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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the

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Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I hope you are having a fantastic day, getting ready

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Speaker 2: A taking a breath. I got a.

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Speaker 1: Little bit of a late start this morning, had some

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Speaker 1: March a year and almost six months that Disney Plus

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Speaker 1: has been available.

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Speaker 2: I cannot believe it.

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Speaker 1: It feels like just yesterday I was recording my segment

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Speaker 1: and planning my segment for KTLA on Disney Plus, and

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Speaker 1: when I went back to cut some video on this

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Speaker 1: for TV to talk about the price hike, I had

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Speaker 1: to go back into my files and I was like, wait,

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, what so I think we've gotten our use

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Speaker 1: out of it. I would say for the family movies

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Speaker 1: like The Sit Down Friday night thing. I wish they

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Speaker 1: had a little bit more because we're not, Like, it'd

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Speaker 1: be awesome if there's something every Friday night, like a

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Speaker 1: new like Pixar movie.

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Speaker 2: I get it. That's that's really tricky.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is it too much to ask for like

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Speaker 1: a multi you know, a six hundred million dollar budget

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Speaker 1: movie or a billion dollar budget movie every week?

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Speaker 2: I mean, come on, Disney.

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Speaker 1: But nonetheless, look, Disney Plus is still pretty cheap compared

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Speaker 1: to the other services. They've got one hundred million subscribers.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you look at Netflix or you know,

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Speaker 1: HBO Max, those are all much more expensive. Hulu, it

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Speaker 1: depends on what you have. If you have like the

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Speaker 1: ad free Hulu, like I do, think it's like twelve

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Speaker 1: bucks a month. But you know, so oh you can

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Speaker 1: get a bundle though, if you got Disney Plus, cause

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Speaker 1: that's all the same.

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Speaker 2: So you know, look it's going up.

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Speaker 1: I put this on my Facebook page and people were

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Speaker 1: you know, people get angry on the Facebook page.

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Speaker 2: You're like, oh, how dare they?

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Speaker 1: But then you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: they're probably keeping it, I would say, and yeah, they'll

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Speaker 1: probably lose some people, but I don't think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be enough to, like, you know, totally go from one

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Speaker 1: hundred million subscribers to fifty million overnight. I think Disney

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Speaker 1: is going to be okay.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Question from Marcella says, hey, rich, does Arlow doorbell offer

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Speaker 1: better security than the Ring app?

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Speaker 2: Why the price difference? Thanks?

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Speaker 1: Well, I assume when you say Ring app you mean

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Speaker 1: the Ring video doorbell. So if you look at Arlow,

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Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing. You have to think about

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Speaker 1: the fact that when you buy one of these devices,

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Speaker 1: these little smart home devices, right, it seems like an easy,

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Speaker 1: innocent purchase. Okay, you know, you get a doorbell video camera,

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Speaker 1: but what you're really doing is buying into an ecosystem.

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Speaker 1: So you have to be very thoughtful and strategic about

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Speaker 1: this because you have to look at all the products

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Speaker 1: that ar Low offers and all the products that Ring

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Speaker 1: offers and see which one you like better. You have

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Speaker 1: to see the subscriptions that they offer and see if

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Speaker 1: you like r low better or or Ring better. Now,

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Speaker 1: I will be honest, I'm not too familiar with the

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Speaker 1: rlow stuff. I know that a lot of people like it,

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Speaker 1: but I just don't know. I'm not familiar with like

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Speaker 1: their subscription situation, if they even have one. I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of the Arlow stuff does like onboard recording,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's why people like it, because it's

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Speaker 1: like it is cheaper over time, right than it is

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Speaker 1: for for for the Ring stuff. And so let's see

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Speaker 1: let's see Arlow Smart. Okay, let's see what Arlow Smart is. Okay,

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Speaker 1: smart subscription plans. So they do have a subscription plan

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Speaker 1: for ar Low and if you look at it, it

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Speaker 1: is single camera okay, So there's no plan which gives

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Speaker 1: you live video streaming. And then there's the single camera

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Speaker 1: plan which is three dollars a month, and up to

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Speaker 1: five cameras which is ten dollars a month, and then

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Speaker 1: the Elite which is up to four K video, which

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Speaker 1: is up to fifteen. So that's the main thing you

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Speaker 1: need to look at. So if you look at the doorbells,

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Speaker 1: they're pretty much the same price. The wireless doorbell is

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Speaker 1: one ninety nine for the r Low. It's currently one

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Speaker 1: sixty nine for the video doorbell three plus. But if

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Speaker 1: you go on the website for Ring, I mean, they

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Speaker 1: just have so many products at this point that it's

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Speaker 1: like everywhere, I mean, so you can get a video

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Speaker 1: doorbell for as cheap as eighty five bucks, and it

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Speaker 1: might not be as clear as you know many features

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Speaker 1: as the newest one. But again, I think that's what

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Speaker 1: you mean when you're saying this price difference is why

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Speaker 1: should I pay two hundred dollars for the r Low

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Speaker 1: when I can get a Ring for like eighty five bucks.

