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Speaker 3: then from a homeowner's standpoint, even just beyond insurance, there's

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Speaker 3: a whole bunch of other stuff that's going on.

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Speaker 4: Right.

435
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Speaker 3: We can talk about insurance and deep dive on it,

436
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,119
Speaker 3: but there are other things that are happening. Relationships with

437
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Speaker 3: your bank and dealing with your mortgage if you have

438
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Speaker 3: one managing construction, rebuilding that and then overlaying those insurance

439
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Speaker 3: terms like depreciation and what is actual cash value of

440
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Speaker 3: my couch?

441
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Speaker 4: You know, just like these.

442
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Speaker 3: Things that become very personal of like how do I

443
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Speaker 3: value you know, my couch or my artwork or whatever

444
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Speaker 3: it is, my collectibles and how you That then kind

445
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 3: of goes back into that policy and you know, from

446
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Speaker 3: an insurance company standpoint, it's a line item, but for

447
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Speaker 3: a homeowner it's very traumatic and you kind of have

448
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Speaker 3: to but.

449
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Speaker 4: You do have to sort of work your way through it.

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Speaker 1: So, so, Mike, what is sort of like, you know,

451
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Speaker 1: I've got a lot here, but what is sort of

452
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Speaker 1: like your bottom line advice you want to give people?

453
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Speaker 1: Like what do you think people should know that are

454
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Speaker 1: dealing with this or they have friends or family, Like

455
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Speaker 1: what do you want them to know? I mean, they

456
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Speaker 1: can go to your site to get all of these

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Speaker 1: downloadables and the PDFs and the terms, But what do

458
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Speaker 1: you think they should be thinking about?

459
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Speaker 3: So I think just like a couple things on the ground,

460
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Speaker 3: maybe sort of two different messages. Right, So for the

461
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Speaker 3: folks that are on the ground in LA that you know,

462
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Speaker 3: our early advice in those first few days is really housing, right,

463
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Speaker 3: It wasn't even really about insurance. It's it's actually housing.

464
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Speaker 3: And you can sort of see this demand surge happening.

465
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of a press around price gouging and

466
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Speaker 3: things like that, but that general theme of demand surg

467
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Speaker 3: is actually going to happen more or less throughout the

468
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Speaker 3: rest of this process over the next few years. Everything

469
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Speaker 3: from kind of getting contractors and labor pools, materials, getting

470
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Speaker 3: permits and inspections. The whole community is going to be

471
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Speaker 3: overwhelmed throughout this whole process. So I would say preaching patients,

472
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Speaker 3: but then also really being informed through the process. Right,

473
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Speaker 3: And so right now you know we've kind of moved,

474
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Speaker 3: we're in that housing sort of area, and then really

475
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Speaker 3: beginning to understand what your insurance actually covers.

476
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Speaker 4: We have a need article.

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Speaker 1: It's base.

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Speaker 3: It's called a fairy tale, and we try to kind

479
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Speaker 3: of humanize how to read your declarations page. I could

480
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Speaker 3: give it to you for their seconds if you're interested

481
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Speaker 3: about a friendly giant in your house, but basically, really

482
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 3: you want to kind of understand at least the basics

483
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Speaker 3: of what's going on in your policy, and then for

484
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Speaker 3: the sort of the rest of your listeners, there's trying

485
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Speaker 3: to get ahead of some of this stuff where you

486
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,479
Speaker 3: can actually adjust your policy now or when you're renewing

487
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Speaker 3: your policy, kind.

488
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Speaker 4: Of look out for a few things.

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Speaker 3: We do have some recommendations what we call endorsement essentials,

490
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Speaker 3: But an endorsement is kind of like a little rider

491
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Speaker 3: and extra in your policy that goes beyond the I'm

492
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Speaker 3: paying a one thousand dollars premium for a million dollar

493
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Speaker 3: coverage kind of thing. Things like replacement costs of not

494
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Speaker 3: just getting the value of your couch but on that day,

495
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Speaker 3: but having the money to replace the couch at retail is.

496
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Speaker 4: Kind of a big thing.

497
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Speaker 3: Having inflation guards, so obviously we're in a very inflationary environment,

498
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Speaker 3: so being able to protect yourself against those kind of

499
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Speaker 3: market forces is a really really important thing. So I

500
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Speaker 3: think that you know on the grind and you kind

501
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 3: of have one message where it's like this is everything's overwhelming,

502
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Speaker 3: and you're not trying to overwhelm more.

503
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Speaker 4: Right, It's just like, hey, let's let's start with the

504
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Speaker 4: basics on insurance and.

505
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Speaker 3: Housing and then we're going to get to the next step, right,

506
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Speaker 3: and then I think for the rest of the listeners

507
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Speaker 3: that just have a obviously really care about what's going

508
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Speaker 3: on and and field for these folks. So you know,

509
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Speaker 3: take a look in your policy, see try to understand

510
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Speaker 3: kind of the basics.

511
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Speaker 4: Maybe take some pictures of your house for the future.

512
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Speaker 3: Just you have an under a working understanding of what's

513
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Speaker 3: in there and how you want to stay protected long term.

514
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Speaker 1: So all right, Mike, this is all great advice. We're

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Speaker 1: going to leave it there. Thank you so much for

516
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Speaker 1: joining me. The website is low Ti l o TI

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Speaker 1: dot com slash learn. So many downloadable documents, all kinds

518
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Speaker 1: of articles covering everything from I mean just so much here.

519
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: It's you sent me this website or someone sent me

520
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Speaker 1: this website, and I just said, this is really good

521
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Speaker 1: information stuff that you can download. It's just such a

522
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Speaker 1: great help. So again, l O T I do slash learn.

523
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Speaker 1: Mike thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 4: Thanks a ton Richard, thanks for everything else that you're

525
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Speaker 4: doing too.

526
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Speaker 3: Just appreciate the time here and thanks for getting all

527
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Speaker 3: the rest of this information out in the folks hands.

528
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Speaker 4: It's needed and it's a desperate time, so thank you.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that. All right, coming up here, we're going to

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Speaker 1: get to more of your questions. I see on hold

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Speaker 1: there so eight eight eight rich one O one eight

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

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Speaker 1: The website if you want to link to what we

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Speaker 1: just talked about is rich on tech dot TV. It

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Speaker 1: will be linked up there. This is episode one oh five.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Is it too early to talk

537
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: about the TikTok band I don't even care about this.

538
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Speaker 1: I hate to even say that, but I don't have TikTok.

539
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: I don't use TikTok. I do know that is a

540
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: popular social media app. One hundred and seventy million people

541
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Speaker 1: use it apparently. Yes, I've been on there. Yes I've

542
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: posted on there in the past, but it's just, you know,

543
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: just not for me. I say that now, play that

544
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: in a couple of years, if this thing is still around.

545
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Speaker 1: But anyway, here's where we stand with the TikTok band.

546
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: So depending on when you listen to this show, it

547
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: may already be unbanned or not banned, or still operating

548
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Speaker 1: or whatever. That's why I don't want to spend too

549
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: much time on it. But apparently the Supreme Court did

550
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Speaker 1: uphold the ban. This would be the first, you know,

551
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: major social media app shut down in US history. Apparently

552
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: twenty billion dollars in revenue would be at stake here.

553
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: Apparently also Biden's administration said they will not enforce any penalty,

554
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: but you know, that's only for one day until Trump

555
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Speaker 1: takes over. And then apparently the TikTok CEO is attending

556
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Speaker 1: his inauguration. There's people that might want to buy it,

557
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: including Elon Musk. So there's just a lot going on here.

558
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've heard about this, but

559
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Speaker 1: the one of the number one on apps in the

560
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Speaker 1: App Store this week was an app called Red Note.

561
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: This was an app out of China that's kind of

562
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: like an Instagram for them, And so people are protesting

563
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: by downloading that app, saying, hey, you know you're worried

564
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Speaker 1: about this app from China, We're gonna download even a

565
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Speaker 1: more Chinese app that's not even meant for the US citizens,

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Speaker 1: and so it's just a whole mess with this stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I think at the end of the day, I

568
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Speaker 1: don't want to predict the future here, but I think

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Speaker 1: TikTok is going to be around. I really do. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Pete in Fullerton. Pete, you're on with Rich

571
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Speaker 1: It is going fantastic. What's up with you?

572
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Speaker 5: I enjoy your segment every morning on Channel five. I

573
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Speaker 5: watch you every morning nine am nine am.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, appreciate that.

575
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Speaker 5: I've got three really quick ones for you. Ice three

576
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Speaker 5: you could handle. I heard you last week and after

577
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Speaker 5: that first, and I hadn't heard that name in a

578
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Speaker 5: long time. It's funny because on KFI they've been advertising

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Speaker 5: all this week with their business phones. Oh interesting, really,

580
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Speaker 5: if you've used it, or if you know anybody has,

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Speaker 5: and what's the what do people think of the quality?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Well, I used it in the past. I've not used

584
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Speaker 1: it recently, but I had. I had a phone line

585
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Speaker 1: from them in the past for many years, and the

586
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Speaker 1: quality is fine. So every phone call that we have

587
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: nowadays goes over a voiceover IP anyway, so it's all

588
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Speaker 1: the same uma they have their own technology they call

589
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Speaker 1: pure Voice HD, so they say that it actually captures

590
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Speaker 1: twice the information as traditional phone lines or landlines. I

591
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Speaker 1: think that the idea of the kind of HD quality

592
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Speaker 1: phone call it's there, and it's it's going to be

593
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Speaker 1: just fine. Do you have a reason why you need

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Speaker 1: super specific high quality calls or are you just making

595
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Speaker 1: sure it's not going to sound like garbage.

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Speaker 5: I'm just fun to finally set up with AT and

597
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Speaker 5: t's landline service, paying seventy some.

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Speaker 1: Bugs jump back, No, get rid of that. Get rid

599
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Speaker 1: of that. Get uma. It's you can pay as little

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Speaker 1: as zero a month. Just pay the taxes and fees.

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Speaker 1: I think it's like it comes out to like ten dollars.

602
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Speaker 1: But you'll be perfectly fine, are you. I mean, I

603
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Speaker 1: can't imagine that you're not going to be happy with

604
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Speaker 1: the quality of the service on this on UMA, So

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Speaker 1: I would definitely go with that. What what are the

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Speaker 1: other two questions we charge? After the first?

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Speaker 6: What would you.

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Speaker 5: Recommend for a cheap, reliable carrier?

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Speaker 2: I own?

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Speaker 5: And the other one is about a basic phone not

611
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Speaker 5: non ample for an emergency. I'm looking for a phone

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Speaker 5: and a cheap carrier and just a basic phone that

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Speaker 5: you is it's reliable.

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Speaker 1: For basic carrier. I would do one of the super

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Speaker 1: cheapies that you can pay in advance for like a year,

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Speaker 1: so you know. The one I like. I think that's

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Speaker 1: that's really cheap if you just want to pay like

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Speaker 1: four bucks a month is Mobile X, so if you're

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Speaker 1: familiar with them. There's also tell O T E l

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Speaker 1: l O. And that what's great about them is you

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Speaker 1: can build your own plans, so if you just want calling,

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Speaker 1: I think their plans started like nine bucks a month,

623
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Speaker 1: so you can really just like coordinate, like how much

624
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Speaker 1: do you want just just a phone line, some texting,

625
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: maybe like a tiny bit of data on there, but

626
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Speaker 1: it's all customizable. That's tell O T E l l

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Speaker 1: O dot Com. The other one I said is Mobile X.

