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Speaker 1: journalists Christian Delooper. He's gonna explore the pros and cons

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: I am coming to you from my home state of

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Speaker 1: New Jersey today, so that's why the music you'll hear

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Speaker 1: come home. I am actually here for a celebration for

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Speaker 1: my dad and it's a nice one. Ten years cancer free,

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Speaker 1: And so I got a lot of things in order,

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Speaker 1: And they were commissioned, so if you were a good salesperson,

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Speaker 5: What's up, Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: a friend had the you know, back when like Wi

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Speaker 1: fi was first starting. They would just pop the router

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Speaker 1: like wherever they could, wherever the cable came in. I

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Speaker 1: remember someone had it under their bed and I was like,

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Speaker 1: you're just like cooking all night long, aren't you like

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Speaker 1: this WiFi? Is just radiating up into your body. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's, you know, a problem or not,

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Speaker 1: but obviously the information on that is very mixed. It

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Speaker 1: seems to be very safe. We've had it for many,

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Speaker 1: many years in many people's homes throughout the world. So

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Speaker 1: I would say, personally, if you're concerned with that, I

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Speaker 1: would maybe move the router to a different place that

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Speaker 1: you feel better with. But I don't think that's an issue,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think it's a reason to turn it

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Speaker 1: off at night. So if that's the main reason I would,

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Speaker 1: I would not do that.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I would do is you have to

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Speaker 1: call is it still Frontier or is it a different

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Speaker 1: company now?

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Speaker 3: Frontier?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you have to call them and see. Because

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. The technology on these things has not

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Speaker 1: changed substantially. There are different there are different standards for

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Speaker 1: these modems, which is uh DOXIS d O c SI

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Speaker 1: S and so if your modem does not support the

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Speaker 1: latest DOXIS standard for your cable company, your speed could

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Speaker 1: be impacted. I think the standard like this, the typical

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Speaker 1: one today is like, let's see third generation so three

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Speaker 1: three uh, yeah, I think it's about the third generation.

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Speaker 1: So I would call your cable company or look on

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Speaker 1: there and see if it says anything about that, if

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Speaker 1: it's like two or something previous. But otherwise, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could have these these modems for a very long time. Now.

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Speaker 1: I have had mine for ten years, and I will

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Speaker 1: tell you I did get a notice from my cable

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Speaker 1: company and they said it's time to upgrade and we

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Speaker 1: have to swap it out. And so it does happen.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, but it's not over a year or two.

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Speaker 1: This is a standard technology that's been around for a

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Speaker 1: long time. But I would get in touch with with Frontier.

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Speaker 1: Do you rent it or have you purchased it from them?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't pay anything. They gave it to me

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Speaker 3: many years ago. It's part of it. Okay, this is

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Speaker 3: part of the package. Okay, I mean I don't trust them.

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Speaker 3: They might send a new one out and then start

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Speaker 3: charging me.

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Speaker 1: Twelve bucks a month, right, And I was just going

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Speaker 1: to say, that's my concern is that you may be

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Speaker 1: on a grandfather plan where they didn't charge. But but again,

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Speaker 1: you can you can call them. They're not going to

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Speaker 1: do anything without you authorizing it. So I would just

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Speaker 1: call them up and say, hey, here's my model router number.

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Speaker 3: Every one might be.

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Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah, absolutely, I think. I mean, especially if

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Speaker 1: you're getting the speed that you're paying for, like I

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Speaker 1: would do a speed test on your computer connected to

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Speaker 1: your modem, and if you're paying for five hundred down

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Speaker 1: five hundred up, and you're getting that on a wired connection,

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Speaker 1: going to a website like speed test dot net orfast

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Speaker 1: dot com. If you're getting the speed you're paying for

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Speaker 1: on a wired connection, wireless might be a little bit slower,

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Speaker 1: but if you're getting that with a Ethernet cable plugged

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Speaker 1: into your laptop, then your modem's working just fine. So

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Speaker 1: there's no real reason to change that. And yeah, yeah exactly,

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Speaker 1: So thank you so much. All right, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for the call there. Susan and Santa Monica do appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: and of course I always appreciate the kind words. It

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Speaker 1: really means a lot to me. This week in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: Tesla unveiled the cyber Cab. So this was an event

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Speaker 1: at Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. No, I'm not

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Speaker 1: bitter because I wasn't invited, but we'll just get through

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Speaker 1: this anyway, twenty Cybercab prototypes at this we Robot event.

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Speaker 1: The Cybercab is a two seater vehicle with doors that

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Speaker 1: go up. I guess they're not Falcon doors. I guess

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Speaker 1: they call them goal wing doors. But there's no wheel,

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Speaker 1: there is no pedals. This is a vehicle that just

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Speaker 1: is self driving. Now you can buy one of these,

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Speaker 1: and that's what's unique about this setup is that Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk is promoting this as something that you would buy

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Speaker 1: for less than thirty thousand, by the way, that's their

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Speaker 1: target price, and it would drive you around. But here's

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Speaker 1: the kicker. When you are not using it, it can

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Speaker 1: be sent out into the world to act as an

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Speaker 1: automated uber on your behalf. So your car would be

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Speaker 1: picking up other people, driving them around, dropping them off,

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Speaker 1: and then you'd be earning cash on this. How wild

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Speaker 1: is that? So they're almost creating like a secondary market

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Speaker 1: they want to start production twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: These cars have wireless charging, not plug in chargers. They

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Speaker 1: also had a Robovan that was capable of carrying up

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Speaker 1: to twenty people that was more like a bus. They

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Speaker 1: also had these Optimist humanoid robots on display, they were

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Speaker 1: making drinks, they were talking to people. Elon Musk believes

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Speaker 1: these will be huge, like a Rosie the robot for

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Speaker 1: your house price tag of about twenty thousand dollars to

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars. These were a little bit iffy because

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Speaker 1: it was clear that they had humans not only doing

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Speaker 1: the voice and the interactions with people, but also controlling them.

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Speaker 1: But they were standing, it seemed, on their own and

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Speaker 1: walking around, which was pretty cool. So they've come a

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Speaker 1: long way. Obviously, this is all a very big dream

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Speaker 1: right now. We don't know if any of this will

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Speaker 1: happen for real. They've got lots of hurdles ahead, including

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Speaker 1: people accepting cars driving around by themselves without people in

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Speaker 1: them or without a human driver. I know Weaimo does this,

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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of talk about the fact that

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Speaker 1: Weimo does this very differently. Weimo cars are already driving

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Speaker 1: around by themselves in Los Angeles, but they use a

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Speaker 1: completely different tech stack, including radar, ldar cameras. They have

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Speaker 1: so many sensors on those cars that these cars that

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk is promoting do not have. Elon Musk typically

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Speaker 1: the Tesla has used cameras to self drive, and we're

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Speaker 1: still waiting for that dream of full self driving on

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Speaker 1: the current Tesla's the Model three, the Model Why. He

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Speaker 1: believes that in California and Texas there will be unsupervised

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Speaker 1: full self driving in the next two years or so.

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Speaker 1: So again, this is someone who promises a lot, and

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that Elon Musk. There's no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it. He has delivered many, many things. But again

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Speaker 1: we have to hold a little bit of we have

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Speaker 1: to be a little bit critical of this stuff and

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Speaker 1: a little bit skeptical as well, because this is going

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Speaker 1: to take longer than probably many of us think. Again,

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Speaker 1: don't forget this was done on a closed set on

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Speaker 1: the Warner Brothers lot rather than in a real world situation,

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Speaker 1: so everything was highly controlled, although people were getting rides

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Speaker 1: in these cyber cabs around the back lot. So it's cool,

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. It's very cool. But again,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see this stuff happen. I think

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Speaker 1: it's there's a many many people out there who do

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Speaker 1: not want this stuff to happen, or who do not

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Speaker 1: want to get into a car like this. But I

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Speaker 1: know many people who have taken the way mos that

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Speaker 1: including myself. That felt very comfortable. Now eighty eight rich

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. You are listening to rich on Tech.

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

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

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Speaker 1: O one that's eight eight eight seven four to two

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. Got an email from uh let's

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Speaker 1: see Diane in Menefee asking are we able to FaceTime

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Speaker 1: with one Apple and one Android phone? And the answer

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Speaker 1: is yes, but it's complicated and I don't recommend it.

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Speaker 1: So there are many many ways to do a video

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Speaker 1: call that does not involve FaceTime. You know, if you've

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Speaker 1: listened to the show for any length of time that

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Speaker 1: I always always prefer third party, platform independent products, so

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Speaker 1: platform products that work on every platform, not just one. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you are an Apple person, it's amazing. Everything works great,

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Speaker 1: but you are beholden to pretty much everything Apple. In fact,

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Speaker 1: one of the best note taking apps out there is

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Speaker 1: Apple Notes, which I would love to use, but I

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Speaker 1: can't because I test a lot of phones. Maybe I

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Speaker 1: want to switch to an Android phone at some point,

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Speaker 1: and I would have to switch my entire notes to

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Speaker 1: some other program because of that, and it just goes

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Speaker 1: on and on. If you use Apple Photos to store

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Speaker 1: your photos, Apple Music doesn't work on both. I will

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Speaker 1: give them that, but it's pretty much reminders, I mean,

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Speaker 1: anything that you do in the Apple ecosystem. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: much just glue to keep you on the Apple side

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Speaker 1: of things. You get an air tag, you're not going

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Speaker 1: to switch to Android. They don't work with Android. Again,

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Speaker 1: always prefer things that work on every platform, not just one.

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Speaker 1: So when it comes to FaceTime, yes, it's simple, Yes

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Speaker 1: it's easy, but if you're trying to use it with

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Speaker 1: an Android, it's not that easy. You can do it,

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Speaker 1: and here's how you do it. So first off, you

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Speaker 1: have to go to a you have to start the

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Speaker 1: call from an iPhone, and so you get the call

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Speaker 1: on an iPhone, you get it going, and there's a

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Speaker 1: link on the iPhone that you can generate when you're

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Speaker 1: in the call, and so you can generate that link

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Speaker 1: and send it to someone that is on another device

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Speaker 1: like a Windows computer or an Android phone, and then

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Speaker 1: once they get that link, they can open up that

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Speaker 1: link and get on the call. So basically, if you

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Speaker 1: are on FaceTime. You can open up the app and

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Speaker 1: there's a create link near the top of the screen,

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Speaker 1: and then you just send that link to someone and look,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, it works, but like, why not use

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Speaker 1: a program that just works with everything? Right? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what's app does great video calls? Telegram does video calls,

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Speaker 1: Facebook Messenger does video calls. I think even Instagram does

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Speaker 1: video calls. At this point, I mean, can't you just

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Speaker 1: use something that you know that just works with everything.

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Speaker 1: So that's my recommendation. But yes, if you have an iPhone,

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Speaker 1: you got an Android friend and you want to FaceTime them,

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Speaker 1: that's what you do. You start the FaceTime, create a link,

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Speaker 1: and then send that link to the other person. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a call here. Let's go to let's see here,

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Speaker 1: let's go to Mark in Woodland Hills. Mark. You're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Hi, Rich. I you know I've been listening as

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Speaker 4: I've been waiting on hold here, and I do have

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Speaker 4: a question about help for seniors with tech things like

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Speaker 4: like one Generation here in the San Franco Valley used

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Speaker 4: to have college students come in and help seniors work

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Speaker 4: out their problems with their laptops and their cell phones

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Speaker 4: and such. But I did want to run one thing

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Speaker 4: by you. I know it's not happy talk. I couldn't

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Speaker 4: be I do not share your fondness for the test list.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know, they contain like a dozen toxic chemicals in

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Speaker 4: the batteries alone. If you have an accident and you

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Speaker 4: catch on fire, you explode. But the main thing that

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Speaker 4: really bothers me about that is like cobalt, for instance,

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Speaker 4: is mind in the Republic of Congo by children. It's

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Speaker 4: a toxic chemical and you know they need food.

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Speaker 1: You know. Look, I've heard a lot about this. I've

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Speaker 1: heard I've I've heard a lot of complaints about this

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Speaker 1: sort of thing, Mark, And you know, here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to stop progress from happening. I understand that, yes,

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Speaker 1: this stuff is dirty at the beginning, but as I

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Speaker 1: understand it, the more batteries that we make, the more

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Speaker 1: recycled they are in the future. So yes, it's uh.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you're comparing it against oil, like

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Speaker 1: I mean, and look, and here's the thing, like, I

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Speaker 1: am all for Lectri cars one hundred percent. I'm not

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Speaker 1: one of those people who's gonna sit here and say

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Speaker 1: let's not progress and let's just default to you know,

654
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Speaker 1: let's just default to oil for the rest of our lives.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna that's not possible. And I understand there's

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Speaker 1: a drawback to everything. There is not a thing in

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Speaker 1: this world that there is not a side effect or

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Speaker 1: a drawback to, no matter what you're talking about. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you tell me you eat bananas

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Speaker 1: and they're perfect for you. There's a downside to eating

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Speaker 1: too many bananas, you know. So we have to understand

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Speaker 1: that this stuff is. There's a pro and a con

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Speaker 1: to everything, and we are progressing. And I get it.

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Speaker 1: If you don't want an electric car, don't get it.

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Speaker 1: That's the best thing. And nobody's forcing you to do that.

