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Speaker 1: New features coming soon to the iPhone and Apple Watch.

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Speaker 1: the coolest electric bike ever. Plus your tech questions answered.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast 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 the questions you send me. I'm

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Thanks for tuning in. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: that last month was the best month for the show

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Speaker 1: in a long time, probably like a year, you know,

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Speaker 1: since people are finally commuting back to work and all

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Speaker 1: that good stuff. So thank you for all the downloads.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. If you're new, thanks for being

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Speaker 1: on board. If you're you know, a regular, Thanks for

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Speaker 2: Sixty five weeks.

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Speaker 1: By the way, it's been sixty five weeks that I've

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Speaker 1: worked at home. I just asked Siri. I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I've been asking to go back into work.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of complicated. It's not like as easy as

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Speaker 1: you think in California at least, so apparently there's some

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Speaker 1: a whole big thing, and so I you know, they said,

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Speaker 1: do your thing. You're doing great, everything's good. So I'm

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Speaker 1: which is really nice. I mean, you know, we had

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Speaker 1: if you're listening outside of California, things have probably been

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Speaker 1: like that for a while. In California. We're kind of

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Speaker 1: like this, we're our own thing, right, I Mean, California

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Speaker 1: it's I guess we're getting back to very normal very soon.

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Speaker 1: So that's going to be exciting for most of us.

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Speaker 1: This week another virtual event from Apple. Apple held their

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Speaker 1: Worldwide Developers Conference twenty twenty one, and they showed off

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Speaker 1: so all kinds of stuff. I'm not going to go

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Speaker 1: for everything, honestly, Quite honestly, yes, there was a lot

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Speaker 1: A lot of it, you know, a lot of it's

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Speaker 1: And I've talked about this before. With the iPhone, the

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Speaker 1: and we'll just see if it gives me Okay, broken screen.

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Speaker 2: Don't know, and I don't know if you.

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Speaker 1: Can get an estimate, because if you can get an estimate,

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Speaker 1: you know, what I would say is get an estimate

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Speaker 1: from one of these places to see how much it

439
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Speaker 1: costs to do your repair, and you could just replace

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Speaker 1: the battery. Yeah, it doesn't say how much, so you know,

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Speaker 1: take it in and see how much it is to

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Speaker 1: replace the battery.

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Speaker 2: If it is, I would say under one hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: I'd actually say under eighty bucks because one hundred seems

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Speaker 1: like a lot. That's that's a third of the price

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Speaker 1: of a new iPad. So basically, what I'm saying is,

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Speaker 1: figure out how much it costs to replace the battery,

449
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 1: figure out if your battery is a problem, and also

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Speaker 1: uninstall any apps you don't need, you know, maybe make

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Speaker 1: all the software updates, and then figure out the battery situation.

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Speaker 1: Then bring it in see how much it would cost.

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Speaker 1: They'll give you a free estimate if it's like under

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, like I'm talking eighty bucks. Maybe if

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Speaker 1: that's worth it to you to just replace the battery,

456
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Speaker 1: you don't have to really deal and you can you know,

457
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,119
Speaker 1: two years, you can figure this out. I mean, you

458
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: can go longer, but it may be too slow at

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Speaker 1: that point, or you can just buy the new iPad

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Speaker 1: for three hundred. I would recommend the one for three

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine dollars. It's just a standard iPad.

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Speaker 1: And I would also go on Google and search iPad deals,

463
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,959
Speaker 1: and the bloggers generally blog about the best iPad deals

464
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 1: out there, and so you can see the iPad ten

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Speaker 1: point two just got a massive price cut, and let's

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Speaker 1: see how much that is. It is two hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars. So I would buy the new iPad

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Speaker 1: for two ninety nine if you feel like the battery

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Speaker 1: situation is gotten to a place where it's just too

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Speaker 1: expensive you don't want to deal with it. And then,

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Speaker 1: by the way, sell your old iPad pro on Gizmo

472
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Speaker 1: Go Gizmo Gizmo Goo dot com and get rid of

473
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Speaker 1: it and get some money back for the new iPad.

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Speaker 1: So a great question. All right, I probably spent way

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Speaker 1: too long on that question. All right, Amazon sidewalk, Oh

476
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 1: my gosh, the scariest thing to ever hit neighborhoods. Right,

477
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: if you've been listening to the news, it's like everyone's

478
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Speaker 1: just pooh poohing on Amazon sidewalk. Here's how to opt out,

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00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 1: here's how to opt out. And you know, I'm guilty

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Speaker 1: of this somewhat. I did my Amazon Sidewalk story back

481
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Speaker 1: in December. It was my understanding that they were going

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Speaker 1: to turn on the network back then. I guess they didn't,

483
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 1: but it turned on I believe January or June eighth.

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Speaker 1: And so if you have pretty much any echo device,

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Speaker 1: or when it comes to ring devices, if you have

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Speaker 1: their wired floodlight cameras, and I think there might be

487
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Speaker 1: another one, but it's mostly I think it's a spotlight

488
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Speaker 1: cam and the wired floodlight cameras, those are all on

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Speaker 1: this Amazon network. And I think the thing that Amazon

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Speaker 1: did that everyone got really up in arms about is

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Speaker 1: that they they kind of turned it on automatically. They

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Speaker 1: didn't give people the option to say, hey, do you

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Speaker 1: want to turn this on or you do not want

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Speaker 1: to turn it on. So my feeling is number one,

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Speaker 1: Apple did the same exact thing, by the way, a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago when they they, you know, did

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Speaker 1: the whole find my thing. I mean, that's the same

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Speaker 1: thing that's going on. I mean, I know it's using

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Speaker 1: you know, Bluetooth, but it's it's basically the same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a low power, low energy network that

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Speaker 1: uses a little bit of your phone's power and internet

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Speaker 1: to kind of help out other people. That's what Amazon's doing.

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Speaker 1: They're using a little bit of your internet to connect,

504
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: you know, help these devices connect to each other and

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Speaker 1: also to you know, the greater uh situation that's going on.