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Speaker 1: They have a great plan that starts at three forty

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Speaker 1: eight a month or under. I think it's like four

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Speaker 1: dollars a month, whatever it is. It's pretty inexpensive. I

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Speaker 1: like Mint Mobile, but I know they were purchased by

632
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Speaker 1: T Mobile, so you know, now they've gone corporate. That's

633
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Speaker 1: another way to go, and you can pay the whole

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Speaker 1: year in advance on that, so I like that because

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Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about the bill, right, Or

636
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Speaker 1: you can just go to something like a Walmart and

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Speaker 1: just buy like a cheap plan that they have there

638
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Speaker 1: and just get a prepaid card that lasts for a year,

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00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: and you can do that. That's like, what's that? It's

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Speaker 1: not smart Talk. That's another one. The straight talk is

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Speaker 1: one of them that they have there, but that one's

642
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: kind of expensive. But yeah, that's another way to go.

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00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: As for the phone, I would just go with a

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Speaker 1: super cheap kind of flip phone. So there's a website

645
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Speaker 1: dumb Wireless dot com. They have all of the super

646
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Speaker 1: cheap flip phones. They've got a Nokia twenty seven to

647
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Speaker 1: eighty for eighty eight bucks. You know, why not just

648
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Speaker 1: get that. That's that's going to do exactly what you

649
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Speaker 1: need there, Pete. So yeah, that's what I would do,

650
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Speaker 1: is just go to their website and check it out.

651
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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. I can't believe you answered three

652
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: three questions. How long do I have before I got

653
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: a break here?

654
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 4: Oh?

655
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: Ninety seconds? Perfect? Okay, Well we'll do a question from email.

656
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: Jannis from Seemi Valley rights in I have an iPhone

657
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: and I use Yahoo email even though I block scam emails,

658
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: they just keep coming from different addresses. I don't feel

659
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: safe unsubscribing from these fake emails, so I just block

660
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: and delete them. But the problem doesn't stop. Is there

661
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: a better way to reduce the number of these fake emails?

662
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: My spam and junk folders catch some, but I'd rather

663
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: not see them so often. Thank you, Jennis, I will

664
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: give you my advice for getting rid of spam email, which,

665
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: by the way, is impossible. I still get them. I

666
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: use Gmail and yes, every once in a while you

667
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: get some spam emails through. They do go to the

668
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: spam folder, which is great. Don't worry about the ones

669
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: that go there. That means the email service is doing

670
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: its job. But number one, delete these emails without opening them.

671
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: That's my best advice. Do not interact these emails. They

672
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: have little trackers in them that when you open them,

673
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 1: it says, oh, we got someone that's opening these, let's

674
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: send them more emails. So number one, do not do that.

675
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: Go in, make sure you have the best spam protection

676
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: settings turned on, and then do not unsubscribe to any

677
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: of these spam emails. You can unsubscribe safely from emails

678
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: from like Macy's or Home Depot, those are going to

679
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: honor your requests, but all these other ones, when you

680
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: hit on subscribe just gives you more. The other thing

681
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: you could do is turn off remote image loading. That

682
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: way they can't track you if your email service supports that.

683
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: Eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to

684
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Let's talk about a new

685
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: smartphone that is now available on the market. It is

686
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: the one plus thirteen, so one plus. I'll just tell

687
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: you my story to set this up. I will never forget.

688
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: I was in the backseat of a cab or I

689
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: think it was an uber in San Francisco and probably

690
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: ten years now at this point, and I saw this

691
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: phone and I, you know, I used to be a

692
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: real Android enthusiast, like really love Android, and I still do.

693
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: I just most of the time we're using an iPhone,

694
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 1: but I have Androids as well. But anyway, but I

695
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: saw this phone, and I was always looking for like

696
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: the best Android phone. And I saw this phone that

697
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: this driver had, and I was like, what phone is that?

698
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: To him? And you know, San Francisco is kind of

699
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: a very cutting edge place, so he was like, oh,

700
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: that's the new one plus. It's like one plus what

701
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: is that? And it just looked like the coolest smartphone

702
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: I had ever seen. Anyway, got a lot of experience

703
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,439
Speaker 1: with one plus over the years. I can't believe they're

704
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: up to thirteen. But the thing about one plus to

705
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: know is that they're always sort of challenging the status quo, right,

706
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: Like they give you a lot for your money, and

707
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: that was kind of their their value proposition in the beginning,

708
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: and then they sort of got away from that, where

709
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: the prices got high and the features got low, and

710
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: then people will like gave them a hard time. And

711
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: now I feel like they're back, and it's like a

712
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: it's been the ship has been righted right, the steering

713
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,720
Speaker 1: wheel is now going the correct way. And so these phones,

714
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: this latest the one plus thirteen is really really incredible.

715
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: So I've been playing with this for the past couple

716
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 1: of weeks. It's got all the top specs you can imagine.

717
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: So the latest Snapdragon eight Elite processor, up to sixteen

718
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: gigabytes of RAM, a triple fifty megapixel camera system with

719
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: Hasselblod which is their partner, and their sort of the

720
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: look of their photos, A six thousand millionam hour battery

721
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: with new technology inside. I don't even know what this is.

722
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna explain because it's just like what,

723
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: But it's apparently the battery on this thing, in my experience,

724
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: is like unkillable. You cannot deplete the battery. Six thousand

725
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: million hours, by the way, is really high. Like most

726
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: phones topped out at four thousand a couple of years ago,

727
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: and now they're at five thousand, and this one six thousand.

728
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: And it's got a great display. It's got IP sixty

729
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: nine water resistance, so that means that this thing is

730
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: more water resistant than any phone out there on the marketplace.

731
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: I put this thing in a hot tub, no problem.

732
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: You could put in a washing machine, dishwasher. It will survive.

733
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's that wild comes in a couple

734
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: of colors, Midnight Ocean. That's the one they sent me

735
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: to test out. It's a really cool blue color, Arctic

736
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: dawn and black eclipse. So let's see some of the

737
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: features on this thing. Works with wet hands and gloves,

738
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: so you can actually have you know, the screen could

739
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: be wet and still works nicely. I don't know if

740
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: you ever used a screen on your phone when it's wet,

741
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: but it's like it jump all over the place because

742
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: the water droplets like mess it up. Oh so the

743
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: magnetic charging this is kind of weird. It doesn't have

744
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: magnetic charging built in, but it's built into the case,

745
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: so you do get that magnetic support for accessories, which

746
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: is really nice. It's got Circle to Search, It's got

747
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: Google Wallet pass scanning, which, by the way, if you

748
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: have any Android this is such a cool feature. I

749
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,240
Speaker 1: did it this morning. So if you have an Android

750
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: phone and let's say you get a QR code for

751
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: a barcode or something, maybe not like a ticket Master ticket,

752
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: but almost anything else. I go to a lot of events,

753
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: they give you these barcodes that you got to you know,

754
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: scan to get in. You can go to Google Wallet

755
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: and it says add anything and you just put in

756
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: a screenshot of that barcode and it will create a

757
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: pass for you. So if you have a gym membership

758
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: or something that you want to create a pass for,

759
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: you can do it that way. Let's see four years

760
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: of software updates, six years of security patches, a couple

761
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: of unique connectivity features I've identified. It's got this iPhone

762
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,240
Speaker 1: file sharing capability because they're trying to like get around

763
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: the whole air drop thing. But it does require the

764
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: iPhone person to download a separate app, which good luck

765
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: getting an iPhone user to do that. That's not going

766
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: to happen. It's got this neat Bluetooth walkie talkie function,

767
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: so even if you're off the grid, you've got no cellular,

768
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 1: you can still use Bluetooth to walkie talkie to another phone,

769
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: but it has to be another one plus, which again

770
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: kind of a downside, and upcoming support for photos and messages,

771
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. So they're gonna but again

772
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: the other person has to have a OnePlus, so it's

773
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: probably gonna be pretty rare that you're going to use

774
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: that in real life. Now, I will tell you this

775
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: is the best Android smartphone I have ever tested ever

776
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: when it comes to the way it works, the sort

777
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: of the feel of it, the look of it, the style,

778
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: the size, the software, the speed, everything is just so good.

779
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: But now I'm going to get to the downside, and

780
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,760
Speaker 1: that is the camera. So this camera is just fine.

781
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: Like if you are not a camera person, you don't

782
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: care about the camera. This phone is going to be

783
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: incredible because it charges fast, the battery last forever. It's fast.

784
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: The software is awesome. The camera is going to be

785
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: just fine. Like you can take a look at some

786
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: of the pictures I took. They're fine. It's just not

787
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: as good as what you get from the pixels of

788
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: the world, the Samsungs of the world, and the iPhones

789
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: of the world. That is my experience. And the selfie camera,

790
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 1: which you know I'm partial to because I take a

791
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: lot of selfies. I'm on TV. I'm saying, hey, I'm

792
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: on TV, come watch. The selfies are particularly bad in

793
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: my experience. So where do we stand with the one

794
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,479
Speaker 1: plus thirteen. I think if the camera is not your

795
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: primary kind of concern, this is going to be an

796
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: amazing phone for you. And it's nine hundred dollars, by

797
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: the way starting price, which is pretty good. And they've

798
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: got some like trade in deals and all that kind

799
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: of stuff on their website, so I checked that out.

800
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: Before you get it, that's going to get to you.

801
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: The twelve gigabytes of RAM and two hundred and fifty

802
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 1: six gigabytes of storage model if you want the top

803
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: of the line, which is sixteen gigabytes of RAM and

804
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: five hundred and twelve gigs of storage. That's gonna be

805
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine. Now take a look at that compared

806
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: to you know, the Pixel of the World or the Samsung's,

807
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: the high end phones, they're gonna be you know, over

808
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. So the fact that this is nine

809
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: hundred is pretty darn good. So that is my review

810
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: of the one plus thirteen. I've got it right here,

811
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: and it is. It's just I will say it's one

812
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: of my favorite phones so far of the year. But

813
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: we're only eighteen days into the year, so a lot

814
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: can change, a lot can happen. But for me, the

815
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,959
Speaker 1: only downside of this phone that keeps me from wanting

816
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: to use this as my daily driver is really the camera.

817
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: Like I can't really I get better video and pictures

818
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: out of some of my other phones, including the iPhone

819
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: and some of the androids I use. All right, let's

820
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: go to Stanley in Bettsville, Ohio. I know you've been

821
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,760
Speaker 1: waiting for a while. Stanley, Welcome to the show.

822
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 6: Hello, Rich love hearing your tech tips. They really help

823
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 6: a lot.

824
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you, I love doing them. What's up?

825
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 6: I'm way past cutting the cable cord and now this

826
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 6: past week when I got hit with an increase on

827
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 6: I don't know if you want me to say brand names.

828
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: Oh sure, whatever, Well.

829
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 6: The old YouTube TV A lot of people I'm deciding

830
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 6: to go or think I want to go. We have

831
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 6: as our ISP Spectrum provides internet service to the thous

832
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 6: and I have Spectrum TV as part of the bundled package. Well,

833
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 6: this week, when I thought I was going to cut

834
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 6: YouTube TV, I started looking at Spectrum and realized that

835
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 6: with my Spectrum TV I can watch nearly everything I

836
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 6: can with my YouTube TV account.

837
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 7: Yeah.

838
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: Wait, you were paying for Spectrum and YouTube Yeah. Oh man,

839
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: Well I'm not going to call you stupid, but you

840
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: know you're paying double.

841
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 6: Well I bet I'm not the only person listening right now.

