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Speaker 1: Apple sets a date to show off new features coming

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Speaker 1: how to stop those annoying spam calls. Plus your tech

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Speaker 1: questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and this

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Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about

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Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's

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Speaker 1: also the place where I answer the questions you send me.

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Speaker 1: And as I say every week, you sure do send

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Speaker 1: those questions along. You're not shy. I'm the tech reporter

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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. I get it.

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Speaker 1: You see me on TV. You say, I'm gonna ask

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Speaker 1: that guy a question, and you know what. That's what

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Speaker 1: this podcast is all about. So thanks for sending him in,

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Speaker 1: because if you didn't, I wouldn't be able to do

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Speaker 1: this show. Well, I want to say thank you for

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Speaker 1: something that happened to me. You know, I post stuff

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Speaker 1: you know, last night before bed, I was going through

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Speaker 1: another TV station here in Los Angeles called k CAL nine.

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Speaker 1: And I'll just tell you the story because I didn't

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Speaker 1: give you the kind of the cliffs notes version. But basically,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is Los Angeles. My wife is from

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Speaker 1: It's just like you're done. You're like, oh, okay, see you.

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Speaker 1: first story of the week. Apple. Apple Apple. I know,

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Speaker 1: the first question of the day. All right, Bob says, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: people out there that are looking at me saying, ugh,

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00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 1: this guy does the same been doing the same thing

428
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,919
Speaker 1: for ten years, doesn't know anything new, doesn't care to

429
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: try anything different, And honestly, like that's my biggest fear

430
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,400
Speaker 1: is I don't want to become that because I want

431
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,199
Speaker 1: to be. I constantly want to be innovating, and I

432
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 1: want to be you know, even to this day trying

433
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,679
Speaker 1: new ways of reporting or new ways of gathering my

434
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 1: reports are coming up with reports or the even the

435
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: reports I do. I mean, I really like. This is

436
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: why when people are always like, oh, you did a

437
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: report on a beer brewery, how's that tech, It's like, well,

438
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Like I like to challenge myself and

439
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,399
Speaker 1: find the tech in different places. Yes, it's easy to

440
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 1: find tech in a smartphone. I can do that every

441
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 1: day of the week. But when I can get out

442
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 1: there and really find novel ways of telling tech stories

443
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 1: that don't involve a smartphone, that's really fun and that

444
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: you know, it gets me going. And So anyway, Amazon

445
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 1: acquiring MGM for eight and a half billion dollars, according

446
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 1: to CNBC's second largest acquisition since it paid nearly fourteen

447
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 1: billion dollars for Whole Foods in twenty seventeen. I can't

448
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,439
Speaker 1: believe that MGM is worth that much. I mean, this

449
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 1: is a historic company. What they're really getting here, according

450
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: to what Amazon is saying, is the IP which is

451
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: the intellectual property, and they've got a lot of it.

452
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: I mean movies like Basic Instinct, James Bond, Legally Blonde,

453
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: Poulter Guy, RoboCop, Rocky, Silence of the Lamb, Stargate, Thelma Luis,

454
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 1: tomb Raider, Pink Panther, Thomas Crown Affair. Along with seventeen

455
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: thousand shows, four thousand films. They also own Fargo, Handsmade

456
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: Tale and Handmade Handmaid's Tale and Vikings, So every one

457
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Speaker 1: of those things I just mentioned. Imagine there's going to

458
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Speaker 1: be a reboot. I mean just it's going to be done, reboot,

459
00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 1: TV show whatever, and a lot of these movies will

460
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: probably show up on Amazon Prime, which is really really

461
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: good for the customer that's paying the one hundred and

462
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 1: twenty bucks a year for Amazon Prime, which yeah, we'll

463
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: probably see a price increase for that this year, I think,

464
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 1: especially through the pandemic where Amazon had a little bit

465
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 1: of struggles, but they came out on top. You know,

466
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: they're they're really doing a fantastic job. Like the delivery

467
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: is so unbelievably reliable. And I talked about this in

468
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: my last episode about ordering the soap from Doctor Squatch

469
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,199
Speaker 1: and it took you know, three weeks to get it,

470
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 1: and I just couldn't believe it. Whereas I ordered something

471
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,640
Speaker 1: on Amazon yesterday morning at ten am and I got

472
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: it by seven pm. And by the way, it's still

473
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: sitting in my mailbox, which is really sad. So but

474
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: I need it for today because I'm gonna start testing

475
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 1: something and you know, I just needed that part. But anyway,

476
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 1: so I predict a little bit of a price increase,

477
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: maybe five bucks this year on Amazon Prime memberships, just

478
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: because they're firing on all cylinders here. Amazon is just

479
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: not slow going down, and you know, they've got a

480
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: lot of cash, but they also need a lot of

481
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: cash because they are they just continue to like, oh

482
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: my gosh, there's no stopping in sight with this company.

