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Speaker 1: Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S twenty one CES

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Wrap up, Google Speakers, get a guest

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: that you send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA

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Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. Back from the Seattle area

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Speaker 1: and CS twenty twenty one all digital this year. If

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Speaker 1: you follow me on social media, yeah, you're kind of

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Speaker 1: up to speed on everything that was going on there.

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Speaker 1: We did the show from up at the Microsoft studios

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Speaker 1: just outside Seattle in Redmond. Beautiful, beautiful area. I really

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Speaker 1: fell in love with the area up there.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I used to live up there for about a year.

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Speaker 1: I lived in Yakima, Washington, and so I was familiar

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Speaker 1: with the Pacific Northwest. I remember it just being absolutely beautiful, beautiful, beautiful,

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Speaker 1: clean fresh air. I mean it was just I took

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Speaker 1: a run on this path that was behind the hotel,

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Speaker 1: and it like rivaled any run I've taken anywhere in

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Speaker 1: America because it was just so beautiful and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: even anything. It was just like a run along a river,

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Speaker 1: but really really nice. CS twenty twenty one, All Digital,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, a little bit different this year. I

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Speaker 1: was a host of the Digital I guess you call

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Speaker 1: we kind of like intro the different you know, keynotes

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Speaker 1: and you know, not like well, I don't know. It's

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Speaker 1: just like basically like a newscast but for CS. So

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Speaker 1: we were talking, you know, just kind of keeping everything moving,

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Speaker 1: and I thought it was really cool. It was very different.

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Speaker 1: I think that the all digital CS format worked. But

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Speaker 1: I think that people, you know, they enjoyed the break

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Speaker 1: this year, but I think that people will be ready

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Speaker 1: for going back to Vegas next year, and it will

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Speaker 1: be in Vegas next year. I believe the dates are

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Speaker 1: January fifth through eighth, but don't quote me on that.

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Speaker 1: And if you're a journalist, you have to go for

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Speaker 1: like three days before and three days after anyway, That's

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Speaker 1: what happens to me. But it was it was really fun.

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Speaker 1: My co host was I Justine. She is awesome. I

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Speaker 1: literally no joke, just tried to pick her brain all

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Speaker 1: week long, so i'd ask her. You know, what's your

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Speaker 1: favorite app for the iPhone? What's your How do you

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Speaker 1: do this on social media? How do you do that?

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Speaker 1: What do you how do you deal with this when

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Speaker 1: it comes to your followers? Like I just wanted to know,

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Speaker 1: Like this is a person that she I didn't even

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Speaker 1: realize how many followers she has, but let's see. So

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, Let's see on Twitter, she's got one point

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Speaker 1: seven million followers, on YouTube six point eight three million.

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Speaker 1: so across all those social media platforms. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty amazing to have that any followers across all three

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Speaker 1: pretty pretty amazing. And when she tweets stuff for Instagram stuff,

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Speaker 1: was interesting when she said to me that she sees

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Speaker 1: And we also had Brian Tong, who obviously is a

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Speaker 1: see a video, and of course it looks really cool.

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Speaker 1: But I will tell you this, when I did a

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Speaker 1: story with a company that was making frozen yogurt this

433
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Speaker 1: same way. Let me say I'm typing in frozen yogurt

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Speaker 1: ktla DeMuro and here it is. It was a frozen

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Speaker 1: yogurt gadget. This was in twenty seventeen, and it's very similar,

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Speaker 1: and it was called the Wim. Is the startup wim

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Speaker 1: frozen yogurt. So let's see if they're even around and no,

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Speaker 1: let's see are they I don't know if they're still around.

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Speaker 1: August twenty seventh was the last post. It doesn't maybe

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Speaker 1: they are, yeah, yeah, I don't really see any place

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Speaker 1: to buy it, so yeah. August twenty nineteenth was August

442
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen was their last post. So yeah, again, didn't

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Speaker 1: really probably work out as well as they thought it would.

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Speaker 1: And I have a feeling that this may be the same,

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Speaker 1: but who knows if it's good. It's five hundred dollars

446
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,719
Speaker 1: and it's basically a cuic I don't know if it's

447
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: probably not from the same company, but it's called cold

448
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: Snap and you know, it's cool. But I had my

449
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Speaker 1: memory of the one that I tested and it was

450
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Speaker 1: not very good. But I think if this is like

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Speaker 1: able to partner with some of these big companies that

452
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Speaker 1: make ice cream and make it at home, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Oh this was cool at Samsung in

454
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Speaker 1: their twenty twenty one TVs. Instead of using batteries, they're

455
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Speaker 1: making them solar and the solar panel works inside, so

456
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Speaker 1: your remote is always powered by and that's way less

457
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Speaker 1: you know, batteries to replace, not like you have to

458
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Speaker 1: replace batteries a lot, but it's less batteries that go

459
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Speaker 1: in the landfill, which is pretty cool. The other two

460
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Speaker 1: things that got all the attention was this smart pet

461
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Speaker 1: door from my Queue. It's like three thousand dollars though

462
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Speaker 1: it uses like a little Bluetooth tag on your pet

463
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Speaker 1: to you know, so they can open the door, but

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Speaker 1: nothing else does, which that's gonna be limited. But in

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Speaker 1: the future, of course, everyone's gonna have that that, you know,

466
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Speaker 1: when they build these things into homes. They're gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot cheaper, and then Toto, they make the toilets

468
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Speaker 1: they've been trying to I feel like they've been trying

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Speaker 1: to really capture America's attention for a while now with

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Speaker 1: their with their different toilet technology, and I'm not sure

471
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Speaker 1: that they've had one breakthrough thing. But now they will

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Speaker 1: let's just say, examine what comes out and you know,

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Speaker 1: tell you some feedback on that, like, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're healthier or not. I don't know, that's that's kind

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Speaker 1: of weird, but you know, again, it's one of those

476
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Speaker 1: things that sounds really weird right now. But I fully

477
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Speaker 1: imagine every toilet in the future to be smart and

478
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Speaker 1: give us feedback on exactly what's going on all right.

