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Speaker 2: What's Up? What's going on?

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Speaker 1: The holidays? That's what's going on? Like our little holiday music. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, we'll get that out of there. Lots to

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Speaker 1: about upgrading my mom's setup because I was in New

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Speaker 2: Okayat Megan, So this first question comes from and Alon.

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Speaker 2: She says, I need your advice. Can you please let

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Speaker 1: The main difference between a Chromebook and Windows is that

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Speaker 2: Okay, all has a success. Plus, that's pretty good time

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Speaker 2: for HERD update.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about Instagram. They're doing something interesting to

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Speaker 1: try to combat bullying. When you type a caption on

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Speaker 1: your photo and it's considered offensive by their AI, they

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Speaker 1: are going to say, excuse me, do you really want

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Speaker 1: to say that? And we've talked about this before. They've

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Speaker 1: done this with comments in the past. I call it

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Speaker 1: the Taylor Swift filter because she basically was the one

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Speaker 1: who asked to do this. Apparently, Oh did she?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Because I guess show doesn't have like she turns

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Speaker 2: all of that.

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Speaker 1: I know that's why, because she didn't like the mean comments. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: and I get it. It's it's the Internet is a

445
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Speaker 1: is a rough place. You don't you know, you put

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Speaker 1: yourself out there when you put a Now, if you're

447
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Speaker 1: just posting stuff with friends, and family generally, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna I mean, are your friends really gonna be that? Like,

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Speaker 1: al yeah, I hope they're not. I mean, but if

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Speaker 1: you're in the public, if you're in the public, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of people do bully public figures because they figure,

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Speaker 1: I don't know this person, like I could just say

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Speaker 1: whatever I want, you know, model Supermodel posts like a

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Speaker 1: picture and they're like, oh, you're too fat, like yeah,

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Speaker 1: and people do it right, and they do it just

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Speaker 1: to be like mean yeah, and you know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: really bad on YouTube. YouTube meets to license this technology

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Speaker 1: from Instagram. I I always call Instagram like Disneyland. It's

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Speaker 1: like the Disneyland of the Internet because it really is

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Speaker 1: like happy. They block all the hashtags that are bad.

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Speaker 1: You know, you try to type in a bad hashtag

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, I don't try it, Okay, well do you try.

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Speaker 1: I've tried, yeah, and there and it comes up nothing.

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Speaker 1: They say that this hashtag that was a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago where they started doing that, And they even

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Speaker 1: do it where they find trending because people get around it.

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Speaker 1: So people pick a hashtag to do something dirty with

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Speaker 1: or something bad with, and Instagram will pick up on

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Speaker 1: it and they'll block it. They'll say like these tags

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Speaker 1: have been registered as offensive or something. So anyway, my

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Speaker 1: point is, ye, and I remember this whole thing happened.

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Speaker 1: This actually happened a couple of years ago by a

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Speaker 1: viewer unbeknownst to me. She said, my son is finding

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Speaker 1: these really inappropriate pictures on Instagram. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: there's no inappropriate pictures on Instagram. Sure enough, I did

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Speaker 1: a main main hashtag that she sent me. It was

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, ice cream or something, yeah, whatever

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Speaker 1: it was, it was something very like simple, and sure enough,

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Speaker 1: the pictures that came up were filled with terrible stuff.

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Speaker 1: And so I was like, wow, I had no idea.

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Speaker 1: And so this is when I kind of realized that

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Speaker 1: Instagram is doing that. And then they after that was

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Speaker 1: like probably six months later that they said, oh, we're

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Speaker 1: going to start filtering hashit. Anyway, so now they're doing comments.

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Speaker 1: So when you type a comment, it will say can

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Speaker 1: you please reconsider this because it might be mean, And

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Speaker 1: it's AI that's figuring out if it's mean or not.

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Speaker 1: So you say eat a burger to who's adi? So

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Speaker 1: if you say eat a burger to her and maybe

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Speaker 1: like Megan, do you really want to say that?

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Speaker 2: But it would I feel like eat a burger that's

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Speaker 2: not right, as like an AI wouldn't pick that up

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Speaker 2: as oh.

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Speaker 1: You don't know it may or like you need a burger,

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Speaker 1: Yeah you need a burger. That could be mean.

