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Speaker 1: it to hello at Richontech dot TV. Welcome to show

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Speaker 1: number twenty five. We got the whole team in place.

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Speaker 1: We got Kim on phones, we got Bobo on the board,

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Speaker 1: this week I was in Nashville. For much of the week.

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Speaker 1: I was at a conference put on by Dave Ramsey

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Speaker 1: Small talk is really really taxing. There was about eighty

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Speaker 2: Thanks Rich, Good talk to you.

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Speaker 2: So Rich, I've got a couple of daughters, all in

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about Google's majestic return to the world

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Speaker 5: Own, Yeah, so exactly.

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Speaker 4: I think that's that's where they sort of talk about

434
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Speaker 4: the value for it. For me, I looked at it like,

435
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 4: you know, I love the case that that Google is

436
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 4: making for this, a nice kickstandcase, but that's eighty dollars,

437
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 4: so you know, that's expensive and kind of iPad case territory,

438
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 4: and that that plus getting an extra amount of storage

439
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 4: for one hundred dollars more. These can ramp it up.

440
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Speaker 4: I almost would have maybe thought about throwing in a

441
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 4: case or something else in lieu of the of the dock,

442
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Speaker 4: or having a different price equation. Yeah, I mean that's

443
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Speaker 4: an interesting question.

444
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Speaker 1: But the good news is the doc is actually kind

445
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: of genius. And I will tell you this. So number one,

446
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Speaker 1: I so let me just kind of paint the picture

447
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 1: of what this tablet looks like. So it's a it's

448
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: a really nicely designed it almost looks like a big

449
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 1: pixel phone. And then it magnetically attaches to this little

450
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: dock that looks like you can just pull the front

451
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: off of a Google Nest Hub, so it almost looks

452
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 1: like when you're when it's docked, that it's a Nest Hub,

453
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 1: you know, like when those Google Smart Home kind of devices.

454
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: And so the genius of it is that it's always charged,

455
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,959
Speaker 1: and then when you're not using it, it's a screen

456
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: saver for whatever you want. So I have my Google

457
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 1: Photos collection on there. It can show the weather, all

458
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: these different types of things. Plus you can ask it things,

459
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,120
Speaker 1: you know, the voice commands and what I thought would

460
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Speaker 1: happen and it did is I started playing music on

461
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Speaker 1: the tablet and then I magnetically attached it to the

462
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Speaker 1: DOC and the music just magically transferred to the DOC speaker,

463
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Speaker 1: which is much louder and richer. And so it's a

464
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Speaker 1: really smart idea that you always have this tablet that's

465
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Speaker 1: ready to go. But not everyone wants to spend five

466
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars on a tablet, and I think that's going

467
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Speaker 1: to keep them from getting this.

468
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think on the flip side, if you think,

469
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Speaker 4: you know, if you're using a lot of stuff in

470
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Speaker 4: Google ecosystem and you don't want to get it phone

471
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Speaker 4: another phone or you know, something like that, that's not

472
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Speaker 4: a lot to spend. And I think that the idea

473
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Speaker 4: that it can be a home hub, You're right, is

474
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Speaker 4: a huge advantage. The speaker sounded nice. You know, we

475
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Speaker 4: got really into just somebody playing music or even just

476
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Speaker 4: playing YouTube video. You know, we started to just kind

477
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Speaker 4: of gather around and the kids started gathering around it,

478
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Speaker 4: and I said, you could detach the tablet, but there's

479
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Speaker 4: you know, it's definitely a kitchen counter friendly type thing.

480
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Speaker 4: Who were kind of hovers off the dock, so it's

481
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Speaker 4: not touching the counter and I think that there's a

482
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Speaker 4: lot of ways that it could be useful in that regard.

483
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Speaker 4: So so yeah, I think that there's like a lot,

484
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Speaker 4: a lot of plus to it.

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Speaker 1: And what do you think of the cameras. I'm I'm

486
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Speaker 1: loving this feature on Google Meat that it's like the

487
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: backgrounds on Google Meat are so good, like these three

488
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Speaker 1: sixty backgrounds, Like they're moving like I have mindset as

489
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Speaker 1: like this castle and like a medieval castle with like

490
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Speaker 1: a dragon like flap, you know, flap flapping his wings

491
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Speaker 1: behind me. And the cameras I thought were pretty good.

492
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Speaker 1: And I thought that experience was pretty good. What do

493
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Speaker 1: you make of it?

494
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Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. It seemed a tiny bit betterund Meat

495
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 4: than on Zoom, but maybe it was just when I

496
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 4: was running it. But the you know, I was looking

497
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Speaker 4: at this pre release, the camera quality looks really good.

498
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Speaker 4: It's positioned on the right spot, which is you know,

499
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Speaker 4: when you dock it, it's going to be centered like

500
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Speaker 4: Apple started doing with their with their I've had in

501
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 4: the fall. Yeah, it's it's very convenient. I even think

502
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Speaker 4: on the dock it was a pretty easy one to

503
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Speaker 4: use for for for quick spontaneous video chats with people,

504
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Speaker 4: and I know I used other types of devices like

505
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Speaker 4: that in the past, you know, portally that I'm playing

506
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 4: around with, and I think there, it's really convenient, and

507
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 4: so I thought that was a lot of fun and

508
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 4: definitely the way that I'd want to use this.

509
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Speaker 1: And the only thing I thought was kind of interesting too,

510
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: is I I found myself trying to figure out and

511
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: maybe this is just muscle memory for using it. After

512
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Speaker 1: using it for a while, i'd be more comfortable. But

513
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Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out like where the fingerprint

514
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: sensor was, like on the power button, because sometimes they

515
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: just pick it up and not really know because it's

516
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,640
Speaker 1: so symmetrical. Did you have that issue at all?

517
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Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit that I told myself, Okay, right

518
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 4: finger on top corner is good, but yeah, you know

519
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 4: that's the thing is, depending on which you're holding it,

520
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 4: you might start fumbling around for that.

521
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Speaker 2: I mean.

522
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Speaker 4: The good news of the fingerprints sensor was really fast,

523
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 4: and I found it was just like instant log in,

524
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 4: and then again with the guest accounts and the other modes,

525
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 4: you can bypass that. So I found that was a

526
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 4: really nice solution. Sometimes I don't like the face log

527
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 4: and stuff at all. I find that it gets in

528
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 4: the way of the flow and sometimes doesn't register. So

529
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Speaker 4: I'm glad that this had that. I do wish the

530
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Speaker 4: whole thing had a keyboard though. That's that's one thing

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Speaker 4: that I'm regretting that Google left out.

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Speaker 1: I just wonder if you're trying, like I feel like

533
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Speaker 1: they're not really positioning this as a productivity device, you know,

534
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: which is funny because the Amazon Fire Max is and

535
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: it's like anything but and this could be because it's

536
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: got such clean software. It's got all the Google products

537
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: and services on it, So it could be a really

538
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Speaker 1: nice little email machine.

539
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,400
Speaker 4: It really could. And more like it's it's a very

540
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 4: capable processor. The multitasking works really well, waste dictation worked great,

541
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Speaker 4: similar to how well it works on Pixel phones. And

542
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 4: you know, at Google had focused on this productivity a

543
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 4: thing the last time with the Pixel Slate, which was

544
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Speaker 4: a failed product but I thought was interesting, kind of

545
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,719
Speaker 4: like a chromebook mett Android tablet back in twenty eighteen,

546
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, And now they move completely in the opposite direction,

547
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 4: nailing so much of the everyday casual tablet use. But

548
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 4: I think with kids, a lot of them, you know,

549
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 4: my kids work on things or write things, and they'll

550
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 4: set up a keyboards. I think it can work with

551
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 4: other keyboards, but I think there's a big opportunity there.

552
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Speaker 4: I would think to enable this for that and just

553
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 4: add to abuse.

554
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, well hopefully they're working on that, Scott. We're going

555
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: to leave it there, Scott Stein of cnet telp Folks.

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Speaker 1: How they can find you online?

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Speaker 5: Sure?

558
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Speaker 4: Well, you can find me a Twitter jet Scott. You

559
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 4: can also find me mastadon and blue Sky, and you

560
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 4: can also find me and Seema dot com. I have

561
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 4: an author profile there.

562
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Speaker 1: Awesome. Thanks so much for joining me today. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Hey, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Hello rich On Tech. Hello, Hey, my outlook Microsoft Outlook

574
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 5: has gone rogue on me or something. It was operating

575
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 5: fine for the longest time, but recently seems like the

576
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 5: highest percentage of my outgoing mails come back to me

577
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 5: with an air message that couldn't be delivered to such

578
00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 5: and such address for some cryptic reason. So, long story short,

579
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 5: I'm thinking about reinstalling Outlook, but I read somewhere or

580
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 5: thought I did that I need to reinstall Microsoft three

581
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 5: sixty five entirely, not just Outlook.

582
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 6: What are your.

583
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 5: Thoughts on that.

584
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: Are You're on a Windows machine, I'm.

585
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 5: Taking it, yeh, Windows ten.

586
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: I'm running okay. And when you go to the list

587
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: of programs, is Outlook listed separately or is it not?

588
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 5: I believe it's listed separately. I'm almost positive, okay.

589
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: And have you tried to just say uninstall that?

590
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 5: No, because I was afraid I'd lose past emails and

591
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 5: folders and all of that anything.

592
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

593
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, It depends on how your account is set up

594
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,239
Speaker 1: if you're going to lose those folders and things. So

595
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: if your account is set up locally where you're downloading everything,

596
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: then yes, you would lose anything that you've set up.

597
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: If it's set up, if it's set up as an IMAP,

598
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: or if it's just mirroring the server, then any thing

599
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: that you've set up on the server side will just

600
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: mirror over once it comes back down. Do you know

601
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: what type of email address you're using? I mean I

602
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: assume you do.

603
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a website that I set up, and the

604
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 5: email address is the my email address is the website name.

605
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: Okay, And so when you set that up on that

606
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: email is it an IMAP or is it a POP three?

607
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: Do you know?

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Speaker 7: Boy?

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00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 5: I'm familiar with what you're asking, but I don't know.

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00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 5: But now I'm in front of my PC again, maybe

611
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 5: I can find out real quick.

612
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: Well, So I would do some research on that and

613
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: just see if the email address how your provider sets

614
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: it up. Most of the time, I mean, it depends

615
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: with with your own website. A lot of the times

616
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: it could be POP, but IMAP is pretty common as well,

617
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: so it sort of depends. But I think that's going

618
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: to determine how much you're going to going to lose.

619
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Speaker 1: So what I would do is I would do a

620
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:59,239
Speaker 1: backup of your data before you do anything, and then

621
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: try to uninstall all Outlook if you can't uninstall it

622
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: by itself, which it may be linked to the three

623
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Speaker 1: sixty five the whole suite. Then you know you're gonna

624
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: have to uninstall that and reinstall. Is there what caused

625
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: this problem?

626
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Speaker 5: I don't know. It happened, oh several weeks ago, and

627
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 5: I've tried to work around it, and it's just seems

628
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 5: to be getting worse. Doesn't make sense to me. But

629
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 5: have you have no idea what caused it? But I

630
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 5: get all these bounce backs saying that it can't deliver

631
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 5: to SO and Sol's address, and it gives me a

632
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 5: reason that is like hieroglyphics.

633
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 6: It doesn't.

634
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably doesn't make much sense. Have you installed any

635
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: plugins on this program that would cause this?

636
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 3: No?

637
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 5: Not, No, I don't believe I have ever.

638
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Speaker 1: Okay, well I would. I would try to do the

639
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: uninstalled and see if that works. It seems like an

640
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: odd problem to just start happening out of nowhere. The

641
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: other thing the other thing can try to do is

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00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: have you tried, like downloading the Outlook app to your

643
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: phone or anything like that.

644
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 5: I have, and I've had difficulty and right now I

645
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 5: can't get it downloaded to my phone.

646
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. What are using iPhone or Android? Android

647
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: boone and it just won't download. Interesting, well, that should

648
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: be available in the in the Google Play Store, but

649
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: you might try to log in and see if your

650
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: information is there, if it's storing it in the cloud,

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Speaker 1: and it may just carry down through there. So that's

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Speaker 1: another way.

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Speaker 4: To do it.

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Speaker 5: And did you suggest that to back up outlook first?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would. I would. I would export everything and

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Speaker 1: just you know, save that file in case you can't

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Speaker 1: get things back. And then that way, at least you

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Speaker 1: have a backup that you can you can bring back

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Speaker 1: to you know, bring back to life in a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a way. So do you pay for Office

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Speaker 1: three sixty five or no? Did you? How are you

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Speaker 1: getting this program?