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Speaker 1: Next question here comes from Nancy. She says, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: for a place to shred my personal documents. I would

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Speaker 1: like to watch them being shredded and not just drop

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Speaker 1: them off to a locked box. Do you know of

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Speaker 1: any place or event where I can do this? From Nancy, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: this is funny you say this because I literally literally

485
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Speaker 1: just did this in my neighborhood a couple of weeks ago.

486
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Speaker 1: I was driving home, and from time to time I

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Speaker 1: see in the park a shredding truck and I go, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's cool. So I can just bring my stuff there

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Speaker 1: to get shredded. Because I had an experience where I

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Speaker 1: brought my stuff to the UPS store formerly Mailboxes, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: if you remember that name, and I brought my stuff

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Speaker 1: there and I said, you know, they said they have

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Speaker 1: shredding services, and I said, okay, cool, So I go there.

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Speaker 1: They weigh my stuff, you know whatever. It was a

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Speaker 1: couple pounds, I pay the fifty ten bucks and they

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Speaker 1: dump it into this lock box. I was like, oh, wait,

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Speaker 1: you don't actually shred it, and they said no, no,

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Speaker 1: the company comes and shreds it. I said, oh, because

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Speaker 1: think about it, there is a there is room for

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Speaker 1: error there. You know, maybe someone doesn't lock up the box,

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Speaker 1: or maybe you know, the box gets unlocked somehow, or

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Speaker 1: maybe the papers fall out. I don't know. So after

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Speaker 1: that experience, I really wanted to go somewhere where they

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Speaker 1: shred it in front of me. And so the van

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Speaker 1: that I found in my neighborhood they do it, you

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Speaker 1: know every I don't know, twice a year or something,

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Speaker 1: where you can bring your stuff. I brought my stuff

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Speaker 1: and I said, hey, here it is, and it was

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Speaker 1: just a tiny amount of stuff. It was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: a couple pounds, and they said, oh, normally it's you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it was like fifty dollars for everything you have,

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Speaker 1: which is great if you have like a giant office

513
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Speaker 1: full of stuff. But I think she let me off

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Speaker 1: at like twenty bucks or something. But it was great,

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Speaker 1: and I watched it being shredded in person. I mean

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Speaker 1: I could see the camera shredding. They had a little

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Speaker 1: camera inside the truck that you can watch your stuff

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Speaker 1: being shredded, which was really really cool. And so that's

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Speaker 1: what I would recommend. I would look into shredding events

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Speaker 1: in your neighborhood. I'm not sure where you live, but

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Speaker 1: just you know, google your neighborhood and you know, shredding

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Speaker 1: event and see what comes up. And usually, you know,

523
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Speaker 1: a couple times a year they'll do these things. And

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Speaker 1: be prepared to pay a nominal amount for that. The

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Speaker 1: other thing to do is just look on Yelp and

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Speaker 1: look up shredding services and just be you know, be

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Speaker 1: critical in looking up these services and see which ones

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Speaker 1: actually shred on site. So you want to say in

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Speaker 1: person on site shredding, and then call them up and

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Speaker 1: confirm that when you bring your stuff there, you will

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Speaker 1: watch them shred your stuff right in front of you.

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Speaker 1: Very very cool and good point. You want to shread

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Speaker 1: this stuff because you do not want you know, we're

534
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Speaker 1: not getting as much paper as we used to do.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you want to shred it

536
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Speaker 1: because you don't want to just throw this stuff in

537
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Speaker 1: your trash can and who knows what happens to it

538
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Speaker 1: after that? All right, now, I think are these the

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Speaker 1: touch tones? Yes? All right, So we've got the pod

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Speaker 1: page voicemails, which you can find at Rich on tech

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Speaker 1: Dart TV slash podcast rich on tech Dart TV slash

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Speaker 1: Podcast and look in the lower right hand corner and

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00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: you will see that there is a microphone and when

544
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 1: you tap that mic you can leave me a voicemail

545
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Speaker 1: just like Scott Dead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, gooday, Rich Scott from Sydney, Australia here, just wanted

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Speaker 3: to thank you for such an awesome podcast, which I

548
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 3: found out about from Brian Tong when you were on

549
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 3: his show a few months ago. Really enjoy your podcast.

550
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 3: I listened to it every single week and I really

551
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 3: enjoy the news items you present, and I really enjoy

552
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 3: listening to all the questions that the listeners send in.

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00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 3: I was wondering whether you could think about maybe extending

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Speaker 3: the podcast by thirty minutes, so it's an hour and

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Speaker 3: a half. I really like your podcast a lot and

556
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 3: and hour and a half would be great because you

557
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 3: could answer more questions and people could post their questions

558
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 3: and things like that. So sort of to thank you

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00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 3: again for such a great podcast, keep up the awesome work,

560
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Speaker 3: and I wanted to wish you and your family a

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Speaker 3: very merry Christmas and a happy meeear. Thanks very much.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you Scott, A great question and happy

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Speaker 1: New Year to you. That was received I guess a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, maybe, but okay, so here is

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Speaker 1: the deal. Well, thanks. First off, I had no idea

566
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Speaker 1: I had anyone listening in Australia, so that's really really cool.

