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Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. There's a

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Speaker 1: Now eleven years. Isn't that wild to be at one

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Speaker 1: place for eleven years? I mean I never really considered that.

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Speaker 1: get on that tangent. Anyway, So the holidays are in

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Speaker 1: Instagram might be bringing back a chronological feed. This might

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Speaker 1: most of my other devices are Apple. Will my data

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Speaker 1: of your information will transfer to the iPhone. It's actually

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Speaker 1: be easy. This includes switching. With just a few steps.

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Speaker 1: You can migrate your content automatically and securely from your

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Speaker 1: Android with the Move to iOS. No need to save yourself,

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Speaker 1: It was a it was a couple of years ago,

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00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 1: and it's it's scary when you have to dial nine one.

429
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 1: I mean it's but I gotta say that the help

430
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 1: arrived fast. I was impressed with that and it wow,

431
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: but my gosh, that was a yeah. Not not something

432
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 1: you want to do all the time. So anyway, those

433
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,399
Speaker 1: people that answer those calls are are well trained. We

434
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: went to a facility where they answer those calls, and

435
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,400
Speaker 1: those people are trained well and they're they're very very calm,

436
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: and they're doing they're doing good work. Anyway. So if

437
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,600
Speaker 1: you have Microsoft Teams and you're not signed in on Android,

438
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: uninstall the app, reinstall it, or just leave it uninstalled

439
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: and uh and wait for this permanent fix. All right.

440
00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,200
Speaker 1: Next question is from Lance. Hey, Rich, my inbox is full.

441
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,440
Speaker 1: I have one hundred plus emails from br dot com.

442
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: Can I block all emails coming from Brazil on iOS

443
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: and Mac? Thanks? Lance? Yeah, you should be able to

444
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: do that. So what you want to do is set

445
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: up a filter. And I tested this with Gmail. Gmail

446
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: filters are pretty easy. Just type into the search box now,

447
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: I didn't see what kind of email you have, but

448
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: pretty much you should be able to do this with

449
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: any email provider. So you're saying on iOS and Mac,

450
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 1: what I would do is go to your web your

451
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:38,120
Speaker 1: webmail interface for whatever provider you have, and make a

452
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: filter for br dot com and just filter all those

453
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 1: into the trash and or block them whatever you want

454
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 1: to do. Or you can just maybe block one or

455
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 1: two or three of these and it might train your

456
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: inbox to block them all, but that's the way to

457
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 1: do it. Just go to your webmail interface and set

458
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 1: up a filter or block the domain br dot com.

459
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: The other thing is that these things typically come in waves,

460
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 1: So if you avoid this for a bit and just

461
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 1: deal with it. I mean, it says you have one

462
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: hundred of these. I don't know why they all came in,

463
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: but you can just ignore it or block them or whatever,

464
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: delete them and hopefully they should go away. Like right now,

465
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 1: clearly someone got my cell phone number and I'm getting

466
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: all kinds of text messages, all kinds of spam text

467
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: right now, and it's a lot. But I know that

468
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: they will go away eventually, because they come and go

469
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 1: in waves, just like the robo calls do. It's like

470
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: these marketers or these spammers get a hold of like

471
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,919
Speaker 1: a new list. They're like, yes, new list of victims. Okay,

472
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 1: let's text them all. Let's text them all for a week,

473
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 1: Let's text them all about CBD and all this other stuff.

474
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: And oh no one's responding, Oh okay, well okay, let's

475
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: find a new list. And so that's the way I

476
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: see it happening. And I just kind of, you know,

477
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: I don't take dressed. I don't even block this stuff

478
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 1: on my phone because it's like it's just going to

479
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: go away. And right now I'm getting a lot of

480
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: phone calls from my own phone number, like the you

481
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: know where it spoofs the numbers around you, and those

482
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: are happening, and so now I've just stopped answering them.

483
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: And the more you answer them, the more they're gonna

484
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: do it. So just just ignore this stuff. That's probably

485
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: the best way to do it. But if you need

486
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: to set up that filter, lance, definitely go into your

487
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 1: webmail interface, set it up, filter it to the trash,

488
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: and hopefully that should take care of some of it.

489
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: CES twenty twenty two, happening in Las Vegas in just

490
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: a few short weeks. Wow, I mean, I just can't believe.