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Speaker 1: And it's a valid question, but personally, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think these are both really good companies and I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at Arlow like what they have They fucked cameras, doorbells,

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Speaker 1: floodlke camera. I think Ring has the larger scope of accessories,

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Speaker 1: and I've been slowly but surely installing more Ring stuff

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Speaker 1: because I just think they're just coming out new stuff

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Speaker 1: so often that I love it. And their plan, I

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Speaker 1: think is ten dollars a month for like everything, which

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Speaker 1: is really reasonable, and that I think that includes the

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Speaker 1: alarm system. I think it's only three dollars a month

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Speaker 1: for the other like if you just have a bunch

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Speaker 1: of cameras. Don't quote me on that because I've not

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Speaker 1: subscribed just yet. But oh yeah, here it is Ring.

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Speaker 1: Let's see where is it ring Protect. Here's how much

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Speaker 1: ring Protect is. Ring Protect compare plans three dollars a

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Speaker 1: month or thirty dollars a year for basic. Yeah, plus

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Speaker 1: is the Ring alarm, so that actually disregard that unless

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Speaker 1: you're doing their alarm system. So yeah, three dollars a

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Speaker 1: month or thirty dollars a year for as oh for

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Speaker 1: one device, Oh okay, so all devices is.

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Speaker 2: Ten dollars a month. Okay, so yeah it's ten bucks

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Speaker 2: a month.

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Speaker 1: So again you kind of have to decide like which

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Speaker 1: ecosystem do you want to do you want to be

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Speaker 1: a part of, And that's really what it comes down to.

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Speaker 1: So take a look at all the products. You know,

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Speaker 1: Ring is coming out with stuff like it seems like

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Speaker 1: every day Arlow they've been a little bit slower and

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Speaker 1: steadier with their products, but they have the basic stuff

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Speaker 1: you need doorbells, cameras, floodlights, you know, those kind of things.

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Speaker 1: So it just really depends what you want and the

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Speaker 1: ecosystem that you want to get into. And let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: after you know you're not going to stick on the

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Speaker 1: free plan, probably you're going to end up buying the

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Speaker 1: subscription plan, So you got to think about how much

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Speaker 1: that's going to cost you and whether you want to

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Speaker 1: pay that each month.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about MacBook.

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Speaker 1: So this is just another quick story MacBook owners that

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Speaker 1: bought a MacBook between let's see basically twenty fifteen to

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, whether MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook you had

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Speaker 1: this thing called the butterfly keyboard design. And this was

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Speaker 1: the topic of many, many a conversation in the tech world.

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Speaker 1: People hated this keyboard Apple, of course. You know, they

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Speaker 1: go on stage saying how great it is. When you

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Speaker 1: actually get it, you're like, oh, this is horrible. And

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Speaker 1: I know from personal experience because I had a MacBook

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Speaker 1: Pro with this laptop with this keyboard and it was

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Speaker 1: the worst typing experience ever. Now, it did do the thing, okay,

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Speaker 1: so what people are saying, So basically, there's a class

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Speaker 1: action lawsuit now in a bunch of states against this keyboard,

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Speaker 1: and who knows, you'll probably get like a check for

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Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. But the reality is it kind of

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Speaker 1: it makes you realize that, you know, all these people

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Speaker 1: were complaining about it for so long and Apple just

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Speaker 1: kept dismissing it. You know, they never really came out

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Speaker 1: and said that this was a horrible design. They tweaked it,

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Speaker 1: you know, every couple, you know, every year they would

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Speaker 1: tweak or every two years they would tweak the design

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Speaker 1: just a little bit, but they'd still say it was

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Speaker 1: so great.

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Speaker 2: But we all knew using it that it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: And now you know, I actually was pretty much, pretty

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Speaker 1: much pushed to buying the new MacBook Pro sixteen because

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't deal with the keyboard on the old one.

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Speaker 1: Now my son has it, and he's fine, you know,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't really know any different. But the reality is,

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Speaker 1: this was just a really not fun keyboard to have.

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Speaker 1: So there was a famous column in the Wall Street

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Speaker 1: Journal from Joanna Stern. She talked about she wrote the

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Speaker 1: whole column with the double keypresses. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: people would say that when you got like some dust

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Speaker 1: or crumbs in this keyboard, it would stick, and so

589
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Speaker 1: the keys would type instead of like oney, you it

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Speaker 1: would type two. And I had this problem and it

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Speaker 1: drove me nuts, and I'm like, is something happening, Like

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Speaker 1: what is going on?

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Speaker 2: Why is this happening?

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Speaker 1: And so now it all, you know, it all makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Apple abandoned the design in twenty twenty, according to the Verge,

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00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: and you know. It's just one of those things where

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Speaker 1: I just feel like, okay, I actually know that I

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Speaker 1: was not I was not the one that thought that

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Speaker 1: this was a little bit weird and everyone else thought

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Speaker 1: it was fine. No, it was really weird. So now

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Speaker 1: we know whether you get your money or not, at

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Speaker 1: least you feel like you know.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's move on to this. Let's see here.