842
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 6: But anyway, here's my quandary. One thing we loved with

843
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 6: YouTube TV was the ability to record and store in

844
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 6: the cloud. And I'm looking for the best option to

845
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 6: record and store to hopefully a cloud DBR with Spectrum. Now.

846
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 6: I just recently came across ZOOMU Zumo Xumo, Yeah, which

847
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 6: I think can be used with my Spectrum TV app.

848
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's theirs. So Zumo was a startup that charter purchased,

849
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 1: and so that is their answer. So if you want

850
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: to streamline things and just go with what they offer,

851
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: I've tested this thing out. I don't think it's the

852
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: most powerful streaming box out there, but I think if

853
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: you want that integration with with your spectrum, I think

854
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: it's going to be a great fit. The main thing

855
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: to know is that you have your beholden to the

856
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: apps that they offer on there, so you can't there's

857
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: no like app store on this device where you say, oh,

858
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 1: there's a cool app I want. They have the apps

859
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: already built in and they've got all the main ones covered.

860
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: You can go on their website and make sure that

861
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: the apps that you want are on there. But that

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Speaker 1: is the main downside is that it's not as like

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Speaker 1: it's not as big of a platform as like the

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Speaker 1: fire TVs of the world or the Rokus of the world.

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Speaker 1: But yes, if you want to just use this and

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Speaker 1: have that cloud DVR, that's probably going to be your

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Speaker 1: best bet at this point. Anything else I recommend to

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Speaker 1: a Sling TV. So Xumo Zumo I think they offer

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Speaker 1: like usually a first six months free or something like that.

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Speaker 1: But Stanley, I think that's the way to go for now.

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Speaker 6: Okay. My other situation is we also have I know

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Speaker 6: this is really dumb, probably a Roku box. We use

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Speaker 6: Roku and and Spectrum TV and YouTube or that's what

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Speaker 6: I've been using. Can I record using the Roku box.

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Speaker 1: If you have the Spectrum app on there, so I

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Speaker 1: would download. What I would do is on your main TV,

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Speaker 1: get the zoom O box, record on your on your

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Speaker 1: satellite TV. On your secondary TV, I would get the

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Speaker 1: Spectrum app on your Roku box, and I believe that's

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Speaker 1: been a while since I used it, but I think

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Speaker 1: your recordings might be on there as well, so I

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Speaker 1: would check with that, maybe call Spectrum and just see.

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Speaker 1: But the Spectrum app I believe is on the Roku

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Speaker 1: TV platform. So that's the way I do it. Go

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Speaker 1: Zoomo for the primary TV, Roku for your secondary TV,

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Speaker 1: download that Spectrum app. That's that way, Stanley. You're paying

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Speaker 1: one price, you're getting your content all the places that

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Speaker 1: you want it, and it's something that you're familiar with.

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Speaker 1: Great questions today, Thanks for calling today in Bettsville, Ohio

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Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, celebrating, by the way,

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV, go to the website sign

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Speaker 1: up for that. Just got an email from Edwin. He

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Speaker 1: says he is a senior Spectrum tech. Just heard the

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Speaker 1: caller mentioned Roku and Spectrum. Yes, you can record from

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Speaker 1: a Roku, but you have to be signed up for

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Speaker 1: Cloud DVR with Spectrum. So there you go. You got

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Speaker 1: the answer. That's what I love about this show. You

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Speaker 1: and says, hey, Rich, here here's a little Birdie told me.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know. All right, let me

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Speaker 1: tell you about three apps that I think you should

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Speaker 1: know about. These are three new apps this week. Number

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Speaker 1: one Watchworthy. This is an app that previously did TV

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Speaker 1: recommendations based on your likes. Now they're expanding into movie recommendations.

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Speaker 1: So I downloaded the app. You basically go through a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of movies. You say, I like it, I

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Speaker 1: your tastes and give you personalized movie suggestions along with

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Speaker 1: what's called a watch a Worthy score, so it tells

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Speaker 1: you how much you're likely to like that movie. This

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Speaker 1: is all based on ranker dot Com did a story

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Speaker 1: with them years ago. They rank everything. If you go

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Speaker 1: to ranker dot com, let's see, they pretty much rank

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Speaker 1: like anything in the world, like whatever you can think of.

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Speaker 1: There's some sort of like list on let's see here,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to see, like what give me some lists?

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Speaker 1: Oh eleven medieval ghost stories that No, anyway, they've everything's

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Speaker 1: ranked on that website. But anyway, this is movie stuff,

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Speaker 1: so you can see where the movies are playing on Netflix,

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Speaker 1: Disney Plus, HBO, Max, Apple TV plus. You can put

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Speaker 1: from there. Of course, you can browse by genre and filter.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I used this last night. Actually watchworthy dot app,

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Speaker 1: watchworthy dot app for that. Then this is kind of cool.

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Speaker 1: Tinder meets the Slopes. A new app called Shredder is

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Speaker 1: basically helping you find ski buddies. So the app is

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Speaker 1: called Shredder and it tracks your performance data like your speed,

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Speaker 1: your vertical drop, and your distance, and then it uses

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Speaker 1: these stats to match you with compatible writing partners. So

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Speaker 1: if you want someone to hit the slopes with this

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Speaker 1: is you know, it's not a dating app, but hey

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Speaker 1: may turn into that. Who knows. It can also help

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Speaker 1: you do other stuff like coordinate your carpools, plan ski meetups,

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Speaker 1: share your stats with other riders. It's free, it's on

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Speaker 1: Apple devices, and it was crafted by ski enthusiast Alfred Arnaud,

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Speaker 1: who built it after struggling to find writing partners at

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Speaker 1: his ski level. So Instagram, dot com, slash try Shredder

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Speaker 1: is the website if you want to download that app,

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Speaker 1: and then this is a web app. It's not necessarily

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Speaker 1: a downloadable app. Maybe it will be in the future.

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Speaker 1: But it's called Autopilot, and I've seen this in the past.

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Speaker 1: This is a new app that's trying to do this

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Speaker 1: once again, but Autopilot. Once you sign up, it's got

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Speaker 1: this Lowest Fare Guarantee LFG, so it monitors the flight

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Speaker 1: tickets that you purchase for price drops and if it

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Speaker 1: drops more than twenty five dollars. It will secure an

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Speaker 1: airline credit for the difference. I think it's twenty five dollars.

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Speaker 1: There's a minimum on what they will they will do,

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Speaker 1: so you link up your email. It imports the flight

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Speaker 1: reservations as soon as you make them. It tracks those

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Speaker 1: price those ticket prices in real time. It'll go to

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Speaker 1: the airline get that price credit when the price drops.

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Speaker 1: And they don't charge you a a monthly fee. They

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Speaker 1: just charge a commission. So anything they save you they

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Speaker 1: charge you twenty five percent. So let's say you get

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars price drop, one hundred dollars credit, they

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Speaker 1: will charge you twenty five dollars. They say they can

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Speaker 1: get the average flyer. They say the average flyer overpays

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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars annually on flights. I think this would

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Speaker 1: have to be someone that flies a lot to really

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Speaker 1: get some noticeable credits here. It works with the major

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Speaker 1: airlines Delta, United and American, that is with autopilot dot Com.

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Speaker 1: With autopilot dot Com, I will link up all those

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Speaker 1: apps on my website. Rich on tech dot tv All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, you think about a new TV for the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, This is a good time to buy one,

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Speaker 1: we will have Digital Trends Editor at Large Caleb Denison

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Speaker 1: to talk about his picks for every budget. I'm very

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Speaker 1: excited to bring on my next guest. Caleb Denison is

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Speaker 1: with Digital Trends. He is the guy that is reviewing

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Speaker 1: every TV out there and always gives us some great picks.

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Speaker 1: He has been on the show before, and I figured,

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Speaker 1: since super Bowl's coming up and this is one of

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Speaker 1: the best times to buy a new TV, let's get

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Speaker 1: some refreshed picks. Caleb, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 7: Hey Rich, thanks for having me and it's great to

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Speaker 7: be back.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to the TVs, tell me about your

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Speaker 1: extracurricular stuff that you do. I know you. I follow

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Speaker 1: you on Instagram and all of a sudden I saw

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Speaker 1: you like playing in a band or something. So explain

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Speaker 1: what you do in addition to these reviews. Yeah, or

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Speaker 1: is this a secret?

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Speaker 7: No, it's not a secret.

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Speaker 8: I put it out on Instagram for anyone to see,

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Speaker 8: although I don't do a ton of posting with the

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Speaker 8: bands that I play with.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, I'm.

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Speaker 8: A professional trumpet player, have been since just out of college.

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Speaker 8: Actually worked on cruise ships for a little while, playing

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Speaker 8: trumpet and gathered a lot of experiences and stories there.

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Speaker 8: But yeah, when I'm not reviewing TV, usually on the weekends,

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Speaker 8: I'm out there playing a lot of weddings, special events

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Speaker 8: and festivals.

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Speaker 1: That is so cool, very very fun. I just the

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Speaker 1: reason it brought to my attentions because you were playing

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Speaker 1: at a place that I went to a wedding at

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Speaker 1: and I was like, wait a second, what's he doing there? Anyway, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's talk TVs. And first off, you went to CS

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Speaker 1: and what was a trend this year with TVs?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, if I had to come up with a theme

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Speaker 8: for CES this year, it would be bigger, brighter, better,

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Speaker 8: but for less. And that's what we saw across the board.

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Speaker 8: We saw a lot of large screen displays. We saw

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Speaker 8: you know, aggressive brightness, just more beautiful than we've seen

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Speaker 8: before a lot of really high end technologies that are

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Speaker 8: just coming out for us to kind of wrap our

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Speaker 8: heads around. But you know, those TVs tend to be

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Speaker 8: the super aspirational type television right there.

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Speaker 7: They're likely to be very.

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Speaker 8: Expensive when they do come out, and probably you know,

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Speaker 8: most of us are not going to be buying that

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Speaker 8: kind of TV. But when we see that kind of technology,

1043
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Speaker 8: I like to talk about. How about the trickle down

1044
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 8: tech theory. You know, the more advanced these new technologies become,

1045
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Speaker 8: the more what used to be cutting edge technology starts

1046
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Speaker 8: trickling down into televisions that you know everybody can afford.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always a good thing. Any new terms that

1048
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Speaker 1: we should be aware of this year, Oh.

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Speaker 8: So many new terms, rich, I mean, CEES is a

1050
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Speaker 8: great place to go if you want to have your

1051
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Speaker 8: mind just boggled with acronyms.

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Speaker 7: Right, So we have.

1053
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Speaker 8: QD mini led, we saw tri chroma or RGB mini led,

1054
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Speaker 8: a lot of different ways of approaching TV technology tweaks

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Speaker 8: on on what we've had before that you know, attempts

1056
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Speaker 8: to make them better, and you know there's a lot

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Speaker 8: of them, and you know we'd be here all day

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Speaker 8: if we tried to cover them on your show. Certainly

1059
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Speaker 8: couldn't fig fitted in this segment. But you know that's

1060
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Speaker 8: why you want to go to Digital Trends and specifically

1061
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Speaker 8: visit our YouTube channel, you know, because over the course

1062
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Speaker 8: of the year, I'm going to go through each and

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Speaker 8: every one of these and explain what they actually mean

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Speaker 8: to comment folks.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's get to some actual factual recommendations, because

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Speaker 1: that's what people actually want. I mean, do you want

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Speaker 1: to start the under five hundred.