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Speaker 1: I understand. Yes, we've got you know, some states in

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Speaker 1: some places, and there's been some plans for the future

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Speaker 1: of transitioning to these cars, but nobody's forcing anyone to

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Speaker 1: do it just yet. Personally, I think the electric car

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Speaker 1: is the best thing that I've ever yet mute. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean personally, I think the yes, mark.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir. It's unsustainable. We don't have the electricity to provide.

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Speaker 4: We have brownouts here in California as it is, because

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Speaker 4: the environmental is even the leadership of the environmental.

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Speaker 1: Almost the last time we had a brown out.

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Speaker 9: Clear i c.

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Speaker 4: Nuclear is the cleanest power there is. We don't have

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Speaker 4: the electrical internet and our network yet.

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Speaker 1: Go and look here's the thing. Of course, we don't have.

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Speaker 1: It's unsustainable right now because we're still building the infrastructure

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Speaker 1: and we're still learning how to, you know, make solar

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Speaker 1: that's better and come up with renewable energy. So look, again,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't if you don't want it to happen, that's

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Speaker 1: that's you. But it's going to happen, and we're making

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Speaker 1: this transition, and we have to make this transition. There

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Speaker 1: is no way that we have an amount of oil

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Speaker 1: or gas that can last infinite amounts of time, and

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Speaker 1: so we have to find these renewable sources of energy

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Speaker 1: that we can use and use safely and create alternative

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Speaker 1: methods of getting around. And again, my electric car is

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Speaker 1: the best thing I've ever purchased. It is the most

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Speaker 1: incredible piece of technology I have ever used. Are their

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Speaker 1: drawbacks to it? Of course? Does it take a little

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Speaker 1: bit longer to get to places? Do I have to

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Speaker 1: think about it on road trips? Is there a charger

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Speaker 1: every single place I ever want. No, I didn't rent

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Speaker 1: a car this trip, an electric car, by the way.

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Speaker 1: They were half the price of the gas cars because

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Speaker 1: nobody's renting them. But I didn't rent one myself because

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Speaker 1: I knew I'm not I'm not trying to find a

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Speaker 1: charger on my you know, a couple of days out here,

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Speaker 1: and so I get it. Mark, I totally understand, and

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Speaker 1: I get it. But thanks for the call. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you

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Speaker 1: talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. The phone number for the show eighty eight

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

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Speaker 1: to two, four to one zero one. Was talking about

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Speaker 1: old school electronics stores and pat rode in from Monrovia.

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Speaker 1: I bought my first PC at Creative Computers in Lawndale,

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Speaker 1: an Amiga five hundred with five hundred and twelve K

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven. Amigas could add graphics and animation

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Speaker 1: to home video or pro video, so they required an

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Speaker 1: interlaced display. By the time I tried to help a

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Speaker 1: friend buy one of the nineties. The parent company no

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Speaker 1: longer made those monitors. I asked the salesperson, how can

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Speaker 1: you sell a computer with no display? It isn't easy,

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Speaker 1: was his reply. Good old commodore, cheers, Pat, great story,

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Speaker 1: William wrote in on X Hey, I worked for Staples

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Speaker 1: when they were the premier company for computer sales. Isn't

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Speaker 1: that wild now? It's like it feels like when you

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Speaker 1: go into those stores, you know, the office stores, the

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Speaker 1: office electronics is sort of an afterthought. You know, people

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Speaker 1: just go in there for paper, And I, quite honestly,

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Speaker 1: I'm surprise anytime there's a physical store for anything Like

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Speaker 1: it just feels like they're all just you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of time before they all go away.

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Speaker 1: And so I don't want that to happen. But I

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Speaker 1: understand the economics of it. I mean, these these stores

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Speaker 1: are getting undercut by online so easily, and people literally

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Speaker 1: are doing price comparisons in the store and then saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll just save a couple bucks and I'll have it

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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. This week, Ring introduced a new AI powered

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Speaker 1: smart video search. This is pretty cool and it's so wild.

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Speaker 1: It's so wild how much AI has just it's it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I do a joke every time I interview someone for

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Speaker 1: KTLA and talk about you know, their product, I say,

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Speaker 1: and how is AI involved? And ninety nine percent of

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Speaker 1: the time they have an answer because AI has to

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Speaker 1: be a part of every product nowadays, no matter what.

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Speaker 1: And so Ring has this thing called smart Video Search,

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Speaker 1: and you can now type in just anything you want

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Speaker 1: to find speciments in your Ring video history. So your

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Speaker 1: doorbell and your cameras have been recording all these clips.

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Speaker 1: You know there might be some interesting moments in there,

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Speaker 1: or maybe you're trying to look for something like you know,

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Speaker 1: your backyard is all messed up and you're like, what

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Speaker 1: what animal did that? So you can search for not

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Speaker 1: only animal, but a specific animal like raccoon. You can

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Speaker 1: search for locations. You could search for packages, people, time vehicles.

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Speaker 1: You can say red car and see how many times

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Speaker 1: that passes your house. Weather, that'd be cool. I'd love

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Speaker 1: to try to see if you can search lightning. That'd

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Speaker 1: be kind of cool. And of course some activities as well.

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Speaker 1: This works across all their Ring video doorbells and cameras.

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Speaker 1: This is all being done on the back end, so

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really need any modification on the camera side,

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Speaker 1: something that's very easy to I don't know about easy,

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Speaker 1: but they're implementing on the back end, server side, so

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Speaker 1: that's why they can roll it out on all these cameras.

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Speaker 1: It's rolling out in public beta to select customers now,

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Speaker 1: and so that means you will not have access to

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Speaker 1: it right away, but eventually you will only though, if

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Speaker 1: you are subscribed to their new top of the line plan,

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Speaker 1: Ring Home Premium. That's twenty dollars a month. I know

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Speaker 1: for my Ring, they doubled the price tag from ten

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Speaker 1: to twenty dollars a month, So I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are not happy about that, but you know,

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Speaker 1: that's what's happening, and I don't know, we'll see if

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Speaker 1: Ring changes their mind about that. But Ring, I will say,

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Speaker 1: has been very inexpensive over the years, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty bucks a month, it's a lot, but it's kind

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Speaker 1: of on par with what people are paying for some

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Speaker 1: of their other Alarm subscriptions, and I believe that includes

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Speaker 1: some of the alarm features too. November fifth, they're going

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Speaker 1: to have that new feature those new subscriptions, So there

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Speaker 1: you go. Ring with AI and if you got an

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Speaker 1: email about to be owing you some money for a settlement,

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Speaker 1: it is legitimate. I got a bunch of emails from

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Speaker 1: people saying rich, is this real? Yes to be. The

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Speaker 1: free to watch video service is paying nearly twenty million

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Speaker 1: dollars in a settlement over video privacy. What do they

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Speaker 1: do well? They shared information with third parties without your consent.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't know if they agreed to this or

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Speaker 1: you know, if this is just the settlement. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Of course, these companies don't admit any wrongdoing in these settlements.

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Speaker 1: They just say, fine, settle. So are you eligible? If

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Speaker 1: you used TUB between June twenty third, twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: and August twenty six, twenty twenty four, you are eligible

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Speaker 1: for cash. So how much are you gonna get? We

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Speaker 1: don't know. It depends on how many people file claims.

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Speaker 1: So you should definitely file a claim if you got

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Speaker 1: that email or if you use TUB. The only way

796
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Speaker 1: you have to prove it is if you have an

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Speaker 1: email account that's registered with TUB or the device information

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Speaker 1: and dates of use. So the deadline is let's see here.

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Speaker 1: Claim deadline. November twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. If you

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Speaker 1: want to exclude yourself from this class action, you gotta

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Speaker 1: do October thirty first. Anyway, to be how ironic, it's

802
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Speaker 1: a free service, free service that people use for free,

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Speaker 1: and now they got to pay twenty million dollars because

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Speaker 1: they shared these people's these uh, these customers information with

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Speaker 1: third parties. And what's that all about. I'm guessing it's

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Speaker 1: all about advertising, because that's what's supporting to be as

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Speaker 1: well as a lot of these other services. It's not

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Speaker 1: really free. Your data is what's supporting it. But apparently

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Speaker 1: they shared that data with too many people. Eighty eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Coming up on the show,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the pros and cons of

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Speaker 1: those art style TVs. That's this hour. Next hour, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk to us Scott Baldwin. He's got a

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Speaker 1: startup called front Pack. This is a social network for athletes.

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Speaker 1: Got a new app plus a special guest a little

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Speaker 1: bit later on. Let's go to line one. Steve in

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Speaker 1: a Hemmett, Steve and Hemmett. You are on with rich Steve,

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Speaker 1: Are you there? Nope? Okay, let's go to Uh, let's

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Speaker 1: see here. Let's go to line too. Kevin in San Clementy. Kevin,

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Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.

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Speaker 6: Good afternoon. Just a quick comment. Somebody said about a

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Speaker 6: kit a while ago. I remember the old Heath Kit

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Speaker 6: days building, those you know, uh things that Heath Kid offered.

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Speaker 6: I think it might even still be around. Uh. The

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Speaker 6: story I wanted to mention was specific stereo. They were

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Speaker 6: on paying a Canyon and I think that's Kilga Park

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Speaker 6: out there that was around for years and years and years.

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Speaker 1: Oh, isn't it didn't It looks like they're still around.

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Speaker 1: Is Oh? You know what I just you just made

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Speaker 1: me think of another one, Alan Eds remember that.

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Speaker 6: No, there was something Eds on Central Boulevard, I think

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Speaker 6: in Tarzan or something.

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Speaker 1: Alan Ed's Alan Ed's auto sound. It was like they

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Speaker 1: did all car audio.

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Speaker 6: Yep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And I remember getting like it was like I

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Speaker 1: obviously it was. It was too expensive for me back

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Speaker 1: in the day when I first moved to La like

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Speaker 1: to get something, but that's like where you wanted to

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Speaker 1: get it done, because it was like, you know, you

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Speaker 1: could go to Best Buy, but like that's going to

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Speaker 1: be you know, just okay. But this place was like

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Speaker 1: they knew what they were doing. They knew their stuff absolutely. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So what my question is, I've got a pair of

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Speaker 6: KLH Models five that have the paper cones the mid

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Speaker 6: range and the woofer or paper cones. How long do

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Speaker 6: paper cones last unless you blow them out?

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Speaker 1: That's a great question that I do not know the

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Speaker 1: complete answer to. What I would say, until they don't

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Speaker 1: sound good anymore? I mean, what is there a problem

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Speaker 1: with these speakers?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 6: No, no, it was just something I thought of that.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm just curious how long are these going

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Speaker 6: to last? Because the ones I have are pre the

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Speaker 6: new owners of KLH. Now, these were I think KLH

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Speaker 6: sold in twenty seventeen or something, so these are the

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00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 6: original KLH speakers. So I was just ordered how long

860
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Speaker 6: are they going to last?

861
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Speaker 1: How? How how old are these things?

862
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Speaker 6: Uh? Probably fifteen years old?

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Speaker 1: Okay? And they still sound good? I'm sorry, they still

864
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Speaker 1: sound good.

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Speaker 6: They sound awesome.

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00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: Well, then, I mean, I'm you know, I think they're

867
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: they're probably fine. I mean it's I'm looking at some

868
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: some info online. It says with good care, twenty to

869
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,479
Speaker 1: forty years could be reasonable. But that, you know, I mean,

870
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: that sounds like a lot, But you know it's a speaker.

871
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 1: I've it's funny. I I've got the so no speakers

872
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: that I've complained about obviously on this show, But I

873
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: keep thinking, I'm like, when are these no good anymore?

874
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I guess when they don't work anymore?

875
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's still sounding fine, like it's a speaker, Like,

876
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: what more do you need if it's if it's sounding good.

877
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: It's funny because we're so used to replacing things and

878
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: getting rid of things. But I bet, I bet even

879
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: if these things went out, you could probably still repair

880
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 1: them if they if they if someone still the parts.

881
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, good point. Okay, Well, I enjoy what you do

882
00:44:58,680 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 6: for us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the trip down memory lane. What was the

884
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: other thing they also had? You know, all these companies

885
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: have been absorbed by other companies. A lot of them have,

886
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: like Best Buy had what was it Pacific Sales? They

887
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: I thought Pacific Stereo was part of that. But Pacific

888
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 1: Sales I think was like an independent place that they

889
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: ended up absorbing into best Buy as well. So let's

890
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: see what was the you said, Let's see what was it?