491
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: It feels like yesterday, yesterday that I was flying up

492
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: to Seattle to host the virtual show that they did

493
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 1: last year, or I guess this year at the beginning

494
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: of the year in twenty twenty one. So I'm not

495
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: doing the virtual show this year. I'm just attending as

496
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: a regular attendee, and yeah, I'm going. I mean, I

497
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: got my booster shot a couple days ago, so you know,

498
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: I'm all boosted up and ready to go. So you know,

499
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 1: January fifth through eighth is what when this thing is

500
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: happening They've got Now here's the thing. The reason I

501
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: tell you all this is because CS put out a

502
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 1: press release with the headline strong Momentum continues for CS

503
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two in Las Vegas. So the fact that

504
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: they have to put out this press release tells me

505
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 1: a lot. Yes, there's been a lot of debate over people,

506
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: journalists and exhibitors whether they're going. And from what I've seen,

507
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people are excited to go,

508
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people are not excited or not going,

509
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: And so I think at this point it is a

510
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: toss up what this show is going to be like

511
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: and I'm curious. I mean, I'm right here and it's

512
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: easy for me to get there, and like I said,

513
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: I'm boosted up, I'm ready to go. I'm going to

514
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: cover it, and I'm more curious just to see what

515
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: the deal is. Now, I haven't missed a CS and

516
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: like it's probably going on twelve or thirteen or fourteen

517
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: years at this point, maybe thir I don't know, it's

518
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: been a long time, and so I'm not going to

519
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: miss this one. And this let's see what do they say.

520
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: They've I've got new categories including food, tech, space tech,

521
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: and NFTs. The automotive sector is tracking for record growth

522
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: with over two hundred exhibitors, which is thirty percent more

523
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: over twenty twenty. Wow. And they also said they have

524
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: let's see, twenty four hundred members of the media are

525
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: registered to attend, as well as ten thousand additional ten

526
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: thousand attendees. So they haven't said how many attendees now.

527
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: Usually CS says they have over one one hundred and

528
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: fifty thousand. I doubt they're going to have that this year,

529
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: just with everything going on. I mean, there's no look

530
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: if you're not comfortable going, or you can't go, or

531
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: you're still just uncertain. That's totally fine. I mean there's

532
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: no it's not like you have to go because the

533
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: things are not back to normal in a big way,

534
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: especially where I live in Los Angeles. I mean, we

535
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: still have mask mandates here. CS happening January fifth, twenty

536
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: twenty two. I will be there. I am so curious

537
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: to see what it's going to be like. It's you know,

538
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: it's I don't know, it's so weird because it's like

539
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: we went from nothing to you know, a little bit,

540
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: to now this is just like a big old show

541
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: and so we'll see. Anyway. I not much more to

542
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: say about that, but I just want to get that

543
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: in there. But they have to put that that. They

544
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,959
Speaker 1: have to put that press release out because there is

545
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: so much uncertainty around this year's show. All right, Michelle says, Hey, Rich,

546
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: quick question, do you know anything about the Superbox S

547
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: three Pro? I was wondering if they're worth purchasing? Thank you, Michelle. Well,

548
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: I have never heard of the Superbox S three Pro,

549
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: but when I get emails like this, I know exactly

550
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: what people are talking about. And Michelle is talking about

551
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: one of these so called black boxes that helps you

552
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: get it all. You can watch pay per view, you

553
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: can watch thousands of streaming videos, you can watch every

554
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: movie from every studio, and it's all for free, free, free, free.

555
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: And guess what, No, I cannot recommend this. It's not

556
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: worth purchasing. No, these things are totally operating in a

557
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: gray to illegal area. And if not scam, total scam.

558
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: Why why deal with all that? No? Uh, if you

559
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: finally get to sit down in front of this thing

560
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: and watch something, it's gonna be from a torrent. The

561
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: video quality is probably gonna be horrible. It's gonna be

562
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: stuff that's ripped off of a movie screen so or

563
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: a Blu ray or downloaded somehow. So just no, just

564
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: go the legit route. Get a fire TV stick, the

565
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: fire TV four K Max, and sign up for legit

566
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: streaming services. And that's the way I recommend going. Why

567
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: I never understood this when the whole kind of bit

568
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: torrent thing was happening, And I know there's a lot

569
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: of people that do this stuff, even with the MP

570
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: three's I you know, maybe it's because I work in

571
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: sort of the creator world as a journalist, where where

572
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: you know, like I do a lot of hard work,

573
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: and you know, now most of the stuff that I

574
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: do is free, which is nice, so people can just

575
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: watch it. But you know, these people work hard in

576
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: these movies, and I get it. Ticket prices are so expensive,

577
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: but like, don't you want to see it in like

578
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: the best possible quality? Like do you really want to

579
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: watch some like ripped version of a movie? Like I don't.

