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Speaker 1: How to avoid becoming a victim of ransomware. It's not

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Speaker 1: just you. There are a lot of random phrases that

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Speaker 1: trigger virtual assistance. Good earbuds for just twenty eight dollars.

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Speaker 1: What plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm

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Speaker 1: Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast

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Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you

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Speaker 1: should know about. It's also where I answer the questions

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

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Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Say hello

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Speaker 1: to producer Megan. What's up?

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Speaker 2: Hello? How's it going?

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Speaker 1: It is going well, you know, as well as things

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Speaker 1: can go during a major pandemic. I know it's good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's going. Yeah, you were off

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Speaker 1: last week, so how did that get Yes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's I think it's important to at least

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Speaker 2: takes a me time, like once a year or you know,

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Speaker 2: it was nice to just get a little break. I like,

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Speaker 2: didn't go on social media.

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Speaker 1: I just that's the See. This is the secret to

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Speaker 1: vacation in twenty twenty. Literally just turn off your phone

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Speaker 1: Do you know how tough it is to do that though, Like, so,

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Speaker 1: how many times did you sneak on? Because I know

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I did sneak on. It was mainly

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Speaker 1: Yeahcent I. In fact, my phone is still set to

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Speaker 1: my annoying vacation mode, which I limited myself to. I

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Speaker 1: And it's like a whole big thing, and if you're

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Speaker 1: And yes, it just keeps going, but you're not part

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Speaker 1: Well, glad you got some time off. Good to have

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Speaker 1: you back, even though I have not seen you now

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Speaker 1: in what four months?

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Speaker 1: start the first story of the day, mac ransomware. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think that this is gonna affect a lot

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Speaker 1: because this article in malware Bites has some really good

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Speaker 1: tips on how to avoid malware and let me just

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Speaker 1: give you the quick rundown. Most people think that there's

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Speaker 1: nothing scary with a Mac. You know, there's no viruses,

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Speaker 1: And this one is called thief Quest Thief Quest or

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Speaker 1: the ability to search your system for passwords and cryptocurrency wallets,

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Speaker 1: the bottom line. It's always such a great It's like,

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Speaker 1: It hasn't been. But in my past experience, Megan, I've

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Speaker 1: Yes, keep backups of your stuff and keep them in

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Speaker 1: YouTube tv continues to add channels, they just hike up

435
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Speaker 1: the price, just like regular cable. So if you're looking

436
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Speaker 1: for an alternative to regular cable, you gotta find an alternative.

437
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Speaker 1: And it's what I've done, which I don't have standard cable.

438
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of streaming services and I have

439
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Speaker 1: a lot of them, so they all add up to

440
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Speaker 1: about what I was paying for cable. But I like

441
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Speaker 1: the ability to get rid of them when I want

442
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 1: to sign up when I want to same thing with YouTube.

443
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,880
Speaker 1: With YouTube TV, you can pause it if you don't

444
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Speaker 1: want it, So maybe what you do you pause it

445
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,360
Speaker 1: for six months and then you come back to it.

446
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Speaker 1: But I don't see a big need for a cable

447
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 1: package in my life anymore because I like to watch

448
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 1: shows on demand and for my local streaming, I use

449
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,719
Speaker 1: an antenna for KTLA and that's all I need. And

450
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: so it was funny though. Actually on our vacation when

451
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Speaker 1: we went on a road trip, when we were staying

452
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Speaker 1: at the hotel, the kids are not aware of regular

453
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Speaker 1: TV like channels, so the hotel room had direct TV.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm not kidding you, Megan. My kids were

455
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Speaker 1: so enthralled with the idea of like Nick Junior. They

456
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Speaker 1: watched it NonStop because they couldn't believe that like shows

457
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Speaker 1: just ran at a certain time. And then the commercials

458
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Speaker 1: they were going nuts over because they had never seen

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Speaker 1: commercials before. And so they're sitting there, Well, they don't

460
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Speaker 1: watch TV, they don't watch regular TV, so.

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Speaker 2: I know, I just grew up with that, so I like,

462
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Speaker 2: that's so wild to me.