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Speaker 5: I went in to try and find that out. I

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Speaker 5: think I did, and I think I said a very

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Speaker 5: nominal amount. But I can't see in my CRM package

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Speaker 5: where I'm paying for it or not. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, usually it's only you know, it's a couple

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Speaker 1: like under ten dollars a month for that, or you

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Speaker 1: can pay for the hard gear in advance, but that

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Speaker 1: would give you access to downloading the app itself. It

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Speaker 1: seems like the app is part of the Suite on Windows,

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Speaker 1: but on a Mac, I know they just came out

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Speaker 1: with a standalone office or an outlook rather, So if

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Speaker 1: you have a Mac, you can try logging in there

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Speaker 1: as well and seeing but I know you can download

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Speaker 1: that on there as well because I played with it.

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Speaker 1: So those are some things to try and see if

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Speaker 1: they work. But that is frustrating when your email is

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Speaker 1: coming back. If you're like me, you just forget to

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Speaker 1: actually send your email. So I will set up an

682
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Speaker 1: email and I will get distracted at work and I

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Speaker 1: literally forget to hit send and next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: people are like, hey, Rich, where's that email. It's like

685
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: I thought I sent it, but I didn't. And sometimes

686
00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: that will happen as well. So thanks for the call,

687
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Let me tell you why the FTC is

688
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Speaker 1: mad at Amazon once again. A couple weeks ago they

689
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Speaker 1: had to pay like thirty million bucks for some issues

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Speaker 1: with Ring and some other privacy issues. Now they're saying

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Speaker 1: that Amazon makes it tough for consumers to cancel their

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Speaker 1: subscriptions to Prime. They filed a complaint that says Amazon

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Speaker 1: has knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly and rolling

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Speaker 1: into Amazon Prime. Now, I've had Amazon Prime for a

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Speaker 1: long time, but I think what they're talking about is

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Speaker 1: when you check out, if you don't have Prime, there's

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Speaker 1: probably a little tiny checkbox that says include a free

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Speaker 1: trial of Amazon Prime for overnight shipping or free shipping,

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Speaker 1: and people do that, and then all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: they see that credit card charge for fourteen ninety nine

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Speaker 1: and they say, wait a second, what I thought I

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Speaker 1: was just signed up for a free trial, or I

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Speaker 1: forgot that I signed up for a free trial. And

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Speaker 1: then the FTC alleges that they make it really tough

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Speaker 1: to cancel the subscription. Now that's the part that I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure I agree with, because I feel like if

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Speaker 1: you would chat with Amazon, you could cancel that pretty easily.

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Speaker 1: But they say that, you know, this is a dark

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Speaker 1: pattern that Amazon is using, and it really made it

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Speaker 1: tough for consumers. I'm trying to figure out where they

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Speaker 1: say this. Oh, Consumers who attempted to cancel Prime were

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Speaker 1: faced with multiple steps to actually accomplish the task of canceling.

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Speaker 1: According to the complaint, they had to locate the cancelation flow,

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Speaker 1: which Amazon of course hid. Then once they located it,

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Speaker 1: they were redirected to multiple pages that presented offers to

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Speaker 1: continue the subscription at a discounted price, or to turn

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Speaker 1: off the auto renew feature, or to decide not to cancel,

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Speaker 1: And then after clicking through all these pages, consumers could

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Speaker 1: finally cancel the service. That seems to be pretty common

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Speaker 1: though online if you try to cancel anything. And so,

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Speaker 1: I know the FTC is really singling out Amazon here,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like a lot of companies do that.

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Speaker 1: So if you felt like you were wronged by Amazon

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Speaker 1: Prime Government, it's got You're back, rich tamiro here. You

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Speaker 1: are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Tamuro here talking technology with you at

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Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: Tech dot tv to find the show notes. I take

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Speaker 1: very good notes about what we talk about here, So

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Speaker 1: if you're looking for a link to something I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: chances are it's in there because I try to get

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Speaker 1: it all. We've got best selling author Deborah Fine joining

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Speaker 1: me this hour. She's going to talk about technology and

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Speaker 1: how it's impacting the art of small talk. Because I

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Speaker 1: don't know about you, but it's much easier in a

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Speaker 1: crowd of folks to just kind of, you know, retreat

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Speaker 1: to your smartphone and that endless scroll than it is

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Speaker 1: to actually have that human connection with folks. And it's tough.

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Speaker 1: It's not easy to talk to strangers. But we're going

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Speaker 1: to see what Debra says about that. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: kick off this hour with Julio in Los Angeles. Julio,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Wretch. I'm fantastic. How are you?

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Speaker 8: Ah, very good. I have a challenging question for you.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 8: I have Moscilla District okay, oh, sorry for nights okay,

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Speaker 8: And I've been living with it for many years and

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Speaker 8: I will for forty years into counting a problem. But

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Speaker 8: the problem is this, I have a I have a

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Speaker 8: cell phone, you know where I versus my wife had

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Speaker 8: en a plit phone, and we have a problem because

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Speaker 8: she suffers the same, you know, and when we put

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Speaker 8: it in a front pocket, I'll must start to hurt.

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Speaker 8: I got to he's very share the expicient phone that

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Speaker 8: I buy for it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so when you put your phone in your front pocket,

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Speaker 1: you're saying your body aches from it. Okay, Well there

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Speaker 1: is a solution. And now, look, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: there's a correlation. I mean, you're telling me this. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if other people are experiencing this, but there

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Speaker 1: are you know, there obviously are frequencies that are emitted

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Speaker 1: by your phone. You've got a flip phone, so I

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Speaker 1: feel like that's not as high powered as some of

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Speaker 1: the other smartphones out there. And all of the phones,

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Speaker 1: by the way, have this little rating. They've got this

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Speaker 1: like radiation rating, so you can look it up by phone.

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Speaker 1: It's like measured I think in microns. But different phones

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Speaker 1: definitely have different sort of radiation levels that they emit.

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Speaker 1: So you can check that out if you search online

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Speaker 1: for the model number, and you know, there's a I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what the let me see if

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Speaker 1: I can find out iPhone radius level and let's see

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Speaker 1: if they have the number. Um yeah, it's like yes,

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Speaker 1: So there's like a little like wattage number. Oh there

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Speaker 1: it is. It's like, uh yeah, RF exposure information, So

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Speaker 1: they all have SAR. SAAR value is what they call it,

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Speaker 1: so you can look up the name of your phone

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Speaker 1: plus SAR and specific absorption rate is what they call it.

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Speaker 1: The rate to which the body absorbs RF energy radio

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Speaker 1: frequency energy. The SAR limit on the iPhone twelve pro,

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Speaker 1: for example, is one point six watts per kilogram in

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Speaker 1: countries that set the limit averaged over one gram of

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Speaker 1: tissue and two watts per kilogram WOWS. This is a

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Speaker 1: lot if you want to read about this, This is

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Speaker 1: like you can go down a rabbit hole with all

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Speaker 1: this stuff. But basically, they do test phones for this stuff,

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Speaker 1: and they do tell you what the different levels are

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Speaker 1: that come out of these phones, and they are very different.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to check your phone, just google

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Speaker 1: whatever phone model you have plus SAR and it will

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Speaker 1: tell you what that number is for the head and

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Speaker 1: the body. So with all of that said, there are

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Speaker 1: cases that can block these in and out radio waves.

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Speaker 1: But here's the deal. They're often called a Faraday bag.

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Speaker 1: It's going to block all signals, so you are not

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Speaker 1: going to be able to get a signal from this phone.

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Speaker 1: It is not going to ring when it's in this bag.

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Speaker 1: If it's in your pocket. So if you're okay with that,

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Speaker 1: you can check out these different companies that make these things.

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Speaker 1: One of them is called Silent Pocket. I guess they've

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Speaker 1: just kind of rebranded as Silent now. And their website

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Speaker 1: is SLNT dot com Silent slnt dot com, and they

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Speaker 1: make a whole bunch of different Faraday bags, everything from

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Speaker 1: sleeves for your keys, for your laptop, for your credit cards,

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Speaker 1: and also your phone. And I have one of their

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Speaker 1: phone bags, and yeah, when you put your phone in there,

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Speaker 1: it is it immediately cuts off all signals to and

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Speaker 1: from that phone. The other company, and I'm not as

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Speaker 1: familiar with their products, I haven't used them, but I

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Speaker 1: know they make them is called off grid O F

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Speaker 1: F g R I D dot c O and off

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Speaker 1: grid is I believe they're based on and I think

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Speaker 1: both these companies are like San Diego area. But these

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Speaker 1: they make a wallet, they make a bag, they make

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Speaker 1: a little cell phone case, they make a duffel bag,

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Speaker 1: they make a backpack. Let's see what else here, a

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Speaker 1: window kit whatever that is. But these are these are

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Speaker 1: some ways of kind of blocking all signals to and

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Speaker 1: from your phone. So this could be used for security.

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Speaker 1: It could also be used for something like you're talking about, Julio.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that would help. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you want to do that, but that is the

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Speaker 1: solution that I can think of otherwise maybe. And I've

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Speaker 1: thought about this before. Believe me, I'm not one of

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Speaker 1: these like you know, you know, tin hat kind of guys.

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Speaker 1: But I have thought about, because I've kept my phone

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Speaker 1: in my pocket for so long, I have thought about,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's time to switch where I keep my phone

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Speaker 1: and not keep it, you know, near the the groin

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Speaker 1: area so much, and maybe have some sort of holster

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Speaker 1: on my ankle area. And I know it sounds crazy,

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Speaker 1: but it's like, you know, I don't know. I've had

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Speaker 1: a cell phone in my pocket now for twenty years

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Speaker 1: and it seems to be okay, but you don't want

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Speaker 1: to find out the hard way that it's not so good. Call, Julio.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for asking that interesting, interesting question. Let's see,

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Speaker 1: should we go to Do I have time for another call?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to let's see. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: so many calls today.

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Speaker 4: Karen.

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Speaker 1: Karen is in Thousand Oaks.

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Speaker 3: Karen, You're on with Rich Hi there, thanks for taking

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Speaker 3: my call.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for calling.

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Speaker 4: Sure.

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Speaker 3: I have an iPhone. I've had one since two thousand

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Speaker 3: and seven and I have it backed up with iclouds

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Speaker 3: and my daughter got married and I decided that it

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Speaker 3: would be a great idea to back up the photos

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Speaker 3: somewhere else. Absolutely decided, Yeah, easy to do it on

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Speaker 3: Google Photos. So I started the process downloading it on

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Speaker 3: my phone, and it ran out a memory really fast

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Speaker 3: because it was backing up all my photos from my

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Speaker 3: phone and I had a lot, and so I stopped

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Speaker 3: the I stopped it, and I so I started playing

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Speaker 3: around a little bit and I deleted a photo and

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Speaker 3: it said, okay, we're going to delete the photo from iPhoto.

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Speaker 8: So I stopped.

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Speaker 3: I didn't delete anymore. But then it it took all

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Speaker 3: like on Google Photo. It was completely full, and it

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Speaker 3: wanted more money so to back up everything another ten

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00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 3: bucks a month. So now I feel like I'm being

867
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 3: held hostage by them, and so I stopped all the

868
00:43:54,040 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 3: access to photos from my iPhone to Google. Sure it's

869
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 3: just fine, but now it says that I can't get

870
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 3: my email or Google.

871
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: Because our account is maxed out and they're connected exactly yeah. Okay.

872
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: So with Google you get fifteen gigs of storage I believe.

873
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 3: Like included right right, But I'm I already pay.

874
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: But you pay for iCloud.

875
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 3: I do, can dog because I have twenty thousand photos.

876
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So here's the dilemma. So you've got these

877
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: basically you're kind of okay, So two things I guess

878
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: two part question here are you you're not going to

879
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: use Google anymore for this?

880
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 3: Correct?

881
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: Okay, so we can get those photos out of there.

882
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: The other thing is do you are you an Amazon

883
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: Prime member?

884
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 3: I am?

885
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,240
Speaker 1: Okay, So have you heard of Amazon Photos?

886
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 3: Yes?

887
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: Have you used it?

888
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 5: No?

889
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: Okay? So I would recommend since you're an Amazon Prime

890
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: member and you're using this as your secondary backup, so

891
00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: your photos are basically in they're almost in two places there.

892
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: Some of them are on your phone. I'm not sure

893
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: if your phone carries all twenty thousand physically on your device.

894
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have that much storage on

895
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: your phone. It may or may not. But they are

896
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: backed up in iCloud. So that's one place they're backed up,

897
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: and of course you want them backed up in a

898
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: second place, which would be one of these cloud apps.