580
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: And so you know, for me, like, yeah, I pay

581
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: for these streaming services. They're of course they're expensive, and

582
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: they're getting more expensive. But at the same time, you know,

583
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: it's kind of like I don't mind it because I'm

584
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: getting quality stuff and you know, and of course I'm

585
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: doing the right thing. But these boxes, they're just you know,

586
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: one little change and the whole box could be could

587
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: put you know, it might not work anymore because someone

588
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: might you know, make some sort of change that makes

589
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: it so it doesn't work. I mean, there's not gonna

590
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: be any tech support for these things. If it doesn't work,

591
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: you just spend one hundred and fifty bucks where ever

592
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: these things go for, and it it's like, what are

593
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: you going to do? Get a refund from some random

594
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: third party? Website that sold you this thing, Like, no,

595
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna be totally out of luck. So I don't

596
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: like these things. I don't want you to buy one,

597
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: nor do I think you should, and just go through

598
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: the legitimate means of acquiring these videos and movies and

599
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: shows and streaming services. And I think that that's the

600
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: best way to do it. So I know I'm a

601
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: goodie two shoes. What can I say? You've probably heard

602
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: of NFTs. These are non fungible tokens. And there's some

603
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: new data out of a website called chain Analysis, and

604
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: they said that folks have spent in twenty twenty one

605
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: almost twenty seven billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency, So twenty

606
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: seven billion dollars in twenty twenty one on NFTs. What

607
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: is an NFT? An NFT is basically a digital collectible.

608
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: This can be an image, it can be a video,

609
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: it can be audio. In some cases, it can be

610
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: a physical object that's tied to a virtual object or

611
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: a digital object. These are built on the blockchain Ethereum

612
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: blockchain to be specific, and usually they're purchased with cryptocurrency. Now,

613
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: what is the blockchain? What does this all mean? Rich?

614
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: What the heck is going on with this stuff? How

615
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: are people spending thirty billion dollars in something I don't

616
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: even understand? Well, people spend a lot of money and

617
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: things I don't understand, Like, you know, I guess I

618
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: would understand a giant yacht. But let me just get

619
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: through the rest of these things and I'll explain what

620
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: I think this all is about. The most popular place

621
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: to buy them is open c that's Open Sea. Oh look,

622
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: I just talked about yachts sixteen billion dollars worth in

623
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Some of the most popular collections are

624
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: crypto punks. This was established in twenty seventeen, most popular

625
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: NFT collection during the time period, with more than three

626
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: billion dollars in transactions. All right, so what are NFTs?

627
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: NFTs are, Like I said, it's almost the equivalent of

628
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: and this is dumbing it down very simply. It's kind

629
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: of like a digital beanie baby. Right. So people love

630
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: to collect stuff, They love originals, and the reality is

631
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: we live in a world where everything is turning digital,

632
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: and so how do you create the next thing that

633
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: is an item people want to collect that's digital. Well,

634
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: that's NFT, it's artwork. It's audio, it's video. Someone sent

635
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: me their NFT. I guess they got of their ticket

636
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: to a RAMS game. So if you buy a ticket,

637
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: you go in, they give you an NFT of your ticket,

638
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. Now do I want to

639
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: pay that person for that NFT. No, But in thirty

640
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: years might that be valuable if that game, if something

641
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: amazing happened during it, and I want a piece of that. Yeah. Sure.

642
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: So the reality is these are items that are you know,

643
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: they're valuable in the eye of the beholder and someone

644
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: else who might want to purchase this from the beholder,

645
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: just like or the holder anyone else or any other

646
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: thing we've seen in the world that is valuable. It's scarcity,

647
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: it's uniqueness. And yes, if you have a digital NFT

648
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: that is an image, someone else could could make a

649
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: copy or you could give a copy of that to someone,

650
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: but you are the rights holder. You are the original

651
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: person that has that. And I know with digital stuff,

652
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: it's a little weird because you're like, well, it's digital,

653
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: it's the same thing, right, Well not really, because if

654
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 1: someone were to profit off of that, you can say, hey,

655
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: I'm the rights holder here, Like you can't just go

656
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: ahead and sell copies of this. I can, or maybe

657
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: you can, depending on how the NFT is set up.

658
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: But if you want to give an example for that,

659
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 1: So there's only one Mona Lisa in the world, right,

660
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: and I'm sure this example has been given before, But

661
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: there's only one Mona Lisa, but there's plenty of copies

662
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: of it hanging around places in the world. Same thing,

663
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: with a lot of different stuff. Now here's an example.

664
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 1: If someone gives me the excuse, rich, I'm not paying

665
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: all that money for something that's digital only you're out

666
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: of your mind thinking that I would ever do that.