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Speaker 2: That could be mean.

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Speaker 1: Or how about like I bet you put your mayo

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Speaker 1: on the side.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet you take the bun off and just

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Speaker 2: eat the meat.

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Speaker 1: I bet you eat that protein style.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those are good.

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Speaker 1: That lettus wrap, Yeah, I would do that just.

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Speaker 2: Just for a healthy lunch in and out.

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Speaker 1: It's it's much lighter. Yeah, you can well done? Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: have well done. Okay, so that's what Instagram is doing.

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Speaker 2: Okay. This next question comes from your Facebook, which is

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Speaker 2: Facebook dot com. Slash rich On Chris asks, Hey, rich

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Speaker 2: is there a digital picture frame that can be linked

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Speaker 2: to your iPhone? I feel like we've answered this a

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Speaker 2: couple times, but I.

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Speaker 1: Feel like it too, but I think I'll just go

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Speaker 1: over the too. It is. Okay, So everyone, this is

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Speaker 1: really funny because this holiday season, for some reason, I'm

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Speaker 1: getting more of the digital picture frame question than ever before.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a I don't know if

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Speaker 1: someone's a lot of times these companies are advertising on

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Speaker 1: Instagram and Facebook, and that's why people email me because

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Speaker 1: they're seeing this ad over and over. So I'll just

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Speaker 1: throw out two recommendations. The first is nix Play and

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Speaker 1: I X P L A Y. They make some of

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Speaker 1: the best frames out there. I've tested these in the past.

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Speaker 1: They work really well, they do what you want, and

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Speaker 1: you know, they're pretty simple. It's a picture frame that's digital.

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Speaker 1: You can send stuff from your your phone to the frame.

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Speaker 1: You can send stuff to your loved ones frames if

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Speaker 1: they have it set up that way. It works, and

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Speaker 1: it's you know, they have cloud frames. They have ones

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Speaker 1: that you can plug the USB into the back. However

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Speaker 1: you want to do it, they'll Nixplay will do that.

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Speaker 1: The thing that I personally like better is, well, there's

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Speaker 1: another way you can do it. Well, there's a third

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Speaker 1: way I'll tell you in a second. But the other

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Speaker 1: way you can do it is I really like the

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Speaker 1: Google Nest Hub and the Google Nest Hub. I get it.

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Speaker 1: It's a smart speaker. It's listening. It's evil because it's

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Speaker 1: Google listening in your house with a microphone and potentially

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Speaker 1: a camera. If you get the big version. But let's

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Speaker 1: be honest, we all have those things in our home.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, come on, what are you gonna do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But the best part about that is if you're using

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Speaker 1: Google Photos already, it curates the best photos. Not it

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Speaker 1: doesn't always do the best job. Sometimes, Like my mom

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Speaker 1: she sells stuff on like Facebook, Marketplace, and like a

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Speaker 1: couple of like her old pairs of shoes showed up.

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Speaker 1: She's like, I thought you said these were curated. I

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Speaker 1: was like, well, it's not always right.

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Speaker 2: It's like all selfies.

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Speaker 1: Clearly you took a good picture of those shoes, because

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Speaker 1: Google's ai wreck, you know, identified it as a good picture.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And so you can also do things like so when

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Speaker 1: my kid, when it was my kid's birthday, you can

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Speaker 1: say I only want to show pictures of a certain face.

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Speaker 1: So on one of my albums, I have just like

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Speaker 1: the family, so I say like Lindsay rich Tanner Parker,

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Speaker 1: and it can automatically just show pictures that involve those faces.

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Speaker 1: So you can do a lot of stuff. Or you

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Speaker 1: can say I just want sunsets, so all my sunset pictures,

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Speaker 1: or you can say just pictures in Hawaii or you

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Speaker 1: can do a combination of whatever you want. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I think the Google nest Hub is the best

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Speaker 1: way to go because it's so flexible and you can

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Speaker 1: change your pictures at a moment's notice. Yeah, like I said,

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Speaker 1: when we had the birthday party at my house, I

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Speaker 1: changed all the digital displays to show just Tanner first

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Speaker 1: Birthday's amazing. Nobody noticed, but I was hoping one person

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Speaker 1: might be like, oh, he's yeah anyway, But to me,

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Speaker 1: I smiled, They probably thought.

