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Rich DeMuro, Host of ‘Rich on Tech’ on WOR Sundays Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, Larry, right on time, our tech expert, Rich DeMuro. Rich,
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  Speaker 1: last night we had the New York State gubernatorial debate.
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  Speaker 1: They talked about AI data filing centers. It's been true
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  Speaker 1: in almost every debate across the country, whether for governor, U.S. Senate, Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Four years ago, every governor was throwing money at these companies.
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  Speaker 1: We'll give you water, electricity, whatever you want, bring it
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  Speaker 1: to this state. Four months ago, they started putting on
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  Speaker 1: the brakes. How can you have AI without AI data
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  Speaker 1: filing centers?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a good question, and the interesting thing is
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  Speaker 2: that you can.
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  Speaker 3: You can definitely have AI, and you've probably used AI
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  Speaker 3: without a data center because this is kind of the
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  Speaker 3: future of AI is where it lives on your device.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I was at a Microsoft event this week
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  Speaker 3: where they talked about that very thing.
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  Speaker 2: They came out with this.
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  Speaker 3: Super high-end laptop, and they said, look, in the future,
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  Speaker 3: AI is going to be hybrid. And the reason why
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  Speaker 3: you don't always want AI in a data center or
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  Speaker 3: AI in the cloud is for privacy reasons.
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  Speaker 2: If you're running a big company, you don't necessarily.
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  Speaker 3: Want all of your information to go to the cloud.
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  Speaker 3: So that's number one. You know, the iPhone also runs
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  Speaker 3: something called Apple Intelligence. Androids have something called, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this These little flash nano packages are on your phone
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  Speaker 3: that help run AI programs.
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  Speaker 2: But the main issue is. You can't necessarily train AI
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  Speaker 2: without a cloud. So you can in small ways, but
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  Speaker 2: if you truly want a bunch of people to be
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  Speaker 2: able to not only train that AI, but also access
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  Speaker 2: that AI, like a ChatGVT or like a Meta's Muse,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to have the data center in order to
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  Speaker 2: run the AI.
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  Speaker 3: For millions upon millions of people. And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: where the debate is right there.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny, I looked it up a second ago, and
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  Speaker 4: there are 4,000 data centers in the country built and
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  Speaker 4: active already. I don't know how many more we need.
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  Speaker 4: It's getting to be a little bit silly. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think all of them are even going to make it
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  Speaker 4: or exist. I think this was just a rush to
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  Speaker 4: get them up, to make the money on getting them up.
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  Speaker 4: But let's talk about something else, because I'm fascinated by this.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations to you, by the way. This is a great story.
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  Speaker 4: which seems to be getting a huge response. And I
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  Speaker 4: see why a $ 15 antenna can still get you free
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  Speaker 4: TV and sports.
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  Speaker 1: Explain.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this actually started on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: I got an email from a listener to my radio
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  Speaker 3: show saying, hey, Rich, you should interview this guy. He's
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  Speaker 3: on YouTube. All he does is talk about antennas. You
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  Speaker 3: should have him on your radio show. And I was like,
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  Speaker 3: does anyone really use an antenna in 2026? So I
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  Speaker 3: had him.
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  Speaker 2: On the show. The name is Antenna Man, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: We got so much response. I got so many emails
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  Speaker 3: about all these antennas. I ended up testing two of
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  Speaker 3: them that he mentioned. This $ 15 antenna from Philips, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, of all companies, you know, old school company,
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  Speaker 3: called Rabbit Ears. And then another one that was $ 35
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  Speaker 3: from a company called Flattenna, or the Flattenna from Channel Master.
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  Speaker 2: Set them up in my house.
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  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, they're pulling in, you know, 98 channels,
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  Speaker 3: 115 channels. Yeah, sure, a bunch of them I'm never
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  Speaker 3: going to watch. But I was like reminded just how
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  Speaker 3: easy it is to watch TV, watch your local news,
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  Speaker 3: even watch sports all for free in a world where
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  Speaker 3: everything with streaming services just keeps going up.
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  Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, wait a second. Wait a second. You got
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  Speaker 4: me at watching sports because nowadays you can't find games
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  Speaker 4: because they keep switching from like Amazon to CBS to Netflix.
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  Speaker 4: They keep switching around. Can you get NFL games for free?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, your local games are broadcast typically on a local channel.
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  Speaker 3: So if you are not out of state and you
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  Speaker 3: want to watch your local Jets, Giants, whatever, you should
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  Speaker 3: be able to watch them over the air without needing
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  Speaker 3: a streaming subscription. In fact, What some people argue is
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  Speaker 3: that antenna is better because they're not compressing the signal
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  Speaker 3: as much. You're actually getting a higher quality signal. The
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  Speaker 3: downside is, of course, if you want to record things
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  Speaker 3: or watch them later, like a DVR, you'd still need that.