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Speaker 1: So let me give you an example. Okay, let me

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Speaker 1: give you just a real world example. Let's say that

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Speaker 1: you buy a new Amazon product, right and you have

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Speaker 1: an iPhone. The way it typically works, you have to

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Speaker 1: have your phone sense the product and it you know,

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Speaker 1: it goes through this whole thing where you might have

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Speaker 1: to connect to that product's Wi Fi and you have

513
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Speaker 1: to switch in your Wi Fi settings to figure it out.

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00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: You got to find the product and you got to

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Speaker 1: switch back to your WiFi. It's like a whole big

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Speaker 1: thing that is a little bit complicated, especially in the iPhone. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's imagine that that product can now just find the

518
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: Amazon Sidewalk network all by itself, and because it knows

519
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: how the proximity to your phone, it says, oh, we

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Speaker 1: see you've got a new device to set up.

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00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 2: Would you like to set it up?

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Speaker 1: And it uses the Amazon network to send all of

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Speaker 1: your information to that device and set it up automatically

524
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Speaker 1: in about two seconds versus all this back and forth

525
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: and go to your Wi Fi settings and it's done.

526
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: And not just that, the tiles. Tiles are going to

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Speaker 1: connect to this Amazon network. So now you have a

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Speaker 1: nice competitor to Apple. Why should Apple? I mean I

529
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: literally was having this debate with my friends last night

530
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Speaker 1: about you know.

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Speaker 2: They were like, oh, I got.

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Speaker 1: To turn off sidewalk, and I'm like why, Like why

533
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Speaker 1: is everyone so ready to turn off sidewalk without even

534
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Speaker 1: knowing anything about it?

535
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 2: And I get it.

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Speaker 1: Amazon turned it on without people's permission, but so did Apple.

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Speaker 1: I mean, find myzon by default in your iPhone and

538
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 1: you have to go in and turn it off if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to be a part of that crowdsource network.

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00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 1: Amazon's doing the same thing. So the other little nugget

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Speaker 1: I think thought it was interesting. Someone commented on my

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was my Facebook page or whatever,

543
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Speaker 1: but they said, and this is a blog post from

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen when Amazon was testing sidewalk in Los Angeles.

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00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: They said that they got their Amazon employees and friends

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Speaker 1: and family to conduct a test and with just seven

547
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Speaker 1: hundred ring lights that supported nine hundred megahertz connections, they

548
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Speaker 1: were able to cover almost all of the Los Angeles

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00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 1: basin with just seven hundred devices. So Amazon knows that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to turn this thing off,

551
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Speaker 1: But they also know that, like literally, with just their

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Speaker 1: devices that their employees are using that are probably gonna

553
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Speaker 1: leave them on, or just a fraction of people leave

554
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Speaker 1: these things on. Their network's going to be just fine.

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00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'm good with that because I

556
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 1: actually like the fact that we have a competitor to

557
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: Apple's Find my Network. Let's give Tile a little run

558
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: for its money, or Apple a little run for its

559
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: money with these tiles, And I'm totally good with that.

560
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: What about when Google decides to do this with Android

561
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Speaker 1: phones and Google Nest devices, which they probably will end

562
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: up doing. And yes, Google's going to get a hard

563
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: time as well. But Amazon's just getting a lot, a

564
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,719
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of I don't know, they're just

565
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what the word is. Flack Is that it?

566
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: But I thought the best article was actually written by

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Speaker 1: John Chase of Wirecutter, and.

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Speaker 2: He was the only one that was.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, had the courage to write a headline

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Speaker 1: that said, Amazon sidewalk will share your Internet with strangers.

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Speaker 1: It's not as scary as it sounds. So John, thank

572
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 1: you for being a voice of reason in this world

573
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 1: of I call him klingons of just all these little

574
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Speaker 1: blogs that say, oh, a lot of traffic, let's just

575
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Speaker 1: get all the traffic that people are Let's make Amazon

576
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: really scary because it's a big, scary company doing mean things,

577
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: and it just that's the way it is. And everyone

578
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: just wrote those articles about here's how to turn off sidewalk,

579
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 1: here's how to turn off sidewalk, without really explaining what

580
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: it is and how it works. And yes, there are

581
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: definitely some questions about the security, but let's be honest,

582
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: Amazon's a big company. I think that I want to

583
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: believe they're doing good and I hope they are, and yes,

584
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: I think you should be skeptical and very critical of

585
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: all these things, but I think that you should also

586
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: understand the entire situation and put it into perspective with

587
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: what's going on in the world at large, and when

588
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: you do that. Personally, I'm leaving the Sidewalk Network on

589
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: because I want to help people find their lost dogs

590
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: and their lost keys and all that good stuff. And

591
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: I want to give Apple a little bit of competition

592
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: so that the air tag is not the only thing.

593
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 2: That is able to find stuff.

594
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: So hopefully you still listen to my podcast even though

595
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,919
Speaker 1: I just totally gave my support.

596
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 2: To Amazon's Sidewalk How dare I? All? Right? Hi? Rich?

597
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: We are not too tech savvy and are afraid of

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00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: adding apps onto our home computer. We only use a

599
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: home computer, no cell phones. We get Instagram posts, but

600
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: we seem to be missing out by not getting Instagram

601
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: stories that people are referencing all the time. Is there

602
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: a safe and easy way or an app that you

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00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: know is safe so we can get Instagram stories on

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00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: our home computer.

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00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 2: Thank you? Wow, no name given. That's a rarity.

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00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: Yes, super easy Instagram dot com. Just go there and

607
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: tap Instagram in the upper left hand corner if it's

608
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: not already tapped, and you should see a whole bunch

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00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: of circles on the upper left hand side of the page.

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00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: You click these circles and you will see people's stories

611
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: and you can see and scan through them and swipe

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00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: through them. Well, it's mostly clicking, just the way you

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00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: would on a phone. Now, if you don't have that option,

614
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: maybe you need to update your web browser. I'm using

615
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: a recent Chrome version and it works just fine. It

616
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: might not work on every web browser, so, but that's it.

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00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: Just go to Instagram dot com. As long as you're

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00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: logged in, you should be able to see storre worries.