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Speaker 2: You spent hours putting it together. I'm like, oh, poor guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what a loser. The only other thing I would

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Speaker 1: recommend is if you have like an old iPad around,

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Speaker 1: you could probably work that into a frame and you

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Speaker 1: could probably just put some pictures on there and set

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Speaker 1: it as a slide show or whatever. And I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there's apps out there that you can use as well.

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Speaker 1: So cool, cool question. Let's talk about the ten best

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Speaker 1: gadgets of the twenty tens. You know, we're rounding on

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Speaker 1: a decade here, Megan, it's almost twenty twenty, So top

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Speaker 1: ten gadgets to the twenty tens. I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: talk about this too much because I actually talked about

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Speaker 1: this at length in another podcast, my friend Brian Tong's podcast,

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Speaker 1: the Apple Bits XL. So if you want to hear

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Speaker 1: us discuss all these gadgets of the last decade, check

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Speaker 1: out Apple Bits XL with Brian Tongue. He's my pal

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Speaker 1: from when I worked at c net and we talked

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Speaker 1: about this. Your helm, yeah, actually lives close by to me.

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Speaker 1: We never see each other. We're always like, oh, we

590
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: got to hang out, and we only see each other

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00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 1: like out and about at events. We're like, we got

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Speaker 1: to hang out. We never do. So one of these days,

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Speaker 1: one of these days we will. Apple iPad that was

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Speaker 1: one of the top ten Tesla model s that was

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Speaker 1: a big game changer. Raspberry Pie do you know that one?

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Speaker 2: You meanke food?

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Speaker 1: Now, this is a little tiny computer that you can

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Speaker 1: like make into anything you want. So it's good for

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00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: like tinkers and you know nerds. Yeah, you can do

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Speaker 1: a lot with it. So it's only like twenty five bucks,

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Speaker 1: So that's really cool. Google Chrome Cast twenty thirteen. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe it's been six years since that came out.

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Speaker 1: That was life changing, like to me when I saw this,

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Speaker 1: because streaming devices were really expensive before Chrome cast, and

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Speaker 1: when the first one came out, I think it was

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Speaker 1: like thirty five or fifty bucks. It was like, well, wait,

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Speaker 1: what what is it now? I think it's thirty five maybe,

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Speaker 1: but don't forget. Now you have the Roku sticks and

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00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: you've got the Amazon sticks that are so cheap that

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Speaker 1: like everyone assumed streaming can be cheap, but back then

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Speaker 1: it wasn't. No, you had like Apple TV, Apple TV yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that was like two hundred bucks. Yea. I think

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Speaker 1: now it's like now it's still two hundred.

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Speaker 2: It's still still the same.

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Speaker 1: Dji Phantom, this is the drone. Yeah, okay, Amazon Echo

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Speaker 1: and twenty fourteen that was life. That was game changing.

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Speaker 1: I've never been a big Echo user, but it was

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Speaker 1: a lot of people like it.

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Speaker 2: I feel like she doesn't hear me, right.

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Speaker 1: She does better than Siri, that's for sure. Yeah. Google's

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Speaker 1: good though, Yes, Google's amazing. Apple Watch twenty fifteen, that

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Speaker 1: was game changing. You're still wanting one, I know.

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Speaker 2: Noticing trend.

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Speaker 1: There's only three Apple products? Oh but still air Pods

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Nintendo Switch in twenty seventeen, which I know

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Speaker 1: you're not a gamer, but that was a big one because.

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Speaker 2: This might be the decade, though twenty twenty might be

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Speaker 2: my gaming might be.

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Speaker 1: Your gaming years. And then the Xbox Adaptive Controller in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. This is for gamers with physical limitations disabilities,

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Speaker 1: and it lets them play Xbox as well, which is

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Speaker 1: really cool. So cool again, if you want to hear

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Speaker 1: me discuss all the top ten gadgets of the twenty tens.

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Speaker 1: Oh those are according to Time dot Com. By the way,

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Speaker 1: those were not my list. Okay, Apple bits XL check

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Speaker 1: out the podcast by Brian Tong. I have a.

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Speaker 2: Question, my own question, what was your favorite product from

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Speaker 2: the twenty ten I'll be.