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Speaker 1: Bill says, First off, I really like your segments on

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Speaker 1: the Morning News, very informative.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Bill. Is there a way to.

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Speaker 1: Remove the annoying provider boot splash and sound that happens

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Speaker 1: every time you turn on your phone? If you do

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Speaker 1: not know, can you steer me to someone who might thanks.

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Speaker 1: My particular phone is Samsung Galaxy S nine. In case

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Speaker 1: that matters, Keep up the good work and stay safe, William. Well, William,

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Speaker 1: I assume you're talking about because your email says sent

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Speaker 1: from the Samsung Galaxy No. Eight and AT and T

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Speaker 1: five G evolution capable smartphone. You're talking about the boot

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00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: up screen that basically flashes like AT and T makes

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Speaker 1: their little sound and it's like ah, and it's every time. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many times you're restarting your phone

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00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: and seeing this, But yeah, I agree, it's one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent bogus, annoying, bl bloated, lame, no need for it.

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Speaker 1: Why these carriers love to brand their phone so much,

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. It's not like they're giving us

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Speaker 1: a discount to have all this branding on it, but

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Speaker 1: it happens. And the only phone that you don't I

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00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: get that on is the iPhone. And maybe you know

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00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: some of the things like one plus. Actually if you

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Speaker 1: buy a one plus branded from T Mobile, you might

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Speaker 1: get that too. But anyway, I don't know of a

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Speaker 1: way to get rid of that. I used to RHM

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Speaker 1: phones all the time, which is, you know, installing like

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Speaker 1: new operating systems on them, and I'm not even sure

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Speaker 1: that that got rid of it. I think I can't remember, honestly,

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00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: but I think Bill, I don't think it's something for

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Speaker 1: the feint of heart to do. Like I don't think

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Speaker 1: like the average person that just has a Samsung Galaxy

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Speaker 1: S nine can just like you know, go into some

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Speaker 1: settings and change that. This is like a a real

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00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: like you know, you would have to do some serious,

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00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: heavy duty stuff on your phone to get rid of this.

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00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: And I don't think that that's something that I could

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Speaker 1: recommend on this consumer podcast. But I mean, and I

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Speaker 1: don't even remember the websites I used to go to

642
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: for like the I think it was like cyanogen mod

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Speaker 1: that I used to use. Like, you know, there's all

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00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: these ROMs. I used to love installing those. I used

645
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Speaker 1: to think that I can make the Android phones so

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00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 1: much better with all these ROMs. And I used to Oh,

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Speaker 1: it was such a nightmare because nothing worked properly. And

648
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Speaker 1: you would just install one and like you know, their

649
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: phone calls wouldn't work. You'd install another one and the

650
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: camera wouldn't work. You'd stall another one and it's like

651
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: some other cool thing you could. You know, It's like

652
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: none of it ever worked properly. And I just I

653
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: stopped doing that many many years ago, probably five years ago,

654
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I got over it. So Bill,

655
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a way to really do this easily.

656
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: So I would just you know, restart your phone and

657
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: just put it in like a corner while it restarts,

658
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: so you don't hear it or see it.

659
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 2: That's that's my advice.

660
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Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of carriers, Verizon has a pretty good deal

661
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: and I am skeptical of this deal because it is

662
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: from Verizon, even though I'm nothing against them. You know,

663
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: full disclosure. My service is with Verizon and it's fantastic.

664
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Speaker 2: I love it.

665
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: I pay a lot for it, but it's great. They

666
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 1: have Verizon Cloud for unlimited storage. Yes, you heard me correct,

667
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: unlimited storage with Verizon Cloud. There's a brand new plan

668
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: for twenty dollars a month unlimited. Now, I would make

669
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: the joke that all these carriers have unlimited cell phone

670
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,479
Speaker 1: plans which are anything but unlimited, except T Mobile. They

671
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: do have one that actually is unlimited. But TIMO know, Verizon,

672
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: AT and T unlimited does not really mean the same

673
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: thing to you and I that it means to them

674
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: with their plans. So that's why I'm a little bit hesitant,

675
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: because I'm like, what's the fine print on this? Is

676
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: it really unlimited or are you limited in some way?

677
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: But they say no, it is unlimited. Store as much

678
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: as you want automatically upload files from iOS, Android, Windows,

679
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: and Mac. The first month is free. It's not just

680
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: for photos and videos. You can store anything files. You

681
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: can even store your texts on Android, which is kind

682
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: of cool, like a text backup feature. You can set

683
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Speaker 1: up private folders which keep them private. You can share

684
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: with family and friends. You can share Verizon Cloud with

685
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: up to four or other users, whether or not they're Verizon.

686
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: That's really interesting because it has family and friends. That

687
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: means they don't even have to be on Verizon. Like

688
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,239
Speaker 1: I could share this unlimited cloud with my brother, Like,

689
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: that's really cool.

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00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: Twenty dollars a month.

691
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: I meant to download this before I did the podcast

692
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: so I can kind of check it out.

693
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: I did not get a chance, but I will.