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00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: Instagram has slowly but surely been increasing the amount of

620
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: things you can do on their website. Right now, you still,

621
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, cannot post. You cannot

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00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: post uh posts from Instagram on the website, but you

623
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: can upload Instagram TV, IGTV.

624
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: Why am I not able to do that? What's going

625
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: on here? Uh?

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00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: Why am I not being able to see that? Usually

627
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: I do. I'm curious why mine's not doing this? It

628
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: used to just have a place where I can upload

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00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: a new story. Let's see, do I have to go

630
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: to my Huh did they take that away?

631
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: Oh?

632
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: Here it is, okay, Yeah, you have to go to

633
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: you have to go to your own profile and then

634
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: click igtv and there's.

635
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 2: An upload button.

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00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: So if you ever want to upload igtv content from Instagram,

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00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: you could do that. By the way, can I tell

638
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: you that, you know, I'm playing Instagram's game with this

639
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: whole vertical video thing on.

640
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: Instagram, And it's just it's not that you know Instagram.

641
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: When ig TV first came out, it had to be

642
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Speaker 1: vertical video, and I used to do the thing where

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00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: I used to say, oh, rotate your phone because I

644
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: still wanted to make it full screen. But here's the thing.

645
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: I do things the way I consume stuff. So when

646
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: I think about what I do for the viewer on

647
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: my social media I platforms, I'm trying to do things

648
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: in the way that people use the platform. So with Instagram,

649
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Speaker 1: I don't sit there and turn my phone to the

650
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Speaker 1: side ever. And I also hate looking at videos that

651
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Speaker 1: are small. So if it's a sixteen by nine video

652
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: that yes, you can upload to Instagram TV, it will

653
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: work just fine. It's so tiny on my phone screen

654
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Speaker 1: that I don't want to watch that, and so if

655
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Speaker 1: I don't want to watch that, I'm assuming that other

656
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: people don't want to watch it in that format as well. Now,

657
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: on the flip side, when I upload stuff to igtv

658
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: in the vertical video format, which I've been doing, I

659
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Speaker 1: love it because it fills up my entire phone screen

660
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: and it just feels like I'm immersed in that content.

661
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: And so that's why I've really been doing that with

662
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Speaker 1: all my videos. As much as I don't want to

663
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: shoot videos that way because I just feel like they're

664
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Speaker 1: unnatural for Instagram, that's how it works, and that's what

665
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: I do, and so that's kind of why when you

666
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: look at my Instagram, it's the reason why I.

667
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 2: Have my videos vertical.

668
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: Because it's IGTV, I can go a little bit longer

669
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Speaker 1: than the sixty seconds they give you as a square video,

670
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: but it's also not so annoying as a as a

671
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: sixteen by nine horizontal video that's so small that on

672
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: a phone screen you just can't see. Now, on Facebook,

673
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: it's just the opposite. I don't mind putting things on

674
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: Facebook that are sixteen by nine because you know, it's

675
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's Facebook, And that's I'm much more

676
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: used to watching video content on there like that, but

677
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: also you can watch it on your TV screen, also

678
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: on your computer screen. Most people are consuming Instagram on

679
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: their phone, and it's also in a vertical mode. So

680
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Speaker 1: that's why I'm doing that, and I feel like it's

681
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: the most immersive, even though for me as a quote

682
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: unquote content creator, I mean, you know, to use that

683
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: word loosely. For me, it's it's just not ideal. Like

684
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: I wish I could just do you know, sixteen by nine.

685
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: I could fit much more into the video and I

686
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: could put it in more places, but it's kind of

687
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: they've locked me in with this IGTV. So that's why

688
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: you see my stuff in that format, all right. Speaking

689
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: of videos, I did one on this bike. I The

690
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: headline is I rode the Tesla of electric bikes and

691
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: it completely changed the way I think about getting around town.

692
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: This has been the most popular story on the KTLA

693
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: website for three days now. I don't know why. I mean,

694
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: it's not like that many people are interested in this bike.

695
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: But I actually emailed our web team to say, hey,

696
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: where is all this traffic coming from? Like, because I

697
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: looked on Reddit, it wasn't on it wasn't posted to Reddit.

698
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 2: It wasn't.

699
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: It's not like a I don't know where this is

700
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: coming from, but I now I have an idea because

701
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: he said all the traffic is coming from Google itself,

702
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: and so I think what happened is that this story

703
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: got tagged as either a Tesla story or the van moved,

704
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: the bike itself, or electric bikes as a broader top

705
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: and it's being served up to everyone's Google discover feed

706
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: or Google news feed and they're customized Google News And

707
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: when that happens with the story, it's almost magical because

708
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: it just gets taken away in this like whoosh of

709
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: like traffic, because it just Google serves your story to

710
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: so many people if they've ever shown a big interest

711
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: in either Tesla electric cars, are sorry, electric bikes or

712
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: even I would think less. So the van Move, which

713
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: is the specific bike I'm talking about, but anyway, I

714
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: hope I didn't talk about this on the podcast before,

715
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: but I've been driving around the van Move, which is

716
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: the electric bike that it took a while for them

717
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: to send it to me because I kept saying, no, no, no,

718
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: this bike is too expensive. I don't want to you know,

719
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: I don't really feature super duper expensive stuff in my

720
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: reports because I'm not really expecting people to buy a

721
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: twenty two hundred dollars electric bike. But when I go

722
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: to a bike path in Ventura or in Santa Monica

723
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: and I see half the bikes whizzing past me are electric,

724
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: or if I'm stopped on the bike path, you know

725
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: here in La and I'm seeing a lot of electric bikes,

726
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I gotta do trend piece and I

727
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: need some hands on time. So that's when I said, okay, fine,

728
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: send me the van move I put it together. This

729
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: bike is just phenomenal. It is literally the electric bike

730
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: that I would purchase if I'm going to purchase an

731
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Speaker 1: electric bike, and I may end up buying this bike,

732
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. But it's expensive. But you set this

733
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: thing up and it looks like it's just sleek, it's slick,

734
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: it charges up nicely, it connects to your iPhone or

735
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: your Android. It's got like this little digital display on it.