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Speaker 1: Honest, I think it's the Pixel. I'm surprised. I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: that was not on there. I would say either the

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Speaker 1: Pixel or Google Assistant.

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Speaker 2: People just overlook Google.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think so there was one. There was Chrome Cast,

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Speaker 1: but I think that or you know, Google Photos, those

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Speaker 1: were not products but I and Google Assistant. But favorite

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Speaker 1: I think the Pixel was. I mean, for for when

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Speaker 1: it came out, it was the best photos I had

648
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Speaker 1: ever seen on a smartphone with such a simple camera.

649
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Speaker 1: And I think this year, you know, I carry the

650
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Speaker 1: iPhone eleven Pro Max and I really truly think that

651
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Speaker 1: that's a great overall device. If I had my way,

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Speaker 1: i'd probably carry the Pixel if I wasn't if I

653
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Speaker 1: was not creating well, if I was not creating content

654
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Speaker 1: for social media, Yeah, because the iPhone and also the apps,

655
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Speaker 1: because Android just doesn't have the apps that the iPhone does.

656
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Speaker 1: But I love the smarts of the Android platform and

657
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Speaker 1: especially Google and especially the Pixel. So that's uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's the difference.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so cool. All right. This next question comes from Kristen.

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Speaker 2: She wrote on your Facebook, Hi, Rich, I just got

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Speaker 2: my first iPad. It's the iPad Pro and I'm terrified

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Speaker 2: of one of my cats breaking it. What is the

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Speaker 2: best protective case for it and how? And does the

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Speaker 2: protective paper like film actually protect as well as the

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Speaker 2: glass does thinks you know, I.

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Speaker 1: Fell in love with a cat when I was home.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big cat person, but my brother gave

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Speaker 1: my mom a cat, little tiny kitten, and I will

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Speaker 1: say I was like, Okay, I might get one of

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Speaker 1: these if it stayed that small.

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Speaker 2: If you're not allergic, you should I'm not allergic. I

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Speaker 2: wish I could have.

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Speaker 1: It was really cute. It like crawl up on you

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Speaker 1: while you're watching like TV, and just like ball up

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Speaker 1: on your lap. And I'm not used to that because

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Speaker 1: I don't have like any animals. Yeah, so it was

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Speaker 1: I do have kids.

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Speaker 2: Are your kids allergic to cats? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Probably because one of them has like some allergy kind

680
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Speaker 1: of stuff, so probably, but evenly wants a dog. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: so I understand the cat thing because basically, these cats

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Speaker 1: are tiny tyrants around the house. They play with everything,

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Speaker 1: they get into everything, they knock things over, they scratch things.

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Speaker 1: And if you have an iPad sitting there, she says,

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Speaker 1: her first iPad on the edge of the table, and

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Speaker 1: you just leave it there, Boom, it's dead. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: fall off because this cat's gonna claw it, and you

688
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Speaker 1: know it's gonna go off the side. I would recommend,

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Speaker 1: and this is what I've had on my kid's iPads

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Speaker 1: for four years now, the otter Box. And they make

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Speaker 1: an iPad case that is one hundred percent inclusive of

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Speaker 1: the iPad, so it goes on the back and then

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Speaker 1: it also has a thing a cover for the screen,

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Speaker 1: and they make several cases, but I would go with one.

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Speaker 1: It depends what was her name again? Diane. Her name

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Speaker 1: was shoot Kristin, So I would say Kristin that if

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Speaker 1: you think you're gonna be responsible enough, you can get

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Speaker 1: a case that doesn't necessarily cover the front like the screen.

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Speaker 1: But she specifically mentioned the screen, so I would probably

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Speaker 1: get an otter Box case that covers the screen and

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Speaker 1: it encloses your entire your entire iPad. Now with that said,

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Speaker 1: your iPad, it's going to be a lot bigger than normal.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little bit heavier, but it's for

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Speaker 1: most people that's fine. And outer Box has a lot

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Speaker 1: of different cases, so you can see, like maybe you

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Speaker 1: want one Defender is kind of like the main one

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Speaker 1: that's the biggest one, that's going to be pretty thick,

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Speaker 1: but you can get other ones like a symmetry case.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what else do they have in Alpha that's

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Speaker 1: a screen chector. But I would say just look what

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Speaker 1: they have. But that's the company i'd recommend is autter Box.

