful

707
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: and they tell you that in this app. But guess

708
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: what people get really mean when it's anonymous and they

709
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: feel like they can say anything. And of course that's

710
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with teenagers who are already anxious, who

711
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: already you.

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00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 3: Know, not hormonal.

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00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, there's a lot going on there. There's a

714
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 2: lot going on.

715
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: So yolo, what you need to know if your parent

716
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: is basically that this will go away. But if your

717
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: kids are using it, it's probably not healthy for them

718
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: because sure they'll get some nice things like I like

719
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: your hair, but the rest of it is nonsense and

720
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: there might be some mean stuff bullying going on in there.

721
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: And again we talked to expert Josh Oakes over at

722
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: smartsocial dot com and he told us that, you know,

723
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: don't let your kids be on platforms or you can't

724
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: be friends with them, which is kind of like that's

725
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: like a very dream way to look at it. I

726
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: think I think that that's tough for most parents because

727
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: kids are just inherently more forward thinking and they're just

728
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: a little bit more ahead of their parents. So and

729
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: they're going to be on some things that their parents

730
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,959
Speaker 1: just aren't on or aren't interested in being on. But

731
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: you can still have an awareness of this stuff so

732
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: that you can maybe have a conversation with your kids

733
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I know, I know a lot of

734
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: you kids are using yolo these days. Is anyone saying

735
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: anything mean to you?

736
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 2: You know?

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00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like that, just like that, like you know,

738
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: old Grandpa rich Yeah, Grandpa rich on.

739
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: Text, Hey, kids, what about this Yolo thing? Yolo on it?

740
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 2: You only live once. The teens that we talked to,

741
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 2: what was your thoughts on them?

742
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 3: They were awesome.

743
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 2: They well, they were very smart.

744
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 5: They were very smart and like wise and they you know,

745
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 5: they both thought that the app or the ad on

746
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 5: was you know, fun, But at the same time, like

747
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 5: you do expose yourself to like potential bullies. And I

748
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 5: think one girl actually had gotten bullied on like a

749
00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 5: previous app.

750
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 4: So was sensitive to it.

751
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 5: And so I think, you know it's you don't think

752
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 5: you're gonna get mean messages, but you never know.

753
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 4: It's so easy and.

754
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna start that app? What why?

755
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: And Okay, you never know. You never know, might be good,

756
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: might be bad. You never know when you open this.

757
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: If they could actually program one of these anonymous.

758
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 5: Apps to just like never be mean, like if if

759
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 5: someone was trying to say no Instagram.

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00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: Instagram does that. So on Instagram, yes, they have filters,

761
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 1: Yes they have secret I called the Taylor Swift's uh,

762
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: the Taylor Swift filter because she complained to Instagram many

763
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: years ago. And they basically built AI that kind of

764
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: senses when you're saying something mean and it will kind

765
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: of filter it out without even you knowing it. Like

766
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: basically the person that did that post won't even see it.

767
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: Now. On Facebook, I they don't.

768
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: Use that because I get even on my my page,

769
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: which my face rich on Facebook dot Com, slush rich

770
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: on Tech. People are generally nice, but there are some

771
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: negative comments.

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00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: And it's funny.

773
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: Because if write a swear word, generally Facebook will will

774
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: grade out, so I can still see the comment, but

775
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: other people can't.

776
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 2: But if they write.

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00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: Something mean, a lot of times when you're being mean,

778
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: it's kind of how you interpret it, right, Like it

779
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: may not be mean words, but when you're saying it

780
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: for the context, and that's really tough for AI to

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00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: figure out, right, So sometimes let's just say, like, it's

782
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: really tough, like if you're like, let's say you ran

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00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: like uglyproduce dot com.

784
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen that.

785
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: It's like they they sell like the produce that's like

786
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: a little bit uglier, so like you know, it's cheap

787
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: or whatever.

788
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: So let's say you ran that Instagram page.

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00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: And you're like, these tomatoes are so ugly but tasty,

790
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: you know, and like, how does AI figure out that?

791
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: Like you're not saying anything mean about these tomatoes, but

792
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: it's just you know, it's like these weird things that

793
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: we have to think about in the tech world. So anyway,

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00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: on Instagram, if you've noticed, most of the comments are

795
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: generally pretty positive because there is some level of AI

796
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: going on filtering there. In fact, I believe, and don't

797
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: quote me on this, but I believe that they're even

798
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: filtering out things like if you write like suicide related

799
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: or bullying related, they will help you get some help,

800
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: like with even if your comment doesn't like get posted,

801
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: they'd be like, hey, do you need help like or

802
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: something like if you write something like a suicide thing,

803
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's happening, don't quote me on it.

