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Speaker 4: I did the brand new Nintendo console. It's coming out

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Speaker 4: there's no breakable parts because like it's magnetized. It's really strong.

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Speaker 4: But you know, we'll see when people do tear downs

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Speaker 4: stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: What did it feel like these things to like, you know,

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Speaker 1: like the magnets they go on like left and right,

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Speaker 1: But like, did it feel like you can just kind

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Speaker 1: of break them off, like with is there any part

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Speaker 1: that in your connect innerconnects between these devices?

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Speaker 4: I think there is. Well, how they come apart is

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Speaker 4: that there's little mechanism where you push a button and

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Speaker 4: it actually has another part that kind of pushes off

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Speaker 4: of Nintendo switch. So it's it's a very simple mechanism.

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Speaker 4: It turns out. We thought it would be a lot

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Speaker 4: more complicated than it actually was, but I don't think

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Speaker 4: it's I think it's very durable, and I had confidence

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Speaker 4: that it wouldn't just fall off.

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Speaker 5: The magnets are pretty strong, so they built it really well.

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Speaker 4: But I'm sure some people are going to put some

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Speaker 4: torture tests online on some video so those will be

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Speaker 4: fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So if it's new feature game chat, so I

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Speaker 1: guess at the minimum, because there's a new button on here,

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Speaker 1: a Sea button, you can chat with your friends like

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Speaker 1: audio chat. But then if you buy the they have

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Speaker 1: a new USBC camera you can video chat. And this

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Speaker 1: is kind of like reminds me of Discord or all

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Speaker 1: these other ways that gamers are already kind of like

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Speaker 1: video and audio chatting online. So what do you think

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Speaker 1: of that feature?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody at the Shortcut, all my entire team. They

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Speaker 4: want to buy a Nintendo Switch for this feature. Because

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Speaker 4: Mario Kart World, you can appear against your screen background

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Speaker 4: so you can like watch what other people are doing

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Speaker 4: in a you know, there's it supports up to twenty

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Speaker 4: four people, but the four of us want to play

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Speaker 4: and kind of taunt each other on camera and have

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Speaker 4: a lot of fun. There's a new mode called Knockout Mode,

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Speaker 4: and this seems like a very interactive, almost twitch like experience.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned discord, a lot of these game chats have

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Speaker 4: video capabilities. Now Nintendo finally has.

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Speaker 1: That, okay, and then they're also bringing game cube games

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Speaker 1: to this as well. Now this will this come to

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Speaker 1: the old switch as well? I mean, because it's just

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Speaker 1: going to be part of a Nintendo Switch Online if

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Speaker 1: you have a subscription.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you would think.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a new Switch to exclusive because they

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Speaker 4: have a new controller that is coming and you can

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Speaker 4: buy that separately. So it's a GameCube controller with new

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Speaker 4: extra buttons on there, and that is definitely something that

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Speaker 4: you want to experience it. You know, you pay yearly

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Speaker 4: for the subscription, but this is going to be exclusive

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Speaker 4: to the new console.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's interesting. Okay, so let's talk about pre orders.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't. All you can do is put

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Speaker 1: your email address in right now, right. And then there's

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Speaker 1: also a report I've read that they were basically requiring

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Speaker 1: fifty hours of gameplay if you wanted to order it

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Speaker 1: direct from Nintendo, to like help fend off scalpers.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, so, I think that's a really good thing because

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Speaker 4: we saw during the PS five restock chaos of a

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Speaker 4: couple of years ago that people were buying, you know, ten,

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Speaker 4: twenty thirty of the consoles at a time and reselling

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Speaker 4: them for double their price. That could easily happen. But

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Speaker 4: with these measures that Nintendo is putting in place, you're

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Speaker 4: able to you know, say like it goes to it

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Speaker 4: rewards the players that are actually playing games. So you

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Speaker 4: need fifty hours of gameplay time, and you need to

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Speaker 4: have a switch account, you know, or a Nintendo Online

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Speaker 4: account for over a year, so it's so that the

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Speaker 4: gamers actually get it. My suggestion, though, is to pre

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Speaker 4: order it from one of the retail store when the

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Speaker 4: pre orders go live, because Nintendo's website, it's online website

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Speaker 4: called my Nintendo Store doesn't go live with their pre

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Speaker 4: orders until May eighth, and that's really late, so if

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Speaker 4: they run out of pre orders, you can't really go

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Speaker 4: back in time and pre order it from Best Buy,

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Speaker 4: which was April.

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Speaker 5: Ninth, but now maybe another date.

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Speaker 4: So try all the major retail stores, just a secure

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Speaker 4: of reservation and maybe get two reservations because they don't

513
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Speaker 4: usually charge their card until they ship. But at least

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Speaker 4: you'll have two stores in case one gets delayed or

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Speaker 4: canceled for some reason.

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Speaker 1: So what do we think? Is this a must have?

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Speaker 1: Do you upgrade if you already have the Nintendo Switch?

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Speaker 1: And is it going to be tough to get for

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Speaker 1: the holidays. I think it will be tough to get.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of parents are going to want it.

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Speaker 4: I think it is a must have if you're playing

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Speaker 4: the Switch on a even a weekly basis, If if

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Speaker 4: that's your go to console, if you love Mario games,

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Speaker 4: Mario Kart World is going to be a blast to play.

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Speaker 4: They have Donkey Kong Bonanza, a little pun that's gonna

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Speaker 4: be a lot of fun for both kids and adults.

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Speaker 4: So I think it's the right console for a lot

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Speaker 4: of people. It's a little bit pricey, but My word

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Speaker 4: of warning is don't wait for the price to go down,

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Speaker 4: because that usually doesn't happen with the Nintendo console. So

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Speaker 4: if you're putting it off hoping for a sale, you're

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Speaker 4: probably gonna be waiting a really long time.

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Speaker 5: With the pre orders, I would get it the moment

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Speaker 5: they open.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have if you follow at Matt Sweider or

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Speaker 4: the shortcut dot com and subscribe, I'm gonna have the

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Speaker 4: moment the preorders go live links to those retailers, because

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Speaker 4: I do expect them to sell out pretty quickly and

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Speaker 4: we might get less inventory because of the tariffs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't expect any discounts on this. Typically

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Speaker 1: the way that Nintendo operates is no discounts. Maybe a

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Speaker 1: bundle is good or some added extra you might get,

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Speaker 1: but just seeing a slash of one hundred dollars or

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Speaker 1: something really doesn't happen there. All right, Matt Swider, thanks

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00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: so much for joining me. The shortcut dot com is

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Speaker 1: his website. You were the first place that I learned,

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Speaker 1: since I follow you on X that the date was

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Speaker 1: changed or you know, Nintendo put out that statement that said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna, you know, change the launch date or the

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Speaker 1: pre order date. I guess we're holding off.

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Speaker 4: It makes turning on notifications that's that much more important,

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Speaker 4: So stand by for that news. Hopefully I get to

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Speaker 4: inform you and everybody else when the pre orders go live.

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Speaker 1: Tap that bell, all right, Matt, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me. Let's eighty eight rich one O one eight

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

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Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll tell you why TikTok gets yet another

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

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Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eight

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

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Speaker 1: Just one thing we forgot to mention about the switch

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Speaker 1: from Nintendo in the last segment is will the games

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Speaker 1: be backwards compatible? So Switch one games will work on

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Speaker 1: switch to Switch two games will not work on Switch one,

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Speaker 1: and some games will be switched to enhanced of older games.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so bottom line, your mileage may vary, but

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Speaker 1: it sounds like in general, the old games will work

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Speaker 1: on the new console, the new games will not work

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Speaker 1: on the old console. Let's go to Katie in Garden Grove.

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Speaker 6: Katie, you're on with Rich, Hi, Rich, I've seen advertised these.

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Speaker 6: They're like ear pods and they translate. So you've just

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Speaker 6: put this thing on your ear and you can go

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Speaker 6: to several different countries and it'll translate for you. Have

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Speaker 6: you heard anything about that?

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Speaker 7: I have.

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Speaker 1: I'm concerned that you saw them advertised. Where'd you see

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Speaker 1: them advertised? Social media? Yes? Yeah, so I would be.

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Speaker 6: I saw them on Amazon as well.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, what's the brand, because there is a brand

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Speaker 1: I do recommend.

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Speaker 6: Oh, okay, that's what I'm asking about.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so they're pretty the Time Kettle, Time Kettle M three.

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Speaker 1: Those are the most inexpensive, or that I should say,

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Speaker 1: the least expensive translating earbuds. Now, I have not personally

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Speaker 1: tested these, but I've talked to many friends who have

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Speaker 1: and they are known to work pretty well. So those

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Speaker 1: are probably what i'd recommend. What's the brand that Kettle?

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Speaker 6: Time Kettle like T I M E K E T.

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Speaker 1: T L correct Time Kettle M three. Now, they have

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Speaker 1: more expensive ones. They have a whole bunch of different versions.

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Speaker 1: This is just the most affordable. So if you want

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Speaker 1: to spend more, they've got ones that I think are

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Speaker 1: four fifty you know, a little bit more expensive, but

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Speaker 1: these are these are which of course bring added features

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Speaker 1: to them, but these are the kind of the the

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Speaker 1: budget version of these that kind of work, and people

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Speaker 1: seem to like them, so they get good reviews. They

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Speaker 1: they kind of do what you need. I will say,

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Speaker 1: I think that in general you have to keep your

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Speaker 1: expectations quite low with technology. You like this because I

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Speaker 1: in my experience, anytime you're talking about translation, it can

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Speaker 1: be tricky. Now I think AI has made things a

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Speaker 1: lot better, but for me personally, when I go abroad,

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Speaker 1: I use my phone and you just kind of like

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Speaker 1: use your translate app. Google Translate app will translate. That

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Speaker 1: will work pretty well for most circumstances. But these are

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Speaker 1: much more of a you know, if you want like

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Speaker 1: that idea of someone talking to you, this thing listens

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Speaker 1: and then in your ears, instead of hearing what they're saying,

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Speaker 1: you're hearing it in your language. That's kind of what

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Speaker 1: the earbuds are for. The other earbuds that work to

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Speaker 1: do this are the Google Pixel buds. And I originally

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Speaker 1: thought you had to have them on a pixel phone,

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Speaker 1: but you don't. You just have to have these pixel

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Speaker 1: buds with an Android phone. Now there are some requirements

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Speaker 1: for the Android phone, but Google Pixel buds might be

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Speaker 1: another way to do it because Google Pixel our Google

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Speaker 1: Translate is really good. The Google Pixel buds are nice.

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Speaker 1: They are one hundred and seventy nine dollars and so

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Speaker 1: that is another way. Right now, they're fifty dollars off

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Speaker 1: typically they're two twenty nine, so that could be another

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Speaker 1: way to do it. They have an A series, so

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Speaker 1: they're like cheaper, they're eighty dollars. But I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: they have the translation feature built in, so I would

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Speaker 1: check to see if that's a if that's in there,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at their website right now, I don't necessarily

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Speaker 1: see the translate. Oh you know what it does look

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Speaker 1: like hold on real time translation, So they may they

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Speaker 1: may not have the full feature translation on the A buds,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, pixel buds are another way. But I think

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Speaker 1: time Kettle is kind of like the main brand out

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Speaker 1: there that's that's doing really well, that gets good reviews.

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of these things advertised, but

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Speaker 1: I'd be very cautious. And the reason is what a

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Speaker 1: lot of this stuff comes down to is the software

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Speaker 1: and the technology. So if the translation technology is not

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Speaker 1: very good or the software is not very good, it's

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Speaker 1: not going to be a good experience, and that means

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Speaker 1: you're going to use them for about two minutes on

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Speaker 1: your initial you know, you step off the plane or

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Speaker 1: off the cruise ship, whatever however you're getting there and

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Speaker 1: you try it and you're like, oh, this is not

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Speaker 1: this doesn't work, and you're going to be frustrated and

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Speaker 1: then hopefully there's a good return policy. And on an

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Speaker 1: item that's advertised on social media, sometimes there is not

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Speaker 1: a good return policy. So no matter what, I get

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Speaker 1: so many emails every week from folks that send me

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Speaker 1: a screen shot or a link they see to something.

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Speaker 1: These advertisements you see on social media, the products that

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Speaker 1: we see seem too good to be true, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of times they are. So just be careful. And

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Speaker 1: if you're going to these websites that you've never heard

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Speaker 1: of and buying a product. Number one, if the website

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Speaker 1: is like, hey, you've got one minute to shop or

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Speaker 1: time count down, this discount is ending in thirty you know,

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes, or you know you got to buy this now,

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Speaker 1: like beware because a lot of you know, those high

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Speaker 1: pressure sales tactics often mean that they're just trying to

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Speaker 1: get that sale before you kind of investigate or look

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Speaker 1: for reviews or what I always do. Check the return policy,

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Speaker 1: check the contact info. If you can't really find a

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Speaker 1: good amount of info, there probably not a place that

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Speaker 1: Let's see here I said that TikTok is getting one

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Speaker 1: more I don't know. I guess it's another deadline extension.