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Speaker 1: So good question. That's protected my kids iPad for many

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Speaker 1: years until my kids threw up on his iPad the

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Speaker 1: case and so I had to take it off. So

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Speaker 1: my kid's actually gone caseless for about three months. Now,

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Speaker 1: I need to buy. In fact, I need to buy

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Speaker 1: a new case for him. It's been in my Amazon

718
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Speaker 1: shopping cuts. But it was gross because it was like

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Speaker 1: the throw up got like, you know, in like under

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Speaker 1: the screen and I had to like clean the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: and like it was so gross. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: trash it.

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Speaker 2: Why did he aim onto the iPad?

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Speaker 1: I know, right, all I wanted to do was throughout

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Speaker 1: the iPad. I was like, I just want to toss

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Speaker 1: this thing in the trash because it's got you know,

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Speaker 1: barf on it. But I did not. I saved itw

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Speaker 1: AIRTV two is now available. This is AIRTV is kind

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Speaker 1: of an offshoot of Sling TV, and they say it's

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Speaker 1: a cord cutting brand dedicated to meeting the growing consumer

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Speaker 1: demand for over the air products and services. AIRTV two

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Speaker 1: is a new Wi Fi enabled network tuner. A lot

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Speaker 1: of times what happens is you get these streaming services

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Speaker 1: and you have to somehow figure out how to get

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Speaker 1: all your channels. Like, for instance, the TV station I

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Speaker 1: work for KTLA is not currently on any of the

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Speaker 1: streaming services. So when you get something like YouTube TV

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Speaker 1: or Sling TV, all of a sudden, you're like wait,

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Speaker 1: where's my local channel five? You don't have it, then

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Speaker 1: you have to go and get an antenna. And you

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Speaker 1: can get an antenna, and now you have to figure

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Speaker 1: out how to integrate that into your streaming setup, which

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Speaker 1: means do you put it on a separate input on

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Speaker 1: your TV? Do you get a box that integrates it?

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Speaker 1: Like for me, I have something called Amazon fireTV Recast

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Speaker 1: which integrates into my fireTV okay, which means I don't

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Speaker 1: have to switch in puts to go to my antenna.

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Speaker 1: So if I want something on regular TV, I just

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Speaker 1: go to my grid on my fire TV. But there

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Speaker 1: it gets complicated because if you're just hooking up an

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00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: antenna to your TV, now you have to switch to

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00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: that antenna input to watch anything on there, which most people,

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Speaker 1: if you're cord cutting, you're streaming everything else, And then

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00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: I get switch inputs. It's a big pain in the

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Speaker 1: you know what. So you don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: So this new AIRTV too is a Wi Fi enabled

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Speaker 1: network tuner. And the beauty of this thing, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like my fireTV recast. You put it in the

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Speaker 1: spot in your house that has the best reception, so

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Speaker 1: that may not be near your TV, which in the

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Speaker 1: case of my mom's house, I did try an antenna there,

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Speaker 1: she didn't get reception near her TV. I didn't have

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Speaker 1: time to relocate and do this whole setup with her,

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Speaker 1: you know antenna. So you put this little box where

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Speaker 1: you get a signal and then the box uses Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi to connect that to your TV. And in the

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Speaker 1: case of this device, it actually it actually streams your

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Speaker 1: local channels right into the TV app, and the Sling

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Speaker 1: TV app pretty much works with most of the fire

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Speaker 1: sticks and the Roku devices. So I know it sounds

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00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: overly complicated, but the bottom line is you connect an

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Speaker 1: antenna to this device, the device connects your Wi Fi network.

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Speaker 1: You can now watch your local channels on the same

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Speaker 1: screen that you get all your other streaming content on.

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Speaker 1: So you can watch Netflix and then you can say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I want to go to my channel five. You just

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Speaker 1: bring up the Sling TV app and Channel five will

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Speaker 1: be in there. So and it's free, by the way,

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00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 1: once you pay there's you know, once you pay the

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Speaker 1: ninety nine bucks to buy this thing, there's no subscription. Yeah,

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00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: people forget that Free TV has a lot of stuff.