804
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: But if it's not, Instagram get there.

805
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 5: And even for celebrities, like the comments the you know,

806
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 5: if you want to read the comments, it's always done

807
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 5: like kind of people with the most liked their comments

808
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 5: are the top, so it's hard to find the mean

809
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 5: comments that are they get blended out.

810
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't get liked, so which is also that's smart.

811
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all right, you're up.

812
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 3: I'm up.

813
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 5: Okay, So this next question is from Larry hi Rich.

814
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 5: I love all your shows, watch them all the time.

815
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 5: My Samsung smart TV has no Bluetooth and no audio

816
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 5: such as a headphone jack, but I would like to

817
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 5: use my Bluetooth headphones and speakers with it.

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00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 3: How can this be done? Thank you?

819
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: So he's got a smart Samsung TV, no Bluetooth and

820
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: no audio out except like the standard stuff.

821
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, So he wants to plug in headphones, is

822
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 2: that what he's saying, or he wants to.

823
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 4: Use he wants to use his Bluetooth.

824
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 2: So a couple things.

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Speaker 1: Number One, if you connect something like Amazon fireTV or

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Speaker 1: a Roku or an Apple TV, and I think we've

827
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: talked about this on the podcast, a lot of those

828
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: will give you the Bluetooth functionality, but obviously only for

829
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: stuff that's running through that device. Right, So if you're

830
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: watching like you know, Netflix or something like that, like, yes,

831
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: you'll get the Bluetooth and you can just hook those

832
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: up to your Fire TV. If you're talking about everything

833
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: else that's running through this TV, that gets a little

834
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: bit more complicated. But I do think that you probably

835
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: need something like a little Bluetooth transmitter that you would hook.

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Speaker 2: Up to the back of the TV.

837
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: Now he said that there are no external like there's

838
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: no headphone jack, there's no RCA out whatever, which.

839
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: There probably is.

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00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: But I think that most TVs, including mine, which my

841
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: TV is a twenty fifteen, it has an optical out

842
00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: and so a lot of times you don't even notice

843
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: this on your but it's like this little weird fiber

844
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: optic kind of out that will work and it serves

845
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: as an out. And I looked up on Amazon they

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00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: do have a Bluetooth transmitter with a optical input, so

847
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: it's thirty five dollars and all you do is connect

848
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: that optical input from your TV to this Bluetooth transmitter.

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00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: Then you connect your Bluetooth headphones to the transmitter. And

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00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: this one that I just looked up on Amazon is

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00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: called the Home Spot Bluetooth Transmitter thirty five ninety nine

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00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 1: and it will basically take the output from your TV,

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00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: pipe it into the Bluetooth pipe it into your headphones.

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00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 2: That's it.

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00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: Now, if you don't have the optical I would check

856
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: and see if you have some RCA outs. Maybe you do,

857
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: but I don't know what model this TV is, but

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00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: I've found that a lot of the older TVs have

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00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: the optical so it's not that big of a deal.

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00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: So again that's why.

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00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 2: I use mine.

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00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: I've got mine hooked up to a so nose and

863
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: so the optical cable is how it gets all the

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00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: audio from the TV, no matter what's playing on there.

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00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like a catch all for the

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Speaker 1: TV audio.

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00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: So there you go.

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Speaker 3: That's really cool.

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00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 1: This was a great segue to my next story, Megan,

870
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: because Visio has some new features rolling out to their

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00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: smart TVs. And again, I have a video. My main

872
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: TV is a Visio back in twenty fifteen. I bought it,

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00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: I think. So this does not apply to me, sadly,

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00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 1: but it does apply to twenty sixteen.

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00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 2: And above TVs.

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00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,439
Speaker 1: But they're upgrading what they call their smart cast, which

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00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: is they're you know, all TVs. Do we talk about

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00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: this in the last week's podcast. I hope we didn't,

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00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: because I think I might have. I'm gonna look real quick,

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00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: because if we did, I'm just gonna skip to the

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00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 1: next story.

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00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 4: We did because we did the story on Friday.

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Speaker 2: You're right, okay, I'm looking. We did not stay up.