567
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Speaker 1: So thanks for listening all the way over there. I

568
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Speaker 1: do appreciate you and your enthusiasm for the show, But

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, do people really want to hear me

570
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: go on for that long? So I kind of do

571
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: this podcast the way that I think about podcasts and

572
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: when I see an hour and a half show or

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Speaker 1: a two hour show or a three hour show, I

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Speaker 1: just go, oh my gosh, I can't begin to completely

575
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: fish that podcast. So for me, you know, the time

576
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Speaker 1: of this podcast has gently creeped up over you know,

577
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Speaker 1: the past couple of months. Like to I try to

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Speaker 1: keep it to about fifty five minutes because I feel

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Speaker 1: like that's just under an hour. It doesn't feel as

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Speaker 1: intimidating as that over the post hour mark. So that's

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Speaker 1: my feeling, and I totally agree. I would love to

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Speaker 1: get to more questions every week and do that, but

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's more intimidating, and it's also

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Speaker 1: a time thing for me because I you know, it

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Speaker 1: does take some prep work to do this show, and

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Speaker 1: you know, by extending in a half an hour, it

587
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Speaker 1: would take even more prep work, so you know, I

588
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Speaker 1: have to get everything ready, and you know, I do

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Speaker 1: this on my own. So I like it. I like

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Speaker 1: the suggestion, and I do appreciate you. I love the

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Speaker 1: fact that you want to listen to more. I really do.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I will see if maybe in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, I decide to extend it. If you think

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Speaker 1: that that's a good idea, let me know. But you know,

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Speaker 1: right now, I'm keeping the show at about an hour

596
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Speaker 1: little bit less, and I think that's where it's going

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Speaker 1: to stay for now. But I'm I'm totally open to

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Speaker 1: doing more. I mean, I love talking, I love doing

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Speaker 1: this show, and so if I could do this show

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Speaker 1: every day, I would if it fit into my schedule,

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Speaker 1: if this has been my goal. If I could do

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Speaker 1: a one hour live call and show every single day,

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Speaker 1: maybe you know, Monday through Friday, I would do it

604
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: because you you just hear the podcast once a week

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00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: where I kind of curate the questions that I get

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00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: from folks, but they come in fast and furious on

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Speaker 1: all platforms all day long. I mean, what I do

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis is I just sit there on

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Speaker 1: Instagram or you know, YouTube or not YouTube, Facebook, I

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Speaker 1: barely respond to. But the amount of questions that are

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Speaker 1: in my comments, that are in my dms, that are

612
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Speaker 1: replies to my stories, that are on my Twitter, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty phenomenal. And the just how many questions are out

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Speaker 1: there is amazing, because when you think we've answered them

615
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: over and over and over, it's like you really haven't,

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Speaker 1: because there's so many people in this world and they

617
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: all want to know, like what the deal is, and

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Speaker 1: so I again, that would be my goal. If I

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Speaker 1: had a way to like know it. Every day at

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Speaker 1: three pm, I could sit down and do an hour show,

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Speaker 1: it'd be great. So but I just I'm not at

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Speaker 1: that place in my life, which I wish I was,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just not. All right, you know, my number

624
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: one goal in this world is to do my stories

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Speaker 1: for KTLA. Those are my one hundred percent priority because

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00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: that is my job, and so all this other stuff

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00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: that I do the podcast is part of KTLA, but

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Speaker 1: you know, we do an hour a week. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of the deal. So I would do more, but it's

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Speaker 1: just it's tough because it anytime I do more things,

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Speaker 1: it takes away from my KTLA time, and believe me,

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Speaker 1: KTLA takes a long time. I you know, I put

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Speaker 1: a lot of work into my stories for that that station.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk more about CS. I did a

635
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Speaker 1: segment on pandemic gadgets at CS and pandemic stuff was

636
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Speaker 1: was very apparent at this year's CES, which is so

637
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: wild because when you go to CS, they always have

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00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: all these booths with like you know how and wellness

639
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: stuff that you just kind of ignore, and this year

640
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: no nobody ignored it. Like masks and air purifiers and

641
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff was very popular. So let

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Speaker 1: me go over some of the things that caught my eye.

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Speaker 1: The LG keynote, they showed this thing called the pure

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Speaker 1: Care Wearable Air Purifier. This is a smart mask that

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Speaker 1: has a rechargeable battery that cleans the air that you

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Speaker 1: breathe in and out fro up to eight hours. They

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Speaker 1: haven't said if it's going to be available in the US,

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Speaker 1: but it looked kind of it looked, you know, it

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Speaker 1: looked like it would be really cool to have. But

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Speaker 1: as someone who wore an N ninety five mask on

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Speaker 1: the plane for two hours there and back to Seattle,

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Speaker 1: you know that that's pretty tight on your face, and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't feel heavy, but it feels tight, and so

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Speaker 1: I imagine that this would probably feel a combination of

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Speaker 1: those two things. And with masks, you know, there is

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Speaker 1: mask fatigue the longer you wear these things, and so

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Speaker 1: I'd be curious about that, but at the same time

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a cool idea. Then there's something called

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Speaker 1: the mask Phone fon E. This is a mask that

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Speaker 1: has built in earbuds, so you can you know, make

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Speaker 1: a phone call with Bluetooth and you don't have to

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Speaker 1: like lift or you know, people can hear you. It's

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Speaker 1: it's just you know, it's two and one. Then, of course,

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Speaker 1: the touchless tech is everywhere. So Arlow is making a

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Speaker 1: touchless video doorbell, which I just think this is wild.