736
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: I did a video on it on my Instagram of

737
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: just the bike. Soon I'll do on me riding it,

738
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: so you can get an idea. But it's just so

739
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: cool because you give yourself. I didn't know this about it.

740
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know how electric bikes work. And this is

741
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: why I like to get hands on time we call

742
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: it background experience with these devices and these things, because

743
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 1: then I can talk about it as someone who's actually

744
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: used it, right, And so that's why it does take

745
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: a little bit extra work for me to do my

746
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: reports in the way I do them. But I do

747
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: like to have some hands on time with these gadgets

748
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: and these things because then I can talk about them

749
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: and answer questions in a smart way versus reading a

750
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: press release and saying, oh, yeah, these electric bikes are

751
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: very popular. People are buying them and you know, and

752
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: I don't really know because I've never really been on one.

753
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: So I've been riding this bike around, you know, not

754
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: too much, but enough, and it's it's really fun. It's

755
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: such a slick looking bike. Everyone looks at it when

756
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: you stop at a stoplight or whatever, and it's so

757
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 1: smooth you can So I didn't know this about electric bikes.

758
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: You get the power, at least on the ones that

759
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: there's different models, but the one I'm using is the

760
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: power is in the pedaling, so when you pedal, it

761
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: actually gives you like a little boost, like when you

762
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: one rotation is going to take you a lot further

763
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: because the engine kind of carries you. It gives you

764
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: like or the motor whatever you want to call it,

765
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 1: not the engine, the electric motor kind of like gives

766
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: you like this little boost as you press turn the

767
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: pedals and you can decide what kind of boost you want,

768
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: and it's on this bike.

769
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 2: It's from one to four, or you can do no

770
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 2: boost at all.

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00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: And that was my big concern with electric bikes was

772
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: that I was like, if I'm gonna be bike riding,

773
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: I want to get the exercise. And on this bike

774
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: and maybe all electric bikes, you can just have the

775
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 1: option of no boost and so you can ride with

776
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: it as a zero. And so I did that. I

777
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 1: rode it with my son. We had a great time,

778
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: went on like a nine mile bike ride. And the

779
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: cool thing is you can go on a really long

780
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: bike ride, but then you can use assistance on the

781
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: way back. So if you're tired, you get a little assistance.

782
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: Then there's a boost button, so on the handlebar there's

783
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: a boost so you press that and you get an

784
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: immediate jolt of boom. You just go and the battery

785
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: goes anywhere between thirty and ninety miles. This bike goes

786
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: up to twenty miles an hour. I test drove another

787
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: one at a place called electric Bike Attack rather in Venice,

788
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: and they have bikes that are, you know, similar to

789
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: the Van Move. The van Move is definitely the most

790
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,959
Speaker 1: high tech I've ever seen. But a lot of electric bikes.

791
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: Some of them look like moped, some of them look

792
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: like motorcycles. You know, they're much more electric than this

793
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: this bike that I tested, which is more like a

794
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: kind of like an everyday bike, but it's just powered

795
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 1: with electric electricity versus some of these other bikes are

796
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: much more bikey and like motory, right, Is that makes

797
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: any sense? It just depends what you want. Some people

798
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: want like a high powered motorbike. I would rather have

799
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: something like the van Move that is much more like

800
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: a bike that also happens to be electric. But it's

801
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: kind of sly, right, And so now once you have

802
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: an e bike, you're just thinking of all the ways

803
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: that you can drive that e bike instead of your car.

804
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: And so around my neighborhood, I'm like, oh, I can

805
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: go to breakfast. So I drove to breakfast with my

806
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: friends on a Sunday morning. I said, I'm taking my

807
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: bike and it's you know, it's only fifteen minutes. And

808
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: I used Apple Maps and found my little way there

809
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: on Apple Maps because they have biking maps, and it

810
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: was just such a cool experience, something that I just

811
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: have never done before. And now that this idea has

812
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: gotten in my head, I'm like, Okay, I think I

813
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: could be that person who takes your bike on different

814
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: errands for the weekend. You know, if I want to

815
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: go to seven eleven or something, or you know, go

816
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: to the I don't know wherever, I could just take

817
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: my bike and you know, pick up a little backpack whatever,

818
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: or go out with friends, you know, drive to my

819
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: friend's houses that are nearby and just park my bike

820
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: and you know, instead of driving, I just take a bike.

821
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: And so anyway, it's it's just a really really cool

822
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: thing that until you actually kind of get on one,

823
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: you don't really think of this stuff. And again, this

824
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: is why I like to do this, because I think

825
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: about it and it changes little things. The little pathways

826
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: in your brain change so that you your brain is

827
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: now considering all things, not just one option, which in

828
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: the past has been a car or walking or you know,

829
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: a regular bike. But this van Move is just I

830
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: can't speak highly enough. You got to watch the video

831
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: on the Instagram. It's just such a cool, cool bike

832
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: and I just can't get over it. And van Move

833
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: from Oh can I talk about that? I don't know

834
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: if I can. Anyway, I can't. I don't know if

835
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: I forget. Sometimes I forget when people tell me I'm

836
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: not allowed to talk about something. But anyway, van Move

837
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: is a really cool bike company. They're based out of

838
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: somewhere in Europe, and they have some stores in different cities.

839
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: I think they had to pop up in Los Angeles

840
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 2: at once.

841
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: Maybe they're coming back to LA at some point, But anyway,

842
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: I just thought this was really cool and just I'm

843
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: now a believer. I really like my headline said it all.

844
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: I rode the tesla of electric bikes and it completely

845
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: changed the way I think about getting around town. It's

846
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right, because when you're on an electric bike,

847
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: you can go way further than you could on a

848
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: standard bike.

849
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:19,720
Speaker 2: And yeah, I get all these people.

850
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: Don't don't come after me for the whole exercise thing,

851
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: because I'm I believe that same thing, like you should

852
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: get exercise. But at the same time, there's a lot

853
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: of people out there who may have mobility issues, who

854
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: may have joint issues, who may have an injury from

855
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: sports or just in general with their knees, and so

856
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: this is this also opens up possibilities for them. So

857
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: no matter how you look at it, it's just it's

858
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: just really cool that we have this option. And seeing

859
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: a bike as slick as van move to me is

860
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: just like this is the future. Like when bikes are

861
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: this slick and the price comes down, it's like game over.