463
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Speaker 1: Every single commercial they they called me into the room, Dad,

464
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Speaker 1: you got you gotta see this thing. And I'm like, kids,

465
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Speaker 1: it's a commercial. And I'm like, okay, that does look

466
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Speaker 1: cool because I don't really see him either. But it's

467
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Speaker 1: like it was just the funniest It's like.

468
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Speaker 2: The commercials were working on them, like they wanted to

469
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Speaker 2: buy everything everything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were writing things down, they were waiting

471
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Speaker 1: for them. Because the commercials come on over and over,

472
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Speaker 1: so every time it would come on, they call me

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Speaker 1: into the room again. And you know, by the way,

474
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Speaker 1: we weren't watching TV on the on the vacation most

475
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Speaker 1: of the time, but you know, at night when my

476
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Speaker 1: wife and I were getting ready for dinner or whatever,

477
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Speaker 1: we'd put on TV for them. You know, it's like

478
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Speaker 1: just for a little portion. But it was just the

479
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Speaker 1: funniest thing because it just it really just made me

480
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: realize how out of the loop they are from like

481
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Speaker 1: the way I grew up watching cartoons on like a

482
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Speaker 1: Saturday morning or after school, where you just tune into

483
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Speaker 1: the channel and you see what's on, and nowadays everything

484
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 1: is so kind of figured out. But great question about coronavirus.

485
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Speaker 1: I think I answered most of it. So if I didn't. Well,

486
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Speaker 1: look at the story at Katila dot com, slash tech,

487
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 1: or just go to rich on Tech dot tv and

488
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Speaker 1: look for coronavirus tracking. All right, this was really cool.

489
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Speaker 1: I'm always on the lookout for a new poker app,

490
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 1: and easy Poker seems like a real promising app. And

491
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: I know I've mentioned other poker apps in the past

492
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Speaker 1: to help you host a virtual game because of the

493
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Speaker 1: whole stay at home situation, but easy Poker works for that.

494
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: But the reality is the guys are the team behind

495
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: this devised this as an actual replacement for cards and chips.

496
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Speaker 1: So even if you were having a game in your home,

497
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Speaker 1: which right now we're not really doing, but if you

498
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Speaker 1: could this, you would still use this because everyone's got

499
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Speaker 1: a smartphone and it just kind of takes care of

500
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Speaker 1: all the I guess, let's it inefficiencies in a standard game,

501
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 1: which is cards, counting, chips whatever. Now, personally, I don't

502
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Speaker 1: really want to replace my poker games with my friends

503
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Speaker 1: with the chips and everything. I don't want to replace

504
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: that experience. I like that, and so I don't think

505
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Speaker 1: it's going to replace it. But I think it is

506
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Speaker 1: a fun concept, and the concept is you can play

507
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Speaker 1: poker at any time with your friends and you can

508
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Speaker 1: all be anywhere. So Easy Poker a couple of things

509
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Speaker 1: that they did to make it cool. Number one, you

510
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: don't have to install like a credit card. You don't

511
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: have to register with like a credit card, because all

512
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 1: these like poker apps they want you like a credit

513
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Speaker 1: card immediately. Most of them are played horizontally, but you

514
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Speaker 1: hold your cards vertically, so you hold your phone vertically,

515
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: which is a small thing but it's actually quite important.

516
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Speaker 1: And then also you can hide your cards, so you

517
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Speaker 1: tap to kind of look at your cards, and then

518
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Speaker 1: you can just put your phone down and your cards

519
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: you're hidden. It automatically hides those. So again, this was

520
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Speaker 1: created by real poker players to emulate what a real

521
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Speaker 1: game would be like. It just so happens they launched

522
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Speaker 1: it at the perfect time where it also works for

523
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Speaker 1: a virtual game. And I kind of tested this out

524
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: just a little bit, where you sign up for a

525
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Speaker 1: game and then you just text the link to your friends.