667
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: Let me give you my example there. So my best

668
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: example is let's say you've got a child, a family member,

669
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, grandparent, whatever. There is just a scenario where

670
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: there's only one digital picture of them remaining in the

671
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: entire world of your Let's say your kid is a baby, right,

672
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: there's only one use something happened. Every digital picture you

673
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 1: ever had of them is lost except for this one

674
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: that your friend happens to have on their phone, and

675
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 1: it's the original picture. Maybe you sent them the file

676
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: back in the day. Is it valuable to you if

677
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: your friend said, hey, for a hundred bucks, I'll give

678
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: you this file and it's yours to keep forever. Would

679
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: you give them that hundred bucks? You probably would. There

680
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: you go, there's an NFT for you. It's digital. To

681
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: anyone else, it might not have much value, but to you,

682
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: it does have a lot of value, and it might

683
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: have more value to the person you pass it down to.

684
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: So that is a very very simple example of how

685
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: I see value in something that is purely digital. Now

686
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,280
Speaker 1: you've probably actually spent a lot of money on purely

687
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: digital things that you don't have. I remember this was

688
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: a big thing back in the day when there was

689
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 1: kind of this transition from DVDs to digital copies of movies.

690
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: I was, I know, this is kind of funny, but

691
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 1: I was a holdout. I was like, I'm not buying

692
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: a digital copy of a movie on iTunes for twenty dollars.

693
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: I'm buying the DVD because I own something physical and

694
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: that DVD is mine and I can do whatever I

695
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: want with it, or the Blu Ray. And I said,

696
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 1: I'm not buying something that Apple overnight can just be

697
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,439
Speaker 1: like poof, goodbye, this is out of your collection, and

698
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: that's not happened. But I mean, it might be cases

699
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: where it's happened, but I just thought it was so

700
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: weird that you would just own a digital copy of

701
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: a movie without actually owning the physical copy. So I

702
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: would buy the Blu ray that contained a digital copy.

703
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: And of course now I don't even think they do

704
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: that anymore. But to me, I thought I was getting

705
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: over on the system because or I was smarter than

706
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: the system, because I was like, I own something physical.

707
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: Well flash forward ten years and I do not own

708
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: a Blu Ray player. I don't have a way of

709
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 1: playing that movie. And I do still have my movies

710
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: from my iTunes because I can play them on my

711
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: Apple TV, and thanks to a wonderful service called Movies Anywhere,

712
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: those movies have been unlocked to work on various services

713
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: and not just iTunes or wherever I purchase them from.

714
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 1: So now, yes, we are at the mercy of these

715
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: digital copies. If Amazon said tomorrow, guess what, We're taking

716
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: back all those digital copies, like your copy of you know,

717
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 1: die Hard poof Goodbye, It's gone. There's nothing you could

718
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: do about it. I'm sure it's in the terms and conditions,

719
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: and that's just the way it is. So yeah, we

720
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: have gone through this phase of we are permanently what

721
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: do you want to call it? Perma rent? Now most

722
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: of us are streaming anyway, so it's a move point

723
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: to begin with. But the reality is things have changed,

724
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: we have adapted, and I think with NFTs it is

725
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: definitely definitely something to watch because there is something there.

726
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: There's too many smart people talking about them for them

727
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: to be a non thing, so there is something to them.

728
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: Apple car Play is the subject of our next message.

729
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: Victoria says, my son has a twenty fifteen Chevy Vault.

730
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 1: He has asked on his Christmas list for an Apple

731
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: car Play. I know they come stock in certain models

732
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: of the Vault. Is this something I could buy for

733
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 1: him in Christmas for Christmas and have installed. I value

734
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: your expertise and thank you for your help. Victoria. Well, Victoria,

735
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen Chevy Vault. I'm surprised. That must have been

736
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: right before they put CarPlay in first Chevy Vault model

737
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: to have car play, so, uh, twenty sixteen, darn it,

738
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: you're so close. Twenty sixteen was the first one to

739
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: get car play, So I would not recommend upgrading. And

740
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: here's why. I mean, there are yes, So there are

741
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: ways to do it. There there are pioneer I don't

742
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: know what do you call them, bulkheads. I don't know

743
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: what you call them. I forget there's the head is

744
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: in the name receivers. I guess receiver heads. I don't know.

745
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: But there are pioneer receivers that do have car play.

746
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: There are third party receivers, and you could look into it.