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00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 1: This also has a DVR. If you connect a hard

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Speaker 1: drive to it. And let's see what else is there

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Speaker 1: that's about it. I mean you can watch things out

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Speaker 1: of your house. You can watch on Roku, Amazon, Fire,

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Speaker 1: tv iOS, and Android devices. That's a lot. That is

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Speaker 1: a lot, and it's available for ninety nine ninety nine

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean that's all you need to know

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Speaker 1: about that. It's pretty cool. So sling dot com slash

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00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: AIRTV offer, or you can just go to airtv dot net.

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00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: If you purchase an AIRTV two on airtv dot net,

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00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: you'll get a twenty five dollars Sling TV credit. You

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00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: do not need a Sling TV subscription, by the way,

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00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: to use that AIRTV So if you just want to

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00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: start out with your your local channels, you can do that.

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00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: Then you can always add a subscription later. All right,

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00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: I've spoken enough Megan.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So this next question comes from Lyle.

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Speaker 1: Wait, uh oh what happened to Lyle? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Sorry? Sorry, sorry, I'm just I'm going through my email.

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Speaker 1: I was a private text.

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00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, I just I have your response

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Speaker 2: to Lyle. Okay, okay, So the next question comes from Lyle.

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Speaker 2: What can you recommend to block all these intrusive advertising advertisements?

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Speaker 2: On Android phones.

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Speaker 1: Oh I love this, love this question. You're gonna get

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Speaker 1: some real insider info right here we go, because this

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Speaker 1: is something that I have not really spoken about in

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Speaker 1: a big way because I feel like it's a little

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00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: bit complicated for most people. But if you have Okay,

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Speaker 1: So there's a couple of ways to block ads. I

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Speaker 1: asked this person if they were on Android ten because

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Speaker 1: that makes a difference on Android how easy it is

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Speaker 1: to block It is so easy to block ads on Android.

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Speaker 1: I almost feel bad giving out this trick because it's

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00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: so easy. It's scary. Do I give it out? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Kidding?

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Speaker 1: So on iOS, you know that you can add these

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Speaker 1: things called content blockers to Safari. Do you have one

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Speaker 1: of these installed? So if you add a content blocker there, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't really use Safari, but still right, and that's

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Speaker 1: the problem if you use what you use Chrome? Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: so do I So I don't use, you know, a

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Speaker 1: content blocker on Chrome on the Android. On the iOS side, anyway,

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00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: if you're on iOS, you can download something called a

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Speaker 1: content blocker, and what that does is it integrates into

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Speaker 1: Safari and blocks all your ads as you're surfing. It

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Speaker 1: only works on Safari doesn't work on other apps and

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Speaker 1: other things, but that's an easy way to block ads

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00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: just when you're surfing the web on Safari. On Android,

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Speaker 1: the easiest way that I know of is in Android ten.

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Speaker 1: All you have to do is change one setting. Okay,

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00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: so I'll tell you where to go. You go into

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Speaker 1: settings on your phone, you go into network and Internet,

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Speaker 1: you go to Advanced, and then you go to something

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Speaker 1: called private DNS. And DNS is how the internet or

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Speaker 1: your phone looks up things on the Internet. So when

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Speaker 1: you search for something, it goes to a DNS and

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Speaker 1: it kind of sees like, okay, everything has an address

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Speaker 1: on the world on the internet.

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Speaker 2: Basically we are you going to say worldwide.

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Speaker 1: So everything has an address there, and so the DNS

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00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: helps you what's called resolve that address. So when you

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Speaker 1: type in Yahoo dot com, it actually has a little

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Speaker 1: number associated with it in the background, and that DNS

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Speaker 1: server helps resolve that find it. So what this does, Okay,

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00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,959
Speaker 1: Then when you go to private DNS, what you're saying

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Speaker 1: is you're saying, use this DNS host to figure out

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Speaker 1: the addresses, and once you go through that, it will

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Speaker 1: block all the ADS that comes through that connection. So

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Speaker 1: what you want to do is change private DNS two

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00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: dns dot adguard dot com and ad Guard is a

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00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: big company that does all these ad blocking services. And now,

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00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: when I talk about ads, obviously a lot of people

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Speaker 1: make money off of that. So if you're thinking about

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00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: blocking ads, you always want to take a step back

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00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: and think, am I hurting people's ability to feed their children?

