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Speaker 1: A personal update on the wildfires in Los Angeles. Meta

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Speaker 1: Coverage from CS twenty twenty five in Las Vegas, plus

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: This is the show where I talk about the tech

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Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the

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Speaker 1: place where I answer your questions about technology. Now. I

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Speaker 1: believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. This week,

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Speaker 1: of course, in Los Angeles, tech took on an entirely

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Speaker 1: new meeting with the wildfires.

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Speaker 1: Not only did it help people stay connected and it

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Speaker 1: services people relied on to not only keep tabs on

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Speaker 1: the fires, but also their homes and their lives. We're

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Speaker 1: going to open up the phone lines at triple eight

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Speaker 1: update on your situation in Los Angeles, you have a

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Speaker 1: Just go to Rich on tech dot tv hit contact

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Speaker 1: you can contact me that way. Very excited for one

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Speaker 1: of my guests coming up this hour, Nick Russell. He

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Speaker 1: is the VP of operations at watch Duty. This is

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Speaker 1: the app that has been helping people stay informed during

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Speaker 1: the fires here in the LA area. This app has

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Speaker 1: seen a surge in downloads and so many people. This

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Speaker 1: it really has some incredibly helpful information. We'll have Nick

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Speaker 1: on in the show, a couple of folks from CS

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Speaker 2: Matt Swider of the shortcut dot com.

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Speaker 1: Will join me to talk about some of the stuff

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Speaker 1: tech Radar, He will talk CS twenty twenty five as well. Now,

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Speaker 1: as you know, I am based in Los Angeles. This

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Speaker 1: was a really interesting week for me because I'm here

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Speaker 1: thousand people descend upon Las Vegas to see the latest

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Speaker 1: and greatest from all the tech companies. Well, let me

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Speaker 1: give you a timeline of exactly what happened, because, as

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm also a reporter at KTLA Television here

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Speaker 1: I believe. So let me explain the timeline. So I'm

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Speaker 5: we do this much like sports reporting, so that people

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Speaker 5: get those granular details like the fires five eight, and

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Speaker 5: it has a rapid rate of spread. Structures are immediately

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Speaker 5: threatened on Corona Drive, for instance, and so then people

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Speaker 5: can take that information and start acting on their own emergency.

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Speaker 5: And then we continue that story as the fire evolves

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Speaker 5: and escalates, and usually de escalation comes sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 5: But fortunately with these wind events, that's not something that

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Speaker 5: we've seen happen a lot.

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Speaker 6: Yet.

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Speaker 2: How many states are you operating in currently?

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Speaker 5: We operate in twenty two states.

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Speaker 1: And so that's just and that's all just people that

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Speaker 1: are kind of what you just said, monitoring things and

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Speaker 1: updating this stuff.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so the way the process generally happens is folks

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Speaker 5: right into us, maybe they're retiring from the fire service,

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Speaker 5: or they have some time in their off days. Same

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Speaker 5: rings true with dispatchers as well as a radio enthusiast.

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Speaker 5: And then what we do is we do a panel interview,

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Speaker 5: a full background check, and then we bring them onto

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Speaker 5: the team. And these are all a bunch of like

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Speaker 5: minded people, people helping people. They just want to get

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Speaker 5: this information out. Many of us, including myself, live in

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Speaker 5: the wildland, so we know what it's like to be evacuated,

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Speaker 5: and we know the information we're looking for and we've

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Speaker 5: identified those challenges and so that's the stuff that we're

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Speaker 5: looking to get to communities is just basic information that's

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Speaker 5: clear and easy to understand, accurate and timely.

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Speaker 1: Now, speaking of that, what do you guys qualify as

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Speaker 1: sort of the critical alert?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: How on the iPhone there's like a feature where alerts

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Speaker 1: can break through if they are deemed like from a

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Speaker 1: critical nature?

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Speaker 2: Are you is?

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Speaker 1: Are your notifications classified as that? Like if I went

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Speaker 1: to sleep? You know, here, here's the big question we

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Speaker 1: had last night. You know, we were in the area

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Speaker 1: where you might have to evacuate, and so we're like, well,

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Speaker 1: wait a second, how do you go to sleep? Like,

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Speaker 1: what do you when do you wake up? What do

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Speaker 1: you how do you know when it's time to go?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that's a great question and it's certainly a challenge.

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Speaker 5: And so we are approved to deliver critical alerts that

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Speaker 5: being said that it's not something that we have yet done,

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Speaker 5: not because we don't want to. We just want to

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Speaker 5: find an explainable balance of when we send a critical

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Speaker 5: alert versus when we don't. So that's something I anticipate

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Speaker 5: coming out this I want to say this upcoming fire season,

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Speaker 5: but this one hasn't ended yet, but we anticipate this

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Speaker 5: start of the next fire season.

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Speaker 2: What inspired the creation of this app?

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Speaker 5: So, our co founder and CEO, John Clark Mills, had

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Speaker 5: a rich history in tech. He's developed many software companies

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Speaker 5: and sold those and so he moved to a rural

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Speaker 5: area in northern Sonoma County here in the North Bay,

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Speaker 5: and about six months after he moved in, he experienced

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Speaker 5: several events where helicopters are flying over dropping water, he's

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Speaker 5: seeing smoke, and he's going all over the place trying

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Speaker 5: to find information, and at times he finds bits and pieces,

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Speaker 5: but it's really difficult. And then finally, really the genesis

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Speaker 5: of WATCHD came when he was evacuated to the Wallbridge

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Speaker 5: fire and when he left, he started looking back trying

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Speaker 5: to find out where the fire had started, where it

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Speaker 5: was going evacuation resources, and after the fourth website and

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Speaker 5: social media platform that he visited and finally got a

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Speaker 5: piece of the story together, he said to himself, man,

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Speaker 5: there's kind of be a better way to do this,

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Speaker 5: And so he learned more about wild land suppression and

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Speaker 5: response and then set out to build Watch Duty, and

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Speaker 5: just one year later it was born with the original

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Speaker 5: three counties. And so this has really become a labor

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Speaker 5: of love for all of us. We all started as

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Speaker 5: volunteers in the wildland, experiencing these things and then taking

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Speaker 5: our experiences and building.

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Speaker 2: Off of them to help other people.

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Speaker 5: And you know that's obviously grown tremendously since August and

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Speaker 5: twenty one to today, but it's always been a passion

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Speaker 5: of all of ours to help folks.

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Speaker 1: Are you seeing a lot of donations or new memberships

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Speaker 1: because you know this is all free for the most part.

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Speaker 1: Are people stepping up to sort of support your mission here?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I know people have stepped up fantastically. The memberships are

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Speaker 5: always the baseline, easiest way to support ensuring the app

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Speaker 5: stays free forever and it will never have ads in

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Speaker 5: it regardless, but those membership levels help with that.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, if folks can visit.

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Speaker 5: Watch duty dot org forward slash donate, those donations are tremendous.

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Speaker 5: You know, we're one hundred percent nonprofit and we rely

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Speaker 5: on that stuff to remain in operation. We're certainly not

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Speaker 5: going anywhere anytime soon, but donations are certainly welcome to

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Speaker 5: the suburb.

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Speaker 1: Any advice you want to give to users that are

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Speaker 1: using this app during these emergency situations.

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Speaker 5: I want to take it a little bit broader. Watch

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Speaker 5: Studio is a great resource and I highly encourage everyone

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Speaker 5: to utilize it, download it, live by it, share it

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Speaker 5: with your friends. We will we will be here twenty

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Speaker 5: four to seven to help you. But this fire is

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Speaker 5: a wake up call because stopping devastating wind driven wildfires

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Speaker 5: is no easy task and it's not something that we're

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Speaker 5: going to overnight. And so having a plan and making

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Speaker 5: preparations and advance of these events well in advanced seasons

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Speaker 5: and advance is extremely important. And developing plans with your

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Speaker 5: family for how you will act when these fires begin,

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Speaker 5: whether it's in the middle of the day, the middle

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Speaker 5: of the night, having a meeting location so that you're

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Speaker 5: not searching for loved ones. I think that's super important

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Speaker 5: and everybody taking this as a learning point and taking

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Speaker 5: those steps I think is a really good idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great advice.

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Speaker 1: As last night we were scrambling to find you know,

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Speaker 1: the locks to our safes and kind of like the

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Speaker 1: passports and where everything was and where our wedding album was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want to be doing that at

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Speaker 1: the last minute. So I know, growing up in my family,

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Speaker 1: my dad is a roofer. He always had a plan

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Speaker 1: for us to escape the house if there's ever a fire,

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Speaker 1: and so we had this like ladder that would like

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Speaker 1: roll down the side of the house. And of course

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Speaker 1: we were scared, very scared. When he rolled that thing

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Speaker 1: out and said this is how you get out of

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Speaker 1: the house, We're like, yeah, for you to say, mister ruffer,

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Speaker 1: but for us, you know, we're not walking down this

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Speaker 1: ladder that was gonna you know, all right. The website

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Speaker 1: is once again, tell me the website watchduty dot org.

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Speaker 5: Yep, Watchdudy dot org.

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Speaker 1: It's available on iOS and Android. Uh. It's also available

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Speaker 1: through the web browser, so download the app, turn on

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Speaker 1: those updates. Nick Russell, VP of operations at Watch Judy,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for.

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Speaker 2: Joining me today.

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Speaker 5: Thank you Rich take care.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for everything you guys have done eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. More of your calls rich

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Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. Welcome back to rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here talking technology at eighty eight rich one

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Speaker 1: one zero one. The website for the show rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. We've been talking a lot about the wildfires,

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Speaker 1: a lot about technology and its role in all of this.

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Speaker 1: Nothing will replace your home, nothing will replace the memories lost.

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Speaker 1: And I am thinking of everyone that has been impacted

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Speaker 1: by this. I mean really really just everyone knows someone

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Speaker 1: right that is impacted by this. And so no matter what,

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Speaker 1: even if your home is still safe and sound, you're

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Speaker 1: thinking about how you can donate, how you can support

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Speaker 1: your friends, their families, anyone. And I do love that

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Speaker 1: aspect of our world that people do come together during

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Speaker 1: these times. Now, don't get me wrong, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of finger pointing, there's a lot of complaining, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of blaming, and that's always going to be there.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, what I see

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Speaker 1: is the good in all of this, and people really

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Speaker 1: do want to help each other. Let's go to Susan

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Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. Susan, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 9: Hey, Rich, thank you so much for a great show,

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Speaker 9: and thank you for the question the gentleman posed about

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Speaker 9: backup power and your great answer.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 9: So I'm in Santa Monica. I've never felt the need

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Speaker 9: until now to get a smartphone. It was not a

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Speaker 9: good feeling the other night when I thought I may

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Speaker 9: have to get out of here, and knowing I do

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Speaker 9: not have connection to the internet. What is the simplest, easiest,

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Speaker 9: basic phone that I might get. It could be a

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Speaker 9: flip could I don't what do you think the basic, simplest,

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Speaker 9: easiest phone. So if I had to go, and it'll

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Speaker 9: be for emergencies only, I do not need to use it.

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Speaker 3: All the time.

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Speaker 2: Do you want a smartphone or a flip phone? I don't.

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Speaker 9: You know what, just as long as I can get

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Speaker 9: to the Internet when I leave, okay.

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Speaker 1: Then you want a smartphone. Flip phone is going to

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Speaker 1: be really tricky with the internet. So I would say

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Speaker 1: a smartphone, okay, and I'd go with the simple smartphone.

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Speaker 1: And what I do is I would go something like

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could go you can go with an iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Obviously that's going to be, you know, the gold standard

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Speaker 1: of phones. But those are also going to be expensive.

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Speaker 1: So if you're talking you're only going to use this

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Speaker 1: thing once in a while, you may not need to

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Speaker 1: do that. But if I was going to recommend an iPhone,

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Speaker 1: I'd probably say just get a refurbished iPhone, something that's inexpensive.

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Speaker 1: You can go on Amazon renewed and look up the

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Speaker 1: iPhones that they sell there. They sell refurbished iPhones and

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Speaker 1: they're a little bit older, so they're a little bit

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Speaker 1: less expensive. And so that's that's one aspect. Let me

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Speaker 1: just see what they're apple, what their iPhones are going for.

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Speaker 1: So you can get an iPhone twelve for two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty bucks, you get an iPhone eleven. I may

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Speaker 1: not go iPhone eleven. That might be a little bit

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Speaker 1: too old. I go, you know, they've got an iPhone

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Speaker 1: fourteen for four hundred dollars. So they've got an se

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Speaker 1: second generation for one hundred and thirty eight dollars, So

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Speaker 1: you can get a cheap iPhone. Contrary to popular belief,

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Speaker 1: Yes you can buy a cheap iPhone. We're talking under

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Speaker 1: four hundred dollars under three hundred, under two hundred.