483
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: All right, let's see here. Uh, okay, okay, where am

484
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: I here? Sandy says, Hey, Rich, you helped me before

485
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: with your great advice and recommendations. I need a USB

486
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: three point zero port hub plus USB C cable for

487
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: my new MacBook Air. I'm sure you're aware this laptop

488
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 1: only has two ports and that's not enough to support

489
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: my external devices. Thank you, Sandy from Culver City, Sandy

490
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,679
Speaker 1: super easy. You need you need a USB C hub,

491
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: and you can. There's a million of these things. I've

492
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: been using one from Vava va v A. They sent

493
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: this over to me to test, and it's been great.

494
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:57,719
Speaker 1: It's super simple. It's got HDMI output, it's got uh,

495
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: let's see what else does I have. It's got three

496
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: USB three point zero ports, it's got an SD card reader,

497
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: it's got everything you need. So you just plug this

498
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: into your computer and you get three USB slots as well,

499
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: and so I say go with that. It's twenty five bucks.

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00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: Looks like they even have it cheaper. But there's so

501
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: many of these things. I mean, you can get them,

502
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: you know, just just search USB three hub on Amazon

503
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: and you can just you know, there's so many. But

504
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,239
Speaker 1: you know, the Vava is very popular. It depends how

505
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: many ports you need. You can get one as cheap

506
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: as fifteen bucks. I'm looking at this one from Anchor,

507
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 1: but that is not a USB C Nope, you don't

508
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: want that one. You got to look for one that

509
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: has a USB C connector that goes into your computer.

510
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: So that's what you need. That's like the magical part.

511
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: And so I have another one that I bought just

512
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: a random one on Amazon. I don't even know the

513
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: name of it, but that's that's what you're looking for

514
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 1: USB C hub and just go with the Vava one.

515
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: That one's that one's pretty simple, they work great, and

516
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: they're they're pretty good twenty five bucks. And yes, I

517
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: am well aware. I had the before my current computer,

518
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: I had the MacBook Pro that only I think it

519
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: only had two yeah, because my new one has four,

520
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: two on each side. And actually I gave that one

521
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: to my son and I was plugging it in the

522
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: other day and I was like, wait, you only have

523
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: two things on here, and they're both on one side.

524
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, or maybe they're on I forget. I

525
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: can't go over there and look. But anyway, Yes, Apple

526
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: is known for really being a little skimpy on the

527
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: ports on their computers and on their devices. They've over

528
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: the years, if you think about it, Apple has just

529
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: continually gotten rid of every single way to plug things

530
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: into their devices. And you can argue that that's to

531
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: drive everything to the cloud, drive everything to their situation

532
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: where you connect with their stuff, but the reality is

533
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of annoying, especially as as a quasi creator.

534
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: I call myself. I mean, I'm not really a creator.

535
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I am. I create stuff, not

536
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: in a YouTube sense, but more on a I mean,

537
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: I guess I do stuff for social media. So but

538
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,719
Speaker 1: I'm not like a standard creator like an I Justine,

539
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: you know, where she's you know, she's a creator. They

540
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: term themselves that, where they're creating content on a daily basis.

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00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: For I mean, I guess I am. I consider myself

542
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: more like a journalist, you know, that's what historically you

543
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: know as or a reporter, you know, but all the

544
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: all the lines are blurred and you know how people

545
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: see you nowadays. All right, let's talk about speaking of creating.

546
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: You know, my whole journey with Google Photos, and I'm

547
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: now paying fifty dollars a month for ten terabytes of storage,

548
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: which is fine. I mean, yeah, it's a lot, but

549
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: it's one of these things where you know, when you

550
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: look at the tools you need to do your job.

551
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: I need this tool and I'm not going to sit

552
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: there and try to figure out a way to hack

553
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: together you know, a situation and all this stuff just

554
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: to you know, save you know, what might amount to

555
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: you know, thirty bucks a month or something. You know,

556
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: don't forget. It wasn't. I was already paying ten so

557
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: and you're like, rich, well that's forty. But I get

558
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,959
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. I know. It's one

559
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: of these things. But here's the deal. It's I already paid.

560
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: It's already been a month. I've already paid twice, I think,

561
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: and so it's been fine. You know. It's just one

562
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: of these things where when I look at my storage

563
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: now I'm just I breathe a sigh of relief. I'm like, ah, Okay,

564
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: my stuff is in there. It's okay. Now my next

565
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: thing is actually backing up all that stuff, and I

566
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: have a whole plan for that, but I won't get

567
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: into that right now. But you know, Google Photos, and

568
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: this is how this all kind of started. Google Photos

569
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: is no longer it's no longer an unlimited free ride,

570
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: right so you still get fifteen gigabytes of free storage,

571
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: and for a lot of people that's gonna be fine,

572
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: but now they're gonna start charging above that. Even there

573
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: used to be an option in Google Photos to upload

574
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: your photos in a compressed what they called high quality version,

575
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: which would be unlimited and free forever. And yeah, that's

576
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: not the case anymore. As of June first, even in

577
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: that unlimited or I'm sorry, even that compressed high quality format,

578
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: it is still counting against your storage quota. Now the

579
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: trick is everything you uploaded before June first, in that

580
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: high quality format is still free. It's very confusing, very

581
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: very confusing. But anyway, I'm above it no matter what.