862
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: You know, people will be deciding in urban areas of Okay,

863
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: I could just get a bike and really get by

864
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: between a bike and Uber and lyft and scooters and

865
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Speaker 1: and it's that's a win for for a lot of

866
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: different situations. All right, let's talk another question. Laura says, Hey, Rich,

867
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: I have an iPhone ten R with Boost as my

868
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: current carrier. Is there way to permanently disable the horrible

869
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: amber alert alarm I have. I'm fine with a visual notification,

870
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: but that alarm is beyond alarming. Thanks for all you do,

871
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: Laura of Long Beach, Well, Laura, yes, I think you're

872
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: doing this. I think you're saying this because we got

873
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: an amber alert in Los Angeles last week, and you know,

874
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: in my house with all the various devices around, you

875
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: know it definitely it was like on my watch, it

876
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: was on my phone, it was on my wife's phone,

877
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: it was on my kid's iPad. Maybe not the kids iPad,

878
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,439
Speaker 1: but you know it definitely it definitely rang a few things. So, yes,

879
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: you can turn these off in settings under settings notification

880
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 1: at the very bottom of the screen it says government

881
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: alerts and you can turn the alert on or off.

882
00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:00,240
Speaker 1: But you know, as much as I'm also jarred by them,

883
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 1: I leave them on because I just I don't know,

884
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: Like I just don't want there to be a situation

885
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: in the world where I need to know something right.

886
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 1: So you have three options, at least on my phone,

887
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: you have Amber alerts, you have emergency alerts, and public

888
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: safety alerts. So if you want to turn the Amber

889
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 1: alerts off, go ahead, turn them off. I mean, I'm

890
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: I'm not going to recommend it, just because I feel

891
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: like I like the fact that you know, yes, it's

892
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 1: annoying and it's definitely you know, it butts into whatever

893
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: you're doing. But at the same time, it's like, I

894
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just I don't know. I feel

895
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: better having it on, you know, I'm trying to trying

896
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: to be a good human. I guess the you know,

897
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: but you can do whatever you want, and a lot

898
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: of people turn these off, believe me. With news and

899
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: internet nowadays, it's like, if there is an amber alert

900
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: in your area that does apply to you, you're probably

901
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: gonna see it in another way so or someone around

902
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: you has a phone where they're gonna get it. So

903
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: I've been on planes where we get special alerts and

904
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: the whole plane just erupts in.

905
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 2: Like you know, the.

906
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:01,439
Speaker 1: You know sounds. So anyway, that's where you turn them off. Now,

907
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: with the sounds, I think, I don't I could be wrong.

908
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that I think the sounds might.

909
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: I think they're silent if your phone is on silent.

910
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: My phone is on silent like ninety nine point nine

911
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and so I don't think I

912
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: ever hear sounds on my phone ever, because I'm always,

913
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always shooting something like recording something, and

914
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: so I've just grown up in TV and I'm always

915
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: you have your phone on silent, you know, it's on vibrate.

916
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: And with the Apple Watch, it's been amazing because I

917
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: never need to think because my wrist is going to

918
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: tell me what I need to know. But that's how

919
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: you do it. And no judgment. If you want to

920
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: turn these off, I'm I'm you know, turn them off.

921
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's your progative. It's your phone. You

922
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: could do whatever you want, you know, so that's that's

923
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: that's your you know, your decision to make.

924
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 2: But that's how you do it, all right. Uh.

925
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: Instagram revealed a little bit about it kind of pulled

926
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: the curtain back a little bit, and maybe this is

927
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: not interesting to you at all, Maybe it is.

928
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I tweeted this.

929
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: Not too many people care, so I probably shouldn't even

930
00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: talk about it on the podcast, but I will just

931
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: really quickly. I thought it was interesting because it's always

932
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: people are always curious about why isn't my stuff being

933
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: shown on Instagram? Who sees my stuff on Instagram? And

934
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, people think it's this mysterious algorithm, which it is.

935
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: There definitely is some mysteriousness to it, but Instagram kind

936
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: of revealed a little bit and I thought it was interesting.

937
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: So here is the bottom line with the signals in

938
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: the algorithm. Right, So number one in order of importance

939
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 1: when you see feeds and stories, right, this is how

940
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: algorithm ranks them.

941
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:28,839
Speaker 2: Number one.

942
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: Information about the post. How many people have liked it before,

943
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: So if a lot of people like a post, yes,

944
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: it's going to be shown to more people. Also, how

945
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: old the post is, right, so if it's an older post,

946
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna start showing it to less people. That just

947
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: makes sense. Information about the person who posted it. So

948
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: if the person is interesting to you, that means like,

949
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: if you interact.

950
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: With that person a lot, they're gonna show you their

951
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 2: stuff more.

952
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: And you can easily just do this with my account

953
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: if you're tapping on my stories a lot or my

954
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: you're liking my Facebook post or my Instagram posts rather

955
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: a lot Instagram says oh cool, we got one, we

956
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: got one.

957
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 2: We're gonna show that person more to them.

958
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: It just makes sense, right, I Mean, if you like something,

959
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna see more of it your activity, So how

960
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: many posts you've liked on that person? That's kind of

961
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: That's another thing, Like I also, you know This kind

962
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: of goes about the person, but also the activity in

963
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: the posts that you like from that person. So you

964
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: may you may never like a post on that person,

965
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: so they might not show you as many posts, but

966
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: if you like those posts a lot, they're gonna show

967
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 1: you more. And then of course your history of interacting

968
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,280
Speaker 1: with someone, and this is a big one is the comment.

969
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: So if you don't comment on someone's posts a lot,

970
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna show their posts to you less. So that's

971
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: basically it. So imagine the more like this is the

972
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: bottom line. They kind of condense it into this. The

973
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: more time that they think you're gonna spend on a post,

974
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 1: comment on it, like it, save it, or tap the profile,

975
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: the more they're gonna show you that post. That's it

976
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 1: bottom line. I mean, it's very easy.

977
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 2: Now.

978
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: Of course, there's a lot of signals that go into that.