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Speaker 2: So that's if you want an iPhone.

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Speaker 1: The reason I'd say iPhone is just because it's you

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Speaker 1: got the accessories, it's gonna work, it's going to be simple.

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Speaker 1: People know how to use it if you need to

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Speaker 1: ask for help. So that's number one. And then what

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Speaker 1: I would do is just buy a prepaid plan, so

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Speaker 1: I would just pay for the year in advance, So

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Speaker 1: something like a Mint Mobile, you want to pay for

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Speaker 1: the entire year all at once, and that way you

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Speaker 1: don't have to think about paying for the plan, you know,

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Speaker 1: month to month, just pay for the whole year at once.

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Speaker 1: And they've got plans that start at let's see, five

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Speaker 1: gigabytes fifteen dollars a month. So if you buy twelve

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Speaker 1: months twelve times fifteen, one hundred and eighty dollars up front,

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Speaker 1: so you can do that. Wow, Okay, you can get

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Speaker 1: unlimited right now if you pay for the Wow. That's

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Speaker 1: an incredible deal. Unlimited right now on Mint mobiles fifteen

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Speaker 1: dollars a month for twelve months. If you pay for

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Speaker 1: that one hundred and eighty dollars, you have unlimited data

659
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Speaker 1: for twelve months. That's a great deal. That's just a

660
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: limited time offer. Right now, I'm just looking at their website.

661
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: That's news to me, so I would do that. You

662
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: can also, if you want, you can go to a

663
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: retailer like a Walmart and buy like a SIM there.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is most of these phones have eSIMs

665
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: and you can just activate them right there. The other

666
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: one that might work is Mobile X because they have

667
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: a plan that's really cheap. They've got a plan that

668
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: starts at like four dollars a month, and so you

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Speaker 1: can get that plan and you only pay for the

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Speaker 1: data that you use, and so that may be a

671
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: cheap way to sort of just have this phone running

672
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: without paying a lot. But I personally like the idea

673
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: of just paying in advance for the whole year. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I would do. And again, if you want

675
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: to look at an Android side of things, I would

676
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: say the Pixel. So I know I talk about Pixel

677
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: all the time, but I just think it's a very

678
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: simple phone. It works, and they've got a couple different models.

679
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: And actually Google just started selling Pixel renewed so refurbished,

680
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: so let me look at what their prices are. So

681
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: they just opened up a certified refurbished Pixel store on

682
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: the Google Store. So you've got the Pixel seven Pro,

683
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: which is pretty new. That's that's starting at six twenty nine.

684
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: So that's too expensive for what you're talking about. But

685
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: you can go with the refurbished Pixel six A for

686
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars and that's again that is outright.

687
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: You don't have to pay monthly.

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00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: You don't have to think about, you know, how much

689
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: you're paying for this phone every month, because the idea

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00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: for you, Susan, is that you want to have this

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00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: phone and service ready to go. So all you have

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00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: to do is charge this thing up, keep it charged up,

693
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: and that's that's what you need. And you mentioned the battery.

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00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: Get a portable battery pack. Make sure that you have

695
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 1: that charged up as well, so that way you always

696
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Speaker 1: have this phone at the ready. And I will say

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Speaker 1: throughout this time, the service providers have been doing a

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00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 1: pretty good job of the connectivity in the areas. I mean, obviously,

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00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: if you're in the real burn areas, that area has

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00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: been trickier than others. But you know, surrounding La, the

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00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: networks have withstood a lot and they've these companies are

702
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: brought in a lot of additional kind of what do

703
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: they call them, cows sells on wheels, and now that

704
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: you even have satellite connectivity as well, that is one

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00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: aspect I will talk about after the break, is the

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00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: satellite connectivity that we are now getting into and it's

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Speaker 1: making staying connected a whole lot easier in situations like this.

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Speaker 1: T Mobile has it, Apple has it, Pixel has it,

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Speaker 1: Amazon starting it. I'll tell you all about that coming

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Speaker 1: up right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Richdmuro here hanging out with you, talking technology,

712
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: obviously giving you lots of updates on tech's role in

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Speaker 1: helping folks out with these wildfires, getting them information, getting

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Speaker 1: them updates, getting them to safety, keeping them connected. There's

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00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: just a whole lot to talk about here today on

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00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: the show. But I was at and I am going

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00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: to get to the satellite connectivity and how Ate and

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Speaker 1: T Verizon Mobile, Uber Lift, all these different companies have

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Speaker 1: responded in the wake of these wildfires here in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: But I do want to talk about CS for a

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Speaker 1: bit because that's where I was this week and everyone

722
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Speaker 1: there very very well aware of what was happening in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles.

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00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: But there was a lot to see.

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00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: You know, this is the one of the largest tech

726
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: events of the year, certainly one of the largest tech

727
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: trade shows. I think the only one that may be

728
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 1: bigger by people is IFA in Berlin. But that show

729
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: you're allowed to bring friends and family. This show in

730
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is not open to the public. So they

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00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: get over one hundred and thirty thousand people to Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas that are all in the industry. They're all tech

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Speaker 1: folks either working as media in you know, salespeople, marketing people, startups,

734
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: just everyone that's buyers.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many.

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Speaker 1: And every single person that came up to me was

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00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: asking about how Los Angeles was faring, how I personally

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00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: was faring, and so, like I said, my post La

739
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: has always been ready for its close up. We just

740
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: really never expected it to look like this. I mean,

741
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: what a way to put a city on the map, right.

742
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: But here are some of the things I saw at

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00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: CS twenty twenty five that I thought were interesting. First up,

744
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: AI powered robots. So Samsung they have this thing called Bali.

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00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: It looks like a ball, It's a robot. It rolls

746
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: around your house. Set for release in twenty twenty five,

747
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: it can interact with your smart home devices, it can

748
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: perform household tasks. It can even project video and images

749
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: onto surfaces. So it's all controlled via voice. And we

750
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: didn't know if this was actually gonna come out or not,

751
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: but it is now. This was really interesting. If you

752
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: have a robot vacuum in your house, you know how

753
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: it gets stuck on like a sock or something that's

754
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: just like standing in front of it or sitting on

755
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: the ground. So this robo Rock vacuum, the Z seventy,

756
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: has a robot arm. So this arm pops out of

757
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: the top of the vacuum and picks up the item

758
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: and deposits it somewhere else. I mean, it looks like

759
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: something out of a sci fi movie. But this apparently

760
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: is coming out and robo Rock is a popular brand

761
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: of vacuums other than Rumba, and so I saw this

762
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: thing in action and it was wild. They just kept

763
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: going up and down and up and down, and.

764
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Speaker 2: It turns around.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it really has a whole articulating little robot arm.

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00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: There AI companion robots. I think these are kind of silly,

767
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: at least at the offset, because they it's just like, okay,

768
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: it's like a Teddy Rockspin but with AI. So this

769
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: one Maroumi. This one was a there's no point to

770
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: this robot except to spark conversation. So it looks like

771
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: a little sloth that grips onto your purse and it

772
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: just sits there and it's not really it doesn't do

773
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: anything except just move its head left and right, up

774
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: and down. It looks very like lifelike, like it's very emotional,

775
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: but it's just there to spark conversation. So they say that,

776
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: you know, people are in their own world nowadays, and

777
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: someone sees this on your purse, what is that? And

778
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: then you might talk with that person. Then another one

779
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,479
Speaker 1: is called roe Pet, and this one had led eyes,

780
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 1: like little screens for eyes led displays, and you know,

781
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: this has CHATCHYBT built in so you can pet it

782
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: and it'll make little noises and react to your warmth

783
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: and just kind of be a companion robot for you.

784
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: Cold Snap is an instant ice cream machine, so think

785
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: ca cup machine, but for frozen desserts. So you can

786
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: make smoothies, you can make ice cream, you can make

787
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: frozen yogurt, protein shakes, whatever you want.

788
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 2: You put the pod in takes two minutes.

789
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: It cools it down, instantly, freezes it spits out the

790
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: tree under two minutes. Now, this is a very expensive

791
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: system three thousand dollars, but they are working on a

792
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: system for the home right now. To imagine this would

793
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: be for like a car dealership. And I tried the

794
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: vanilla ice cream. It was delicious, and the inventor told

795
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: me he got the idea from a six year old

796
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: when she or his daughter. I afrigat how she was,

797
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: but she's like, how come we can't do this for

798
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: ice cream? I'm watching him make the cake cup. He said,

799
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: let me try it a mini hologram box. So you

800
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: stand in front of a screen and next thing you know,

801
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: you're in this little box in three D as a hologram.

802
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: This is from Hollow Connects and it's a mini hologram box.

803
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: Again.

804
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: I think it was about three thousand dollars. But the

805
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: idea is that you would go somewhere and this would

806
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: either be a conversation spark, you know, or a customer

807
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: service person could be in there, and you know, it's

808
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: just one more way to kind of communicate versus the

809
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: flat FaceTime view. This is now three D so you

810
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: don't need special glasses or anything. A sus showed off

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00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: the zen Book A fourteen. This was a super lightweight laptop,

812
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: less than two and a half pounds. I picked this

813
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: thing up. I thought it was one of those fake

814
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: laptops you would see at like an open house, like

815
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: that they have on the desk, and it's like one

816
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: of those props. That's how light it fell, and that

817
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 1: has all the new AI features. So that's really cool.

818
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: This I absolutely want. It's called the Plantiform. It's a

819
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: high tech planter. So this thing looks like an alien

820
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: space capsule crashed down into your home and is growing plants.

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00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: So it uses fog ponics, not water. It uses a

822
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: mist of fog to grow the plants. And it just

823
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: looks really cool. So you put again everyone's running with

824
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: this idea of the cakeup pod. So you put a

825
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: little pod in the machine that has plants and soil

826
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: and nutrients, or maybe not soil because I think it's

827
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: all hydroponics. But you put it in there and it

828
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: grows the plant, and it's supposed to be easier than

829
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 1: any of the other hydroponic plant growers out there.

830
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 2: And I want this thing.

831
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Speaker 1: I think it was a little expensive though, maybe six

832
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, but definitely a conversation starter because you see

833
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: all this fog coming out of it and it just

834
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: looks cool. If you love your pet, you got to

835
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: get them the pet Cube UV filtration water fountain. So

836
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: they've had water fountains for pets for a long time.

837
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 1: This one has a UV filter, so it actually cleans

838
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: the water, kills all the bacteria inside, letting your cat

839
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: or dog drink super pure water. I mean, when I

840
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: was a kid, I used to drink out of the hose,

841
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: but you know, we can't do that anymore, even with

842
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: our pets pawport. This is a smart pet door. So

843
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: I didn't realize, but if you live in somewhere like

844
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: Arizona or something, you might have little unwanted critters that

845
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: come into your house through the pet door.

846
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 2: So this is a smart pet door.

847
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: You put a little bluetooth beacon on your pets collar

848
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: and only they can come in or out, and you

849
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: can also set curfews. You can say you can only

850
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: go in or out during these times, and only that

851
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: animal can open up the pet door. And it's all

852
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 1: high tech and smart and you get the reports and things.

853
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: That's the Pawport smart pet door, and it fits over

854
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: your standard pet door, so it's like a retrofit kind

855
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 1: of thing. Now, these were really cool. The x Real

856
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: augmented reality glasses. I've heard about these for years. I've

857
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: never really tried them. They have a new version, but

858
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: think it's like the easiest augmented reality glasses I've ever tried.

859
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: You put the glasses on, They've got little screens inside.

860
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 1: You plug them into your smartphone or your computer using

861
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: a standard USBC connection, and next thing you know, your

862
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,720
Speaker 1: phone screen is projected in front of you. It's hovering

863
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: in a giant screen. I want these, I want these.

864
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: I want these. These I will use on the plane,

865
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: I will use these on the couch. I will just

866
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: sit there. It's like having your phone with all of

867
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: your apps and everything you already know, just on a

868
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: bigger screen, so you can actually control your phone and

869
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: see what's happening on this big giant screen projected. Really

870
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: really cool. I think they start around maybe three to

871
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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars, but just the technology, the price is

872
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: just going to continue to come down. But really really cool.

873
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: X Reel Let's see Samsung was showing off their latest

874
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 1: Frame TV, so is Amazon. They were showing off both

875
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: of these smart TVs double as artwork when they're not

876
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: in use. So that's kind of like the new thing

877
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: about TVs. You never have to turn them off. They

878
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: will just show like a screen saver when you're not

879
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: using them. I'll be honest, Samsung has this technology down.

880
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: When you look at this screen, it looks like a

881
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 1: printed piece of art. The new ones are the pros.

882
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 1: They look even better. I mean, this is really really

883
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: neat stuff. The Amazon Fire TV will do the same thing.