694
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Speaker 1: But then it got me to thinking, Okay, twenty dollars

695
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: a month is amazing, But I already pay ten dollars

696
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: a month for my Google storage, which is two terabytes.

697
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: If I bump it up to ten terabytes, it's fifty

698
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: dollars a month, which I know sounds like a lot.

699
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: But if I'm paying twenty for Verizon and ten for Google,

700
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: and now I have to put my stuff in two places,

701
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: I can just put thirty dollars towards Google, and now

702
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: I'm only paying twenty extra for my to ten terabytes

703
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: on Google? Are you following me? But that still only

704
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: gives me ten terabytes, not unlimited, but is ten terabytes

705
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: enough probably.

706
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:54,959
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.

707
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: I'm up to two, but I mean, you know, ten

708
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: would took me a couple of years to get to two,

709
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't know how long would it

710
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: take me to get to ten? And then maybe I

711
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: can just wait until I get to that ten and

712
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: then switch. I don't know, So this is the way

713
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: I think. So I think that, you know, it sounds

714
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: amazing that Verizon's offering this, and I think it's cool.

715
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: The only thing I don't like is that it links

716
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: you to Verizon indefinitely. And of course that's the name

717
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: of the game with these add on services. You know,

718
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: they want you to have all these things on one

719
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: bill so that you stick with them. And if you're like, oh,

720
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: I want to change my provider, and you're like, oh,

721
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: now I don't get the Verizon Cloud for twenty dollars

722
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: a month unlimited, Oh, I'll.

723
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: Just stick with Verizon.

724
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: So there's a reason why they do these things and so,

725
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: but at the same time, it is a very compelling.

726
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: It's very compelling twenty bucks a month for unlimited that

727
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: I would never have to think about my cloud storage.

728
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm also curious how good the apps are how good

729
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: the search is. I can find anything in my Google

730
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: Drive within reason, very quickly, and everything's indexed and sliced

731
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: and diced, and images are all indexed and PDFs are

732
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: indexed everything. I mean, you could find stuff in there,

733
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: you know, type in Sunrise and everything with Sunrise pictures, videos, whatever, documents.

734
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 2: So you know, it's a good deal.

735
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: But I personally hope that their offer forces some of

736
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: these other cloud service providers or cloud storage providers to

737
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: bring down their prices or increase their storage. It's been

738
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: a while since we saw Google double from one terabyte

739
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: to two. Maybe they'll bump that up to a little

740
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: bit more. All right, Tommy says, hey, Rich, good morning

741
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 1: to you. How are you doing. I'm doing great. I'm

742
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: just wondering what's your take on the new MacBook air

743
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,720
Speaker 1: M one. Will be good for basic use like Web

744
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: office and very little photo and video editing. Would you

745
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: advise to go for two fifty six or five twelve storage?

746
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tommy, Tommy, I think the new MacBook air

747
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: M one is amazing. I was a little bit wrong

748
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: on this because I was kind of thinking it would

749
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: not be that great, but I have not tested.

750
00:34:58,800 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: It, but people love it.

751
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: All the reviews I've seen, all my you know, tech

752
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: friends on Instagram and Twitter love it, and I've I've

753
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: found little fault with it, and so I say go

754
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: for it.

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00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 2: Very little photo video and editing.

756
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: I think it can handle any photo, video and editing

757
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: that you're going to be doing. If you're saying is

758
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: very little, it's probably just personal use simple stuff. I

759
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: used to edit on my MacBook Air all the time

760
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: for video and it was fine. It couldn't really handle, like,

761
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 1: you know, the big, big stuff, but for every day

762
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: basic stuff. Yeah, And whether two fifty six or five twelve,

763
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: definitely go five twelve. Get the most memory. They offer

764
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,919
Speaker 1: the most RAM and the most RAM, so you want

765
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: the most storage and the most memory. So if five

766
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: twelve and sixteen is max, go for five twelve sixteen.

767
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: You will be happy later. Because no, these are expensive.

768
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: And I always tell people you're already going. Let's say

769
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: this MacBook. I don't know how much the M one is.

770
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: To see how much it is, it's probably like nine

771
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: ninety nine or eleven ninety nine. Let's see it is

772
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: dun it is not eight oh eight ninety nine education stores,

773
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: So that means it's nine ninety nine. Okay, so nine

774
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: ninety nine, they have two configurations, they've got two fifty

775
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: six or five twelve.

776
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 2: Two fifty six.

777
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: Is nine ninety nine that comes with eight gigs of memory,

778
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: and then what five twelve is is uh, twelve forty nine.

779
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: So people are always like, oh, twelve forty nine so expensive,

780
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: but you're already going the nine ninety nine, Like you're

781
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 1: already spending that, so that the little distance is two

782
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: fifty and you know, just don't eat out for like,

783
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of meals and you know, don't

784
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: eat out at like you know, fast food for a

785
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: couple of months, and you'll be fine. You know, that's

786
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: the way I see it. You know, there's there's ways

787
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 1: that you know, we all have. You know, if you're

788
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: buying a computer for nine ninety nine, you're I get it,

789
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: you're going it's expensive, but you're going that far. So

790
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: if you go a little bit more for the five twelve,

791
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: you're doubling your store for two fifty more. So you're

792
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: not doubling your storage for another thousand more five hundred.