891
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: Pacific Stereo looks like it's still around as far as

892
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: I can tell, is this just an online thing? I'm

893
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: not sure, but yeah, it's wild to go down down

894
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: memory lane with some of these things. Okay, do we

895
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 1: have time to go to uh? Sounds like our other

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00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: callers back online one? We have time for Steve and Hemmett. No, No,

897
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: we don't. Okay, all right, oh Steven Hemmt's gone. Okay, Well,

898
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: this is what happens in a live show here. You know,

899
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: we get people, we drop people, they drop whatever. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So a couple of things. The newsletter on the website

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Speaker 1: a lot of emails this week from folks who, surpriseingly,

904
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Speaker 1: do not want to switch. You know, you have to

905
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Speaker 1: if you're on Verizon Messages Plus, you have to switch

906
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: to Google Messages. And I got a lot of emails

907
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: from people saying I didn't want to switch because they

908
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: don't want Google having access to their messages. They they're

909
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: missing certain features that they had in Verizon Message Plus

910
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: that Google Messages does not have. And they're asking me

911
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,479
Speaker 1: if they could use a different app now on Android. Yeah,

912
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of Android you could use. There's one

913
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Speaker 1: thousand texting apps in the Google Play. You can choose

914
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: any one of them. Obviously, make sure it's a company

915
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: you trust because these are your texts. There's a lot

916
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: of personal information in there. But they're not going to

917
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Speaker 1: support RCS, and that's the big thing. If you want

918
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: that RCS support, you can go with Samsung Messages. You

919
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: could still download that from the Galaxy Galaxy Store, but

920
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: you're only going to get RCS, which upgrades your messaging

921
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Speaker 1: from Android to Android and Android to iPhone if you

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Speaker 1: use that Google Messages. Eighty to eight rich one oh

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Speaker 1: one more Rich on Tech come your way right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one on one.

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. The website for the show Rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv. You can also sign up for my newsletter

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Speaker 1: want show notes, anything I mentioned on the show, I

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Speaker 1: and you'll see all of the shows and the notes

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Speaker 1: for that. Did you participate in Amazon's Prime Big Deal

934
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: Days twenty twenty four. I bought exactly one thing. It

935
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: was a fog machine for my kid, replacing the old

936
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: one we had, and yet it was on sale. It

937
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: was great, but I did not get anything else, and

938
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 1: a lot of things were on sale. I do think

939
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Speaker 1: that these sales are getting better. I think Amazon is

940
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: learning their lesson by putting more things on sale and

941
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Speaker 1: not just promising a lot. But they say it was

942
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Speaker 1: Amazon's biggest October shopping event ever. I mean that really

943
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Speaker 1: narrows it down.

944
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Speaker 6: Prime.

945
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Speaker 1: Remember saved over one billion dollars globally across millions of deals.

946
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Speaker 1: They never tell you how much they spent, though, right,

947
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: because that would be that would be too much for

948
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: our brains to handle. More Prime members participated this year

949
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: compared to last year's event, and they've got more deals

950
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: coming up. Fourth Annual Holiday Beauty Haul October twenty first

951
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: and November third. That's a long one. That just sounds

952
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:22,280
Speaker 1: like a tiktoker's dream.

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Speaker 8: Right.

954
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: It's talking to my sister and she she said she

955
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: buys everything that she sees on TikTok, all these beauty

956
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: products that people are hawking all day, and it's a

957
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: big business. I'm sure because that's like half of the

958
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: stuff on there is like beauty tutorials. Right then you've

959
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 1: got the Black Friday Game, the NFL Black Friday Game

960
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: football game on November twenty ninth. I guess they're going

961
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: to have some sort of deals there. Amazon spent a

962
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: lot of money for those football rights, so I see

963
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: the ads everywhere for that, and it's great. They're their

964
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: football is so clear, it's unbelievable. I don't know how

965
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: they're broadcasting or whatever they're doing, whatever magic they've got,

966
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: but it's it's such a play to watch football games

967
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: on Prime, and it's just the way it should be.

968
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Speaker 4: Right.

969
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: You can just watch it on any device anywhere, no

970
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: matter what. And right now you can get ten percent

971
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Speaker 1: discount on select toys for purchase over twenty five dollars

972
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: until October thirty. First, obviously, you need a Prime membership

973
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,479
Speaker 1: for all this stuff fifteen bucks a month one hundred

974
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: and thirty nine dollars a year, but if you have it,

975
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Speaker 1: it's well worth it. Let's see here, Let's go to

976
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Speaker 1: line three. Brady and Anaheim. Brady and Anaheim. You're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich.

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Speaker 9: Hi, How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I am doing excellent? What can I help you.

980
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 2: With So I've used every Note as a note taking

981
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,720
Speaker 2: app for almost ten years, but last year when Broken

982
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:48,919
Speaker 2: Spoons bought them, they limited the devices, raised prices, made

983
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 2: it more difficult to use. So I want to know

984
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 2: if you're aware of an app that I could use

985
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 2: the export all my notes that would work with iOS, Windows, Android,

986
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 2: because everywhere I so far there's an issue like, no

987
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 2: you can you have to still have ever note and updated,

988
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 2: you know, one drive One Note's been a kind of

989
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 2: a hassle. Yeah, you have any ideas?

990
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: Are you looking into my brain? Because I think about

991
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: this every single day. I have hopped between every single

992
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: one of these note taking apps. I was one of

993
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Speaker 1: the first new users of ever note Ever. I mean

994
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Speaker 1: I remember I was a user so far back in

995
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Speaker 1: the day. It was it was like an ever scroll.

996
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: It was just an ever, never ending scroll of notes

997
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: that you would put it on, and then of course

998
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 1: it's evolved over the years. You're right. It was purchased

999
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Speaker 1: by an Italian company, Bending Spoons. I know you called it,

1000
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: what did you call it, Problem Spoons or something?

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00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 2: Spoons?

1002
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: Broken Spoons. Now I got to give them credit. I

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Speaker 1: actually think the updates and improvements they've done to ever

1004
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: Note is excellent. I think they've done a good job

1005
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: with it. But yes, you are right, they have squeezed

1006
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: out the free user to a place where it's unusable

1007
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: if you're if you're a free user, and I would

1008
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:00,479
Speaker 1: agree with that. If you're trying to use this for free,

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00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: don't even bother because you're gonna either hit the limits,

1010
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, in three days, or it's just not worth it.

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00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: The other thing is that ever note stores everything in

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00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 1: a proprietary way, which is you can export it. But

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00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: I found out because I was a big Evernote user

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00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: for many years. When I wanted to export, it got

1015
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: really tricky and everything was kind of gobbledygook. And it's

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00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 1: taken me years to kind of climb out of that.

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Speaker 1: So what if I tried I've tried one Note. I

1018
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: don't like one Note because it the way it's got

1019
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: that infinite canvas I just deal with when you paste

1020
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: something in there, the text is like in one little

1021
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: box and then it moves over. It's just two doesn't

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Speaker 1: work for my brain. Notion is what I'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: I've settled on that, but I'll tell you I'll go

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00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: through the thing. Obsidian is what I was using for

1025
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: a while, and I think Obsidian is probably, if you're

1026
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: a little bit of a nerd, the best alternative to

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00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: ever Note because it is mostly self hosted. Your files

1028
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: live on your machine. The file structure and every thing

1029
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: is very similar to Evernote. It's not as polished, it's not,

1030
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Speaker 1: as you know, full featured, but I think Obsidian is

1031
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: really good. You just have to figure out a way

1032
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: to sink it across devices, and that includes either paying

1033
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: them or doing it yourself. Apple Notes no good because

1034
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: it's just one platform, and then you've got Joplin, which

1035
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Speaker 1: is an open source program. But I find that it's

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Speaker 1: good and I think it's very similar. It's basically an

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Speaker 1: Evernote clone, but open source. I just didn't like the

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Speaker 1: fact that it doesn't really sink in the background, and

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit old school looking compared now. The

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Speaker 1: one that I've settled on has been Notion, and again

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Speaker 1: you do probably have to pay if you want to

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Speaker 1: use Notion in a big way, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: the cleanest of all the programs. The thing I don't

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00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: like about it is the file structure. Everything is sort

1045
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: of link based, which is good, but it does take

1046
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: a little bit of learning. And you can't organize your

1047
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: file folders if you want to call that in alphabetical order,

1048
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:00,839
Speaker 1: which really really bugs me. But I would say those

1049
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: your options. You kind of have to just play with them.

1050
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: And see I did download ever note again today to

1051
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: take a second look. But the problem is it's one

1052
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty bucks a year, and once you start

1053
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: getting into these programs, if you're if you're in it

1054
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: for the long haul, you're gonna be paying that forever.

1055
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: So it really comes down to a matter more preference.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we're gonna talk frame style art TVs with

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Speaker 1: Christian Deloper. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro

1058
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight

1059
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one, the website rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Hit contact if you want to get

1062
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Speaker 1: in touch. Uh Joining me now is a tech journalist

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Speaker 1: Christian Delooper, to talk about the pros and cons of

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Speaker 1: art style TVs. Christian, Welcome to the show. Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: how's it going. Thanks for having me, Yeah, thanks for

1066
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Speaker 1: coming on. Let's uh so, first off, what is an

1067
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Speaker 1: art style TV. What does that mean exactly?

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Speaker 10: So I think like maybe three or four years ago

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Speaker 10: we saw the first one from Samsung, which is the

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Speaker 10: kind of much loved or much googled Samsung, the Frame TV,

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Speaker 10: and the goal of the TV was essentially to kind

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00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 10: of replace the big black box that's always in your

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Speaker 10: living room with something that can not only be a

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Speaker 10: TV but also kind of like a painting.

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Speaker 1: Right, And this is something when I first saw it,

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00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I want this because it's like

1077
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: this TV just hangs on your wall, but when you're

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00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: not using it, it looks like a framed piece of art. Yeah,

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00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 1: pretty much. Yeah, I felt the same way.

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Speaker 10: And they basically use a few different technologies to kind

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00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 10: of look less like a glossy black box like I mentioned,

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00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 10: and kind of more like a painting. For example, they

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00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 10: have typically a matte glass instead of a glossy glass

1084
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 10: that can that's kind of anti reflective so that they,

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00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 10: you know, paintings aren't reflective, so that they look much

1086
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 10: more like paintings when they're showing a picture of a

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Speaker 10: painting behind there.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Samsung tried to like fake everyone out

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Speaker 1: the first time they unveil this where they had had

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Speaker 1: us in a room or something and they're like, oh,

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00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: and then it changes to like a TV. So now

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Speaker 1: we've got some competition. High Sense also has one called

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Speaker 1: the Canvas TV. You tested that, yep, yep. I tested

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Speaker 1: that last month. It's their first model, the heighcensed Canvas TV.

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Speaker 1: I think the model name is S seven or something.

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00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll see other models from them. And that

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00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: one's pretty interesting because it's taking on Samsung at a

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00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: much lower price point. You know, the fifty five inch

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00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: frame TV is fifteen hundred dollars, but the heists model

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00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 1: is a thousand bucks, so you know, five hundred bucks

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Speaker 1: cheaper is a big deal. Yeah, and I have a

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Speaker 1: high Sense, so I'm actually I can say the quality

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Speaker 1: is great. I like it a lot, and so I

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Speaker 1: think that this is probably a nice option. So what

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Speaker 1: who do you think these are for? Like how do

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Speaker 1: they work day to day? Like when you turn off

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Speaker 1: your TV? Does it it just shows the artwork? And

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Speaker 1: can you choose what you want on there?

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Speaker 10: So it's complicated you can choose what you want. Typically

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00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 10: they have a kind of art mode, so instead of

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Speaker 10: hitting the power button on the remote, you'd hit the

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Speaker 10: art Mode button to put it into art Mode, and

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Speaker 10: then you know, with the Hyacinths and the Samsung as well,

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Speaker 10: they typically turn off after a while. Especially the newer

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Speaker 10: models have like motion detection or light detection, so if

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00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:18,720
Speaker 10: I think it's night and no one's around, everyone's asleep,

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00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 10: they'll just kind of turn off. But you have to

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00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 10: unless you're willing to tinker a lot. You have to

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00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,760
Speaker 10: use the built in software to really.

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Speaker 1: Get the most out of the art Mode.

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Speaker 10: I still have the TV set up I reviewed it

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00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 10: a month ago, but I use an Apple TV and

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Speaker 10: as a result, it's never really an art Mode. It's

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Speaker 10: just kind of it looks like an empty frame.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting, yeah, because I'm sure there's like things

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Speaker 1: competing with these, like you know, your screensavers on your

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00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: other things as well, like yeah, streaming box connected. So

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Speaker 1: is there So I was mentioning earlier on the show,

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00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 1: there's always like a pro and con to something. So

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Speaker 1: these TVs are expensive, are they as high quality like

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Speaker 1: typically like if you're watching the regular content as you know,

1132
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Speaker 1: a nice ole letter or something like that, or is

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Speaker 1: there a downside to the screen tech that they're using

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Speaker 1: to make these look like art.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, so the downside is not as much about the screen, well,

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Speaker 10: it is about the screen tech, but the screen tech

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Speaker 10: as a result of the form factor. So these are

1138
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 10: built to be super thin. They're built to be mounted

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Speaker 10: on a wall and look like a picture when they're

1140
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Speaker 10: not in use. But the result of the thinness is

1141
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Speaker 10: less cooling and less space for a new tech. So

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Speaker 10: the answer is no, that the image quality is not

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Speaker 10: anywhere near you know, you mentioned you have a high

1144
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 10: sense before I reviewed this one. I reviewed the latest

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00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,439
Speaker 10: license you eight, which is a stunning looking TV.

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Speaker 1: But that's the one I've got. Yeah, it's a great TV.

1147
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 10: But the highcensed Canvas TV, while great, is Yeah, the

1148
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 10: image quality just doesn't compare. And that's mostly mostly because

1149
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Speaker 10: of the backlighting technology that just can't produce the same

1150
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 10: deep black levels that dominild black lighting that you know,

1151
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Speaker 10: higher end models can.