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Speaker 8: I will get to the under five hundred. But before

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Speaker 8: I do that, I wanted to let you and your

1070
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Speaker 8: listeners in on a little bit of a secret. Now there,

1071
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Speaker 8: I have to stay away from mentioning specifics. You know,

1072
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Speaker 8: your in tech yourself, and you understand sometimes news is

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Speaker 8: shared with us ahead of its official announcement, but it's

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Speaker 8: under embargo, which is to say that we're not allowed

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Speaker 8: to talk about it until a certain date or time.

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Speaker 7: With that said, I have heard that there are.

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Speaker 8: Going to be some aggressive Super Bowl TV sales, particularly

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Speaker 8: from TCL, that are going to launch tomorrow, the nineteenth

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Speaker 8: of January. And I've got to tell you I've seen

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Speaker 8: the prices, and I'm not overstating things when I say

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Speaker 8: that they are the best sale prices on TVs that

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Speaker 8: we've seen, maybe ever, certainly since Black Friday. And so

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Speaker 8: I am going to read off some TVs that I recommend,

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Speaker 8: but I would like everyone to know that as of tomorrow,

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Speaker 8: you should see some pretty incredible sales on TVs. And

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Speaker 8: you're right, super Bowl is a time, a great time

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Speaker 8: to buy a TV because we're you.

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Speaker 7: Know, we're nearing the end of the model year.

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Speaker 8: The twenty four TVs need to be cleared out for

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Speaker 8: the twenty twenty five TVs, and so you know, there

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Speaker 8: are always great sales right around this time of year,

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Speaker 8: and so beyond, it's just exciting to get a new

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Speaker 8: TV for the Super Bowl. Let's remember, we keep these

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Speaker 8: TVs for a while, right, and we want.

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Speaker 7: To get something that we're going to enjoy for a

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Speaker 7: long time.

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Speaker 8: And it's just wonderful that there are these huge sales

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Speaker 8: coming right up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I would say maybe spend a little bit extra,

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Speaker 1: Like if you're looking at a TV that's three hundred

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Speaker 1: or four hundred, go with the four hundred, just because

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Speaker 1: you know, you do keep this thing for like a decade.

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Speaker 1: I mean at least I do. So, I mean, one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars over ten years is really not that much,

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Speaker 1: all right, So what do you recommend this year?

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Speaker 7: All right?

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Speaker 8: Well, let's remember that when you have a strict budget

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Speaker 8: for a TV, So when we talk about under five

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Speaker 8: hundred or under one thousand, usually have to make a

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Speaker 8: little bit of a decision. Do you want to get

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Speaker 8: the biggest screen possible? With maybe not the most amazing

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Speaker 8: picture quality, or are you happier with maybe a not

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Speaker 8: a huge screen with you know, extra special picture quality.

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Speaker 8: So I'm going to give a couple of different sizes

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Speaker 8: is in each category, and I guess we'll start with

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Speaker 8: the under five hundred. Like you said, my pick for

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Speaker 8: the best fifty five inch TV under five hundred dollars

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Speaker 8: would be the High Sense U six N. And it's

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Speaker 8: got all the technology that you want in it. It's

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Speaker 8: got many led back lights, it's got quantum dots for

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Speaker 8: you know, really vivid expressive color. It runs the Google

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Speaker 8: TV operating system, which happens to me my favorite built

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Speaker 8: in TV operating system. And it's just you're gonna hear

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Speaker 8: me mention High Sense in TCL a lot here because

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Speaker 8: these two brands are offering extremely amazing bang for your buck.

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Speaker 8: And for somebody who hasn't bought a TV recently, maybe

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Speaker 8: those aren't as familiar brands, but I'm here to tell

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Speaker 8: you they've been around for a while now, they've really

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Speaker 8: up their game. Their quality control is very good now

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Speaker 8: and they've become very reliable TVs.

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Speaker 1: So I can tell you last time we talked to you,

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Speaker 1: you recommended the High Sense and I bought it and

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Speaker 1: I love it, so it's been fantastic.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not going to give a recommendation. I can't

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Speaker 8: stand behind you know, it'll come back to me. But

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Speaker 8: if you want to go a little bit bigger under

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Speaker 8: five hundred dollars, I would recommend the sixty five inch

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Speaker 8: TCL Q sixty five. Write that down Q sixty five.

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Speaker 8: It's a wonderful TV at the most popular size right now.

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Speaker 8: Sixty five inches also runs Google TV, has a lot

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Speaker 8: of the similar technology that I just described in the

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Speaker 8: High Sense, and I think you'd be pretty happy with

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Speaker 8: that as well.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about a little bit more expensive.

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Speaker 8: Right if we want to go under one thousand, my

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Speaker 8: favorite TV under one thousand dollars right now would be

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Speaker 8: the sixty five inch Sony X ninety L. Sony, you know,

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Speaker 8: they've been in the game a long time and their

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Speaker 8: top tier when it comes to processing, and so when

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Speaker 8: you're maybe not watching four K content, you're just watching

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Speaker 8: cable or satellite or you know, lower quality streaming stuff,

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Speaker 8: you know, just your basic YouTube stuff. Sony processing really

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Speaker 8: cleans up that image and makes it look absolutely gorgeous.

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Speaker 7: With that said, I'm also a big fan of the

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Speaker 7: High Sense.

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Speaker 8: You eight and a couple of steps above that U

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Speaker 8: six I mentioned before also available sixty five inches. Well,

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Speaker 8: well under one thousand dollars. I think it's hanging out

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Speaker 8: around seven hundred right now. But if you do want

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Speaker 8: to go bigger under one thousand, you can use that

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Speaker 8: U six and I recommended earlier and get that in

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Speaker 8: a seventy five inch version. That's that's what happens if

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Speaker 8: you spend a little bit more money on that same

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Speaker 8: model to get a bigger size.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got about a minute left, so give

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Speaker 1: me your best to the best.

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Speaker 8: The splurge, well, I'm going to say it's Super Bowl.

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Speaker 7: We want to go big for a splurge.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna say real big, right, I'm talking about a

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Speaker 8: ninety eight inch TV. I would say, look at the

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Speaker 8: High Sense. I'm sorry, the tcl Q six at ninety

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Speaker 8: eight inches. Check the internet tomorrow, ninety eight inch TCLQ six.

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Speaker 7: You will be shocked at the price.

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Speaker 8: I can't tell you what it is, but it's well

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Speaker 8: under two thousand dollars. It's under sixteen hundred dollars as

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Speaker 8: a matter of fact.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Well, when you get that specific, you might as

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Speaker 1: well just say, what is no IgE kidding? I'm actually

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Speaker 1: looking at the email. I looked it up from TCL

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Speaker 1: and yes, it is a very aggressive price for a

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Speaker 1: ninety eight inch TV. I hope you have room for

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Speaker 1: it in your living room. Caleb Dennison, what's the best

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Speaker 1: place people can find your reviews about TVs?

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Speaker 8: Well, if you want to read them, you can go

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Speaker 8: to Digitaltrends dot com our website, or you can go

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Speaker 8: to YouTube. Just type in Digital Trends and you'll see

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Speaker 8: my face.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. Appreciate it. You got

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Speaker 1: a gig this weekend?

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Speaker 9: Or what?

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Speaker 7: No gig this weekend?

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Speaker 8: Unless you call golf a gig, in which case I

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Speaker 8: have a few gigs.

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Speaker 1: There we go. Thanks so much for joining me, Caleb,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Rich on tech dot Tv, I will put

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Speaker 1: all of his suggestions on the website. Episode one oh five,

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Speaker 1: look for the show notes there. Coming up, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talking Nintendo switch to plus dji making some changes to

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Speaker 1: its drone restrictions. Plus your calls, I see you, I

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Speaker 1: feel you. We're gonna take your calls. Coming up next

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight Rich one O one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. And by aphilia,

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Speaker 1: I mean I know you've been waiting for a long time.

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Speaker 1: We'll get you on. Welcome back to Rich on tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to uh Evan in Anaheim, California. Evan, you're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, hein' no.

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Speaker 6: Rich.

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Speaker 9: I was calling today because I've been looking into the

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Speaker 9: ninja woodfire electric barbecues that have like little pellets that

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Speaker 9: you use to to smoke things or just add that

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Speaker 9: smoky barbecue flavor. And I find there a really good

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Speaker 9: alternative to guess or charcoal barbecues because a lot of

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Speaker 9: us in apartments aren't allowed to use one.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: So I've heard some good things. I've heard some bad

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Speaker 9: things in reviews, but nobody really elaborates on the bad.

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Speaker 9: And I am on the fence with this thing in

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Speaker 9: my cost Co shopping cart for two ninety nine for

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Speaker 9: the smaller version. They don't offer the larger version there.

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Speaker 9: And I just wanted to know what your take was

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Speaker 9: on those.

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Speaker 4: If you had one.

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Speaker 1: I don't have one. I do have an I do

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Speaker 1: have other ninja stuff that I do like I think

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Speaker 1: Ninja's kind of a good up and coming brand with

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Speaker 1: all these kitchen appliances and just various things they make.

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Speaker 1: I did try pizza from this woodfire oven over in Berlin,

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Speaker 1: Germany last year at the IFA show. So I did

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Speaker 1: try pizza. It smelled good, it looked good. I mean,

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Speaker 1: everything worked for us, but of course someone else was

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Speaker 1: cooking on this. What are you comparing this to, like,

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Speaker 1: what are you gonna smoke stuff? Or are you just

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Speaker 1: looking for an electric grill?

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Speaker 9: You know, a little bit of both grill and smoke.

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Speaker 9: And they actually it's funny because Ninja just has so many,

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Speaker 9: so many products. Oh yeah, the oven is actually different

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Speaker 9: than the grill, even they have a specific grill. And

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Speaker 9: the reviews that I saw is that the oven is

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Speaker 9: good at being an If you want to grill, get

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Speaker 9: the grill. But if you want a oven, if you

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Speaker 9: want a grill in the oven, don't get the oven. Right,

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Speaker 9: it didn't do both well. Yeah, but they have like

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Speaker 9: a regular sized grill for two ninety nine at Costco,

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Speaker 9: and I think they have a larger middle of the

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Speaker 9: medium size. Yeah, if I can throw xcel with like

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Speaker 9: a connect and I think they haven't even have a

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Speaker 9: larger one that's closer to a grand that's way out.

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Speaker 6: Of my budget.

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Speaker 9: I was looking at the smaller the medium.

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Speaker 6: I noticed the medium.

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Speaker 9: Has like temperature probes and whatnot that you can use

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Speaker 9: with it. But I'm a big fan of the meter probe.

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Speaker 9: I don't know if you like them, but they're a

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Speaker 9: wonderful probe. It meets every time.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. They sent me a meter when it first

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Speaker 1: came out. I think it might have started as a kickstarter,

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Speaker 1: but they sent me one. I used it once. I

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Speaker 1: hated it and I never used it again. And I

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Speaker 1: literally think it was like a prototype that they sent me.

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Speaker 1: And I felt so bad because now people love this thing.

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Speaker 1: I ended up seeing them at a trade show and

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Speaker 1: I said, ah, I feel bad because I you know,

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Speaker 1: I kind of hate on this thing for so long.

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Speaker 1: They gave me a new one. I have not used it,

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Speaker 1: but I I'm a big fan of thermometers with cooking meat,

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Speaker 1: you know, on the grill. But I just have an

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Speaker 1: instant read, so I don't use the probe. But I

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Speaker 1: know the probe is easier because you could just put

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Speaker 1: a try tip on there and next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: it just tells you when it's ready to go instead

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Speaker 1: of checking it every you know, five minutes. So I

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Speaker 1: will test that. That's in my in my list of

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Speaker 1: things to test. When it comes to this, this Ninja

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Speaker 1: woodfire grill. Have you looked at the Have you considered

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Speaker 1: the Weber?