747
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna say no, but I don't

748
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: know if it's compatible. And so you would have to

749
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: look up the pioneer car play. It's usually a double

750
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: din unit. That's probably what's in the let's see you

751
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: might you know what you might be able to. I

752
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: don't know, it's been so long since I looked for this,

753
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: but let's see. Let's let's just look at one of

754
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: these things. So this the Avik W eight four hundred ex.

755
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: And I'm guessing, oh, you know what the good way

756
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: of doing it. Let's go, let's go crutch Field. That's

757
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,479
Speaker 1: the way to do it, Crutchfield dot com. So let's

758
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: go Crutchfield dot com. I'm just gonna do this with you.

759
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: Come on, come on to my journey, and let's go

760
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: car audio and find what fits your vehicle. So let's

761
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: say we're gonna do a twenty fifteen. Chevy is a

762
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: great website. By the way, when I was back into

763
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: my cars, like back in the day, I used to

764
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: have like a Ford Explorer for many years, and I've

765
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: of course got all this stuff after market installed in

766
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: it because you could. It was a simple way to

767
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: do it. You got the double Din. It was either

768
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: double Din or a single di in. And so when

769
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 1: I had the single di in, I of course got

770
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: my little stereo that had XM installed, and I got that,

771
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: and then when I had my doubled in, I got

772
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: the doubled in. Uh, Chevy volt hatchback twenty fifteen. Do

773
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: you see a Bose logo on the front speaker grills?

774
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: Let's just say no. And let's see what they say

775
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: checking fit and let's see what do we have. Let's

776
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: see what can we replace? Oh, it doesn't say yeah,

777
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: it looks like you can replace car stereos. We don't

778
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: recommend replacing the radio in your vehicle. Now, let me

779
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: see with the Bose audio system, maybe you can. Let's see.

780
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: Let's see, let's see and it is saying car stereos. No,

781
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: we don't recommend it. So there you go. That's your answer.

782
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: You can't really do it. So Apple CarPlay, I would say,

783
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: I wish that car Play did this, but I don't

784
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: think they do. It'd be nice if Apple had a

785
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: way of seeing car play on your phone without car Play,

786
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: but they don't do it. I don't think they. Yeah,

787
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: I don't think they do it with just your phone.

788
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: So like on Android, you can do Android Auto with

789
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: just your phone. It will like kind of mimic the screen,

790
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: but it doesn't look like CarPlay lets you do that.

791
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's not much you can do about it, Victoria.

792
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: So with other cars, if you want to do it, yeah,

793
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: go to Crutchfield dot com and see just look for

794
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: a receiver that uses CarPlay and you can just get

795
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: someone to replace it here in Los Angeles's place called

796
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,479
Speaker 1: Alan Ed's. Of course, nationwide you can go to best

797
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: Buy or something like that. But good question, and you're

798
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: just right on that cusp, right on that cusp. All right, Uh,

799
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: we have some more time here. Let's go to our

800
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: favorite chrome extensions of twenty twenty one, not mine, but Google.

801
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 1: Google came out with a big list of its favorite

802
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: chrome This is the you know, the end of the year,

803
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: so we have all these year end lists and this

804
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: is their year end Chrome extensions. So a couple highlights

805
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: here at number one is Loom. So Loom is an

806
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: extension that makes it easy to capture and share your videos,

807
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: so you can install that. My kids have installed it

808
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: on theirs. They like to do these, like kind of tutorials.

809
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: You can record your voice or your video as well

810
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: as your screen, so if you're helping or trying to

811
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: explain something on the web or on an app, you

812
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: can record yourself doing it. Kind of like a tutorial

813
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: word tune I have not heard of, but it helps

814
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: you clearly communicate by rephrasing sentences and catching typos in

815
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 1: emails and documents, and so that's kind of cool. And

816
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: that's maybe one that I'll add. I've been using one

817
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: called it's kind of like Grammarly, but it's Microsoft Editor,

818
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: and it's the same thing as Grammarly, except the difference

819
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: is that because my company subscribes to Office three sixty five,

820
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: I get the premium version of this Microsoft Editor for free.

821
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: It's included in their three sixty five subscription, so it

822
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: gives me access to all of the premium feature. So

823
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: with Grammarly it's great, but you know you've got to

824
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: pay up if you want these premium features. And I'm

825
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: sure word Tune might be the same way, but let's

826
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 1: see it is word tune. Yeah, so they have different plants.

827
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: They have a free plan, they have a premium plan,

828
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: and so there you go. But it's kind of cool.

829
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 1: It says rephrasing sentences, so if you want to kind

830
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: of stand out from the rest, that's kind of a

831
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 1: neat extension forrest. This is funny. We actually featured this

832
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: in a tech report a long time ago. It helps

833
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: you be more productive by planting virtual trees and giving

834
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: your rewards for focusing and helping those trees grow. There's

835
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: dark Reader that protects your eyes during long work days.