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Speaker 1: The doorbell when you approach, it uses a proximity sensor

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Speaker 1: to recognize you and it makes an audible chime, so

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Speaker 1: it's like or whatever. I don't know what that sound is,

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Speaker 1: but it kind of like so you're like, oh, wait,

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Speaker 1: hold on, this thing is doing something. And then it

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Speaker 1: rings itself so you don't have to touch it, and

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Speaker 1: it gives you like a visible thing that you know

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Speaker 1: that it's been pressed. And then Coler, you know, they

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Speaker 1: make all the water faucets and stuff they're bringing you know,

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Speaker 1: we've seen touchless in corporate settings forever and even even

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Speaker 1: the kitchen, but now they're bringing it to the bathroom

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Speaker 1: so that we'll have a single faucet that's touchless, and

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Speaker 1: which is great for families, you know, I mean, as

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Speaker 1: long as it works well, you know, because sometimes those

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Speaker 1: bathroom ones that the airport and stuff can be come annoying,

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00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: like they don't necessarily work all the time, and also

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Speaker 1: getting the water to run for a longer period. But

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Speaker 1: you know they're doing that, which is great because you know,

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Speaker 1: the less you touch hopefully the less you know stuff

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Speaker 1: that's getting moved around. And they're also making a retro

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Speaker 1: fit kit so you can turn any recent single control

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Speaker 1: color bathroom faucet touchless. Then you've got targets. They are

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Speaker 1: making a UVC light for your desk. It sits kind

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Speaker 1: of on top of your keyboard and at the end

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Speaker 1: of every hour, it just goes to town and uh

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Speaker 1: sanitize your desk for five minutes. And it has a

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Speaker 1: little motion sensor so that if someone's around, they're not

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Speaker 1: going they're gonna you know, it's not gonna trigger because

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Speaker 1: UV light is not good for your eyes. And then

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Speaker 1: this one's kind of cool. This uh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: if you've seen all these airports and stuff, they always

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Speaker 1: show that shot of the person like using some sort

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Speaker 1: of fogger to like deep you know, deep clean the

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Speaker 1: areas and disinfect everything. Well that's of course filled with chemicals,

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Speaker 1: but scosh. They make a lot of these these UH

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Speaker 1: devices for your car, these accessories. They have the Magic foger.

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Speaker 1: This is a portable antibacterial sanitizer and the mist is

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Speaker 1: organic and it's they say it's a hundred times stronger

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Speaker 1: than bleach, but organic and safe for humans, animals, and

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Speaker 1: the environment. And I do believe that because I saw

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Speaker 1: a pitch on a story about this stuff that like

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Speaker 1: literally takes I think it's regular water and maybe like

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Speaker 1: a tablespoon of vinegar or something and like turns it

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Speaker 1: into like a disinfectant and it like somehow charges it

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Speaker 1: up or I don't know, but it's it seemed pretty cool,

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Speaker 1: and so I think that's working along the same lines.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to another question. Let's see uh. Doreen says, Rich,

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Speaker 1: have you done a segment on the RFID blocking cards

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Speaker 1: that you put in your wallet and it protects all

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Speaker 1: the cards in your wallet. There's so many different ones.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get them, and want to get

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Speaker 1: them for the whole family, but don't want to waste

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Speaker 1: my money on something that doesn't work to protect us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for all your help in the past, Doreen.

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Speaker 1: So again, this is this is really funny because this

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Speaker 1: is again the kind of thing. I saw this product

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Speaker 1: at CS no joke five years ago, it had to

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Speaker 1: be And now just recently, we've seen a lot of

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Speaker 1: people concerned about RFID. So I will tell you, do

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Speaker 1: I think you necessarily need this? Probably not. I don't

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Speaker 1: hear a lot of a lot of instances where people

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Speaker 1: are getting hacked through their credit card with RFID stealers,

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Speaker 1: but it could happen. And if you are going to

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Speaker 1: buy one of these things. The ones that I like

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Speaker 1: are from a company called Silent Pocket. We interviewed them

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Speaker 1: for the News, met the guy and it was great.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the guy that I talked to

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Speaker 1: at CS like five years ago, and nobody cared about

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Speaker 1: my story when I posted it to social media. And now,

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Speaker 1: of course, you know, privacy is so big people care

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Speaker 1: about this and so great. You know, it's just a

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Speaker 1: little a little ahead of the curve there. But they

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Speaker 1: make pockets for your phone, for your tablet, your laptop,

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Speaker 1: your keys, accessories you know, like wallets. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: make everything everything. So if you want RFID protection, you

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Speaker 1: look at Silent Pocket and they have a card sleeve,

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Speaker 1: a five pack. I think this is what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: For fifteen bucks, or you can get a wallet for

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Speaker 1: twenty dollars, or you can get a lunch money pouch

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Speaker 1: for twenty bucks, or you know all these things. They've

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Speaker 1: got them all over their website. Again, it's called Silent Pocket.

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00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: And if you want an RFID blocker, then go with them,

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Speaker 1: and you know, see what you need. I have a

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Speaker 1: card with RFID. I've got a card, my credit card

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Speaker 1: has RFID on it and honestly it doesn't work. It

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00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: somehow got deactivated because I've wanted to use it for

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00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: tap to pay when my phone is either you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't have my phone with me or I don't know,

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Speaker 1: just some random reasons, and it does not It does

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Speaker 1: not work. So I don't know what the problem is.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I need new credit card that has it, but

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00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: it's fine. I don't. I just don't use it. But anyway,

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00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: that's that's the deal with RFID. Good question and thanks

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Speaker 1: for asking. All right Rich on tech dot TV slash podcast,

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Speaker 1: here is another question. Hey Rich, my name is Luise

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Speaker 1: from Whittier.