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Speaker 9: I didn't even know Weber made one? Why did I

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Speaker 9: count them out?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So, I mean I was at a Weber event

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Speaker 1: where they had all of the different grills and I

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Speaker 1: was not I didn't even know they had wood, pellet

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Speaker 1: or electric or any of these things. They even make

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Speaker 1: a blackstone type grill. They make their own version of that.

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Speaker 1: And my last Weber lasted ten years. So I just

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Speaker 1: bought a new one recently. But my last one, I

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Speaker 1: mean it was I only bought a new one because

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Speaker 1: I felt like I had to. I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: this thing's so old, it must be going bad. But

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Speaker 1: it was perfectly fine. But I would compare. I don't

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Speaker 1: think the price is going to be as in expense.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at their cheapest electric grill looks like it's

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Speaker 1: about three ninety nine. I don't know if they discount

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Speaker 1: them at all. I guess my advice on the Ninja

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Speaker 1: is I think the quality you're gonna get out of

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Speaker 1: it is kind of like it's gonna be maybe not

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Speaker 1: top tier quality, but kind of like right underneath that.

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Speaker 1: So if you're okay with that, I think you'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna have the best. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna rival what you can get out of

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Speaker 1: a dedicated kind of wood pellet, you know, grill' that's

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Speaker 1: you know, truly gas fired or whatever. But the good

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Speaker 1: news is, Evan, is that you said you were looking

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Speaker 1: at a Costco. Can't you return anything to Costco?

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Speaker 9: That's kind of what I was thinking of, is even

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Speaker 9: if it was made of Chinese and I don't have

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Speaker 9: a problem returning it.

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Speaker 1: So I say you just go ahead, buy the grill,

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Speaker 1: try it out. Make you know, don't make just one thing,

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Speaker 1: make two or three things. See what it's like. You know,

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Speaker 1: if it works, it's great. I mean it's it's a

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Speaker 1: good price, that's for sure. And if it's not, bring it.

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Speaker 1: But either way, I want you to report back. Okay.

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Speaker 1: That's my ask is that you report back in a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks what you think of this thing.

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Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, I will. I'll try around some proteins and

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Speaker 9: some sausage links and I'll let you know what I think.

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Speaker 1: All right, Evan, you know where to find me, Send

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Speaker 1: me an invite. I'll be there to try some of

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Speaker 1: that great question. You know, I am a big griller.

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Speaker 1: I love grilling, and I you know, you may not know,

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Speaker 1: but I'm actually a big cook in general. Like I'm

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Speaker 1: the one that cooks in my home almost every night.

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Speaker 1: And so my wife, oh my gosh, she's gonna be

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Speaker 1: really embarrassed I tell the story. But when I met

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Speaker 1: my wife, I'm not kidding. Oh gosh, I even tell

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Speaker 1: this story. This is so bad. When I met my wife,

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Speaker 1: I went to her parents' house, and I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 1: On the stove on a stove, there's a tiny pillow

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01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: that said for dinner, I make reservations a pillow on

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Speaker 1: the stove. Who puts a pillow on a stove? I

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Speaker 1: was so taken aback because I grew up in a

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Speaker 1: house my parents had five kids. My mom would cook

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Speaker 1: every single night. I'm talking to dinner for seven people,

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Speaker 1: do you know how much? And this was back in

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Speaker 1: the day when they didn't have shredded cheese in a bag,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't have these things that were like already

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Speaker 1: ready to go, and like she prepped food like the

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Speaker 1: old fashioned way, Like I'm not kidding. You'd get a

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Speaker 1: one pound brick of muzzerella cheese. Yes we're Italian. We

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01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: had mozzerella cheese and just sit there and like grate

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Speaker 1: it for like an hour, and like prep these pepper

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Speaker 1: steaks and all the stuff that she would make on

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Speaker 1: a nightly basis. And so we'd have dinner, and then

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01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: we'd have the threat of just wait till your father

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01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:39,679
Speaker 1: gets home, because I'm telling them everything you kids did

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Speaker 1: today and all the stuff you said and all the

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Speaker 1: things did. Yeah, remember those days you were scared when

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Speaker 1: dad got home. Oh my gosh, all right, uh. Dji

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01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: making some big changes to its drone software Starting now,

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01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 1: Dji is changing how their drones handle restricted areas. So

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01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: instead of hard no fly zones, you'll now see enhanced

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01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:08,920
Speaker 1: warning zones that match up with official FAA airspace rules.

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01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: So basically before you had to go through a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, now all you have to do is

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01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:16,519
Speaker 1: update the app, and when you hit one of these zones,

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01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,680
Speaker 1: it'll just say, oh, you can't really fly here, and

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01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: you go okay, and then you can fly anyway. So

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01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 1: it's really putting this on the honor of the pilots

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01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: instead of the drone automatically stopping you. So you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get alerts. But this is a big shift. DJI introduced

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01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:36,679
Speaker 1: their old system back in twenty thirteen, so they're really

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Speaker 1: strict for the past ten years or so. Now they

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Speaker 1: say more people know about drones and understand the ramifications,

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Speaker 1: that's why they're making the change. But this is a big,

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01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:48,720
Speaker 1: big change, so you maybe see more drones in more

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Speaker 1: places on the news given giving people trouble eighty eight

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Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. This is rich on Tech

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01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 1: Selena from Walnut Creek, California. Rights and I'm interested in

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01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 1: finding out if there are better options than comcasts for business, internet, phone,

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Speaker 1: and TV at my office location in Walnut Creek. What

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01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 1: are my options? Let's see, Selena. I think a great

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01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 1: starting point is to check which companies offer availability. Now

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01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: this may be a little bit different because you're talking

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01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: about business versus personal, but speed tests speed test dot net,

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01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 1: that's the website that people go to to check the

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01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 1: speed of their Internet. Well, they do something that's kind

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01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:37,080
Speaker 1: of cool on the back end, the kind of catalog

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01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 1: all that. And they have this feature called speed Test

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01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:44,880
Speaker 1: Performance Directory. And so if you go to the website

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Speaker 1: and it's speed test dot net slash performance and you

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01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: type in your zip code, I'm just going to type

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01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 1: in one that I know nine two eight, and that

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01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: will give you all of the different providers in that

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01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:05,559
Speaker 1: area and the pricing. So this is typically, you know,

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01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:08,840
Speaker 1: meant for residential, but a lot of these companies have

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01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 1: business as well, so that'll give you an idea of

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01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: what who has the lines in your area. But that's

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01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 1: where I would start. Let's see that there used to

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Speaker 1: be another one that I don't know if this has business.

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01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:27,680
Speaker 1: Let's see here. This is all Connect all connect dot com.

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01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: They've been around for a while, but I think that

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01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:34,280
Speaker 1: one is a little bit more paid about our providers

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01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: so works individually providers. So yeah, I mean, you know,

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01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:41,640
Speaker 1: you could just look for look for those two websites

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01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:44,679
Speaker 1: all Connect and then the other one again is speed

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01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: test dot net, and I would I would check there.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to uh George in Laguna. Igel George,

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01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:54,639
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.

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01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 10: Hello Rich, Thank you for taking my call.

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01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:00,160
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. What can I help with?

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01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 4: Well?

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01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 10: On Black Friday, I bought a cheap Toshiba seventy five

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01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 10: inch Fire TV, and you're right, the prices have gotten.

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01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:10,679
Speaker 6: A lot better.

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01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:11,680
Speaker 1: How much you pay for that?

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01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:13,599
Speaker 10: I beg your pardon?

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01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: How much you pay?

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01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 10: Oh about four hundred and fifty nine something?

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01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:21,680
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that is wild. Four hundred and fifty nine

1412
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 1: bucks for how many seventy five a.

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01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 10: Seventy five inch Toshiba Fire TV off of Amazon through

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01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 10: best Buy?

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01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:32,840
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a lot. That's complicated. But okay, so

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01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 1: what what what's your question?

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01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:40,919
Speaker 10: Okay, So I've always had a provider, so either Hulu

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01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 10: or Fling that I was using YouTube when I got

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01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:44,519
Speaker 10: this new TV.

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01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 2: But this new TV is a.

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01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 10: Fire TV, so there's no stick. It's all built in.

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01:12:49,479 --> 01:12:51,800
Speaker 10: Ye Do I need am I double dipping my that

1423
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 10: guy a few calls ago? Do I need to have

1424
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 10: YouTube if I have a fire TV?

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01:12:57,720 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: The Well, it depends what you want to want. So

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01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:04,360
Speaker 1: there is a ton of free content, and Amazon has

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01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: a lot of free content on Fire. They've got like

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01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 1: a whole section all these providers, like whether it is Roku,

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01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 1: whether it's Amazon with Fire, whether it's Google, they all

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01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 1: are really into these free channels that are that are

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01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 1: ADS supported. So if you look on like the Google

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01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:23,959
Speaker 1: TV or the Fire TV, they've got all these sections

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01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: of like sports and news and you know whatever. You know,

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01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 1: Amazon had this thing called free V I think that's

1435
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 1: now been blended into their standard Amazon Prime, so you

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01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 1: can watch a bunch of stuff for free. The question is, George,

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01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:40,080
Speaker 1: it comes down to what you want to watch, if

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01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 1: you want to watch, it just really comes down to that,

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01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:46,759
Speaker 1: and that's that's it. So if you want to watch ESPN,

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01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:49,719
Speaker 1: let's say you're not going to find that for free,

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01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 1: the linear channel that you want to watch right now.

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01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 1: If you want to watch something like let's just say

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01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: KTLA like, of course, you can download the Ktla plus

1444
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:01,200
Speaker 1: app and you can stream our news for free. If

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01:14:01,240 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 1: you want to watch random old movies or just random movies,

1446
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: you can watch those. If you want to watch news

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01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:08,679
Speaker 1: clips from all the different news to you know, news outlets,

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01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,640
Speaker 1: NBC News, they all have a streaming service that they

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01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:14,599
Speaker 1: now offer for free, you can watch all of that stuff.

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01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 1: So the short answer is, if you don't want to

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01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: pay a nickel for anything on this device, you don't

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01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: have to, and you can just deal with what you've

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01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 1: gotten for free. And there's also services like Pluto TV,

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01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 1: There's two b Tubi. They all offer everything for free

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01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 1: as well. So again it comes down to if you

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01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 1: want to watch like Bravo or something like that, like

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01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 1: a channel, you're not going to find that channel streaming

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01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:43,639
Speaker 1: for free. Might you find some of their content out there, sure,

1459
01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 1: but if it depends on what you want to watch,

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01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:47,759
Speaker 1: does that make sense?

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01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:49,479
Speaker 6: It does?

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Speaker 10: So I think the difference mechanically is if I want

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01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 10: to continue with YouTube, then I have a home channel,

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01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:57,720
Speaker 10: I have a DVR, and I have live TV, and

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01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 10: I can go through and see all the channel live exactly. Look,

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01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 10: but if I'm going to go ahead and use the

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01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:07,719
Speaker 10: fire TV, that I have to download the individual apps

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01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:10,160
Speaker 10: because the apps substitute for channel.