793
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 2: It's two fifty. So if you don't need.

794
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: All that storage, like if you literally do everything in

795
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: the cloud. You don't really have a lot of stuff

796
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: that you're gonna be dealing with. Then by all means,

797
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: just go up to two fifty six.

798
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 2: She'll be fine.

799
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: So, but I think for maximum use over the years,

800
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: I like the the five twelve. You're also getting a

801
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: slightly better GPU. It's eight core GPU versus seven core.

802
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: Let me see if they can if you can update

803
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: or upgrade the memory on this. Oh you can, yeah,

804
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. Oh wow, you can even go up

805
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: to two terabytes of storage. Ooh, that would be my

806
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: configuration MacBook Air sixteen gigs of storage, two terabytes. That

807
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 1: would be a whopping twenty forty nine, which is actually

808
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: it's not too bad for two terabytes. Ooh, that's getting

809
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: me thinking. But I don't want the MacBook Air. I

810
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: would want the MacBook Pro thirteen with But see now

811
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 1: I'm on a sixteen inch. I just can't go back

812
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: to thirteen. There's no way that screen would be just

813
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: too small. So let's see if I max out the thirteen,

814
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: which is, let's see Intel.

815
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 2: I don't want Intel, I want M one.

816
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: There we are, so base price is fifteen hundred and

817
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: then if I add the sixteen gigs of memory plus

818
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: the two terabytes, now you're talking twenty three hundred.

819
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,479
Speaker 2: Now that's a lot. Yeah, not spending that right now?

820
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: All right, good question. All right now.

821
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: I thought this was a really, really good tip. This

822
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: comes from the datadoctors dot com. They do a radio

823
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: one minute quick tip each day for non tech people.

824
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 1: So they're they're talking to me and not well, they're

825
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: talking to the people that I talk to, right, you know,

826
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: non techies per se, people that are watching the local news.

827
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: They just see my tech segment and they go, oh,

828
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I thought this was brilliant. And I get

829
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: questions all the time about, you know, people getting hacked

830
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: on Instagram and Facebook and you get locked out and

831
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: there's no way back in, and there's really nothing I

832
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: can tell you to do except just go to the

833
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 1: help you Facebook help page and just kind of follow

834
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: the directions they give you. Sometimes you get back in,

835
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't. But this little tip from data Doctors

836
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: is perfect. If you go into your Facebook security settings,

837
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: and this is before you get hacked, do this today.

838
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: There is a trusted contacts section. Okay, let me get

839
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: this because I actually went in here and looked at

840
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: this and I thought it was amazing because mine's not

841
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: set up.

842
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 2: And so you go into your Facebook page.

843
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: You go into let's see let me see how you

844
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: find trusted contacts, go to security and log in. Okay,

845
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: go to your Facebook page and then go to your

846
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: security and log in tab and then you scroll down

847
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: and it says setting up extra security. Choose three to

848
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:49,399
Speaker 1: five friends to contact if you get locked out, and

849
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: they will get a code. If you ever get locked out,

850
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: if you're trying to say, hey, this is my account,

851
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: I can't get back in, it will send a code

852
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: to your friends and they will say, yeah, I know

853
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: rich trying to get in. Yeah, click the code and

854
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: boom or I think so it happens is they send

855
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: a code to all three of your friends. You have

856
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: to use that code to log in all three of

857
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 1: those code, not just one. So you can choose three

858
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: to five friends. I've not chosen any friends yet to

859
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: do this. I'm gonna do this.

860
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 2: Today, but what a good idea. It's brilliant.

861
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: Do this before you get hacked. So again, go to

862
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash settings, then go to your security tab.

863
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: So go to settings in privacy and let's see, see

864
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: it's easier just to go to the link. I'll put

865
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: the link in the show notes. But it's Facebook dot

866
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: com slash settings equals slash tab or gosh, this is

867
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: why you can't say this on the radio or podcast.

868
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash settings, question mark tab equals security,

869
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: So it's basically your security tab inside the settings and

870
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: then scroll down toward says setting up extra security.

871
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a video on this so I can

872
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 2: explain how to do this. But this is a brilliant,

873
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 2: brilliant thing.

874
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: If you really want to protect your Facebook account, that's

875
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: what you got to do. Set up those trusted contacts.

876
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: All right, Lisa says, dear Rich, I love your show

877
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: and your podcast. Really appreciate how you answer listeners questions

878
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: in a way non techies like me can understand what

879
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: I just say. We have about one hundred family members.

880
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: We'd like to make historic photos of family members available

881
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 1: to all, no matter their tech ability. I know a flicker,

882
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: are there others out there? Some relatives are in their

883
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties. Your help would be appreciated, sincerely, Lisa. Well, Lisa,

884
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: I think any cloud storage would work for this. And

885
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: you basically want to send a link that does not

886
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: require any sort of login. That's the magic here, because

887
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: you're talking eighties and nineties. You don't want to make

888
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: them jump through any sort of hoops to see these pictures. Now,

889
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: if you want these pictures to remain private, that is

890
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: a little bit trickier because you are going to have

891
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: to password protect them if you want to do that.