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Speaker 3: My question is what are your thoughts about the changes

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00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 3: coming to the Google based apps like Google pay needing

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Speaker 3: to download a whole new app instead of updating or

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00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 3: even like Google Photos.

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Speaker 1: Stopping the free storage this year.

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Speaker 3: Are there any other Google app changes that we should

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Speaker 3: know about in the coming year.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for hearing me out, love the podcast and been

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Speaker 2: a long time fan.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, good question, and oh my gosh, uh wow,

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Speaker 1: you kind of stumbled upon a loaded question here, because

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Speaker 1: you know, when you think about these Google product the

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Speaker 1: number one thing is that Google is all over the place.

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Speaker 1: They have really killed it with search, but in YouTube,

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Speaker 1: but other than that, almost every product that they come

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Speaker 1: out with is kind of a mixed bag. And Google Photos,

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Speaker 1: I would argue, is probably the Okay, so you've got

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Speaker 1: Google Search, Gmail YouTube, and Google Photos. I think those

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Speaker 1: are probably and obviously they're ad offerings, but you know,

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Speaker 1: those are probably the four most popular consumer Google products.

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Speaker 1: I guess Android I didn't understand. Oh wow, Google is

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Speaker 1: talking to me that really? That really shook me up there. Ooh,

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Speaker 1: I had I accomplished a personal goal in my home

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Speaker 1: where I've always wanted all of the smart speakers lined

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Speaker 1: up together so that I can ask them the same

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Speaker 1: thing and see how they respond. So I've got the

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Speaker 1: HomePod Mini, the you know, the one from Amazon, which

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Speaker 1: I won't say the name because she triggers very quickly,

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Speaker 1: and the Google one, and I love it because you

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Speaker 1: can ask the same thing and just see how they respond.

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00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: And it's like so good for me as a tech

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00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: person to like see the nuances with these various devices.

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00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: So anyway, I digress. But yeah, you know the Google

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Speaker 1: Pay thing. I would give you more thoughts on that,

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Speaker 1: but literally, I can't log in. I've tried and tried

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00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: and tried. Something's wrong with my Google account. I cannot

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00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: log into Google Pay with the new app. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what the problem is and I have no idea

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Speaker 1: how to fix that. I think Google Pay is cool,

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00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: but again, it's like this all over the place thing.

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00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, let's get into payment apps because everyone

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00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: else is ven most popular. And Google Photos it's like

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00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: they promised all this free storage and it's like now

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00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: they're changing that. And I think that Google should have

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00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: kept the free storage for people that are giving up

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00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: the quality on their photos. I mean, this is a

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Speaker 1: huge company. I get it. They probably underestimated the popularity

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00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: and just how much people would throw in there. But

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00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: at the same time, you kind of started along those

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Speaker 1: lines and then you switch gears and it really does

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00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: not build a lot of confidence people. So that's that's

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00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: just not right. And it's like this with everything with Google,

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00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: they just kind of they're all over the place. And

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00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: Google Maps has been pretty consistent. But again, even with

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00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: something like Google Maps, you know, they're trying to be

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00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: Yelp in Google Maps, and you know ninety to al

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Speaker 1: percent of people probably don't use Google Maps for the

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00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: ratings and reviews and all that stuff. But again, they

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00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: have all these different things in there that they just

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00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: try to you know, throw in and you know, build

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Speaker 1: into their apps. It's like if they get a popular appy,

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00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: they just try to change as much as possible to

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00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: like kind of to kind of piggyback off that popularity

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00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: in different ways. And I just think that they need

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Speaker 1: to stick to what they're doing, you know, really focus

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Speaker 1: and focus on the users and the user experience and

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Speaker 1: what do users like about that app and and don't

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Speaker 1: change it and in fact, just continue to make it better.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's kind of my advice for Google. And

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Speaker 1: so great question. It's just a matter of, uh, you know,

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00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: you got to keep up with Google and their changes,

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00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 1: and it's frustrating as a consumer because you just feel

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Speaker 1: like when you get into a Google product, like it

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Speaker 1: may not be there in a couple months, or it

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00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: may be completely different in a couple months. And I

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Speaker 1: think that that we're seeing that in a big way

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00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: with Google Photos. Although I am sticking to it because

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00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: I still think it is the best photo solution out

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00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: there and I still love it. I'm just really trying

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00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: to stay under that two terabytes of storage because I

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00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 1: don't want to go over that. All right, speaking of Google,

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00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,879
Speaker 1: let me just talk about this because I just talked

844
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: about the speaker. They have a new guest mode on

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00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: the Google devices, which are the Google Smart displays and

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00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: also the Smart speakers. So this is a smart little

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00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: thing that you can do. So you can say, hey,

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00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: g turn on guest mode, and anything you say to

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00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:52,720
Speaker 1: your Google assistant will not be saved to your account history.

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00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: And so you know why would you need this, Well,

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00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: maybe you have guests over and you don't want them

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00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: accessing your personal information or whatever they ask Google. You

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00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: don't want that to be saved into your account history,

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00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: ruining your personalized recommendations. So with guest Mode, you can

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00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: enjoy features like you can ask questions, you can control

856
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: smart home devices, which I'm not sure how that's possible.

857
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: You can set timers and play music, but your device

858
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: won't show personal results like your calendar, entries or contacts

859
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: until you turn the mode off. Once you have this

860
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: mode on, your device has a special chime and you'll

861
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: see a guest icon on the display. Let me try this, Hey, Google,

862
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: turn on guest mode. Guest modes on. Okay, so now

863
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: it says guest modes on. So let me ask a question, Hey,

864
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 1: what time is it in Tokyo? And it's thinking. It's

865
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: thinking really hard. That's not that tough of a question,

866
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: is it. Oh that's a I don't think it likes

867
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: guest mode. It's really thinking. All right, well that didn't

868
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: really work. Now my time on Saturday? Okay. By the way,

869
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 1: to hear about it upcoming events, just say oh calendar.