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00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: So, now when you said that you have this thing

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00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 1: set up but it's sort of just a black screen,

1154
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Speaker 1: why is that?

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Speaker 10: Basically because typically well typically I always use the Apple TV.

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Speaker 10: You know, our household is Apple based, so I can't

1157
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 10: There's no Art TV button on the Apple TV, and

1158
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 10: I don't see Apple adding one anytime soon. So when

1159
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 10: I'm not using the TV, I use HDMI controls, so

1160
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 10: I can use my Apple TV remode all the time.

1161
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 10: So I hit off and it just goes straight to off.

1162
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 10: You know, that's one of the biggest issues I had

1163
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 10: with it, is that I wish you could. You can

1164
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 10: set up Hdmi to control the TV through the volume

1165
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Speaker 10: and the power button and all that kind of stuff,

1166
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Speaker 10: but you can't set up the TV to say, hey,

1167
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Speaker 10: I just got an off signal, I'm going to go

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Speaker 10: in art mode instead of OFF because I prefer to

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Speaker 10: have art mode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that's something they could do

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Speaker 1: with a software update, and you know, because it doesn't

1172
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: seem like it would be that tricky, it's interesting. So yeah,

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00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: and there are some hacks around it too, So like,

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Speaker 1: for example, I could change the Apple TV screen savers

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Speaker 1: to be paintings instead of to kind of bird's eye

1176
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: view screensavers that Apple TV has become famous for, and

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Speaker 1: that would kind of get around it, but you still

1178
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Speaker 1: won't get the automatic brightness technology like the Canvas TV

1179
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: can change brightness depending on the.

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Speaker 10: Environment, so it looks a little more natural, and.

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Speaker 1: You won't get the automatic.

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00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 10: It can kind of turn on and off if it

1183
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 10: detects motion, so if there's no one in the room,

1184
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 10: it'll be off without the TV being fully off, and

1185
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Speaker 10: then switch back on if someone comes to the room.

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Speaker 1: That kind of thing.

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Speaker 10: So you can kind of get around it, but kind

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Speaker 10: of not.

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Speaker 1: So what you're saying is if you want to get

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Speaker 1: the most out of these TVs, you sort of have

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00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: to use their built in streaming service. Does this one?

1192
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: Does High Sense have like a Google TV or anything

1193
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: built in? Yeah, yeah, that's right.

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00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 10: It's Google TV built into the Highcense TCL has a

1195
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 10: model as well, and that's Google TV, and there's the

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Speaker 10: Samsung the frame. You don't necessarily have to use the

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00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 10: built in software, but you do have to be willing.

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Speaker 10: If you're using an external box, you do have to

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Speaker 10: be willing to use two remotes, or at least I

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00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 10: think you can technically set up the TV remote that

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01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 10: comes with the Hyacins to control your Apple TV as well,

1202
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 10: so that that might be a good way around it

1203
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 10: for those who are willing to not use the Apple

1204
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 10: TV remote and still want art Mode.

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Speaker 1: But as someone okay, but that's ironic because if you're

1206
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: buying one of these art TVs. You love aesthetics and

1207
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: now you're using like the worst possible real control to plastic.

1208
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: But I do use the remote for the high sense.

1209
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: Like I I was so against it for so long.

1210
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: I had like a third I had my Apple TV

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Speaker 1: actually connected to the TV. But then I was like,

1212
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: why do I need this extra box, Like as much

1213
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: as I love Apple TV, like Google TV does everything

1214
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: I need and it's one less remote, and so I

1215
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: just you know, that's what we use. But uh, okay,

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01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:43,479
Speaker 1: So the TCL one looks like it's called the Next

1217
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: Frame nxt Frame TV, so they're doing this as well,

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01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: and yeah, sorry what was that? Yeah, no, go ahead,

1219
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: talk about this one.

1220
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Speaker 4: That one is.

1221
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 10: Yeah, that was really promising because the the big disadvantage

1222
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 10: to these over the past few years has been kind

1223
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 10: of the backlighting technology. We've seeing a lot of different

1224
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 10: backlight technologies make for a more natural image because they

1225
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 10: can turn off sections of the display to produce true

1226
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 10: black levels. The Next Frame can't do that, but it

1227
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 10: does have what's called direct lit backlighting instead of the

1228
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 10: canvas TV and the frame's edge lit. So with an

1229
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 10: edge lit TV, they basically shine lights in through the

1230
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 10: edges will The next frame has a big backlight behind

1231
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 10: the display so that the lighting is much more uniform.

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01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 10: They can't still can't get really good control over the

1233
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,919
Speaker 10: black levels. It doesn't have local dimming or anything like that,

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Speaker 10: but it is a much more uniform lighting if you

1235
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 10: care about that.

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Speaker 1: And the main thing, like if someone's listening and they're

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01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: sitting there going wait, I'm so confused, Like I've had

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01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: a screensaver on my TV forever, like what's different? The

1239
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: main thing is the actual when you walk into a

1240
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: room and see this TV. If it's an art style TV,

1241
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: it is a different look. It looks much more closer

1242
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 1: to like, let's say the printed painted page versus you know,

1243
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: a bright picture.

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01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right, it's the main Like physical differences are

1245
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 10: the matt anti reflective gloss that's used. And then I

1246
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 10: guess the frames that you could put around them that

1247
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 10: come with the highcense, and I think that the TCL

1248
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 10: as well for free, but you have to buy separately

1249
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 10: for the frame.

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01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 1: Okay, and now if you want a kind of a

1251
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: cheaper way to do this, DIY, you know, Amazon's got

1252
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: what they call the ambient Experience on Fire TV. And

1253
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: that's on their fire TV Omni. It's also on the

1254
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: fire Stick four K Max and some Panasonic fire TVs.

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Speaker 1: And then, like I said, I was at my mom's

1256
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: place helping her with her Roku, and they just added

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01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 1: what's called the backdrops, and it's basically turns your TV

1258
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: into an art style TV. Now you're not going to

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01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: get that same dimming and all the you know, the

1260
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 1: matt look, but it's the same thing. Like when I

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01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,160
Speaker 1: pressed her power button on the Roku. Once I set

1262
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: it up, it went into art mode and then you

1263
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,200
Speaker 1: press again and it turns off the TV. So I

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01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty cool that they added that as well.

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Speaker 1: And obviously a lot of people have real cool Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is pretty cool.

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Speaker 10: If you really want to go DIY, you can just

1268
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 10: find pictures that you like and make those your screensaver

1269
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 10: on at any smart TV.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's hard to do.

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01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 10: And then so when your TV goes into screensaver mode,

1272
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 10: you could do it on an Apple TV or anything

1273
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 10: like that. It'll be shown the art behind the glossy

1274
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 10: glass that won't look completely.

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Speaker 1: Like a painting like some of these art TVs do.

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01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a good hack. All right, Christian Delooper.

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Speaker 1: Where can folks find you? We're online.

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Speaker 10: I write for all all sorts of places. I'm a

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Speaker 10: expert for our hosting advice. I write reviews for BGR

1280
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Speaker 10: Tom's Guide, do a lot of smart home, a lot

1281
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Speaker 10: of home theater. You can find me on threads and

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Speaker 10: then you'll see some of my work at Christian Delooper.

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Speaker 1: And the end of the day, which one are you picking?

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Speaker 1: The frame, the canvas, the TCL or just sticking with

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Speaker 1: the Apple TV end of the day.

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Speaker 10: The frame is probably the best looking so far, but

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Speaker 10: I haven't reviewed the TCL just yet, and it's pretty

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Speaker 10: promising in terms of the backlining tech, So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: All right. I, like I said, I've always wanted one

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Speaker 1: of these, but haven't haven't done it, and I feel

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Speaker 1: like we really got to be into that art. Yeah exactly,

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Speaker 1: all right, Thanks so much for joining me. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. We come back.

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Speaker 1: We'll take some more of your calls, and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you why TikTok's getting sued once again. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you

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Speaker 1: Talking technology eighty eight Rich one O one eighty eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two, four to one zero one coming

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Speaker 1: to you from New Jersey today. Hence the music all

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Speaker 1: Jersey inspired. Bon Jovi clearly one of the breakout stars

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Speaker 1: of New Jersey. A couple of feedbags before we get

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Speaker 1: to uh Todd in Santa Monica to talk about this

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Speaker 1: hackathon they've got going on there. Danny wrote in from Riverside, said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: back in the eighties, the Federated Group was one of

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Speaker 1: the fourth largest consumer electronics stores in the US. If

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Speaker 1: you mentioned you were in radio, they'd give you a

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Speaker 1: discount on Sendheiser headphones. Besides headphones, I bought my first

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Speaker 1: Dolby surround stereo system there. Great for movie watching. Then

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Speaker 1: you had Circuit Oh let's see radio personality. Oh Shadow Stevens.

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Speaker 1: Huh wow, I remember that name was their spokesperson. Wow.

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Speaker 1: That just brought back blasts from the past. Circuit City,

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Speaker 1: where I bought my first big screen TV, eventually became

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Speaker 1: their main competitor. Atari bought Federated in nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: After a few lawsuits, they folded in nineteen ninety All

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Speaker 1: the best, Rich hmm, It's interesting. That's another place people.

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Speaker 1: Oh that was another like Montgomery Ward, remember that store.

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Speaker 1: That was another place you could buy electronics. So many

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Speaker 1: let's see I believe on X says Fyi, Alan Eds

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Speaker 1: are still going strong. There's one close to me. Oh,

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Speaker 1: good to know always like that's who you wanted to

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Speaker 1: install your stuff again, Alan Eds, Let's go to a

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Speaker 1: line too, Todd in Santa Monica. Todd, what's going on

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Speaker 1: in Santa Monica today?

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Speaker 8: Hey, Rich, good to hear from you. We're hosting AILA

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Speaker 8: is hosting the largest hack jenerative AI hackathon in the

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Speaker 8: region with over five hundred people and it's a pretty

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Speaker 8: electric over here right now.

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Speaker 1: What's a generative AI hackathons? Use AI to help you hack?

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Speaker 1: Or what?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Exactly is this really? You know, you could be using

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Speaker 8: AI to write your code or actually developing some tind

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Speaker 8: of a generative AI platform. So we have a number

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Speaker 8: of different types of tracks, whether it's around responsible AI,

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Speaker 8: or is around building of a viable startup, a fundable startup,

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Speaker 8: or around cybersecurity. And then we have a ton of

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Speaker 8: different Obviously we're in Los Angeles, so we've got a

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Speaker 8: ton of different tracks focusing on entertainment and media.

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Speaker 1: So I guess my question is, you know, everyone thinks

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Speaker 1: that AI is the end of everything, especially if you're

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Speaker 1: a coder, Like do you still have to learn how

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Speaker 1: to code? How does AI play along with what you

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Speaker 1: do as a coder.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean there's definitely a number of different types

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Speaker 8: of products that are helping people code faster and better.

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Speaker 8: Like think of it as always having like an assistant

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Speaker 8: or co pilot next to you. And so for me,

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Speaker 8: as a non clinical person that went to film school,

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Speaker 8: I still believe that no matter what, understanding the science

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Speaker 8: behind AI and the science behind computer you know around

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Speaker 8: coding is very important. So don't give up on going

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Speaker 8: to get your computer science degree anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: And what are some of the themes that you're seeing there?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know you mentioned some about anything that's

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Speaker 1: like stand out to you that people are doing.

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Speaker 8: I haven't had a chance to walk around. We seriously

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Speaker 8: started like a two hours ago when people started hacking.

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Speaker 8: They're going to be working on their projects overnight and

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Speaker 8: so tomorrow I'll be able to have more to report abile.

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Speaker 8: But there's people, you know, thinking of a lot of

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Speaker 8: different applications that some of them are centered around how

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Speaker 8: do they use content, how do they digest content and

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Speaker 8: edit it in bite sized pieces to like highlight reels,

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Speaker 8: or helping YouTubers be able to again cut their content

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Speaker 8: faster as a rough cut, so that then they can

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Speaker 8: go in and talluld.

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Speaker 1: And make it beautiful so wild. I mean, it's also

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Speaker 1: like even something like this radio show which is three hours,

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Speaker 1: you know, picking out little spots that you can make

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Speaker 1: into like you know, clips for shareable social media. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's so many companies that are working on that. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's perfect just yet. I think that you

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Speaker 1: still need that human touch with some of this stuff.

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Speaker 1: But it's definitely happening. And you know, AI is just

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Speaker 1: it's such a force in everything these days. So where's

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Speaker 1: the event happening and can anyone get involved in this

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Speaker 1: still or what?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, the missions are definitely closed up. We had

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Speaker 8: over one thousand registrations. We've got over five hundred actually

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Speaker 8: here actively participating and at that one two one seven

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Speaker 8: second street here in Santa Monica just stepped away from

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Speaker 8: the big DC group Basic tem Z and so we're

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Speaker 8: kicking off LA Tech Week with this huge hakathon to

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Speaker 8: really help a flag in Los Angeles to show people

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Speaker 8: that you know, there's a you know, we're more than

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Speaker 8: we're an innovation capital too, not just San Francisco or places.