979
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: You know a lot of like no crunching and formulas

980
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But that's the bottom line, and

981
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,879
Speaker 1: it just makes sense. The more you interact with people

982
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: on Instagram, the more they're going to show you their posts.

983
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: The more you do on Instagram, the more you're gonna see,

984
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: the more you like stuff, the more you're gonna see

985
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,439
Speaker 1: similar stuff. I mean, it just kind of makes sense, right,

986
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: So now you know, all right, another question, let's see

987
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: what question? James says, Hey, Rich A few days ago,

988
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,439
Speaker 1: I went to the Delta website to book round trip

989
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: tickets to Cancun, and the economy plus was seven thirty eight.

990
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: I had points to bring it down to three thirty.

991
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: A day and a half later, the same fare increase

992
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: to five hundred. I know there are fair checker sites

993
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: where you enter a date and destination, but I have

994
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: specific Delta flight numbers. Is there a site that can

995
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: alert me when that particular flight changes prices? Thank you, James, Yes, James,

996
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: I use this every day. It's called Google Flights. Super

997
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: duper easy Google Flights. Just select the exact flights that

998
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: you want, so these Delta flights, and once you select them,

999
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: there will be a big button that says track prices.

1000
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: Sort of in the middle of the screen.

1001
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: It's a toggle switch, and just track the prices and

1002
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: next thing, no, you'll get a bunch of alerts from Google.

1003
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: You'll get an alert when the price is about to

1004
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: go up if their little prediction says, you know what,

1005
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: in the next ten hours this is going up fifty bucks.

1006
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 2: You'll get that alert.

1007
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: You'll get an alert when the price goes up, which

1008
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: happens very often, and you also get an alert when

1009
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: the price goes down.

1010
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 2: And these are not perfect, believe me.

1011
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: Sometimes by the time you see them, you know, if

1012
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: you're not checking your email every two seconds, or if

1013
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: you're not on an Android that might deliver these things

1014
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: as a notification, you'll you know, you can get to

1015
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: the website, the Delta site, and the price is already

1016
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: changed again.

1017
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 2: But that's what I use.

1018
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: I am always tracking at least one fair and believe me,

1019
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: these things they change a lot, and very significantly. I've

1020
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,439
Speaker 1: seen prices go up, I've seen prices go down. I've

1021
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: seen prices go up and down and all around, and

1022
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: it's just there's no rhyme or reason. But I will

1023
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: tell you one thing, and that it seems to happen

1024
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: as soon as you track a price, the price goes

1025
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 1: up for some reason. And it happens all the time.

1026
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: And that's why I always say, you know, book, if

1027
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: you see a price that you like, book it immediately

1028
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: like that first price that you got might have been

1029
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: the best price for these Cancun. People are traveling a

1030
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: lot right now, and prices are are going pretty wild.

1031
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm gonna work on a story with some

1032
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: travel tips because you know, I have a couple sites

1033
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,479
Speaker 1: that I use. Actually asked folks on Twitter today about

1034
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: their favorite travel websites and tools, and it's a lot

1035
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: of the stuff that I've known. But you know, there

1036
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: are some things that there are some trends where people

1037
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: you know definitely like the same things and Google flights.

1038
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like a hidden gem. I feel

1039
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: like not enough people know about it because most people

1040
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: know about Kayak, and maybe they do that, I don't

1041
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: know if they. If they, I don't really use Kayak. Honestly,

1042
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 1: I haven't used it. I remember when Kayak came out.

1043
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: I was a reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, and I thought

1044
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: it was just the most amazing thing ever. The fact

1045
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: that you could actually compare flight prices on one page

1046
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: from different airlines was such a new idea. And you're

1047
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: talking this was what two thousand, gosh, this was probably

1048
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: two thousand. Let's see Kayak launched. I mean this was

1049
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: long like two thousand and three, maybe.

1050
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: Year.

1051
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 1: Let's see Kayak launch yet two thousand and four. There

1052
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: you go, So two thousand and four, I just you.

1053
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 2: Know, it was it was just wild.

1054
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: It was a search engine for flights, and that was

1055
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: just something I had never been done before Expedia and

1056
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know it it was a very

1057
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: different thing. It was much more of like, you know,

1058
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: things were programmed in, but Kayak was much more like,

1059
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:39,760
Speaker 1: we don't really.

1060
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 2: Care where these numbers are coming from.

1061
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: We're just gonna find them everywhere and put them all

1062
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: on one page, whereas Expedia worked more like a search

1063
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: travel engine, I think, and still now I feel like

1064
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: Kayak is much more like a search travel engine.

1065
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 2: But I don't know if that makes sense.

1066
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: But anyway, Google Flights is the much I feel like

1067
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: it's the most kind of like independent out of all

1068
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: of them, and it just gives you like the most

1069
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: independent kind of results that are not they're not they're

1070
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: not putting one thing higher than another because you know,

1071
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: United paid them for that placement. Does that make sense?

1072
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: That's kind of anyway. That's where i'd go and that's

1073
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: what i'd use. All right, This is kind of interesting.

1074
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: We talked about this whole idea of limited storage on

1075
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: Google Photos, and so of course there's not to me,

1076
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: there's not really a good alternative because you know, Google

1077
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,439
Speaker 1: Photos just does so much. And I already talked about

1078
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: this in the last podcast, but I have been testing

1079
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: something called Iedrive Photos, and this is a local company

1080
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And I'm always very hesitant when it

1081
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: comes to talking or you know, discussing any photo backup

1082
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: because there have been so many that have come and

1083
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: gone that they never survive, and it seems like, you know,

1084
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: only the big guys survive, you know, like the Microsofts

1085
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: of the world, the dropboxes.

1086
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 2: And you know, so many have come in gone.

1087
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: So I'm very hesitant to recommend this, but I will

1088
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: say it does work as promised, and I might use

1089
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: it as a secondary backup because it is unlimited photo

1090
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: and video storage for iOS and Android. For get this

1091
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: nine ninety five a year. That's nine dollars and ninety

1092
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: five cents a year.

1093
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:20,879
Speaker 2: Now.