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Speaker 1: So TikTok Us divestiture deadline has been pushed now another

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Speaker 1: seventy five days. This is like the saga that keeps

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Speaker 1: on going. Now it's mid June. So they had faced

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Speaker 1: a deadline of April fifth under this whole national security presumption,

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Speaker 1: but now it is extended one more time. So you

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Speaker 1: might remember that TikTok was briefly removed from the app

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Speaker 1: stores both Google Play and also the Apple App Store,

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Speaker 1: but they returned after an executive order. And now a

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00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: bunch of companies are coming forward saying, yeah, we want

676
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: to buy this, but nobody's really doing it, so we

677
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on here. Just China not want

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00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 1: to sell it. Do these companies really not want to

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00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: buy it is this all just kind of like stirring

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Speaker 1: the pot. We don't know, but Oracle, Amazon, app, Lovin,

681
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: and some investor groups have all shown interest. But of

682
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: course China's government must still approve any deal before it

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Speaker 1: can go through. And we don't even know if they

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Speaker 1: really want to sell it. I mean, I know they

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Speaker 1: don't want to, and we're not even sure if they're

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Speaker 1: willing to, So this is wild. The possibility of banning

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Speaker 1: TikTok was first publicly mentioned back in July twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: I remember rushing out to do a story with a

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Speaker 1: TikToker to be like, what are you gonna do? And

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Speaker 1: this goes away, and five years later, here I am

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Speaker 1: still talking about it, still wasting my breath talking about

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Speaker 1: TikTok being banned. Eighty to eight rich one oh one

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one

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Speaker 1: it every week. It's kind of like this show. Like

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Speaker 1: I said this week of my newsletter, the newsletter is

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Speaker 1: the show is kind of like the newsletter. The newsletter

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Speaker 1: is kind of like the show. So if you like

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Speaker 1: the show, you'll probably like the newsletter. If you like

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Speaker 1: the newsletter, you'll probably like this show. I talked this

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Speaker 1: week in my newsletter about removing some of your personal

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Speaker 1: information from the Internet. So if you've ever searched for yourself,

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Speaker 1: you probably have seen your name, your address, your phone number,

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Speaker 1: and all kinds of stuff online. This could be used,

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Speaker 1: you know, for nefarious reasons, everything from stalkers to identity theft.

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Speaker 1: So the more info out there probably the worse it is.

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Speaker 1: You know, it depends on your level of eh. I mean,

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Speaker 1: back in the day, we had the white Pages, remember

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Speaker 1: that where you can look up anyone. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it was a turning point and back to the future.

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Speaker 1: It's like that whole movie wouldn't happen if he didn't

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Speaker 1: have the White Pages there to look up where Doc

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Speaker 1: Brown was. Anyway, I digress. These days, you know, we

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Speaker 1: probably don't want this stuff online. So if your info

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Speaker 1: shows up in Google Search. There is a way to

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Speaker 1: get rid of that. You can tap the three dots

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Speaker 1: next to a search result that includes your info and

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Speaker 1: you'll see an option that says remove result. You can

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Speaker 1: fill out the form and they usually remove that within

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Speaker 1: a couple of days, sometimes quicker and then. Google has

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Speaker 1: this free tool called Results about You, which you can

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Speaker 1: sign up for. It is free. It will monitor any

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Speaker 1: new search results that include your personal contact info and

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Speaker 1: they will email you every time you get every time

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Speaker 1: they find something on the Internet that involves you, and

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Speaker 1: you can say, yeah, I want to remove that. They're

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Speaker 1: not going to prove it all the time, but at

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Speaker 1: least it's a way to kind of automate that process. Now,

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Speaker 1: keep in mind, removing a link from Google Search does

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Speaker 1: not delete the source, so that just takes it out

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Speaker 1: of Google Search, which is where ninety nine point nine

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Speaker 1: percent of people are going to find it. If you

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Speaker 1: want to remove the website, you have to contact them

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Speaker 1: to remove that page completely. You can do an opt out. Now,

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Speaker 1: there are paid services like Incogni and Privacy b lots

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Speaker 1: of them out there. They all promise to automate the removals,

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Speaker 1: but these can be pricey. They can cost twenty dollars

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Speaker 1: a month or more, and consumer reports found that not

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Speaker 1: a lot of these services did a very good job.

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Speaker 1: Two that did well were easy opt Outs and Optry,

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Speaker 1: and they charge not very much twenty to forty dollars

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Speaker 1: per year. But keep in mind you probably want to

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 1: I think doing yourself is probably the most cost effective.

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Speaker 1: So easy way to do this just start with the

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Speaker 1: Google results for yourself, Like just start with the top results, right,

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Speaker 1: and you can just submit opt out requests for each

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Speaker 1: of those websites. And if you want to know how

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Speaker 1: to do that, you can literally most of the time,

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Speaker 1: you can just google the name of the website, like

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Speaker 1: if it's white Pages, just say like white Pages opt out,

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Speaker 1: and they kind of put you through this little process

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Speaker 1: get everything out of there. But it does work most

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Speaker 1: of the time. But if you want a directory, the

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Speaker 1: website delete me dot com has a DIY guide for

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Speaker 1: like almost every website you can think of, So you

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Speaker 1: go there, you tap there and it'll tell you the

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Speaker 1: step by step instructions on how to get rid of

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Speaker 1: your data. So that's delete me dot com. And then

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Speaker 1: in the future you might want to consider giving out

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Speaker 1: your information less right. You know, all these websites I

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Speaker 1: call it the data grab. They're going to ask for

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Speaker 1: as much as humanly possible. Like the other day, I

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Speaker 1: was signing up for something. I was like, really you

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Speaker 1: need this?

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Speaker 9: You need that? Do you really need this?

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Speaker 1: And so sometimes if there's not an asterisk next to

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Speaker 1: the field that you're filling out, don't fill it out.

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Speaker 1: Don't give them the extra information. If I'm giving out

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Speaker 1: my data birth, a lot of times I'll just make

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Speaker 1: something up. If it's a random website that doesn't need

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Speaker 1: my data birth, why give them that information. The reason

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Speaker 1: why they're asking for that is because then they go

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Speaker 1: into other databases and kind of form this complete data

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Speaker 1: profile of you by collecting information from a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of places. So secondary email, secondary phone number, cloaked email

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Speaker 1: might work to avoid getting more of this information. I've

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Speaker 1: got this all on the website rich on tech dot TV,

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Speaker 1: and coming up later this hour, we're actually going to

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Speaker 1: talk to the co founder of the website cloaked that

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Speaker 1: helps you come up with like new identities basically to

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Speaker 1: use online to protect your privacy. Let's go to uh

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Speaker 1: Loudy in Long Beach Ludy you're on with.

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Speaker 10: Rich Yeah LBC.

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Speaker 11: Long time listening to the show, first time listening to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow.

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Speaker 10: I want to give my shout out to Leo La

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Speaker 10: pol It give me informed.

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Speaker 11: But now you're in man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's only been two and a half years,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I know it's all good. What's up,

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Speaker 1: Loudy you have?

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Speaker 12: But finally I have a question. Yes, hey, so listen man,

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Speaker 12: I have iPhones, right, and I have a fat mini

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Speaker 12: plan of a two terabyte and it says that it's full.

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Speaker 10: So I'm looking at it and for myself. Right, it

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Speaker 10: says that I am using my drive.

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Speaker 11: I think it's called it.

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Speaker 8: Drive iCloud drive.

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Speaker 1: Yep, okay, it isn't.

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Speaker 8: I'm using two hundred and fifty three gigabytes.

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Speaker 11: However, I don't have anything in it. When I go

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Speaker 11: and review files, there's four files that are like one megabyte.

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Speaker 1: Hmm, okay, So I don't know.

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Speaker 10: Is it is iCloud drive the same as the iCloud.

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily so iCloud drive is part of iCloud. So

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Speaker 1: you're saying how much data do you have? How much

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Speaker 1: storage do you have on iCloud? You said two terabytes.

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Speaker 10: Two terabytes and shared with families.

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Speaker 1: Ah okay, so there that that's probably what's happening here.

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Speaker 1: So my kids are little our little storage goblins, and

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Speaker 1: so what they like to do is have these giant

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Speaker 1: files that take up a ton of storage. So what

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Speaker 1: you have to do is you have to look. Now,

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Speaker 1: are you looking on your phone or your computer for

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Speaker 1: this information?

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Speaker 9: I'm looking on my phone right now.

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Speaker 10: I'm actually on my iplone okay. And then when I

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Speaker 10: look at dry for myself, not the family, it says

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Speaker 10: that I am using two hundred and fifty three gigabytes. Okay,

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Speaker 10: but I don't know where that's coming from because I

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Speaker 10: review the files and four.

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Speaker 1: Files well, when you look at okay, so when you

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Speaker 1: tap there is a section. Now they just redesign this. Actually,

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Speaker 1: Apple made this a little bit easier because, you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like iCloud has you know, the storage has

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Speaker 1: always been sort of a black hole right where you

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Speaker 1: have no idea what's what's in there, what's taking up

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Speaker 1: the storage? They have work to make this just a

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Speaker 1: little bit easier. But there's two things. Number One, Ludie,

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Speaker 1: I would I would look at your backups that could

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Speaker 1: be taking up a lot of the storage. A lot

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Speaker 1: of times people forget to get rid of their old

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Speaker 1: backups of their phone. So that's number one, and so

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Speaker 1: I would look into those. And you can look under

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Speaker 1: your iCloud backups. Like for me, I've got one, two, three, four,

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Speaker 1: five devices that I have backed up, and two of

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Speaker 1: them are it looks like a duplicate my iPad. I

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Speaker 1: have the old one and the new one. So that's

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Speaker 1: number one. Look at your backups. Now, if you're just

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Speaker 1: looking at drive iCloud drive, it says manage storage and

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Speaker 1: you tap that and that should tell you where it's

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Speaker 1: using up the storage, and it says documents and data

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Speaker 1: iPhone storage, So those are the places that you need

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Speaker 1: to look to see what is taking up. Mine says

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Speaker 1: you have seven hundred and fifty seven gigabytes of files

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Speaker 1: stored in iCloud, which I don't even know how I

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Speaker 1: have that much, but the thing, like.

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Speaker 11: I know, I go to manage storage on the iCloud drive. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 11: it's telling me that I have two hundred gig a

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Speaker 11: bye files securely story nightcloud.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, I'm glad they're secure. We can't even find them,

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Speaker 1: they're so secure.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, but I don't know what file of those are.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm Okay. Now, do you get a section

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Speaker 1: underneath where it says show large files, because mine sets

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Speaker 1: review large files and if I tap that, it'll show

865
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Speaker 1: me my largest files in here, so it.

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Speaker 11: Tells me review files.

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Speaker 9: Do you have that?

868
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Speaker 10: Yeah, review file?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Now when you tap that, is there is there

870
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Speaker 1: some big files shown there?

871
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Speaker 10: No, there's there's there's four of them.

872
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 11: Man, they're all the thing is one is.

873
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Speaker 10: Three megabytes?

874
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Well that's a problem. Uh interesting, Okay, Well,

875
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Speaker 1: there's probably some phantom thing taking up your iCloud. I

876
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: wonder if there's like a trash you can empty or

877
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: something like that. Do you have a Mac computer or no?

878
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 11: Yeah, I got a Mac computer.

879
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: So I would go on your Mac computer and see

880
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: if you can go into your iCloud drive from there

881
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: and see what's taken up the storage there if it

882
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: shows you something different, So that's what I would do.

883
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:14,280
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a mystery to me. That's because

884
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: I feel like you should be able to see between

885
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: your phone and your and your actual iCloud drive what's

886
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: taking it up, because that would make the most sense.

887
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: The only other thing I can think of, is there

888
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: are some of these directories that files make, like I

889
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: can see I've got one from pages, I've gotten from numbers, keynote, shortcuts,

890
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: text edit. There might be something in there that's taking

891
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: up a lot of space. But this sounds like sort

892
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: of a mystery, because if you're running up against your

893
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: two terabytes because of this, you know that's a problem.

894
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: You need to be able to clear this stuff out.

895
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: So if you can't figure this out, I would take

896
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: it to the Apple Store and see what they say

897
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,399
Speaker 1: and just say, hey, look, you know this is telling

898
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Speaker 1: me I'm up against my cloud storage. I don't understand

899
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: what's taking up all the storage When I'm going into

900
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 1: my iCloud drive and there's nothing in there, I mean mine,

901
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: I see seven hundred and fifty eight gigs, but I

902
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: can see what's taking up that info or taking up

903
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: that storage. And then there's also app syncing to iCloud drive,

904
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Speaker 1: which I have three of them, Books, Obsidian, and WhatsApp,

905
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: So those could be a problem. But the couple places

906
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: you know iCloud storage is is really tricky, I think,

907
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: and it still is. It's not as straightforward as it

908
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: should be. But I would check check those iCloud backups

909
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: for sure, Ludi and uh and if you can't figure

910
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: out what's going on in this drive, then you kind

911
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: you kind of have to bring into the Apple store

912
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: and see what they say. Eighty eight rich one oh

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

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Speaker 1: I made the joke the other day on TV that

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Speaker 1: when I retire, I'm going to finally take the time

916
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Speaker 1: to organize my photos, my cloud drive, and you know

917
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: everything else that's taking up storage in the cloud because

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Speaker 1: it's like a full time job. It's like nobody has

919
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: the time to figure this stuff out. You still won't

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Speaker 1: do it. I still won't do it, And then I

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Speaker 1: said it, then I'll travel probably be too late by then.