899
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: So since since you're already paying for Amazon, I would

900
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: say install the Amazon Photos app and let your photos

901
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: back up there, and that way you have a secondary copy.

902
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: Because I don't think icloud's going away anytime soon. I

903
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna have an issue with that, but

904
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: just in case, you will have a pretty sizeable backup

905
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: of your photos, especially as you take new ones on

906
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: your Amazon account as well. Now that will take care

907
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: of moving forward. So to get rid of these photos

908
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: out of Google, I would just go ahead delete the

909
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: Google Photos app off of your iPhone. You don't need

910
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: to do anything first before you do that, Just go

911
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: ahead and delete it.

912
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 8: Okay.

913
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 1: Then I would go to photos dot Google dot com

914
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: on your computer and you can go ahead and select

915
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: photos in there and delete them. And I believe once

916
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: you go in there, let me try this real quick.

917
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: If you select like one photo, you you should be

918
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: able to select a bunch at a time and just

919
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: go ahead and delete those. And when you delete them

920
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: from the web interface, they're not going to delete off

921
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 1: your iPhone at the same time because it can't talk

922
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: to your your iCloud anymore. Does that make sense?

923
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 8: I think?

924
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 3: So, let me just one other thing I have in iMac,

925
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 3: and I don't have iCloud on my Mac because I

926
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 3: didn't want them if I took if I deleted them

927
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 3: off on my phone, I didn't want them to delete

928
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 3: them off my computer.

929
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the way that iCloud works is it's a

930
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: it's a everything syncs to iCloud. So if you're looking

931
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: at your photo collection on your Mac, it's going to

932
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: be the same exact collection that's on your phone. That's

933
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: if you go to iCloud dot com, it's all the same.

934
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: And it's very confusing for people because they think because

935
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: it's on an app on their phone, it's different than

936
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: what's in the cloud or what's on you know, their

937
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: computer if they're syncing it. So that is a little confusing.

938
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: But my main point here is that if you're if

939
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: you're not wanting to use the Google Photos aspect of anything,

940
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: just go to the Google Photos website and that anything

941
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: you do there will not connect through to iCloud. So

942
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: if you go through and delete all these pictures on

943
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 1: Google Photos, they will only delete on the Google Photos

944
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: cloud and it's not going to redelete them off of

945
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: your iCloud photo collection. Okay, So, and you can go

946
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: through and you know, try to bulk delete. I think

947
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 1: you can select a thousand at once or something like that.

948
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: But you can just go through and kind of delete

949
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: as many as possible. And I believe you can just

950
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: kind of click in the corner of the photo and

951
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: then drag over to kind of select multiple photos at

952
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: once and that then then just go ahead and delete them.

953
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: Then you can empty the trash and you should see

954
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: your storage kind of clean up there. So, uh, good question, Karen.

955
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: I know it's confusing. This phot cloud collection stuff is

956
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: really not easy, especially when you start using multiple different providers.

957
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: So good question there, and get that stuff cleaned up.

958
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: So your Gmail works again because it is connected, all right.

959
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: If you have a call, give me a or if

960
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: you have a question, give me a call. It's triple

961
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Speaker 1: eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven

962
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Speaker 1: four to two four to one zero one. My name

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00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: is rich Dmuro and you are listening to rich on Tech.

964
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

965
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. If you've got an iPhone, you want

968
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: to update your software immediately. Apple issued an emergency patch

969
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: this week UH to address alleged spyware vulnerability. So the

970
00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: actual the allegers in this case is Russia. Their intelligence

971
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: service said that Apple was intentionally leaving this hole open

972
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: in their software so that people can spy on Russia

973
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: through it, which I mean take that claim with a

974
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: grain of salt. But there is a vulnerability on the

975
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: iPhone that should definitely be patched. So if you go

976
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: into your settings, so if you if you don't know

977
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: how to do this, sometimes it'll pop up on your

978
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: screen to tell you. But if it doesn't, you just

979
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 1: go into settings, you go into General and then software

980
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: update and you should be on iOS sixteen point five

981
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: point one again sixteen point five point one if you

982
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: want to be on the latest software. That's if you're

983
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: not running any betas, which you could be, but I don't,

984
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 1: but anyway, do that for sure. Researchers with the cyber

985
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: security firm Kaspersky, which is headquartered in Moscow, said that

986
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: they found the exploit while monitoring the network traffic of

987
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: their own corporate Wi Fi network dedicated for mobile devices.

988
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: So Apple did patch this of course they denied the

989
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: claims that they are intentionally leaving this flaw in iOS.

990
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: So the NSA and other US security agencies could compromise

991
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: phones in Russia. But who knows. It'd be more interesting

992
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: if they were doing that, right, but I don't think

993
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: they were so anyway, update your software. If you have

994
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: an iPhone, let's see if you have an a SOUS router,

995
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: update your firmware. Welcome to the update your software show

996
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 1: my home. My name is Rich DeMuro, but this is important.

997
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: I don't do all software updates, but I you know,

998
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: if these are like critical vulnerabilities, you need to do this.

999
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: And your router in your house is you know, that's

1000
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: the the endpoint. You know, that's the place where someone

1001
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: could get in. So you want to make sure it's

1002
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: up to date. And we don't often think about updating

1003
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: our routers unless you have one of these new mesh

1004
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: systems that does it automatically. So if you have a

1005
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: a SUS RT GTSZN WI FI and TUF router TUF,

1006
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: that just sounds bad. I don't know what that means,

1007
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,479
Speaker 1: but that sounds bad. Yeah, if you have a tough router,

1008
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: check for a firmware update as soon as possible. The

1009
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: company released a security patch of resolving nine vulnerabilities that

1010
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: could harm you. Someone could execute some remote code and

1011
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: take over your network at your house. You don't want

1012
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: that to happen. So if you don't know how to

1013
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: do this, these these routers go back to twenty eighteen,

1014
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: by the way, So you log into your router a

1015
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:39,919
Speaker 1: lot of times it's on the bottom of your router,

1016
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: your router's IP address. I know this gets a little complicated,

1017
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,959
Speaker 1: but look on the bottom of your router and there's

1018
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: a there's usually an address you can put in, and

1019
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: you type that in, it'll bring you to your router's

1020
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: interface and then you can update the software from there.

1021
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: If you don't know how to find the IP address,

1022
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: as US has a device to discoverutility, you can download that

1023
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: or go to the website for that. And then once

1024
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: you go to the website for your router, you'll see

1025
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: a notification up here in the top right corner that

1026
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: says a firmware update is available. Click firmware upgrade to

1027
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: download install the patch and that should take just a

1028
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 1: few minutes. But if you have an a SOUS router,

1029
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: again definitely want to do the firmware update. If you

1030
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: don't know how to do this yourself, find a kid

1031
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood that's good at tech and ask them

1032
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: to help you do it. And I'm sure they'll be

1033
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: happy to do that. All right, I don't think we

1034
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: have enough time for a question, so let's do this.

1035
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: Let's do an email question since we only have a minute. Hey, Rich,

1036
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: we're allowing our grandson to use our car to get

1037
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: to and from school in a part time job. Is

1038
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: there a tracking device that can be covertly attached to

1039
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: the vehicle in order to see if he's making any

1040
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: side trips? Well, we have to pay a monthly monitoring fee.

1041
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: Thank you, Roger. Roger, I cannot say that you should

1042
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,240
Speaker 1: track anyone. It is your car, so it's your progative.

1043
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: But I don't think you should secretly track anyone. I

1044
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: think that you should to talk to your grandson, tell

1045
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: them that you want to track them, and that should

1046
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: probably stop the side trips in general, like pretty quickly.

1047
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,280
Speaker 1: But there are some highly rated devices. There's a company

1048
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: you could look into called Logistimatics Logistimatics dot com. And

1049
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: then two highly rated products. One is called Bouncy bo

1050
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: u n cie. That's under one hundred dollars. Plus you

1051
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: have to pay eight bucks a month for the tracker

1052
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: part and then track track you dot Com is thirty

1053
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: dollars and that also has GPS, but keep in mind

1054
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: you will need to pay a monthly fee. All right.

1055
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: Coming up next, best selling author Deborah Fine is going

1056
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: to tell us about the Fine Art of small talk.

1057
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

1058
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology, which I can do pretty well,

1059
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: but when it comes to small talk, man, I feel

1060
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: like I am just not good at that. And I

1061
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: was at this conference over the weekend or over the

1062
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: week i should say, and it was three days of

1063
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: non stop small talk. So they would do kind of

1064
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: like you know, a breakfast small talk. Then they do

1065
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: a talk on stage, break out small talk while you

1066
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: wait for the next session, do another session on stage

1067
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: small talk again, small talk during cocktail hour, small talk everywhere.

1068
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: Joining me now is author Deborah Fine. She wrote the

1069
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: book on small talk, The Fine Art of Small Talk,

1070
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: And Deborah, thanks for joining me today. Is it your

1071
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: birthday today?

1072
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 8: Rich?

1073
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 9: It's my birthday today.

1074
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: Happy day. Hey, that's a that's a great way to

1075
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: start small talk. Hey it's your birthday, Happy birthday.

1076
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 9: So you can't use that a good one as an icebreaker,

1077
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 9: and it's pretty self centered. I just use that to

1078
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:47,240
Speaker 9: tweet out today.

1079
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: Okay, So so already I'm self centered. See this is

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00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: my problem.

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Speaker 9: Well I do that, then I'm self centered. It's all

1082
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Speaker 9: about you right now, rich Okay, Well.

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00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: Here's my first question for you. Right am I abnormal

1084
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: in the fact that I feel like small talk can

1085
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: be really tricky sometimes.

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Speaker 9: Well not only tricky, but as I listened to you

1087
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 9: describe your week, I was exhausted, But everyone listening was

1088
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 9: just as exhausted, unless they're an extrovert, of course, or

1089
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Speaker 9: unless they had more than one cocktail or five cocktails,

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00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 9: and it's not as exhausting, of course.

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00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: But then you get then you run into like you know,

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00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that either.

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00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 9: You know, of course not. So here's here's the trick

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00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 9: to small talker, I mean, the many tricks. Number one

1095
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 9: is to you decide how much time you're going to

1096
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 9: invest in the energy you're going to invest. But then

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00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 9: you've got to do it right. So what I mean

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00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 9: by right is I turn it into a task. I'm

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00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 9: an introvert by nature. Who I hope sounds like an

1100
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 9: extrovert right now. So when I walk into a networking event,

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00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 9: or that coffee break, or the reception before the dinner

1102
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 9: or the awards or whatever you had to go through

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00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 9: this week, we're sitting in the auditorium waiting for the

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Speaker 9: next speaker, I approach that as a task. Here's the task.

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00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 9: Meet the person I right, meet the person on my left,

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00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 9: don't wait for them to introduce themselves. Walk into a

1107
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 9: hospitality suite. Tell myself, I'm going to meet two new people.

1108
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 9: I'm going to meet four new people. One new person.

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00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 9: I get to decide the task, and then when my

1110
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 9: task is done, then I get to In my case,

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00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 9: I do like to drink, so I'll go and drink

1112
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 9: or I'll leave early. How great would that be? So

1113
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 9: small talk it sounds like a waste of saliva to

1114
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 9: most people because it most of us think it's sports

1115
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 9: or the weather. But what small talk really is, I believe,

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00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 9: is the appetizer to a relationship. In your case, because

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00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 9: you're at a business industry conference, it was the appetiser

1118
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 9: to business relationships. Although anything else is possible. But anytime

1119
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 9: we invest time in getting to know people or just

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00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:45,240
Speaker 9: frame conversations with small talk. So think about this before

1121
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 9: or after the picture frame of a business conversation, let's say,

1122
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 9: the provision of a service, the negotiation of a contract,

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00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 9: the evaluation of a candidate, before or after. If we

1124
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 9: use small talk, then we develop these business friendship, business

1125
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 9: relationships and all things, you know, being equal people do

1126
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 9: business with their friends and all things not being so equal,

1127
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 9: people still do business with their friends. So it is

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Speaker 9: a good investment of our time just to do it

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00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 9: in a quality way when we choose to do it,

1130
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 9: and when we're spent exhausted done that, we should just

1131
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 9: tune out or go sit in the reception area, plan

1132
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 9: your device for a while, then come back in.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you mentioned the device. So I feel like I'm

1134
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Speaker 1: seeing when I go because I go to a lot

1135
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: of I basically come home on a weekly basis and

1136
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: explain to my wife how how many events I have

1137
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: to go to where you really have to put yourself

1138
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: out there, where you have to make these small talks.