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Speaker 1: Yes and no, because fire tv does have its own

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01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: level of kind of like streaming content just kind of

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01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: built in at the ground level, and you'll find that

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Speaker 1: where there's like I think it's called news or there's

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01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 1: just you know, they keep they keep putting those new

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01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 1: tiles on the screen that say, like just watch stuff

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01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,639
Speaker 1: for free. So but I think it really comes down

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01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 1: to do you want to watch like standard cable channels

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01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: that you can DVR at your own leisure and specific

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01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:38,719
Speaker 1: shows that you DVR. That's really the experience you're getting

1479
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: from a YouTube TV and of course live TV and

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01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 1: live sports and things like that. But I think you've

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Speaker 1: touched upon a really kind of an interesting nuance of

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01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 1: TV viewing these days. With streaming is that it's all

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01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:54,519
Speaker 1: over the place, and a lot of this stuff is

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01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 1: repeated in different places, and it's you know, there's bits

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01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: and pieces of it all over the place. But if

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01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:04,520
Speaker 1: you want that traditional cable TV experience with your channels

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01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:09,800
Speaker 1: that you know and you understand that are streaming linearly,

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01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: which means you know, you're tuning in live just like

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01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: everyone else at the same time, that's going to be

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01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: something like Hulu, Live TV Now, Fubo or whatever, the

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01:16:18,479 --> 01:16:21,519
Speaker 1: YouTube TVs of the world, the sling TVs of the world,

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01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 1: that's what you need to subscribe to. But if you

1493
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,479
Speaker 1: just want to watch content and just find stuff that's

1494
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 1: that's streaming or watching, you know, you just want to

1495
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 1: watch stuff, you're going to be just fine just picking

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01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:36,479
Speaker 1: through the stuff that's on the fire TV device. And

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01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 1: of course downloading some apps as well. Hope that helps

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Speaker 1: George appreciate the call. Let's go to Lynn in Riverside. Linn,

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01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:47,840
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Hi.

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01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 11: Oh, thank you so much for taking Michael. Be patient

1501
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 11: with me. I'm seventy nine years old, and what I

1502
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:04,960
Speaker 11: wanted to know is since I'm not really a whole

1503
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 11: day in a computer, it's only once in a while,

1504
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 11: and also because I do voluntary work low income and

1505
01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:22,040
Speaker 11: especially seniors like me. Now, last Tuesday, all of a sudden,

1506
01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 11: I had problem with my features. So I went, as always,

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01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:30,839
Speaker 11: check my email first, and then I googled the brand

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01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 11: and the model number. Well I was on it. Something

1509
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:40,600
Speaker 11: on the page went on tap and it started like shouting,

1510
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 11: don't touch me, don't turn me off. Your computer is compromise,

1511
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 11: it will be black. Call this number, call this number repeatedly,

1512
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:56,400
Speaker 11: and I got so nervous, and it stupid me. I

1513
01:17:56,439 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 11: feel so hypocrite because that's exactly what I'm telling some

1514
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,840
Speaker 11: singers not to call. And I called the number.

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01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:08,760
Speaker 1: Oh you call the number. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you

1516
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:13,280
Speaker 1: did you get did you get scammed out of anything? Uh?

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01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 11: Now I checked my bank and I also called my

1518
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 11: bank to tell them and it's okay, it's just I

1519
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 11: don't know the first one he was saying. He was

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01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 11: quite nice, and I thought he is really, because he's

1521
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 11: telling me whatever he's doing. Yeah, he told me to

1522
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:42,519
Speaker 11: our type on the shirts on the lower part of

1523
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:45,560
Speaker 11: the laptop. Uh, ultra of you.

1524
01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, they want to get they want to get software

1525
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:50,679
Speaker 1: on your computer where they can access and remote access

1526
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:52,640
Speaker 1: into your computer. Did you do that? Did you?

1527
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:58,000
Speaker 11: He was doing something. He clicked off all my open windows.

1528
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 11: And afterwards he said, like he will put security Microsoft.

1529
01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 11: I don't have to pay it, but I need he

1530
01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 11: needs my name, I address, you know, Etcheter. And that's

1531
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 11: when like I woke up, and I just politely because

1532
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 11: I didn't want him to get mad and then do

1533
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 11: more harm. I just said, I have to talk to

1534
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:28,639
Speaker 11: my kids because I cannot decide on my own.

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01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 6: Please.

1536
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:33,519
Speaker 11: Please. He gave me his name, his id NUM, his

1537
01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:40,000
Speaker 11: employee id number, Etchetera, Ejettera. But still, you know, I

1538
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:43,800
Speaker 11: just said no, And finally he said, okay, then just

1539
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:48,920
Speaker 11: call me, you know. And then I deleted the oldtra

1540
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 11: view that he downloaded. And then the next day I

1541
01:19:53,360 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 11: called Microsoft and and and and then I told them

1542
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:06,960
Speaker 11: from A to Z. That first guy said, oh okay,

1543
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 11: let's download that will review again, you know.

1544
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 1: Okay, so you called the numbers.

1545
01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 11: Yeah, I talked to Microsoft because it always gets in

1546
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 11: the middle cut off.

1547
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not actually talking to Microsoft. That's another scam

1548
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 1: artist that you're talking to. So let's do this. No

1549
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: more calling numbers because most of these people do not

1550
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 1: offer tech support on your computer, so they are If

1551
01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:37,720
Speaker 1: you're googling a number for tech support or calling a

1552
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,839
Speaker 1: number that they gave you, those are also scam artists.

1553
01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 1: So the thing that you need to do. Did you

1554
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:46,840
Speaker 1: give them any of your personal information? Do you give

1555
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: them your bank account numbers? No? Okay? Did you give

1556
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 1: your social on my on my file?

1557
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:58,040
Speaker 11: The only thing is that now I cannot when I

1558
01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 11: turn on the laptop. Uh, it's an old HP and

1559
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 11: I want to see my files.

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01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okaylynn. What I would do is we got we

1561
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:12,320
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta go to break but I'm gonna put

1562
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:14,439
Speaker 1: you on hold here and we're gonna we're gonna talk

1563
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:16,400
Speaker 1: to you off the air. But I think the main

1564
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: thing you need to do is I think you should

1565
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:23,360
Speaker 1: probably get some outside help on this computer. So if

1566
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 1: you can uh. I would let's see you're in Riverside.

1567
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:30,680
Speaker 1: There are there are some companies that can help you

1568
01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: with this. I would take a look maybe at like

1569
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 1: Hello Tech that's just one company, or maybe just bring

1570
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: it to the best buy in your area, get the

1571
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: geek squad to help you out. But you need a

1572
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 1: trusted person to kind of look at this computer, make

1573
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 1: sure that their software is off of your computer. If

1574
01:21:47,520 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 1: you know how to do it yourself, you can go

1575
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: in uninstall it. But it sounds like you got to

1576
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:54,840
Speaker 1: get the software off your computer, and it seems like

1577
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: you might have dodged some of the personal information, which

1578
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,880
Speaker 1: is good. So the good news is you can reset

1579
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 1: the computer. Microsoft has a way to reset the computer,

1580
01:22:02,760 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 1: clean everything off, but keep your files. I'm sorry this

1581
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:09,680
Speaker 1: happened to you. It happens every day and it is

1582
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: the worst people. These scam artists are just literally out

1583
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 1: to get you every single day. Sorry about that. Rich

1584
01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. I'll talk to to Lynn off

1585
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:25,600
Speaker 1: the air. Here, let's take a break and we'll be

1586
01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:32,519
Speaker 1: right back. Ah Man, we are off the air with Lynn.

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01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:35,640
Speaker 1: Sounds like she has a trusted friend that may be

1588
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 1: able to help her with that computer. So sounds like

1589
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:42,759
Speaker 1: it's hopefully gonna have a good ending there. Jody writes

1590
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: in my thirteen year old daughter recently switched from Android

1591
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 1: to iPhone. I can't track her location anymore. For her

1592
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 1: safety and my peace of mind, I used to rely

1593
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: on parental controls when she had Android, but now I'm

1594
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 1: at a loss. I worry about her walking home from

1595
01:22:55,240 --> 01:22:57,839
Speaker 1: work while I'm at work. Please help. I love watching

1596
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:02,160
Speaker 1: you on KTLA and I've learned so much, Jody. Best

1597
01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:05,200
Speaker 1: app for this, I believe, is Life three sixty. It

1598
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:09,160
Speaker 1: is completely free. Obviously, it's like everything else these days.

1599
01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 1: It's a freemium, so you can use the basics for free,

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01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:14,840
Speaker 1: but install it on both your phones and you will

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01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: be able to track where she goes. She could probably

1602
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:20,360
Speaker 1: even see where you go if you allow that on

1603
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:23,479
Speaker 1: your end too. But to take this a step further,

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01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 1: I would also put a tile tracker on her backpack

1605
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: or her purse and you can. That works hand in

1606
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 1: hand with Life three sixty because they purchase tile. So

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01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,479
Speaker 1: that's what I would do Life three sixty Tile tracker.

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01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,599
Speaker 1: That's going to be the best way cross platform. You're

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01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 1: asking Android to iPhone, iPhone to Android if it's Android,

1610
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,920
Speaker 1: Android iPhone iPhone, I'd probably give a different you know,

1611
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 1: iPhone air tag or find my but that's what I

1612
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 1: would recommend for that cross platform functionality. Thanks for the question,

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01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,440
Speaker 1: Tony writes in, Hey, Rich, I've been hearing about scammers

1614
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:01,280
Speaker 1: using scanners and crowded air is to steal credit card

1615
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 1: and personal information from wallets and purses. Do you think

1616
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 1: it's worth investing in a safe wallet or a safe card?

1617
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 1: I trust your opinion, and I don't want to fall

1618
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,960
Speaker 1: victim from a scam from these companies selling a product

1619
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:15,479
Speaker 1: that they're ineffective. All right, so many people sent me

1620
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 1: it must have been a video going viral on TikTok

1621
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:21,040
Speaker 1: or Instagram about these people. They get close to your

1622
01:24:21,040 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 1: wallet and they steal your credit card number. It ain't happening.

1623
01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:26,280
Speaker 1: Let me tell you that the new credit cards, yes

1624
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 1: they have RFID on them, Yes they can be activated

1625
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:32,759
Speaker 1: to check out closer further than you think. But nobody's

1626
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 1: walking by you and stealing your card information. I just

1627
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: don't think that's happening. Should you get an RFID blocking

1628
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 1: sleeve or a wallet?

1629
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:40,639
Speaker 6: Sure?

1630
01:24:41,120 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: I don't think you need it. I don't think you

1631
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 1: need it. Modern credit cards have all kinds of encryption

1632
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 1: built into them. You think Chase is gonna give credit

1633
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:52,679
Speaker 1: cards someone can walk by your wallet and just grab

1634
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:56,639
Speaker 1: your number. No, not gonna happen. Okay, coming up, We've

1635
01:24:56,640 --> 01:25:01,599
Speaker 1: got a great guest, the real Jurassic Park. Someone's trying it. Yeah,

1636
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 1: sounds interesting. We'll talk about it coming up next right

1637
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 1: here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

1638
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The

1639
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:19,720
Speaker 1: website for the show is richon Tech dot TV. If

1640
01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 1: you want links to anything I mentioned, you want to

1641
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: follow me on social media at rich on Tech. Sign

1642
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:27,640
Speaker 1: up for the newsletter. It's all right there on the website.

1643
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:31,120
Speaker 1: Browse the stories I do for TV. I'm excited for

1644
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 1: my next guest because Jurassic Park is one of my

1645
01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: favorite movies, and I'm sure there are many similarities drawn

1646
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 1: between what the Colossal Biosciences is trying to do and

1647
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:47,479
Speaker 1: that movie. But let's hear from the man himself, CEO

1648
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:49,840
Speaker 1: Ben Lamb, Welcome to the show.