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Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind and you're fine with that,

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00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: and WHOA A lot of times these are what I

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Speaker 1: call nuisance ads. So this will actually help in a

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Speaker 1: lot of these things. And this is why I have

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00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: no problem recommending this. A lot of times you go

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00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: to a website and you get blocked in by some

864
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: sort of really obnoxious AD that is popping up on

865
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Speaker 1: your screen a thousand times saying you want a gift card,

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00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: or you want an Amazon prize or you're the tenth

867
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Speaker 1: winner and you can't get out of it. And that's

868
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: why I say, sure, go ahead and use this, because

869
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: you're blocking malicious stuff as well, and that's what a

870
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: lot of people run up against anyway. So you type

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00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: in DNS dot adguard dot com into this little box

872
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: under private DNA and boom, it's all your ads on

873
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: your phone are blocked. Now, not every AD is going

874
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: to be blocked. A lot of times it's a cat

875
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: and mouse game between the big ad companies and services

876
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: like this. So sometimes you might be like, hey, Rich,

877
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm still seeing ads. Can't get rid of them all. Like,

878
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: if you're browsing, you know, Twitter, you'll probably still see

879
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: Twitter ads. A lot of times. You can't get around

880
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: some of the ads, but especially the nuisance ads, like

881
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: the really annoying ones, you'll get rid of. And that's

882
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: the easiest way to do it. Now, if you ever

883
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: lyle have a problem where you can't load a website

884
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: or you can't connect to a Wi Fi network, you

885
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: can just go ahead and turn this off and when

886
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: you're done with that network or you're done with that website,

887
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: you can turn it back on. But that's kind of

888
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: like the deal. And you know, that's some real insider info.

889
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: But like I said, a lot of people that I

890
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 1: see browsing the web, they're coming up against some pretty

891
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: bad stuff that they can't really figure out how to

892
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: exit the browser. It's scare tactics. You know, you've got

893
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: these things that say you won hundred dollar Amazon gift card.

894
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: You fill out these forms, it's all garbage, and so

895
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, if this can help protect one person from

896
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: getting scammed into something, then hey, it's worth it. There

897
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: you go. Okay, finally, let me close the show with this.

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Speaker 1: We did a fun story for KTLA on some of

899
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: the cool ways you can interact with Santa this time

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Speaker 1: of the year. And I'll just start with the smart speaker.

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00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: So if you're on a Google Smart speaker, you can say,

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00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: h Google, Call Santa and you'll get connected to the

903
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: North Pole and they play this fun little game with

904
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: Santa where you kind of pick some things. It's like

905
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,879
Speaker 1: a choose your own adventure almost. That's kind of fun.

906
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: On Amazon Echo, if you want to directly call Santa

907
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: using you know what rhymes with abexa, you actually have

908
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: to go into the Alexa app first and enable the

909
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: call Santa skill. And there's a bunch of them, but

910
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: look for the one that says Amazon dot Com above it.

911
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: There's a whole bunch of call Santa skills. You probably

912
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: want the official one from Amazon. Enable that in the

913
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: app first. Then you can go to your Alexa or

914
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: your ex device and say, hey, call Sanna. So that's

915
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: one on Siri on the iPhone. Don't even bother. She

916
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: just gives you some like she really just plays some

917
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: games with you, Like she's like, oh, flap your hands

918
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: five times and say ho ho not come on, come on,

919
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: Apple's Apple. Let's make something fun. Other things to do

920
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: check out Santa Tracker dot Google dot com. This is

921
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: where you can see a countdown to Christmas along with

922
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: fun games and there's some cool apps as well. So

923
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: on the iPhone, there's an app called Catch Santa ar.

924
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: This uses the augmented reality feature of the iPhone where

925
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: you can aim your video camera at your Christmas tree

926
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: and catch Santa sneaking by present. It's really cool and

927
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: you can record it and you can send it to friends,

928
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: put on Instagram, be like, hey, we caught Santa in

929
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: the act.

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00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 2: Your kids look.

931
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: Caught Santa and that was really cool. The other app

932
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: is called Capture the Magic, and Capture the Magic is

933
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: an app for iPhone and Android and they let you

934
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: superimpose Santa, Snowman and all kinds of stuff on any

935
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: scene so you can have some real fun with that.