870
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's that's the new thing. Because these assistants

871
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: are getting so interesting with like they toss on, they

872
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: throw something in at the end of your question or

873
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: your answer, I should say so that you continue to

874
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: like interact with them. It's like, hey, we know you

875
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: just asked the weather up. By the way, did you

876
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: know you can order great food from Panda Express. It's

877
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: really tasty, and it's like, you can see where they're

878
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: going with this. There will be ads at the end

879
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: of the answers soon enough, when they can figure out

880
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: how to do this without totally alienating everyone. But mark

881
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: my words, that is what's coming with all of these assistants,

882
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: with these smart speakers, Mark my words, January fifteenth, twenty

883
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: twenty one. Well, I think that what it should do

884
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: is it should have some sort of visual indication on

885
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: the speaker that you're in guest mode. And also before

886
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: it gives your answer, it should give you some sort

887
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: of chime because now I'm gonna forget this in guest mode,

888
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: and I guess maybe if I ask something personal, it

889
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: would say, oh, sorry, you're in guest mode. I can't

890
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: do that. But anyway, so that's a he G, turn

891
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: on guest mode, and then if you want to turn

892
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: it off, hey G, turn off guest mode. All right,

893
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: let's see another question Shanna and Bob hey Rich, what's

894
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: the safe place to copy my Facebook memories, photos and videos,

895
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: Not Google or any large tech companies. Private and safe

896
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: free would be great. Should I transfer to an external

897
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: hard drive? What cord would I need with an iPhone eleven?

898
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I value your advice. I hope

899
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: you and your family have a happy New Year. Well, Shanna,

900
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: free is gonna be really tough because there's really no

901
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: free place that I know of anymore that can just

902
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 1: let you store an unlimited amount of things. Yes, a

903
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: lot of these are free for up to a certain amount,

904
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: but not for everything. And most of the free storage

905
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: options are going to be from the big tech tech companies,

906
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: like say a dropbox or a one drive or let's

907
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: see what's the other one, Google Photos. Yeah, so any

908
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: of these products you're probably going to pay for. But

909
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: you said an external hard drive, I don't An external

910
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: hard drive is fine, So I think that would work.

911
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: But I think a better solution would be something like

912
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: an eb ibi. And this is from sand Disk, and

913
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: it's kind of a hard drive that's connected to the Internet.

914
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: And the beauty of this is that it has the

915
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: right software to help you automatically transfer your Facebook memory.

916
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,240
Speaker 1: So all of the stuff from Facebook you can transfer

917
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: onto that hard drive and it will do it automatically

918
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: and ongoing. So that's number one. That's I think it's

919
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: like one hundred and two hundred bucks something like that,

920
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: so that would be number one. And there's no ongoing fees,

921
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: and it is private, like you said, and it is

922
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: safe because nothing nothing goes up to the cloud. It's

923
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 1: stored in your home. Now, the downside to that is

924
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: that if you delete or something gets you know, messed

925
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: up or corrupted with this EB, you've lost all of

926
00:47:56,040 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: your your photos. So the other thing you can do

927
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: on Facebook, they have a Facebook Data Transfer Tool. I

928
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: forget what it's called. Let's see what is it called

929
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: Facebook Data Portability Tool I think it's called. And when

930
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: you go there you can transfer your stuff out of

931
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: Facebook into a lot of other services. So you can

932
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: just it's called the Photo Transfer Tool. So if you

933
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: go to Facebook dot com slash dtp, Facebook dot com

934
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: slash dtp and you go in there and you can

935
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 1: see what you want to transfer photos, videos and choose

936
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: a destination right now. The destinations are Koofer, which I

937
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: think is a European thing, Backblaze, B two, Dropbox, and

938
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: Google Photos and it will transfer them directly to those places.

939
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: And so that saves you a little bit of time

940
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: and effort because it's much easier just to trans from

941
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: you know, right there, and yeah, that's what I would do,

942
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: all right. And the hard drive is a good option,

943
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: but it's just a little bit more manual, So instead

944
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 1: of the destination, you would just kind of download your

945
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: information directly and then throw it onto the hard drive.

946
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: You can do that. That's fine, it's it's simple, it's easy.

947
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: You just have to be a little bit more hands on.

948
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: But there you go. That's what I would do, all right. Oh. Netflix,

949
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: according to nine to five mac via iPhone soft says

950
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 1: that they are going to be potentially testing spatial audio

951
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: on the iPad and iPhone and apparently Netflix has been

952
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: testing this since December. Now, if you're not familiar with

953
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: spatial audio support, this is on the AirPods Pro and

954
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: the AirPods Max, also known as kind of like three

955
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: D audio. A lot of this is going to be

956
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: the next big thing with the all the headphones are

957
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: going to have this. But the reason I bring you

958
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: the story is because when I was up in Washington,

959
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: I actually watched my first movie with the AirPods in.

960
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: I would not watch a movie with AirPods in right

961
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: if I'm watching on my iPad, I would just kind

962
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 1: of watch it with the speaker. But I was talking

963
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: to Brian, was it Brian No. I was talking to

964
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: Justine and she was saying how great the spatial audio was.

965
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 1: She was like, you gotta check out Mandalorian with spatial audio.

966
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: And I said, oh, okay, I would never think to

967
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: where my AirPods, you know, with that with the you know,

968
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: while I'm watching in like my hotel room. And sure enough,

969
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: I fired up a movie on Hulu that had the

970
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: spatial audio, and or I guess it sounded like it did.