884
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: It's a lot cheaper. It just doesn't look as good.

885
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 1: Screens are a little bit more reflective the art. You

886
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: can tell it's a screen. But with the Samsung Frame TV,

887
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: it's really really convincing.

888
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 2: Looks like a piece of art.

889
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: The other thing Amazon showed off was their Project Kuyper.

890
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: This is their answer to SpaceX's Starlink and so this

891
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: is a constellation of satellites that Amazon is going to

892
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: launch into outer space to provide broadband around the world.

893
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 2: What does that mean?

894
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: According to the rep I was talking to, it's going

895
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: to be cheaper and it's going to be faster than

896
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: what Starlink is doing. Competition is a good thing. So

897
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: now we have two viable satellite broadband operators operating by

898
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: the end of this year. And what is that going

899
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: to do is going to drive down prices, hopefully for

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00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: all internet because now you've got options. When you live

901
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: in your home, you may not want to get the

902
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: traditional providers. You may want to just go satellite because

903
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: it's so feasible and the prices they didn't talk price,

904
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: but they said it'll be cheaper than starlink and the

905
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: speeds will be faster. So the basic one was four

906
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: hundred up and down. It's four hundred megabits per second

907
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: up and down. They've got a smaller one for like

908
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: camping that's one hundred up and down. And they've got

909
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: a bigger antenna that's for companies and enterprise that's a

910
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: thousand up and down. So Amazon's gonna start launching its

911
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: satellites this year. They've got eighty three launches planned. Keep

912
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: an eye on that one. Scout ev this is a

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00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 1: rugged electric vehicle. It kind of looks like a Rivian.

914
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: Can't wait for this one, and they were very hip

915
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: on This is a brand that's old, that they're bringing back.

916
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: It's got a hybrid system too, so they've got a

917
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: gas engine. You can add on to this thing like

918
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: a small gas engine, so you can have rain, no

919
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 1: range anxiety. So that's really cool. This was a little controversial.

920
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: The pink Cam paintball security camera. So imagine a security

921
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: camera that recognizes an intruder on your property and spits

922
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: out a paintball at them.

923
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 2: And that paintball can have like a.

924
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: Special I don't know, a substance in it that you know,

925
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 1: they can only see under a black light or something,

926
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: so you kind of mark the person. It also works

927
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Speaker 1: with unwanted animals as well. This was interesting. The Rome

928
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: Rome functionality. This is a portable device that combines a

929
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: soda stream and a hydroflask. So imagine you put your

930
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: water into this, you know, just a water bottle. You

931
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: put the cap on and you press the button and

932
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: it turns it into sparkling water. Fifty bucks. It's called Rome.

933
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: And then finally, optic Wash. My kids saw this one

934
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: on my photo album on my phone. He said, I

935
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 1: want that, and I said, well, it's three thousand dollars.

936
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: This is a mini car wash for your glasses. You

937
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: might have seen these things in the airport. The optic

938
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: washing machines. They're big. Now they made a small version

939
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: for your home and it just uses water. Sprays of water.

940
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: You put the glasses in, it sprays them, cleans them

941
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: UV Santa's sanitizing, and then it blows them off with

942
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of air and your glasses come out

943
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: really clean, as opposed to sort of rubbing them with

944
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: a cloth. That's the optic wash. When I ask the price,

945
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: take a deep breath. Three thousand bucks. I said, who

946
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: can afford a three thousand dollars glasses cleaning machine? And

947
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: the representative said, well, I should have a yacht. It

948
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: worked pretty nicely there. I said, yeah, that sounds about right.

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Speaker 1: All these linked up on the website rich On Tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV eight eight eight seven four to two four

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Speaker 1: one zero one eight eight eight rich one oh one

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Speaker 1: Back after this, I'll tell you how the big tech

953
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: companies are responding to the wildfire relief. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Let's go right to Jerry in thousand Oaks.

955
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: I know he's been holding for a while.

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00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 2: Jerry, you're on.

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00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 3: With rich Okay, thank you. I'm glad you're get in

958
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 3: touch with you.

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00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I watched your question.

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00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 3: Install a landline that doesn't use uh not Wi Fi,

961
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 3: but it doesn't use the Internet but uses the modem instead.

962
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so you want it.

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00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: Well, what do you mean by modem because uh, you

964
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Speaker 1: know most of the land lines now.

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00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 3: It is uh it's a move box you plug into

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00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 3: your wall outlet. Yes, then you plug your phone directly

967
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 3: into that. Yes, in the one company I did find,

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Speaker 3: what's forty dollars per month?

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00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 2: Okay, well the company, I'll tell you the ones that

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00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:18,439
Speaker 2: I recommend. Uma.

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00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: Oom ah, that's the one I recommend because you can

972
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: get started very inexpensively. And this is now this will

973
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: accommodate a classic landline phone, but it's not actually a landline.

974
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: So what you're talking about the landline traditional traditionally refers

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00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: to pots pots, which is plane old television or plane

976
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: old television plane old telephone service. Now almost no company

977
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: is really doing that unless they have to in an

978
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: area where they offer what's you know, a copper phone line. Right,

979
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,479
Speaker 1: So most of the companies have switched to offering what's

980
00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: called vope service voiceover IP that is your voice going

981
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: over the internet. But you can get these little boxes

982
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: that pretty much function as a conduit for your traditional phone.

983
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: So if you want to buy a cordless phone, a

984
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: corded phone, you know the old school phones that used

985
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: to have you plug them into this box, and this

986
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: box plugs into your Internet.

987
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 2: So the one I like is Uma.

988
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: You can get the UMA box for looks like one

989
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: hundred dollars on the website.

990
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 4: I know.

991
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: Walmart also has an UMA deal as well, so you

992
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 1: can go there and check it out. But UMA service

993
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: is zero dollars a month, so all you have to

994
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: do is pay for the taxes and fees each month.

995
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: And so I'm looking up my zip code here for

996
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: my zip code, that's about eight dollars a month. So

997
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: that's what I would do. There are some other companies

998
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: that offer similar service. There's Vontage. I don't know if

999
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: Vantage is doing. I don't know if they're doing the

1000
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: residential Oh they still are, Okay, So residential Vantage is

1001
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: ten dollars a month, and I think you have to

1002
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: get yeah, okay, So Vantage is another one, and then

1003
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: the other one is magic Jack. Now I covered magic

1004
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,919
Speaker 1: Jack back in the day. It was actually just so

1005
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: mysterious to people that you could get a phone jack.

1006
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 2: It looked like your regular.

1007
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: Phone jack, but it's transferred to your calls over the internet,

1008
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: and that is uh let's see how much that is.

1009
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: That is fifty dollars. It plugs into your computer, So

1010
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: that one. I think that one's a little bit different

1011
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: because you do need a computer for that one. So

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00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: I would I would recommend going with the UMA because

1013
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: you don't need anything special and it just kind of works.

1014
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: It just sits there and works forever. So Jerry, that's

1015
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: what I would recommend, and I think that's gonna be

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00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: probably your best bet.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the call.

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Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight

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00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. So speaking

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00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: of these phone companies, let me just go through what

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00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: the various phone providers are doing to, uh, you know,

1022
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: help relieve folks in California with their either service or

1023
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: Wi Fi charging their phone. So AT and T let's

1024
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: start with them. So they're waiving overage charges to provide

1025
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: unlimited talk, text and data for customers through February fifteenth,

1026
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Now that may change depending on, you know,

1027
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: the extent of the loss. They also contribute one hundred

1028
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to Red Cross. They set their system. Their

1029
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: network in southern California is holding strong. They're restoring service

1030
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: and areas experienced disruptions. And they have two public charging stations,

1031
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: Westwood Recreation Center and the Pasadena Convention Center, and then

1032
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: they've got public Wi Fi access at Arcadia Community Center.

1033
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: They also operate First Net, so this is kind of

1034
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: like a separate band on their spectrum that is for

1035
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: public safety people, and so a lot of people subscribe

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00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: to that as well. If you're on a post paid

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00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: or prepaid you are also getting unlimited talk, texts, and

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00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: data through February fifteenth. And if you have an iPhone

1039
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: with the satellite communications, so that's iPhone fourteen or newer,

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00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,240
Speaker 1: this doesn't matter. You know, any of the service providers

1041
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: that you have. You've got satellite connectivity. And I got

1042
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: my first satellite message today from someone with the fires

1043
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 1: and it was pretty cool. It said this message was

1044
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: sent over satellite. Google Pixel nine also has that. Let's

1045
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: see Verizon. Let's see Verizon's waving domestic call text data

1046
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: usage through January nineteenth through January eighteenth in Los Angeles,

1047
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,240
Speaker 1: Orange Riverside, San Bernard. You know San Diego and Ventura

1048
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: also for the same. They're doing the same for Straight Talk,

1049
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: Track Phone, Total Wireless, Simple Mobile, Walmart, Family Mobile, Net,

1050
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: ten Go Smart, and Page Plus.

1051
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:38,320
Speaker 2: So you realize how.

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00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: Many companies these major companies own or operate. Let's see

1053
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: what is T Mobile doing unlimited talk, text and data

1054
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,720
Speaker 1: to T Mobile, Metro by T Mobile and Assurance wireless

1055
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: customers in impacted areas. They've also increased data for Mint

1056
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 1: and Ultramobile. They also activated starlink so you get direct

1057
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: to Cellular. If you don't have an iPhone and you

1058
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: have a T Mobile phone, you can dial nine one

1059
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: one if you see the starlink icon in your phone.

1060
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: So they've activated that. It's not been approved fully, but

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00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: they got conditional approval. Eighty eight Rich one O one

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

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00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. Eighty eight Rich one O

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. Uh. Phone lines are open pretty much kind

1067
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Speaker 1: of taking a lot of different calls today. So if

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00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: you have something about the fires, you want to share

1069
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:40,280
Speaker 1: your story, I'm opening to that. Or tech questions, whatever

1070
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: you want, maybe just want to say HI, maybe just

1071
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 1: need someone to talk to throughout this whole thing. I'm

1072
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 1: here for you. Eight A eight rich one O one

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

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Speaker 1: Before the break, I was talking about how all the

1075
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: different tech companies are sort of providing and helping with relief.

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00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: During this time, I thought this was interesting that t

1077
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: mobiles network uses is AI. So it's something called cognitive

1078
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: self organizing network. And so I guess the new antennas

1079
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: on their cell towers they move and I've seen this

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00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: technology before with Wi Fi, but I didn't realize they

1081
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: were doing it with cell phone towers. But the antennas

1082
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: automatically tilt to give the best signal strength where it's needed,

1083
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: so they kind of move around a little bit. That

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Speaker 1: helps them expand coverage and prevent congestion. So I was

1085
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: not aware of that, but that is a very smart

1086
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: idea and it makes a lot of sense. So again

1087
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: AI even helping keep us connected. And then Spectrum, this

1088
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 1: is a large provider in the Los Angeles area. They

1089
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: have over two hundred and fifty thousand Spectrum Wi Fi

1090
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: access points nationwide, but they've opened up thirty five thousand

1091
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 1: of them in the LA area to everyone. And I

1092
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 1: tested this out yesterday. It works flawlessly. Just open up

1093
00:54:56,320 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: your phone and look for the Spectrum free trial Wi

1094
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 1: Fi access point and just connect to it and it's

1095
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: just one click. You don't have to give him your

1096
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: phone number, you don't have to have an account. It's

1097
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: all free and I got great speeds, So this is

1098
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: a really nice help. If you need to, you can

1099
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: locate one of these. Usually you can go to like

1100
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 1: a local park or some it's outside. It's not in

1101
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: your house. You're not accessing your neighbors internet, it is.

1102
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: These are hotspots that they've set up around the city

1103
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: on like telephone poles, so be sure to look for that.

1104
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: And then Uber and lyft. Lyft is doing discounted rides.

1105
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: CalFire Relief twenty five will get you two free rides

1106
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: if you're going to a shelter getting a resource, and

1107
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: then you can also round up and donate, and then

1108
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: Uber has a forty dollars ride credit if you use

1109
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: Wildfire twenty five to take a trip to an evacuation shelter.

1110
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 1: All right, with all that said, one of my favorites,

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00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: Lance Ulanov one of the hardest working guys in technology.

1112
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.

1113
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 1: You can't catch this guy at CES because he's doing

1114
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: so much. He's the editor at large for tech Radar.

1115
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: He is back home the Lance did you did you

1116
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: catch the CS bug?

1117
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 10: Yeah?

1118
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 11: I may if.

1119
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,720
Speaker 10: I apologize for the sound of my voice, but yep,

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00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 10: every year.

1121
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: Like clockwork, Yeah, it happens. I take these pills. I

1122
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: call them horse pills because that's how big they are.