526
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Speaker 1: They have to download the app and sign up, but

527
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Speaker 1: that's it. It doesn't ask them for a credit card or anything,

528
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Speaker 1: which I'm wondering what it means for the money, Like

529
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Speaker 1: how you would settle out if you're actually trying to

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Speaker 1: play with real money. Anyway, the website is easy dot Poker,

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Speaker 1: so I think it's really cool. I want to check

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Speaker 1: it out with my friends. So far, my friends have

533
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Speaker 1: hosted a bunch of these virtual poker games. I have

534
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Speaker 1: not played any of them, but I am gonna do

535
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Speaker 1: one with this, and I think they're all gonna be

536
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Speaker 1: blown away at just how easy and fun this is.

537
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Speaker 1: I think it looks really cool anyway. If you want

538
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Speaker 1: the real experience, by the way, which gives you the

539
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: most out of the app, you're gonna the host is

540
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: gonna have to pay forty bucks a year for the membership,

541
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Speaker 1: or you can pay six dollars a month, but forty

542
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: dollars a year is a way better deal. Pay for

543
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 1: it once, and then you get up to twelve players

544
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: and you can customize your game. If you just do

545
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 1: the four players free game, you don't get to really

546
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Speaker 1: customize stuff. And there's no video chat on this one.

547
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: There's only audio chat, which is probably just fine, so

548
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: you can audio chat with your friends while you do this,

549
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: or you just fire up Zoom on a separate computer.

550
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Speaker 1: You're all on Zoom and you're just playing together. I mean,

551
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Speaker 1: it's I think it's such a cool little app I

552
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Speaker 1: can't wait to play.

553
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Speaker 2: So that is really cool. Maybe I'll try it. Even

554
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: though I've never played poker.

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Speaker 1: You never played poker? No, never, Well, Lindsay used to play.

556
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Speaker 1: We played a lot in college with my friends, like

557
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: pretty much like all the time. And so Lindsay used

558
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: to play with us, my wife, and it was funny

559
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: because she got good. You know, she got good after

560
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Speaker 1: a while. But I don't. I don't think she's played

561
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Speaker 1: in a long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's a good skill to have.

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Speaker 1: It's fun, all right, what's up?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Next question comes from Brenda hi Rich was wondering

565
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Speaker 2: if you could give me any feedback on how the

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Speaker 2: Ring security system works. What is the service like? And

567
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Speaker 2: I see they have different prices for plans for the monitoring.

568
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Speaker 2: I am looking at the apartment. People one my doorbell

569
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Speaker 2: would would let's see, my doorbell from what I can see,

570
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 2: will not catch anything. Do you also know if I

571
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Speaker 2: have a have to provide permission to install the leasing office?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's break some of this down. So she

573
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: wants to know number one the ring, So the Ring

574
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: works this way. You install the ring on your door,

575
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Speaker 1: and when someone walks past it, it will start recording.

576
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: It will send you a notification, it will save that clip,

577
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: and boom, you're good. Now. To get that feature and

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00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 1: that functionality, you do have to pay for a subscription plan,

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Speaker 1: and so their basic subscription plan is three dollars a

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Speaker 1: month or thirty dollars a year. I would always pay

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Speaker 1: for the thirty dollars a year because you're gonna save

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Speaker 1: and believe me, you're doing this thing over and over.

583
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Speaker 1: You're in, you're out. So I know it doesn't seem

584
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Speaker 1: like a lot to save six dollars a year, but

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Speaker 1: if you do it for five years, that's now an

586
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Speaker 1: extra year that you've saved. So I would do that.

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00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: And here's the thing about ring doorbells that people don't realize.

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00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: If you don't pay for a subscription, they will still

589
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: work and you can still look in on your doorbell

590
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: or your camera. The difference is that it will not

591
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: re cord the clips for you and save them. So

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00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: that's the big difference is that you don't get the history.

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00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: So what does that mean. It means that if you

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Speaker 1: were not looking through your door at the moment that

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00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: someone walked by, Well, you're not going to capture them,

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00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: You're not going to see them, so you definitely It's

597
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: kind of one of these things where you kind of

598
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: have to pay for it for it to actually work.

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00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: And nest cameras are the same way. Now, whyse cameras

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00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: are not that way? Why's the little cheap twenty dollars

601
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: security cameras? They will record clips for fourteen days on

602
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: a rolling basis, So if someone came up to your

603
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: camera in within fourteen days, that clip will be saved

604
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: to your account for free. So you know, but you

605
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: have to know these little delineations. The Pepole camera is

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Speaker 1: one that they specifically created for people that live in

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Speaker 1: apartments or condos. It's on sale right now eighty bucks.