836
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: Tab Manager Plus helps you manage your tabs, and then

837
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: there's Nimbus Screenshot and Screen Video Recorder which I have

838
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: installed that helps you record your screen and also do screenshots.

839
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: And then there's one called Remember Barry which helps you

840
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: organize vocabulary words into flashcard decks for quick studying throughout

841
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 1: the day. Oh and then one more rattukan raccoon. Oh gosh,

842
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: how do you say this raccoont rack? Oh gosh, now

843
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: I r A k U T e N. How do

844
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: you pronounce it? I know, it's like a weird way

845
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: to pronounce it. Rakotin, racketin, racketin. There you go, racketin, racketin, racketin.

846
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: Can I bring up my computer audio? Let's see? Can

847
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: it come in here? No? I don't think so. No

848
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I bet you I can. Let me just

849
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 1: try one more thing here, let me change my sound

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00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: to output to be USB, and now let me try

851
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: this ready. Still doesn't work. Okay, but anyway, racketin. So

852
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: there you have it. Yeah, I can't hear it. But

853
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: those are some extensions you can get for Chrome. I

854
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: love Chrome extensions. Just be careful installing some of the

855
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: more spammy ones, because now my Racketin and my Honey

856
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: extension are at war. Racketin wants me to get cash back,

857
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: Honey wants me to put promo codes, and you can't

858
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: use them both at the same time. They get really

859
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: really angry at each other when you try to do that.

860
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: So let's get to another question, shall we. This looks

861
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: more like an observation, Richard says, Movie Night versus Tesla Autonomy.

862
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: Good morning, rich Listen to your latest podcast where you

863
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: won't pay for a movie ticket unless it's a matin a,

864
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: but you'll pay for Tesla Autonomy rationalizations. We may hash

865
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: tag anyway. Just an observation, not a criticism. Love your

866
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 1: shows on and off tv KFI and your podcast. Merry

867
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: Christmas and a happy New Year to you and your

868
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: family in his service, Richard Richard, thank you. Ohps, I

869
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: will do as you suggested in this podcast and engage

870
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: with your social media accounts. Thank you. I'm Att rich

871
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: on tech if you want to find me there, which

872
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: I'm sure you have. But you're right. I agree. Sometimes

873
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: my decisions are not fully rational, and I think that

874
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,959
Speaker 1: as a human we can all fall susceptible or fall

875
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 1: prey to that. You know. To me, it's like the

876
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighteen dollars I spent on the Tesla

877
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: self driving for the month was rationalized based on the

878
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: fact that it was a work not expense. I don't.

879
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: I don't think. Well, maybe I probably could expense it

880
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: if I do a story about it, but it's more

881
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: of a a write off in my head because I

882
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: can justify it by saying well, I need to know

883
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: what this is all about, so I can talk informed.

884
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: I can talk, I can't say it. I'm looking for

885
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: the word. I can talk as an informed human being

886
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: about the self driving features on the Tesla, or as

887
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: an educated individual or informed. I don't know what the

888
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:50,240
Speaker 1: word is, but I basically know what I'm talking about

889
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: because I've experienced it firsthand. And so I know what

890
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: the Tesla is all about because I've actually tried it.

891
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: I've gone hands on. And this is why I think

892
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: hands going hands on with tech stuff is so important.

893
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: As much as it pains me to go hands on

894
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: with so many different gadgets, to crack them open and

895
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: play with them and set them up, it's because I

896
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: want to know what the experience is like. Yes, I

897
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: can read what other people have to say, and I

898
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: can see it, and I can watch the YouTube, but

899
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: I want to know what it's like because that way

900
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: I can talk in a smart way about it, and

901
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: also and also compare and contrast to other devices out

902
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: there that are similar. And so now I know because

903
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: I've I've driven the Rivan with the self driving, I've

904
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: driven the super Cruise with the self driving, or I

905
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 1: guess the driver assist. I've driven Volkswagens driver assist. I've

906
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: driven the Tesla with the autopilot, so I know I can.