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Speaker 2: Like New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely awesome is their website people can go to to

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Speaker 1: learn more.

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Speaker 8: Sure, you can just go to join AI dot la.

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Speaker 8: Find out more about our ailate nonprofit that's hosted this

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Speaker 8: whole hackathon.

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Speaker 1: Join a JOINAI dot l A.

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Speaker 8: Correct join AI dot l A and you'll find more

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Speaker 8: about the organization and the pacabon.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Todd and Santa Monica, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: checking in with us. Appreciate that.

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Speaker 8: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: All Right, good luck with that. Very exciting. I've seen

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Speaker 1: a couple of hackathons in my years, and it's cool.

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Speaker 1: People come up with like, you know, they spend a

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Speaker 1: certain amount of time, let's say twenty four hours just

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Speaker 1: working and they got to get a project from idea

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Speaker 1: to execution and fruition might not be fully complete, but

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Speaker 1: you know, they try to get the best they can

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Speaker 1: for what, you know, the time that they have. And

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Speaker 1: it's pretty cool because people, you know, they come together,

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Speaker 1: they may not know each other sometimes and they solve

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Speaker 1: these problems that they you know uh have been considering

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Speaker 1: with technology. It's pretty neat eighty eight rich one on

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

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Speaker 1: one again the website rich on tech dot tv. I'll

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Speaker 1: put that website that Todd mentioned in the show notes.

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Speaker 1: Just hit the light bulb there to get those TikTok

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Speaker 1: I know, broken record, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. I saw somewhere

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Speaker 1: that TikTok has a countdown clock that you can see

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Speaker 1: when when they're expected to be Let's see TikTok countdown

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Speaker 1: to ban when they're expected. Oh here it is us

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Speaker 1: TikTok ban countdown. Oh gosh, there's like some sort of

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Speaker 1: clock I saw on social media that you can countdown

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Speaker 1: time or oh here it is TikTok countdown. Now that's

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Speaker 1: not the right one. Well this will work. But TikTok

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Speaker 1: countdown dot com ninety nine days, nine hours, five minutes,

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Speaker 1: four seconds. With the ninety day extension, you've got one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty nine days. So if you're making a

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Speaker 1: living on TikTok, this is the this is the countdown

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Speaker 1: to watch now. I I don't know I will get banned.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure and I've already given my opinion too

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Speaker 1: many times in the show about electric cars. I'll save

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Speaker 1: mine on TikTok. Let me just tell you what the

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Speaker 1: what's happening against TikTok. Fourteen states have filed a lawsuit

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Speaker 1: against TikTok for violating consumer protection laws. They say this

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Speaker 1: platform is addictive, particularly for young users. I don't think

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Speaker 1: anyone could argue with that. They say that TikTok uses

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Speaker 1: manipulative features to maximize user engagement, including beauty filters. They

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Speaker 1: think that harm self esteem, especially for teens, auto play

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Speaker 1: and endless scrolling. There's no way to turn off the AutoPlay,

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Speaker 1: notifications that make you want to come back, likes and

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Speaker 1: comments all over the place, and time sensitive features that

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Speaker 1: exploit a fear of missing out. What do they want

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Speaker 1: them to do? Change their ways? Sixty three percent of

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Speaker 1: Americans thirteen to seventeen use TikTok, seventeen percent reporting they

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Speaker 1: use it almost constantly. This is rich on Tech. Welcome

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01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you talking technology at triple eight rich one on one.

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. The website Rich on tech dot TV. As always,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your emails, your comments, your questions. I do

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Speaker 1: read them all.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Special guests with me, my brother Justin, Justin, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for having me on. You're a repeat

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Speaker 1: guest at this point. And I was talking about Microcenter

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Speaker 1: earlier in the show. Yep, I used to work there.

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Speaker 1: I just realized that I was sitting the wrong way

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Speaker 1: to talk to you because I set up the studio.

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Speaker 1: We're on a remote show this this week, and I

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Speaker 1: set up the studio and I just realized where I

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Speaker 1: set up. Justin is completely like he's just looking at

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Speaker 1: my back. And I didn't even think about that when

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Speaker 1: I was setting this up. But yeah, you worked at Microcenter.

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Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, I was in the BYO PC section.

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Speaker 1: And so did you know a lot about you've built

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Speaker 1: your own PC?

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Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple. So what components you need like a motherboard, yeah, motherboard,

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Speaker 1: a processor, BRAM, a storage, some kind of stories like

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Speaker 1: an SSD. You need a power supply, a case, some fans,

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Speaker 1: and somewhere to plug it in. Sounds pretty easy. And

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Speaker 1: a monitor. Yeah, you just fit the shapes into the

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Speaker 1: slots that they go into. That's pretty much it. Now,

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Speaker 1: what would people come in there, because you know, people

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Speaker 1: that are building their own computer. Some of them may

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Speaker 1: not have known everything, but a lot of them like

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Speaker 1: kind of know their stuff. So were they trying to

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Speaker 1: like quiz you like, what would be the interaction? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the smart customers were the worst because they would just

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Speaker 1: ask me. They would just test my knowledge as much

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Speaker 1: as they could. That's like this show sometime. Yeah, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: they would ask all kinds of questions. You know, you'd

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Speaker 1: get everybody. You get somebody who just wants you to

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Speaker 1: build the computer for them, and I'm like, all right, great,

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Speaker 1: here's all the most expensive parts, and you commission I did? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: everybody works in our commission. So the customer brings up

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Speaker 1: the part that they like, and then you slap your

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Speaker 1: sticker with the barcode on it. And then when they

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Speaker 1: check out, they bring up the part in the barcode

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Speaker 1: and you get you know, the commissions calculated from that.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, interesting? Yeah, And how long did you did

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Speaker 1: you do that? I think I was there for just

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Speaker 1: about a year. Oh that's it. Yeah, Oh wow, did

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01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: I think of so much longer? Okay, So I was

1494
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: talking about the idea of when I was growing up,

1495
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 1: and for you a lesser extent, you're a little younger,

1496
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 1: but you know this idea of all these places you

1497
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 1: could go to the store, like these electronics stores like

1498
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,599
Speaker 1: for me, you know comp USA and you know before

1499
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 1: Best Buy right right, like like this story yesterday when

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01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 1: I was walking through the aisles. I mean, they sell

1501
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 1: stuff that you just can't get in a Best Buy,

1502
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:39,799
Speaker 1: like little tiny pliers and like metal fittings and stuff

1503
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:43,679
Speaker 1: like that that's like really nerdy. Yeah, Microcenter is probably

1504
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:45,600
Speaker 1: one of the last places you can get anything like that.

1505
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:47,840
Speaker 1: I know, like radio shack back in the day used

1506
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 1: to have all kinds of little knickknacks and you know,

1507
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:53,080
Speaker 1: little wiry parts that you'd used to connect a circuit

1508
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:56,679
Speaker 1: board to something else. And nowadays it's just micro Center.

1509
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:58,840
Speaker 1: I mean they're the only game in town other than

1510
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 1: small little boutique shops that might sell electronics parts. But yeah,

1511
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's great. You got to respect them for

1512
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:09,360
Speaker 1: it because they they're a really good business. I mean,

1513
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 1: they have a lot of good parts they have. Let's

1514
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 1: not turn this into an ad for Microcenter. I mean

1515
01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 1: it's great that we have them, but okay, let's I'm

1516
01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna get to some emails here. Gary. We

1517
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 1: had a question about speakers and longevity. Gary wrote in

1518
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:25,720
Speaker 1: to say one of the main things that wears out

1519
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 1: on older acoustic suspension speakers is the foam surround for

1520
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: the wolfer. Over time, they just fall apart and turn

1521
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:34,519
Speaker 1: to dust. The good news is that the surrounds can

1522
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:37,679
Speaker 1: be replaced, either by the owner or by a company

1523
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 1: that does this. There are lots of YouTube videos showing

1524
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 1: how to do this. I know that older KLH Acoustics

1525
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 1: and other brands use these foam surrounds. I'm not sure

1526
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:51,080
Speaker 1: if the callers KLH uses these or not. If wolfers

1527
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: are using rubber surrounds, they will last much longer. Let's see.

1528
01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 1: Let's take Oh, you know Steve, Steve still on line one.

1529
01:15:58,160 --> 01:15:59,640
Speaker 1: We should get to Steve. It's been a while. You

1530
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,720
Speaker 1: want to say a call with me? Sure? All right?

1531
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:08,559
Speaker 1: Steve online one hammett Oh Kim is on with him. Okay, okay,

1532
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: Well maybe she was telling him that we were gonna

1533
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 1: come take him. But okay, well until that, tell me, Bobo,

1534
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 1: tell just bring him on when he's writing. I'll read

1535
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:20,799
Speaker 1: another email here. Uh, Sandra says, I have a smart

1536
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 1: TV that isn't set up to deliver Netflix. If I

1537
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: purchase a firestick, is that all I need? Thank you?

1538
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:29,519
Speaker 1: Justin you want to take that one? Sure? Yeah, you

1539
01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 1: know nowadays a lot of smart TVs, a lot of TV.

1540
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,719
Speaker 1: You almost can't get a TV without the smart stuff

1541
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 1: built into it. But if you do get a TV

1542
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:42,759
Speaker 1: without it, yeah, I would say a Kindle fire t sorry,

1543
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 1: an Amazon fire Stick, fire TV, one of those devices,

1544
01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:49,320
Speaker 1: or even Roku personally. What's your favorite? You like the Roku? Huh?

1545
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 1: I do like Roku? Yeah? You know, it's really just

1546
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 1: they all do the same thing. Ultimately, you know, pick

1547
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: whatever suits your budget and has the features that you like.

1548
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 1: I just I used a fire TV for a while

1549
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 1: and then switched over to Roku because it was a

1550
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: bit more of a powerful device and it has its

1551
01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: own proprietary interface. I just found that I liked it

1552
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 1: a bit better. So I do I think Roku? I

1553
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: mean because Roku is first and foremost a streaming device

1554
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 1: company and a platform. I think that they put a

1555
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 1: lot of effort into their platform, whereas with Amazon, and

1556
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 1: they are a big platform and Amazon's one of like

1557
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:27,559
Speaker 1: the top three. It's you know, I think they do

1558
01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 1: a lot of other things, right, fire is just one

1559
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:31,360
Speaker 1: of those things, and I do like the fire I

1560
01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 1: think the fire Cube is probably the most powerful device

1561
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:36,840
Speaker 1: that they have, but it's also the most expensive. But

1562
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:39,280
Speaker 1: I'm surprised, Sandra that you're able to get a smart

1563
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 1: TV without Netflix, because the idea of a smart TV

1564
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:45,760
Speaker 1: is that it has Netflix built in. But Firestick, you know,

1565
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:47,760
Speaker 1: I would say a lot of people go with the

1566
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: fire Stick just because it's very inexpensive, and that's what

1567
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 1: people like about it. All Right, do we have the caller? Nope,

1568
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:57,439
Speaker 1: we don't have the caller. Okay, let's go to Jamie. Sorry,

1569
01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 1: himI in a Los Angeles line. Too high, you're on

1570
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 1: with Rich.

1571
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 11: Hi, thanks for taking my call.

1572
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 1: Absolutely, what can we help you with?

1573
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:10,799
Speaker 11: Yeah, So, my wife and I are in the market

1574
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 11: for an outdoor camera system and we're looking more for

1575
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 11: a wired thing within the five six hundred dollars budget area.

1576
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 11: I'm having a hard time filtering through all the different

1577
01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:24,640
Speaker 11: reviews of what's good and what isn't, sort of just

1578
01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:28,719
Speaker 11: looking for some general advice. One of the brands I've

1579
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 11: noticed is like real Link versus whys And you know,

1580
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 11: I just can't tell the difference between.

1581
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 4: Any of them.

1582
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:37,320
Speaker 1: What are you looking for? Like what's important to you?

1583
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 1: You want wired?

1584
01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 11: Yes, a wired system would I don't want to have

1585
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:43,760
Speaker 11: to worry about battery life or anything like that.

1586
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: Well, typically the wise cameras, I mean you can plug

1587
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:49,639
Speaker 1: them in and a lot of the cameras you can

1588
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: get with Solar. I mean, how many cameras are we talking?

1589
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:54,479
Speaker 1: Are you covering? Like do you need like a Lorax system,

1590
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 1: Like it's like, you know, fifteen cameras on every angle

1591
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: of your house, or like a Swan system or just

1592
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 1: a standard like you need a couple of cameras here

1593
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:04,720
Speaker 1: and there, but you just want them pluging.

1594
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 11: A couple of cameras like maybe three to four.

1595
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: Okay, And do you do you have any problem with

1596
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: like the monthly fees because a lot of them want

1597
01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 1: monthly fees.

1598
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:16,560
Speaker 11: Now, ideally if we can find one without a subscription,

1599
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 11: but you know, we'd have to see what the benefits

1600
01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 11: of the subscription would be.

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01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I think when the first thing that comes

1602
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: to mind with no subscription is U fee eu f y,

1603
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 1: I'm you know, and you with that one, I'm just

1604
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: not sure about the plug in aspect of it. You

1605
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 1: would have to you know, you'd have to get probably

1606
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 1: solar with those I like. I mean, I personally like

1607
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: Whys because they're cheap and they work. I also have

1608
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 1: some Why's in my house, and yeah, they're very cheap.