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Speaker 1: Eight to eight rich one on one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero. I guess I'm saying,

924
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Speaker 1: don't feel so bad if your cloud storage is a mess,

925
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Speaker 1: because everyone's is. Welcome back to rich on Tech eighty

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Speaker 1: eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. The website rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV. Kyle writes in and says, hey, rich,

929
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Speaker 1: is there a way for an iPhone to automatically respond

930
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: to all incoming text messages with a custom message twenty

931
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Speaker 1: four hours a day. I've looked around and only found

932
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Speaker 1: options for things like driving mode or customer applies to

933
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Speaker 1: certain contacts, but nothing universal. Kyle, Kyle, You're right. There

934
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Speaker 1: is no way to auto reply to all texts at

935
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Speaker 1: all times, as far as I know. The closest hack

936
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Speaker 1: I've found is to turn on the driving mode. And

937
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: when you have that on, let's see what's it actually called.

938
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: Hold on? It's called yeah, driving, So driving can auto respond,

939
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: but only I think to your contacts, your favorites, or

940
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: a combination of folks. It's not everyone. So this is

941
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 1: a sort of an Apple thing. It's part of their

942
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 1: operating system. I'm not sure why they don't allow that,

943
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: but they did add text message scheduling recently, so that's

944
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: a good good sign. But yeah, it would be nice

945
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: because sometimes when I'm using like a different phone, like

946
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: a test phone, I want to like text everyone, say hey,

947
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: if this is important, you know, call me here or whatever.

948
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 1: And the only way I can do it is with contacts,

949
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: which I guess is fine. You know, maybe maybe it's

950
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: the security things they don't want you like texting. You know,

951
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: if some spammer gets a hold of your number and

952
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: then they get a spam you know, they get a

953
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: reply that says, hey, I'm currently on the beach in Miami,

954
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: like call me here, I'm staying at this place whatever,

955
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So sorry, Kyle, doesn't doesn't

956
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: work right now. You might have seen the headlines that

957
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: things are changing over at Zel. They are shutting down

958
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: their standalone app. Oh my gosh, nobody uses the standalone

959
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: Zel app. Okay, let's be honest. So all those headlines

960
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: were there to get you to click and read and go,

961
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's already the way I'm using it. So

962
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 1: starting now, I guess Zell will no longer support sending

963
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: or receiving money through the app if you were using

964
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: the app, if you are using your bank, your bank

965
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: account app, it's all good. You're all fine, So no

966
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: action necessary. Over twenty two hundred banks and credit unions

967
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: support Zell directly. I guess they thought they were going

968
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 1: to have an app that was a competitor to like

969
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: the paypals of the world and the cash apps and

970
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: the venmos. But then they realized that people were just

971
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,359
Speaker 1: using this through their bank and that was the easiest way,

972
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: So just two percent of transactions were happening through the

973
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: standalone app. So you can view your old payment history

974
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: in the app until August eleventh, so if you need

975
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: anything in there, be sure to download it. But going forward,

976
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: the app will still be there. It's just going to

977
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: focus on fraud education and how to get it through

978
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 1: your bank. So once again, if you're using Zel through

979
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: your bank, you don't need to change a thing. And

980
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: people like Zel because it's immediate, and it's free and

981
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: it's through your bank. And this is really an example

982
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,280
Speaker 1: of the big banks coming together to kind of band

983
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: against Venmo and all these other payment services. Now, I

984
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: think Zell is great when it works. It is a

985
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: little scarier than these other apps because there's really no recourse,

986
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: like the money's hopping from your account directly to someone

987
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: else's account. So I've noticed there's a lot of security

988
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 1: precautions when you're sending money through Zell. But when it

989
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 1: works and you've got a trusted person on the other end,

990
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: it's it's great because it's free. So just just beware

991
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 1: the you know, the the implications of sending money like

992
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: it's it's like a freeway from your bank account to theirs,

993
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,959
Speaker 1: so be just be aware of that. All right, let's

994
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 1: go to let's see here, let's go to Rob in

995
00:50:58,080 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Rob, you're on with Rich.

996
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 8: Hi.

997
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 13: How are you doing.

998
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic.

999
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 12: My question is.

1000
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 8: I have Outlook hot Mail, and I'm people on getting

1001
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 8: locked out because there's too many attempts. So it's you know,

1002
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 8: my Microsoft account is linked through it, and I know

1003
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 8: that I look on my y up for my account

1004
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 8: and it shows like one hundred attempts a day for

1005
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:36,760
Speaker 8: my Microsoft account.

1006
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a common This is clearly a common

1007
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: thing that's happening, because it happened to me. I mentioned

1008
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: it my newsletter. I got a bunch of emails about it.

1009
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: Clearly there's a bunch of people trying to log into

1010
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: Microsoft accounts all day long. So are they actually getting

1011
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: into your account?

1012
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 8: Well I'm not sure, but I think so.

1013
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: But anyway, Okay, well you know.

1014
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 8: About the twenty four hours lockout.

1015
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,399
Speaker 1: Okay, here here's what I recommend, rob.

1016
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 13: Getting more and.

1017
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 8: More recent as far as like, because I guess I'm

1018
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 8: getting more attempts, so it's getting kind of aggregating that

1019
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 8: I gotta wait, like twenty four hours because the idiots

1020
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 8: are trying to log into my account and it's not.

1021
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: Me, right, So I hear you, Okay, Well here here's

1022
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: what I recommend to fix this. Okay, So number one,

1023
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: I has three things to do. Number one, you've got

1024
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 1: to change your password. So that's number one. Change your password.

1025
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: Make sure it's something that is strong, unique at least

1026
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: fourteen characters. Use a password generator. You got to turn

1027
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 1: on two factor authentication. Turn on two factor authentication. Use

1028
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: an app if you can. The email thing is with

1029
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: the code is okay. With the app is much better.

1030
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 1: And then I want you to sign out everywhere so

1031
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: you can go to Microsoft. I will put the link

1032
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: on the website rich on tech dot tv. But basically,

1033
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: once you sign into your micro Soft account, you got

1034
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: to sign into your Advanced Security options on your Microsoft

1035
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: Account Security dashboard and then you scroll down and it

1036
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:12,439
Speaker 1: says sign out everywhere. Once you sign out everywhere, sign

1037
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: in on just the one place where you want to

1038
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: access this account with your new password, and hopefully that

1039
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: should help this. But you know, all those loggin attempts,

1040
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: this same exact thing happened to my account, and it

1041
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: was really annoying. When I found that, and I did

1042
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 1: go in and change my password, so you can check

1043
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,839
Speaker 1: for that as well. Let's say I'm trying to find

1044
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: the link I gave out. It's on my newsletter from

1045
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: last week eight and eight rich one on one eight

1046
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

1047
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll talk about protecting your personal information online.

1048
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging

1049
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one

1050
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two

1051
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,879
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Thanks for joining me on the show.

1052
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: Appreciate you being here. We've got a lot of good

1053
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: information coming your way. Rich on tech dot tv is

1054
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: the website if you want links to anything I talk about. Uh,

1055
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: this should be an eye opening conversation. Cloak to co

1056
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: founder and CEO Arjun Botnager is here to join me.

1057
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: Thanks for being here, of course, thanks for having me Rich.

1058
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: So I called this number, what is it? Tell me

1059
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: what the number is? Eight five five?

1060
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 9: Yeah, eight five five seven five two five six two.

1061
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: Five Okay, So I call that and that's like it

1062
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: translates into seven seven five cloak or something.

1063
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 9: Yeah, say eight five five seven five cloak.

1064
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, as soon as you call that number, you'll

1065
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 1: be surprised because agreed to by name, and then it

1066
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: proceeds to tell you your social Security number, your address,

1067
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: and all kinds of personal information. You go, wait a second,

1068
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: what is happening here? And it's all kind of an

1069
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: example of just how much information is floating around on

1070
00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: the internet about you.

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00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 9: Right, that's absolutely right.

1072
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 14: There's so much information that we willingly give out and

1073
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 14: what companies and corporations and even governments use to tie.

1074
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 9: Back to you on around everything.

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00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: So I always tell people like, okay, let's say you

1076
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store. You give them your phone number.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, no, big deal, that's just my phone number.

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Speaker 1: They go in and use that phone number to find

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Speaker 1: every other piece of data about you.

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Speaker 7: Is that right?

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00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 9: So exactly right.

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Speaker 14: The grocery store might be doing that. But really it's

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00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 14: not always everyone's the bad guy. We always find that

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00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 14: it might be benign or good that a company's using

1085
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 14: your information, it might be malicious. The problem is that

1086
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 14: even if someone's good, if they're hacked, compromised, or.

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Speaker 9: Breached, the problem ends up being the same. So it's

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Speaker 9: exactly right.

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Speaker 14: The phone number, or any piece of data, whether it's

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Speaker 14: for good or bad, gets aggregated, collected, and eventually it

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Speaker 14: is either to target you, compromise.

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Speaker 1: You, or watch you. So you run a website called Cloaked.

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Speaker 1: Explain what that does. What's your idea to fight all this?

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00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 14: Yeah, so, for the longest time, we've always believed, from

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00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 14: the government to corporations to what we're trained is that

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00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:10,320
Speaker 14: let companies keep your information safe. And we all know

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00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,280
Speaker 14: that's a funny concept because there's a breach every single

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00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 14: day that impact millions, if not a billion, people worldwide

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Speaker 14: when their data is exposed. So what we really indexed

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00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 14: on is how can we as individuals be in control

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00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 14: of our own data.

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Speaker 9: So that's what we do at cloat.

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00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 14: We give you the power to actually think about how

1104
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 14: is my identity being out there?

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00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 9: What's exposed? And we help you by cleaning up your

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00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 9: past and protecting your future.

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00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:39,439
Speaker 14: And that's through cleaning your data footprint, actually deleting data,

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00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 14: removing it and then masking your email, phone number, passwords,

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00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 14: soon even credit card and address with new information that

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00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 14: doesn't tie back to you.

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00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 1: So this is the concept of data poisoning. Explain that.

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00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 14: Yeah, so data poisoning is a fairly new concept. People

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00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 14: have talked about it for a while. But your single

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00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:01,439
Speaker 14: data point, for example, why when you call that phone

1115
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 14: number it works is because you give up that piece

1116
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:08,280
Speaker 14: of data to both the irs and dominos. And because

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00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 14: that one data point never really changes your whole life.

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00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,879
Speaker 14: You might have one to two phone numbers, maybe two

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00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 14: to three email addresses, it's very easy to target you.

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Speaker 14: So data poisoning is this idea that what if one

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00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 14: data point is confusing, it doesn't.

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00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 9: People can't figure out who is it or what is it?

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00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 9: How do you tie back to it?

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Speaker 14: So what with Cloak we try to introduce is that

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Speaker 14: the phone numbers you generate, the emails, the passwords, credit cards,

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Speaker 14: that information is distinct, unique per website or even per person.

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Speaker 14: But we also think about, well, what if Rich and

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Speaker 14: I each generate a Cloak phone number and it's actually

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Speaker 14: the same number. You might use it for best Buy,

1130
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Speaker 14: I might use it for Target. But when it's stolen, compromised,

1131
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 14: or even packaged and sold, it's impossible to tell whether

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Speaker 14: that's our general Rich, and that's the technology you've developed

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Speaker 14: to make it very hard to figure out who's who.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting and what about I mean, we know

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00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: AI is coming on board and people are saying, look,

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00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: AI is going to make it so much easier for

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00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: people to target you and to put this information together.

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00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: Is that happening.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, So this is where AI enabled threats have grown

1140
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 14: over three hundred percent in the last year alone, and

1141
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 14: so it's getting worse and worse.

1142
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 9: And you might see this if you.

1143
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 14: Look at a phishing text that says, and this is

1144
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 14: a growing one, Hey, we know you shop at this

1145
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 14: local Starbucks, we know where you live, or I know

1146
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 14: some stuff about where you walk every day. Now those

1147
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 14: aren't actually necessarily humans typing all these messages out. We

1148
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 14: leverage technology or even AI to combine a lot of

1149
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 14: this data, use AI to kind of figure out the

1150
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 14: pattern where your location is, and craft messages and these

1151
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 14: are all what scammers or fishers or hackers try to do.

1152
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 14: Craft messages automatically using AI that make it feel very

1153
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 14: per And that's the biggest risk vector going forward is

1154
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 14: that people's systems they're getting more secure, But the biggest

1155
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 14: vulnerability are people. And it's whether it's employees and businesses

1156
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 14: or us as customers. The way we act and enabled

1157
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Speaker 14: and leverage technology.

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00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 1: I always say that the scammers sort of take something

1159
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: that we know, like we've all gotten that text from

1160
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: our bank that says, hey, did you just make a

1161
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: purchase here? And you know press one or a reply

1162
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: one if you did, or why or and and you know,

1163
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: they take that and they kind of spin it and

1164
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: they send us that and you're like, wait, is this

1165
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: for my bank or not? And the next thing you know,

1166
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: you're getting scammed.

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Speaker 9: That's exactly right.

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00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 14: And that's where the threats and the vectors are trying

1169
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 14: to make it so that you believe it's true, and

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Speaker 14: the moment you believe it's true, it's all over. I

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Speaker 14: think I've actually given this an example. I think you've

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Speaker 14: already talked about it. There's this website Have I Been Boned?

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00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 14: And the author that just recently got compromised because of

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00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 14: a very specific trusting look a message.

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Speaker 9: That they ended up clicking and following through and logging in.