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  Speaker 3: And they have them. There's things called ZapperBox, HD Home Run, Tableau.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're interested in all of this stuff, go
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  Speaker 3: to my website, check it out. But the website to
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  Speaker 3: go to is called ravidears.info. You pop in your home address,
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  Speaker 3: and it will tell you the channels you're expected to
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  Speaker 3: receive and also where to aim the antenna. And a
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  Speaker 3: little hint, you could use the Compass app on your
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  Speaker 3: phone to line up the antenna. Moving it a foot
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  Speaker 3: or two really makes.
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  Speaker 2: A big difference.
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  Speaker 3: And if you live within 30 miles of a TV tower,
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  Speaker 3: which is a lot of people in New York City area,
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  Speaker 3: You only need an indoor antenna. You don't need one
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  Speaker 3: of these big outdoor antennas on the top of your
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  Speaker 3: roof or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: And no monthly subscription. It can't go up. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what are you going to do? Come to your house
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  Speaker 2: and collect more money?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like everybody does.
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  Speaker 1: So just asking. So now, Rich, you've made me very nostalgic.
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  Speaker 1: Late 60s, early 70s. I'm a teenager in Canarsie. We
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  Speaker 1: had the rabbit ears up on the roof of the house.
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  Speaker 1: to get UHF channels that were, like, before cable. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they always come in grainy. So if I were to
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  Speaker 1: climb on top of my apartment building and do the
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  Speaker 1: rabbit ears thing, could it somehow bring back UHF channels?
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  Speaker 4: I used to love them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think I'm not an expert in spectrum, but
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Those channels still exist, but just in a different way. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I think they're all merged into the channel lineup, which,
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  Speaker 3: for me, went from, like, channel two to, like, a channel, like,
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  Speaker 3: a hundred and two or.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that. So, and there's also sub channels now.
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  Speaker 3: Which are digital, you know, these four dot one, four
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  Speaker 3: dot two, four dot three. So, I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 3: whole bunch of stuff out there. Again, some of it
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  Speaker 3: is not going to appeal to everyone, but you can
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  Speaker 3: watch your local news. You can watch your local programming.
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  Speaker 3: And on a lot of these sub channels, they have
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  Speaker 3: other types of programming, whether it's like court TV, whether it's.
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  Speaker 2: Old reruns of you know, sitcoms and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So just put it this way.
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  Speaker 3: For $ 15, you plug it in at your house. You
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  Speaker 3: will be so impressed with how much free stuff you
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  Speaker 3: can watch even in 2026.
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  Speaker 4: It's great information. Just real quick. As you know, everybody
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  Speaker 4: in my house is an Apple person. I'm fascinated by
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  Speaker 4: this home view. If I get that, what.
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  Speaker 2: Does it do?
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  Speaker 3: So this is basically like a giant kind of oversized
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  Speaker 3: screen for your home sitting on top of a speaker.
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  Speaker 3: This is brand new from Apple. It is their big
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  Speaker 3: entree into controlling the smart home. You can do all
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  Speaker 3: the typical stuff. Obviously, it could be a slideshow of
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  Speaker 3: your pictures when you're not using it. You can follow
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  Speaker 3: recipes on it, monitor your cameras, look at your calendar,
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  Speaker 3: play music. It comes in two varieties, one that sticks
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  Speaker 3: onto your wall or one that actually just sits on
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  Speaker 3: your countertop. Both are $ 300. This will be available November 13th.
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  Speaker 3: And basically, it's kind of like The answer to what
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  Speaker 3: Amazon has with their Echo devices and also what Google
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  Speaker 3: has had for a long time with their Nest and
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  Speaker 3: Home devices, it's just kind of a speaker slash display
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  Speaker 3: control system for your entire smart home.
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  Speaker 4: And everybody's connected? Everybody in the house is connected to it?
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  Speaker 3: That's the interesting thing. They're using facial recognition. Up to
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  Speaker 3: six people in the house, when you walk up to
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  Speaker 3: this little screen, it recognizes who you are. and only
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  Speaker 3: shows your information. So it's completely personalized, which is kind
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  Speaker 3: of a big feature that a lot of people are
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  Speaker 3: talking about when it comes to this, because that's useful
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  Speaker 3: in the house. You don't want your kids looking at
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  Speaker 3: your emails or your texts or your photos, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It's all personalized.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, really good point. Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech,
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  Speaker 4: is heard Sunday nights from 9 to 11 on WOR.
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  Speaker 4: At Rich on Tech on Instagram is where you can
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  Speaker 4: reach out to him.