1609
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 1: They work, you plug them in, you point them, they

1610
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:52,880
Speaker 1: give you notifications. They're a little bit finicky sometimes I

1611
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 1: will say, if you want to go, you know, that's

1612
01:19:56,240 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 1: that's more of the plug and play. Very easy, get

1613
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,639
Speaker 1: up and go. And they have an SD card slot,

1614
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:03,840
Speaker 1: which I like, right, yeah, so you can roll back

1615
01:20:03,880 --> 01:20:07,560
Speaker 1: the you know, roll back the tapes and see continuous footage.

1616
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:09,840
Speaker 1: They support you know, I think up to like a

1617
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 1: five twelve gig card and you can go back, you know,

1618
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,559
Speaker 1: several days. I have two six. I think it's a

1619
01:20:15,600 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 1: thirty two gig card on the on the model I have,

1620
01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:21,600
Speaker 1: I believe it's max of thirty two. Oh okay, but

1621
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:23,200
Speaker 1: I you know, you'd have to look at that, look

1622
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:24,880
Speaker 1: at the specs that. Yeah, I do know with mine,

1623
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:28,120
Speaker 1: I can go back up to about six days of footage.

1624
01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:32,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, and what I like about the Whys is

1625
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 1: that you have that option. Now the only thing the

1626
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:37,720
Speaker 1: downside of not paying for a subscription if you're on

1627
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,160
Speaker 1: the Wisecam or any of these cameras and they're using

1628
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 1: local storage is if someone steals the camera, they've stolen

1629
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 1: your footage. So that's the downside of not having it

1630
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 1: go to the cloud immediately. Now with the Wisecam, I

1631
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 1: do believe you will get just the the frame, like

1632
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: a snapshot, will go up to the cloud for free.

1633
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: But I think that's it, Like, that's the only thing

1634
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 1: you would have. Like let's say you know someone did

1635
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:03,160
Speaker 1: something and you wanted the footage of it and they

1636
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:05,680
Speaker 1: took the camera on your app, you might just have

1637
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:09,000
Speaker 1: the frame of them, like their face maybe, but that's it.

1638
01:21:09,400 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 1: So that's, you know, that's something to think of and

1639
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 1: keep in mind. So I have a combination of Ring,

1640
01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:19,639
Speaker 1: Google cameras, the Nest cameras, and the Wise cameras. Again,

1641
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 1: the whys are just the most simple kind of like,

1642
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: and I've had all these cameras, by the way, for

1643
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:26,320
Speaker 1: like years and years, so they do work for a

1644
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:29,800
Speaker 1: substantial amount of time. I would say Ring probably has

1645
01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: the most kind of like subscription based stuff. So if

1646
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 1: you're trying to avoid subscriptions pretty much. Ring cameras are

1647
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 1: almost exclusively streaming unless you have any sort of subscription

1648
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 1: with Ring where it records to the cloud. But UFI,

1649
01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:45,799
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people. I have not personally

1650
01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: used the UFI cameras, but I know a lot of

1651
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 1: people like those for the fact that there is not

1652
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:54,320
Speaker 1: a major subscription pushed on people with those cameras. One

1653
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 1: of my friends uses UFI and they like them a lot.

1654
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:01,439
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, they have them set up everywhere. Yeah,

1655
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:04,600
Speaker 1: no subscription. All right, himI, thanks so much for the

1656
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: call today. Appreciate it. Okay, how much long do we

1657
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:12,679
Speaker 1: have before the break? We got We got a minute

1658
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 1: to do it. Okay, we got a minute. All right.

1659
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you real quick. I've been testing

1660
01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch Series ten, and I will tell you

1661
01:22:19,120 --> 01:22:22,000
Speaker 1: if you have a Series six or below, it's probably

1662
01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: a great update. Series ten is thinner, it's lighter, easier

1663
01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 1: to wear during sleep. It's got the sleep apnea, although

1664
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:31,479
Speaker 1: you can also get that on the Series nine and

1665
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 1: the Ultra two, I believe, not just the regular. It's

1666
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:39,040
Speaker 1: got this great polish black color which looks more expensive

1667
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:40,720
Speaker 1: than it is. It's the first time they've had this

1668
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: polished black on the base model. It's got faster charging,

1669
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 1: it's got a larger screen. You can listen to music

1670
01:22:47,320 --> 01:22:49,880
Speaker 1: and audio through the speaker, which is the first time

1671
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:52,040
Speaker 1: you could do that on an Apple Watch before. You

1672
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:55,040
Speaker 1: can only take calls and talk to Siri. The Vitals

1673
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 1: app is really cool. It's like going to the doctor

1674
01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:00,000
Speaker 1: every night overnight. When you wake up, it tells you

1675
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: if any of your indicators are out of range, like

1676
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: your heart or your breathing. It's really really cool, and

1677
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:09,600
Speaker 1: it's got on risk translation, so if you are in

1678
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: a different country and you need to translate feature, you

1679
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 1: can use that without a connection. Three hundred and ninety

1680
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 1: nine dollars Go Cellular if you are a runner and

1681
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:20,519
Speaker 1: you want to run with this thing without your phone nearby.

1682
01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:23,920
Speaker 1: Apple Watch Series ten available now. You can read my

1683
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 1: full review on the website rich on tech dot tv.

1684
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:28,519
Speaker 1: More of the show coming up and more of me

1685
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: and my brother justin right after this. Welcome back to

1686
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you

1687
01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:38,639
Speaker 1: talking technology the website for the show rich on Tech

1688
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:41,280
Speaker 1: dot TV. Be sure to sign up for the very

1689
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:44,639
Speaker 1: helpful tech newsletter that is free on the website. Put

1690
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 1: your email address in there. You can hit the light

1691
01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:49,800
Speaker 1: bulb at the top of the email at the top

1692
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:52,439
Speaker 1: of the website for the show notes, and if you

1693
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:54,680
Speaker 1: want to get in touch with me, just hit contact

1694
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: and that will send your email right to me. Alongside

1695
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 1: me today is my brother Justin. I'm in New Jersey,

1696
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 1: so he is hanging out Justin. Thanks for being here.

1697
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 1: How you doing great to be here? Do you have

1698
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:10,679
Speaker 1: a favorite Jersey artist? We've been playing Jersey artists all

1699
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:14,439
Speaker 1: all day so far. Do you have one? I guess

1700
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen? Oh wow, Bruce? All right, there you go

1701
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 1: as a classic? Have we Bobo? I don't think we

1702
01:24:20,360 --> 01:24:26,000
Speaker 1: played any Bruce, did we nice? Okay? Well we have time. Yeah.

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01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:28,759
Speaker 1: It's weird because I did a search of like Jersey artists.

1704
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: I don't think he came up, which is like he's

1705
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 1: getting robbed and the Google results that's that's like bon

1706
01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:37,599
Speaker 1: Jovi came up, like no matter what, Whitney Houston, Dion

1707
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:41,599
Speaker 1: Warwick and a whole bunch of other wrong people on AI.

1708
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: But I don't think the what are they called Bruce

1709
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:48,800
Speaker 1: Springsteen the Boss? Sure he comes up first when I

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01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: searched for Okay, well maybe I missed that. All right,

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01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:55,840
Speaker 1: let's go to line one. Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Jerry,

1712
01:24:55,880 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 1: We've never been closer. What's up? What can I help

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01:24:57,880 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: you with?

1714
01:24:58,479 --> 01:25:00,960
Speaker 9: Welcome back to the land of Green Pizza.

1715
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:03,519
Speaker 1: Rich, Thank you. I did have a slice and it

1716
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:06,160
Speaker 1: was actually really horrible, but I won't talk about that,

1717
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 1: So go ahead. What can I help you with? I

1718
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 1: like Jerry, already, take a pizza back the kid.

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01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 9: She deserves it.

1720
01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:13,120
Speaker 1: She deserves a lot.

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01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,760
Speaker 9: I have a local radio stations here, you know, on

1722
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:21,080
Speaker 9: my computer, and it's run actually it's run by the

1723
01:25:21,240 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 9: high school, my local high school. They played great music

1724
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 9: from the seventies and eighties, nineties. Then all of a

1725
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:30,120
Speaker 9: sudden they change the URL. I can't get on my

1726
01:25:30,240 --> 01:25:34,559
Speaker 9: Android bone anymore with the same uver L. How do

1727
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:39,559
Speaker 9: I do about sniffing at this URL so I can

1728
01:25:39,600 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 9: play it with my app on my bone.

1729
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: There's a there's a Chrome extension that will help you

1730
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:51,640
Speaker 1: sniff it out. It's called Bulk Media Downloader, and you

1731
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 1: install it on Chrome and you go to that website.

1732
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:58,480
Speaker 1: You tap the extension and it will give you every

1733
01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 1: single thing that is going on on that website and

1734
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 1: you can filter by applications image, video, audio, archive, document, tab,

1735
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And so I just went to like

1736
01:26:10,240 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 1: a random streaming radio station and there's a whole bunch

1737
01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 1: of you know, streams that you can see on there.

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01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 1: So that is what it's called bulk media downloader. I

1739
01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:25,080
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, I've used this to sniff thinks out.

1740
01:26:25,160 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what you would do to, you know,

1741
01:26:28,240 --> 01:26:30,759
Speaker 1: with that URL once you have it, but I imagine

1742
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 1: you might be able to pop it into some sort

1743
01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:34,640
Speaker 1: of app or something that you want to use on

1744
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: your phone, you know, since it's Android, I'm sure there's

1745
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: lots of them that would allow you to play that.

1746
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 1: But that's what it's called bulk media downloader. And I

1747
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:44,639
Speaker 1: don't let's see, do they have a website. I don't

1748
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:47,440
Speaker 1: know if they have a website or just a Chrome extension.

1749
01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: Let's see here, trying to find a fit. Yeah, it

1750
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:53,920
Speaker 1: looks like it's just a Chrome extension. So I would

1751
01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:56,439
Speaker 1: just search for that and you should find it. It looks

1752
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:58,800
Speaker 1: like the uh, I don't know what would you call it,

1753
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: like a navigation mark or something the you know, anyway,

1754
01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:04,640
Speaker 1: but that's what I look for. Jerry. See if that

1755
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:05,240
Speaker 1: works for you.

1756
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:07,320
Speaker 9: Thank you much, have some more pizza.

1757
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 1: All right, goodbye, report back, report back on the website.

1758
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:13,720
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV. All right, justin, let's talk

1759
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:17,679
Speaker 1: about this notebook LM feature. So we're here in person

1760
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:21,200
Speaker 1: talking on the radio show. But a lot of folks

1761
01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 1: are talking about this AI powered audio overview, and so

1762
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:29,040
Speaker 1: it's from Google. It's from a feature called Notebook LM.

1763
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:31,800
Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with Notebook LM, it's basically your

1764
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,479
Speaker 1: own personal chat GPT. You can upload as much as

1765
01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:38,760
Speaker 1: many documents as you want to this Notebook LM, and

1766
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:42,640
Speaker 1: then you can search through them using Google AI. But

1767
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:44,759
Speaker 1: this other thing they can do is they can now

1768
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: generate an AI hosted basically podcast that has a discussion

1769
01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: of your material. So let's play a couple thirty seconds

1770
01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:57,000
Speaker 1: of this. I uploaded my review of the I think

1771
01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,600
Speaker 1: it was the Samsung Watch Ultra. I just took the

1772
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 1: text my review, uploaded it, and then in like a

1773
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 1: minute or two, it came up with this audio. Let's

1774
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:04,680
Speaker 1: hear it.

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01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 7: All right, everybody buckle up, because today we are diving

1776
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:11,200
Speaker 7: deep into the world of Samsung health tech.

1777
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun.

1778
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:16,000
Speaker 7: With their shiny new Galaxy Watch lineup and the game changer,

1779
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 7: the Samsung.

1780
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:18,799
Speaker 1: Smart Ring definitely game changer.

1781
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:22,280
Speaker 7: We are uncovering all the juicy details from tech guru

1782
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:23,920
Speaker 7: Rich Demiro's latest review.

1783
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 1: Love his reviews, he always digs out.

1784
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:27,280
Speaker 7: No, absolutely, and we're going.

1785
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 1: To dissect it all for you today. Awesome. Can't wait.

1786
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 7: So Samsung is really stepping up their game this year.

1787
01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:40,959
Speaker 1: Into two hosts are completely AI generated, justin what's your reaction?

1788
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:44,240
Speaker 1: So the first thing I noticed is it sounded just

1789
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 1: like one of those podcasts where you have the one

1790
01:28:46,400 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 1: host who has all the substance in the content and

1791
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:53,439
Speaker 1: the other one just goes like uh huh yeah, oh definitely, sure, yeah,

1792
01:28:53,479 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 1: I hear you see what you did there. But it's

1793
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 1: really okay. So here's what I think is interesting this.

1794
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:02,599
Speaker 1: I don't think it's perfect. Obviously you kind of got

1795
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:04,000
Speaker 1: onto that where the guy was just like, uh huh,

1796
01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 1: he's great. Sure, he was like a supportive character. I

1797
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:09,559
Speaker 1: think obviously it depends on you know, every single one

1798
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 1: of these is going to be different. But it's kind

1799
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:15,720
Speaker 1: of scary, like they sound pretty good. It's taking the

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01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 1: information and it runs with it. Obviously, it has that

1801
01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: same AI issue of like hallucinating and all that stuff.