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Speaker 15: Now.

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Speaker 1: I love Troy, he was on this show, but I mean, ah,

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Speaker 1: and I get it, this can happen to anyone, but

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Speaker 1: like I really I'm surprised that that happened to him.

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01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I always said he was tired from you know,

1181
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: jet Lag and all this stuff. But like, I can't

1182
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Speaker 1: believe that he his password manager didn't fill in the

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01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: site and then he proceeded to fill it in manually

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01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: and then put the one time code in. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh my.

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Speaker 14: Gosh, it's I can't understand how it happens and happens

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01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 14: to the best of us. But this is the point

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01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 14: that Troy kind of revealed, was that things there were

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Speaker 14: flags along the way. The pass manager didn't flag. The

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Speaker 14: link is a little suspicious, but when you're tired, it happens.

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Speaker 14: I think this is where kind of the hygiene and

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Speaker 14: how we operate for me e, in our own staff,

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01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 14: we just don't click links in emails et cetera. Like

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01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 14: there's a little bit of homework, et cetera, and the

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Speaker 14: way we operate before we click anything. Even if the

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Speaker 14: link says, hey, there's something wrong, well, we open a

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Speaker 14: new tab and go to it ourselves. Yeah, there's no

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01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 14: reason to click the link in the email. You can

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Speaker 14: always go to the website directly and figure out the alert.

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Speaker 1: So what is your advice for consumers? I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: you'd love if everyone's signed up for your website and

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01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: use your services beyond that? What do you think?

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Speaker 8: I mean?

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01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 1: You know, what's your advice for consumers? How do we

1205
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 1: deal with this?

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Speaker 9: So I say it's a couple of different problems.

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Speaker 14: Actually, on hand, I think there's the idea of our

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01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 14: own personal safety scams, fishing, and also like being annoyed

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01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 14: and frustrated with people turning bombarda. So I look at

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01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 14: as a problem of safety, a problem of your own

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01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 14: spam being annoyed.

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Speaker 9: And a problem of personal privacy.

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01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 14: And the way I look at is the first simplest

1214
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 14: thing I tell people start saying no. And what that

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01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 14: means is that between apps that ask for all these

1216
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 14: permissions like I never give my contact permissions, don't give

1217
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 14: up every contact you own, don't give up location permissions

1218
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 14: because you don't have to. And this is where that

1219
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 14: mindset of we're trained to keep saying yes start hitting

1220
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Speaker 14: to and you'd be surprised. Similarly, at restaurants and Sapphora whichever,

1221
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 14: they hey, can you give me a phone number? You

1222
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 14: give me your email? I say no, I don't have

1223
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 14: to give the information, and they say, oh, no, big deal,

1224
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 14: no worries. But and you'll realize you don't have to

1225
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 14: give up. The culture of sharing is that first part,

1226
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Speaker 14: and then.

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Speaker 1: Almost before you proceed to the next part. I was

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01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 1: at a new place. This place just opened nearby. I went,

1229
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:25,439
Speaker 1: I visited. It was a new store, and they're like, okay,

1230
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: let's get your email address for like, you know, promotions

1231
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: and this and that. And I actually felt bad like

1232
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: being like, no, I don't want to give that. And

1233
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Speaker 1: so I did give my email even though I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to, and they proceeded to email me every single

1235
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: day after that. I was like ah, but because it

1236
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: was a human that was like standing there, it's like

1237
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 1: just this routine thing like okay, now give me your emails.

1238
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: You can get those great offer codes, and you know,

1239
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: I need to come up with a fake email or

1240
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: a you know, spam email for future things like that.

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Speaker 9: Well that's kind of leading to so I didn't want

1242
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 9: to get gives a part. This is what Cloak does.

1243
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 14: Like we one of the big things that a lot

1244
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 14: of companies in our sector do is they say stop

1245
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 14: doing this or don't give any email address. I think

1246
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 14: the culture of saying no is the first step. But

1247
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 14: the part too is we want you to keep you

1248
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 14: want to get promotions and this is where for Cloak,

1249
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 14: what we thought about is we'll make a unique email

1250
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 14: for that local coffee shop. I personally bought something for

1251
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 14: my partner recently, and I get six emails a day,

1252
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 14: but all goes to a specific Cloak email you for

1253
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 14: that website, So I never look at it doesn't matter.

1254
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 14: But when I need to check on order confirmation CE,

1255
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 14: I can go right to that single email address and

1256
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 14: check it. And that's where we start to change the behavior.

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01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 14: Where it's step one is stopping, but step two is

1258
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 14: changing the way you.

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Speaker 1: Share Okay, interesting stuff. I mean I I yeah, I

1260
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: totally agree with the idea of coming up, Like I

1261
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: have a Google Voice number two, which I use sometimes,

1262
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: But then I feel bad when I give people that

1263
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:54,959
Speaker 1: number because I'm like, well, they're you know I'm giving

1264
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:57,479
Speaker 1: It's just it's this weird It's almost like this human

1265
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 1: thing where you feel almost like you're being deceitful by

1266
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: giving out something that protects you. And do you find

1267
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: that and do people react like that? Like I that's

1268
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: the way I feel, I think even.

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Speaker 9: For me, since people know I do Cloak, et cetera.

1270
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Speaker 14: When I give out a phone number I haven't given

1271
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 14: my personal phone number since twenty twenty one when I

1272
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 14: started the company, and it's been it's been.

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01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 9: A kind of interesting experience.

1274
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 14: People say, oh, how you giving me a Cloak number,

1275
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 14: and I think, but I think the idea is that

1276
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 14: at least what we're trying to enable is that it's

1277
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 14: not a throwaway or burner. When I give a Cloak

1278
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 14: number out, I can lock it to just you, so

1279
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 14: that number is just between us. So when I get

1280
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 14: the textra call, I know it's just you. It's not spoofed, spam,

1281
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 14: et cetera. So I try to position is like, this

1282
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 14: is meant to be more personal. When I'm giving a

1283
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 14: number out to the shake shack or a restaurant, I

1284
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 14: was like, well, I'm only hearing from that one entity.

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01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,760
Speaker 9: And yes, it takes a little bit of a cultural

1286
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 9: shift and change, but I.

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Speaker 14: What I've realized is yes, when people might react and say,

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01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 14: oh are you hiding, But the moment you do it

1289
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 14: once or twice, it doesn't feel so bad. And I

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Speaker 14: think that's where we start to really push. You've become

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Speaker 1: Don't ever give your email address when you're shopping for

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Speaker 1: And you know two years in, hey, you're still looking

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Speaker 1: years ago. What's happening here? They're just going through those lists?

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Welcome back to rich on tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at

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Speaker 1: uh Francis in Irvinest, Florida. You're on with Richo.

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Speaker 7: Hello, rich how are you?

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Speaker 1: I am doing fantastic. How are you today?

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Speaker 7: I'm not too bad other than my computer. I did

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Speaker 7: tell me, Hey, I don't I didn't start correctly.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, that sounds like me on a cold day.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's hard to put your feet on the floor

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Speaker 7: when you're sleeping.

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Speaker 8: There you go.

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Speaker 1: So what's the problem.

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Speaker 7: Well, I got this blue screen of death and it

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Speaker 7: says automatically pair your PC did not start correctly. Press

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Speaker 7: restart to research your PT which can sometimes fix the problem.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that's the operative word. Uh oh did this? Sometimes not?

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Speaker 7: You can also press advanced options. I'll tell you something

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Speaker 7: which nothing worked.

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Speaker 1: Nothing's working?

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Speaker 7: Yes, I'm just going The blue screen just stayed there?

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Speaker 11: And so.

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Speaker 1: Does does your computer make any sound?

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Speaker 11: No?

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Speaker 1: Okay? And have you did you change anything on your

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Speaker 1: computer before this happened.

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Speaker 7: No, well I did turned it off and then the

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Speaker 7: next day I turned it on continue and that's what

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Speaker 7: it came up.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, are you is your computer backed up?

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Speaker 7: Backed up? In which way?

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Speaker 1: Like do you have a you know, your important files somewhere?

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Speaker 7: Well, it wasn't really necessary. It's not I don't have

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Speaker 7: much in my computer.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it's more it's more just getting the computer

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Speaker 1: working again. Got it?

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Speaker 16: Well?

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Speaker 1: The I mean, there are a bunch of things you

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Speaker 1: can try to do. It sounds like you tried to

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Speaker 1: do them with the the advanced startup options and all

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Speaker 1: the repair stuff. But I think have you tried to

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Speaker 1: restart this into safe mode.

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Speaker 7: State?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So that's what I would try as the last

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Speaker 1: resort is see if you can do safe mode on

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Speaker 1: this computer? Is this what? What version of Windows?

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Speaker 10: Is this?

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Speaker 7: Windows?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So Windows ten? H you gotta I gotta look

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Speaker 1: up the way to do that. But there's there's basically

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Speaker 1: a key that you can let's see Windows ten. Let's

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Speaker 1: see boot into safe mode. So that's what you want

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Speaker 1: to look into. And so if you can boot into

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Speaker 1: safe mode, that will start your computer up without a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of things running. So maybe there's something that's

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Speaker 1: like messing with your computer when it when it turns on,

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Speaker 1: and that's what's causing this screen of death. Now, I

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Speaker 1: think the problem it may be more than that, because

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Speaker 1: if you're getting if you're not getting anything to happen

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Speaker 1: on this computer, I don't know if it's like starting

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Speaker 1: up and then giving you this screen, or if it's

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Speaker 1: not starting up at all, which one do you think

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Speaker 1: it is?

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Speaker 7: Well, it starts up and then gives me the screen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it seems like your computer's like going through

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Speaker 1: some motions and then it's like now we can't yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: So then safe mode may help because it may be

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Speaker 1: something you know. It could be that one of your

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Speaker 1: apps or one of your drivers or something got an

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Speaker 1: update that just does not agree with this system. So

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Speaker 1: that is that's kind of like the main thing that

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Speaker 1: you know could be causing this, I hope. But it

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Speaker 1: looks like you can press the F four key to

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Speaker 1: start in safe mode when your computer starting up. I

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Speaker 1: would check that on just look in your just look

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Speaker 1: in and like Google to see for your specific system.

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Speaker 1: I think that's it. But once you start in safe mode,

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Speaker 1: that basically only starts up the most basic parts of Windows.

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Speaker 1: So it's not going to run every driver, it's not

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Speaker 1: going to run everything, all the apps, all the things

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Speaker 1: that automatically turn on it log in, like, all those

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Speaker 1: things are not going to start. So it's just the

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Speaker 1: base of the operating system. So that if that works,

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Speaker 1: if the operating system comes up, that may fix it

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Speaker 1: in itself, Like it may start up and like repair

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Speaker 1: whatever it needs to do, and then you can restart

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Speaker 1: into regular mode. But if it doesn't, you know, if

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Speaker 1: it doesn't even come up even with the safe mode,

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Speaker 1: then you have a bigger problem. And then if that's

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Speaker 1: if that's the problem, then I would probably look into

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Speaker 1: just kind of if you said, your your files and

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Speaker 1: things are good, you don't have a you know, you

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Speaker 1: don't need to back up whatever. You can just kind

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Speaker 1: of start this computer. I hate to say this, but

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Speaker 1: just kind of start it fresh, like reset the PC

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Speaker 1: and that'll reinstall Windows completely and then it'll start up

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Speaker 1: because obviously then it's a fresh computer at that point.

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Speaker 1: But that is a frustrating thing to happen. It's tough

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Speaker 1: to tell exactly what's going on without seeing it. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to spend money and bring it to

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Speaker 1: a professional. That may help as a last resort if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to do this yourself. But you know,

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Speaker 1: if you don't care, if you're you know, if you

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Speaker 1: can just get this thing and you know, reinstall Windows yourself,

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Speaker 1: that will be the cheapest option. And then you start fresh.

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Speaker 1: And the nice thing about that is, you know all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that you had on there, all the things

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Speaker 1: you collected, you know, a little fragments of programs and stuff.

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Speaker 1: You will notice that your computer will feel new again.

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Speaker 1: So I guess that's the looking on the bright side

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Speaker 1: of your computer completely crashing and not working anymore. But again,

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Speaker 1: try the safe mode and then if that doesn't work,

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Speaker 1: you may want to bring it to professional see if

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Speaker 1: they can figure out what's going on, and if they can't,

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Speaker 1: or if you just want to reset your computer completely,

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Speaker 1: that will be the cheapest option. But the you will

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Speaker 1: have to reinstall everything again, all your programs, all your apps,

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Speaker 1: your browser, just everything will have to be put back

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Speaker 1: on that computer because it will be like new. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call, appreciate it. Francis eight eight eight rich

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Speaker 1: four one zero one I'll tell you about a smart watch.

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Speaker 1: I like, that's just eighty dollars coming up. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology. Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight

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Speaker 1: lines are loaded, So I don't know what that means.

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Speaker 1: Can people not? You just got a busy signal? Oh

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Speaker 1: well you can try calling if someone drops off. I

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Speaker 1: I know some of you have been waiting for a while,

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Speaker 1: we can. But you know, this show is a balance

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Speaker 1: of things, right, Like I try to get through some

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Speaker 1: of the information that I need. You know, I always

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Speaker 1: know about, So I always try to get that plus

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Speaker 1: your questions, your emails, your tweets. I mean, there's so

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Speaker 1: much going on, Jas writes in on Twitter. Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I've got one terabyte on one drive. In March, I

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Speaker 1: spent about an hour each day cleaning it up. I

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Speaker 1: three months, I transfer my camera uploads from dropbox to

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Speaker 1: one drive. Now I will delete pictures I don't want

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Speaker 8: So.