582
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: So what I'm trying to tell you here is that

583
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: Google is very aware of this. They're not trying to

584
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: be evil, They're just realizing that there's four trillion photos

585
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: in Google Photos. And yes, was Google Photos promised at

586
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: inception as a free, unlimited storage place forever. Yeah, they

587
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: probably never used the word forever, but they kind of

588
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: insinuated it, and so yes, I'm a little annoyed. But

589
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: at the same time, at this point, there's really no

590
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: free unlimited storage anywhere. It's like any of these companies

591
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: they used to hand out free storage like candy, and

592
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: now it's like, nope, now we've got the cavities to fill.

593
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: That sounded pretty good. That didn't make any sense, but hey,

594
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of worked. So what I'm trying

595
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: to tell you is you now have some new tools

596
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: like Google is like you know, look, we understand we're

597
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: kind of being a little bratty with this whole situation,

598
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: but we're gonna help you. We're gonna help you kind

599
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: of get rid of some of the fluff in your account.

600
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: So now if you go into your Google Photos, you've

601
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: got several new tools. You tap your little profile picture,

602
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: then you tap account storage, and it brings you to

603
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: this new page that tells you a couple things. Number one,

604
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: it tells you how many years you have left before

605
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: your storage is going to be used up, and I

606
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: have four years. Apparently I'm using about just under I'm

607
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: using just under two terabytes of my ten and then

608
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: it breaks it down, I'm using one point seventy five

609
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: terabytes in Google Photos, and then one hundred and fifty

610
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: gigabytes in Google Drive, Gmail and more. Then it tells

611
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: me how I can clear up some of this stuff.

612
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: So you have four new options, large photos and videos,

613
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: other apps, screen shots, and blurry photos. Blurry photos is

614
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: the easiest one to start with. Just go in there

615
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: and just delete blurry photos. You're not gonna save a

616
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: ton of space, but you know you will save some

617
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: space because some of my blurry photos, you know, they

618
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: could be pretty big. Now the screenshot, I've got a

619
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: gigabyte of screenshots, which may not seem like a lot

620
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: with ten terabytes used, But if you're in fifteen gigs

621
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: of storage and you free up a gigabyte of screen shots,

622
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. And now some of these screenshots, I

623
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: need a lot of screenshots to save. But a lot

624
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: of my screen shots were like ten megabytes, so those

625
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: are significantly pretty big. Other apps, I'm not really sure

626
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: how they delineate like what was from other apps, but

627
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: it looks like all the videos that I've uploaded to Instagram.

628
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,719
Speaker 1: Somehow I identifies those I don't know. And then large

629
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: photos and videos, and that's a big one. Now I've

630
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: got my first my first like ten videos. First one

631
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: is nine gigs, second one is seven gigs, six gigs,

632
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: five gigs, four five five five I guess five. And

633
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: I can't really get rid of those because you know,

634
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: they're all like my raw footage from like you know,

635
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: different shoots and stuff. So but you can go through there,

636
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: and it's a nice easy way to kind of just

637
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: clean out your Google Drive Google photos and reclaim some

638
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: space that you may need to either keep you under

639
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: that fifteen gigabytes for free, or maybe you bumped up

640
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: to one hundred gigabytes for like two bucks a month.

641
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: You want to stand er that. Or maybe you bumped

642
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: up to the two terabytes for ten bucks a month.

643
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: You want to stander that. Or maybe you're like me

644
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: and you just gave up on the world and now

645
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: you're paying fifty dollars a month to Google for storage.

646
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: All right? Next question, Greg says, Hey, Rich, I really

647
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: enjoy your show. Is there a way to easily download

648
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: monthly bills and bank and credit card statements without going

649
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: to each site, logging on, navigating to where the statement is,

650
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,959
Speaker 1: downloading it, and finally organizing each statement into its proper folder.

651
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: Oh you make this sound so tough. Right now, I

652
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: received paper statements which I can scan, but I would

653
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: like to avoid wasting all that paper. Thank you, Greg.

654
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: Good question, And it's funny this is I actually kind

655
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: of gave up on downloading all this stuff. I used

656
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: to do it, and it's kind of you know, it's

657
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: one of these things where the companies, a lot of them,

658
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: will only keep like a certain amount of back statements,

659
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: So if you really need to go back, you may

660
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: not be able to. I've noticed on some of mine

661
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 1: they're like a year and a half, summer, two years,

662
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: some are like unlimited, some are like six months. So

663
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: it probably isn't your best interest to download these statements.

664
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: But then again, I don't know. I mean, it's it's

665
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: kind of up to you. I look over my stuff

666
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: and kind of like, I don't know. Sometimes I download them,

667
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: sometimes I forget too. But I agree it would be

668
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: nice if there was a system that can do all this.