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00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: That's a fantastic deal. It's very simple to install. I

609
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: have not dead up myself, but all you have to

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Speaker 1: do is remove the existing people, which I imagine you

611
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Speaker 1: just unscrew it and then put this in at it's

612
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Speaker 1: in the same hole, and then you just screw it

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Speaker 1: back on and boom. I don't think there's any damage

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00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: to the door. There's no drilling of new holes, so

615
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: I don't think personally that you need to get permission

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00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: from your apartment manager. Of course I'm not your leasing manager,

617
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: but I would think that as long as you're not

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Speaker 1: damaging your building, it should be fine. By the way,

619
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Speaker 1: this is a fourth of July sale. This is a great deal.

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Speaker 1: Fifty bucks off. Wow, that's really good. Wow, so wow,

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Speaker 1: that's oh wow. It ends on well by the time

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Speaker 1: a lot of people listen to this, it might be ended.

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Speaker 1: It's July sixth, But that's a great deal eighty bucks

624
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: for this thing. So I would jump on it. And

625
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be a fantastic solution for

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Speaker 1: a home. When I lived in an apartment, this would

627
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: have been a great little solution for my door because

628
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: you know, if someone tone up to your door, that's

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Speaker 1: that's the point of entry for an apartment is your door.

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Speaker 1: So if you've got a little ring thing on there,

631
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Speaker 1: and yes, someone can pull it off or break it,

632
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: but I mean, what are you gonna do? That's the

633
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Speaker 1: risk you take. So I would say, go for it.

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Speaker 1: Good question. Do I answer everything in the question she

635
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: wanted to know? Yeah? He did. This was really fun

636
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: this week, and I love dinosaurs. Jurassic Park is one

637
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: of my all time favorite movies, if not my favorite movie.

638
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: I have not watched it with my kids just yet,

639
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: but I love that movie. I've watched it many times,

640
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: and it's just something about the idea of bringing back

641
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: dinosaurs and the way they presented it in that movie

642
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: was so realistic of like, wow, we might like the

643
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: idea of just extracting DNA and kind of rebuilding. It

644
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: was to me like very feasible as a kid. So

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00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: I loved it, and I was so sad to see

646
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Speaker 1: the whole thing kind of come tumbling down. Spoiler alert.

647
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: But you can now bring to life ten dinosaurs from

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00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: Jurassic World on Google. All you have to do is

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Speaker 1: search for a dinosaur name on Google on your phone

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Speaker 1: and just you'll see a little box that says view

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Speaker 1: in three D and then it will bring up the

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Speaker 1: dinosaur and you can put it in your backyard. It

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Speaker 1: kind of so what it does is it uses a

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Speaker 1: camera on your phone so you can see your surroundings,

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Speaker 1: but it places the dinosaur in augmented reality in those surroundings.

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Speaker 1: It's so cool, it's so much fun. I did a

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Speaker 1: little video about this on my Instagram at rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech and people went nuts. People went nuts on Facebook.

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Speaker 1: I always love when I think something's really cool and

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Speaker 1: then I post it and people think it's really cool.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, I was justified in spending an hour

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Speaker 1: doing this video. And then sometimes I post stuff and

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Speaker 1: it's like, uh, crickets, which is fine too. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not always right with what I think people would

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Speaker 1: find interesting, but a lot of times I am. You

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Speaker 1: were right about the what was the thing we did

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Speaker 1: that went viral? The uh the pizza of the pizza

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Speaker 1: oven went viral? The uh Megan Meghan's actually a secret

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Speaker 1: viral sense sense What is it? Sensei? Sensey? You you

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Speaker 1: have a knack for for figuring out things that would

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Speaker 1: go viral. Because we've done that other thing.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I haven't had that much. Oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: The other one was the the rain thing. That was

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Speaker 1: the first one, the ring thing, remember the rain, the rain,

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Speaker 1: the umbrella things, the rain.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was me.

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Speaker 1: That's still you know, that's that's still one of our

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Speaker 1: all time greatest hits.