1802
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:24,680
Speaker 1: But this is like day one. Yeah, day one. I

1803
01:29:24,720 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 1: mean if you didn't tell me they were AI, I

1804
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: might not have even thought that. Yeah, and I can

1805
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: only imagine where this tech is going to be in

1806
01:29:31,479 --> 01:29:34,280
Speaker 1: a year from now. Yeah. So there you have it. Notebook,

1807
01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:37,040
Speaker 1: LM Audio Overview. What I think is really cool about

1808
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:39,519
Speaker 1: this is for learning. If you are trying to study

1809
01:29:39,560 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 1: for an exam, you want to learn like a complex topic,

1810
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:44,840
Speaker 1: you put your information into this notebook and then you

1811
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 1: make a podcast and you listen to it on the go.

1812
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:49,720
Speaker 1: Helps you understand it in a new and different way.

1813
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:52,519
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up, we're going to talk to Scott

1814
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:56,080
Speaker 1: Baldwin about his new app called front Pack for Athletes.

1815
01:29:57,439 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 1: There it is, there's the boss. All right. Welcome back

1816
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:04,240
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

1817
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 1: talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech

1818
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:13,200
Speaker 1: dot TV. So much good information giving out on this show,

1819
01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 1: not necessarily through me, but just in general, like the

1820
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:18,960
Speaker 1: community that we have here of people that know stuff

1821
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:21,800
Speaker 1: and add to the show and ask questions that I

1822
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:25,559
Speaker 1: think we can all take away from My brother's joining

1823
01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:27,840
Speaker 1: me as well, Justin is here hanging out because I

1824
01:30:27,880 --> 01:30:30,639
Speaker 1: am in New Jersey. My hometown. Is that my hometown

1825
01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:32,920
Speaker 1: or my home state? I say home state, home state?

1826
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: And then joining me now is Scott Baldwin. Scott and

1827
01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:40,519
Speaker 1: I have worked together for years on the PR side.

1828
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:43,600
Speaker 1: Now he has branched off and he's actually starting up

1829
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:46,920
Speaker 1: his own app called front Pack. This is a social

1830
01:30:46,920 --> 01:30:51,320
Speaker 1: network for endurance athletes. Scott, welcome to the show.

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01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:56,479
Speaker 12: Yeah, Hey, Rich, good to be here, and shout out

1832
01:30:56,479 --> 01:30:58,960
Speaker 12: to New Jersey. I am also a fellow New Jersey

1833
01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 12: in so yeah, how do I.

1834
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:05,760
Speaker 1: Not know that? Look at yeah? See weeah three New Jersey.

1835
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:09,080
Speaker 1: Cool here. So, so tell me about Okay, so you

1836
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 1: went from PR to creating an app? I mean number one?

1837
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:15,559
Speaker 1: What's that been? Like? I mean, is it? Everyone's always

1838
01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:16,880
Speaker 1: asking me like, Rich, how do I make an app?

1839
01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:18,760
Speaker 1: How do I make an app? I mean it's tough,

1840
01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:21,480
Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah? Absolutely?

1841
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:21,720
Speaker 9: So?

1842
01:31:23,360 --> 01:31:26,000
Speaker 12: Is it something that I ever thought I would do?

1843
01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 3: No?

1844
01:31:26,640 --> 01:31:28,360
Speaker 1: But here I am so.

1845
01:31:28,600 --> 01:31:31,360
Speaker 12: Like you said, I was in R Communications for twenty

1846
01:31:31,439 --> 01:31:34,800
Speaker 12: years and I had this idea and there was a

1847
01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:38,000
Speaker 12: market need that I saw way back in January. And

1848
01:31:38,360 --> 01:31:42,360
Speaker 12: the market need was there there was no social network

1849
01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:47,680
Speaker 12: for endurance athletes. So it's something I actually created as

1850
01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:51,720
Speaker 12: a first a newsletter and then quickly I brought you know,

1851
01:31:51,840 --> 01:31:54,800
Speaker 12: all those worlds together. It quickly grew to a few

1852
01:31:54,800 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 12: thousand subscribers and a lot of people were messaging me,

1853
01:31:58,479 --> 01:32:01,760
Speaker 12: a lot of run club, cycling clubs. They were saying, hey, like,

1854
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 12: I think you're onto something and this is really cool.

1855
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:09,240
Speaker 12: Do you have any desire to take it a step further? So, again,

1856
01:32:09,280 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 12: like I said, there was a market need, there's nothing

1857
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:15,959
Speaker 12: out there. So I actually started the the app creation

1858
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:18,639
Speaker 12: process about five months ago.

1859
01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:20,080
Speaker 1: It took a long time.

1860
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 12: I evaluated the things that people wanted, and I also

1861
01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 12: interviewed a lot of my own newsletter subscribers. And then, yeah,

1862
01:32:31,120 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 12: I would say it is very difficult. You have to

1863
01:32:33,080 --> 01:32:36,439
Speaker 12: find the right developers and it takes a lot of interviewing,

1864
01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:40,160
Speaker 12: which I think, you know, coming from my background before,

1865
01:32:40,600 --> 01:32:44,200
Speaker 12: I'm pretty good at interviewing people and making sure we

1866
01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:44,960
Speaker 12: have the right fit.

1867
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 1: So you didn't You didn't code the app yourself, Like

1868
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:52,360
Speaker 1: you weren't sitting there learning like Swift or whatever coding language.

1869
01:32:52,840 --> 01:32:56,400
Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly. I think if that was the road that

1870
01:32:56,439 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 12: I went down. I don't know if we would be

1871
01:32:58,200 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 12: having this conversation quite yet.

1872
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:03,400
Speaker 1: So explain to me what front pack. The website is

1873
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:06,760
Speaker 1: frontpacksports dot com. What is what is the app for?

1874
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:09,639
Speaker 1: What does it help people do? Yeah?

1875
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:13,559
Speaker 12: Absolutely, So it's a social network for endurance athletes by

1876
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 12: endurance athletes. So it's a it's a place for real

1877
01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 12: people to connect, motivate. Storytell uh, I'm not sure if

1878
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:25,920
Speaker 12: you've ever done a five k or a half marathon

1879
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 12: or anything, but.

1880
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:28,720
Speaker 1: I think yes, I have.

1881
01:33:29,439 --> 01:33:32,679
Speaker 12: Yes, So you understand when you are at the starting line,

1882
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:36,280
Speaker 12: you might actually be super nervous, and you you you're

1883
01:33:36,280 --> 01:33:38,479
Speaker 12: not sure if you're training. You know you did your

1884
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:42,000
Speaker 12: training correctly, but then there's always that person that's standing

1885
01:33:42,040 --> 01:33:45,400
Speaker 12: next to you, and before the race or after the race,

1886
01:33:45,439 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 12: you get talking to them and you find out like, oh,

1887
01:33:48,120 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 12: this person might be in the same boat, or oh

1888
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:52,720
Speaker 12: this person has the same career as I. But once

1889
01:33:52,760 --> 01:33:55,160
Speaker 12: that gun goes off, you like you never see that

1890
01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:59,280
Speaker 12: person ever again. So front pack, you know, it's the

1891
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:03,680
Speaker 12: answer to just connecting with real people who are like

1892
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:07,760
Speaker 12: minded and like you. It's a way to motivate and

1893
01:34:07,800 --> 01:34:11,160
Speaker 12: push yourself to be even better. And not only that,

1894
01:34:11,320 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 12: but you know, it's focused on the sports side of things.

1895
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:20,360
Speaker 12: But I think quite often everybody uses LinkedIn, but LinkedIn

1896
01:34:20,479 --> 01:34:23,800
Speaker 12: doesn't really show you your hobbies or interests. And with

1897
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:26,080
Speaker 12: so many people being laid off in the last year,

1898
01:34:26,120 --> 01:34:29,599
Speaker 12: front Pack not only when you sign up you create

1899
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:33,360
Speaker 12: your profile, but you can also connect with people based

1900
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 12: on your profession, so you're connecting based on interest. But

1901
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:42,000
Speaker 12: also you know, you might be in in tech sales

1902
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 12: for example.

1903
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:48,640
Speaker 1: Interesting, so you can so basically you can. You know,

1904
01:34:48,680 --> 01:34:51,400
Speaker 1: it's almost like a social network in real life where

1905
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:54,080
Speaker 1: you have the shared interest of doing whatever you're doing,

1906
01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:57,720
Speaker 1: whether it's running, cycling. And also you may be in

1907
01:34:57,760 --> 01:35:00,439
Speaker 1: the same business or maybe not. But it's kind of

1908
01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:03,480
Speaker 1: like extending that network through sports.

1909
01:35:04,280 --> 01:35:04,719
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1910
01:35:04,840 --> 01:35:09,120
Speaker 12: Absolutely, And I think the thing, you know, most of

1911
01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:12,640
Speaker 12: us we grow up playing sports, but unless you go

1912
01:35:12,760 --> 01:35:15,760
Speaker 12: on to play sports in college or beyond, you know,

1913
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:17,960
Speaker 12: you have to give up something that was such a

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Speaker 12: big part of your life because you need to go

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Speaker 12: be a professional, and you need to go work, and

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Speaker 12: you need to go you know, you know, you got

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Speaker 12: to go make money or have a family. So I

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Speaker 12: think the great thing about it is we all still

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Speaker 12: have that passion within us and it just because you're

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Speaker 12: a working professional doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to

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Speaker 12: connect with people who have similar similar interests.

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Speaker 1: And so is the app free? Do you charge for this?

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Speaker 1: How does that work? And who do you have this

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Speaker 1: is for?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 12: Absolutely, so anyone can sign up for free. It's at

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Speaker 12: frontpacksports dot com. And you know, right now we're just

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Speaker 12: trying to grow the user base. We have a few

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Speaker 12: one hundred members at the moment, everywhere from obviously the

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Speaker 12: US to Canada, but we've also seen an engagement across Europe,

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Speaker 12: New Zealand South Africa. So it's been like a really

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Speaker 12: interesting mix of people just connecting with you know, other

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Speaker 12: folks that they've never met before. But like I said,

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Speaker 12: they all have a common goal and that's you know,

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Speaker 12: to get better and improve their lives.

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Speaker 1: And has this been fun for you to do this?

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Speaker 1: It's very different than pr but clearly it's it's a

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Speaker 1: new challenge, that's for sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 12: Absolutely, So I grew up, like I said, I grew

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Speaker 12: up playing sports, but endurance sports have always been like

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Speaker 12: a huge thing for me and I think for a

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Speaker 12: lot of people like myself, it's a microcosm of life,

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Speaker 12: because you don't just get good at you know, running

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Speaker 12: a marathon in a week. You know, that takes time,

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Speaker 12: It takes years of work, It takes a lot of practice,

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Speaker 12: and most often times you're going to run into an

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Speaker 12: issue along the way and you have to kind of.

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Speaker 1: Quickly figure that out.

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Speaker 12: So you know, like and during sports, I think this

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Speaker 12: business I'm also figuring out along the way. And you know,

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Speaker 12: I I do have to kind of remind myself it's

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Speaker 12: it's only been a month and a couple of days

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Speaker 12: since we launched.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're it's a it's a marathon, not a sprint.

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Speaker 1: You got to remember that you need one of those

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Speaker 1: motivational signs in your own in your own office, you know.

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Speaker 1: Uh to two points. First off, I was talking to

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Speaker 1: my wife just the other night saying how important I

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Speaker 1: think sports are for my kids, Like the amount of

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Speaker 1: things you learn in that and the amount of just

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Speaker 1: to me, it's just it's been amazing to watch my kids.

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Speaker 1: One of them plays basketball, one plays baseball, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's really a big part of their lives. And it's

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Speaker 1: it's learning so much about teamwork and failure and success

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Speaker 1: and and you know, just getting along with people and

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Speaker 1: accepting all these things in life that really does help

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Speaker 1: you later on. And then the second thing was when

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Speaker 1: I did my I did a half marathon, and I

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Speaker 1: actually was very fortunate that I was. I had like

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Speaker 1: a not a sponure, but I was working with a

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Speaker 1: six and so they would they had a person like

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Speaker 1: a coach. And also I had a producer I was

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Speaker 1: working with and we both were doing it together. And

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Speaker 1: so it's what you're talking about in this app is

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Speaker 1: almost exactly what we did in real life, where we

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Speaker 1: had someone to bounce things off of and to get

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Speaker 1: information from, and we also had each other going through

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Speaker 1: the same thing. And so that's kind of what you've

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Speaker 1: recreated here. And I totally get it because we had

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Speaker 1: so many questions. I'm like, should I really be running

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Speaker 1: every day? Should I be doing this? And so I

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Speaker 1: think that this kind of thing is really hard. I

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Speaker 1: think it's one of those things too where you need

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Speaker 1: somebody to lean on too, Like an endurance sport. It's

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Speaker 1: very intense. You need someone to bounce off of and

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Speaker 1: keep that motivation and keep you going because it is

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Speaker 1: very intense. It is a lot of work, and it

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Speaker 1: takes a lot to keep going back every day and

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Speaker 1: keep training.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, no, I mean I completely agree on all those points.