669
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: But originally I was doing some research and I remember

670
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: someone had emailed me about a website that does justice

671
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: and they said they love it, and there may be

672
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: different ones, but the one that I found was called

673
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: file this, And originally I said that it had shut

674
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: down because when I searched for it, it said file

675
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: this pro or is going away, and it gave a

676
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: list of alternatives. But now that I take a little

677
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: bit of a closer look, it looks like that was

678
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: just the pro version. It seems like the consumer version

679
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: is still up and running and it does exactly what

680
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: you say. It will log into all your different bills,

681
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, Fidelity, PayPal, Chase, Comcast, American Express, Target, At

682
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: and T, Amazon, says it connects with over seven hundred

683
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: and fifty different institutions and it will download those and

684
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: file them for you. And if you look at their plans,

685
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: it's free for up to six connections and five hundred

686
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: gigs of five hundred megabytes of storage. You can pay

687
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: two dollars a month or five dollars a month. My

688
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: only concern this seems to do everything you need, and

689
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: I actually think this looks really cool. I wish Google

690
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: would buy this and just integrate it into clod Google Drive.

691
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: But the only thing that concerns me is, like everything

692
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: seems to be locked in, like twenty fifteen, like the

693
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: entire website. Like if I look at like their Facebook, Okay,

694
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: the last time they Facebook was twenty seventeen, Twitter, twenty

695
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 1: eight teen, Google Plus. They have a link to which

696
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: come on that's not been around forever. LinkedIn is not

697
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: even available YouTube. The last time I uploaded a video

698
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: was six years ago. So I think that you know,

699
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: it may do what you need, and I guess I

700
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: can test it out, but I'd just be a little concerned.

701
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, is this company still going? I did check

702
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: their iOS app and it was updated in twenty twenty

703
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: in June, so you know, that's a year ago. That's

704
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: a little, you know, a little respectable. But anyway, again,

705
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: the website is called file this, and it sounds like

706
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: it does exactly what you need. Check it out, see

707
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: if you're comfortable with it. But again, since it hasn't

708
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: really done much in a couple of years, I'd be

709
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: a little concerned linking up all my bank accounts. But

710
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: maybe just test it with one that you don't care

711
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: about as much and see how it works. All right,

712
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: let's talk about spam calls. I know so many people

713
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: get them. I get them. They're a nuisance. I don't

714
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: get as many as I think I would get, but

715
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: I do get them, and they're annoying. And you know

716
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: when you get them, when you pick up the phone,

717
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: even though you see the number and you're like, is

718
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: this a number in my area? It kind of looks

719
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 1: like a doctor, kind of looks like the school. I

720
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: just pick it up, and you pick it up and

721
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: you say hello, and immediately you know that you made

722
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: a mistake because there's no one on the other end

723
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: for like twenty seconds. And what's happening in that twenty

724
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: seconds is the computer as it's dialing thousands and thousands

725
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: of numbers, it's like we got one, we got one,

726
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: we got some of that picked up. And then they

727
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: they forward that call to like some person that's sitting

728
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: there with their laptop to go ahead and scam you

729
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: or do whatever they do or sales pitch you or whatever.

730
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: So and then by that time, I'm already like so

731
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: compassionate for these people and I feel so bad that

732
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: I can't just hang up on them. So they're like okay,

733
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: They're like, like the other one the other day I

734
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: picked up. It was like, hi, sir, you your Amazon.

735
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: We're just confirming your Amazon order. And I'm like, oh, yes,

736
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: please confirm. And they're like did you order a you know,

737
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars camera? And I'm like oh, yes, yes,

738
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,479
Speaker 1: like oh, and that of course threw them off because

739
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: they want you to be like, no, stop this. Let

740
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: me give you all my information so you can stop this.

741
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: And so I said yes I did, and they said, oh,

742
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: did you send it to a Michael Blue Block And

743
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: I'm like yes, I did. In fact, like oh uh

744
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: do you know a Michael Blue Block? And I'm like

745
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: yes I do. And it's just totally tripped them up

746
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 1: and they hung up on me. Gotta have some fun anyway,

747
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: So I consulted the privacy and security editor at Wirecutter,

748
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: who wrote an article about stopping the calls. And the

749
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: basic takeaway from this is that you have to download

750
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: the free app that your wireless carrier provides. So they

751
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: all have one. So on AT and T it's called

752
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: AT and T Call Protect. They've got it for iOS

753
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: and Android. On Verizon it's called Verizon Call Filter, and

754
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 1: on T Mobile it's called T Mobile Scam Shield. And

755
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: those are the three apps that you should be downloading.

756
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean, just download the one that corresponds with your

757
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: carrier and activate it, and they will try to upsell you.

758
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: All these apps, almost all of them try to upsell

759
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: you into more, and just say no, just just ignore it.

760
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: You don't need more. It'll just work, you know, It'll

761
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: just work the way it is now. There's a couple

762
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: other things you can do. If you have a landline,

763
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: there's a service called Nomo Robo, and that's nothing new,

764
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: it's been around forever. It is free for landlines only,

765
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: not for phones. You can get it for phones like

766
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: cell phones, but it's gonna cost you. On Android, you

767
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: could do another thing, and this is kind of cool.