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Speaker 2: So I know, but I was, I was. I was

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Speaker 2: there for the folding, mate, but I didn't shoot that.

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Speaker 2: That was you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you, but you were you were instrumental in

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Speaker 1: that because we would we would sit there and we

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Speaker 1: would do we would run by like the captions. You know,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of things, when they go viral, I

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Speaker 1: hate to say a lot of it's the caption. It's

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Speaker 1: got to be it's got to be quick. It's got

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Speaker 1: to encapsulate what you're gonna experience. It can't give everything away.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can never figure out when something is

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Speaker 1: going to go viral. But in my history of being

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Speaker 1: a KTLA, and you know, really I didn't, I've had

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Speaker 1: a couple of these hits. But like the thing is,

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Speaker 1: there's always like some sort of surprise or some sort

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Speaker 1: of payoff that's like really interesting that you want to

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Speaker 1: share with your friends. That's kind of what I've noticed.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, the dinosaur thing didn't go viral, but it

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Speaker 1: definitely did well. And all you have to do is,

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Speaker 1: like I said, search for one of these names. It

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Speaker 1: works with Tyrannosaurus, Rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and

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Speaker 1: Cleosaurus die oh my gosh, Dihosaurus, petrodon and parasse I

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Speaker 1: stopped at like tyranne.

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Speaker 2: Part of dinosaurs what's that The names are the best part.

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Speaker 1: I now, if you want to get really geeky, it

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Speaker 1: does work on Android. It does work on iOS, but

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Speaker 1: only on certain devices, specifically in ar core enabled device

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Speaker 1: on Android. But just try it and see if it works.

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Speaker 1: The one thing that I did not know when I

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Speaker 1: posted the video that I now know is and this

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Speaker 1: is really sly on Android's part or Google's part, These sounds,

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Speaker 1: which are probably the best part of this other than

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Speaker 1: the dinosaur, only work on Android. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: these people are emailing me and saying, Rich, I can't

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Speaker 1: hear the sounds on my iPhone. I'm telling them how

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Speaker 1: to turn up the volume and change the settings, and

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Speaker 1: it turns out after further reading that they only enable

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Speaker 1: the sounds in Google on Android. I'm guessing that's for

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Speaker 1: some technical reason that the iPhone doesn't offer. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It seems like they just did that as a you know,

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Speaker 1: we gotcha, Yeah, iPhone, ain't that great?

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Speaker 2: All right? This next question comes from Lorrain. Reviews on

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Speaker 2: a cell phone holder for car in Indiana take effect.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what reviews on cell phone holder? Oh, she

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Speaker 2: just wants to know about a cell phone holder for

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Speaker 2: a car. I guess there's a lot that takes effect

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Speaker 2: on July first, that you cannot hold your phone in

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Speaker 2: your hand while you drive in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Indiana getting on board a little bit late.

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Speaker 1: We've had that ruling, California. How many years have we

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Speaker 1: had that? Wow?

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Speaker 2: Forever?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, but you know, this is the beauty of America.

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Speaker 1: Every state makes its own rules, and Indiana felt like

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Speaker 1: they didn't need oneuntil now. I am so surprised at that.

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Speaker 1: By the way, that's wild. It is interesting when I

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Speaker 1: travel to different states, though, like how much of a

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Speaker 1: difference there is in different states. And that's part of

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Speaker 1: what's cool about America is that each state does what's

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Speaker 1: best for themselves. But it's also really weird when you

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Speaker 1: travel a lot, because it's just like one big law,

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Speaker 1: Like okay, in Los Angeles, like you can't drink walking

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Speaker 1: down the street, but in Las Vegas, like bh whatever,

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Speaker 1: just go ahead, have a giant you know, margarita and

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Speaker 1: one of those like giant Margarita things like down the street.

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Speaker 1: It's like what or like New Jersey. It's like I

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Speaker 1: got out of my car to start pumping gas and

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Speaker 1: I was like getting yelled at from the guy and

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Speaker 1: he's like, no pumping gas. And I should have remembered

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Speaker 1: because I grew up in Jersey, where you can't pump

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Speaker 1: your own gas. But I'm so used to it in

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Speaker 1: California that would just go home. I just forget. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Or when I moved up to Washington State and I

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Speaker 1: went to buy we were making Oh my gosh, this

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Speaker 1: is how this is how dated this is. I was

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Speaker 1: making apple teenis, remember those when those were like hot?