907
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: I can compare notes, I can contrast the differences and

908
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: the nuances, and with the Tesla, I'm actually I keep

909
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 1: finding new little things, like the other day I found

910
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: the auto park, which is just so great. But the

911
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 1: problem with the auto park. You know it'll it'll automatically

912
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: pull into a parking spot for you. The problem is,

913
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: most of the time we need that is on kind

914
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: of like a busy street, and if cars are trying

915
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: to get past you, it's it's a little dicey to

916
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: have your your your car doing the backing up because

917
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: it just goes for it. I mean, it's when the

918
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,240
Speaker 1: Tesla does something, it is so confident in its moves,

919
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: like when it was pulling into parallel spaces or yeah,

920
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: parallel parking. When I was testing it, it's just like boom,

921
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: it turns that wheel fast, it backs right in, it stops,

922
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: moves forward, it backs, it goes right up to the

923
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: car behind it, right up to the car in front

924
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,919
Speaker 1: of it, and it's much more, much more not aggressive,

925
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: but much more affirmative. Then I am. When I'm driving,

926
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like inching, you know, very slowly. This

927
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: is like, now we know we got six inches to go,

928
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: so we're just gonna stop. We stop there. Okay, we

929
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: go forward. We know we can go forward pretty fast.

930
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: We stopped there. We angle in. I mean they know

931
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: the angles for the spot. I mean it's it's pretty phenomenal.

932
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: So that feature is really cool, and I will miss that.

933
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: There's a couple of features I'll miss with the autopilot

934
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: that I purchased, and that is the chime when the

935
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: light turns green. I really like that. And I really

936
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: like the self changing lanes. The you know, auto lane

937
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: change is again very confident. And then I will miss

938
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: the parking, the self parking. I don't think those three

939
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: features are worth two hundred and eighteen dollars a month.

940
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: No way, I mean that is that's a lot of

941
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: money for three little features that I can do myself. Yes,

942
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: it's nice to have, but I will I will do myself.

943
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: So anyway, Richard, thanks for the notes for sure. Yeah,

944
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: there's no rhyme or reasons. Sometimes Apple awards the best

945
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: apps in Games of twenty twenty one, so there's a

946
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: whole laundry list of them. I'm not gonna go over

947
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: all of them. I'll just go over some of the

948
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: notables that I think are interesting. iPhone app of the

949
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: Year Toca Life World from Tokeboca. Tokoboca back in the

950
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: day when I had a little tiny tike, was like

951
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: the best game. And I love them because Tokeboca's big

952
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: thing is that they were ad free. There were no

953
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 1: sales whatsoever. They didn't sell you on anything. And slowly

954
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: but surely the inn app purchases came into play, and

955
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: then the big purchase by another company. So I actually

956
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: interviewed the guy who founded this, Bjorn Jeffrey. I forget

957
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: how you say his name exactly, but he came into

958
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: the studio and I was like, you're the guy that

959
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: started Tokboca. How cool is that? And sure enough, yeah,

960
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: he started the whole thing. I love when companies send

961
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 1: like the actual person to me, Like, yeah, of course

962
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: I interviewed Tim Cook and Elon Musk in the past,

963
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: but like, I love when I get to interview the

964
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: actual founders because they just have insights that are are

965
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: just greater than you know, a chief marketing officer or

966
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: you know some person that they send a PR spokesperson.

967
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: They're just you know, I love these people too, but

968
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: they're just you know, they're figureheads for the company. They

969
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: they've got the party line down. When you get the founder.

970
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: They are someone who saw a need for something and

971
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: made it and they figured it out. And I love

972
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: interviewing those kinds of people because they are the real

973
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 1: movers and shakers in this world. And so someone like this,

974
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: I remember him coming to the studio and I was

975
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,399
Speaker 1: just so impressed. I was like, ah, that's so cool

976
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: that I get to talk to the guy who started

977
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: the games that my kid loves to play. Back then,

978
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: I only had one kid, and you know, he was little.

979
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: He's probably three years old, and it was just so great. Yeah,

980
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: and the guy was from Sweden. I think, let me

981
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:45,919
Speaker 1: see tokoboca ktla. Let's see when I interviewed him July fourteenth,

982
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Ohough, it wasn't that long ago. Yeah, here

983
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: he is. CEO. Bjorn Jeffrey came up with the came

984
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: up with the idea when he noticed the tablet trend

985
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: taking off. He imagined lots of kids would soon be

986
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: playing on their iPads at all times. Each game was

987
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: meant to be different from the standard games they might

988
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: play or the videos they might watch. Each game is

989
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: three dollars and there are no ads inside except promotions

990
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,760
Speaker 1: for other Tokboca games. Now, right after I interviewed Bjorn,

991
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: they were purchased by Spinmaster, the same company who owns

992
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: Paul Patrol and they own a whole bunch of toys

993
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: and he left. Now no comment on that, but clearly

994
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: when people leave companies like that, just like I talked

995
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: with the Instagram founders, you know, they're just kind of like, Ah,

996
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: this is not my thing anymore. You guys take it.