1123
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 1: They are literally like good luck trying to swallow these things,

1124
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: and they taste horrible. It tastes like garlic and all

1125
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: kinds of nastiness.

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00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 11: That boy, that really sounds great.

1127
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: Love Hey, but it kept me healthy. I'm not kidding.

1128
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: I swear by these things. I mean it's so gross,

1129
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: but I took one in the morning, one at night,

1130
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: and I you know, a lot of hydration. But CS

1131
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: is not easy to stay healthy at because it's so

1132
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: dry there. There's so many people, everyone's coughing, everyone's touching

1133
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:54,359
Speaker 1: gadgets and anyway. So hopefully feel better. But Lance, first off,

1134
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: as someone who is not in California, what is your

1135
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: sort of perspective on these wildfires? Like, are people following

1136
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: them where you are, or people glued to their teas.

1137
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think we're all following it. We're

1138
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 10: all seeing on our social media feeds. The really weird

1139
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 10: thing about this tragedy is, I guess because of where

1140
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 10: it's located, there.

1141
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 11: Are people I know, you know, people from the.

1142
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 10: Industry whose houses have been affected, their childhood homes. Like

1143
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 10: it's weird the number of people I actually know that

1144
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 10: have been impacted, which is, you know a lot of

1145
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 10: times when things happen in the country or in the world,

1146
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 10: you're involved and engaged, but you're not touched directly. So

1147
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 10: I'm a little bit surprised about that. I've been somewhat

1148
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 10: obsessively going through it, and I think a lot of

1149
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 10: people have so many questions about it. It's so scary,

1150
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 10: and you know, clearly obviously my heart goes out to

1151
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 10: everyone there, you know, and I know that there's been

1152
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 10: all sorts of stuff shared about how people can help,

1153
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 10: and hopefully everyone's looking at that.

1154
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that the reason for the connection

1155
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: is that, like I said earlier in the show, this

1156
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: is a part of la that you never hear about.

1157
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful place that very successful people live, but

1158
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: it's not in the news because there's nothing that happens

1159
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: there except people just raise families and they're you know,

1160
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: it's people that have made it most of the time,

1161
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:16,919
Speaker 1: and to have this happen to them is just such uh,

1162
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's really like the worst possible

1163
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: nightmare for someone who thinks they live in a community

1164
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: that's just so beautiful and amazing and overlooks the ocean.

1165
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 11: And it honestly just reminds you of our common humanity. Right.

1166
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 10: You may look at somebody and say they're extremely successful,

1167
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 10: their celebrity, they're wealthy, they're hot, high level at their

1168
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 10: their industry, and you see this and you see the

1169
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 10: loss of you know, their everything they've ever had, you know,

1170
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 10: every memory, all of their important stuff, and you and

1171
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 10: you can it's incredibly relatable to anyone. And so that's

1172
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 10: you know, obviously, that's just what's been going through my mind.

1173
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, thanks for that. Okay, So let's talk ces

1174
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: you're there, What what stands out this year? What do

1175
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: you think about the first off, the attendance. I know

1176
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: it was impacted by people with la like some people

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00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: had to go back early.

1178
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 2: Some people didn't come at all. What do you think

1179
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 2: about the attendants?

1180
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 10: I generally so, at least the first couple of days,

1181
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 10: I was like, this is more crowded, there's more people here.

1182
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 10: By day day three it seemed to calm down a bit,

1183
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 10: but I still think the tend's pretty high. Here's the thing,

1184
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 10: It's a little hard to tell because if you're you know,

1185
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 10: if you haven't gone there, and you haven't been going

1186
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 10: for years, you won't know that.

1187
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 11: This year they were going through a big change with construction.

1188
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 10: Servery's funneled in different ways, which actually changed the flow

1189
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 10: and changed the perspective on how many people were there.

1190
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 10: But you know, I went to what's called Eureka Park

1191
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 10: or all the startups are. I was in Central Halls

1192
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 10: and North Hollows and West Hall, and sometimes I was

1193
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 10: pushing through crowds.

1194
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and talk about the you know, like I

1195
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: really kind of it was so clear to me why

1196
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: we go to these things, And it really is partly

1197
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: to see people as well, Like you really do, see

1198
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: all the people that you email with throughout the year,

1199
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: all the people you know, like you and I we

1200
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: live on separate coasts. We didn't actually get to say

1201
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: hi this time around, which is and we saw each other,

1202
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: but you know so quick, you're you're always working. But

1203
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: you know that's another aspect of this, that in person

1204
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: sort of connection.

1205
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:14,439
Speaker 7: Yeah.

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01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, And you know, so there was a company called

1207
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 10: ro Kid that had been trying to reach me apparently

1208
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 10: since November, and I finally kind of the last day

1209
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 10: that I was there, I wandered over and the woman

1210
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 10: to see me face to face. She got much more

1211
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 10: excited than she should have because she's like, I've been

1212
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 10: emailing you for demons here.

1213
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Speaker 11: Yeah, And so it's that, you know, that personal connection.

1214
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 10: And then of course, you know, touching and experiencing the

1215
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 10: products because you know, I'll get a ton of press releases,

1216
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 10: I'll sit on zoom calls, people show me something. But

1217
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 10: being there and I experienced a lot of technology. I

1218
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 10: tried so many different things. I met so many different robots,

1219
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 10: you know, I wore so many different pairs of glasses.

1220
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 10: You know, I touched laptops and you know, all the

1221
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 10: stuff that's right there. Making a tangible like that makes it,

1222
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 10: you know, much more reliable into it's a direct connection

1223
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 10: to people and how these technologies might impact their.

1224
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 1: Lives anything that stands out to you, anything that you

1225
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: really were wowed by.

1226
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Speaker 10: You know, I felt like the show got off to

1227
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 10: a really good start for me because one of the

1228
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 10: first things I saw was that Lenovo desktop, a laptop,

1229
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 10: I should say, I think it's the Think Gen six,

1230
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 10: and it's a laptop that literally starts as a fourteen

1231
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 10: inch clamshell style, you know, you open it up, the

1232
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 10: screen extends vertically, it rolls. It's an old screen that

1233
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 10: rolls out of a very you know, small hinge, you know,

1234
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 10: the regular sized hinge, and just goes up to sixteen

1235
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 10: point seven inches. I've seen rollable screen technology before, but

1236
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 10: I was impressed because this is a real product.

1237
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 11: Business people in particular, I think are really going to

1238
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 11: like it.

1239
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 10: So, you know, I thought that was great and I

1240
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 10: liked it, and obviously we gave it an award. There's

1241
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 10: a lot of television technology, but I think the thing

1242
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 10: that stood out for me is what High Sense is

1243
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 10: doing with their just where they're taking Mini LED RGB technology.

1244
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 10: So typically in a Mini LED you get just one

1245
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 10: the blue light, but now they're giving the three colors.

1246
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 10: And if you give the three colors, you transform the image,

1247
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 10: you make it that much better, and you make the

1248
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 10: colors better, but you also make the blacks better because

1249
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 10: you can you don't have to just turn on the light.

1250
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 10: You can dim it down for when you're trying to

1251
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 10: make a specific color.

1252
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 11: So that to me was impressive.

1253
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 10: And what's funny is that that came in one hundred

1254
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 10: and sixteen inch size. But everybody's talking about, oh my gosh,

1255
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 10: High Sense made one hundred and thirty six inch. I

1256
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 10: think it was not mini LED but the other kind

1257
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 10: of LED. But basically, oh I got a really big TV.

1258
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 10: But it was not new technology. So for me, I'm

1259
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 10: always focused on what is the innovation? What have they

1260
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 10: done that's brand new?

1261
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Speaker 2: I think High Sense is killing it.

1262
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 1: I really do like I think that there it's interesting

1263
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 1: to watch the rise of some booths. Someone needs to

1264
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: do a visualization of CS, like some booths get really

1265
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: big while others get smaller.

1266
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 2: Some people aren't there.

1267
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: Yeah or disappear. I mean, what who do we like?

1268
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:07,919
Speaker 1: Google this year had no major presence that I saw Microsoft.

1269
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 10: Microsoft Intel used to own this corner Central Hall. Microsoft

1270
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 10: used to own a similar space. Google has Google used

1271
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:19,479
Speaker 10: to be really big in the parking lot.

1272
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: I know that sounds silly, but the parking lot is

1273
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: a viable area.

1274
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 10: It's like a it's called I'm sorry, it's called the

1275
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 10: silver lot, and just you know, it's a very important space.

1276
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 10: BMW did the big rollout of their i think it's called.

1277
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 11: The Panoramic Eye Drive, which.

1278
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 10: Is really their introduction of AI to the dashboard, and

1279
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 10: they did not spare expense here. They brought in, you know,

1280
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 10: a couple of Ken Young and I'm forgetting the other.

1281
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 11: Couple of celebrities.

1282
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 10: Basically they brought in to announce it and it was

1283
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 10: very splashy, and they made gigantic dashboards and the steering

1284
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 10: wheel and it was just it was it was wild

1285
01:03:57,240 --> 01:04:00,120
Speaker 10: and for me, you know, it was a youth. It

1286
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 10: was a really big theme of the entire show that

1287
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 10: AI was everywhere. Oh yeah, and more so than just

1288
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 10: you know, last year, AI was kind of like the

1289
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 10: coming out party. Everybody's got a everybody's product had it,

1290
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 10: but we didn't really understand how we were going to

1291
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 10: use it. This year, people were showing us how it's

1292
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 10: going to impact our lives, like and they weren't saying

1293
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 10: in the distant future. They were saying this year, you know,

1294
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 10: it's coming this year. Delta their one hundredth anniversary at

1295
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 10: the Sphere, which was another big keynote, and you know

1296
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 10: they're doing they're doing your concierge AI that's going to

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Speaker 10: be introduced throughout the year. They're updating all of the

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Speaker 10: in flight entertainment. They're working with Tom Brady who was there.

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Speaker 10: But you know, again, you felt like, these are real

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Speaker 10: things that we're going to be doing with AI in

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Speaker 10: the very short term.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It used to be at CS you would talk to

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Speaker 1: someone for like twenty minutes about a product and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden they'd be like and you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: think about doing something with this, and you're like, no,

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Speaker 1: like what. This year, I did feel like there was

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Speaker 1: much more of like, no, this is come. Like even

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Speaker 1: with the BMW with the panoramic eye drive stuff, I

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Speaker 1: was like, when's this happening? They said new models like

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Speaker 1: at the end of twenty twenty five or whatever, like what.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, that was a big surprise, and it was exciting

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Speaker 10: because it looked really cool and fun.

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Speaker 11: I mean, obviously it'll be normal sized, not giant size.

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Speaker 11: If you see the pictures, she'll be like, oh, oh, come.

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Speaker 2: On, everyone's gonna hate it.

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Speaker 1: You know, no, no car maker can make any meaningful

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Speaker 1: change without people hating on it, right, Like, no matter what,

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Speaker 1: there will be haters. I thought it looked pretty clean

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Speaker 1: and slick inside. I thought it was pretty cool.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I think so. You know, it's not just

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Speaker 10: one giant screen. It's a series of screens, and it's

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Speaker 10: integrated into steering wheel and I'm i'm one of my

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Speaker 10: favorite things on these newer cars are the three D

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Speaker 10: heads up displays because for a driver, they don't really

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Speaker 10: want to be glancing at screens left and right. What

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Speaker 10: they want to be doing is seeing the information right

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Speaker 10: in their field of view, but not in a way

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Speaker 10: that obscures it. And that's what these heads up displays do.

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Speaker 10: And so that's part of the whole experience here. So

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Speaker 10: I thought, you know, I remember when BMW first introduced

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Speaker 10: the eye drive, and it was primarily.

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Speaker 2: A knob yeah that people like that.

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Speaker 10: That you would move and hold into, and that was

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Speaker 10: really it, and we thought that was exciting. This is

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Speaker 10: so many generations. This is the full sort of the

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Speaker 10: full realization of the concept.

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Speaker 1: All right, Lance we're speaking with lance Yulanoff and he's

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Speaker 1: with Tech Radar.

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Speaker 2: Where can we go for your coverage?

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Speaker 11: Oh yeah, tech radar dot com.

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Speaker 10: And also please do check out our TikTok with we've

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Speaker 10: shot I think well, I shot over forty videos, but

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Speaker 11: Have shot about sixty sixty five and we're touching.

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Speaker 10: If you want to see what it's like to play

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. The phone line if you

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Speaker 1: want to get on in is eight eight eight rich

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

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Speaker 1: Do me a favorite sign up for my newsletter. Like

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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, if you were on my newsletter, I

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Speaker 1: mentioned the watch Duty app back in the December twentieth edition.