1139
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: You have to meet people, you have to introduce yourself,

1140
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: ask people what they do. All this good stuff and

1141
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: I find that there are an element of folks who

1142
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 1: sort of retreat into their phone because now it used

1143
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: to be you know, let's say you're in a standard

1144
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: kind of cocktail reception kind of thing. There's a couple

1145
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: tables set up, some people already kind of paired off,

1146
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: they know someone whatever, and then other people might just

1147
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 1: stand there and stare at their phone. So do you

1148
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: feel like we're seeing more of a trend of that

1149
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: happening or has that always happened? And you know, is

1150
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: that okay to do or no? Should you really just

1151
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: not do that?

1152
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 9: I think I'm not positive of this, but I believe

1153
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 9: that people have that crutch of their phone that we

1154
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 9: can view. But in the past, because I was one

1155
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 9: of those people. You know, I was an engineer originally

1156
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 9: in my profession, and I was an INTROVERTI shy person.

1157
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 9: I stood over in the corner by myself, and you know,

1158
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 9: I joked about drinking. I was not a drinker at

1159
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 9: that time. But I do believe people would huddle at

1160
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 9: the bar because they didn't have a device to look

1161
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 9: down at. There were a million crutches, rich, It's just

1162
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 9: that the crutch right now is a device. Do I

1163
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 9: think it's wrong. Absolutely, your device should not be out

1164
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 9: and about, even at a if I sit down with

1165
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 9: you to dine, it should not be out and about

1166
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 9: on the table. It should either be in a pocket,

1167
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 9: a handback, whatever it may be. It certainly should be

1168
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 9: facing down and turned off. And if you wear an

1169
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,439
Speaker 9: Apple Watch on your rist, please stop it, just because

1170
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 9: you're driving me nuts and I just really I cannot

1171
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 9: stand it, So for rich let me and people have

1172
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 9: forgotten this. A phone has a phone feature. I know

1173
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 9: we've forgotten this, but wouldn't it be grand. It's like

1174
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 9: as recently as yesterday, I got an inquiry in my

1175
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 9: business and instead of replying the email that's how it

1176
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 9: was delivered, I picked up the phone and used the

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Speaker 9: phone feature. Now asked me if she answered no. She

1178
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 9: did not, but I left a phone message and said

1179
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 9: I follow up by email. You know, we need to

1180
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 9: have this space to face interaction or this where I

1181
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 9: can just hearing your voice right now. I don't know you.

1182
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,959
Speaker 9: Now you're in a you originally asked me a question

1183
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 9: about going to these functions, et cetera. You're at a

1184
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 9: disadvantage because I'm guessing this. I don't know you, we've

1185
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 9: never talked. I didn't even know who you were two

1186
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 9: days ago. Sorry because I don't live in LA.

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00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: But no offense.

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00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 9: Yeah, well those of us who are living Denver, who

1189
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 9: are home of the NBA champion Denver Nuggets, everyone didn't

1190
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 9: even exist, mister Laker fan. But nonetheless I move on.

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01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: So I.

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Speaker 9: Think you're probably recognizable. So you're at a disadvantage because

1193
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 9: people must come around you, and so you're almost like

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01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 9: have to come up with small tuck more than.

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Speaker 5: The rest of us.

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Speaker 9: But I would say to people to walk in prepared,

1197
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 9: come up with two to three things to talk about

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01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 9: when you walk into the situations at least that Riches

1199
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 9: does describe. So, for instance, I call it free information.

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01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 9: So free information is the information that's free to all

1201
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 9: of us. It's sort of a commonality. So if I'm

1202
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 9: at a conference, I can say to anybody that I

1203
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 9: introduce myself, say, so, is this your first time at

1204
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 9: this conference, or what was your number one takeaway from

1205
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 9: the speaker this morning? Or what other conferences do you attend.

1206
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Speaker 9: The free information I have is that you're at this conference, right,

1207
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 9: and so am I You know, what did you see

1208
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 9: the exhibit hall that caught your eye. So if I'm

1209
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 9: at a fundraiser, what got you involved in this fundraiser?

1210
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 9: How are you connected? If I'm at your party at

1211
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 9: your house, you just disclosed that you're married. By the way,

1212
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 9: everyone listening, don't ask people if they're married. Don't ask them.

1213
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 9: If I found out Rich is married because he disclosed it,

1214
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 9: I am not going to ask him do you have

1215
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 9: any kids? Because folks, they either don't and you're headed

1216
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 9: down a rabbit hole, or they do and they won't

1217
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 9: shut up.

1218
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: But I made that faux pas yesterday. I asked someone,

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01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: I said, oh, do you have kids? And as soon

1220
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: as I asked it, and I realized because when I

1221
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: looked up this person on their Instagram, their entire mo

1222
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 1: is sort of like, uh, I don't need a man,

1223
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: and the like I make my own money, this and that,

1224
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh wow, I really kind of

1225
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: I really stepped into a bee's nest there.

1226
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Speaker 9: So want me to tell you my favorite way to

1227
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 9: get to know someone with's out asking those kinds of questions.

1228
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: Yes, give us the tips because I.

1229
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Speaker 9: Sounded like I was joking around, but I'm not. I

1230
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 9: don't think it's cool to ask people, are you married?

1231
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 10: I don't.

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01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 9: Even if I'm in an industry conference, I'll ask you,

1233
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 9: you know, what kind of work you do, because then

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01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 9: it's it's appropriate. But if I'm outside of an industry

1235
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 9: conference or a work function, I don't. I'm not going

1236
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 9: to start a conversation with what do you do?

1237
01:01:58,440 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 7: Rich?

1238
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 9: So my favorite way to get to know someone without

1239
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 9: asking questions that you might put your foot in your

1240
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 9: mouth or cause them any awkwardness or discomfort, is to say, like,

1241
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 9: to you, Rich, I know enough about you professionally. I

1242
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 9: happen to just learn you how to wife. But let's

1243
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 9: put that aside for a second. My favorite way to

1244
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 9: get to know you is to say, outside of work, Rich,

1245
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 9: what keeps you busy? One day, I meet you at

1246
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 9: a fundraiser, outside of you know, working on behalf of

1247
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 9: this food bank? What keeps you busy? So I meet

1248
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 9: you at back to school night with the kids. So

1249
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 9: outside of the kids, what keeps you busy? It's my

1250
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 9: favorite way to get to know somebody. They can disclose

1251
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 9: you know, I do yoga, I like to jog, I'm

1252
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 9: I'm in a book club, I have three kids, I

1253
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 9: like to travel. Whatever they disclose is now what you

1254
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:46,439
Speaker 9: get to talk about with them?

1255
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: Oh I love that, And that is such a little

1256
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:52,439
Speaker 1: secret weapon right there. So now I know, outside of

1257
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 1: you know, helping people with you know, let's say I

1258
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 1: meet another tech person, outside of helping people with technology,

1259
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 1: what keeps you busy? It's such an easy way to

1260
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: get them to open out to function.

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Speaker 9: Let's say your wife is there, so I don't know

1262
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 9: her either, obviously, but I don't want to dismiss her.

1263
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 9: Often people when I'm with my husband, who I don't

1264
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 9: share his last name, and he happens to be a doctor,

1265
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 9: so he gets all that energy. Right, You're fine. I

1266
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 9: don't need to tell you what I do for a living.

1267
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 9: That's all great. But what I observe is people never

1268
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 9: say to me. They don't want to say what do

1269
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 9: you do because they're worried I don't do anything? Okay,

1270
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 9: So but if I had that wonderful opportunity to meet

1271
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 9: your wife, I would say, what keeps you busy? Outside

1272
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 9: of being dragged to these events with your husband?

1273
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: I love it. See, look at I just got two

1274
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:34,919
Speaker 1: things that I wish I knew all week long.

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01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 9: Thank you Rich.

1276
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: Okay, Deborah, we're going to leave it there. Deborah Fine,

1277
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,640
Speaker 1: author of the Fine Art of Small Talk. How to

1278
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: start a conversation, keep it going, build networking skills, and

1279
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: leave a positive impression. It was recently updated this year,

1280
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 1: so go ahead and check it out on Amazon. I

1281
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 1: think we got some great takeaways from this conversation, Deborah,

1282
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: and now I cannot wait from a next event.

1283
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 9: Thanks for finding me, Rich all right er, thanks.

1284
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 1: For being on todayppreciate it. Even though you knock to

1285
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: the Lakers, that's okay, we won't hold it again.

1286
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 9: You guys, just you have no shame out there. The

1287
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 9: NBA champions Okay, we're done.

1288
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks Deva, appreciate it. Thank you, oh Deva Fine

1289
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: on Amazon. My pretty sure said they have one championship.

1290
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: This is not sports talk, so you know I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: already above my pay grade here. All right, coming up,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take more of your calls at Triple eight

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Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two,

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Speaker 1: four to one zero one. Remember that takeaway outside of

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Speaker 1: what brings you here? What keeps you busy? I love

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Speaker 1: that you. We're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with

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Speaker 1: you at Triple eight Rich one on one eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: feel like our conversation, our small talk conversation went off

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Speaker 1: the rails the end there, So uh, Deborah was a

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Speaker 1: good sport. All right, let's go to Angel in Gardena, California. Angel.

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Speaker 1: You're Ama Fritch, Thank you Rich, big fan of yours question.

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Speaker 10: And my wife works as a factory where it's really noisy.

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Speaker 10: She uses airphones to get this stress level down, just

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Speaker 10: to listen to music. But recently they told all the

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Speaker 10: workers not to use their phones are at work to

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Speaker 10: make calls while they're working. So they told her not

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Speaker 10: to use airphones anymore unless they are only for music.

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Speaker 10: I've been looking for bluetooth airphones that don't have a phone,

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Speaker 10: and I haven't been able to find anything that connects

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Speaker 10: to and Android phone. Is there any help you can

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Speaker 10: give me?

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. Most people want the uh want

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Speaker 1: the microphone.

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Speaker 10: Yes, I know, but you know they want to get

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Speaker 10: intro so yeah, no, I understand that.

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Speaker 1: And she doesn't want to use a wired one either, right, No, no.

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Speaker 10: Because there's type of work it's better for her to

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Speaker 10: use wireless Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to find a couple of headphones. Now

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Speaker 1: I don't have experience with these headphones, so I can't

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Speaker 1: tell you if they're good or not. Some of them

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Speaker 1: do have good ratings, but most of the time, and

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Speaker 1: I will, I will pull a friend that I have

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Speaker 1: that knows more about this than I do, because they

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Speaker 1: test all the different earbuds. So I will, I will

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Speaker 1: mention that and get get to you with that. But uh,

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Speaker 1: for now, the the ones that are coming up, because

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of earbuds have a microphone, especially the

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Speaker 1: wireless ones, and I think wired, you're gonna easily be

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Speaker 1: able to find a pair of wired earbuds. Like if

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Speaker 1: you want something that's super cheap, Moondrop Quarks. These are

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Speaker 1: highly rated, and these have no microphone for thirteen bucks.

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Speaker 1: The problem is most phones like you alluded to, don't

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Speaker 1: have a headphone jack anymore. So if she wants one

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Speaker 1: with a headphone jack and just wants a wired pair

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Speaker 1: of earbuds, Moondrop Quarks, they are thirteen bucks, highly rated,

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Speaker 1: no microphone on those whatsoever. Now, when it comes to Bluetooth,

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Speaker 1: I found let's see here, I found two pairs, one

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to see if this one has a microphone

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Speaker 1: or not. This one, I think does not have a microphone.

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Speaker 1: It looks like it's twenty bucks and it's a company

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Speaker 1: called Ja Rabbit and it looks like they're sold at Walmart,

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Speaker 1: so that could be an option. But the one that

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Speaker 1: is a little bit more well known ISO tunes and

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Speaker 1: these are called free two point zero listen only, but

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Speaker 1: these are expensive. These are one hundred and twenty dollars.

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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to find from some of the companies

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Speaker 1: that I know, like Belkin that makes earbuds Monoprice, if

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Speaker 1: they make a solution without the microphone built in, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just not finding them. So I see the frustration

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Speaker 1: here because these are not easy to find. But here's

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pull my friend. She

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Speaker 1: reviews all of the earbuds for Wirecutter, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to see what she comes up with, because I guarantee

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Speaker 1: she's got something and I will mention it on next

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Speaker 1: week's show. Angel or actually you know what, have Kim,

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Speaker 1: get your phone number and your text or your email

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Speaker 1: and I will definitely get in touch with you directly,

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Speaker 1: and if you are listening, and you have a suggestion

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Speaker 1: of earbuds that are Bluetooth that you love that do

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Speaker 1: not have a microphone. Let me know hello at richon

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV and I'll get it into the feedback

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Speaker 1: section of the show. Good question. That's a tricky one.