971
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 1: It was pretty phenomenal. I'm pretty sure it had the

972
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 1: spatial audio because it sounded amazing and it literally you

973
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: could hear the people talking and wherever you move the iPad,

974
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: it would sound like that's where the audio is coming from.

975
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: So I was impressed. And that's why I tell you

976
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: the story, because with Netflix, this is really really cool stuff.

977
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: And now I'm like all about the spatial audio. The

978
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: movie I watched, by the way, it was called Bombshell.

979
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: It was kind of that Roger al story. It took

980
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: me a while, you know, in the news business, I

981
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: wanted to see that. Took me a while to watch it,

982
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 1: but I thought it was pretty good. I thought it

983
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: was well done. I thought, I thought, seeing the uh

984
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: they had like all the Fox News anchors, you know

985
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: it portrayed in the in the movie, which I don't

986
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 1: know how I feel if I was, you know, an

987
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: anchor that was portrayed in a movie like that, because anyway,

988
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: but it was. It was a good little movie. I

989
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty well done. And uh wow, very

990
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: very interesting, especially given the current climate of what is progressed.

991
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: Since that movie came along probably a year ago or two,

992
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: so many they didn't even realize that they were just

993
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: at the beginning of some of the some of the

994
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: wackiness we've seen in the past year. All right, let's see,

995
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: should we do another should we do another question? Let's

996
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: do another question from the podcast page Rich on tech

997
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 1: Dot TV slash podcast.

998
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,359
Speaker 2: Here we go, Hey, Rich, this is Jim from Arizona.

999
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,240
Speaker 2: I'd like to put some geotag information on some old

1000
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 2: digital photos. And I was wondering if you had a

1001
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 2: application that you could wreck man for either Windows or

1002
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 2: an iOS device. Thank you.

1003
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:11,720
Speaker 1: Oh that's an interesting one. Okay, Well, let's see. On iOS,

1004
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: I would think that you could can you not add

1005
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: information to a picture once it's taken. If you swipe up,

1006
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting. Oh okay, let's see. Let me

1007
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: let me see this. So if I have my picture here,

1008
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,439
Speaker 1: I swipe up, they don't allow you to edit. Huh.

1009
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: You can see where the picture was taken, but you

1010
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: can't edit. Wow, that's interesting. Okay. Now let me try

1011
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 1: that same thing on a Samsung. Let me go into

1012
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: a photo gallery and I'm gonna swipe up and it

1013
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: says location. Let's just press edit details Edit. You can

1014
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: remove the location, but I don't see the ability to

1015
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 1: oh yep, and then you can add location yep. Okay.

1016
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: So on Android it seems a lot easier to do this,

1017
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: but I'm sure on iOS there's some apps. I have

1018
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: not tested these apps, but I I'm sure there are

1019
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: some apps now. I also know on Facebook Photos all right, sorry,

1020
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: Google Photos, Jim, this might be a way to do it.

1021
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: You take a picture in Google Photos, you upload it

1022
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: there and you can sync it to your phone and

1023
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: you can edit the location data there. And I've done

1024
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:21,800
Speaker 1: that for some of my photos. As for a standalone app,

1025
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:26,280
Speaker 1: I would think on the on the you know, max

1026
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: side of things, the photos app obviously you can add data,

1027
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: But I would think it doesn't. Windows Photos just have

1028
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 1: like a don't they have like a photo app built

1029
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: into Windows. So Microsoft Photos, can't you just use that

1030
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: to just say edit the data and just edit the

1031
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 1: GPS data. Those are the places that I would look

1032
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 1: and try and you know, see if you can do it.

1033
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:51,280
Speaker 1: I don't have I don't have a Windows PC handy

1034
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: right now. I mean I could try my kids he

1035
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: has Windows, so I can see if I can do

1036
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,760
Speaker 1: it on there. But I was not prepared for your questions.

1037
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: So but those are the places I would look at.

1038
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: But I'm sure the only thing I would do is

1039
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: just be very careful about, you know, downloading random apps

1040
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: to let you add So if I would, if I

1041
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: would look Window x IF editor, it looks like there's

1042
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of apps that you can do that.

1043
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: It looks like Microsoft Photos has it. Yeah, there's a

1044
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 1: there's oh wow, okay, even six free tools to change.

1045
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: Looks like there's a lot of tools that will let

1046
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,240
Speaker 1: you do it if you have a bunch of photos

1047
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: that you want to do it with. It looks like

1048
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 1: they have a bunch for Windows that make it easy

1049
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: to change a whole bunch at once, but just be

1050
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: careful because these are your photos, and I would always

1051
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: have a backup before you change anything too drastically because

1052
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,280
Speaker 1: you don't want to mess around with that kind of stuff.

1053
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: But good question, Jim. Thanks for thanks for listening to

1054
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: the show and submitting your question at rich on tech

1055
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: dot TV slash podcast. All right, quick story here. Google

1056
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: completed its fitbit acquisition, which I know a lot of

1057
00:54:57,760 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: people are kind of weary about because, oh, here's an

1058
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: another big company gobbling up a company that was independent,

1059
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: and now what's going to happen to all of our data?