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Speaker 1: December twentieth. People are just hearing about this app for

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Speaker 1: email me every single day, every single day. I get emails,

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Speaker 1: I get text messages, I get dms, I get tweets,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of it is questions that I've answered

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Speaker 1: on this radio show or in my newsletter. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that you should hear and listen to every

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Speaker 1: single thing I do. But I'm just saying the newsletter

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Speaker 1: is a really good way of sort of these are

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Speaker 1: the things. And I say this on this radio show

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Speaker 1: every single time. This is the tech stuff I think

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Speaker 1: you should know about. It's not everything, it's not every

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Speaker 1: single item in the news. It is this stuff that

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Speaker 1: I think you, as the modern tech consumer, should know

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Speaker 1: about and be informed of. It's the cool stuff. It's

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Speaker 1: the stuff that helps you. It's the stuff that gives

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Speaker 1: step ahead of the curve. Let's go to Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: Jerry, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 6: Hi Rich. For about four or five months now, I've

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Speaker 6: been having problems with my audio. I receive programming over

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Speaker 6: my dish, and I also have an antenna so I

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Speaker 6: can get direct at local stations and what happens. It

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Speaker 6: seems like when I listen to the cable news people

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Speaker 6: when they have a pal of people talking and they talk,

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Speaker 6: and the women's voices they shot up for being clipped

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Speaker 6: and very hard. Not a problem with the men, only

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Speaker 6: the women. And I don't have a problem with the

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Speaker 6: YouTube on the computer or anything on myself. On this

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Speaker 6: only through the the satellite and the news programs. And

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Speaker 6: I was wondering, have you heard anything about this?

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Speaker 2: No? But what so it's only happening when you watch.

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Speaker 6: TV that that's that's correct. Yeah. And on the TV

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Speaker 6: I have the druggy equalizers and I just as all

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Speaker 6: I can. That's it still come through.

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Speaker 2: That's that's what I was going to say.

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Speaker 1: It has something to do I'm assuming with your equalizer

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Speaker 1: settings changed them and you've changed okay, And so so

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing now you said you watch YouTube and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen.

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Speaker 2: Is this YouTube on the same sound system?

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Speaker 6: No, I don't watch YouTube on a laptop. I listened

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Speaker 6: to KFI on my cell phone. Yeah, so I got

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Speaker 6: several TVs, so that happens. All So it's gonna be

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Speaker 6: either the Dish network or the cable programming or or

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Speaker 6: somehow they're clipping the audio.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely sounds like it's something related to either

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Speaker 1: the box, a setting on the box, or the programming itself.

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Speaker 1: I mean this, I don't I don't know if there's

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Speaker 1: a widespread issue. Now that we brought it up on

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Speaker 1: this show, perhaps other people will, you know, email me

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, Rich, I have the same problem. But

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Speaker 1: having worked in TV news for many years, it's not

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Speaker 1: something that we're doing. It's not something that we're actively modifying.

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Speaker 1: But with that said, there's a lot of audio settings,

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Speaker 1: and I think if you're playing with the equalizer that

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Speaker 1: could be part of the issue. So the you know,

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Speaker 1: if it's a high pitched voice thing, maybe it's the

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Speaker 1: high frequency that's you know, messing with that. So maybe

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Speaker 1: just adjust the settings to balance the high frequency. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, it's weird that it's happening on all three

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Speaker 1: of your TVs. I would also try to see if

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Speaker 1: you have some sort of like dialogue enhancer. I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of these systems now have a clear audio

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Speaker 1: kind of enhancement product, and so that might be something

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Speaker 1: to look into. That's a tricky one, Jerry, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: All I know is that we watch with the subtitles

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Speaker 1: on in our house because it's much easier to follow along,

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Speaker 1: even though it live news.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes those could be challenging as well, because they're not

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Speaker 2: always one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. This is rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro

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Speaker 1: here talking technology with you at eight eight eight rich

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Speaker 1: one o one eight eight eight seven four to two,

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Speaker 1: four to one zero one. How did you find the

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Speaker 1: saddest Taylor Swift song? I mean, some of them are

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Speaker 1: really sad. This one don't know. She well, she's kind

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Speaker 1: of angry in the latest stuff getting back at folks.

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Speaker 12: It is it bad that I haven't listened to her

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Speaker 12: latest album?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I don't. I'm not a big of

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Speaker 2: a swifty as I know. You call me a swifty.

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Speaker 1: Every single time will play a song I like Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 1: You know why, I'll tell you why. I've told you

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Speaker 1: this before. It's a connection to my wife. I get

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Speaker 1: it because she likes Taylor Swift and I never really cared,

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Speaker 1: you know, too much about her. And then the fact

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Speaker 1: that she likes her so much. It's just I don't

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Speaker 1: know it brings me joy. Yeah, it's weird, that's.

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Speaker 12: Not I get it. I just always figured like she'd

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Speaker 12: get into relationship break up and have a number one album.

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Speaker 2: Yeah and rinse and repeat.

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Speaker 6: Yep.

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Speaker 1: All right, before we get to Howard and Palm Desert,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to you in a second. Biff writes

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Speaker 1: in with a bone to pick. He says, Rich vonage

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Speaker 1: for home is not ten dollars, it's eleven ninety nine

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Speaker 1: plus twelve dollars in taxes twenty two to eighteen total.

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Speaker 1: Come on, dude, you are way off well.

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Speaker 2: Biff, double check my sources.

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Speaker 1: And so I went to the Vantage website. I put

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Speaker 1: in my entire shipping address and information because they do

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Speaker 1: hide the taxes and fees a little bit. And indeed, uh,

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Speaker 1: let's see, yeah, indeed, nine ninety nine a month.

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Speaker 2: It is nine ninety nine a month.

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Speaker 1: Taxes and fees add up to let's see two dollars

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Speaker 1: federal tax, two dollars emergency, two dollars state tax, and

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Speaker 1: like under two dollars county tax. Total seventeen oh six

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Speaker 1: do today recurring charges sixteen dollars thirty seven cents, so

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Speaker 1: bif I'm not way off, I wasn't even off, said

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Speaker 1: ten dollars a month. That's how much it is. So

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Speaker 1: unless I'm proven otherwise, that seems to be right anyway,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the email. Eighty eight rich one oh one

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

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Speaker 2: One zero one. Howard impalmdsert what's up.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm finding a trip to trance in the very

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Speaker 4: near future and I want more information about the translation

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Speaker 4: real time earphones.

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Speaker 6: What your take is on.

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Speaker 1: So I had a lot of conversations about these at ces.

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Speaker 1: There's a startup named Time Kettle t I M E

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Speaker 1: K E T T l E dot co. They are

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Speaker 1: sort of the leader in these earbuds that translate in

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Speaker 1: real time, and they have them for as cheap as

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Speaker 1: it looks like one hundred and fifty dollars. So the

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Speaker 1: main thing about the earbuds this is the difference with

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Speaker 1: the pricing. So the more expensive they are, the more

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Speaker 1: they can do at the same time. So if you

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Speaker 1: think about the cheap version or the I guess the

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Speaker 1: inexpensive entry level, it's more like a walkie talkie. Someone

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Speaker 1: speaks in their language, it waits it processes and then

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01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:57,799
Speaker 1: it comes through in their language in your ears. Now

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Speaker 1: with the more expensive translate earbuds, this is more of

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Speaker 1: a real time experience, so they can be interrupted. It's

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Speaker 1: back and forth. But pretty much everyone I talked to,

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Speaker 1: Time Kettle is the best of the interpreter earbuds. But Howard,

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Speaker 1: having been to Paris this year, I would say it

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Speaker 1: depends if I would rethink if you actually need these,

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01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:25,320
Speaker 1: it may be unnecessarily complicated. You can download on your

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01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 1: iPhone the Google Translate app. You can download the or

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01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: it's already built into the iPhone the Apple Translate app.

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01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 1: Both are pretty good, and I think that that might

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Speaker 1: be all you need to get through a trip, as

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Speaker 1: long as it's just a you know, tourist trip to

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Speaker 1: the uh, you know, to that area. So that's what

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Speaker 1: I would recommend. I mean, I think that there's so

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01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 1: many ways to keep in touch nowadays with headphones, h

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01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 1: or with just in general these translating Sorry, my phone's

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01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 1: responding to me now because I said Google. But if

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01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: you want to look at the time Kettle, do that.

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01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 1: I think that this is also getting built into a

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01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: lot of other products. So the Meta ray band, Smart

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01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 1: glasses have this technology built in where they can translate

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01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:13,720
Speaker 1: the audio in a couple different languages right now. I

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01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 1: think French is one of them. I have not tested

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01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: that on my headphones. I do need to try that out.

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01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: But that's what I would say is try to get

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01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: around without spending more money on these earbuds. But a

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01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: lot of them are doing this, I mean, especially with CHATCHYBT.

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01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:32,559
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just gotten so much easier to get

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Speaker 1: around these cities without knowing the language. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: I'm it's interesting. You know they've got this the big

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Speaker 1: the big program that does the translation is Babel b

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Speaker 1: A B B E L and that Well, okay, so

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01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 1: you say Babel, you say Babel. I say Babel because

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01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 1: they do, all right? Why do they have ads on

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01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 1: the yeah, okay, all right.

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01:16:57,720 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 2: Well I'm wondering if it's related.

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01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:03,519
Speaker 1: I'm reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and they have

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01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:07,759
Speaker 1: what's a translating fish called the Babelfish, and I'm wondering

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01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:15,240
Speaker 1: if Babbel got their inspiration from babel fish in this book.

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01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: So many things that we have in our society, like

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01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 1: these names and things like you don't realize they're all

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01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 1: inspired by something. Now you're reading the book or you

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01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: have it on a tablet, I'm actually listening.

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01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:28,800
Speaker 2: So you're not reading. Well, I don't know. Is that

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01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 2: not reading?

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01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 1: Yes, it still takes your brain power. So I typically,

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01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: I typically don't challenge me on this. I typically listen

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01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: to nonfiction and I read fiction. And I'll be quite honest,

1545
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:47,840
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, because nonfiction books are harder.

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01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 2: They are.

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01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 1: There's like, you know, a book like Hitchhiker's Guide to

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01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: the Galaxy. There's so many terms in there that are

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01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 1: not like typical English, right, like these weird names and

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01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 1: things like that.

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01:17:57,920 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 12: It was it a movie? Yeah, it was a movie

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01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 12: a while ago. Most define was in it.

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01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:05,120
Speaker 2: Oh there you go. Are we talking about the same thing?

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01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:07,719
Speaker 2: To the Galaxy? What happened in it?

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01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:09,679
Speaker 12: It's been so long since I've seen it.

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01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: Uh, well, anyway, good good movie.

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01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 2: You should read the movie, read the script and maybe

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01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 2: I'll remember it. I'll read the script. I'll listen to

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01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 2: the script anyway. It's so, it's so many things.

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Speaker 1: When you read books and you like learn or you

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01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:29,479
Speaker 1: listen to them, whatever your preferences, you really you realize

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01:18:29,520 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 1: just how much is inspired by these classic things. Anyway,

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01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 1: I do want to get to some news that happened

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01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 1: this week, and of course now you know now I've

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01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:43,759
Speaker 1: got the no more time here on the segment. But Meta, big, big,

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01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 1: big one to eighty out of Meta this week revamping

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01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:51,120
Speaker 1: all of their content policies for quote free expression, so

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01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 1: major changes to basically their content moderation. Ending its third

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01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: party fact checking program in the US. They're going to

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01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 1: re place it with a community note system, which is

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01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:07,000
Speaker 1: inspired by X So basically, instead of having fact checkers

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01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:09,559
Speaker 1: look at posts, they're just gonna have random people or

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01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:12,640
Speaker 1: I guess people that are I don't know signed up

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01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 1: to do this that can say, hey, this is not

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01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:17,120
Speaker 1: true or this is true. So they're going to have

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01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: various contributors. They're going to scale back their automated content

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01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 1: moderation systems. Some people will like this because I know

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01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 1: a lot of people have been flagged for things that

1579
01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:27,439
Speaker 1: are kind of weird.

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01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 2: But it's going to.

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01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 1: Cause a lot of problems in the beginning.

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01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:34,720
Speaker 2: Of course, while people get used to these new lesser restrictions.

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01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:37,839
Speaker 1: I guess they're going to use those automated content moderation

1584
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 1: systems for high severity violations like terrorism and fraud less

1585
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: severe policy violations will need someone to report it before

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01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: it's enforced. So basically, if you post something on Facebook,

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01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: nobody sees it, but it's horrible.

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01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 2: It'll stay there.

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01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 1: Now if someone reports it, then maybe someone will take

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01:19:57,280 --> 01:19:59,679
Speaker 1: a look at it. So they're basically trying to open

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01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: up the pathway for more expression and saying, look, if

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01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,559
Speaker 1: nobody's seeing this or nobody cares, then fine, leave it

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01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 1: on there.