1649
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:51,760
Speaker 12: Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

1650
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 1: So you're trying to bring extinct species back to life? Explain?

1651
01:25:58,160 --> 01:26:01,799
Speaker 13: Yeah, so we decided, George, I who's arguably the father

1652
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 13: of synthetic biology, decided that we wanted to start a

1653
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:09,360
Speaker 13: company that's focused on first the extinction and then second

1654
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 13: species preservation. And we have this mission to bring back

1655
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,679
Speaker 13: some of these iconic species, put them back into the wild,

1656
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 13: and partnerships with governments and indigenous people groups and conservation groups,

1657
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 13: and then take a lot of those technologies on the

1658
01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 13: path of the extinction and apply them to conservation and

1659
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 13: make them free to the world.

1660
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 1: What could possibly go wrong? I'm sure you've heard that before.

1661
01:26:30,640 --> 01:26:33,400
Speaker 1: So what species are you talking about here?

1662
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:37,160
Speaker 13: Yeah, so there's three iconic species or flagship species that

1663
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 13: we're working on.

1664
01:26:38,120 --> 01:26:39,640
Speaker 12: One is the woy mammoth.

1665
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 13: The second is the thighlacine also known as the Tasmanian tiger,

1666
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:46,960
Speaker 13: and then the Dodo bird, which is arguably the symbol

1667
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 13: of human cause extinction.

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01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 1: I feel like I've worked with a couple of Dodo

1669
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:52,720
Speaker 1: birds over the years, but I don't think that's the

1670
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 1: same thing.

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01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:55,920
Speaker 12: So what intinct?

1672
01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 6: What?

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01:26:57,640 --> 01:27:00,479
Speaker 1: Okay? I mean? So did you watch Drassic Park and

1674
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: get this idea? Like where did this all come from?

1675
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 1: And where do you start?

1676
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:05,040
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1677
01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 13: So what's funny about that is people always ask, you know,

1678
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:09,840
Speaker 13: this is really George Church's vision, and I just feel

1679
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:11,920
Speaker 13: like I'm lucky enough to be partners with George and

1680
01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:12,760
Speaker 13: be the steward.

1681
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 12: Of his vision.

1682
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:16,120
Speaker 13: And people often ask, you know, was George inspired, because

1683
01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:18,280
Speaker 13: he's been talking about doing the Mammoth you know for

1684
01:27:18,479 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 13: years before I came around, and uh, and then we

1685
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 13: built it into a company, and people always ask, you know,

1686
01:27:24,439 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 13: was George inspired Briant Jurassic Park.

1687
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:28,839
Speaker 12: But if you actually go back to Michael Crichton's book.

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01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:33,760
Speaker 13: In Michael Crichton's book, there's actually a DNA sequence and

1689
01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 13: early on in the book that's actually George's work from

1690
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:38,519
Speaker 13: the seventies. Oh wow, you know, George will joke and

1691
01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:40,839
Speaker 13: say I kind of think that, you know, Michael Kriichten

1692
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:42,679
Speaker 13: was inspired, you know by George.

1693
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:43,559
Speaker 12: Given the fact that.

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01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 13: It's you know, almost statistically impossible for it to be

1695
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:47,799
Speaker 13: nearly the same code.

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01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:51,679
Speaker 1: That's wild. So oh, he wasn't credited in the book.

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01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:53,639
Speaker 1: I see, it was just part of what he had.

1698
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,400
Speaker 1: So how close are you to doing this? And how

1699
01:27:57,400 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: are you doing it?

1700
01:27:58,080 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 11: Are you?

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01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 1: Are you taking the DNA from the the the amber,

1702
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:03,439
Speaker 1: the mosquito in the amber?

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01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1704
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:08,160
Speaker 13: So not that we've tried. But amber is not the best,

1705
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 13: uh you know, vault for DNA for the years. It's

1706
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 13: very porous. It doesn't hold DNA pretty well. So we

1707
01:28:15,120 --> 01:28:18,360
Speaker 13: actually work with a lot of different samples from all

1708
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 13: over the world, some from museums, from from some from

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01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 13: fields studies, some from actually working directly with our seventeen

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Speaker 13: academic partners around the world. And ancient DNA is highly degraded,

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Speaker 13: it's highly fragmented, so you actually have to put a

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Speaker 13: lot of ancient DNA together. It's kind of build that

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Speaker 13: reference genome in the high level process is you know,

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Speaker 13: we use about sixty five mammoth genomes ranging from about

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Speaker 13: three thousand years to seven hundred thousand years old. We

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Speaker 13: assemble that and we compare it to its closest living relative.

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Speaker 13: In this case, it's the Asian elephant, which is ninety

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Speaker 13: nine point.

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Speaker 4: Six percent the same. They're actually closer.

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Speaker 13: Mammas are closer related to Asian elephants than Asian elephants

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Speaker 13: are to African Elephant's always.

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Speaker 12: Kind of blows people's mind.

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Speaker 13: And then you use a I and computers and some

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Speaker 13: of these algorithms that we've built to do comparative genomics

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Speaker 13: to really understand what genes have been lost to time

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Speaker 13: that really made a mammoth of mammoth, because a Nation

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Speaker 13: elephant is you know, basically a nodly, non coal tolerant mammoth.

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Speaker 13: And then we identify those genes and we engineer those

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Speaker 13: genes into an Asian elephant south. So you mentioned Jurassic Park,

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Speaker 13: it's almost like reverse Jurassic Park, where they were trying

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Speaker 13: to fill in the holes of ancient of the in

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Speaker 13: the dino in the quote unquote dino DNA with that

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Speaker 13: of frogs and other things. We start the other way.

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Speaker 13: We start with the frog and then we understand what

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Speaker 13: made a dinasaur diasord then and plug it in. Only

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Speaker 13: it's in the case of the mammoth.

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Speaker 12: And you know, we're pretty far.

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Speaker 13: We're in the editing phase, meaning that we've done all

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Speaker 13: that competitional analysis, we've done all that ancient DNA work,

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Speaker 13: and we're in the editing phase for both the Tasmanian

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Speaker 13: tiger and the mammoth, and hopefully by in the next

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Speaker 13: six months we'll move into editing for the dodo as well.

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Speaker 1: And then how do you go from the DNA to

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Speaker 1: actually creating an animal.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, so you're at being these live cells.

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Speaker 13: So you create a mortalized cell lines with the closest

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Speaker 13: living relative as I mentioned with the mammoth is the

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Speaker 13: Asian elephant. You then start to edit the individual cell

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Speaker 13: lines themselves. And then once you get to the point

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Speaker 13: where you've done all your molecular and functional and all

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Speaker 13: your tests in the lab or maybe in some cases

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Speaker 13: in animal models like mice and others, you actually start

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01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:23,720
Speaker 13: to identify you know, are our traits working, are they

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01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:26,040
Speaker 13: being expressed or the right way? And then once you

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Speaker 13: feel confident about it, you go through a process called

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Speaker 13: somatic cell nuclear transfer better known as ploning. Is kind

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Speaker 13: of like what Dolly made famous in the nineties, only

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01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:35,959
Speaker 13: the technologies come a long way.

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Speaker 12: Since since the nineties.

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Speaker 13: And then you move the nucleus from that of a

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Speaker 13: germ cell or somatic cell or sorry a somatic cell

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Speaker 13: into that of a germ cell or egg cell, and

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01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,639
Speaker 13: then you implant that into a surrogate that will then

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Speaker 13: grow your species. And so that is our current process.

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Speaker 13: We also have a seventeen person team working on artificial wombs.

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Speaker 12: And you know our goal.

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Speaker 13: You know, none of our first generation and species will

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Speaker 13: be born ex utero, but long term, we hope that

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Speaker 13: we can use our artificial wombs for not just the

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Speaker 13: extinction of key species, but also for conservation.

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Speaker 1: All right, Ben, everything you're telling me right now, my

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01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:18,439
Speaker 1: brain is literally just like exploded. So how realistic is

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Speaker 1: it that you're going to create a dodo bird or

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Speaker 1: a wooly mammoth and bring it back.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 13: I we raise bourn and thirty five million dollars a

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01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:29,599
Speaker 13: day for our company, and then we also raised fifty

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01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:32,839
Speaker 13: million dollars for our foundation to support our conservation efforts

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01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:35,599
Speaker 13: around the technologies from the company. You know, we feel

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01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 13: very confidence at our investors. You know, I think that

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01:31:37,960 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 13: in the next few years we could see Our goal

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Speaker 13: is by the end of twenty twenty eight to have

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Speaker 13: our first mammoth calvs. We're currently on track. You know,

1784
01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 13: these things are hard, so you know, sometimes things can slip.

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01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 13: We feel very very confident in it. But nam us

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01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:53,120
Speaker 13: have a twenty two month gestation, so you know, if

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Speaker 13: we continue on the current course and speed with some

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01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:58,200
Speaker 13: of our other projects, I think it's highly likely we

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01:31:58,200 --> 01:32:01,839
Speaker 13: could see an animal a different species even before the mammoth.

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01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,719
Speaker 13: So I think we are within the next few years

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01:32:04,720 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 13: we will see the world's first extinct species back on

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Speaker 13: the planet.

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Speaker 1: Is there any danger in doing this?

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Speaker 13: You need to be very thoughtful and careful on this

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01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 13: right And so we work really closely with you, our

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01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:20,600
Speaker 13: seventeen academic partners around the world, our ninety five scientific advisors,

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01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:21,000
Speaker 13: we have.

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Speaker 12: An Indigenous People Group.

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Speaker 3: Board.

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Speaker 13: We also have a conservation board. We have forty eight

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Speaker 13: conservation partners. So you need to really look at what

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01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:33,320
Speaker 13: is the ecological benefit of bringing back these species, what

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01:32:33,400 --> 01:32:36,360
Speaker 13: are the technologies that can be used for sister species?

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01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:39,719
Speaker 13: So how is bringing back the mammoth helping elephants today?

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01:32:40,040 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 13: How is rewilding the mammoths back into the center helping

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01:32:43,080 --> 01:32:45,559
Speaker 13: the ecosystem today? And so you have to go through

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01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:48,360
Speaker 13: this very thoughtful process. And so even though we don't

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01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 13: have mammis or dots or thio scenes, we've actually already

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01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:54,320
Speaker 13: built working groups in country that we meet with every

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01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:57,000
Speaker 13: single quarter. So we have like a Tasmanian Tiger working

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01:32:57,040 --> 01:33:00,519
Speaker 13: Group in Australia and in Tasmania specifically that we meet

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01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 13: with every single quarter, giving them updates, doing ecological studies,

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01:33:04,600 --> 01:33:07,720
Speaker 13: doing scientific peer reviewed studies on what is the ecological

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01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:11,920
Speaker 13: impact of rewilding or reversing tropic downgrading that's happening there

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01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 13: through the loss of the thio scene. And so all

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01:33:14,240 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 13: of these species that we're working on when extinct directly

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01:33:18,080 --> 01:33:21,880
Speaker 13: because of humans or because of other anthropologic effects on

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Speaker 13: the ecosystem from human intervention.

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Speaker 12: We're trying to undo the sins of the past, if

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Speaker 12: you will.

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Speaker 1: I mean, but we also have a modern world, so

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01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: it's it's very different than when these animals live the

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Speaker 1: first time. Are you are you going to make a

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01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:36,240
Speaker 1: Parker now?