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Speaker 12: And I think the beauty of the networks so far

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Speaker 12: that we've seen is one we created it to be

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Speaker 12: a positive place. I think there's way too many social

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Speaker 12: networks out there where it's all about anonymity and that

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Speaker 12: allows people to be negative and have no accountability. So

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Speaker 12: I will say in the first month with over three

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Speaker 12: hundred posts, everything has been super positive. Again, like I said,

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Speaker 12: it's for anyone as well. So you know, like you said,

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Speaker 12: you you had a coach. We have coaches. We we

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Speaker 12: have a weekly live stream where we bring on experts,

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Speaker 12: we bring on coaches, We talk about the most basic

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Speaker 12: things to the most advanced things. So yeah, anyone can

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Speaker 12: really kind of grow with the sport and within themselves.

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Speaker 1: All right. The website frontpack frontpacsports dot com, frontpacsports dot com. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Scott Baldwin, best wishes for this new app available on

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Speaker 1: iPhone and Android.

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Speaker 12: Absolutely, thank you guys, thanks for.

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Speaker 1: Joining me today. All right, coming up, I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you how you're streaming TV streaming streaming services are tracking you,

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Speaker 1: and also we're going to get into the feedbag that's

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Speaker 1: coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back

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

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Speaker 1: talking technology. We're gonna get right into it because there

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Speaker 1: is a lot to get through, especially with the feedbag.

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Speaker 1: It is overflowing today. I could barely drag it up

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Speaker 1: to the studio today because it's so filled. But we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get through all that in just a moment. I

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Speaker 1: got my brother justin here. New report from the Center

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Speaker 1: for Digital Democracy says that your streaming services are tracking you.

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Speaker 1: They are spying on you, and they are targeting you

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Speaker 1: with extensive data on your viewing habits and using that

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Speaker 1: to sell you stuff. And this makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: And their argument is that we've never really had such

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Speaker 1: highly targeted and personalized profiling of people based on what

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Speaker 1: they're watching on TV. And the smart TVs themselves are

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Speaker 1: a big part of this data collection system because this

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Speaker 1: stuff is built right into the foundational software on these TVs.

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Speaker 1: It's a fascinating report. It makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: Two things going on here. Number One, your smart TV

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Speaker 1: is probably scanning the screen no matter what and and

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01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:15,800
Speaker 1: recognizing the content of everything you watch. It's called automatic

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Speaker 1: content recognition. You probably agree to it when you set

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Speaker 1: up your TV. You can opt out of it or

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Speaker 1: turn it off. The other thing is there is a stream.

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Speaker 1: All the streaming services have opt out guides as well,

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Speaker 1: so it's a great website. The nai dot org has

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Speaker 1: opt out guides for almost every streaming service where you

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Speaker 1: can opt out of some of this data collection. I

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01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:39,920
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna be able to opt out of

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01:41:39,960 --> 01:41:42,320
Speaker 1: it all, but I'll put that on the show notes

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01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:46,280
Speaker 1: pretty wild because we are just hammered with targeted advertising.

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Speaker 1: This should be a default opt in. But if you

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01:41:50,760 --> 01:41:52,320
Speaker 1: set up a if you've ever set up a smart

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01:41:52,320 --> 01:41:54,760
Speaker 1: TV lately, it's almost like it says like it's it's

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01:41:54,800 --> 01:41:57,360
Speaker 1: gonna benefit you. There are so many screens you have

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01:41:57,439 --> 01:42:01,080
Speaker 1: to go through look at them very very closely. Also,

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Speaker 1: I hit a nerve this week. I mentioned on my

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01:42:03,560 --> 01:42:06,760
Speaker 1: Facebook that those texts have you gotten these things where

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01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:09,479
Speaker 1: they're just like, hey how are you? Or I lost

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Speaker 1: your number in my phone book and can we chat again?

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01:42:12,479 --> 01:42:15,599
Speaker 1: I get those messages about five times a day. Yeah,

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01:42:15,640 --> 01:42:17,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's because all of

2053
01:42:17,880 --> 01:42:21,080
Speaker 1: these recent data breaches have put our phone numbers out

2054
01:42:21,080 --> 01:42:22,840
Speaker 1: there on the web, and so they've got a fresh

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01:42:22,880 --> 01:42:26,400
Speaker 1: amount of information. So I posted this to my Facebook.

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Speaker 1: Let me just give you some of the responses. Many

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01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:32,439
Speaker 1: people commented they're also getting these obviously. They come in

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01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:35,719
Speaker 1: all forms. They talk about weight loss, Amazon deliveries, fake

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01:42:35,800 --> 01:42:39,720
Speaker 1: job offers. One person even commented, they got a barbecue invite.

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01:42:40,160 --> 01:42:42,040
Speaker 1: I'll actually go to that. Yeah, that sounds like fun.

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01:42:42,040 --> 01:42:46,160
Speaker 1: I'd be like where they're confusing and annoying. Makes it

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01:42:46,240 --> 01:42:49,720
Speaker 1: difficult to distinguish between legitimate messages and scams. I do agree,

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01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: you have to look at everything very closely because we

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01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:53,960
Speaker 1: are getting and this what I've always talked about. We

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01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:56,840
Speaker 1: get legitimate messages like this like hey, your package is

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01:42:56,880 --> 01:42:58,880
Speaker 1: delayed and you're like, oh, okay, and that might be

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01:42:58,920 --> 01:43:01,280
Speaker 1: from Amazon rare, but you know what I mean, right,

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01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:05,240
Speaker 1: But they also play upon that and kind of twist

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01:43:05,280 --> 01:43:07,800
Speaker 1: it and make it into their scrutinize every message you

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01:43:07,840 --> 01:43:11,400
Speaker 1: get one hundred percent. Let's see. Some people say that

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01:43:11,439 --> 01:43:14,400
Speaker 1: these senders get aggressive or insulting if you don't respond.

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Speaker 1: Don't respond to these people, by the way, but some

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01:43:18,120 --> 01:43:21,479
Speaker 1: commenters block the numbers, report them as junk, or they

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01:43:21,520 --> 01:43:25,000
Speaker 1: engage in playful banter to waste their time. I would say,

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Speaker 1: do not write back to these people, because once you

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01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:30,639
Speaker 1: write back, is solidifies your number as being a good

2077
01:43:30,640 --> 01:43:33,519
Speaker 1: phone number, right, and then they will target you even further. Yeah,

2078
01:43:33,640 --> 01:43:36,880
Speaker 1: exactly same with spam email. But hopefully everybody knows that

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01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:39,599
Speaker 1: by now, all right. I thought this was pretty cool

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01:43:39,760 --> 01:43:44,880
Speaker 1: justin this developer Andrew Schmellian came up with a way

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01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:49,000
Speaker 1: to hack adopt Matrix printer. Not really a hack, but

2082
01:43:49,040 --> 01:43:52,240
Speaker 1: he wrote a little program where it pulls the headlines

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01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:55,479
Speaker 1: from like Reddit and some other news sites, weather, stocks news,

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01:43:55,720 --> 01:43:57,760
Speaker 1: and every morning at eight am, it prints out a

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01:43:57,800 --> 01:44:01,200
Speaker 1: one page newsletter for him. I love that. Isn't that cool?

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01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:04,639
Speaker 1: I love that? So he actually put his whole project online.

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01:44:04,680 --> 01:44:07,120
Speaker 1: It looks like he needed a dot Matrix printer, a

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01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:11,200
Speaker 1: Raspberry pie Cereal to USB adapter because the old Dot

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01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:14,240
Speaker 1: Matrix didn't have USB, so it's just a serial port YEP,

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01:44:14,320 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 1: and then power supply and then he just used the

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01:44:16,960 --> 01:44:19,439
Speaker 1: free APIs and he made a little programming And isn't

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01:44:19,479 --> 01:44:22,439
Speaker 1: that cool? Yeah? I mean that that makes it actually

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01:44:22,560 --> 01:44:24,760
Speaker 1: takes away a lot of the distractions that you'd see

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01:44:24,800 --> 01:44:27,080
Speaker 1: when you're looking through those headlines, so I like it,

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01:44:27,120 --> 01:44:28,519
Speaker 1: That's what he said. He was like, you know, this

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01:44:28,600 --> 01:44:30,960
Speaker 1: is like so much healthier than doom scrolling. All right,

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01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:35,320
Speaker 1: you want to read the first feedback? Sure? So we

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01:44:35,400 --> 01:44:39,160
Speaker 1: have Max from Los Angeles writing in saying thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm a senior level it and listen to you because

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01:44:43,160 --> 01:44:45,360
Speaker 1: of how easily you lay it out to the end users.

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Speaker 1: You have talent. Please don't go anywhere. Oh wow, well

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Speaker 1: I'm going to stay here as long as humanly possible.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. What was his name, Max? Max? Thanks Max?

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Speaker 1: All right, Michael writes in. Michael from Calabasas writes in,

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Speaker 1: I saw your recommend on whisper flow. You should know

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01:45:02,320 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 1: that it only an Apple Silicon chips, so my Intel

2107
01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:08,719
Speaker 1: based iMac couldn't run it. But to keep those tips

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01:45:08,720 --> 01:45:12,559
Speaker 1: and recommendations coming very informative. This is a life changer.

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01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:14,640
Speaker 1: So I can press and hold one key on my

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Speaker 1: keyboard and I can dictate, and it uses AI to transcribe.

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Speaker 1: Not only would I say, but to format it in

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Speaker 1: like perfect formatting. It's incredible. But yes it is. It's

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Speaker 1: I guess it's Mac silicon only. It's Mac only, but

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Speaker 1: we're going to see many, many more apps just like that.

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01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:33,679
Speaker 1: So thanks for the clarification. Very very useful. When you're

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Speaker 1: eating a stack with one hand and you want it,

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01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:38,000
Speaker 1: you still want to work. Yes, tite things out and

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01:45:38,040 --> 01:45:40,360
Speaker 1: I get people always say to me, I can't believe

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Speaker 1: you responded to my email. I am now responding to

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Speaker 1: emails probably three times faster than ever before because I

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01:45:45,920 --> 01:45:47,799
Speaker 1: don't have to sit there and type them. I can dictate.

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01:45:48,120 --> 01:45:50,440
Speaker 1: But it's it's so good that it gets the nuances

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Speaker 1: of what I'm trying to say, like if I'm if

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Speaker 1: I'm like excited, or if I'm writing something in a

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Speaker 1: list or whatever, it gets it, all right, all right,

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Speaker 1: next one, Just all right, we have Michael from Memphis

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Speaker 1: writing in. I have an Android cell phone for personal

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Speaker 1: use and an iPhone for business. Are there any earbuds

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Speaker 1: out there that will automatically stop what I'm listening to

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Speaker 1: on my Android and answer a call I'm receiving on

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Speaker 1: my iPhone without having to steer the call on my

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Speaker 1: iPhone to switch to the earbuds. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Speaker 1: All right, This is a feature called multipoint. A lot

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Speaker 1: of headphones, a lot of earbuds now support this, so

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Speaker 1: look for multipoint connection. A lot of them do this

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Speaker 1: where it can seamlessly go. Let's say you're listening to

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Speaker 1: music on your computer your phone rings, it'll automatically swap

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Speaker 1: to your phone. It's not the same thing as having

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Speaker 1: two devices connected. They're basically almost simultaneously connected and kind

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Speaker 1: of listening for anything that's happening on each of those

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Speaker 1: to kind of spring into action and switch the audio source.

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Speaker 1: So multipoint. The ones that I love that I recently

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Speaker 1: tested are the CMF buds and justin you tried them

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Speaker 1: because I brought them home, right, Yeah, I actually tried

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Speaker 1: them today. First of all, excellent sound, I mean, the

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Speaker 1: space audio is great on them. I haven't had a

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Speaker 1: chance to test the dual point the multipoint yet, but

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Speaker 1: it does look like a compelling feature for sure. All Right,

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Speaker 1: you got one more real quick one. She got less

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Speaker 1: than a minute. All right, we got Ryan from Lucasville,

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Speaker 1: Ohio writing in, Hey, Rich, I really enjoyed the show.

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Speaker 1: As a technology coordinator for a local school, I fix

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Speaker 1: a lot of chromebooks. It's rewarding but crazy. Sometimes. I

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Speaker 1: used to listen to Leo Laporte and was glad when

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Speaker 1: you took over. You do a great job helping folks.

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Speaker 1: Thank you again. All right, well, thank you, Ryan. Appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: I always like when it people like the show because

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Speaker 1: it means that I'm doing something right. Sure apps, No,

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Speaker 1: all right, wow, I cannot believe it that is going

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Speaker 1: to do this episode of the show. You can find

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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. Be sure to sign up

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Speaker 1: for the newsletter. Find me on social media. I'm at

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Speaker 1: rich on tech. Do you want people to find you?

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Speaker 1: Justin sure? Where are you at? Justin demiro on X?

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Speaker 1: There you go. Next week we'll have more of your questions.

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Speaker 1: I've got the feedback. It's so full I got to

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Speaker 1: bring it back now week. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: There are so many ways you can spend your time.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you spending it right here with me. My

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Speaker 1: name is rich dedmro Thanks to Justin. Let's real