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Speaker 1: It's all on the website usually about twenty dollars a month,

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Speaker 1: so basically forty dollars value here. And you know it'll

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Speaker 1: probably make you more efficient during the finals season. So

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Speaker 1: I'll put the link rich on tech dot tv to

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Speaker 1: access that. And then this little smart watch I've been

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Speaker 1: testing from a company called a maze Fit. It's called

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Speaker 1: the BIP six and it's just eighty dollars and I

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Speaker 1: got to say, very very impressed. So this kind of

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Speaker 1: looks like an Apple watch and it does all the

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Speaker 1: things you need. It's got a nice display, it's really bright.

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Speaker 1: You can read it in almost any lighting. Except I

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Speaker 1: noticed with my polarized sunglasses on, which kind of bugs

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Speaker 1: me because that's what I wear all the time. Tracks

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Speaker 1: your heart rate, your sleep, blood oxygen, stress, heart rate variability,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty workout modes. Let's see. It even

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Speaker 1: tracks twenty five workouts automatically, you know, like if you

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Speaker 1: start a run or something. It's got maps on it.

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Speaker 1: Two week battery life. Battery life on this thing is

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Speaker 1: a champ good water resistance. It's got AI built in

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Speaker 1: so you can ask it questions and things like that.

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Speaker 1: No subscription, and I even love the food tracking on

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Speaker 1: the app. It's called ZEP. You can take a picture

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Speaker 1: of your food and it basically gives you all the

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Speaker 1: macros and whatever you're trying to track. Or you can

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Speaker 1: just type in what you ate and'll it'll parse it

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Speaker 1: all out. It's really really cool. So anyway, very impressive.

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Speaker 1: This is not an iPhone, This is not an Apple watch,

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Speaker 1: it's not an Android watch. It doesn't run like any

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Speaker 1: of the standard operating system. This is their own operating system,

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Speaker 1: so you don't have access to third party apps, but

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Speaker 1: pretty much everything you need is built in. So if

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01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:40,240
Speaker 1: you are just looking for a basic smart watch that

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01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: does all the little things you need at a really

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01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:45,800
Speaker 1: good price eighty dollars. I would check this out a

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01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:49,280
Speaker 1: maze fit bipsix. The only thing is, if you're gonna

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01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 1: listen to music on this, there's no cellular you would

1508
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: have to transfer MP three's manually through the app, which

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01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 1: you can do. But there again, there's no third party apps.

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01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:00,880
Speaker 1: You're not gonna find like Spotify, iHeartRadio, know, all those

1511
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 1: things you're not gonna be on here. You gotta you know,

1512
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:06,839
Speaker 1: bring your own music. I guess. Anyway, it's available now Amazon.

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01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 1: I'll have my video review on KTLA channel five and

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01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: my website rich on Tech on Monday. Uh, let's go

1515
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: to let's see here. We've got my special guest here,

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01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:22,040
Speaker 1: Parker Parker saw the Minecraft movie. This is my son,

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01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:23,679
Speaker 1: Parker Parker. Welcome to the show.

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01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 13: Hello, thank you for having me.

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01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:30,080
Speaker 1: Dad, Hey tell me about you're a big Minecraft fan.

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01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: So what did you think of the movie?

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01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 13: I thought the movie was pretty good. I actually liked it.

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01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 13: I thought the you know, the actors were very well

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01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 13: picked played, the scenes were well made. It was actually uh,

1524
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 13: you know, there were some it was like kind of

1525
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 13: like funny. That's what I really liked about it.

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01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:54,360
Speaker 1: So it's a comedy. So you got Jason Momoa.

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01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 13: It was a comedy for sure.

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01:16:56,320 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 1: Jack Black, Emma Myers, Jennifer Coolidge, who you probably remember

1529
01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 1: as the character in American Pie from back in the day.

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01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: This is getting a forty eight percent of Rotten Tomatoes,

1531
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: So some people are liking it, some people are not

1532
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: liking it.

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01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:16,040
Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't agree with the forty eight percent ron tomatoes.

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01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 13: I think a lot of the people that like, you know,

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01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 13: the people that rate that, I don't think they probably

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01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 13: played Minecraft.

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01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: They have, but old reviewers, they don't know, they don't

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01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: know the real the games the kids are playing.

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01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 13: Yeah, but I mean, I do agree that the plot

1540
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:36,560
Speaker 13: isn't that well made. I think the plot had a

1541
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 13: lot more potential, for sure. You know, I was talking

1542
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 13: about that my friends. I was talking about that. I

1543
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:44,880
Speaker 13: was looking online and everything, and I don't And I

1544
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,240
Speaker 13: also agree, I don't think the plot is the best.

1545
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:49,720
Speaker 13: But I'm hoping if they do make a sequel, the

1546
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:51,640
Speaker 13: plot would be much better, which I think they have

1547
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 13: a huge opportunity for. But yeah, like I said, the

1548
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:59,120
Speaker 13: actors were I think the actors were actually well picked

1549
01:17:59,240 --> 01:18:01,880
Speaker 13: and a lot of people were upset that it was

1550
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:05,559
Speaker 13: live action, which you know, I was. I was upset

1551
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 13: at first, but then an action was like, Oh, actually

1552
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:09,519
Speaker 13: I think it would It's cool to have live action.

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01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 13: I don't think animated would have been the best.

1554
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: Were there creepers in this Yeah?

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01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 7: There were?

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01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, hostile mobs yep.

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01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1558
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 13: And if you if you don't know what Minecraft is,

1559
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,040
Speaker 13: it's basically a game where you survive, you can build

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01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:29,600
Speaker 13: whatever you want. Uh, And they just made a movie and.

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01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 1: It's yeah, any griefers in the game in the movie

1562
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: creepers griefers? Oh no, a player who intentionally damages other players, builds,

1563
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 1: or causes problems. I feel like you and your brother,

1564
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: you guys do that to each other.

1565
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 2: I feel like you're literally just looking up Minecraft terms

1566
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,760
Speaker 2: right now on a computer and you're asking your son

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01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 2: about these random Minecraft.

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01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:57,880
Speaker 1: That's exactly what we're doing. I know there's probably a

1569
01:18:57,920 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 1: pick act in the in the movie.

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01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:01,880
Speaker 9: Really do so? Yeah?

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01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:02,519
Speaker 8: I really?

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01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 13: I think they incorporated a lot of stuff from Minecraft,

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01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:09,000
Speaker 13: which I really liked. And you know, if you're thinking, oh,

1574
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 13: do I need to play Minecraft to watch the movie,

1575
01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 13: you absolutely do not.

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01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: Oh you don't.

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01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 13: Minecraft will make it better. I think you'll understand it

1578
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 13: a little more. But I like my mom when she

1579
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:25,120
Speaker 13: watched it, she didn't really play Minecraft that much, and

1580
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:28,400
Speaker 13: she still understood it. But you know, okay, if you

1581
01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 13: do play Minecraft, you'll enjoy it.

1582
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: Do you wait for streaming or do you see it

1583
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: in the movie theater?

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01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 13: That's a big question I was wondering. So I said,

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01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 13: if you know, you're a huge Minecraft and you're playing

1586
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,560
Speaker 13: for a while but don't know if it's really worth it,

1587
01:19:41,840 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 13: I could go to the theaters. You know, it'll be

1588
01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 13: a fun experience. You know, the audience will probably you know,

1589
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 13: people that are going or you want to go, and

1590
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 13: you'll have good laugh. If you don't, you know, you

1591
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 13: play Minecraft, you don't really you know, like it's like

1592
01:19:56,120 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 13: I saw the Minecraft movie just Waittil Comes Home. Yeah,

1593
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:01,799
Speaker 13: it really it depends you know the price and everything.

1594
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 13: But I think if you really like Minecraft, go to

1595
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 13: the movies. I think it was actually a great experience.

1596
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:09,640
Speaker 1: All right. And if look and if you don't like it,

1597
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 1: Mom and Dad just spent like eighty bucks, no big

1598
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:15,599
Speaker 1: deal for like two tickets at least in LA. All Right, Parker,

1599
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: thanks for calling in. Appreciate it.

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01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:18,120
Speaker 13: Okay, yeah, I love you.

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01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 1: Love you too.

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01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:19,840
Speaker 8: Uh y.

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01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: That's my son Parker with his review of Minecraft, Minecraft

1604
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:28,120
Speaker 1: the movie. You know, my kids gave up roadblocks in

1605
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:31,679
Speaker 1: the house and it's been kind of a better place,

1606
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:33,760
Speaker 1: but now my kid wants to go back to it,

1607
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 1: So I don't know. It's you know, it's tough every

1608
01:20:36,720 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 1: every kid handles these video games differently, right, and even adults.

1609
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's just in general anything, you know, it's

1610
01:20:42,360 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 1: like it's like, got to use moderation with all this stuff.

1611
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 1: All right, do we have time for a question before

1612
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,919
Speaker 1: we go to break? Quick one? Okay, quick one? Jacqueline

1613
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:51,719
Speaker 1: and Michigan. What's your question?

1614
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 11: Hi?

1615
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 17: Dare can you hear me?

1616
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 6: All right?

1617
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 11: Yes?

1618
01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 17: Either, Thank you so much for all you do I have.

1619
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:02,600
Speaker 17: I had an iPhone thirteen and I.

1620
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:05,560
Speaker 18: Switched services, so I went from T Mobile to Exfinity,

1621
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 18: and when they transferred all the data from the iPhone

1622
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 18: to the Android, none of my photos transferred over, no videos,

1623
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:13,200
Speaker 18: no photos, nothing.

1624
01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 17: So I went back to the Exfinity store and said, hey,

1625
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:17,639
Speaker 17: can you help me? And they said, no, we've done

1626
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 17: everything we can.

1627
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 11: You're on your own, right.

1628
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 9: Oh boo wow?

1629
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:26,000
Speaker 1: That usually okay. So you want to transfer, you want

1630
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 1: to transfer your stuff? Okay, So I would say phone thirteen, okay.

1631
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 1: So I would say, let's see okay, pixel has on

1632
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: its own app, so you want okay. I think the

1633
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:38,599
Speaker 1: easiest way to do this would maybe be to download

1634
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:41,679
Speaker 1: Google Photos and let it upload all of the pictures.

1635
01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:43,679
Speaker 1: Do you have more than like fifteen gigs of pictures?

1636
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 15: Oh?

1637
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 17: I don't know how much I have. I could look

1638
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:48,679
Speaker 17: it up, but you said no more than fifteen gigs?

1639
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 11: Yeah?

1640
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:51,240
Speaker 1: Are they all an eye cloud or are they actually

1641
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:54,719
Speaker 1: on the phone on the phone. Okay, that's that's actually easier.

1642
01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:57,400
Speaker 1: So I mean there's look, there are so many ways

1643
01:21:57,479 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: you can do this. There are many many ways. And

1644
01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 1: what may you transfer from iPhone to Android?

1645
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:05,759
Speaker 17: Well, we it was a better price right for the service.

1646
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:08,519
Speaker 17: And I really got to like my iPhone because I'd

1647
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,439
Speaker 17: always been an Android user. And then I got someone

1648
01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:14,920
Speaker 17: gave me this, My dad gave me this iPhone thirteen,

1649
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 17: and I really came to like it. But then the

1650
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 17: T Mobile just it was not a good price. So

1651
01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 17: then when we switched, they, of course the mobile or

1652
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 17: Efinity tells you, oh yeah, everything is super easy. And

1653
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 17: here we'll give you this free Android and they didn't

1654
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,560
Speaker 17: have any deals on the iPhone, so I said, okay,

1655
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,599
Speaker 17: well I'll switch. And then it's been this and I'm

1656
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 17: sad because you know, people ask, oh, what about this

1657
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:37,680
Speaker 17: or whatever? I want to look at a photo and

1658
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 17: I can't, you know what I mean?

1659
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I think the easiest way is going to

1660
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:47,719
Speaker 1: be to just basically install Google Photos on your old phone.

1661
01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:50,479
Speaker 1: Let it upload all of your pictures and then they

1662
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:52,679
Speaker 1: will all be on Google Photos on your new phone.

1663
01:22:52,720 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: I think that's the best way to do it. Jacqueline, Okay,

1664
01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 1: and at least you can have them there. I got

1665
01:22:57,280 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 1: to think more about the way you do this. Tipic

1666
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: is during the setup of the phone, you would typically

1667
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: have it bring over all those photos. But unless you

1668
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,839
Speaker 1: want to, unless you want to set up that Android

1669
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: phone all again and go through that process, which I

1670
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:13,719
Speaker 1: probably don't recommend. But but that's really they they really

1671
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,439
Speaker 1: missed the missed it when they did that. They should have.

1672
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 17: Yeah, they made me said, they did not help it.

1673
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 17: They just want to stay all right.

1674
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, after that, that's not a very not a very

1675
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:27,080
Speaker 1: good salesperson. Sadly, no, no, And I went back again,

1676
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:29,479
Speaker 1: and they did, oh yeah, no. Once you're out of

1677
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:32,000
Speaker 1: the store, they're like, we're done. We're done with you, Jacqueline.