892
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: But if you just want to give, like, you know,

893
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: a random URL, and it's going to be pretty private

894
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: just because it's a random URL, and you send it

895
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: to these family members and they get to see all

896
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: these pictures, download them, do whatever. I think you can

897
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: use Flicker. I think that would work just fine. I

898
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: think Dropbox is perfect for this. I think Dropbox will

899
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: give you like a I don't know how much they

900
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: give you at this point for free storage, but like

901
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: a gig. And then you've got let's say, you could

902
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: use Microsoft one Drive, you can use Google Photos, you

903
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: can use Google Drive. I mean, there's so many ways

904
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: of doing this. I think any of these cloud services

905
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: would work. I don't know how many pictures you have,

906
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: but I think you want the easiest thing. I think

907
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: probably the easiest thing would be Dropbox. But the only

908
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: tricky thing that all these providers do these days, which

909
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 1: could trip up your family members is you know, when

910
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: you do these free links, they always try to get them.

911
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: They always try to trick them into like signing up

912
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: or even logging in to download, even though you don't

913
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: have to. I get this all the time with like

914
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: box and like all these other services. I get links

915
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 1: to pictures that people send me, like press people, and

916
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: it's like you press download and immediately up pops a

917
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: box to log in or sign up, and you're like, oh,

918
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: I got to sign in, and the download kind of

919
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: waits five or ten seconds, and then it happens in

920
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,240
Speaker 1: the background, which you know, they call it a dark pattern,

921
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: you know, where it's trying to trick you into doing something.

922
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: And for the uninitiated, for the less techie, a lot

923
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: of times they'll just do it. They'll just log in

924
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,720
Speaker 1: or create an account, and then you know, they realize

925
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: they don't really have to do that, or they may

926
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: never realize that.

927
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 2: So I don't like that, but I get it.

928
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: They're trying to make their free services worth your time,

929
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: and you know, trying to get people to convert. But

930
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: if I had to pick one, you know, I'd pick

931
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: one that you're already a member of. So let's see,

932
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: how'd you email me? I don't have your email address, okay,

933
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: so I don't know what email or what service you're using.

934
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: But you know, like Google Photos makes it pretty darn

935
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 1: easy to send links to people. I mean I exchange

936
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: pictures with my photographer all the time, like little videos

937
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: and stuff that all. So we use Dropbox primarily, but

938
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: then if he needs like a video that I shot

939
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: that's already in Google Photos, I will literally just generate

940
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: a link and boom send it to him and he

941
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: can just download the photo from the link or the

942
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,240
Speaker 1: video and it's super duper easy. So that's what I'd recommend.

943
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: Check him out, and I think all those will work.

944
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: And get those pictures scanned and share them with your

945
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: friends and family. It's beautiful. It's beautiful when you can

946
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 1: do that. Let me tell you about flee swear. This

947
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: is from a vast They say that flee sware apps

948
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 1: have earned over four hundred million dollars on Android and iOS. Ugh. Again,

949
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: this is preying upon people that are less tech savvy.

950
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: Researchers out of vass have discovered two hundred and four

951
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: flee sware applications with over a billion downloads and four

952
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: hundred dollars four hundred million in revenue on both Apple

953
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: and Google Play. The purpose of these applications is to

954
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 1: draw users into a free trial to test the app,

955
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 1: and then guess what you forget to cancel and boom

956
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: you're charged, and even if you cancel after that, they've

957
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: already made the one nine four ninety nine. Sometimes these

958
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: things go up to very very expensive free trials. I

959
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: mean it could be like ninety nine dollars and then

960
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: you got to try to get your money back. Flea

961
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: swear consists predominantly of musical instrument apps, palm readers, image editors,

962
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: camera filters, fortune tellers, QR code readers, PDF readers, and

963
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: slime simulators. The applications generally do what they're supposed to do.

964
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: They scan QR codes, but you don't need to pay

965
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: for QR code scanner. They target younger audiences through playful

966
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: themes and catchy ads on social networks with free installation.

967
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 1: And so this is interesting because it's it's actually targeting

968
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 1: the teens. And my kid yesterday gave me a screen

969
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: time request to download a VPN, and I'm sure he

970
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: saw it as an ad on one of the games

971
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: he's playing. So these apps also take advantage of the

972
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: fact that users are not familiar with how subscriptions were,

973
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: which means even after you've deleted the app, the subscription

974
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: keeps going, and a lot of people don't know how

975
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: to cancel subscriptions. They made it a lot easier on iOS.

976
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: On Android, when you uninstall, it says, hey, do you

977
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: want to cancel the subscription? I believe it says that

978
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: every time on iOS. I think that was a feature

979
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: they were thinking of introducing. I'm not sure if it

980
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: ever was introduced, but they've made it easier to find

981
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: your subscriptions on iOS anyway. It's like two clicks now

982
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 1: versus like ten before. So I think this is again

983
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: one of those things that you just kind of tell

984
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: your friends and family about, you know, just you know.