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01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 2: Now.

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01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:09,599
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I agree with any of this. I'm

1596
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:12,519
Speaker 1: just saying what is happening. There's two sides to all this.

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01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:17,240
Speaker 1: Political content will be back into feeds and if you

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01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: engage with it, you're going to see more of it.

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01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: So a lot of people love their political content on Facebook,

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01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:24,720
Speaker 1: and they've noticed that it changed when they said, ah,

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01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: we're getting out of politics. In fact, they were starting

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01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 1: to demote news in general on Facebook. And so that's

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01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: all coming back. Account recovery process and appeals is going

1604
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:38,439
Speaker 1: to be simpler. They're going to use more AI and

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01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: more reviewers to make sure that you can get your

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01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 1: account back if you are flagged or something like that.

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01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 1: Restrictions on topics like immigration and gender identity will be eased.

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01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: A lot of people talking about that because you know,

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01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: these are hot topic, you know, powder keg topics on

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01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:55,840
Speaker 1: social media.

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01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:58,720
Speaker 2: People just love to say what they want and next thing, you.

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01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:02,719
Speaker 1: Know, it starts a whole sparks of conversation, not always

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01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 1: the best conversation. And so they're gonna say, we'll see

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01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:07,839
Speaker 1: what happens with all this. And the trust and safety

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01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: teams are relocating from California to Texas and that's where

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01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 1: they're going. So again, Meta, it's going to be a

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01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 1: free for all for a while at least and until

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01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 1: these programs sort of they figure out what's working and

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01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:25,839
Speaker 1: what's not. But you know, some people are very excited

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01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 1: about this. Gonna be more like X, you know X

1621
01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:31,679
Speaker 1: free speech, free speech, free speech. You know, some people

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01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 1: are gonna leave Meta because of this. But at the

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01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:37,799
Speaker 1: end of the day, this is a major major shift.

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01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, you know the video he put out, My

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01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: jaw just dropped. It's a total complete departure from what

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01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:48,400
Speaker 1: he has been saying for the past couple of years.

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01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: And you know, this is the company, the social media

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01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 1: platform that banned President Trump back in the day, and

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01:21:56,439 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: now not only are they welcoming him back, but they're

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01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:02,680
Speaker 1: embracing sort of what he stands for on these platforms

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01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:06,360
Speaker 1: with respect to free speech and what Elon Musk is

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01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: saying over at X Complete Complete Change. Not everyone likes this,

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01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 1: some people on one side, some people on the other.

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01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:17,599
Speaker 1: As always eighty eight rich one on one eight eight

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

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01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:21,719
Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll tell you what Apple is saying about

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01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:25,080
Speaker 1: Siri and privacy. They came out with a post on

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01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:28,920
Speaker 1: that and the new AI app for iPhone.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at

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01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: eight eight eight rich one O one eighty eight seven

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01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:42,720
Speaker 1: four to two, four to one zero one. We've been

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01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:47,719
Speaker 1: talking a lot about the fires in Los Angeles. Uh wow,

1644
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 1: I just got an alert from Google about the fires,

1645
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,240
Speaker 1: which is interesting. I know they said they were going

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01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:57,679
Speaker 1: to send out information, but you know, technology has really

1647
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:00,600
Speaker 1: been instrumental in helping people keep up with all of this,

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01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:04,960
Speaker 1: and it's quite been quite incredible. We had the rep

1649
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: from the app watch duty on, I mean the text messages.

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01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard about this little issue

1651
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 1: they had in Los Angeles, but they were sending out

1652
01:23:14,600 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 1: these alert texts, and I guess I don't know if

1653
01:23:16,880 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: the machine went haywire or what, but all of a sudden,

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01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 1: people were getting these evacuation texts and they were not

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01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 1: in the area of evacuation. And I knew something was

1656
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:29,760
Speaker 1: a little suspicious because I'm on the phone my wife

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01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: and she said, we just got an evacuation and I said,

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01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 1: no way, they were not in the evacuation area. And

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01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: I said, send me the text. And I look at

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01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:39,839
Speaker 1: the text, and sure enough, it's just a generic text

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01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 1: that just says evacuate now. And it came out a

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01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 1: couple minutes later that it was a mistake. Now they

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01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:48,040
Speaker 1: didn't say it was a human mistake, or they didn't.

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01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 2: I can't.

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01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:51,160
Speaker 1: I couldn't really understand what the mistake was, like how

1666
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:53,799
Speaker 1: that happened. But then it happened a couple more times.

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01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,680
Speaker 1: So it does make you wonder, like you have to

1668
01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 1: double check all of this stuff, you know, no matter what.

1669
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:03,880
Speaker 1: But you know, for people already on on Edge, that

1670
01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: was not a good not a good thing that happened

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01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:11,640
Speaker 1: here in la website. Rich on tech dot TV, if

1672
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:14,799
Speaker 1: you want to email me, you can go there. Remember

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01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:18,160
Speaker 1: last week I talked about Apple. We heard this whole

1674
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: settlement with Siri, how it was spying on people, eavesdropping,

1675
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 1: selling your your what you talk about with Siri to advertisers. Well,

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01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: Apple came out with a post saying none of that's true.

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01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:34,880
Speaker 1: We do not spy with Siri. And so here's what

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01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 1: they kind of outlined in their post. Because you know,

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01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:41,759
Speaker 1: when these class action suits get settled, the company doesn't

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01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 1: really have a say at the end of the day.

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01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 1: They just can tell you what they want because there's

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01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: nothing in court that's sort of sworn to. So it

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01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:50,400
Speaker 1: just becomes like, hey, let's just give our side of

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01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: the story. So Apple said number one, Siri processes as

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01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:59,520
Speaker 1: much data as possible directly on serve on devices, reducing

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01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 1: you know, server cloud servers, So that protects your privacy

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01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 1: because the device is doing it. Requests that you make

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01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:10,360
Speaker 1: to Siri are not tied to your Apple account. Instead,

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01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:15,200
Speaker 1: you get a random identifier that ensures your anonymous nature.

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01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:18,960
Speaker 1: Audio recordings are not stored unless you opt in to

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01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: improve Siri. You can opt out at any time. That

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01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 1: used to be the opposite. I think they change that.

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01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:25,799
Speaker 1: The first time. There was a little issue with Siri,

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01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 1: and then they have this idea of the private cloud compute.

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01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 1: So this is what they're doing to tackle AI because

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01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 1: AI questions are so personal in nature, and so what

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01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:38,760
Speaker 1: they're doing is they have these servers they've set up

1698
01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:41,920
Speaker 1: that when your iPhone is not powerful enough to handle

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01:25:42,479 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: the AI processing, they send it to these private cloud

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01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: compute servers that they've set up that are literally I

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01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 1: mean I went through a whole seminar with Apple on this.

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01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:53,720
Speaker 1: I mean, the way they set these things up, it's

1703
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:58,600
Speaker 1: like so anonymous and so like it deletes the information

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01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,200
Speaker 1: immediately asked. If it comes up with the answer, it

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01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:04,760
Speaker 1: wipes all the data clear off of the system. So

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01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: it's almost like a memory where it's it's not remembering

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01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:11,439
Speaker 1: that stuff, it's just processing it and then deleting it.

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01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:14,599
Speaker 1: So and Apple, by the way, said in this post

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01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:18,839
Speaker 1: as well, they do not use Siri data for advertising, marketing,

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01:26:19,360 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: or sales.

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01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:22,439
Speaker 2: To third parties. So all those.

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01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 1: Sexy headlines you saw that said, oh Apple Siris spying

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01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 1: on you. It's eavesdropping, it's listening to your conversation so

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01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:31,160
Speaker 1: it can sell you nikes. No I knew it wasn't

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01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:38,240
Speaker 1: doing that. Uh Grock this is the X has this feature.

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01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:43,400
Speaker 1: It's called grock AI. So this is elon Musk's AI. Basically,

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01:26:44,080 --> 01:26:48,799
Speaker 1: you've got chat GBT, you've got Claude, you've got Mistral,

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01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:53,439
Speaker 1: you've got bing AI, I guess they use I guess

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Speaker 1: copilot without uses Chat GBT. A lot of different flavors

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Speaker 1: of AI out there, but this one is from X

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01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 1: and it's called XAI. So it is now a standalone

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01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 1: app for the iPhone and iPad. So if you want

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01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:10,759
Speaker 1: to try something a little different, grock is a little

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01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 1: bit how do we say, unhinged unhinged AI, A little

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01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 1: less rules apply. It's got conversational and humorous tones to

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01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:25,400
Speaker 1: differentiate itself from CHATCHBT and Claude. It can make images,

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01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:27,920
Speaker 1: it can summarize texts, it's got real time data from

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01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:31,960
Speaker 1: X in the web. Now, I will tell you just going,

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01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 1: you know, kind of not getting into the politics of

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01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 1: all this stuff. They've actually built a pretty good AI

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01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:42,240
Speaker 1: tool that does have a lot of information And if

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01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 1: you are still on X you can try it out

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01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 1: on any post. There is a little XAI icon in

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01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner. So if you're looking at

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01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:54,240
Speaker 1: a post on Twitter and I thought This was actually

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01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: pretty smart. You can tap that XAI in the upper

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01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 1: right hand corner and it will analyze the post and

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01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:05,920
Speaker 1: it will search all the information in that post and

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01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 1: then give you perspective on that post an AI answer

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01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:12,720
Speaker 1: about that post. So, for instance, I tweeted the other day,

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01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:19,679
Speaker 1: day four and eighty seven of CES, and I tapped

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01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:21,720
Speaker 1: a little XAI to see if you can understand what

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01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:24,519
Speaker 1: I meant, like if it was understanding my humor, And

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01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 1: sure enough it got it. It understood it said Rich

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01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 1: as being humorous about CES because it's so long, and

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01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: some people joke that it takes so long and it's

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01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 1: a long week. And so anyway, you can download that

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01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 1: right now. It's grock gr ok for the iPhone. Coming up,

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01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk more CS. Welcome back to Rich on Tech.

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01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, talking

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01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:52,759
Speaker 1: about the wildfires, very fluid situation here in Los Angeles

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01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:56,800
Speaker 1: where we broadcast the show. The images and videos coming

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01:28:56,800 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: out of this city over the past week have been

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01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 1: really horrific and just impactful. I mean, so many people

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01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 1: affected by what's going on in these natural disasters. And

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01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 1: it's not over. That's it's still happening. It's still very

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01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:17,200
Speaker 1: very active. So thinking about everyone that is affected by this,

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01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 1: and that ranges from people who have experienced the worst

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01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 1: a loss of home, people have lost their lives and

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01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:29,519
Speaker 1: their livelihoods, and also all the people that just know

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01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:33,920
Speaker 1: people associated in that area. It is a wide swath

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01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles that is with breaking hearts right now.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four to one zero one the website

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01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:45,639
Speaker 1: for the show rich on tech dot tv U. Matt

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01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:49,960
Speaker 1: Swider is uh, he's with the shortcut dot com. He

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01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:52,960
Speaker 1: was at CS twenty twenty five with me. He's joining

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Speaker 1: me now, Matt, I know you used to live in

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01:29:55,320 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 1: the LA area. What are your thoughts on this whole

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Speaker 1: wild wildfire situation.

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Speaker 8: It's certainly devastating, you know, It's it's like watching a

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01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:07,680
Speaker 8: horror movie. And you know, we all know people who

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01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 8: live there and are you know, on the front lines

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01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:14,280
Speaker 8: of this. And so as we were at CEES, we

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01:30:14,400 --> 01:30:17,920
Speaker 8: kind of felt very helpless, uh, you know, playing with

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01:30:17,960 --> 01:30:20,519
Speaker 8: all the tech, but you know, watching our friends and

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01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:22,799
Speaker 8: loved ones kind of go through the worst.

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01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:25,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that was tough. I mean I

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01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:27,639
Speaker 1: wrote about this in my newsletter today. It's like we

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01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:31,320
Speaker 1: were there, and it's it's it's a really tough position

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01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:32,800
Speaker 1: to be in because here it is you're at one

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01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:36,320
Speaker 1: of the biggest tech events of the world. Your family

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01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: is safe, in my case, my photographer's family is safe,

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01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:41,599
Speaker 1: and it's like, what do you do? And by the way,

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01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:44,040
Speaker 1: coming back at some point, like you know, I was

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01:30:44,080 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 1: on my on the phone my wife every the whole day.

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Speaker 1: It's like, well, is it safer to come back right now?

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01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 1: I mean, we were really moving towards her and the

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01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 1: kids coming out to Vegas for the week just to

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01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 1: get out of the way. And so it was a

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01:30:57,640 --> 01:31:01,000
Speaker 1: really really interesting position to be in. I guess as

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01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:04,719
Speaker 1: a reporter you have some thoughts on on helping out

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01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:07,120
Speaker 1: with the wildfire release relief.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely absolutely so.