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Speaker 1: That's a very complicated one, something that you know takes

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Speaker 1: a little research to find out. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: about Rivian.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: Rivian is the company that makes electric cars. They came

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Speaker 1: out with an electric pickup truck first, and then they

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Speaker 1: came out with an electric suv. They're very popular, but

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Speaker 1: they are very expensive. I've test driven them. These are

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Speaker 1: sort of like rugged vehicles. Amazon's a big investor in

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Speaker 1: this company, and they're very, very nice, and I've seen

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Speaker 1: more and more of them on the roads, at least

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Speaker 1: here in the California area. But they are now saying,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we are going to use Tesla's supercharger network.

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Speaker 1: So they signed an agreement this week to provide Rivian

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Speaker 1: drivers access to Tesla's super charger network. That's a huge deal.

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Speaker 1: Now they say they're going to continue to expand their

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Speaker 1: own what they call Adventure network. But last I checked,

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Speaker 1: they did not have a lot of chargers with that network,

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Speaker 1: and they're putting them mostly in places like national parks

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Speaker 1: and things like that. So here's the deal. The folks

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Speaker 1: that already have a Rivian R one T and an

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Speaker 1: R one S that's their truck R one, get it

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Speaker 1: our Rivian one truck, Rivian one suv. They will be

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Speaker 1: able to get an adapter to charge on Tesla's supercharger

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Speaker 1: network as early as spring twenty twenty four, and then

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Speaker 1: starting with their twenty twenty five vehicles, they are going

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Speaker 1: to have the Tesla charger built in, so you know,

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Speaker 1: the charging port is going to be Tesla's, so if

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Speaker 1: you pop this thing open, it's going to look like

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Speaker 1: a Tesla charger. It's called the North American Charging Standard,

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Speaker 1: which I find so ironic that Tesla came up with

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Speaker 1: that name way way long ago, and now it actually

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Speaker 1: is becoming the North American Charging Standard. Why because in

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Speaker 1: recent weeks we had GM was the first to say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we're just going to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: use Tesla's charging infrastructure and their charge report, and then

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Speaker 1: Ford said, you know what, that's a good idea. We're

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Speaker 1: going to do the same exact thing. So now We've

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Speaker 1: got two three companies that are all using Tesla's supercharger network,

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Speaker 1: which I know some Tesla owners are probably not too

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Speaker 1: happy about that because now they're thinking, oh, great, does

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Speaker 1: this mean these chargers are going to be a lot

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Speaker 1: more crowded. Yeah. Probably, but this is going to be

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Speaker 1: a slow process. But what we're seeing here is, at

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Speaker 1: least in the US, the Tesla charging standard is becoming

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Speaker 1: the standard. So Tesla is winning the format war when

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Speaker 1: it comes to how we are going to charge our

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Speaker 1: cars in the future. And the fact that three major

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Speaker 1: companies are now going to use these chargers in their

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Speaker 1: car and that they can access that supercharger network, who's

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Speaker 1: going to be next? I guarantee other companies will fall

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Speaker 1: in line with this, because you don't want to be

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Speaker 1: left out at this point. And now, if you're choosing

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Speaker 1: a car, yeah, you probably want that ease of charging.

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Speaker 1: All right. If you have a question, give me a

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Speaker 1: call Triple eight rich one on one eighty eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out talking technology with you at Triple

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Speaker 1: the phone lines today. Do appreciate that?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm on TV as well, So if you

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Speaker 1: want to check out my TV segments where I cover

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Speaker 1: a variety of tech topics, just go to Rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV. While you're there, you good follow me

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Speaker 1: on social media. I'm on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. What

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Speaker 1: did I post this week? Uh? Let's see, Well, not much.

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Speaker 1: I guess I was on kind of out of town,

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Speaker 1: so I did post a lot of stories, so you

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Speaker 1: can check those out while you're on my Instagram. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's kick off this hour with uh, let's see Barbara

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Speaker 1: in Manta Bello. Barbara, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Rich, Thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for calling in.

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Speaker 7: This will be regarding the victrola stream Onyx record player

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Speaker 7: that is supposed to work well with soos. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 7: I'm interested in purchasing it, but I do want to

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Speaker 7: know does it work uninterrupted excuse me, with unwired speakers

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Speaker 7: or do I have to actually wire solo speakers to it?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Good question. So do you do you not have

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Speaker 1: a Sono system or do you expect to set.

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Speaker 6: One up with us if I have quite a system already,

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Speaker 6: and based on you lucking it so much, I tried

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Speaker 6: my first SOS and I've been hooked ever since.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's such a great system, So this will work.

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Speaker 1: Now when you say wired versus wireless, what do you

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Speaker 1: mean exactly?

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Speaker 7: Well, I've read that. Say, for instance, I could just

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Speaker 7: play it without hooking it up to any actual SOS.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as I understand, that's the way it works.

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Speaker 1: So when I was given the demo of this at CES,

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Speaker 1: they is completely wireless, so it will connect to your

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Speaker 1: son speakers via Wi Fi and all you have to

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Speaker 1: have is one. You probably need a recent Do you

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Speaker 1: have a recent Sono speaker? Yeah, okay, so if you

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Speaker 1: have a recent son No speaker, it should be just fine.

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Speaker 1: It will connect over Wi Fi. And that's why this

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Speaker 1: is a little bit more expensive than similar record players.

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Speaker 1: But this is completely wireless, and the fact that it

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Speaker 1: works with sons, it is certified, so it's not like

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Speaker 1: a you know, kind of where they're just kind of

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Speaker 1: shoehorning it in. This is actually made to work with Sonos.

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Speaker 1: So I think this would be a great addition to

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Speaker 1: your collection if you don't mind spending the six hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars to buy it.

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Speaker 6: Well, actually they have one that's a little bit less now,

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Speaker 6: the onyx or. I'm hoping with Amazon sale, maybe I

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Speaker 6: can pick one up.

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Speaker 1: Ah, that's a good I like. I like how you think. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there are two versions of this, but there is a

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Speaker 1: difference between them. So let me see. I need to

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Speaker 1: look and refresh myself with this whole situation. So there

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Speaker 1: is the carbon and then okay, the carbon is the

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Speaker 1: more expensive one, and then the stream is the less expense.

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Speaker 1: I've got it. Okay, so the carbon is a little

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Speaker 1: bit more, little fancier, but for six hundred dollars. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this thing. I've been tracking the price on this for

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Speaker 1: a while. It has not gone down, so I hope

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Speaker 1: that you're right. The only thing I did see when

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Speaker 1: I went to the website is there isn't a ten

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Speaker 1: percent off if you put your email address into the website.

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Speaker 1: So if worse comes to worse, if you can't get

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Speaker 1: this thing on sale during Prime Day, you can put

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Speaker 1: the email address and get ten percent off, which will

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Speaker 1: take sixty dollars off. But we do know the ways

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Speaker 1: to track Amazon purchases, so if you want if you

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Speaker 1: haven't your eye on something on Amazon. We'll probably talk

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Speaker 1: about this a little bit later because we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about Prime Day. But what I do is I

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Speaker 1: either add it to my cart to be able to

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Speaker 1: watch the price over the time, or you can there's

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Speaker 1: actually a couple of ways. There's an extent called Honey

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Speaker 1: which you can add things to your wish list on

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01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 1: there and it will give you an email when the

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01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:09,400
Speaker 1: price drops. Then there's something called Camel Camel, I know,

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01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: such a weird name, but you can put a price

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01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:16,960
Speaker 1: in there an Amazon like a link to an Amazon product,

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01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: and it will send you an alert when that price changes.

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01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:23,080
Speaker 1: And then finally Google, actually, if you're using Google Chrome,

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01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 1: they have a feature where they will track prices as well,

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01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 1: so you can track prices on Google Chrome itself. I

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01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:32,679
Speaker 1: find that that is a little bit hit or miss.

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01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes a little price

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01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:40,920
Speaker 1: tracker shows up, other times it doesn't. So right now,

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Speaker 1: if I click on this Victrola stream ONYX, if I

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01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 1: click up in the URL, I'll see a little bell

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01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:53,160
Speaker 1: that says track price. So now if I click that,

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01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 1: it says you're tracking this product. This page is saved

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01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 1: in other bookmarks, and it will alert you on your

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01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:02,640
Speaker 1: phone or in Chrome if that price drops. So those

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01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 1: are a couple different ways of doing it. But Barbara,

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01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:07,760
Speaker 1: you know I have my eye on this thing. So

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01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 1: now I'm tracking the price. Now I'm wondering if this

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01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: is going to go on sale for Prime. The only

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01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 1: thing I said about my whole record experience was that

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01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 1: I didn't like how they only last for like twenty minutes.

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01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm so used to just unlimited music all day long.

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01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:25,919
Speaker 1: So great question there. All right, if you have Visible,

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01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 1: this is kind of an issue. If you have Visible, they,

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01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 1: according to nine to five, Google, are disabling auto pay

1528
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: if you're on one of these older plans. So for

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01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 1: about a year now, Visible, which is owed by Verizon,

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01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:43,559
Speaker 1: has been transitioning to two new plans that apparently give

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01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: you better five G coverage, but you have to switch

1532
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:48,280
Speaker 1: your simcard out. So you've probably gotten some emails about this.

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01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 1: Maybe you've had to figure this out and do it.

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01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:52,760
Speaker 1: But the price that you have to uh the plan

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01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,759
Speaker 1: that you have to switch to also has a higher price.

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01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: It's about five dollars more a month. So it used

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01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 1: to be twenty five, now it's thirty all, oh, they're

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01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 1: giving you a temporary five dollars discount, so couple of things.

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01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 1: And I guess the author of this article uses Visible,

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01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:10,240
Speaker 1: so that's why they're interested in this. But I thought

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01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: it was interesting because a lot of people do use Visible,

1542
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 1: but their messaging has gotten more urgent, telling customers through

1543
01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: texts and emails that your service is going to be disconnected.

1544
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: So the most dramatic part of this whole thing is

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01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 1: that Visible's website now gives you a notification that autopay

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01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:32,280
Speaker 1: will be disabled as part of this switch. So basically,

1547
01:18:32,280 --> 01:18:35,280
Speaker 1: they're forcing you to take notice because you will have

1548
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 1: to log into the website to pay your bill. So

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01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 1: any payment due on or after July one, twenty twenty three,

1550
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 1: if you're still on this old plan, must be made manually.

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01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:49,719
Speaker 1: And because autopay payments are processed two days before, autopay

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01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: will be disabled as of June twenty ninth, which means

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01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: if you don't pay your auto pay, you're not going

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01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 1: to have your service. So they're trying to force you

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01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 1: into doing this. Now, here's the thing. If you're on

1556
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,680
Speaker 1: this original plan, you have to do something by September

1557
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 1: because this old plan I guess this network will be

1558
01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 1: shut down in September. What network are they talking about?

1559
01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 1: Because Visible uses five G and four G. I don't know.

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01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: It's kind of an odd thing, but the reality is,

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01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: if you are using Visible and you're getting all of

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01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 1: these messages, it's probably best to just go ahead and

1563
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:27,680
Speaker 1: do the switchover. So if you have to get a

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01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: new SIM card, tell them, hey, you know, I'll take

1565
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:31,960
Speaker 1: the new SIM. You pop it in your phone and

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01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 1: it works. If your phone supports eSIM, it's probably easier

1567
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 1: just to access the eSIM and just upgrade that way.

1568
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 1: But Visible could be hit or miss. I mean, I

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01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: really like the pricing, but they've made a lot of

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01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: changes in recent years to you know, it's good. It's

1571
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 1: a good option, but I know reviews are hit or

1572
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:55,000
Speaker 1: miss on this thing. And then United doing something cool.

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01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 1: United has a new mobile app feature that will be

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01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:02,800
Speaker 1: a lot more useful if your travel plans are disrupted.

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01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: So starting now, if you've ever been on a flight

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01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: that is changed or delayed, you have to go in

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01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:15,839
Speaker 1: this giant line to help you get options for delays

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01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:18,720
Speaker 1: and cancelations, and you have to stand there with a

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01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:21,640
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people who are also delayed and or canceled,

1580
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 1: and they may give you a voucher, they may give

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01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:26,360
Speaker 1: you a different flight, they may rebook you. But now,

1582
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 1: and I don't know why this wasn't a thing before,

1583
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 1: you'll get a text notification if you're on one of

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01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,760
Speaker 1: these flights that is interrupted, and it will bring you

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01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:38,760
Speaker 1: to the mobile app Orunited dot com and if your

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01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:43,400
Speaker 1: reservation is impacted, you will get the ability to rebook

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01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 1: your flight or get a new flight, track your bag,

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01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 1: see where they are, or you'll get a voucher. And

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01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:51,080
Speaker 1: this is the big important part is that they will

1590
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,640
Speaker 1: now give you vouchers through the app, so you can

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01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: get a hotel, meal or ride share voucher if you're eligible.