768
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: So on Android you can download the basically replace your

769
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: dialer app with Google's dialer and it has caller ID

770
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: and spam protection built in and it's free. And when

771
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: I downloaded it to test it, I had to turn

772
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: on the caller ID and spam protection. So you can

773
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: do that in the settings. Now. If you're on Samsung,

774
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: their dialer also has as a built in caller or

775
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: you know, caller ID and spam protection, but it may

776
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: not be turned on, so you have to turn it

777
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 1: on and activate it. And that's one of the things

778
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: I love the most about Android versus iPhone is that

779
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: for some reason there's no like maybe I can't maybe

780
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: I have to pay for it on on iOS, but

781
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 1: I can't figure out a way to get like caller

782
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: ID on iOS runs on Android, like all the phones

783
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: have it. I mean when you when I when I'm

784
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: testing a Samsung and someone calls me, it's like, oh,

785
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,919
Speaker 1: whatever company it is, it like shows up on the thing. Now.

786
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: One thing they have on iOS that I love that

787
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: doesn't on Android is you know, iOS sirie looks through

788
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: all your emails and your text messages to look for

789
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: names and phone numbers, and so if someone ever calls

790
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: you and they put their phone number in their in

791
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: their signature of their email, it'll say maybe it's this

792
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: person you know on your caller ID, which I think

793
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: is just amazing one of my favorite features on the

794
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: iPhone for sure. Uh Okay, there's another option for blocking

795
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: these calls, and this is of course a very drastic option,

796
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: and this is blocking all unknown callers. You can do

797
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: that on iPhone and on Samsung. They both have. On

798
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: iPhone it's called Silence Unknown Callers. On Samsung it's called

799
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,760
Speaker 1: block Unknown Callers, and that's inside the dialer in iOS,

800
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: it's inside the settings. Now, the problem with this situation is, yeah,

801
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're if you don't have kids, maybe

802
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: that's fine. If you don't have loved ones that you

803
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: need to like, you know, worry about or something, you know,

804
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 1: if it just depends on your spot in life, right like,

805
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: if you're not worried about, you know, being like the

806
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: emergency contact for anyone, sure turn it on. The problem

807
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: is if you are, then it's going to be a

808
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: problem because if you ever get an emergency call, it's

809
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: not going to come through, and you know, so you've

810
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: got that going on, and you've got the whole situation

811
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: of let's say DoorDash, you order something from door dash

812
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they call you to say, hey,

813
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: we're outside, and it's just not going to go through.

814
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get it. And so there are a

815
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: couple of little situations where calls need to come through

816
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: that are not in your address book or you haven't

817
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: interacted with recently, and those may just not work. So

818
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: just be aware of that and otherwise, you know, those

819
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: are the best ways to get rid of these spam

820
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: calls for now. The one other thing to know and

821
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: I kind of knew this and the Thorin let's say

822
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: Thorin Klosowski, who I interviewed at Wirecutter, he said, the

823
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: same thing, which is basically blocking the individual numbers, is

824
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: not going to work. Like unless it's a particular like

825
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: biller or someone that's calling you incessantly, like a car

826
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: dealership for follow up, Like, yeah, blocking that number will work.

827
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: But if it's just like blocking random spam numbers, it's

828
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: not going to do anything. Because they use this technology

829
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: that they basically change the number every time they call,

830
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: so it doesn't they're not calling from the same number

831
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: twice like almost ever. So that's what you need to

832
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: know about blocking spam calls. Hope it helps you all, right,

833
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: Next question, let's see here, Mary says, airline flights. Hey, Rich,

834
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: searching all your posts and finally found some posts where

835
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: they were old and no longer contained information I needed. Okay,

836
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 1: I guess that's a Can you please send me some

837
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: apps info on how to find the best price for

838
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: air flights? Want to treat my son to Vegas for

839
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: his fiftieth surprise birthday party. Oh I hope, hope he's

840
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: not listening and I'm paying for his kid's airline flights. Wow,

841
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: what a nice does she say her son? Okay, Wow,

842
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: what a nice mom. It's all happening in October, but

843
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: with things finally getting back to normal, I don't want

844
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: to wait until last minute and prices get out of

845
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: control or reach. If you could provide some apps info,

846
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: I would greatly appreciate it. Mary. Well, Mary, let me

847
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: tell you Number one. I predict that we are going

848
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: to see a major increase in airline prices this year,

849
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: and I've noticed it just with myself casually booking flight

850
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: for the next year, and it's it's just like the

851
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: nickel and diming is at an all time high. The

852
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: prices are are good if you're on like the most

853
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: random days, but if you're if you're on a day

854
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: that's you know, an algorithm identified like hot day, you know,

855
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: not hot temperature, but like, okay, this is a popular

856
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: time to go. The algorithms are really juicing things up.

857
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,479
Speaker 1: And the reason is because these companies didn't make money

858
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: for a year, and now they're saying, look, we're gonna

859
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: start making some money. And we know you guys want

860
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: to travel because we know you've been locked up at

861
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: home for a year. And so I've noticed. I just

862
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: booked a flight for my mom to come out to

863
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: LA and it was expensive, and it was just it

864
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: just kept going up and we ended up choosing you know,

865
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: different days and different times to make it a little

866
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: bit more reasonable. But at the end of the day,

867
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: some of these flights are getting very very expensive. Now.