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Speaker 8: Uh, my friend Tommy and his wife lost their home

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01:31:12,280 --> 01:31:14,920
Speaker 8: and I have a techie angle for you, as I

1797
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:20,479
Speaker 8: always do, in making a donation to them, I found

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01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 8: out how to maximize that donation mostly through you know,

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01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,720
Speaker 8: go fund me, very popular payment platform. And if you

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Speaker 8: have you know, if you want to donate to Tommy

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01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:33,880
Speaker 8: or a loved one on the shortcut dot com, I

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01:31:34,200 --> 01:31:37,559
Speaker 8: have a post out there for it. There's a way

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01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:40,720
Speaker 8: to do it that will maximize your donation. You can

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01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:43,200
Speaker 8: pay with a credit card, so don't pay with a

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01:31:43,240 --> 01:31:45,680
Speaker 8: debit card where you don't get any points back. But

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01:31:45,760 --> 01:31:49,400
Speaker 8: I found out Apple Pay. By paying with an Apple card.

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01:31:49,400 --> 01:31:52,800
Speaker 8: Through Apple Pay, you'll get two percent cash back or

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01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:55,439
Speaker 8: two percent back, right, and then you can donate or

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01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:58,840
Speaker 8: put that into a savings account or just deposit it

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Speaker 8: into your.

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01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:02,280
Speaker 7: You know bank account eventually.

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Speaker 8: So by I donated five thousand dollars my friend and

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01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:09,719
Speaker 8: I got one hundred dollars back. Normally, with a regular

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01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 8: credit card, I would have gotten you know, you know,

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01:32:12,040 --> 01:32:15,439
Speaker 8: fifty bucks back, or with a you know, bank transaction,

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01:32:15,560 --> 01:32:18,519
Speaker 8: got zero dollars back. So I can reuse that money

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01:32:18,760 --> 01:32:21,840
Speaker 8: to go visit them, and you know, why not get double?

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Speaker 7: Is my thinking.

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01:32:23,960 --> 01:32:26,439
Speaker 8: The other thing is, and this is something you could

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01:32:26,439 --> 01:32:29,360
Speaker 8: fall for and I I kind of almost f fell

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01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 8: for it. Go fund me will send a set you

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01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:35,400
Speaker 8: up with a fourteen percent tip for themselves.

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01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:38,000
Speaker 1: Okay, I've wondered about this. I've wondered about this. I

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01:32:38,040 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 1: feel guilty when I see this, you know, I'm like,

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01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:41,479
Speaker 1: do I support them?

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01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:41,960
Speaker 2: Do I not?

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Speaker 1: So tell me what your thoughts are so Basically, when

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Speaker 1: you do a transaction on the GoFundMe platform and a

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01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:50,479
Speaker 1: lot of these platforms that take donations, they ask for

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01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:52,880
Speaker 1: a small cut to sort of quote help them run

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Speaker 1: the platform.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, and you know what, don't feel bad.

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01:32:57,160 --> 01:33:00,840
Speaker 8: They're already profitable enough on their own through you know,

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01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:04,360
Speaker 8: transaction fees and so forth, so you know on the

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01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:06,760
Speaker 8: back end they'll they'll take a little bit of a

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01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:09,920
Speaker 8: cut already, but so they don't need this like self

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01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:13,240
Speaker 8: appointed fourteen percent tip that was seven hundred dollars. In

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01:33:13,280 --> 01:33:16,840
Speaker 8: my case, I put it down to one cent, which

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01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 8: I did feel bad about.

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01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:19,800
Speaker 7: You can actually put it down to zero.

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01:33:20,320 --> 01:33:23,400
Speaker 8: I fell for the fact that even at when you

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01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:27,240
Speaker 8: put in exactly zero dollars, they will have a nagging

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01:33:27,360 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 8: message up there looking like it doesn't work. It can

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01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:33,519
Speaker 8: be zero dollars. You can proceed to just give the

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01:33:33,560 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 8: whole amount that you want to your friends, which is

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01:33:37,120 --> 01:33:39,519
Speaker 8: something I did. So I have that post on the

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01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 8: shortcut dot com if you want to go over those directions.

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01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:45,680
Speaker 8: But those two tips get money back based on points.

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01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:49,520
Speaker 8: You know, double with Apple, pay with an Apple card,

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01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:52,679
Speaker 8: and don't leave that tip to a plant pin platform

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01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:54,920
Speaker 8: that's already you know, fully funded.

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01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:58,360
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is interesting because I actually this clarifies

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01:33:58,400 --> 01:33:59,680
Speaker 1: a lot and a lot of people are going to

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01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:02,439
Speaker 1: be using gofund me in the next couple weeks. I mean,

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01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:06,320
Speaker 1: it's very popular in general. But okay, So if let's

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01:34:06,360 --> 01:34:08,680
Speaker 1: say I set up a GoFundMe and I get I've

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01:34:08,760 --> 01:34:12,759
Speaker 1: raised one hundred dollars, I actually don't see one hundred dollars, right, Yeah,

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01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:13,960
Speaker 1: I see less than that.

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01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:17,719
Speaker 8: I've been looking into that, and it's it's two point

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01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:24,439
Speaker 8: nine percent plus thirty cents per donation from what I've read.

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01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, So they're making money no matter what it's not,

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01:34:27,360 --> 01:34:29,200
Speaker 1: So you shouldn't feel bad. You're saying, when they ask

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01:34:29,240 --> 01:34:32,240
Speaker 1: for this extra tip, you're just giving them more money,

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01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:33,720
Speaker 1: which I get it. If you have the money and

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01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:35,360
Speaker 1: you feel like it and you want to just be generous,

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01:34:35,360 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 1: go ahead. But you're saying, don't feel guilty about not

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01:34:38,320 --> 01:34:41,080
Speaker 1: doing it because they're still out of that one hundred dollars.

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01:34:41,160 --> 01:34:43,479
Speaker 1: I'm only going to see ninety seven. As the person

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01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:45,920
Speaker 1: who's getting those donations. Let's say I was the recipient.

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Speaker 8: Correct everything I've read, they're getting money regardless, So they

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01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:54,040
Speaker 8: don't need and an egregious amount of fourteen percent. That's

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01:34:54,200 --> 01:34:58,040
Speaker 8: that's a lot to take from the donator who could

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01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:01,160
Speaker 8: just donate even more money or you know, spend that

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01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:04,719
Speaker 8: money elsewhere, So no need to do that. The tiny

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01:35:04,840 --> 01:35:08,120
Speaker 8: text of enter custom tip is so easy to mess

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Speaker 8: I know a lot of your listeners will probably not

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Speaker 8: even say that. I didn't even see it at first

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01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:16,320
Speaker 8: until I saw seven hundred dollars extra on there in

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01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:18,519
Speaker 8: the final bill, and as I wait a minute, so

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01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:21,200
Speaker 8: I went back clicked on that tiny text and then

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01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:23,759
Speaker 8: changed that too. You can change it to the zero dollars.

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01:35:23,880 --> 01:35:25,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're not We're not dunking on GoFundMe. I

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01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:28,519
Speaker 1: think that this has been an incredible way for anyone

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01:35:28,680 --> 01:35:31,240
Speaker 1: to raise money for any cause, but it is not

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Speaker 1: a nonprofit. They have a nonprofit arm. And I will say,

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Speaker 1: having used GoFundMe in the past for both my sister

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01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:42,120
Speaker 1: and my father, who both went through cancer, I got

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01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:45,160
Speaker 1: a donation. I don't know, maybe for my dad or

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01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:48,559
Speaker 1: my sister or both, but they actually donated to my cause,

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01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:50,320
Speaker 1: like I think at one point, I think they gave

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01:35:50,360 --> 01:35:52,680
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty dollars. They said, hey, we just

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01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:55,000
Speaker 1: want to be generous in your in your cause.

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01:35:55,360 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 2: Now?

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01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:57,240
Speaker 1: Is that because I'm rich to Miro and I tweeted

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01:35:57,240 --> 01:35:58,800
Speaker 1: about it. Maybe I don't know if they do that

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01:35:58,840 --> 01:36:01,680
Speaker 1: for everyone, you know, but I think they do that

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01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:04,879
Speaker 1: for people. But I think obviously since they could see anyway.

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Speaker 1: My point is it's a nice company. They're doing good things.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, you don't have to tip if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to. All right, let's talk about ce s

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Speaker 1: Matt what what what are your What's your main takeaway

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01:36:14,680 --> 01:36:15,040
Speaker 1: this year?

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Speaker 8: Main takeaway is there's a lot of conceptual gadgets out

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01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:23,719
Speaker 8: there that are finally becoming products and look really cool.

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01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:25,960
Speaker 8: I don't know if you saw what we gave on

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01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:28,680
Speaker 8: the shortcut, the Best in Show award winner, but it's

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01:36:28,680 --> 01:36:32,599
Speaker 8: the robo rock with It's a vacuum that has an arm.

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01:36:32,640 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 8: It looks like it's from a like a movie, horror movie.

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01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 8: It has an arm that comes out of the robot

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01:36:39,320 --> 01:36:43,160
Speaker 8: vacuum and picks up socks, trash, and other items underwear

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01:36:43,479 --> 01:36:44,760
Speaker 8: that kind of get in the way.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you've got a lot of underwear on

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01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:48,439
Speaker 1: your floor, I don't know what's happening in that apartment.

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01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:52,760
Speaker 8: It's you get some lazy sometimes and like you know,

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01:36:53,160 --> 01:36:55,240
Speaker 8: clothes and laundry is strewn about.

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Speaker 7: So I get it. I've been there.

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Speaker 8: So this is kind of a they say it's coming out.

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Speaker 8: It feels a little more conceptual, but anything under three

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01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 8: hundred grams it'll be able to pick up with a

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01:37:05,960 --> 01:37:09,080
Speaker 8: robot arm. But it looks like a regular robot vacuum

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01:37:09,439 --> 01:37:12,840
Speaker 8: other than this really cool feature. So we gave that

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01:37:12,920 --> 01:37:16,000
Speaker 8: the Best and Show at CES award because it just

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01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:21,639
Speaker 8: really felt like almost the segue to a Jetson style robot.

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01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:24,519
Speaker 7: Remember Rosie the robot. We're getting there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what else did you give awards to?

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Speaker 8: We gave an award to the best Laptop issues zen

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01:37:31,240 --> 01:37:34,680
Speaker 8: Book A fourteen was really cool. The LGG four was

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01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:38,479
Speaker 8: our top TV. You know, the Samsung Frame Pro TV

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Speaker 8: came really close. That was really cool. And we gave

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Speaker 8: an award to two shares two gaming chairs. You know,

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Speaker 8: that's very rare for us to choose too, but one

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Speaker 8: was conceptual. They were both from a company, a gaming

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Speaker 8: company called Razor. Razor makes excellent gaming chairs. I'm actually

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Speaker 8: sitting in one of those right now. But they came

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Speaker 8: out with a new one and The reason I like

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Speaker 8: that is it's the Razor Iscor V two X, and

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Speaker 8: it's more than half the price of the one I'm

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Speaker 8: sitting in, and it has a lot of the core features.

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Speaker 8: It's three hundred dollars, it has, you know, a lot

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Speaker 8: of the erogronomics, and it's it backs off some of

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Speaker 8: the over the top lumbar support that you know, not

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Speaker 8: everybody needs, but it opens it up to a lot

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Speaker 8: more gamers. The one piece of advice I give people

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Speaker 8: when they buy gaming chairs, don't buy that one for

1945
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Speaker 8: ninety nine dollars. If you can help it. That's on Amazon.

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Speaker 8: Those tend to, you know, fall apart very quickly and

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Speaker 8: not be perfect. The Iscor Razor line of chairs is

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Speaker 8: pretty amazing, So you get what you pay for. If

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Speaker 8: you're you're springing, you know, and spending three hundred dollars

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Speaker 8: for a gaming chair, that one.

1951
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Speaker 7: That the one I'm sitting is over six hundred dollars.

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Speaker 8: I realized that when I read it for last year,

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Speaker 8: it's not for everybody. This one, the price point is

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Speaker 8: right the other gaming chair. This one's conceptual as well.

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Speaker 8: I talked about c Yes being conceptual. It is a uh,

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Speaker 8: it's it's a project r lysle right, and it is

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Speaker 8: a hot and cold gaming chair. You can you know,

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Speaker 8: it has this blateless fan system that either makes it

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Speaker 8: cool or heats the chair up.

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Speaker 2: W Yeah, why would you want to be heated up?

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Speaker 1: I feel like you're you're getting sweaty playing games anyway,

1962
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Speaker 1: But I get the cool.