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01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:01,680
Speaker 1: And that's really important because I remember my son and

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01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 1: I were delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed, And this is for

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01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:10,800
Speaker 1: flights that are delayed I think more than sixty minutes. Yeah,

1595
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:13,000
Speaker 1: when a flight is delayed by more than sixty minutes

1596
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,920
Speaker 1: or canceled, this is when you're going to automatically see

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01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: this new option for delaying cancelations inside the United app.

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01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:21,040
Speaker 1: But my son and I were delayed, and this was

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01:21:21,080 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 1: before this obviously, and he was like four at the time,

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01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:27,320
Speaker 1: I think, long story short, it just kept getting more

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01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 1: and more delayed. It was so annoying. We ended up

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01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: getting on the plane. We had to get off the

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01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 1: plane because like something happened with the airplane. And I said,

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01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 1: you know what, enough is enough? I called in. Everyone

1605
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:40,519
Speaker 1: was lining up. I called in and I said, you

1606
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:42,519
Speaker 1: know what, you got to book us on a different flight,

1607
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:45,000
Speaker 1: and by the way, i'd like first class. And I'm

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01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: not kidding. I actually got disconnected from the agent on

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01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:51,280
Speaker 1: this call, which was ironic, but I'm not kidding. When

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01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: I looked at my app, I miraculously saw that our

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01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: itinerary had been refreshed and my ticket was rebooked and

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01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 1: we were in first class. And that is probably one

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01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 1: of my favorite stories. And that person will never get

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01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:06,639
Speaker 1: a thank you because I don't know who they were

1615
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:08,719
Speaker 1: or their name or anything like that. And they didn't

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01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 1: even tell me that they did this. But it was

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01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:14,840
Speaker 1: such a nice gesture because I asked for it. They

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01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:17,680
Speaker 1: didn't really fight me on it, and we actually got disconnected.

1619
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:19,720
Speaker 1: They could have just literally waited till I called back,

1620
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 1: and they didn't. They proactively gave us what I asked

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01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: for without even telling me and then when I got

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01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 1: on the plane, I was pleasantly surprised. And my kid

1623
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: will never stop talking about that. By the way, he said, hey, Dad,

1624
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 1: can we get the every time we fly now? Can

1625
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 1: we get that seat where you get the free chicken?

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01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,760
Speaker 1: Remember we got that free chicken that whole meal. I said, yes, son,

1627
01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen very often. That was a fluke anyway,

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01:22:44,240 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 1: United thanks for making it easier when folks are delayed

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01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: or canceled. All right, coming up next in this hour,

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01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: we are going to talk to Julie Ramhold. She is

1631
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,479
Speaker 1: the consumer analyst with Deal News. She's going to talk

1632
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day Plus. We have time for some more

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01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: of your questions at Triple A rich one on one

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

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Speaker 1: Coming up. You are sitting in the seat that gives

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01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: you a free chicken. You're listening to rich on Tech.

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01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here at

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01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:17,720
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one on one. That's eight eight eight

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01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: seven four to two, four to one zero one. It's

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01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:26,560
Speaker 1: been quite the show so far. Let's see if you

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01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:29,000
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast of this show, which I know

1642
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:31,479
Speaker 1: some of you do, uh do me a favor and

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01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:33,759
Speaker 1: rate and review it and share it with your friends.

1644
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 1: Let them know that you listen to this show and

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01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 1: why you listen. If you listen on the radio, take

1646
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: a screenshot of you listening or a picture, anything, just

1647
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:45,639
Speaker 1: to let folks know that you do indeed listen and

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01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: that will help grow the show. All right, let's go

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01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:53,519
Speaker 1: to uh Gary, Gary's in Redondo Beach. Gary, you're on with.

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01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:56,719
Speaker 11: Rich Hey, Rich, Hey, love show.

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01:23:57,080 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: Thank you.

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01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:03,080
Speaker 11: Checking out the new Max book Air fifteen inch okay,

1653
01:24:03,120 --> 01:24:05,559
Speaker 11: and that friend of mine I was saying, oh, this

1654
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 11: sounds good, I should get it, and a friend of

1655
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 11: mine said that it's the fifteen inches new.

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01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 8: But the M.

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01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:15,439
Speaker 11: Two chip is it's going to be outdated soon by

1658
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:19,520
Speaker 11: the M three or whatever chip they're working on next.

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01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:21,680
Speaker 11: So I wonder what your thought is about that.

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01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: Well, that is true. But here's the thing. I mean,

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01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: what are you doing on this computer?

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01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 5: Oh?

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01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:34,640
Speaker 11: Just zoom meaning nothing big, nothing, you know, earth shattering,

1664
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:38,920
Speaker 11: just personal use. I just like Apple products better than

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01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 11: than the PC's or Microsoft.

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01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:46,679
Speaker 1: Okay, So the M two chip was released on June sixth,

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01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, so that is over a year old.

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01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:53,080
Speaker 1: It is in this new MacBook Air. And it's a

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01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 1: little confusing because I think number one, this MacBook Air

1670
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 1: has gotten incredible reviews. So I think there is absolutely

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01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:03,360
Speaker 1: no reason and not to get this. And the problem

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01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:05,720
Speaker 1: is your your friend is right, and you know the

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01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 1: M two chip is is your friend? Do they happen

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01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:09,920
Speaker 1: to not like Apple in general?

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01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:10,960
Speaker 5: Oh?

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01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 1: No, they have all Apple Okay, so they're kind of

1677
01:25:13,200 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 1: an Apple expert. I mean. So the thing is, it's

1678
01:25:17,080 --> 01:25:20,760
Speaker 1: tough to say that you shouldn't get this because when

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01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 1: they come out with the new MacBook Air fifteen inch

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01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 1: next year, they're probably going to use a chip that

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01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:29,559
Speaker 1: is older as well. Because the whole reason they're able

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01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 1: to offer this at this price is because they're using

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01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 1: a chip that has been around for a bit. Now,

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01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:38,719
Speaker 1: if we look at the facts, Number one, they didn't

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01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:42,080
Speaker 1: announce an M three this year, so we don't have

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01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 1: an idea that they're going to come out with an

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01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 1: M three MacBook next year. Now, they could do that,

1688
01:25:45,880 --> 01:25:47,600
Speaker 1: and you may buy this, and you may be frustrated

1689
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: and say, Rich you led me astray, like why'd you

1690
01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 1: do that? But I think that for what you need

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01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 1: out of this computer, this computer is going to serve

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01:25:55,880 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 1: you pretty well. If you're doing something like if you

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01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:02,600
Speaker 1: told me to video edit or something like that, I

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01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:05,000
Speaker 1: would definitely recommend that you move up to a pro

1695
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:08,160
Speaker 1: system which definitely has the newer chips. So, for instance,

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01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:12,879
Speaker 1: I've got the MacBook Pro fourteen inch, which I immediately

1697
01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:15,519
Speaker 1: regretted because this is too small, but it has a

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01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: M two pro chip which came out a little bit later,

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01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:21,600
Speaker 1: and it came out in this notebook. So but the

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01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: fifteen inch MacBook Air, I know it has some of

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01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: the older chips in it, but these chips are still

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01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:29,000
Speaker 1: really good. And when you look at what Apple does

1703
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: from start to finish with their software and their power

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01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 1: efficiency and these chips, I mean, this is going to

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01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:38,439
Speaker 1: be a really good system for the price that they're

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01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 1: asking for. Have you decided on how much memory you

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01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:43,800
Speaker 1: would get in this thing, because that's kind of the

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01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 1: big question.

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01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:48,200
Speaker 11: I wanted to get one parabyte.

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Speaker 1: And what about the RAM Okay, So I think that's

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01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 1: a good decision. I think the because I think the

1712
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: base is eight right right, yeah, So I think the

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01:26:58,240 --> 01:27:02,080
Speaker 1: sixteen is probably going to help keep this thing faster

1714
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:06,719
Speaker 1: longer than getting the base storage on the Apple always

1715
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:08,639
Speaker 1: does this weird thing where they've got a good price

1716
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:11,680
Speaker 1: at the beginning, you know, the entry level device, but

1717
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:13,800
Speaker 1: if you pay just a little bit more, you're going

1718
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:15,600
Speaker 1: to get a lot more out of that device. So

1719
01:27:15,600 --> 01:27:18,880
Speaker 1: I think that's smart. So I say, Gary, go for it.

1720
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:21,639
Speaker 1: I understand that it's a little bit older technology inside,

1721
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean it's bad technology, and it doesn't

1722
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 1: mean it's outdated technology. So for what you're using it for,

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01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 1: I think you'll be pretty happy.

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01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 11: I really appreciate it.

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01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:31,200
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.

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01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:33,479
Speaker 1: All right, Gary, I appreciate you calling in today. Have

1727
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 1: a great day you too, all right. Yeah, that's always

1728
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 1: a tough thing with Apple products, is the timing of things.

1729
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:45,680
Speaker 1: When do you get it? You know, I always think

1730
01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 1: of Apple products as like you kind of have to

1731
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:49,360
Speaker 1: get it like the first day it comes out, because

1732
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 1: they've got a time frame on them of like a

1733
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: year before they come out with the new version of it.

1734
01:27:54,280 --> 01:27:56,400
Speaker 1: So the website that I like to go to and

1735
01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 1: for Gary, this could probably be helpful too, even though

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01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:00,760
Speaker 1: the fifteen inch mac Book Air is sort of in

1737
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: a class of its own. But the website I like

1738
01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:07,400
Speaker 1: is called Buyer's Guide by MacRumors, So if you go

1739
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:11,920
Speaker 1: to buyers Guide dot MacRumors dot com, they have listed

1740
01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 1: every single product that Apple makes and they tell you

1741
01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 1: buy now, caution, don't buy, or neutral. So if you're

1742
01:28:21,280 --> 01:28:24,439
Speaker 1: looking at maccomputers, for instance, the fifteen inch MacBook Air

1743
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:27,679
Speaker 1: since it just came out, is buy now. The thirteen

1744
01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 1: inch MacBook Air is caution. And the reason why it's

1745
01:28:30,439 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 1: caution is because you can look at the release dates

1746
01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 1: of this product in the past March twenty fifteen, June

1747
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:41,839
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, October twenty eighteen, July twenty nineteen, March twenty twenty,

1748
01:28:41,880 --> 01:28:44,720
Speaker 1: November twenty twenty, and it does an average of how

1749
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 1: many days between those releases, which is four hundred and

1750
01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:52,799
Speaker 1: forty six days between new thirteen inch back MacBook Airs,

1751
01:28:53,040 --> 01:28:55,360
Speaker 1: and right now it's been three hundred and fifty one days,

1752
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:59,040
Speaker 1: So that tells you that in another one hundred days

1753
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 1: they're would be a new thirteen inch MacBook Air. Is

1754
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 1: it always perfect, Absolutely not, But it's a good kind

1755
01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:08,599
Speaker 1: of gauge to see if you should spend your money

1756
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:10,760
Speaker 1: on something, and if you are going to spend your

1757
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: money on something, perhaps it should be a little bit discounted. So,

1758
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:16,840
Speaker 1: for instance, if you look at the new home pod

1759
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:21,200
Speaker 1: buy now HomePod Mini Neutral. It's been nine hundred and

1760
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:25,080
Speaker 1: eighty four days since they released the home Pod Mini,

1761
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:27,839
Speaker 1: so I think that one is up for a refresh,

1762
01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:30,479
Speaker 1: even though we have no history to go by, because

1763
01:29:30,479 --> 01:29:33,479
Speaker 1: that's the first product in that cycle. So anyway, the

1764
01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:37,200
Speaker 1: website is Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com. Again, I

1765
01:29:37,240 --> 01:29:41,400
Speaker 1: put all of these notes on my website. Rich Ontech

1766
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:43,880
Speaker 1: dot tv is the place to go.

1767
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 5: All right.

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01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:47,599
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're gonna talk Amazon Prime Day. Amazon Prime

1769
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 1: Day is back on July eleventh and twelfth. Are you ready?

1770
01:29:52,640 --> 01:29:56,520
Speaker 1: Is your wallet ready? Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with dealnews

1771
01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 1: dot com. We'll join me next to talk Amazon Prime

1772
01:29:59,840 --> 01:30:03,519
Speaker 1: Day twenty twenty three. You're listening to rich on Tech.