985
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: My trick with free trials is you go in, you

986
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: cancel it immediately. So I subscribe to Paramount Network the

987
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: other day to watch the new SpongeBob movie, which I

988
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: thought was fantastic by the way, I really really enjoyed it.

989
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: And now I'm gonna watch. You can't do that on television.

990
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: But they gave me a free trial of one month,

991
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,959
Speaker 1: and that's on my through my Apple TV and through

992
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: iOS or you know, through Apple subscriptions. And so what

993
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: I did was I always let them eat email me,

994
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: and then as soon as I get that email, you know,

995
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: when I check my email the next morning, whatever, I

996
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 1: go in and I cancel that subscription immediately.

997
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 2: Now you may say, Rich, why would you do that.

998
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: That's so mean to the developers, like you're just using

999
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 1: them for their free trial and you're canceling it without

1000
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: even trying it. No, what I'm doing is protecting myself

1001
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: from myself. And so if I want the if I

1002
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: want Paramount Plus, after my free trial, I can go

1003
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: ahead and resubscribe at any time. It doesn't really hurt

1004
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: anyone in the process. So what I always do is,

1005
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 1: as a rule, just go ahead and cancel your subscription

1006
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: immediately after you subscribe. And if you feel like you're

1007
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: being mean, you're not. You're You're just protecting yourself. And

1008
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 1: the best part is, let's say you want to continue

1009
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: the subscription and on the twenty seventh day, when your

1010
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: subscription is supposed to renew, and it's not, and all

1011
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're trying to access the app, you go, oh, yeah,

1012
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: I cancel this. So it's it automatically canceled out. All

1013
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: these free trials, you can continue to use until the

1014
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: free trial runs out, even if you cancel it. The

1015
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: only the exception, ironically, is Apple's own free trials. If

1016
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: you cancel them, a lot of times they just stop

1017
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: working immediately, which is you know, talk about dark patterns,

1018
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: but whatever, I digress. So I think you just do that,

1019
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: and that's the rule that you make. And again I'm

1020
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: talking you know, if you're techy and tech savvy. But

1021
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people like my dad just subscribed

1022
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: to Hulu, and I can guarantee you he will forget

1023
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: to cancel by the time the free trial, not to

1024
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: you know, single out my dad, but it just happens.

1025
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 2: It happens to everyone. I did it the other day.

1026
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 2: What I do.

1027
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: I forget what the what the app was, but I

1028
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: signed up for my kid and I say, oh, they

1029
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,479
Speaker 1: got me. They got me for an extra month because

1030
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: I forgot to do this, and it's this was a

1031
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: specific app my kid needed like immediately, Oh it was Minecraft.

1032
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: Realms and it was like eight bucks. But he wanted

1033
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: me to like do this, and I had to do

1034
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: it fast, and I just kind of forgot. And I

1035
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: actually know why I forgot, and it was because I

1036
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: talked about this another podcast. My emails from Apple were

1037
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: not arriving to my inbox. They were going to like

1038
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: SPA or something. So now I've got them arriving.

1039
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 2: So now when I.

1040
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: See, oh, you subscribe to a free trial, I say, oh, cancel,

1041
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: and then I'll resubscribe if I end up loving it,

1042
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: and you can always go back and do that. Just

1043
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: remember that, all right. Next question, Nancy says, hey, Rich,

1044
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: hope all is good with you.

1045
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 2: Hopefully you can help me.

1046
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: My question is, we have an RV with a Wineguard antenna.

1047
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: Can we connect it to a.

1048
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: Verizon mobile Wi Fi and have our Samsung TV work

1049
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: off Wi Fi instead of having a contract with Dish

1050
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: TV or Dish Network or Direct TV or Dish Network.

1051
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: Thanks for your help, Nancy, Yeah, I would say so.

1052
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't exactly. I don't know what the

1053
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: Wineguard antenna is. I'm guessing, let's see, is that like

1054
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: some sort of special RV antenna.

1055
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 2: I'm guessing it must be. Okay, yeah, so.

1056
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, Well, I don't know what kind of

1057
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: antenna this is. This is taking in satellite TV, that's

1058
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: I'm guessing, But I don't think you can connect that

1059
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: antenna specifically to a Verizon hot spot. But I think

1060
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,399
Speaker 1: you can have your Samsung TV work off Wi Fi

1061
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: if you get a Verizon hot spot. My solution would

1062
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: be get the Verizon Mobile hop Actually, maybe before you

1063
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: do any of this, just cancel the Direct TV or

1064
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: Dish network, use your iPhone as a hotspot if you can,

1065
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,320
Speaker 1: if your mobile service allows it, and get a little

1066
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: streaming stick for your TV. So I know Samsung TVs

1067
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,320
Speaker 1: have some sort of smarts built in, but just bypass

1068
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: that and go with like either I personally would go

1069
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: with the I'd go with the Amazon Fire TV stick.

1070
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: Get that plug that into the back of your TV.