1678
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 17: So install Google Photos on my iPhone.

1679
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: Yes, and then and then install it. Log in with

1680
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 1: your account, with your Google account, and then the same

1681
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:43,679
Speaker 1: one that's on your Android phone. Let it upload everything.

1682
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:46,160
Speaker 1: You may have to turn your phone the display settings

1683
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:49,639
Speaker 1: to never so it doesn't it doesn't lock. Let everything upload.

1684
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:52,080
Speaker 1: Keep the Google Photos app open. It will upload all

1685
01:23:52,120 --> 01:23:54,320
Speaker 1: those pictures that are on your iPhone and then when

1686
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:56,640
Speaker 1: you open up Google Photos on your Android phone, they

1687
01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:59,840
Speaker 1: will all be in there in the cloud. And that's

1688
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 1: probably the easiest way to do it right now. I'll

1689
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:04,080
Speaker 1: noodle this over during break and think if I think

1690
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:05,760
Speaker 1: of a better way. But that's probably the best way

1691
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 1: right now. Thanks for the call, Jaqueline, You appreciate it.

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01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven

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01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:23,800
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1695
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:27,719
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1697
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Speaker 1: tech dot TV. This show is always such a journey.

1701
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:48,679
Speaker 1: I mean, just think about how much we've done already.

1702
01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had great guests on, We've had my son,

1703
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: we've had callers, we've had emailers, we've had tweeters, all

1704
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Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. Let's go to Oh and we still

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01:24:58,439 --> 01:25:02,200
Speaker 1: have got coming up this hour. We've got Joel Santo

1706
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:06,880
Speaker 1: Domingo of the Wirecutter, who's gonna break down mesh networking.

1707
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 1: So this is that I'd say it's new, but it's

1708
01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 1: been around for a while now. But you know all

1709
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 1: these little better Wi Fi in your house basically how

1710
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: to get that or outside whatever you need. Let's go

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01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: to Sergio in Azusa. Sergio, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 7: Hi.

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01:25:22,160 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 9: Rich, you got me right in the middle of a

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Speaker 9: bike rest.

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01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 16: Well, they come and ask how's your food?

1716
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 17: Thank you?

1717
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 16: Hey, Rich, I'm vision impaired. I have one eye that

1718
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 16: I can see somewhat, the other one I can't. And

1719
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 16: shout out to your vision impaired nation out during and

1720
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 16: I know you have a lot of callers. I hear

1721
01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 16: a lot of good tips. I'm calling about the glasses

1722
01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:48,640
Speaker 16: that allow you to have AI and which are the

1723
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 16: better ones out there that you recommend. I'm also trying

1724
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 16: to see if your callers can send out any tips

1725
01:25:56,520 --> 01:26:00,439
Speaker 16: for you know, vision impaired accessibility places.

1726
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:02,240
Speaker 10: And I appreciate everything you do.

1727
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:05,400
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. Is this something new that that's happened

1728
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:06,800
Speaker 1: or has this been ongoing?

1729
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 16: It's been about five years.

1730
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 11: OK.

1731
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:15,280
Speaker 16: I wasn't really a tech head, but I used it

1732
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 16: and everything. I would get frustrated because things would renew

1733
01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 16: before I had a chance to figure out how the

1734
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 16: old one worked, you know. And so I'm looking for

1735
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 16: some glasses that I've heard. Facebook has one.

1736
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 9: I heard there's another one.

1737
01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 10: I think called in the Vision, and you know that

1738
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 10: I can, Like.

1739
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 16: I have children, I can read their papers or go

1740
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 16: through the mail. I just want to, like a lot

1741
01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:44,920
Speaker 16: of vision impaired people, you want to be You want

1742
01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:46,880
Speaker 16: to not have people depend on you. You want to

1743
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:50,760
Speaker 16: do your independent stuff. And there's a lot of us

1744
01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:53,760
Speaker 16: out there and we appreciate everything you do for us.

1745
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to be able to do what you

1746
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:57,599
Speaker 1: want to do and not have to always have someone

1747
01:26:57,800 --> 01:27:01,400
Speaker 1: helping you do that. That's what I'm understanding. I mean,

1748
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 1: so from what I've seen, and you know, I'm sure

1749
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 1: i'll get some messages from the community on this. I'm

1750
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:09,639
Speaker 1: not an expert in this field, but from what I've

1751
01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 1: seen at the I go to the Sea Sun Accessibility

1752
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: Tech Expo every year, and the glasses that I see there,

1753
01:27:18,320 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: you know, the specialized glasses are usually quite expensive. So

1754
01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:28,040
Speaker 1: you mentioned you mentioned the Envision glasses. Those look like

1755
01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:31,360
Speaker 1: Google glass. Those are twenty five hundred dollars, so that's

1756
01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 1: you know, that's going to be a very expensive solution

1757
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 1: to things. There's another glasses called orecam My I three

1758
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:42,479
Speaker 1: pro and I'm looking at those to see if I

1759
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 1: can find a price. Doesn't really it looks like you

1760
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:48,680
Speaker 1: have to contact them. Let's see. Oh hold on, oh

1761
01:27:48,720 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 1: there we go. Yeah, those are forty two d and

1762
01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: fifty dollars, so that's you know, those are very very

1763
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:57,280
Speaker 1: expensive as well. And then there's another one I'm looking

1764
01:27:57,320 --> 01:28:02,640
Speaker 1: at Iris Vision. Look like they're using more kind of

1765
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 1: like a almost like a VR type headset for that.

1766
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 1: So I've seen a bunch of these. I did a

1767
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:10,200
Speaker 1: story if you if you I'll link these up. But

1768
01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:14,679
Speaker 1: if you just type in ceasun Ktla DeMuro on Google

1769
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:17,680
Speaker 1: you'll see my assistive tech coverage from last year and

1770
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: this year, where last year I did a lot more

1771
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 1: of the glasses in there. But you know, the thing,

1772
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:27,120
Speaker 1: my takeaway is that these are very expensive, and I

1773
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:31,040
Speaker 1: think that's why so many people are turning to the

1774
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 1: ray band metas just for everyday help. And you've got

1775
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 1: the AI built in, you've got the picture functionality. They're

1776
01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty dollars, so at the very least, Sergio,

1777
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 1: I mean, they're worth a try. I'm not sure, you know,

1778
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:47,760
Speaker 1: depending on what you want to do with them. You

1779
01:28:47,840 --> 01:28:50,439
Speaker 1: know what the functionality is. You know, it may it

1780
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: may vary. It may you may say, well it works

1781
01:28:52,240 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 1: for this, but it doesn't work for that. But the

1782
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: things that we kind of had a show maybe last

1783
01:28:57,320 --> 01:29:00,040
Speaker 1: year talking about these things when I tested them, and

1784
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:03,240
Speaker 1: people just kept calling and saying all the ways they

1785
01:29:03,400 --> 01:29:06,960
Speaker 1: found to use these anything from taking a picture of

1786
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,559
Speaker 1: the back of a product to say and say asking

1787
01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 1: it how do I microwave this? Or what's the instructions?

1788
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 1: Say here it'll do. I mean, it can do some

1789
01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:17,439
Speaker 1: pretty incredible things, all right. So some of the things

1790
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 1: last year that I saw at the at the show

1791
01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:25,360
Speaker 1: a company called Site so E Site I wear. That's

1792
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: another specialized Oh this actually saw twice. I saw this

1793
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:32,599
Speaker 1: at CES as well. So E Site they have glasses

1794
01:29:32,640 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 1: as well, but again, you know, very expensive and so

1795
01:29:35,880 --> 01:29:37,479
Speaker 1: if you want to invest that kind of money just

1796
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:39,920
Speaker 1: to try something, it could be you know, it could

1797
01:29:39,920 --> 01:29:41,599
Speaker 1: be a letdown if they don't do the things you need.

1798
01:29:43,120 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 1: Envision we did see those as well. The other one

1799
01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:50,559
Speaker 1: is ocapp Oko. This helps you navigate streets using your iPhone.

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01:29:51,080 --> 01:29:53,960
Speaker 1: But Sergio, I try the ray bands for starters. Good

1801
01:29:54,040 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 1: question and some of those emails with your suggestions. Next up,

1802
01:29:57,520 --> 01:30:07,479
Speaker 1: why find networking? Right here, I'm rich on Tech. Welcome

1803
01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:09,760
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

1804
01:30:09,800 --> 01:30:14,160
Speaker 1: with you talking technology. Joining me now Joel Santo Domingo

1805
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 1: of The Wirecutter to talk about mesh networking. Joel, thanks

1806
01:30:19,439 --> 01:30:23,639
Speaker 1: for joining me, Thanks for having me. So mesh networking

1807
01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 1: been around for a while now, you know, at least

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01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 1: ten years I think since Ero came on the scene.

1809
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:33,639
Speaker 1: What does that mean exactly? Like, what improvement did that bring?

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01:30:34,479 --> 01:30:34,599
Speaker 7: Well?

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01:30:34,680 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 15: Mesh networking is basically with the traditional Wi Fi setup,

1812
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:41,160
Speaker 15: you've got your router and a cable modem or a

1813
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:43,679
Speaker 15: combination of the two, which is usually called the gateway,

1814
01:30:44,040 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 15: and that provides your Wi Fi in your house. Mesh

1815
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:50,960
Speaker 15: network will Mesh networking will multiply that. You'll get several

1816
01:30:51,080 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 15: routers either two, three, four routers in a box. You

1817
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:58,000
Speaker 15: set it up, and what that does is it will

1818
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:01,519
Speaker 15: eliminate dead ze zones in your house. So if you

1819
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:04,519
Speaker 15: got a room, say your garage, and you want to

1820
01:31:04,560 --> 01:31:06,680
Speaker 15: put a you know, a smart speaker in there and

1821
01:31:06,800 --> 01:31:10,679
Speaker 15: it doesn't quite work, if you have mesh networking, it'll

1822
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:14,840
Speaker 15: extend the signal, the Wi Fi signal to other parts

1823
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:15,320
Speaker 15: of your house.

1824
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 1: Now, there's been extenders in the past, right, like a

1825
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:20,679
Speaker 1: range extender, and those just took like a bad signal

1826
01:31:20,760 --> 01:31:23,559
Speaker 1: and pushed it further into the corners of your home.

1827
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:25,599
Speaker 1: Is this the same thing or is this actually take

1828
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:27,679
Speaker 1: the same signal and put it in all the corners.

1829
01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:31,560
Speaker 15: It takes a signal, it amplifies the signal, and it

1830
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:35,559
Speaker 15: routes the signal basically, so if you have an extender,

1831
01:31:35,640 --> 01:31:39,639
Speaker 15: it just repeats the signal and that'll work for one

1832
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 15: room in your house. But if you have you know,

1833
01:31:42,120 --> 01:31:44,600
Speaker 15: a wing of your house, or if you have a

1834
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:47,960
Speaker 15: house that large, or if you have several rooms in

1835
01:31:48,040 --> 01:31:51,880
Speaker 15: your house that are pretty much unserved by your router,

1836
01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:54,320
Speaker 15: a mesh network can help.

1837
01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:56,800
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's how you know, Like basically, if your

1838
01:31:56,880 --> 01:31:59,640
Speaker 1: cable company or whoever, your internet provider, whatever they gave you,

1839
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:02,559
Speaker 1: if it's not really working in every corner of your home,

1840
01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:06,160
Speaker 1: that's when it's time to upgrade to the mesh pretty much. Okay,

1841
01:32:07,160 --> 01:32:10,360
Speaker 1: So what about all these different terms we've got right now,

1842
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:12,920
Speaker 1: You've got Wi Fi six, you've got six E, you've

1843
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:15,760
Speaker 1: got seven. Do we need to jump on board with

1844
01:32:15,880 --> 01:32:16,320
Speaker 1: all of those?

1845
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:19,720
Speaker 15: Those are the different generations. Ninety nine percent of the

1846
01:32:19,720 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 15: stuff that you have in your house is either be

1847
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:24,519
Speaker 15: Wi Fi five or six, which have both been around

1848
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 15: for a while, but they're solidly work. Six E extends

1849
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:32,800
Speaker 15: it a little bit, extends it too, slightly faster if

1850
01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 15: you're in the same room as a router, and Wi

1851
01:32:35,080 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 15: Fi seven will help if you have a lot of devices,

1852
01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 15: or if you have neighbors who have a lot of devices.

1853
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 1: For example, it sounds like I need to upgrade to

1854
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:45,839
Speaker 1: Wi Fi seven. I've got a lot of devices.

1855
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:50,320
Speaker 15: It's not a must do right now, but probably in

1856
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:52,400
Speaker 15: the next two years. You probably want to be on

1857
01:32:52,479 --> 01:32:53,120
Speaker 15: Wi Fi seven.

1858
01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 1: But doesn't my device have to support Wi Fi seven

1859
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 1: for it to take advantage of that network?

1860
01:32:58,120 --> 01:33:00,720
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's the rub. You really have to have your

1861
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:03,120
Speaker 15: laptop on Wi Fi seven and your phone on Wi

1862
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:06,000
Speaker 15: Fi seven to make it makes sense for you to

1863
01:33:06,280 --> 01:33:06,760
Speaker 15: put it in.

1864
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: And so you test these things out. What are you

1865
01:33:10,040 --> 01:33:11,960
Speaker 1: looking for in your tests? You test these things for

1866
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 1: the wirecutter, what are you what are you looking for

1867
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 1: when you test these mesh networks out?