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Speaker 1: No you don't because you're so young, but apple teenis

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Speaker 1: were like the hottest drink going for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And so I was trying to find the stuff to

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Speaker 1: make an apple teeny and I go to like a

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Speaker 1: liquor store on it. By the way, in California they

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Speaker 1: sell wine and everything inside like a Ralph's in other

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Speaker 1: states not the case. Uh, Like you go to these

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Speaker 1: states and you have to go to like a state

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Speaker 1: they call it like a package store in some states,

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Speaker 1: or like a you know a state, like what was

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Speaker 1: the state? I think it was Washington State. You had

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Speaker 1: to go to a state liquor store, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we're closed on certain days like a Sunday. So I

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Speaker 1: mean it's really interesting, just the difference. A lot of

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Speaker 1: it has to do with booze. Megan. Okay, I know

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Speaker 1: you know so much. I'm sort of an expert. So

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Speaker 1: my recommendation for the clip for your car. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: When I lived in Louisiana, you could drive through and

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Speaker 1: get a daker through a drive through Daquerri store. Now, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, before I got there, right before

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Speaker 1: they they shut down the fact that the passenger could

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Speaker 1: drink the dakri while you were driving them. But they

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Speaker 1: shut that down because they said, you know what, it's

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Speaker 1: probably safer if nobody in the car is drinking. But

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Speaker 1: what they would do when you got your dakriy is

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Speaker 1: they would tape down the straw. And that was a

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Speaker 1: universal sign to an officer that pulled you over there,

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Speaker 1: like I've not been drinking this. It's the straw is taped.

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Speaker 1: Do you see the tape? Yeah? I mean is insane,

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Speaker 1: so wild. All right, let me just tell you about

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Speaker 1: this what my recommendations are for the clips. If you want,

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Speaker 1: since it's new to you and you probably want to

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Speaker 1: spend a little bit of money on a nice clip

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Speaker 1: for your car, My absolute favorite is called PROCLIPUSA dot

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Speaker 1: com and you will find a custom solution for your car.

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Speaker 1: So if you have a you know, whatever car you have,

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Speaker 1: they've gone into it and they have looked and seen

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Speaker 1: where the best placement is for a holder for your phone,

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Speaker 1: and it's all custom. It fits perfectly, your phone snaps in.

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Speaker 1: They even have great things where like if you have

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Speaker 1: an iPhone, it just snaps right into the charging cradle

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Speaker 1: so that your phone is always charging. It's really slick.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit more expensive, probably about ninety dollars

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Speaker 1: for that solution, but I'm telling you it is the best,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I'd recommend if you want a cheap solution.

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Speaker 1: I like what's called the key New Airframe and so

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Speaker 1: just look up the airframe. That's really good, but it's

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Speaker 1: super easy, super cheap. And then the other one I

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Speaker 1: like that I've not tested, but I see commercials for

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Speaker 1: it and it looks really cool is the weather Tech

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Speaker 1: cup phone. And it's like a you put it in

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Speaker 1: your cup holder and it holds your phone, and I

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Speaker 1: like that. It looks really cool. To me. I would

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Speaker 1: not want to use up one of my cup holders

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Speaker 1: because I value my cup holders. But if you don't mind,

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Speaker 1: then go ahead.

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Speaker 2: That's a really funny comment after your whole feel about

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Speaker 2: Yeah's true.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on. This is this ranks is one

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Speaker 1: of the all time most popular stories I've done at KTLA,

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Speaker 1: and I'm seeing a trend. The Wy's camera was one,

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Speaker 1: but I think this actually beat out the Wyse camera.