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Speaker 1: You're right, okay. So smart Cast three point zero is

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Speaker 1: the newest version. All the TVs now have smart software

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Speaker 1: on them, right, And so this is they call their

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Speaker 1: smart cast, and smart cast is kind of like that

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Speaker 1: home screen that you see if you press the Visio

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Speaker 1: button on your TV, right. And so what they're doing

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Speaker 1: is a couple of new things. Number One, they're revamping

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Speaker 1: the screen so that there's more access to kind of

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Speaker 1: the content that you want. So they're adding all the

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Speaker 1: apps and things like that. They're also adding watch free,

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Speaker 1: which there is a big trend in the US right now,

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Speaker 1: a free content for streaming because a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are cutting the cord and they're like, now that I

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Speaker 1: cut the cord, I just want to watch free stuff.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't really care if it has ads or not,

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Speaker 1: but I just want free stuff. And so all these

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Speaker 1: companies are coming out with like free stuff to watch

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Speaker 1: that doesn't require a subscription, like to Be and yeah,

902
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Speaker 1: all these weird like I call them weird, but like

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Speaker 1: I personally it's not for me.

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Speaker 4: But they can add ads to it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they there's totally ads. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't want to see ads, so I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna watch any of this stuff.

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Speaker 2: But people love it.

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Speaker 1: Like when I was at Roku, they were talking about

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Speaker 1: how their most popular feature is like this Roku channel

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Speaker 1: that they have that's like all free stuff to watch.

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Speaker 1: I need to try the Roku channel, but it's all

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Speaker 1: I mean, you might like it so for fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I personally love the premium feel of Netflix that doesn't

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Speaker 1: have ads, Like really, I just love that. Like I'm like,

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Speaker 1: there's no ads like Hulu. I remember for a time

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Speaker 1: they would have all these ads and I just hated it.

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Speaker 1: I hated that I was paying like five ninety nine

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Speaker 1: a month whatever it was, and I was still seeing ads. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know they have that premium premium which you can

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Speaker 1: pay for no ads.

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Speaker 4: This was before kind of like how you like to

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Speaker 4: use your iPhone without.

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Speaker 2: A case, right, you know, I'm elitist like that.

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Speaker 3: I had to call you out.

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Speaker 1: I'm so elitist that I just anyway, So watch free

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Speaker 1: has a whole bunch of channels, so you can watch

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Speaker 1: literally CNN, Paramount Movie Channel, MTV channels, Comedy Central, Spike,

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Speaker 1: all these channels like are just literally streaming on your

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Speaker 1: TV for free.

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Speaker 2: So that's Visio. Now.

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Speaker 1: The other big feature that I think most people are

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Speaker 1: going to be interested in is Airplay. So you are

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Speaker 1: now getting Airplay two on your TV with this software update,

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Speaker 1: and so that means you can stream anything from your

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Speaker 1: phone that's Airplay enabled, which is a lot of apps.

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Speaker 1: But the other thing you can do is show your

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Speaker 1: pictures off from your iPhone to your TV screen, which

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Speaker 1: is always really tough unless you had an Apple TV,

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Speaker 1: and Apple TV is one hundred and eighty bucks.

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Speaker 2: This is free.

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Speaker 1: So bottom line, if you have a Visio TV that

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Speaker 1: was made twenty sixteen or late, or go into the

944
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Speaker 1: software updates and check for this update, and if you

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Speaker 1: have it, you'll get airplay too, which is really cool

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Speaker 1: with your iPhone, and you also get some new Alexa functionality,

947
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Speaker 1: some new Google Assistant functionality.

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Speaker 2: Visio is trying.

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Speaker 1: To take on the world with just having everything work

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Speaker 1: with their TVs, which is really smart. And it's kind

951
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Speaker 1: of weird because we've seen this progression from everyone was

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Speaker 1: getting a smart TV with this proprietary software to now

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Speaker 1: all these smart TVs are sort of working with the

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Speaker 1: software that everyone has, like Chrome Cast and Airplay and

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Speaker 1: all these apps and things. So I think that's pretty smart. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that they're doing that. All right, I've got one minute

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Speaker 1: for a question, so it's a quick.

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Speaker 5: One, not a question of The last remark is from

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Speaker 5: Raymond and I don't know if you want to read this,

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Speaker 5: but it go Donut. Finally, here Go Donut, world's most

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Speaker 5: portable and universal stand for tabs and smartphones, and they're

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Speaker 5: now available at Walmart nationwide, and he just says, please

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Speaker 5: help us spread the great news to your community.

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Speaker 1: Okay, go Donut yes, this is a little tiny device.

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Speaker 1: This guy sent me some a couple of years ago

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Speaker 1: and he said it's available at like Facebook and all

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Speaker 1: this stuff, and it was too tough to buy, so

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Speaker 1: I never really featured it.