936
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: You can put Santa in your pictures and we did

937
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: this at a holiday party a couple of years ago.

938
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of the app, but it

939
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: was very similar. But we had so much fun, like

940
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,240
Speaker 1: taking pictures in front of the tree like with Sanna,

941
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: and all the people at the party were like cracking up,

942
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 1: so it was really cool. We put them on Instagram

943
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,720
Speaker 1: party trick and again that one's called Capture the Magic.

944
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: And of course you know about Norrad where you can

945
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: track Sanna on Christmas Eve. Yeah, so again a lot

946
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: of fun you can have with the kids during this

947
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: time of the year. I was looking for something with

948
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 1: Elf on the shelf. Are you familiar with that? Yeah,

949
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: so that's like the new thing, right And do they

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00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,439
Speaker 1: have a tech? I'm sure they do, but I didn't

951
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: really look it up. So anyway, those are kind of

952
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: some fun things you can do with Santa this time

953
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: of the year. So there you have it. It's always fun,

954
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 1: have a great holiday. We are this is the last

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00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: show of the year of twenty nineteen. We are going

956
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,439
Speaker 1: to start the year off. I think there's one show

957
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: before we go to Seat. Yes, so we'll do one

958
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: show at the beginning of the year and then we

959
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: go to CS and at CS have a fun thing

960
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: planned for the show, so we're gonna be recording it

961
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: on the scene, but in kind of a fun location.

962
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 1: So I've got that going on. Follow me on Instagram.

963
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: I am at rich on Tech. That's where I'm doing

964
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: almost all of my posts these days. So at rich

965
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: on Tech. If you see my stuff, you know it

966
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: takes me a bit to do these things. So if

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00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 1: you see it, the least you could do is like it,

968
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: oh yeah, or share it or comment or comment. I mean,

969
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: just just throw me a bone. Follow, follow, share with

970
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: your friends. I really I'm getting into this thing. I

971
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 1: really like sending posts to friends that It's great.

972
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: The only problem is when people send me posts and

974
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: their private and I'm like, I can't look at that.

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00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 2: Yeah private, follow it.

976
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: But I think that's a growth hacked tacktic is right, Yeah,

977
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: and then I have to go there and follow that.

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00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.

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00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: I never do. I say, can you screenshot this and

980
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: send it to me?

981
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 2: Oh? My friends are like, no, you have to follow

982
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 2: that account?

983
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: Interesting? Okay, Megan's funny. How can people find you.

984
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 2: A I'm on Twitter at producer Megan?

985
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, what nothing? That's it. My book is one

986
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: hundred and one iPhone tips and tricks. By the time

987
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: you listen to this, it's probably too late to get

988
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: it in time for the holidays. But if you got

989
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: an Amazon gift card for Christmas or Hankah or Kwanza

990
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: or what else is there? Remember the OC it was

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00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: Christmas Quantica.

992
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 2: Oh no, I never watched that episode.

993
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: Or Christmas. No Christmas, ch Christma Christmas. I think it

994
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 1: was Christmas. Cop Yeah, that was pretty funny. I'm dating

995
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: myself now, Seth Cohen. Yes, So if you got a

996
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: gift card, you can buy the book now. It's a

997
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: great gift and or I guess, gift to yourself, I

998
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: should say, and that's going to do it. I think

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00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: that's it for the show. We had a great time

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Speaker 1: talking all things.

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00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 2: Tech tech twenty nineteen.

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00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: Are you have any Are you going to start in

1003
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Speaker 1: your resolutions for twenty twenty Megan.

1004
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 2: Oh no, I need to make some though.

1005
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: I need to make them too. I'm gonna be off

1006
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: my phone more. I'm gonna be more present. That's my

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00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: oh quick story, mindful. The problem with being present. I

1008
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: tried doing this when I went home to New Jersey.

1009
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: No one else is doing everyone's present, so everyone else

1010
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: is not present, but you should just.

1011
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 2: Be that person that's like, you're not present. You're not Yeah,

1012
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 2: gotta start the trend.

1013
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: Be present. Just be present with your family and friends

1014
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: this holiday season. Take the Instagram pictures, then put down

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00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: the phone. Yes, all right, Yes, have a great day.

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00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,959
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV, thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. We will see you next year. Bye.