1060
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: So fitpit has twenty nine million users. I hope that

1061
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,839
Speaker 1: they use this acquisition to actually make a product that

1062
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: rivals the Apple Watch, because right now we do not

1063
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: have that and we need that on the Android side,

1064
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 1: So Google says that fitness fitbits user health and wellness

1065
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: data will not be used for Google Ads, and this

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Speaker 1: data will be separated from other Google Ads data. They

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Speaker 1: also say they will maintain access to Android APIs, which

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Speaker 1: means that fitness trackers and smart watches will still be

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Speaker 1: able to interoperate with Android smartphones. That's nice, so not

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Speaker 1: going to close off other wearables from working with Android,

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Speaker 1: and they say they'll allow fitbit to continue working with

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Speaker 1: third party services. That's also nice. They say they will

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Speaker 1: hopefully the synergy will drive more competition and wearables and

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Speaker 1: make the next generation of devices better and more affordable.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope that everything you're saying here, Google is true

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Speaker 1: and AIM's true, because here's what happens with a lot

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Speaker 1: of these big companies. They put this out there January fourteenth,

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00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and then what happens in two years

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00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 1: when everyone forgets They slowly but surely close things off,

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Speaker 1: change things, and go against what they originally said. Let's

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Speaker 1: hope that does not happen here. Let's just hope that

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Speaker 1: Google builds an amazing smartwatch that works with you know,

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00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: potentially iOS, but you know that's kind of tricky and

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00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: Android and just continues to be good and we see

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00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: more competition with the Android side of things. And let's

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00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 1: just hope that they don't just close everything up, use

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00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: your foot, use your fitness data for ads, and you know,

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Speaker 1: go against everything that they said. Let's just hope that

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen. So, all right, final question before we go here.

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Speaker 1: This is from George also via my pod page, so

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00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: that's also on the new podcast page is pretty amazing.

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00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:51,479
Speaker 1: So if you just go to rich on tech dot

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00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: tv slash podcast, there's so many things you can do here.

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00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: You can listen to the latest episode, you can subscribe

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00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 1: using all the different methods. You can all also leave

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00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: that voicemail as well, and there used to be a way,

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00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 1: oh you can't well okay, well, I guess I have

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00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: to pay if I want the contact stuff to still

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00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: be in there. Used to be able to leave a

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00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: message there, like a written message, but I guess that's

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00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: only on the page. So I was on. I signed

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00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: up for this thing called pod page, and they have

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00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: a free service and also a paid service, and it

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00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: looks like the paid my free trial dropped off and

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00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: there's a lot of features that are no longer available here.

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00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: But okay, I may have to look into subscribing because

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00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: I like the fact that you can just go there

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00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: and leave a message like George did. But anyway, George's

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00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: message said, you can still email me hello at richontech

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Speaker 1: dot tv or go to rich on tech dot tv

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00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: and at the bottom there is an email form that

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00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: you can use a little link to my email George said, hey, Rich,

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00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: I was in Sweden six years ago, and every restaurant

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00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 1: would bring a credit card reader to the table, so

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00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: my card never left my site. Why has the US

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00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: been so slow to adopt this technology. The answer, George

1117
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: is money. Restaurants just don't want to pay for the

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00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: added expense of having these little credit card readers that

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Speaker 1: you can bring to your table. The good news is

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Speaker 1: because of the pandemic, for a while, when restaurants were

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00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: actually open, we did see more adoption of this because

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00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: they would finish the bill right at your table, or

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Speaker 1: you could tap right at your table. I do expect

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Speaker 1: to see more of this coming to the US now

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Speaker 1: that you know, but these companies are on a cycle,

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00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 1: like you know, if you're at like a CBK or something.

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Speaker 1: I think actually CBK was the one that I was

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Speaker 1: at the other day, back when my wife and I

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00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: went to dinner or lunch the last day before LA

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00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: shut down everything again, we went out to lunch outside

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Speaker 1: and I do believe that the I think they brought

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Speaker 1: a credit card reader to my table. I think they did.

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00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: Maybe that was somewhere else, but anyway, I think we're

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Speaker 1: going to see more restaurants news. But you're right, George.

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Speaker 1: In the rest of the world, this has been the

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Speaker 1: standard for many, many, many decades, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: why it has been just so painfully slow in the US.

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00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: Why does our credit card need to leave our hands,

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00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: go into the hands of a server and then into

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Speaker 1: some back room somewhere where who knows what happens. And

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00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that every server is, you know, snapping

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00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: a picture of these things, but it could happen, and

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00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,919
Speaker 1: there is that opportunity and why not. And I also

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00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: just like the idea that I can sit there and see,

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Speaker 1: you know, in a post COVID society, you know, when

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00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: we're actually touching things again, but I can, you know,

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00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: tap my phone to this little device and then it says, hey,

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00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: how much tip do you want to do? Do you want

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00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: to do fifteen, twenty five percent? Whatever, And it's all

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00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: calculated for me, and it's all really nice, and there's

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00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: no like weird secondary receipt and all this weird stuff

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00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: that we do that just makes no sense. I one

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00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: hundred percent agree, George. It should be a machine that

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Speaker 1: they bring to your table and it works that way.

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Speaker 1: That that's the ideal, And yes, all over Europe when

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00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: you travel there, or if you travel to Asia, this

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00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: is the standard and it's so cool and I absolutely

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Speaker 1: absolutely love it. And let's hope we see it here

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00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: in the US. All right. That music means it is

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Speaker 1: the end of the show. If you would like to

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01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: submit a question for me to answer, just go to

1162
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: richon tech dot tv hit the email button at the

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01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: bottom of the page. I'd also like it if you

1164
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: would rate and review this podcast to help other people

1165
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: discover it. Just go to iTunes or whatever your preferred

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01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: way of listening and just look for the review button.

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01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: That really does help. You can find me at rich

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01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: on tech. That's me on all the social media networks.

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Speaker 1: My name is rich dmiro. Thank you so much for listening,

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Speaker 1: and have a fantastic day. I will talk to you

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Speaker 1: real soon. Take care.