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Speaker 1: I did a story on a twenty eight dollars pair

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Speaker 1: of wireless earbuds and a thirty six dollars smart watch

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Speaker 1: from a company called Let's Fit, and people really like

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Speaker 1: these things. People are buying them. They're telling me that

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Speaker 1: they bought them, and I will tell you the watch

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Speaker 1: I'm not as hot on as the wireless earbuds. The

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Speaker 1: wireless earbuds for twenty eight dollars I was very impressed with.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I saw them go down to as cheap

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Speaker 1: as twenty dollars on Amazon. But even at twenty eight dollars,

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Speaker 1: I thought they were fine. They have a USBC charging cable,

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Speaker 1: which I thought was great. They come in a little

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Speaker 1: charging case, you get six hours of playback. I tried

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Speaker 1: them on my spin bike. I try them with some

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Speaker 1: runs and they stay in my ears for the most part.

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Speaker 1: As you know some of these things. They kind of

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Speaker 1: My wife and I were discussing this last night, and

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Speaker 1: if you ever use even with your AirPods, Megan, when

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Speaker 1: you're working out, don't you feel like you have to

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Speaker 1: push them back in once in a while. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's it's just with everything that's like just hanging on

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Speaker 1: your ear, you just have to push them back in

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Speaker 1: for more secure. So yes, I had to push them

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Speaker 1: back in a little bit. But did they fall out.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: I think that these are a fantastic combination of value

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Speaker 1: and price. You get the pause on the side, you

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Speaker 1: get the play on the side, you get the assistant

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Speaker 1: on the side. And so far every person that's ordered,

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Speaker 1: not every person, but a lot of people have tweeted

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Speaker 1: me and said, Rich, I really like these things, and

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Speaker 1: for twenty eight bucks. If you lose them or they

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Speaker 1: get damaged or whatever, or you don't even like them,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could return them to Amazon if you

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Speaker 1: don't like them that much. But it's like twenty eight bucks.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're not out that much, you know. So

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Speaker 1: this is a company called Let's Fit. I'll put the

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Speaker 1: link if you want to buy them. I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to sell them.

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Speaker 2: To you.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm always to look out for like

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Speaker 1: a good value, and this seems to be a pretty

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Speaker 1: good value. Don't get me wrong. These are not AirPods,

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Speaker 1: and they're not trying to replace AirPods. But you know,

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Speaker 1: there's different folks that want different things, and I think

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Speaker 1: this is a great little thing to get. The smart

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Speaker 1: watch thirty six dollars I thought was fine. I would

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Speaker 1: not recommend this as my smart watch, but if you

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Speaker 1: want just basic smart watch functionality, I like the fact

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Speaker 1: that this thing kind of looks like an Apple Watch,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't look cheap. The software is just fine.

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Speaker 1: It's nothing special. But again, for thirty six dollars, if

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Speaker 1: you just want a basic watch, that you're saying, hey, rich,

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Speaker 1: I don't really want an Apple Watch. I just want

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Speaker 1: something simple and cheap. Boom, there you go. All right, Wow,

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Speaker 1: we're actually out of time, which I can't believe. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: this podcast went really fast. Do you want to do?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a quick question.

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Speaker 2: Or no, let's see someone asked, this is kind of quick.

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Speaker 2: Georgine asked, I listened to quite a few pods, and

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering, after you've listened to them, is there a

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Speaker 2: way to delete them individually? They're taking a lot of

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Speaker 2: taking up a lot of room on my phone, so

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Speaker 2: I'd like to get rid of old ones.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's funny. I got this question at work

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Speaker 1: from Ritchie, our camera guy. He was looking. He was saying,

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Speaker 1: because if you just let the podcast app on I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming it's iPhone. If you let the podcast app on

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Speaker 1: iPhone just do its own thing. When you subscribe, it

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Speaker 1: will gobble up all of your memory on your phone

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Speaker 1: because it'll just download a whole bunch of episodes, and

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Speaker 1: it can take up gigs and gigs, So check for that.

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Speaker 1: Number one. But number two. The way you do this

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Speaker 1: is just go to your library and then go to

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Speaker 1: episodes and swipe from the right to the left on

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Speaker 1: a particular episode, and that will delete it off your phone,

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Speaker 1: but it will not unsubscribe you. She's saying she doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to unsubscribe to the right podcast. Now. Alternatively, you

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Speaker 1: can go to library and then shows, and then once

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Speaker 1: you're on a show, hit the menu button and then

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Speaker 1: delete from library and that will delete all of the

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Speaker 1: shows down the episodes at once, but it will keep

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Speaker 1: your subscription, so new shows will still come through, and

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Speaker 1: I agree with who is It Georgan George Georgia georgane.