1094
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 1: I Drive has been around for a long time. They're

1095
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: actually a company. I think it's been around for like

1096
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: over twenty years, and so they are doing this. I

1097
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: guess they have experience in the field. But I downloaded

1098
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: the app.

1099
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 2: I signed up. You can do a seven day.

1100
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: Free trial, and so far I've uploaded in my free trial,

1101
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: and I'm talking just the just the photos that are

1102
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: on my phone or my new photos. I guess I

1103
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: have uploaded, tells you which I also like in the

1104
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: settings fifty nine gigabytes, so sixty gigabytes and no problem.

1105
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: It's unlimited photos and videos. By the way, at full resolution.

1106
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: This is called I Drive Photo. And by the way,

1107
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: the first year is just ninety nine cents. Ninety nine

1108
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: cents for the first year, and then ten dollars a

1109
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: year after that. So it's very compelling. And for me,

1110
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: I think what I'm gonna do is, I think I'm

1111
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,919
Speaker 1: just gonna pay for this every year for ten bucks

1112
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: as long as it's around as just a backup backup,

1113
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,879
Speaker 1: Like if I take a picture on my phone, it's

1114
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: going into this backup and if I ever need it,

1115
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna organize them or anything. I'm not gonna

1116
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 1: delete stuff, but I'm just gonna leave it in there.

1117
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: So if I ever find a thing where my phone

1118
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: crashes or whatever, or my other cloud storage goes could put,

1119
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: I just go in here and I'm like, oh, that

1120
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: was the picture I took yesterday.

1121
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 2: Hear it. This is so.

1122
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: The website is I drive dot com slash photos. I

1123
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: drive dot com slash Photos. You can get a free

1124
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: seven day trial with no credit card needed. Again, I

1125
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: can't vouch for this company because I don't know how

1126
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 1: long they'll be around doing this, and they could change

1127
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: their mind when people start uploading gobs and gobs of

1128
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: photos and there's not really like a search functionality. I

1129
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,720
Speaker 1: guess there's search, but it's very limited. No, the search

1130
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: is either photos or videos and there's like nothing special

1131
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 1: about it except it just organizes them in a timeline

1132
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: and you can favorite some as your favorites.

1133
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 2: You can see.

1134
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's basically it, but it's it does what you need.

1135
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: It just backs up your photos. So if you just

1136
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: want like the cheapest solution that does unlimited and you

1137
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: have to think about much, you know, check it out.

1138
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: Just make sure it's not your only solution. But I

1139
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: am going to do a story with this company because

1140
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: they are local and I'm curious to hear what the

1141
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: founder says, Like how they think they can do this

1142
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: when Google itself can't do it is beyond me. So

1143
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: maybe they're just figuring that because they're smaller than Google.

1144
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: They're not going to get as many people, you know,

1145
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: bogging them down. But I feel like if word gets

1146
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: out about this, you know, people are definitely gonna try

1147
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: it out. So anyway, I drive photos, I signed up

1148
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 1: for it. Will well, I'll keep you posted on how

1149
00:52:51,360 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: it works. All right, let's see question here from Denise.

1150
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: Denise says, hey, Rich, we currently have the Apple TV

1151
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: third generation and looking to upgrade since YouTube's no longer

1152
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: available on it. My husband is somewhat tech savvy, and

1153
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: our daughter and son in law more so. But did

1154
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 1: see that there is an Apple second generation Apple TV

1155
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,439
Speaker 1: four K that launched in April. Have you done any

1156
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: research on it? Is it user friendly? What model do

1157
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: you recommend? We are getting rid of cable and go

1158
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: with streaming, do you have any recommendations? Will definitely be

1159
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,919
Speaker 1: a learning curve for me. I appreciate any help. I've

1160
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: reached out to you in the past, and you are

1161
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: a great help. Thank you and stay well Denise. All right, Well, Denise,

1162
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: I know that not everyone watches every segment that I

1163
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: do on TV, but I definitely did a review of

1164
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: the Apple TV four K recently when it came out

1165
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: and you know, you can watch those, by the way,

1166
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: on the ktla plus app no matter where you live,

1167
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: download it on your Apple TV, on your Fire TV

1168
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: stick or your Roku and just open up. It's called

1169
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: ktla plus. It's free, no sign up and you just

1170
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: you know, download the app and you can watch all

1171
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: my tech segments that are that air on TV.

1172
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 2: So it's pretty handy there. Uh.

1173
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: But what I what my conclusion is about the Apple

1174
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: TV four K is it's fantastic. I mean, if you

1175
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: have an iPhone, it's like the best companion ever. It's

1176
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: just a very expensive way to stream and if you

1177
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: don't mind paying the money for it, then it's what

1178
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,879
Speaker 1: I would recommend because it's it's got great apps. It's

1179
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: got every app available, it's got a great version of

1180
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: every app, and yes, YouTube is on there and it's

1181
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: it works. So you know, as far as recommending the model,

1182
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: there's two models. There is a sixty four gigabyte and

1183
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: a thirty two gigabyte. Oh gosh, is that the case

1184
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: Apple TV four K.

1185
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 2: I got to look that up.

1186
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: I think it's sixty four, Yeah, thirty two and sixty four,

1187
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: And so you know the main thing is just deciding

1188
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 1: which one of those you want this the thirty two

1189
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: is one eighty, the sixty four is one ninety nine.

1190
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:51,760
Speaker 1: I would go for the sixty four gigabyte just because

1191
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 1: you know, apps are getting huge these days, and thirty

1192
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: two gigs. Not like you're downloading movies to this thing anyway,

1193
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: that's the old days. But it's streaming mostly everything. But

1194
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: it still does need that space for things like especially

1195
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: if you're gonna play some games on it, Apple Arcade,

1196
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: you know, if you're downloading just a bunch of apps,

1197
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: like I just think for the extra twenty bucks, go

1198
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: for the sixty four gigabyte version. You get the new

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00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: remote control, which is really nice, and you know, yes

1200
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: YouTube does work on there. And as for the streaming,

1201
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: like cutting the cord, I always recommend a website called

1202
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: untangled dot tv. So Untangled dot tv is the website

1203
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: that I recommend you pop in all the shows that

1204
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: you want to watch, all the channels that you like,

1205
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,359
Speaker 1: and it will give you a list of all of

1206
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: the recommendations it has for streaming services. So that's what

1207
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: I would recommend. Check those out. And you know I've

1208
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: I cut the cord a couple of years ago. It's

1209
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: been fantastic. I mean, the big missing link in Los

1210
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 1: Angeles was really getting KTLA over an app because we're

1211
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,240
Speaker 1: not on the streaming services. And once we're on KTLA Plus,

1212
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it was pretty transformative for a lot of people.