868
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're coming from for Vegas, but

869
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: the the only website, there's only one websit that I

870
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: use to look at flights, and that is are you

871
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: ready flights dot Google dot com. I don't think you

872
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: need another website at all. Now with that said, I

873
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: will tell you why a couple of reasons. Number one

874
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: Google is they treat flights the way they treat all

875
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: their search information. They take it all in, they process

876
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: it using AI, and they spit out the data and

877
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: what happens there when you're searching for flights, it will

878
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: tell you the cheapest times, the cheapest days. It'll even

879
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: tell you, hey, if you leave this day and you

880
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: leave that day, it'll be a little bit cheaper. And

881
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: there's just not a lot of fluff on the website.

882
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: Now you might say, yeah, Kayak does a lot of

883
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: that stuff. They've got the hacker fares. But Kayak is

884
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 1: you know, it's good, but it's a little bit like

885
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: it's all over the place. You know you're looking. It's

886
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: like trying to sell you stuff to every other line

887
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: is like an ad for something. And so, you know,

888
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: I think Kayak's great, but I just don't think it

889
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: has the power of Google. And I just really really look,

890
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,919
Speaker 1: I've been booking flights for twenty years and I think

891
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: Google is my It's my first stop and pretty much

892
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: my only stop. Now let me give you the caveats.

893
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: Southwest is not represented with pricing. Now sometimes I've noticed

894
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: that Southwest will show up as a line item with

895
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: the time the flight takes off, but not the price

896
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: of the flight, which is really kind of worthless to me.

897
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it's nice to know sometimes there's an alternative.

898
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: So that's number one. So if you're talking about Southwest,

899
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: I would you know, if you're talking about a Southwest

900
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: destination and you fly Southwest, I would definitely go directly

901
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: to the Southwest website. So and then there's other airlines too,

902
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: like these New Breeze and a Veo a lot of times,

903
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: or Jet Suite X or I guess they're called JSX.

904
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: Now you're not going to find them. Sometimes you may

905
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: find them on Google. Sometimes you may not. You know,

906
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: the smaller carriers sometimes do their own thing and they

907
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 1: just kind of stick to themselves. So with that said,

908
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: in this case, I would probably I would probably go

909
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: to Southwest and see and if you're serviced by one

910
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: of these new airlines, I would check their websites too

911
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: if they're not represented on Google. But for me, my

912
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: typical way to book is I will go to the

913
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: Google website, you know the flights. I will look at

914
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: my preferred days, then I click to see a calendar,

915
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: and on the calendar, it will give me the cheapest

916
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: days to fly. So I generally see, can I do

917
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: those days? If I can, I'll reselect those days, and

918
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: then on those days, it'll highlight the cheapest flight times

919
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: in green, and I'll try to choose those. But the

920
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: best advice I can give you is to book right now.

921
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: I don't think these things are going to get any cheaper.

922
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: And I think with some of the flexibility the airlines

923
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: have given us with the change fees, it's just like,

924
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: go ahead and book, and if you really need to,

925
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: you can always change it. Now. The trick with the

926
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: change is that you're never going to get your money back,

927
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: but you will get it as a credit. But those credits,

928
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 1: so it's like it's it's look, these airlines, they've made

929
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: things a little bit easier. But believe me, they are

930
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: sitting there in their rooms, in there around these conference tables,

931
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: just dreaming of new ways to wring this money from

932
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: our pockets. And yes, they're so nice that they let

933
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: us change our flights now, which to me never made

934
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: any sense. Like, why is it a big deal if

935
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: I book my flight? Why can't I just change it

936
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: to a different flight if I need to? And yeah,

937
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: I have to pay the difference, but like, okay, fine,

938
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: but I'd be willing to Like why did it take

939
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: a pandemic for them to do that? I don't know.

940
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: Southwest has had that flexibility forever, and it's like just

941
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: such a nice flexibility. It also took away one of

942
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: Southwest's biggest selling points, because now all the major airlines

943
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: pretty much do that. But then they get people with

944
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: these bargain fairs, these you know, economy basics and the

945
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 1: you know, the savier fairs whatever they call them on

946
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 1: the different airlines, and you get in one of those,

947
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be tougher to change and tougher to

948
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: get a seat and all this stuff. So and you're

949
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: nickel and dying with everything. So again they're just coming

950
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: up with the the every time my search a flight,

951
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: I'm just amazed at the new ways of I heard

952
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: one on KTLA we mentioned this that this new airline

953
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: has a nine dollars fee for printing out your boarding

954
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: pass or whatever the fee what three dollars whatever it

955
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: is but like okay, wow, and I get it, and

956
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: maybe there's a larger calling for them, for the for

957
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: the environment, and they're saying, hey, look we want you

958
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: to use your your phone as your boarding pass and

959
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 1: that doesn't take any paper. But no, they're just trying

960
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: to They're just trying to stick it to you and

961
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: get a little extra cash at you. Yeah, isn't flying fun.

962
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: I was on a flight the other day where they

963
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: only took they didn't even take credit cards anymore. You

964
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: had to have signed up with your credit card on

965
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: the app for them to accept it. And this was

966
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: on United and luckily I had my card in the app.