1868
01:33:16,080 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 15: You know, first of all, I'm looking for them to work.

1869
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 15: Some of them work really well, some of them don't.

1870
01:33:22,200 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 15: I rent a house to actually check it out. It's

1871
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:29,639
Speaker 15: larger than the house I currently live in, lots of walls,

1872
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 15: lots of rooms. Basically, if you're your signal from your router,

1873
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:38,759
Speaker 15: if it goes through more than two or three walls

1874
01:33:39,840 --> 01:33:43,599
Speaker 15: and ceilings count as walls or Flora's count as walls.

1875
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:46,840
Speaker 15: If it goes through two or three walls, you probably

1876
01:33:46,880 --> 01:33:48,840
Speaker 15: want to have a mesh network to help repeat that

1877
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:50,280
Speaker 15: signal around your house.

1878
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:53,360
Speaker 1: And what about let's say you don't want to upgrade,

1879
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:55,559
Speaker 1: I mean, what about just like some tips for where

1880
01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:59,640
Speaker 1: to place your you know, your system that puts out

1881
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:02,120
Speaker 1: the wife, like your router. I guess so most of

1882
01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:03,920
Speaker 1: the routers are like kind of also, they spit out

1883
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:06,080
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi signal, Right, is that kind of the case?

1884
01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:08,600
Speaker 15: Yeah, pretty much all the routers spit out the Wi

1885
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:11,280
Speaker 15: Fi signal. It's either gonna be a round box or

1886
01:34:11,280 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 15: a square box or a box. Then ten is on it.

1887
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:18,680
Speaker 15: The most important thing is to not hide it in

1888
01:34:19,040 --> 01:34:23,760
Speaker 15: a closet or a cabinet or something like that. You

1889
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:27,920
Speaker 15: really want it up high and you want it out

1890
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:31,080
Speaker 15: in the open because Wi Fi signals don't like to

1891
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:35,479
Speaker 15: be blocked by things like wood or metal. Another thing

1892
01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:37,360
Speaker 15: is you want to put it in the center of

1893
01:34:37,400 --> 01:34:39,639
Speaker 15: your house or close to the center of your house

1894
01:34:39,720 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 15: as possible. I know that's not always case. That's not

1895
01:34:43,240 --> 01:34:45,720
Speaker 15: always possible. Like my router is on the end of

1896
01:34:45,760 --> 01:34:48,280
Speaker 15: my house because that's where the where the internet comes in,

1897
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:54,519
Speaker 15: the cable comes in. But up high, centrally located, that's

1898
01:34:54,680 --> 01:34:56,200
Speaker 15: really where you want your router.

1899
01:34:56,479 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 1: So you're telling me that, like when people walk into

1900
01:34:58,439 --> 01:35:00,439
Speaker 1: my home, the centerpiece of my home should be my

1901
01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:04,639
Speaker 1: WiFi router. Like, hey, this is welcome to my home.

1902
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:05,639
Speaker 1: Here's my WiFi.

1903
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:09,200
Speaker 15: Well that's if you want a good signal everywhere, you

1904
01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:12,439
Speaker 15: do want it up up high. You can buy routers

1905
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:15,719
Speaker 15: like the Euro that you mentioned earlier. It's a small router,

1906
01:35:16,040 --> 01:35:20,400
Speaker 15: so it's small white box. It shouldn't be too obtrusive.

1907
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:23,040
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's talk about some of these brands. What

1908
01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:25,400
Speaker 1: are some of the best brands that you're seeing right now?

1909
01:35:25,520 --> 01:35:27,519
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I always mentioned, I always recommend Euro.

1910
01:35:27,920 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 1: It's been pretty solid for me over the years. What

1911
01:35:31,120 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 1: else you know? You've got Euro? How are they doing?

1912
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:34,760
Speaker 1: And what are some of the other brands that you like?

1913
01:35:35,400 --> 01:35:36,120
Speaker 1: I agree with you.

1914
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:39,080
Speaker 15: Our top pick is the Euro six right now, and

1915
01:35:39,320 --> 01:35:41,560
Speaker 15: I've just gone through a round of testing with the

1916
01:35:41,760 --> 01:35:44,519
Speaker 15: Euro seven and that's going to be my new pick

1917
01:35:45,160 --> 01:35:50,160
Speaker 15: very soon. I think it's got some improvements. It's a

1918
01:35:50,200 --> 01:35:53,840
Speaker 15: little more expensive, but it's pretty good. It's pretty solid,

1919
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:55,800
Speaker 15: it's easy to set up. It only took me about

1920
01:35:55,840 --> 01:35:57,640
Speaker 15: five to ten minutes to set up. I do it

1921
01:35:57,720 --> 01:36:02,640
Speaker 15: for a living, but I can see someone who is

1922
01:36:02,680 --> 01:36:06,200
Speaker 15: a novice taking maybe twenty minutes set this up.

1923
01:36:06,800 --> 01:36:09,400
Speaker 1: Now, here's I always give out this tip where because

1924
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 1: I made this mistake once I changed my Wi Fi

1925
01:36:12,040 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 1: router and I used a different password and all my

1926
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:17,920
Speaker 1: stuff I had to reset up. So I've been saying

1927
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:19,720
Speaker 1: since then, like, hey, if you're getting a new router,

1928
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:22,639
Speaker 1: like just use your old Wi Fi username and password.

1929
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:25,799
Speaker 1: Is that a problem or is that kind of worll? Absolutely?

1930
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:29,000
Speaker 15: That's that's my top tip for setting up a new

1931
01:36:30,040 --> 01:36:34,040
Speaker 15: Wi Fi router or mesh system. If you have you know,

1932
01:36:34,400 --> 01:36:38,160
Speaker 15: a dozen things or two dozen things, set up speakers,

1933
01:36:38,360 --> 01:36:42,639
Speaker 15: a streaming box, your phones, just use the old password

1934
01:36:42,800 --> 01:36:46,280
Speaker 15: and the old network name and everything will hook right

1935
01:36:46,439 --> 01:36:47,559
Speaker 15: up to it right away.

1936
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:50,439
Speaker 1: Okay. Any other brands besides euro that you like that

1937
01:36:50,520 --> 01:36:51,680
Speaker 1: are doing good stuff.

1938
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:55,599
Speaker 15: TP Link, tp Link Deco, Mesh systems are pretty good.

1939
01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:59,000
Speaker 15: Our upgrade pick is the tp link Deco BE sixty three.

1940
01:36:59,640 --> 01:37:01,519
Speaker 15: It's for people who need a little more, a little

1941
01:37:01,560 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 15: more performance, more connections. There are two there are two

1942
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:11,000
Speaker 15: boxes or two routers in the kIPS. If you put

1943
01:37:11,040 --> 01:37:14,120
Speaker 15: the other box in your office, for example, you can

1944
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:17,240
Speaker 15: plug your laptop right into the box and you have

1945
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 15: a virtually wired wired signal, which is usually more stable.

1946
01:37:21,320 --> 01:37:23,760
Speaker 1: Okay, but well, how much longer do we have on

1947
01:37:23,880 --> 01:37:26,840
Speaker 1: this format? Okay, I'm gonna we never do this, but

1948
01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:28,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I'm gonna put you on the spot. We

1949
01:37:28,240 --> 01:37:31,160
Speaker 1: got a caller, Chris and Florida who wants to know

1950
01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:34,759
Speaker 1: what to get. Chris, can you explain your situation quickly

1951
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:35,639
Speaker 1: for Joel?

1952
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:41,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hi Joel, Chris, Miami, thanks for us. Yeah, fifteen

1953
01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:45,000
Speaker 2: living in Miami, living a condo fifteen hundred square feet

1954
01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:49,240
Speaker 2: and it's like very quiet. It's not like that new

1955
01:37:49,280 --> 01:37:51,600
Speaker 2: prefab condo, so it's super quiet. So the walls are

1956
01:37:51,680 --> 01:37:55,040
Speaker 2: kind of thick, and we have the regular original Wi

1957
01:37:55,120 --> 01:37:57,519
Speaker 2: Fi by Google and slow.

1958
01:37:58,439 --> 01:37:59,280
Speaker 11: We have to have two.

1959
01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 2: If I have one, doesn't go very far. I guess

1960
01:38:02,520 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 2: now I'm looking at Maybe Euro seven would be nice,

1961
01:38:05,400 --> 01:38:09,320
Speaker 2: a little pricey, but future proof. Maybe eero maybe six

1962
01:38:09,439 --> 01:38:12,400
Speaker 2: plus with I don't want to just say just one room,

1963
01:38:12,479 --> 01:38:17,560
Speaker 2: but maybe extend out over the entire square footage kitchen, bathrooms,

1964
01:38:17,640 --> 01:38:20,400
Speaker 2: dining room, living room area. What would you suggest? Thank

1965
01:38:20,439 --> 01:38:21,519
Speaker 2: you so much for taking my question.

1966
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:25,840
Speaker 15: Sure, are you going to be worrying about a backyard

1967
01:38:26,160 --> 01:38:27,880
Speaker 15: or a garage or anything like that.

1968
01:38:28,680 --> 01:38:30,920
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm on the sixt floor corner pocket.

1969
01:38:31,040 --> 01:38:34,920
Speaker 15: Yeah, sure, I would probably suggest an euro seven a

1970
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:37,760
Speaker 15: two pack or maybe a three pack, but probably two

1971
01:38:37,840 --> 01:38:42,200
Speaker 15: pack that I just recently tested one and it covered

1972
01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:45,720
Speaker 15: a thirty two hundred square flashed house, multiple rooms in it.

1973
01:38:46,120 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: Now, the other side of this is the price. So

1974
01:38:49,479 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: the Euro seven right now is actually on sale, and

1975
01:38:53,120 --> 01:38:55,200
Speaker 1: this is it's four hundred and seventy nine dollars. That

1976
01:38:55,280 --> 01:38:55,920
Speaker 1: sound about right.

1977
01:38:58,320 --> 01:39:01,840
Speaker 15: The Euro seven I see on Amazon right this second

1978
01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:04,320
Speaker 15: is the two pack that I recommend. It is two

1979
01:39:04,400 --> 01:39:07,280
Speaker 15: seventy nine ninety nine. Oh okay, and three pack is

1980
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 15: three forty nine ninety nine, so.

1981
01:39:10,400 --> 01:39:13,120
Speaker 1: Okay, so there must be okay, So there's a different level.

1982
01:39:13,160 --> 01:39:15,719
Speaker 1: I see, there's different levels of the of the seven. Okay.

1983
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:17,640
Speaker 1: And what do you think about these outdoor you know

1984
01:39:17,720 --> 01:39:20,320
Speaker 1: the Eero has like that outdoor extender. What do you

1985
01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:20,760
Speaker 1: think about that?

1986
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:26,439
Speaker 15: It's very interesting, it's it's weather proofd Apparently I'm going

1987
01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:30,040
Speaker 15: to be testing it out sometime this year alongside a

1988
01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:35,160
Speaker 15: tp link competitor. It looks really cool. You can just

1989
01:39:35,200 --> 01:39:37,720
Speaker 15: plug it in and it'll cook right up to your

1990
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 15: eurosystem or your tp link system and extend it out

1991
01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:42,479
Speaker 15: to a backy order patio.

1992
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:46,679
Speaker 1: See got it? Okay? Okay? So I see there's Eero

1993
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:50,400
Speaker 1: seven and then Eero seven, euro Pro seven, So there

1994
01:39:50,479 --> 01:39:52,679
Speaker 1: you go. There's a little bit of a delineation there.

1995
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:55,000
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, when you look, I see how confusing

1996
01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:57,200
Speaker 1: this is for the average consumer. When you go on Amazon,

1997
01:39:57,600 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 1: you've got Eero Eero six, Eero six Plus, Ero six,

1998
01:40:00,600 --> 01:40:04,240
Speaker 1: Eero Pro six, ee Eero Mac seven, Outdoor seven, Eero seven,

1999
01:40:04,520 --> 01:40:07,400
Speaker 1: Eero Pro seven. Oh my gosh. Just go to Wirecutter.

2000
01:40:07,520 --> 01:40:09,880
Speaker 1: Check out what Joel has to say. He's got it

2001
01:40:09,920 --> 01:40:12,439
Speaker 1: all linked up there. Joel Santo Domingo, thanks so much

2002
01:40:12,479 --> 01:40:13,280
Speaker 1: for joining me today.

2003
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:14,840
Speaker 15: Thanks for having me.

2004
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:19,840
Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. Good information. Gotta have good WiFi, bottom line,

2005
01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:22,240
Speaker 1: gotta have good WiFi. If you don't have good WiFi,

2006
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:24,600
Speaker 1: what do we have in this world. I don't know.

2007
01:40:25,240 --> 01:40:27,960
Speaker 1: In my house, if the Wi Fi is down, you

2008
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,920
Speaker 1: can't do anything. It is all run by Wi Fi.

2009
01:40:31,800 --> 01:40:34,080
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, I almost gave the number out.