1773
01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:10,559
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

1774
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. Amazon Prime Day coming back

1775
01:30:17,479 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 1: July eleventh and twelfth, Amazon says, will we be big

1776
01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:27,040
Speaker 1: savings Amazon exclusive deals and celebrity product launches. Who doesn't

1777
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 1: love a good celebrity product launch. Joining me now to

1778
01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:34,600
Speaker 1: talk about this is Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with dealnews

1779
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 1: dot com. Julie, thanks so much for joining me today.

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01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:41,679
Speaker 12: About Prime Day.

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01:30:42,360 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 1: Yes, so Prime Day is this? Is this in the

1782
01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:48,280
Speaker 1: cadence of sort of past Prime Days? I feel like

1783
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:50,679
Speaker 1: it's in It's been in like July and October, right

1784
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:52,759
Speaker 1: pretty much.

1785
01:30:52,880 --> 01:30:54,840
Speaker 12: It's been in July for the most part.

1786
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:59,320
Speaker 13: In twenty twenty it shifted to October because of the pandemic,

1787
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:00,880
Speaker 13: and then.

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01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:04,600
Speaker 12: In twenty twenty one it was in June and October.

1789
01:31:05,280 --> 01:31:07,960
Speaker 13: In June, I want to say, the reasoning was because

1790
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:10,559
Speaker 13: of the Olympics that year, so they were trying to

1791
01:31:10,600 --> 01:31:12,639
Speaker 13: not compete with that, and then they had a second

1792
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:14,160
Speaker 13: Prime Day event in October.

1793
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:16,439
Speaker 1: So what do we think of the Prime Day event?

1794
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:18,760
Speaker 1: I know it's a you know, there are a lot

1795
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:20,560
Speaker 1: of people that shop on it. Do you feel like

1796
01:31:20,640 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 1: it's delivered in recent years to you know, be this

1797
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:25,200
Speaker 1: big shopping day or what.

1798
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:28,479
Speaker 12: I honestly think it has.

1799
01:31:28,600 --> 01:31:31,880
Speaker 13: I mean, every year we tend to see people complaining

1800
01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 13: that it seems like a garage sale, but also every

1801
01:31:35,400 --> 01:31:37,639
Speaker 13: year Amazon manages to knock it out of the park

1802
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:40,599
Speaker 13: and have record profits and record shopping.

1803
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:44,360
Speaker 12: So obviously people are still attracted to it. They're still

1804
01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:47,120
Speaker 12: finding good deals, and I think part of.

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01:31:47,040 --> 01:31:50,879
Speaker 13: The problem with people who may not be really familiar

1806
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:53,000
Speaker 13: with Prime Day is they go in expecting it to

1807
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:56,439
Speaker 13: be sort of like an early Black Friday preview, and

1808
01:31:56,479 --> 01:32:00,760
Speaker 13: it can be, but it's also just its own So

1809
01:32:01,040 --> 01:32:04,559
Speaker 13: you end up with people expecting to see tons of

1810
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:07,960
Speaker 13: TVs on sale, and then they're disappointed that the selection

1811
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:10,800
Speaker 13: isn't as big as they hoped for, or a lot

1812
01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:13,280
Speaker 13: of the deals seem to be in the home.

1813
01:32:13,120 --> 01:32:16,639
Speaker 12: And garden categories because that seems to be what dominates

1814
01:32:16,640 --> 01:32:17,280
Speaker 12: for Prime Day.

1815
01:32:17,640 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, everyone wants what they want to be

1816
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:22,200
Speaker 1: fifty percent off, and that's just not the case. I mean,

1817
01:32:22,240 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 1: they couldn't do that. But I did get that TV.

1818
01:32:25,400 --> 01:32:26,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was last year, the year

1819
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:29,840
Speaker 1: before the TV that was like ninety nine bucks the

1820
01:32:29,880 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 1: forty three inch or whatever it was. I did get that.

1821
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 1: I nabbed it and I was so proud of myself.

1822
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 1: But my followers on social media were not happy because

1823
01:32:38,280 --> 01:32:39,960
Speaker 1: they're like, how did you get it? And we didn't.

1824
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:43,880
Speaker 1: I said, well, I'm on my computer all day.

1825
01:32:43,760 --> 01:32:47,080
Speaker 13: They're bringing that back again this year, but the problem

1826
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 13: is they're also introducing invite only deals and that's one

1827
01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 13: of them. So it's looking like this Prime Day, while

1828
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:58,440
Speaker 13: very similar to past ones, is also.

1829
01:32:58,240 --> 01:32:59,400
Speaker 12: Going to shake things up a bit.

1830
01:32:59,560 --> 01:33:01,840
Speaker 1: Okay, so what does that mean? What's this? I already

1831
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:04,519
Speaker 1: signed up for the invite only Prime deal on that TV.

1832
01:33:04,600 --> 01:33:07,200
Speaker 1: But what does that mean? Like, are they do I guarantee?

1833
01:33:07,840 --> 01:33:09,639
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like what does that mean exactly?

1834
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:13,640
Speaker 13: We're honestly kind of waiting to see what it means ourselves.

1835
01:33:13,760 --> 01:33:16,639
Speaker 13: As Amazon puts it, you know, if you're a Prime member,

1836
01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:20,160
Speaker 13: then you can sign up for an invitation, and if

1837
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:23,240
Speaker 13: you're selected on Prime Day, you'll receive an email with

1838
01:33:23,280 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 13: a special link that you can click and shop the

1839
01:33:26,120 --> 01:33:29,400
Speaker 13: deal from there. But signing up for an invitation isn't

1840
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:32,280
Speaker 13: a guarantee, and we don't know what their selection process

1841
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:34,880
Speaker 13: is going to look like. So it could be that

1842
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:37,840
Speaker 13: they have a limited number of deals that they're you know,

1843
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 13: willing to sell at this price, and by having people

1844
01:33:41,240 --> 01:33:43,840
Speaker 13: sign up for invitations, it's on a first come, first

1845
01:33:43,880 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 13: serve thing, or it could be some other way that

1846
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 13: we just haven't even fathomed yet.

1847
01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:51,639
Speaker 1: So they could just put everything into like a hopper

1848
01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:53,439
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, we're going to select one hundred people

1849
01:33:53,520 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 1: to buy this and then once you get that, you

1850
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:57,080
Speaker 1: can purchase it, and if they don't purchase it, and

1851
01:33:57,120 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 1: within that, we don't know how it's going to work exactly.

1852
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 1: But the the invite only deals are seventy five percent

1853
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:06,880
Speaker 1: off an Amazon Fire TV forty three inch, sixty percent

1854
01:34:06,920 --> 01:34:10,599
Speaker 1: off this watch, fifty five percent off these JBL Live

1855
01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:13,839
Speaker 1: noise canceling headphones, and fifty percent off a four yo

1856
01:34:13,960 --> 01:34:17,240
Speaker 1: Luna three facial cleansing brush, which I know sounds funny,

1857
01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 1: but my wife actually needs a new one of those,

1858
01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:21,639
Speaker 1: So I need to sign up for that invite only.

1859
01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:24,519
Speaker 12: It was hard to see that one on there.

1860
01:34:24,680 --> 01:34:27,360
Speaker 13: I gotta be honest, like, I know those are cult

1861
01:34:27,439 --> 01:34:29,479
Speaker 13: favorites for a lot of people, and I.

1862
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 12: Was like, oh, fifty percent off, that sounds good.

1863
01:34:31,200 --> 01:34:33,639
Speaker 13: And then I saw the original price and I was like, man,

1864
01:34:33,640 --> 01:34:34,479
Speaker 13: you better jump home.

1865
01:34:34,520 --> 01:34:35,519
Speaker 12: Fifty percent off.

1866
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:37,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was one hundred and twenty dollars

1867
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:39,439
Speaker 1: when I purchased the first one. I think those things

1868
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:43,760
Speaker 1: are not cheap. Okay, So we know this happens July eleventh,

1869
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:48,639
Speaker 1: at starting starting at three am. Oh wow, that's early

1870
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 1: three am Eastern.

1871
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:52,920
Speaker 12: That's the way Amazon does Prime Day.

1872
01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:56,280
Speaker 13: They'll they'll start it at around three am Eastern on

1873
01:34:56,840 --> 01:34:59,439
Speaker 13: July eleventh, and then it'll run for forty eight hours

1874
01:34:59,439 --> 01:35:03,760
Speaker 13: straight and at two fifty nine am Eastern on the thirteenth.

1875
01:35:04,200 --> 01:35:06,560
Speaker 1: Okay, so I know deal News is a great website

1876
01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:09,080
Speaker 1: for finding sort of every do you guys scour the

1877
01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 1: web every day looking for the best stuff, and of

1878
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:13,280
Speaker 1: course you'll do that for Prime Day, But give me

1879
01:35:13,320 --> 01:35:16,599
Speaker 1: some what's the methodology, Like, what should I do as

1880
01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:19,760
Speaker 1: an average consumer to prepare myself for this and to

1881
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:21,320
Speaker 1: get the best deals.

1882
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 13: Honestly, when it comes to something like Prime Day, it

1883
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:28,280
Speaker 13: can be so overwhelming if you don't go in with

1884
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:31,559
Speaker 13: a plan. So I think it's well worth kind of

1885
01:35:31,600 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 13: creating a wish list now for Prime Day, figuring out

1886
01:35:34,360 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 13: what you want to look at, what you want to

1887
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:38,880
Speaker 13: focus on, and then start looking ahead.

1888
01:35:38,960 --> 01:35:40,800
Speaker 12: You can go to the Today's.

1889
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:44,919
Speaker 13: Deals section on Amazon's website and start browsing through upcoming

1890
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:48,120
Speaker 13: deals and mark any that you're interested in as watching.

1891
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:50,160
Speaker 13: And I mean you can do this every day. You

1892
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:52,120
Speaker 13: obviously don't have to wait for the Prime Day deals,

1893
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:54,559
Speaker 13: and there are some early Prime Day deals that you

1894
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:57,880
Speaker 13: can take advantage of now, But when it gets.

1895
01:35:57,600 --> 01:35:59,000
Speaker 12: Closer to the actual holiday.

1896
01:35:59,040 --> 01:36:02,000
Speaker 13: It definitely pays, you know, a day or two in

1897
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:05,479
Speaker 13: advance to start looking through them long before they pop up,

1898
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:08,000
Speaker 13: so you kind of know when you need to be

1899
01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:12,160
Speaker 13: aware what you're looking at, what kind of deals you

1900
01:36:12,200 --> 01:36:15,800
Speaker 13: can hopefully expect. The biggest thing is when you click

1901
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:19,040
Speaker 13: watching on those deals, you'll be able to receive a

1902
01:36:19,080 --> 01:36:22,160
Speaker 13: notification from Amazon just before it goes live, so it

1903
01:36:22,160 --> 01:36:25,400
Speaker 13: should give you a leg up and hopefully let you

1904
01:36:25,400 --> 01:36:27,360
Speaker 13: get something before it has a chance to sell out.

1905
01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:30,639
Speaker 1: Now, everyone wants something different out of this. But one

1906
01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: thing that is for sure is that Amazon Devices and

1907
01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:38,400
Speaker 1: I talk a lot about technology. They often go on

1908
01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:41,400
Speaker 1: sale in a very big way, and of course they've

1909
01:36:41,439 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 1: said some of these things already, like deals starting Oh

1910
01:36:44,439 --> 01:36:47,120
Speaker 1: deal starting now, save up to fifty five percent on

1911
01:36:47,200 --> 01:36:50,800
Speaker 1: select Alexa enabled devices, including the Echo Show five, the

1912
01:36:50,880 --> 01:36:55,480
Speaker 1: Echo Pop sixty three percent off up to on kids devices,

1913
01:36:55,479 --> 01:37:02,200
Speaker 1: Echo Glow Ring bundles, euro Wi Fi systems, blink outdoor cameras.

1914
01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 1: So I feel like if you have your eye on

1915
01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:08,639
Speaker 1: an Amazon product, like a brand, you probably don't want

1916
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:09,519
Speaker 1: to buy that right now.

1917
01:37:10,840 --> 01:37:14,439
Speaker 13: No, I would wait unless there is an early Prime

1918
01:37:14,520 --> 01:37:16,920
Speaker 13: Day deal going for something like that. Just because they're

1919
01:37:16,960 --> 01:37:19,599
Speaker 13: not likely to offer a better deal when the holiday

1920
01:37:19,600 --> 01:37:22,800
Speaker 13: itself rolls around. These early deals are kind of meant

1921
01:37:22,800 --> 01:37:26,360
Speaker 13: to entice shoppers and get them paying attention. So if

1922
01:37:26,400 --> 01:37:30,000
Speaker 13: there's something that you want that's currently on sale labeled

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Speaker 13: as an early Prime Day deal, you can probably go

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Speaker 13: ahead and safely take advantage of that and not worry

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Speaker 13: about seeing a lower price when July eleventh rolls around.