1213
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 1: I suspect a lot of people cut the chord when

1214
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: that happened. And you know, now you can watch your

1215
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: local news, you can watch all of our extra programming

1216
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: on demand, and then you can also just subscribe to

1217
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: the things like Netflix and Disney Plus for all the

1218
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: other stuff that you want to watch. It's worked out

1219
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: perfectly for us. So Untangled dot tv is the way

1220
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: to go. Okay, let me just talk about two quick moments,

1221
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: two quick things before I go Amazon DJ mode. I

1222
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I've been testing all the music services

1223
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 1: and I really have Amazon Music is like, I really

1224
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: like it, and I just, you know, I think it's

1225
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 1: actually it's simple, it's straightforward, and I'm actually digging it

1226
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: because it is so simple, and I find things to

1227
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: play very quickly because their playlists are not like Spotify

1228
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: has so many playlists. I'm like, what's country chill versus

1229
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: country backyard barbecue versus country road versus country, Uh, you

1230
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 1: know whatever. It's like, I don't know, like I have

1231
00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: to I spend I have to spend so much time

1232
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: looking at the nuances of these playlists that it takes

1233
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: me so long to figure out which one to play.

1234
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: And Apple Music is great, but it's you know, same thing.

1235
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: They have so many playlists. I think they said they

1236
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: have thirty thousand like human curated playlists on there. I mean,

1237
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: that's just unbelievable. Amazon Music they and then they introduced

1238
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: this thing called DJ mode, which I personally love because

1239
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: I've I've mentioned this before. I'm a radio guy. I

1240
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: love radio, and so you know, to me, when a

1241
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: streaming service does not have a DJ, it's it's tricky

1242
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: because you don't know, you have no context for the

1243
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 1: song that's playing, right. You don't know if the song

1244
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: that's playing just came out by that artist or came

1245
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: out five years ago and they just picked a cut

1246
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: off an album. And so by having a DJ introduced

1247
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: songs which like Sirius XM has and iHeartRadio has. It's

1248
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: kind of fun because you get a little bit of insight.

1249
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: And Apple Music has it with their you know DJ stations,

1250
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: like their they have a country radio station, they have

1251
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: a hit station, they have their original Zane Low station.

1252
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: So I mean, you know, I think and I kind

1253
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: of predicted this, but it's the DJ is making a comeback.

1254
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: The DJ is making a comeback on streaming music services.

1255
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: So now on Amazon you have four DJ stations. It's

1256
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: called one is rap Rotation, one is Country Heat, one

1257
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: is All Hits, and then another one is a Billie

1258
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: Eilish station. So if you want to play these, just

1259
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: say the A word, play Rap Rotation in DJ mode,

1260
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: or play Country Heat in DJ mode, play all Hits

1261
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: in DJ mode, play the Billy Eilish takeover.

1262
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 2: And I listened to this.

1263
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: Yesterday in my house two ways. I listened on my iPhone,

1264
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: which was fine, it worked great and alex I almost

1265
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: said it. The A Word even comes on with some

1266
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: music trivia, which is kind of fun in her voice.

1267
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:44,919
Speaker 2: But there's also DJs. They're not live.

1268
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: It's it's very clear it's recorded and tracked, but it's

1269
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: still kind of fun and maybe they'll do live later.

1270
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: Who knows Apple is live, which is kind of fun

1271
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: a lot on a lot of their morning shows.

1272
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 2: At least or some of their shows.

1273
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: I don't know they're live and taped, but it's definitely

1274
00:58:58,160 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: much more of like a person sitting there for four

1275
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: hours like doing the show versus this just sounds like

1276
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: they go in with like a paper and read a

1277
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. It's a start, but it's fun. It

1278
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: did not work on Sonos though. I think whatever system

1279
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: they're using is not you know, it's not compatible with

1280
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: Sonos just yet, but it'll come. And then the other

1281
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 1: thing I mentioned earlier in the podcast is that Apple

1282
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: Music has this you know this Dolby Atmost spatial audio.

1283
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: So you can open up your Apple Music app, make

1284
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: sure you're updated to the latest iOS fourteen point six,

1285
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: and look under Dolby Atmost under you know in the

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Speaker 1: music and you can see the spatial audio. They have

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of playlists, so you can use your

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Speaker 1: air pods to listen. You can use your AirPods Pro,

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Speaker 1: you can use AirPods Max if you have them, beats,

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Speaker 1: and then if you want to try other headphones which

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Speaker 1: Apple Music app under settings, choose preferences, and then you

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Speaker 1: can turn Dolby Atmost on always and it will try

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Speaker 1: to you know, push out that spatial audio no matter

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Speaker 1: what headset you're listening on. Oh look at that. You

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Speaker 1: know what that sound means. It is the end of

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Speaker 1: the show. Thanks so much for listening. That's going to

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Speaker 1: do it for this episode. If you'd like to submit

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Speaker 1: it if you would rate and review the podcast to

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Speaker 1: since someone left a written review, so yes, you're rating

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Speaker 1: it with the stars, which is great. I love it,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, But please write a written review and that

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Speaker 1: really do think it helps people discover like just say

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Speaker 1: what you like about it and leave that in the review,

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Speaker 1: and I think that helps people like understand like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm a regular person, I really enjoy this show. People

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Speaker 1: think this show is for techies.

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Speaker 2: It's not. It's actually for non techies.

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Speaker 1: You can find me on social media at rich on

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Speaker 1: to the Tech section and watch all of my TV

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways

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Speaker 1: you can spend an hour of your time. I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it with me. Stay safe, I'll talk

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