1071
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: Use your phone to set up the Wi Fi so

1072
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: turn it into a hotspot. Connect the Amazon fireTV stick

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00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: to your phone's WiFi, and take a trip and see

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Speaker 1: if you can live with the apps. You know, the

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Speaker 1: streaming apps you know, Netflix I'm guessing as one of

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00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: the popular ones, or whatever else you're using. See if

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00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: you can deal with those over your Wi Fi and

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00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: then if you like it and it seems to work,

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00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: then go ahead, invest in a mobile hotspot, get Verizons,

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00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do, especially if they have a

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Speaker 1: five G one. I mean that would be amazing because

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00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: you get you know, good signal and just hook that

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00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 1: up in your RV, put it near a window, run,

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00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: run it to a power strip and turn it on

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00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: and boom, you have Wi Fi twenty four to seven

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00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 1: in your RV. Add it to your cell phone plan

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00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 1: and you know, now your little your Amazon Fire TV

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00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: stick is running to that Wi Fi and you'll probably

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00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: save a bundle in your you know, Direct TV or

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Speaker 1: Dish network fees.

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Speaker 2: That's what I would do.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the best solution there. All right, let's

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00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: do one more story before we go. This is this

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00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: was just something that was kind of fun free Blockbuster

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Speaker 1: dot org. So I saw a tip on Instagram from

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Speaker 1: one of my friends that they had a free Blockbuster

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00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: Kiosk in Tarzana, California. So I drove over and I,

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Speaker 1: you know, I love check, you know, I saw I

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00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: checked the date. It was like, oh, it's only been

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00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: there for a couple of days. So I had to

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00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 1: go run over there. And my wife was like, where

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00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: are you? And so I like, I was like, I'm

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00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: in Tarzana shooting a free Blockbuster kiosk. She's like what,

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00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: and so like, I'll be home soon. I'll be home soon.

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00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: And I went and I shot this thing. It was

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00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: so cool. It's this little, uh, you know, newspaper vending

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00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,720
Speaker 1: machine that of course is not used anymore, and people

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00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: go and they repurpose them, so they they spray paint

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00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,879
Speaker 1: them blue. Then they use stencils to make it look

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Speaker 1: like a Blockbuster you know logo, and then they put

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00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: little DVDs in it or see or you know vhs,

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00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: and they it's like that whole give one, take one

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00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And then they advertise it on Instagram.

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00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: It's all volunteer, it's all free. And I went and

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00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: I went to the free Blockbuster dot org website and

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00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: sure enough, there's a bunch of these all over the

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00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: US and it's just done by volunteer. It's just kind

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00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: of fun, kind of getting entertainment into people's hands for free.

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00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: And so in the Blockbuster video box that I saw,

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00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: there was the office space on DVD. There's a pianist

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00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: on VHS Wow Old School, and there was a couple

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00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: other movies as well, and I just thought it was

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00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: so cool, such a fun idea, very nostalgic, and if

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00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: you want to check it out. I've got the video

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00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: on my Instagram at rich on Tech. And you know,

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00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: people of course on my Facebook were like, oh, just

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00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: gonna take one bad apple before everyone ruins this. But

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00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully people are good and there's enough good

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00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 1: people in the world to outdo the bad people in

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00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: the world, right, and so these it's just a fun idea.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: It's like, are you gonna get all your entertainment from this? No,

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00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: but it's kind of fun if you can. You know,

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00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: if you go there every Friday and just pick out

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Speaker 1: a movie, I mean, it's just fun.

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00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 2: You pick out a movie, you leave a movie. The

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Speaker 2: only thing I was.

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00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: Wondering about is, you know, what's the deal with them

1139
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: using the Blockbuster logo?

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00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 2: Because the logo is very.

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00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:55,919
Speaker 1: Much inspired by Blockbuster, and on the website it says

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00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: do you have permission to use this name and logo?

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00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 2: Couldn't you get sued? And the free.

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Speaker 1: Blockbuster dot Org folks say we received a letter from

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00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: Blockbuster and have responded by requesting a license to continue

1146
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,959
Speaker 1: using their trademarks. It's not like Blockbuster is really being used.

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00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: But honestly, Blockbuster is still a very big brand name.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they can ever revitalize it in

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00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: some way, but Blockbuster is still very recognizable and still

1150
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: a I mean, for me, it just conjures up images

1151
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: of going into Blockbuster, you know, Friday night with my

1152
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: family and just being like, oh my gosh, this is amazing,

1153
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, like this is so cool, and picking out

1154
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: a movie and going This was my pro tip that

1155
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: I shared on TV is you know you would you

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00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: would grow to grow.

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00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 2: I'm reading text messages as I'm doing this.

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00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: You would go to Blockbuster and you would ask the

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00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: cashier if anyone returned the movie that you want, you know,

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00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: that new hot release, right, and that was like do

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00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 1: they have it? And they look at those little movies

1162
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: that people dropped off of the cashier and they say, no,

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00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 1: it's not here.

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00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 2: Or maybe once in a while it would be there,

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00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 1: That music means it's gonna do it for this episode,

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00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: or that's gonna do it for this episode of the show.

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