967
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: I was able to buy something, but it, yeah, you

968
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: couldn't even use you know, cash has been like no

969
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: way for a while now. Used to be just cards.

970
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: Now it's like not even cards anymore. Now it's like

971
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: you already have to have your profile. They look at

972
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: your seat number and they say, okay, we're going to

973
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: charge this to the card on your profile. And I

974
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: was like okay. Now, it was a test, but something

975
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: tells me that will probably be next because think about it,

976
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 1: I mean, less handling of things, you know, you number,

977
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:16,959
Speaker 1: you know, the other thing is they have your card

978
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: now on file, so it's easier to upsell you in

979
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 1: the air. So and it's it's also that idea of

980
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: when you're not using cash or now even using a card,

981
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: there's no pain, you know. Oh here, give me, give

982
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: me a snack pack and just put it on my

983
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 1: seat and you'll figure it out later. Right. One plus

984
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: has a new wallpaper called well Paper, and it kind

985
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: of is a visual reminder of your digital well being

986
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: and it's pretty cool. I installed it on one of

987
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: my devices to test it out, and just imagine your

988
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: wallpaper changes throughout the day and it's responding to how

989
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: much you're using your phone. So they've got a bunch

990
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: of different category lifestyle and communication, entertainment, information, social tools, games,

991
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: and they have three different designs. One is radial, one

992
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 1: is glow, and one is tiles. And you know, based

993
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 1: on what you're using throughout the day, the the wallpaper

994
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: changes so you can see visually, like, okay, let me

995
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: give an example. Entertainment is red. So if your whole

996
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: phone screen is sort of taken up by red, by

997
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,919
Speaker 1: the red color, you've been spending a lot of time

998
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,240
Speaker 1: watching YouTube. And so if it's if it's all blue

999
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 1: or purple. I can't really tell what this is. You

1000
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: know that means or navy. Then your whole day has

1001
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: been taken up by social media. So it's just kind

1002
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: of a neat way to visualize and uh, you know,

1003
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. It's kind of cool. I

1004
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: And the other thing you can do is like tap it.

1005
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 1: You can tap your phone screen like tap the wallpaper,

1006
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: and it will show you like usually there's nothing, there's

1007
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: no labels, but if you tap, it'll show you labels

1008
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: of kind of what's going on. So it's called digital

1009
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 1: well paper w E L L P A P E R.

1010
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: I couldn't find it by search in the in the

1011
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: Google play store. I found it by a link, so

1012
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: maybe it's on search now. Maybe it just took a

1013
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:13,959
Speaker 1: little bit for to like kind of get in there.

1014
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: But it's it's cool. You know. If you're trying to

1015
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: like limit the amount of time that you're on these things,

1016
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: then I think it's a good thing to try. Let's see, Okay,

1017
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: let's get you another question. Stanley says a comment on

1018
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 1: today's segment, Sure a cheaper plan is possible and sounds

1019
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: great initially as someone who's gone down this route. I'm

1020
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: familiar with the pitfalls. After all, the savings have come

1021
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: from somewhere like customer service quality and data QoS. Oh,

1022
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: after all the savings have to come from somewhere like

1023
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 1: customer service quality and data QoS. Under these mv and os,

1024
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: your data is a lower priority compared to customers with

1025
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: plans through Verizon AT and T, T Mobile, et cetera.

1026
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: Good luck even getting competent or time customer service. A

1027
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: shame these pitfalls weren't mentioned otherwise. I enjoy your segments.

1028
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: Thank you Stanley for the feedback. This is on a

1029
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: segment we did on some of the cheaper cell phone

1030
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: plans out there, like the the US Mobile, the Visible,

1031
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: the Crickets, the you know what were the other ones? Cricket,

1032
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: the Mints, the Good to Go and what Stanley is

1033
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: saying is true. But when you're paying nine dollars a

1034
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,919
Speaker 1: month for a cell phone plan, I don't think you're

1035
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: expecting to have the fastest data. I don't think you're

1036
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: you're worried about customer service as much. I don't think

1037
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: that you're interested in, you know, data throttling and all

1038
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: these things. I think you just want to pay nine

1039
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: bucks a month for a plan, And so I didn't

1040
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: mention this in the report because what's the point. I mean,

1041
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: if you're you know, Stanley, you're clearly sounding like someone

1042
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: who knows this stuff because you use terms like QoS,

1043
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: MV and OS. You know, I think that you're a

1044
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: little bit ahead of the crowd when it comes to

1045
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: kind of some people are just looking to save money,

1046
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with that. And yes there are

1047
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: things like I did mention, you know, you're not going

1048
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: to get free Netflix. You know, it's not included with

1049
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:22,360
Speaker 1: the plan, you know, look out for. I gave the

1050
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 1: pitfalls that I think were the most important, which is,

1051
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: you know, number one, you need to be sure that

1052
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,399
Speaker 1: your data. You need to know if your plan has

1053
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: data that's cut off completely or data that's just slowed

1054
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,359
Speaker 1: down to a crawl. And I mentioned, you know, let's

1055
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: say you get a three gigabyte data plan and after

1056
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: that your data's cut off, you can't use data on

1057
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: your phone. Now, I noticed most of the carriers are

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Speaker 1: backed away from that because I think it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a security thing, like you don't want to be trying

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Speaker 1: to navigate and run out of your plan and next thing,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like you can't do anything on your phone.