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Speaker 13: But that said, don't just restrict yourself to things like

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Speaker 13: Ring and Eero and the Blank cameras and the Alexa

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Speaker 13: enabled devices, because if it has Amazon's branding on it,

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Speaker 13: there's a really good chance we'll see some kind of

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Speaker 13: a deal. So if you're looking at a new Kindle,

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Speaker 13: it's a really good time to look at things like that,

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Speaker 13: And because is for Prime members, it's also a really

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Speaker 13: good time to look at Amazon services as well. So

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Speaker 13: if you're looking at a new Kindle, it's also a

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Speaker 13: good time to try Kindle Unlimited for you know, all

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Speaker 13: the reading that you could possibly want, and see if

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Speaker 13: you like that service enough to stick with it month

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Speaker 13: to month.

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Speaker 1: And there's also obviously Alexa can help you with this,

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Speaker 1: so it says Prime members can ask Alexa for deal

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Speaker 1: notifications on products added to their wish list, So that's

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Speaker 1: kind of cool. So you can say, Alexa add whatever

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Speaker 1: product to my car and then ask Alexa to notify

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Speaker 1: ask Alexa for an event reminder, so you can say,

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Speaker 1: Alexa set a reminder for Prime Day and that will

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Speaker 1: help you. What do we make of the price of

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Speaker 1: Prime these days? It's one hundred and thirty nine dollars

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Speaker 1: a year or fifteen dollars a month. Is that still

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Speaker 1: worth it?

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Speaker 13: Julie, It's it's going to be a little hard to say.

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Speaker 13: There's no easy way to say, yes, it's worth it. No,

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Speaker 13: it's not, because it's going to be subjective based on

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Speaker 13: individuals and what they want out of Prime. Basically, if

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Speaker 13: you're using everything that Prime offers, I would say it's

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Speaker 13: still worth it. But if you're only kind of leaning

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Speaker 13: into Amazon for the shopping.

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Speaker 12: Capabilities, it's probably good to.

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Speaker 13: Have Prime for a month to shop for Prime Day

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Speaker 13: or around Black Friday something like that, to take advantage

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Speaker 13: of deals and the perks that Prime members get around

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Speaker 13: shopping during those times. But other than that, it just

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Speaker 13: may not be reasonable to pay one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 13: nine dollars a year if you're not also taking advantage

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Speaker 13: of the Amazon Music, the Prime Video, all of those

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Speaker 13: different parts that you get.

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Speaker 1: One thing to keep in mind, if you are on

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Speaker 1: government assistance, you can get Prime Access for six ninety

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Speaker 1: nine a month at Amazon dot com slash get Prime Access.

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Speaker 1: Julie Ramhold with dealnews dot com, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me today. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 12: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: All right, and deal News is, by the way, one

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Speaker 1: of my stops. Every single day, I check it with

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Speaker 1: all of my bookmarks to see what deals are out there.

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Speaker 1: So they do a great job every day of unearthing deals,

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Speaker 1: not just on Prime Day. All right, coming up, it's

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Speaker 1: the end of the show. We're gonna do the feedback segment,

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Speaker 1: so we'll do that when we come back next Right here,

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Speaker 1: you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech, closing out the show with the feedback segment.

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Speaker 1: You love sending these emails to me at Hello at

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Speaker 1: Richontech dot tv. We're still looking to help Angel. Angel

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Speaker 1: was looking for some earbuds for his wife that do

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Speaker 1: not have a microphone. So if you have a good

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Speaker 1: pair of these. Let me know. Hello at richontech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: I pinged my friend over at Wirecutter. We'll see what

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Speaker 1: she has to say about it. Let's see what else.

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Speaker 1: Steve writes in Hey, Rich, I heard her call on

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Speaker 1: your show. The caller asked if Salesforce would be a

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Speaker 1: good platform for his college age daughter to learn salesforce

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Speaker 1: has changed in recent times. It's one of those career

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Speaker 1: things that's been flooded by all the companies offering training

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Speaker 1: programs to get people certified as salesforce administrators. Even with certification,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to get a job as an administrator

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Speaker 1: without several years experience working as an administrator. The training programs,

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Speaker 1: of course, won't tell you this, as they're making money

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Speaker 1: from selling their training programs. My wife has five Salesforce

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Speaker 1: certifications with three years of experience, and it's it was

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Speaker 1: still difficult to get a job. Many jobs want more

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Speaker 1: than just salesforce. It's not something that just anyone can do,

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Speaker 1: as the training programs advertise. Steve. Oh, great advice. Steve,

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Speaker 1: appreciate that because that's probably what our caller saw was Salesforce. Well,

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Speaker 1: he said he had it at his company. So, but

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Speaker 1: good advice. Yeah, these training programs don't necessarily mean you're

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Speaker 1: going to get a job. So I think that's why

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Speaker 1: for me personally, I would look at jobs that i'd

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Speaker 1: want to do and see what the skills are that

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Speaker 1: they want. Jim writes in Hey, Rich, I'm looking for

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Speaker 1: that Amazon gift card hack that involves Amazon gift card car.

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Speaker 1: I was watching KTLA the other morning and the discussion

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Speaker 1: was gift card balances. You mentioned a way that you

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Speaker 1: can load your Amazon account with your gift cards. How's

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Speaker 1: this done? I can't find a way to do this,

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Speaker 1: Thanks and advance, Jim. Yes, so this is specifically for

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Speaker 1: Amazon gift cards. So if you are sorry Visa gift cards.

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Speaker 1: So if you get one of these Visa gift cards,

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Speaker 1: let's say it's one hundred dollars, fifty dollars, it's really

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Speaker 1: tough to use unless you use that full amount all

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Speaker 1: the same time, you're going to be left with some

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Speaker 1: weird sort of balance on that card of like five

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Speaker 1: dollars and seventeen cents, And how do you use that?

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Speaker 1: Because a Visa card, it's not a standard gift card

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Speaker 1: like an Amazon card or like a shopping gift card

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Speaker 1: that's easy to use at the register. Now, some companies

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Speaker 1: will easily figure out how much is on this card

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Speaker 1: and let you scan it and use it. But I found, honestly,

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Speaker 1: it's much easier to skip that entire process and just

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Speaker 1: go to Amazon. And here's what I do. You go

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Speaker 1: to Amazon, you set the Visa gift card as a

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Speaker 1: payment method, and then you type in and buy a

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Speaker 1: reload account. Reload account with an Amazon gift card, okay,

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Speaker 1: and then you go to It'll be right at the

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Speaker 1: top reload Amazon gift card, and you say exactly how

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Speaker 1: much you want, So whatever exact amount is on that

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Speaker 1: Visa card, you type it in there and you say

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Speaker 1: buy now, and you make sure that you use that

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Speaker 1: Visa gift card that you just put in as a

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Speaker 1: payment method as the payment method for this new Amazon

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Speaker 1: reload and next thing you know, it will shift that

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Speaker 1: money from the Visa card to an Amazon gift card.

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Speaker 1: And that's much easier to spend because if you're like me,

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Speaker 1: you're on Amazon all the time. Now, I found that

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Speaker 1: sometimes it takes a little bit of time and it

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Speaker 1: may not work instantaneously, so it's not like if you're

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Speaker 1: buying a gift card. Sometimes it will it will work fast.

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Speaker 1: This may take five to ten minutes, sometimes I've noticed,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't work at all, depending on the

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Speaker 1: brand of the Visa gift card. So again, you take

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Speaker 1: the Visa gift card, you set it as a payment method,

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Speaker 1: and then you enter that exact amount and buy a

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Speaker 1: gift card to reload your Amazon gift card balance and boom,

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Speaker 1: you've transferred that balance. So good question there. Hey Rich

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Speaker 1: From Paul in Santa Clarita. Quick question, I have many passwords.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on a password manager? If you

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Speaker 1: think they're good, can you recommend one? Are they as

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Speaker 1: secure as they say they are? Absolutely, Paul, use a

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Speaker 1: password manager, get all your passwords in there. I know

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Speaker 1: it's tough to get it set up, but definitely definitely

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Speaker 1: use when they are secure. Make sure you pick a good,

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Speaker 1: strong password for the password manager, and then set up

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Speaker 1: two factor authentication for the password manager. If you are

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Speaker 1: just using Apple products, you can get away with the

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Speaker 1: iCloud keychain. If you're using Apple products and Chrome, then

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Speaker 1: I recommend just using the built in Google password manager

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Speaker 1: because that'll work on an iPhone And if you're using

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Speaker 1: a bunch of different devices than use a cross platform

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Speaker 1: password manager. I like bitwarden as a free option, and

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Speaker 1: then you can check out one Password and dash Lane.

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Speaker 1: Those are two good cross platform password managers, but you

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Speaker 1: will have to pay for those typically art rights in Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: please post the travel carbon monoxide detector. You put it

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Speaker 1: on Facebook reels and then it disappeared. There's probably a

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Speaker 1: lot of interest for it. Someone mentioned on a work

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Speaker 1: call today about getting one for travel, and I told

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Speaker 1: them I would send them the info and the one

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Speaker 1: you recommended. Yes, I posted this to Facebook my Instagram stories.

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Speaker 1: Really sad story about the couple from southern California that

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Speaker 1: passed away in a hotel room down in Mexico due

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Speaker 1: to carbon monoxide supposedly, so it might be a good

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Speaker 1: idea to carry one of these things. So I asked

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Speaker 1: my friend Zach Hoenig. He used to work at the Points.

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Speaker 1: Guy knows everything about travel, and he recommended this kitty

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Speaker 1: carbon monoxide detector that's battery powered and has a low

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Speaker 1: battery indicator, which is smart, It's portable, and it's twenty bucks.

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Speaker 1: So I'll put that link in the show notes as well.

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Let's see Erica says, good morning, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I received this weird text. It's probably a scam. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: and the text says Hi, I'm Donovan Summerfield, the Walton

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Speaker 1: Family Grant Foundation Admin director. Ooh, you are chosen to

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Speaker 1: receive ten thousand dollars from the ongoing program aimed at

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Speaker 1: touching lives. Kindly text your email for confirmation and delivery

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Speaker 1: to this number NOE to receive your payment is free. Yeah, Erica,

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Speaker 1: as you suspected, that is definitely a weird text and

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Speaker 1: it's most definitely a scam. Please watch out for these

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Speaker 1: scam texts. So many my wife got one. Oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: they are just They are really really doing a lot

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Speaker 1: of scam texts these days, so be aware of those.

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Speaker 1: I think we have time for one more. Gale says, hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: When you did your KTLA segment on air tags, I

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Speaker 1: thought about getting one for a fifteen day vacation. Of

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Speaker 1: course I did not end, so my luggage was lost

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Speaker 1: for ten days. You mentioned some other products that were

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Speaker 1: not as costly as Apple. With another trip in the work,

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Speaker 1: I need to purchase AirTags and would appreciate your recommendation.

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Speaker 1: Truly enjoy your segments. Gail Gail, listen to the advice

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Speaker 1: the first time around, because I'm telling you I get

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Speaker 1: emails like this all the time. Just do it when

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Speaker 1: you think you don't need it, do it because that's

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Speaker 1: when you need it. I would recommend AirTags for sure.

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Speaker 1: They are the best solution at this point. Later in

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Speaker 1: the year I may change my tune on that when

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Speaker 1: there are more standards for these things, but air tags

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Speaker 1: are the best. You said sent for my iPhone. Go

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Speaker 1: for the air tags. The four pack goes on sale

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Speaker 1: from time to time. You've got Prime Day coming up.

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Speaker 1: Search Google for AirTag deals and see if you can

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Speaker 1: find a deal in that four pack. Sometimes it's discounted,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes Costco has them as well. My name is

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Speaker 1: rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening to the show

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this episode again, this

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Speaker 1: is show number twenty five. You can check out the

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Speaker 1: show notes at richon tech dot tv. I put everything

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Speaker 1: in there that I mentioned. Send your feedback to hello

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Speaker 1: at rich on tech dot tv, and I might just

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Speaker 1: read it on the next show. Next week, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to tell you about a website that can help you

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Speaker 1: rent out your backyard pool. But they're also now doing

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Speaker 1: tennis and pickleball. So if you want to make some

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Speaker 1: extra cash or just find a place to swim or play,

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Speaker 1: you can do that again. You can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media. I am at rich on Tech. My name

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Speaker 1: is rich Dedmiel. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it right here to make with me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone who makes the show possible, including Bobo's

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Speaker 1: getting married next week. Congratulations. I'll talk to you real soon.