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Speaker 13: So our goal is put all these species back into

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Speaker 13: their natural habitat.

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Speaker 12: So you know, that process is called rewilding.

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Speaker 13: You know, I do think that long term, you know,

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01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:50,720
Speaker 13: as we get sustainable species back in the wild like

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Speaker 13: in Tasmania. You know, we'd love to work with Tasmania

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01:33:53,520 --> 01:33:56,360
Speaker 13: on you know, ecological preserves where people can actually see

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01:33:56,360 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 13: them back in their natural habitat and hopefully that would

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01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:02,040
Speaker 13: for ecotura them and make people want to protect the

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01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:02,920
Speaker 13: land and whatnot.

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Speaker 12: And to your point about.

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01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:08,559
Speaker 13: Ecosystems, you know, the Tasman ecoystem is pretty much the same, uh,

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01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 13: you know, minus you know, some of the food chain

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01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:14,599
Speaker 13: a little bit messed up since it's lost its keystone predator.

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01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:16,880
Speaker 12: Same with Mauritius.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 13: You know, they've had this influx of invasive species that

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01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:22,639
Speaker 13: actually led to the downfall of the dodo that we're

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01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:25,679
Speaker 13: working with them to help eradicate. But the tundra, there's

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01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:28,600
Speaker 13: actually been eight scientific papers that have put out, not

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01:34:28,640 --> 01:34:30,960
Speaker 13: even by us, that look at if you were to

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01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:36,040
Speaker 13: rewild Mamus or other cold tolerant large herbivores back into

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01:34:36,040 --> 01:34:40,360
Speaker 13: that Arctic ecosystem, how the biodiversity and how that ecosystem

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01:34:40,520 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 13: could come back alive. Right, And so what's generally agreed

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01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:47,480
Speaker 13: on by all scientists is that a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem

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01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:51,760
Speaker 13: with predators and prey and large herbivores is better at

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01:34:51,800 --> 01:34:56,160
Speaker 13: sequestering carbon, it's better for food security, it's better for

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01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:59,880
Speaker 13: how water treatment happens. So it's really really interesting kind

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01:34:59,880 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 13: of the trickle down effect you have when you remove

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01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:06,240
Speaker 13: a keystone species, whether it's an herb, a large herbivore,

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01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 13: or a predator from the environment.

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Speaker 1: Wow CEO Ben Lamb of Colossal Biosciences, the website Colossal

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Speaker 1: dot com. The world is watching, Ben, So thank you

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01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:22,519
Speaker 1: for that interview. That was really Wow.

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Speaker 12: It's just like, yeah, thanks so much for having me.

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01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:26,519
Speaker 12: As we get closer to animals, we'll come back.

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Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good. I want to pet one of these things.

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01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:33,120
Speaker 12: I'll recommend that, but that's at your own risk.

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01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: Thanks Ben. I'm I'm scared of running into a bear

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01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:38,280
Speaker 1: in the woods. Now I gotta worry about a wooly mammoth.

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01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:41,280
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the Dodo bird. I feel like I

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01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:43,400
Speaker 1: can deal with. I feel like that's something I can

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Speaker 1: deal with. All right, Coming up, we are going to

1868
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:50,840
Speaker 1: open up the feedbag. It is as always overflowing with

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01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:53,960
Speaker 1: your emails and texts and all that good stuff, so

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01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,400
Speaker 1: we will get back to that. Right here, you are

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Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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01:36:03,400 --> 01:36:05,679
Speaker 1: Couple of news items to get through before we get

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Speaker 1: to the feedbag, which is flowing over overflowing, flowing, over

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01:36:11,320 --> 01:36:16,799
Speaker 1: floweth over whatever. Nintendo finally revealed details about the switch

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01:36:17,080 --> 01:36:20,240
Speaker 1: to the next big gaming console from them. Looks like

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01:36:20,280 --> 01:36:23,120
Speaker 1: a beefed up version of the original. It's bigger, it's

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01:36:23,160 --> 01:36:27,280
Speaker 1: got redesigned controllers that seem to snap in instead of

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01:36:27,360 --> 01:36:30,600
Speaker 1: slide in. It's got a USB sport, it's got a

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01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:35,040
Speaker 1: headphone jack. It's got a sturdier kickstand. Old games or

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01:36:35,080 --> 01:36:38,200
Speaker 1: many of them will work, some may not. Also looks

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01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:41,559
Speaker 1: like they're teasing a new Mario Kart game, but we

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01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:44,439
Speaker 1: don't have many more details other than that. April second

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01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:47,120
Speaker 1: is when we're gonna get more details about this. I

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01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:48,960
Speaker 1: have a hunch that this is probably gonna launch in

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01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 1: time for the holidays this year. It's definitely launching in

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01:36:51,200 --> 01:36:54,519
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The first Switch sold nearly one hundred

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01:36:54,560 --> 01:36:58,040
Speaker 1: and fifty million units, so this is a big one.

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01:36:58,200 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 1: And you're also going to get some demos. They're setting

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Speaker 1: up in cities including New York, LA and Dallas during April.

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01:37:05,320 --> 01:37:08,519
Speaker 1: So there you go switch to That's very exciting for

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Speaker 1: Nintendo fans. Let's see here. Scan my photos dot Com

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Speaker 1: is offering free photo digitization for California wildfire victims. They

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Speaker 1: say that some people may have lost their pictures, so

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Speaker 1: friends or relatives have duplicate prints or slides. They can

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Speaker 1: and it is available now concierge at scan my photos

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Speaker 1: dot com. Meanwhile, Drive Savers in Northern California Northern California

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Speaker 1: offering free data recovery for Southern California fire victims. So

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Speaker 1: they're offering up to million dollars in free service through

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Speaker 1: January thirty first. That covers one device per household or

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Speaker 1: business for fire and water damage devices including computers, external drives, phones,

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Speaker 1: flash drives, and camera cards. They say that extreme heat

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Speaker 1: can really make this tough to recover, and you should

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Speaker 1: call them immediately. If you think you have a drive

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Speaker 1: that they can save, they will send you a free

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Speaker 1: shipping label. Drive Savers is the company and this week

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Speaker 1: Samsung unveiling their new phones, expecting it to be the

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Speaker 1: S twenty five series of smartphones. That's happening on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: January twenty second in San Jose. I will be there.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it, can't wait. I thought the

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Speaker 1: S twenty four Ultra was one of the probably the

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Speaker 1: best phone of the year on the Samsung side of things,

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Speaker 1: the most powerful, the best cameras, all that good stuff

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01:38:45,600 --> 01:38:48,920
Speaker 1: in one package. And so we'll see what they have.

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01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:51,439
Speaker 1: I know they're going to be pushing AI heavily. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's open up the feedback. Joe writes in I always

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Speaker 1: love your clips. I have the k Tour pocket socket

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Speaker 1: for when the external battery dies. It's also a workout.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Oh, oh, I see because it's

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Speaker 1: a crank Oh, you crank it up. Okay, this is

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Speaker 1: the pocket socket USB one amp it. Yeah, you crank

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Speaker 1: it's also a workout. There you go. I don't work

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Speaker 1: for them. Thanks Joe, appreciate that. Let's see here, Hi, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I love your show and I've been a longtime listener.

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Speaker 1: My husband teases me because I'm always saying, guess what

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Speaker 1: Rich taught me. I'm excited to share something with you

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Speaker 1: for a change. I just learned that the iPhone calculator

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Speaker 1: can double as a currency converter. Tap the calculator icon

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Speaker 1: in the bottom left corner, swipe and turn on convert

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Speaker 1: While I'm not traveling anytime soon, I've been using it

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Speaker 1: while watching squid Game to figure out the money they're

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Speaker 1: talking about. Hope this tip helps your listeners as much

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Speaker 1: as your advice has helped me. Thanks for making tech

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Speaker 1: accessible to everyone. Take care, Agnes great tip. I just

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Speaker 1: learned that myself actually on a YouTube are a short

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. So yes, convert right in the calculator, Don

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Speaker 1: writes in Already, twenty twenty five has become a difficult

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Speaker 1: year with a complex horizon ahead. Your newsletter's opening segment

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Speaker 1: caught my attention as it resonated with concerns I've observed

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Speaker 1: over the years. Many people, including my children, have quote

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Speaker 1: cut the cord, abandoning live television and radio, especially local news.

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Speaker 1: They now consume content through streaming, often from a narrow lens,

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Speaker 1: which I believe creates a skewed view of reality. Discussing

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Speaker 1: a major news event with them is challenging. They're disconnected

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Speaker 1: from what I would consider the real world. Your comments

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Speaker 1: and the newsletter hinted at a similar concern, highlighting the

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Speaker 1: need to stay connected not only to emerging technologies, but

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Speaker 1: the pressing issues today. Of today, live TV and real

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Speaker 1: journalism are fading, replaced by a fragmented media landscape. This

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Speaker 1: is troubling. Yes, I agree, Don, I talk about this

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Speaker 1: being in traditional media. People they have their opinions and

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Speaker 1: it is backed up by what they watch on social

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Speaker 1: media and on YouTube and on Instagram, and it's all

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Speaker 1: coordinated for them, so it's not even worth arguing anymore.

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Speaker 1: We used to have a public discourse and things and

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Speaker 1: talk about stuff, and also used to trust certain news outlets.

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Speaker 1: Now people don't even trust the mainstream media outlets. So

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Speaker 1: it's all I don't know what's gonna happen, honestly, don

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Speaker 1: but that's why I'm here a voice of reason in

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Speaker 1: this madness. Let's see here, Auto rights in, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I heard you mentioned notes programs for cell phones on

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Speaker 1: your show. I use my iPhone notes program with my

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Speaker 1: Gmail account so I can access my notes on my PC.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for doing a great job with your show and

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Speaker 1: happy New Year, Auto. That's a great way to do it.

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Speaker 1: And Kelly versus via Facebook Rights in love the show. Rich,

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Speaker 1: You're the best. I'm not even someone who loves technology,

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Speaker 1: but I try to listen to you every Saturday. You're

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Speaker 1: such a voice of reason. What I just say, and

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Speaker 1: incredibly kind of respectful to everyone who calls in. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for what you do. Praying you and your family

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Speaker 1: stay safe. Thank you, Ann. Kelly appreciate that I am

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Speaker 1: a voice of reason. Are and I just ask my wife?

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Speaker 1: Jim writes in Rich longtime listeners, so many great nuggets,

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Speaker 1: but honestly, it feels like the whole world is trying

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Speaker 1: to mug me online. Makes me want to cancel my internet,

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Speaker 1: lock the doors, and never go anywhere. Yeah, I hear you.

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Speaker 1: Just like that caller we got earlier with the hacked computer,

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Speaker 1: and we got text messages every day that are trying

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Speaker 1: to hack us. We've got email scams. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: so much we're up against. Just keep a cool head,

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Speaker 1: stay steady, don't fall for this stuff, and just be

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Speaker 1: critical of anything that comes your way. You have to

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Speaker 1: just imagine that someone's trying to scam you, phone call, scam,

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Speaker 1: whatever that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: Links to everything I mentioned on the website. Go to

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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv. You can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media the Voice of Reason. I am at rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Next week, Yes, I will have my thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the new Samsung smartphones. Thank you so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: I know there are so many ways you can spend

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Speaker 1: your time. I really do appreciate you spending it right

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Speaker 1: here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible.

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Speaker 1: Adam in for Bobo Today. Great job. Kim on phones.

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Speaker 1: My name is rich Demiro. I will talk to you

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Speaker 1: real soon