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Speaker 2: But it's a I have him at home. I've got

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Speaker 2: a couple of them.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like it looks like a little ashtray

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Speaker 1: that has like little cutouts for your iPad or your phone.

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Speaker 4: I think I have one of these two that you

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Speaker 4: gave me.

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Speaker 2: I give you one of these.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's it's a great it's a great little

977
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Speaker 1: stand and it's at Walmart. So if you see it,

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Speaker 1: support a local business. Go Donut is the name of it.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's like fifteen bucks or so. But

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a cute little device that I was

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Speaker 1: waiting to kind of tell people about.

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Speaker 2: Until you could get them easily. So now that they're.

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Speaker 1: At Walmart, my gosh, good job, by the way, you

984
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Speaker 1: did a great job of getting this thing in Walmart,

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Speaker 1: because now I mean, if you're in Walmart's cross the nation,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 2: So again, it's.

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Speaker 1: Called Godonut dot com if you want to check it out.

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00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: But again, we have a couple of them laying around

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Speaker 1: my house, which I used just to like set up

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Speaker 1: the tablet or like store my phone on my desk

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Speaker 1: so you can see it.

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00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 2: It just kind of props up your device.

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Speaker 1: So all right, we're running out of time, but I

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Speaker 1: just want to mention a couple of things. Ktla dot

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Speaker 1: com story on focusing. We did this today on KTLA.

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Speaker 1: It's a great story. This was inspired by me at

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Speaker 1: my kids basketball game. My wife kind of shamed me

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Speaker 1: into saying, why you're on your phone and your kid

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Speaker 1: is playing? Shamed and I said, okay, And so I realized,

1001
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 1: great little feature on your phone, just turn your phone

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Speaker 1: off for twenty minutes at a time and like focus

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Speaker 1: on whatever you're doing. I was in the uber the

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Speaker 1: other night and I kept checking my phone incessantly. I said,

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00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just gonna look out the window,

1006
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: turned on the downtime and twenty minutes, didn't look at

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Speaker 1: my phone and it was great, felt like really nice,

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Speaker 1: and didn't talk to the driver, but I just kind

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Speaker 1: of looked out the window.

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Speaker 3: I like how you had to say that.

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00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: And another cool little feature Google Maps. Now if you're

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00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: on Android, this is kind of cool. Search for a

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00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: restaurant and Google Maps and then tap menu and it

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00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: shows you the popular dishes at that restaurant. I like that,

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of fun. It's not on iPhone just yet,

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Speaker 1: but it is on Android. So if you have an Android,

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Speaker 1: Google Maps, search restaurant, and tap menu and it will

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Speaker 1: show you the popular dishes at that restaurant. Do you

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00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: like to order the popular thing or do you not?

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00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 1: Like when you go to a restaurant, do you research

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00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: the restaurant menu before you go?

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Speaker 4: I do it while I'm there?

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Speaker 2: Is that bad? So you look up?

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Speaker 5: Like let's say, let's say we go to like an

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Speaker 5: Italian restaurant. I'll like at the restaurant, I'll go on

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Speaker 5: Yelp and I'll just like go through pictures and like

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Speaker 5: see what looks good.

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Speaker 4: I want to like know what it looks like.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: See, I'm just the opposite. I guess my wife does

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Speaker 1: all the research. She wants to know exactly what it

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00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: looks like inside this and that. I do want to

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Speaker 1: know what it looks like inside, but I don't want

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Speaker 1: to know the menu. I don't want to see what's

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Speaker 1: on there. I don't want to see the pictures by

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Speaker 1: the way, can we just say that food pictures always

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Speaker 1: look disgusting, like when they're on Yelp, Like unless you're.

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Speaker 2: Like a true helper.

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Speaker 3: That's so true.

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Speaker 1: Average Joe takes a picture of like something at his table.

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Speaker 1: It looks terrible, like I don't want to eat that.

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00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: So I like to be a mystery. I will ask

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Speaker 1: the waiter what's popular. But I also don't necessarily I'm

1044
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: not necessarily swayed by that because what's popular isn't always

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Speaker 1: what's the best for you.

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Speaker 5: But see, sometimes I don't know what like a term

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Speaker 5: is for like a type of like pasta, and so

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Speaker 5: then I'm like, is this the this kind of pasta?

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Speaker 5: And so like the pictures help you know, right, Okay,

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Speaker 5: So that's just like I just need to.

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Speaker 4: Be more educated than the food department.

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Speaker 2: I hear you. That's going to do it for today's show.

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