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Speaker 1: So I think most of them will at this point

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Speaker 1: slow down your data. But they slow it down. And

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this slow so slow that you can't do anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean I had this happen on one of my

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Speaker 1: devices and it was like, oh my gosh, I literally

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00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: can't do anything right now because it's so slow the data.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think I gave the pitfalls I

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Speaker 1: think were the most important to most people. The fact

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Speaker 1: that you know your data is a lower priority. I

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Speaker 1: think you understand that when you're paying nine bucks a

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Speaker 1: month or ten bucks a month, I think that you

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Speaker 1: just kind of get that. And yeah, if you're paying

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Speaker 1: ninety bucks to Verizon AT and T or T Mobile

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Speaker 1: a month, yeah, you do expect a higher quality of service.

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Speaker 1: I think that comes with the territory. But when you're

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Speaker 1: paying twenty five dollars a month for unlimited through Visible,

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Speaker 1: I think that you're pleasantly surprised every month that you're

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Speaker 1: paying just twenty five dollars for unlimited service. And yes,

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Speaker 1: that's what Visible does. And now that you have to

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Speaker 1: join a party pay plan, but you can join just

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Speaker 1: anyone's Party Play but a plan. But I'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: I had a family member that I told about this,

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Speaker 1: and they switched to the Visible and they switch to

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Speaker 1: the Party Play for twenty five bucks a month, and

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Speaker 1: they're impressed that every month they paid twenty five bucks

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Speaker 1: for unlimited service on Verizon. And I have another family

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Speaker 1: member that uses Mint Mobile and every month they pay

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Speaker 1: fifteen dollars a month for their plan, and they can't

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00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: believe it. And they're not worried about their data being

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Speaker 1: deprioritized or this or that or customer service because they're

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00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: not expecting anything. They're like, oh my gosh, I can't

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00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: believe I'm paying fifteen dollars a month for service. And

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Speaker 1: when I test out these plans, you know, I've got

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00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: a Mint Mobile test plan and it's it's thirty bucks

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Speaker 1: a month for unlimited, and I sit there and I

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00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: use it, and I'm like, this is unbelievable. Now. Is

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Speaker 1: it as good as my Verizon full paid plan? No?

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Speaker 1: But is it just as amazing for the price, yes,

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Speaker 1: if not better. So if I wasn't doing all kinds

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Speaker 1: of uploads to social media and you know, all this

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Speaker 1: stuff streaming, I would one hundred percent be on one

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Speaker 1: of these plans one hundred percent, And would I expect

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Speaker 1: the same service as one hundred dollars plan from Verizon

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00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: or T Mobile or Att Absolutely not. But would I

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Speaker 1: be pleasantly surprised every month and my service works for

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Speaker 1: the price I'm paying. Yeah, And I'm totally good with that.

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Speaker 1: And I you know, this is this is again. You know,

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Speaker 1: I get I get two minutes a day on TV,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, when I do write blog posts

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Speaker 1: are a little bit longer to kind of I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's flush things out or flush things out,

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Speaker 1: whatever the term is, but you know, I try to

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Speaker 1: like expand on it in the blog to kind of

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Speaker 1: like you know, and TV, It's like I've got a

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Speaker 1: limited amount of time to get across my points, and

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Speaker 1: so I try to make the points that I do

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Speaker 1: put in there like the most relevant to the most people.

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Speaker 1: And I think most people, especially since that story that

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Speaker 1: you're talking about did extremely well, I think most people

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Speaker 1: are just like, oh wow, I can get service for

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Speaker 1: this cheap, like okay, sign me up. But and then

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Speaker 1: they'll go to the blog and kind of see what

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Speaker 1: the situation is with that service. But anyway, Stanley, Thank

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Speaker 1: you for writing in and yes you're right what you

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Speaker 1: what you come to the conclusion is not everything's for everyone,

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00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: and you got to do your research no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Even if you hear tech guy on TV like myself,

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Speaker 1: or on the radio, or on my Instagram or on

1130
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: my podcast talk about something, you got to do your

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00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: own research and see if it's right for you. Whether

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00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: that's a gadget, whether that's switching your service, whether that

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Speaker 1: is a website I recommend, or anything that I recommend.

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Speaker 1: You know, there has to be a level of you

1135
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Speaker 1: got to research it and see if it works for you.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: Watch them so a whole bunch of them, and you'll

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Speaker 1: to know me a little bit better if you see

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Speaker 1: the stuff that I put on TV. Also, thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to the podcast. This is trending to be the

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Speaker 1: best month ever since the pandemic started, which probably means

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Speaker 1: that more of you are driving to work on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis and commuting and starting to listening to podcasts again.

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Speaker 1: So thanks for listening. My name is rich Damiro. There

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Speaker 1: are so many ways you can spend an hour of

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Speaker 1: your time. I really do appreciate you spending it with me.

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Speaker 1: Stay safe, I'll talk to you real soon.