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Speaker 1: I agree these things can gobble up a lot of memory,

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Speaker 1: but it's very The podcast app on iPhone is not

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Speaker 1: very intuitive for figuring out what you want to do,

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Speaker 1: and so I think that this is something that I've

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Speaker 1: run into where I'm like, wait, I just deleted the

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Speaker 1: whole show because you think, oh, swipe left to right

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Speaker 1: on a show and it's like the whole thing is gone.

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Speaker 1: So again, this is the way to do it for

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Speaker 1: individual episodes or all of them that you've downloaded real quick.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned last week that I talked to a travel vlogger,

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Speaker 1: Josh McNair. He runs a website and a YouTube channel

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Speaker 1: called California through My Lens. Really nice guy. I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to share the secrets he has to planning the

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Speaker 1: perfect road trip, which I concur with number one Roadside

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Speaker 1: America app. I hope I didn't mention this last week,

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Speaker 1: but Roadside America app is fantastic for finding all those

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Speaker 1: unique attractions. You know. I feel like I did mention

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Speaker 1: this last week, but maybe I didn't. I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: You weren't here, so you didn't even know. Atlas Obscura

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Speaker 1: is a website that focuses on bigger cities, so it

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Speaker 1: helps you find kind of hidden gems in those cities.

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Speaker 1: Road Trippers is really cool. It's kind of like Google Maps,

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Speaker 1: but it helps you plot out your stops and the distance,

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Speaker 1: and not only the distance, but the time between those

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Speaker 1: stops because most of the time you say, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: want to drive for four hours at a clip, and

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Speaker 1: then you know you can plan that out. It will

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Speaker 1: even tell you your gas estimates yelp. Now I know

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Speaker 1: you know yelp. But he has a really unique way

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Speaker 1: of searching it, which is my favorite way of searching

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Speaker 1: when you're in a city that you haven't been into.

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Speaker 1: Sort by most reviewed, and this will reveal the places

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Speaker 1: that people are talking about the most because it has

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Speaker 1: the most reviews. And then All Trails app is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Sort by most popular again to find the best hikes.

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Speaker 1: I love All Trails Instagram. This is why I said

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Speaker 1: Josh and I were travel soulmates, because he searches Instagram

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Speaker 1: the same way I do. I always use it as

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Speaker 1: a way to kind of peek into the place that

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Speaker 1: I'm going before I go, whether that's a restaurant and

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Speaker 1: you go to the recent pictures or the stories because

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Speaker 1: there's the people that were just there and they're posting

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Speaker 1: these things, you know, twenty four hours, forty eight hours

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Speaker 1: ago or even that day, and it's like, oh, that

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Speaker 1: restaurant is you know, people are wearing masks or not whatever.

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Speaker 1: You can see exactly what's happening. His example was, if

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Speaker 1: you're looking for waterfalls on your trip, you know that

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Speaker 1: the waterfall is running or not. In California, that's kind

948
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Speaker 1: of a big thing because they're not always running. And

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Speaker 1: then YouTube. His method for searching YouTube is don't just

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Speaker 1: search a city name. Search that city name plus things

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Speaker 1: to do or city name plus best restaurants or city

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Speaker 1: name plus best hikes, and that kind of gives you

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Speaker 1: a visual guide to where you're going. I think those

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Speaker 1: are all fantastic little Those are awesome little tips. Can

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Speaker 1: you believe it? That's gonna do it for this episode

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Speaker 1: of the show. If you'd like to submit a question

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Speaker 2: And that was from Substance Underscore P.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Substance Underscore P recently unsubscribed, so just kidding, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Where can folks find you on social media?

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Speaker 2: I am on Twitter at producer Megan.

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Speaker 1: Awesome awesome, and you can find me at rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech just about everywhere. My name is rich damiro On

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Speaker 1: behalf of everyone that gets this show to your ears.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, for listening. We'll talk to you real soon.