2010
01:40:34,120 --> 01:40:36,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the feedbag. We've got lots of emails

2011
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:37,760
Speaker 1: that you sent me throughout the week. We'll get to

2012
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:50,679
Speaker 1: those coming up next. Perfect song for spring Break. Welcome

2013
01:40:50,760 --> 01:40:53,080
Speaker 1: back to the show. We got a lot to get through,

2014
01:40:53,600 --> 01:40:55,639
Speaker 1: so let me just get right into it a couple

2015
01:40:55,720 --> 01:41:00,320
Speaker 1: of news tidbits before we get to the feedbag. If

2016
01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:03,840
Speaker 1: you live in La, the my La three one one

2017
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:07,240
Speaker 1: app got a major makeover. This is an excellent app

2018
01:41:07,320 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 1: that helps you put in requests to the city like

2019
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:14,760
Speaker 1: graffiti removal, bulky item pickup, pothole repairs, and much more.

2020
01:41:15,240 --> 01:41:15,280
Speaker 15: So.

2021
01:41:15,760 --> 01:41:18,320
Speaker 1: They basically got image recognition now, which is really nice.

2022
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:21,599
Speaker 1: They just revamped the whole thing. So my La three

2023
01:41:21,640 --> 01:41:24,720
Speaker 1: to one one available in Apple App Store, Google Play.

2024
01:41:24,800 --> 01:41:27,519
Speaker 1: If you don't live in La. No matter where you live,

2025
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:31,000
Speaker 1: if your city offers an app like this a city

2026
01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:34,880
Speaker 1: services app, definitely download it. It is so quick. I

2027
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:37,639
Speaker 1: literally report when people just put their bulky stuff out

2028
01:41:37,680 --> 01:41:40,000
Speaker 1: on the curb on my street. I'm like, the city's

2029
01:41:40,040 --> 01:41:41,680
Speaker 1: not just going to come and pick that up. I

2030
01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:43,960
Speaker 1: report it. Boom, It's out of there like the next day.

2031
01:41:44,240 --> 01:41:47,080
Speaker 1: It's really really fantastic, so saves you a phone call.

2032
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:51,080
Speaker 1: Roadblocks just launched three new parntal controls, so if your

2033
01:41:51,160 --> 01:41:55,000
Speaker 1: kids play Roadblocks, parents can now block specific games from

2034
01:41:55,040 --> 01:41:58,240
Speaker 1: their kids account. They can block individual users from the

2035
01:41:58,640 --> 01:42:01,680
Speaker 1: contacting their kids, including the friends I mean obviously if

2036
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:04,479
Speaker 1: they don't want to talk to them. You can also

2037
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:07,680
Speaker 1: see which games your kid plays the most. So this

2038
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:10,120
Speaker 1: is in the Roadblock Safety Center. You do have to

2039
01:42:10,160 --> 01:42:13,560
Speaker 1: have an account for roadblocks and you link that to

2040
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:17,280
Speaker 1: your kid's account. But three helpful things. There been talking

2041
01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:19,479
Speaker 1: about this little gadget. Really like it. It's called the

2042
01:42:19,560 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 1: twelve South airfly Pro two. We've been talking a lot

2043
01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:25,280
Speaker 1: about travel. They just launched the new version of this

2044
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:28,679
Speaker 1: little dongle that basically lets you use your own wireless

2045
01:42:28,760 --> 01:42:31,960
Speaker 1: headphones on planes. So you take this Bluetooth dongle, you

2046
01:42:32,120 --> 01:42:35,000
Speaker 1: plug it into any headphone jack. Most of the time

2047
01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:37,599
Speaker 1: people are using this on planes with the seatback entertainment,

2048
01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:40,200
Speaker 1: but you can use it in an older car gym equipment,

2049
01:42:40,400 --> 01:42:44,080
Speaker 1: game consoles, and it basically allows you to use your

2050
01:42:44,400 --> 01:42:49,639
Speaker 1: high quality bluetooth headphones with the seatback entertainment. It's sixty bucks.

2051
01:42:50,120 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 1: It's brand new, upgraded, it's got USBC now, longer battery life.

2052
01:42:54,600 --> 01:42:57,960
Speaker 1: You can connect two headsets, two people can listen at once. Anyway,

2053
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:00,160
Speaker 1: if you are a traveler, this is something to have

2054
01:43:00,400 --> 01:43:04,040
Speaker 1: in your travel bag. Sixty dollars well worth it for

2055
01:43:04,120 --> 01:43:07,559
Speaker 1: the higher quality. I call this in between technology because yes,

2056
01:43:07,640 --> 01:43:12,040
Speaker 1: airplanes are upgrading to Bluetooth to connect your headphones directly,

2057
01:43:12,120 --> 01:43:14,599
Speaker 1: but not all of them have that. And then Verizon

2058
01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:17,360
Speaker 1: right now is advertising this three year price lock, which

2059
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:20,559
Speaker 1: is nice no price increases on the core monthly price

2060
01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:23,120
Speaker 1: plan for the next three years. Obviously doesn't include the

2061
01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 1: taxes or the fees that they add on, but they're

2062
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 1: also offering a free phone with trade in, even to

2063
01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:33,840
Speaker 1: existing customers. So let me just do the math for you.

2064
01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:37,240
Speaker 1: If you're on the unlimited Welcome Plan sixty five dollars

2065
01:43:37,280 --> 01:43:40,400
Speaker 1: a month with AutoPlay auto pay, you can get an

2066
01:43:40,439 --> 01:43:43,320
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen E, a Galaxy S twenty four FE, or

2067
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:45,639
Speaker 1: a Pixel nine A, basically an average of a six

2068
01:43:45,760 --> 01:43:48,960
Speaker 1: hundred dollars phone. But do the math. So if you

2069
01:43:49,240 --> 01:43:51,519
Speaker 1: signed up for Mint Mobile, which is only thirty dollars

2070
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:54,759
Speaker 1: a month, you would save sixty five thirty five dollars

2071
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:58,000
Speaker 1: a month times thirty six months. That's twelve hundred and

2072
01:43:58,120 --> 01:44:01,639
Speaker 1: sixty dollars saving versus Verizon, and minus the six hundred

2073
01:44:01,640 --> 01:44:03,760
Speaker 1: dollars phone that you're getting quote unquote free. That's still

2074
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:06,920
Speaker 1: saving six hundred and sixty dollars over three years. Now,

2075
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:08,880
Speaker 1: I get it. Math is hard, people, don't want to

2076
01:44:08,920 --> 01:44:12,920
Speaker 1: do math, But folks do the math please. You'll find that.

2077
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:15,200
Speaker 1: I get it. It's called inertia. You want to just

2078
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:17,439
Speaker 1: stick with what you have, you get it, but you're

2079
01:44:17,479 --> 01:44:19,639
Speaker 1: on the hook for thirty six months of paying more

2080
01:44:20,280 --> 01:44:24,240
Speaker 1: for something. So just just investigate all of your options

2081
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:25,680
Speaker 1: if you're going to take advantage of this. I'm not

2082
01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 1: going to fault you for doing the free phone through Verizon.

2083
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:32,639
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's not necessarily free. You are paying

2084
01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:35,920
Speaker 1: for it in the form of higher monthly costs with

2085
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:38,400
Speaker 1: your plan, where you can get a plan that's much

2086
01:44:38,439 --> 01:44:41,760
Speaker 1: cheaper elsewhere. All right, we got so many emails this week,

2087
01:44:41,760 --> 01:44:46,280
Speaker 1: I don't even know where to start. James from Tustin

2088
01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:50,040
Speaker 1: writes in I was accidentally scammed twice by phony sweet

2089
01:44:50,400 --> 01:44:53,519
Speaker 1: sweepsteak scams online, once for one hundred twenty seven dollars,

2090
01:44:53,560 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 1: another for one hundred and forty one. I used a

2091
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:58,120
Speaker 1: card issued by my bank. When I realized what I

2092
01:44:58,160 --> 01:45:01,800
Speaker 1: had done, I immediately reported them as unauthorized charges. They

2093
01:45:01,880 --> 01:45:04,439
Speaker 1: said they had to wait for the pending charge to finish.

2094
01:45:04,479 --> 01:45:07,800
Speaker 1: They did investigations on both and denied my refund saying

2095
01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:11,000
Speaker 1: they are authorized charges. Ugh, get a new credit card

2096
01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:14,479
Speaker 1: if your card, saying that get a new one because

2097
01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:19,200
Speaker 1: no way. Another scam. Steven and Santa Monica says, hey, rich,

2098
01:45:19,240 --> 01:45:21,800
Speaker 1: I got scammed after taking a survey that looked like

2099
01:45:21,880 --> 01:45:24,799
Speaker 1: it came from Triple A. I just renewed my membership,

2100
01:45:24,880 --> 01:45:26,479
Speaker 1: so I let my guard down. It seemed like a

2101
01:45:26,560 --> 01:45:29,839
Speaker 1: legit reward offer. The site showed two of my saved

2102
01:45:29,920 --> 01:45:33,360
Speaker 1: cards minus the CVV, and I added a third to

2103
01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:36,400
Speaker 1: complete the order. After submitting, I got a strange red

2104
01:45:36,560 --> 01:45:40,080
Speaker 1: error message and no confirmation. Soon after, my credit card

2105
01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:42,720
Speaker 1: company flagged one of the charges, two were legit, one

2106
01:45:42,840 --> 01:45:44,759
Speaker 1: was blocked. It all came from a weird email address,

2107
01:45:45,240 --> 01:45:47,280
Speaker 1: not the one the survey used. I ended up canceling

2108
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:50,640
Speaker 1: the card. I also spotted similar email scams pretending to

2109
01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:53,840
Speaker 1: be from CVS and State Farm offering an emergency car

2110
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:56,400
Speaker 1: kit with high end gear. Clearly too good to be true.

2111
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:59,920
Speaker 1: Steven and Santa Monica listening on KFI, be careful out there,

2112
01:46:01,400 --> 01:46:03,439
Speaker 1: Linda and Huntington Beach says, I'm looking for a good

2113
01:46:03,520 --> 01:46:06,719
Speaker 1: iPhone camera adapter, something with zoom for my iPhone twelve

2114
01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:10,040
Speaker 1: to capture a full moon. I'd love to capture it

2115
01:46:10,080 --> 01:46:13,479
Speaker 1: with my phone. Any suggestions, Uh, probably not going to

2116
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:15,080
Speaker 1: work very well. There are a couple of things you

2117
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:18,519
Speaker 1: can get on Amazon that will do this. But if

2118
01:46:18,560 --> 01:46:21,960
Speaker 1: you're really serious about moon photography, there's a thing called

2119
01:46:22,040 --> 01:46:24,920
Speaker 1: Hestia that is very pricey. But if you just go

2120
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:30,280
Speaker 1: on Amazon and look up basically capture Moon pictures iPhone,

2121
01:46:30,400 --> 01:46:32,560
Speaker 1: you're just like little cheap adapters you can buy that

2122
01:46:32,640 --> 01:46:36,919
Speaker 1: will magnify let's see here. Oh my gosh, so many emails.

2123
01:46:37,120 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 1: We had a bunch of people that called in saying

2124
01:46:39,439 --> 01:46:42,320
Speaker 1: how great Costco is to buy a chromebook. Tim writes in,

2125
01:46:42,479 --> 01:46:45,360
Speaker 1: for the caller who had minimal tech needs and never

2126
01:46:45,479 --> 01:46:48,559
Speaker 1: owned a computer, I'd strongly recommend a chromebook from Costco.

2127
01:46:49,040 --> 01:46:52,080
Speaker 1: I recently contacted Costco support and it was beyond excellent.

2128
01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:55,320
Speaker 1: A chromebook should cover everything he needs, mostly web browsing,

2129
01:46:55,360 --> 01:46:58,280
Speaker 1: and it's forgiving something goes wrong. You can easily reset

2130
01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:00,840
Speaker 1: the operating system. A macro PC might be too much,

2131
01:47:01,280 --> 01:47:06,080
Speaker 1: especially if an iPhone feels overwhelming. Great advice. Tim Janine

2132
01:47:06,120 --> 01:47:09,479
Speaker 1: in North Upland says Costco Concierge is wonderful for anything

2133
01:47:09,520 --> 01:47:11,800
Speaker 1: you buy there. Their tech support has always been able

2134
01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:16,360
Speaker 1: to help me. Janie Tony from New Jersey, my home state,

2135
01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:18,479
Speaker 1: writes in, I was hoping the segment with Mark Vino

2136
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:21,160
Speaker 1: would have been longer. There are lots of people like

2137
01:47:21,280 --> 01:47:24,360
Speaker 1: me frustrated with Apple's iOS. It feels like every update

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Speaker 1: vertical lines, keyboard glitches, Wi Fi problems, you name it. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: they keep focusing on gimmicks like Image Playground instead of reliability.

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Speaker 1: And don't get me started on the Apple Intelligence rollout,

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Speaker 1: promising features that aren't even coming until next year after

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Speaker 1: hyping them for iPhone sixteen. We'll get Mark back on

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Speaker 1: the show. Let's see what else. Oh my gosh, so

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Speaker 1: many emails here. I was trying to find one to

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Speaker 1: end the show, Bobo on a nice note, because you

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Speaker 1: always said I end with the nicest ones. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Steve writes in, thanks to your podcast, I easily deleted

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Speaker 1: my data and account from twenty three and may I

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Speaker 1: know I had one more nice one? All right? That's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for this show. Links to everything

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Speaker 1: I mentioned on the website. Rich on tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. Thanks to you,

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Speaker 1: for listening. My name is rich Demiro. Talk to you

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Speaker 1: real soon.