997
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: And sure enough, Tokeboca has very much exploded in popularity

998
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: since he left because they've probably done things that he

999
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: wouldn't have done, like they had like a line of

1000
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: clothes and target, a lot of in app purchases, a

1001
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 1: lot of cross promotion. I haven't seen the Tokeboca TV

1002
00:53:55,480 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: show yet, but anyway, Tokoboca Life World is the number

1003
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: one iPhone app of the year, and it's cute. I

1004
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: still think it's very cute. It's just these little characters,

1005
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,479
Speaker 1: you do little things. It's a it's a great, great game,

1006
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:13,399
Speaker 1: and I have no problem recommending that Apple Watch app

1007
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: of the Year. Also one that we have mentioned in

1008
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 1: the past Carrot Weather. Let me see when I mentioned

1009
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: this Carrot Weather. And I don't say this to brag,

1010
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: but I just say that, like, you know, I definitely

1011
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:30,359
Speaker 1: have a knack for seeing things that you know, that

1012
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: I think are cool before a lot of people think

1013
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:40,839
Speaker 1: are cool. What was it? Come on, Carrot Ah? There

1014
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 1: is uh, there was a I don't know, I can't

1015
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 1: I can't seem to find the story. But we definitely

1016
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: interviewed the guy who started Carrott and I can't remember

1017
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 1: what the deal was with it. It was like it

1018
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: was mean to you or something. It was kind of

1019
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 1: like it was a weight loss app. Ah, that was it. Yeah,

1020
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: it was a Carrott weight loss. I don't know, something

1021
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: like that. Let's see carrot app and let's see what

1022
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 1: the other app was, Carrott. Oh is it to do?

1023
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: I think that's what it was. Yeah, Oh is carrot fit.

1024
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: That's that's who it was. So and I remember interviewing

1025
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: the founder again and I'm trying to find the guy

1026
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: who he interviewed. But anyway, Oh, Brian, was this it Yep,

1027
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: here he is Brian Muller. Let's see Brian Muller KTLA

1028
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: here it is January two, twenty nineteen. The Apps that

1029
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: will help You Get Fit in twenty nineteen. So I

1030
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,919
Speaker 1: love it. I love I love discovering these little things.

1031
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: You know, there's just something about them. You see him

1032
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: and you just there's something special about it. You put

1033
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: it on TV and boom, A couple of years later,

1034
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: they are they're making lists. So anyway, Apple Watch of

1035
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: the Year, Apple Watch App of the Year, Carrot Weather.

1036
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: Let's see what else I think was notable on here?

1037
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: The trend of the Year Connection. The goals to identify

1038
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: a movement that had lasting impact and recognize apps that

1039
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: met this moment. The chop trend of twenty twenty one

1040
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:15,760
Speaker 1: chop top is connection. This year's trend winners brought people

1041
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: together in a meaningful way. So among Us was a

1042
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 1: big one. My kids played that. Bumble, Canva and Peanut

1043
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: were some of the top top apps. There just a

1044
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: lot going on with this stuff. Oh man, that's it,

1045
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: no more time. Guess that sound does mean it is

1046
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 1: the end of the show. If you'd like to submit

1047
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1050
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1051
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1052
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1053
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1054
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Speaker 1: already know that if you go to my Instagram, I've

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Speaker 1: got a new reels. It is about changing your ring

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Speaker 1: video doorbell chime to play fun holiday tones. And I

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not like one of these people that

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Speaker 1: does a tip every day, but when I think of

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Speaker 1: a tip, and you know, it takes a while to

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Speaker 1: do these things actually, and so I want to do them.

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Speaker 1: I would love to do one every day. It's just tough,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's a lot of work in addition to

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Speaker 1: my regular work. No matter where you live in the US,

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Speaker 1: you can download the free Ktla plus app on Apple, TV,

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Speaker 1: Fire TV, and Roku. Once you open it up, scroll

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Speaker 1: to the tech section and you can watch all of

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Speaker 1: my TV segments on demand. I always say I do

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Speaker 1: my best work there. It's still my bread and butter.

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Speaker 1: So watch my tech segments from TV. They're fun. I

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Speaker 1: put a lot of effort into them. My name is

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Speaker 1: rich Dimiro. Thanks so much for listening. There are so

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Speaker 1: many ways you can spend an hour of your time,

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Speaker 1: especially during the holidays. I do appreciate you spending it

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Speaker 1: with me. Stay safe, have a great holiday. If I

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Speaker 1: don't talk to you before that, which I probably will,

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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you real soon