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Speaker 8: New York City is a little bit frigid right now. Okay,

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Speaker 8: I feel like a lot of times I spring for

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Speaker 8: the you know, the heating system and I have to

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Speaker 8: like pause my gaming session and get up and turn

1967
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Speaker 8: it on. If I had that in the chair, it's

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Speaker 8: kind of like heated seats. Why is that limited to

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Speaker 8: a luxury car? So I'm surprised no other tech company

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Speaker 8: has done this before. But yeah, it seems like something

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Speaker 8: they're actually gonna make. I'm I'm totally uh in love

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Speaker 8: with this idea. It turns orange for hot, blue for cool,

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Speaker 8: and also green because that's Razors color.

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Speaker 7: So definitely one to look forward to if they come

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Speaker 7: out with that.

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Speaker 1: I've been playing with the Razor mechanical keyboard like they're

1977
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Speaker 1: a really nice one and it's you know, the people

1978
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Speaker 1: love Razor stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's really slick.

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Speaker 1: It's got all the lights, the RGB and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just got all the features you need.

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Speaker 2: It's a little price.

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Speaker 1: You know, this stuff could be expensive, but I think,

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Speaker 1: like anything else, if you you know, and this is

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Speaker 1: what always happens, you recommend something. I recommend something. You know,

1986
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Speaker 1: maybe it's a little bit more than people want to spend.

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Speaker 1: They go to Amazon, they type it in and of

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01:40:29,360 --> 01:40:32,519
Speaker 1: course you know these other companies they hijack the search

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Speaker 1: by putting in like something that's half the price. You're like,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'll just go with that, and you do

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Speaker 1: get what you pay for. And you have to remember

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Speaker 1: big companies like a Razor, they have R and D,

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Speaker 1: and they have quality control, and they use parts and

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Speaker 1: they do things in a way that is like, you know,

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Speaker 1: not gonna explode or not gonna like catch on fire

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Speaker 1: or something. So you have to keep this in mind

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Speaker 1: when you go with that really cheap thing on Amazon.

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Speaker 2: Just remember that absolutely.

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Speaker 8: I've done that with lights before they were on sale

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Speaker 8: for Amazon, and I didn't know what the company was.

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Speaker 8: I got them, and then I spent probably two months

2002
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Speaker 8: trying to track down a cricket in my kitchen, and

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Speaker 8: every time I went into the kitchen. I couldn't find

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Speaker 8: the cricket because it would just you know, they would

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Speaker 8: go silent. I realized it was the very cheap lights

2006
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Speaker 8: I got and they were just humming.

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Speaker 7: So I realized that was it. So you get what

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Speaker 7: you pay.

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Speaker 1: For, all right, Matt Swider of the shortcut dot Com,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 7: Thanks Rich.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we are going to open up

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Speaker 1: the feedbag. We're gonna see what you've been emailing me

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Speaker 1: all week, and uh we'll do that right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. A couple of headlines to

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Speaker 1: get through before we get to the feedbag. Tvo make

2018
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Speaker 1: it a comeback. They're going to debut a new TVO

2019
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:54,719
Speaker 1: Sharp TV in February, taking on Roku and fire TV.

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Speaker 2: We'll see.

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Speaker 1: I love Tvo, I loved it in the past. We'll

2022
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Speaker 1: see if it can still hang with the big boys.

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Speaker 1: Disney and Fubo are merging their live TV services. Disney

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Speaker 1: is partnering with Fubo to combine Hulu Plus Live Tv,

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Speaker 1: with Fubo creating a joint venture. They're gonna have six

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Speaker 1: million subscribers. Let's see do they say the name of

2027
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Speaker 1: the new service. I don't know the name. I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Fubo. Maybe it's because of a lawsuit.

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Speaker 2: And then Dell.

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Speaker 1: They are copying the iPhone naming convention, So no more

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Speaker 1: xps and INSPI on now. It's going to be the Dell,

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Speaker 1: Dell Pro and Dell Promax, which I actually think is

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Speaker 1: a smart idea, very very smart idea. I know people

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Speaker 1: are giving them a lot of grief for that, but

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Speaker 1: I think it's very smart because you know that the

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Speaker 1: Pro Max is better than the Dell, and you know

2037
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Speaker 1: the Dell Pro is better than the Dell, and you

2038
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Speaker 1: know that the Pro Max is better than the del Pro.

2039
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Speaker 1: And the Sony Honda Aphila one electric car now has

2040
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Speaker 1: reservations open for eighty reservations opening California. With a two

2041
01:43:01,360 --> 01:43:03,479
Speaker 1: hundred dollars deposit, you can get this new car, which

2042
01:43:03,520 --> 01:43:07,240
Speaker 1: is sort of like a PlayStation on wheels. It's been

2043
01:43:07,240 --> 01:43:09,320
Speaker 1: on display at CS for the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Sony and Honda joint developed it. I don't know why

2045
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Speaker 1: you'd pay ninety thousand dollars for it, but hey.

2046
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Speaker 2: You can have it. It's available. Let's get to the feedbag.

2047
01:43:21,760 --> 01:43:23,880
Speaker 1: Chuck writs in I use the Burner app as a

2048
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 1: second phone number for my customer contact in my job. Recently,

2049
01:43:27,479 --> 01:43:30,400
Speaker 1: they deactivated my account without warning, making my social media

2050
01:43:30,439 --> 01:43:34,000
Speaker 1: and marketing materials with that number useless. They won't explain why,

2051
01:43:34,080 --> 01:43:35,720
Speaker 1: only saying they have the right to do this. It

2052
01:43:35,760 --> 01:43:37,479
Speaker 1: was a great app for years, but I wanted to

2053
01:43:37,520 --> 01:43:40,120
Speaker 1: warn others if their work is tied to the app,

2054
01:43:40,120 --> 01:43:42,880
Speaker 1: it could vanish instantly. Be careful, yes, Chuck, that is

2055
01:43:42,880 --> 01:43:45,799
Speaker 1: always a consideration when you use one of those phone numbers,

2056
01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:48,240
Speaker 1: one of those apps. They can always just get rid

2057
01:43:48,280 --> 01:43:50,559
Speaker 1: of it at any time, and you may not have recourse.

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Speaker 1: Laurel rights in I'm eighty three, I'm so glad. I

2059
01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 1: grew up in the nineteen forties and fifties. We didn't

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Speaker 1: have TVs, the internet, or smartphones for entertainment. We played outside,

2061
01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:02,439
Speaker 1: rode bikes, climb trees, jump rope, read books.

2062
01:44:02,840 --> 01:44:04,599
Speaker 2: My mom read me a story every night.

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Speaker 1: I avoid social media and find those platforms for meeting

2064
01:44:08,680 --> 01:44:11,760
Speaker 1: people online dangerous. A friend of mine worries about his

2065
01:44:11,800 --> 01:44:15,160
Speaker 1: granddaughter meeting the wrong people online. But how can parents

2066
01:44:15,200 --> 01:44:17,000
Speaker 1: keep their kids away from devices when it seems like

2067
01:44:17,040 --> 01:44:20,080
Speaker 1: everyone has one. It's sad that parents don't spend Many

2068
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: parents don't spend quality time with their kids because they're

2069
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:24,640
Speaker 1: glued to their own screens.

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01:44:25,400 --> 01:44:26,280
Speaker 2: Very true.

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Speaker 1: Mark from Santa Barbara wrights in I listened to your

2072
01:44:29,280 --> 01:44:33,080
Speaker 1: program about surge suppressors. He recommended at least two thousand

2073
01:44:33,200 --> 01:44:35,960
Speaker 1: jewels and mentioned they don't last forever. I recently upgraded

2074
01:44:35,960 --> 01:44:39,759
Speaker 1: two older power strips near my TV, including my rebuilt

2075
01:44:39,800 --> 01:44:44,360
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three duel turntable, and replaced three in my

2076
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:47,560
Speaker 1: home office. I even added USB charging porch from my

2077
01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:50,839
Speaker 1: iPhone and iPad. Thanks for the tip. Appreciate the guidance.

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01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:54,400
Speaker 1: Gale from San Diego. Rights in Rich. Thanks for your

2079
01:44:54,439 --> 01:44:57,120
Speaker 1: advice on photo scanning. Last March, my sister and I

2080
01:44:57,160 --> 01:45:01,120
Speaker 1: started organizing over a thousand of our parents photos. Instead

2081
01:45:01,120 --> 01:45:03,840
Speaker 1: of paying for scanning, we found a youth scanner at

2082
01:45:03,880 --> 01:45:06,680
Speaker 1: an estate sale for twelve dollars and did it ourselves.

2083
01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:10,439
Speaker 1: Every Sunday we spent hours organizing and scanning old black

2084
01:45:10,479 --> 01:45:13,000
Speaker 1: and white photos, keepsakes, and letters from my dad's World

2085
01:45:13,040 --> 01:45:15,679
Speaker 1: War II service. It felt like a family reunion.

2086
01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:16,280
Speaker 2: Every week.

2087
01:45:16,720 --> 01:45:19,160
Speaker 1: We saved everything to flash drives and gifted them to

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Speaker 1: family members for Christmas. It was one of the best

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Speaker 1: experiences of our lives. All of this was inspired by

2090
01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:26,840
Speaker 1: your program. Thank you for what you do and Happy

2091
01:45:26,840 --> 01:45:29,720
Speaker 1: New Year, Gail. You get the silver star or the

2092
01:45:29,760 --> 01:45:33,200
Speaker 1: gold star for making my day. Randy from Florida writes

2093
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:35,479
Speaker 1: in Rich. I was listening as you guided someone through

2094
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:38,000
Speaker 1: finding a specific setting on their phone. May I suggest

2095
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:41,760
Speaker 1: using the search function in the settings menu instead of scrolling.

2096
01:45:42,120 --> 01:45:44,720
Speaker 1: It's a faster way to locate the exact option and

2097
01:45:44,760 --> 01:45:45,600
Speaker 1: make the adjustment.

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01:45:46,120 --> 01:45:46,360
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:45:46,439 --> 01:45:48,240
Speaker 1: I do like to give people the basis of where

2100
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:50,000
Speaker 1: things are, but I agree that could be a.

2101
01:45:49,960 --> 01:45:53,000
Speaker 2: Good way to do it as well. Let's see what else.

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01:45:53,840 --> 01:45:55,320
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so many emails.

2103
01:45:57,680 --> 01:46:01,000
Speaker 1: I was listening to your show on tape delay and

2104
01:46:01,120 --> 01:46:04,439
Speaker 1: discussion of the NordVPN guest about two factor authentication. It's

2105
01:46:04,479 --> 01:46:06,640
Speaker 1: a great security feature, but I've noticed a problem with

2106
01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:09,799
Speaker 1: how Amazon handles it. If you do it too many times,

2107
01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:12,599
Speaker 1: Amazon's inform me I can't get a link until later.

2108
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:15,200
Speaker 1: Even when I waited until the next day. The delay

2109
01:46:15,280 --> 01:46:17,880
Speaker 1: was frustrated. Frustrating. I wanted to share this in case

2110
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 1: others have experienced similar issues, or you weren't aware. Thanks

2111
01:46:21,360 --> 01:46:25,240
Speaker 1: for discussing these important tech topics. Yes, they could lock

2112
01:46:25,320 --> 01:46:27,920
Speaker 1: you out if you try to access too many times,

2113
01:46:28,360 --> 01:46:31,599
Speaker 1: so be aware of that and remember those recovery codes.

2114
01:46:31,600 --> 01:46:33,080
Speaker 1: All right, that's going to do it for this episode

2115
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Speaker 1: of the show. Links to everything I mentioned on the

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Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot tv. I'm on social media

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Speaker 1: at rich on tech. Next week i'll give you my

2118
01:46:40,200 --> 01:46:42,439
Speaker 1: thoughts on the one plus thirteen plus we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: the guy who's efforting the real life Jurassic Park. Yeah,

2120
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Speaker 1: that's going to be an interesting one. Thank you so

2121
01:46:48,600 --> 01:46:50,240
Speaker 1: much for listening. I know there are so many ways

2122
01:46:50,240 --> 01:46:52,320
Speaker 1: you can spend your time I really do appreciate you

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01:46:52,360 --> 01:46:55,480
Speaker 1: spending it right here with me. My thoughts to everyone

2124
01:46:55,640 --> 01:46:59,559
Speaker 1: impacted by the wildfires in Los Angeles. The world is

2125
01:46:59,600 --> 01:47:01,840
Speaker 1: with you right now. Thanks to everyone who makes this

2126
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Speaker 1: show possible, including Bobo, who had to break through barriers

2127
01:47:05,320 --> 01:47:08,960
Speaker 1: to get here. My name is not really My name

2128
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Speaker 1: is rich Dumuro. He didn't break any rules. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you real soon.