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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, as we've been talking about, the flock issue has
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  Speaker 1: taken off to the point where it's become a political
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  Speaker 1: issue right now. So let's talk to Rich DeMuro. Rich
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  Speaker 1: on Tech is heard Sunday nights from 8 to 11 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: On WOR.
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  Speaker 1: And you can see what he has to say and
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  Speaker 1: even send him some messages on at Rich on Tech
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: Rich, the flock.
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  Speaker 1: Issue has become a national issue you have now governors
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  Speaker 1: banning it in florida and texas many communities are banning
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  Speaker 1: it and getting rid of it and canceling their contracts
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  Speaker 1: i i spoke with a police chief yesterday who said
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  Speaker 1: yeah we we had to cancel our flock contract but
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  Speaker 1: then he said so now we're going with axon which
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  Speaker 1: is another company that does the same thing and and
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  Speaker 1: i guess some go with motorola some will go i
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  Speaker 1: don't know the other company it's for kata but it
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  Speaker 1: seems like it's the brand that's getting all the attention,
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  Speaker 1: but people aren't realizing they're just going to go with
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  Speaker 1: somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. I mean, that's the thing. It's like this
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  Speaker 3: technology is here to stay. In fact, you know, police
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  Speaker 3: also operate cameras that are installed on their cars. So
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  Speaker 3: when they're cruising down the street, you know, they can
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  Speaker 3: identify license plates. I mean, this technology is not new.
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  Speaker 3: So flock has become sort of the public You know,
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  Speaker 3: take all, end all. Everyone knows this brand name. And
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  Speaker 3: of course, not good for them. Or maybe it's good
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  Speaker 3: for them in the future. But at this point, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to go with competitors. Axon, they're known for
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  Speaker 3: the body cameras. They were very controversial years ago. They
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  Speaker 3: survived that. Motorola, I mean, nobody even knows that they
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  Speaker 3: make these cameras, but yes, they make a lot of
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  Speaker 3: corporate solutions. Keep in mind, that's different from the Motorola
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  Speaker 3: that we know for the phones. They kind of split
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  Speaker 3: off a couple of years ago, and they do a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these industrial solutions for law enforcement. But the
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  Speaker 3: reality is... Look, this is not going away anytime soon.
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  Speaker 3: I think that flock is just taking a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the heat right now. Have you seen this map, this
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  Speaker 3: dflock.org map? I mean, this is pretty wild. It shows
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  Speaker 3: you a heat map of all of these cameras nationwide.
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  Speaker 3: And you can kind of scroll down or zoom into
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  Speaker 3: your community to see exactly where these maps are located.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not just flock. It's all the different license
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  Speaker 3: plate reading maps or cameras out there. So that's an
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  Speaker 3: interesting place to look just to see how prevalent these
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  Speaker 3: cameras are across our country.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 1: Criminals can look at it and evade the cameras now.
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  Speaker 1: So that's great. They're just helping people that committed crimes.
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  Speaker 3: I actually think it's more of the other side of it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's actually they're trying. I mean, look, we
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  Speaker 3: know there's been some people that are trying to ruin
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  Speaker 3: these cameras, take them down. I think that's more of
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  Speaker 3: the intention of this website. I mean, clearly the website
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  Speaker 3: is just there to inform people. But I think there
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  Speaker 3: are some nefarious uses of this kind of information saying, hey, look,
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  Speaker 3: look where these things are. Go out there in your
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  Speaker 3: community and maybe mess with them if you want. We've
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  Speaker 3: seen stories about that across the country. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: think this story is going away anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro, you mentioned how Motorola had a split and
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  Speaker 2: their subdivision goes in a different way like burner phones, right?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Motorola burner phones. You know whose birthday it
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  Speaker 2: was yesterday, Rich DeMuro? The king of all burner phones,
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  Speaker 2: the former disgraced mayor, Eric Adams, who had seven burner
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  Speaker 2: phones on him. And apparently for his birthday gift, some
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  Speaker 2: of his cronies were sending him more burner phones because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, basically every month you got to replace them.
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  Speaker 2: Is that still the case with Motorola?
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  Speaker 3: You can't have enough. No, you know, Motorola, look, they're
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  Speaker 3: mostly focused on some of their real phones. Now they've
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  Speaker 3: got some actually decent smartphones. I think when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to burner phones, you know, Nokia has made a resurgence.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if someone has a flip phone, it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean they're a bad person necessarily. It just means that,
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they don't want a smartphone. Maybe they don't want
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  Speaker 3: all the tracking of a smartphone.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But those things still have a life out there somehow.
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  Speaker 3: Not for me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm looking at Amazon right now at the
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  Speaker 1: price of a pack of toothbrushes. In this one, you
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  Speaker 1: can buy four for $ 12. You can buy three for $ 6. 99.
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  Speaker 1: And you're going to talk about a toothbrush that goes
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  Speaker 1: for $ 499. What could it possibly do to make it
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  Speaker 1: worth that?
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  Speaker 3: This is not just any toothbrush. Obviously, you're familiar with Dyson. Well,
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  Speaker 3: they came out with a $ 500, you can't even call it,
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  Speaker 3: it's called a camera jet toothbrush. This thing has a
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  Speaker 3: camera built into it. So it's basically an electric toothbrush,
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  Speaker 3: a water flosser, and a camera all in one. And
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  Speaker 3: so they basically said, you know what the water picks
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  Speaker 3: of the world, the electric toothbrushes of the world, they're
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  Speaker 3: all terrible. So let's put a camera that can look
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  Speaker 3: between your teeth, check for the plaque and fire this, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, water stream to get rid of the plaque
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  Speaker 3: in between your teeth. Not only do that, but it
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  Speaker 3: also brushes your teeth with, you know, ultrasonic waves, but
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  Speaker 3: then it also sprays a little mouthwash in there at
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  Speaker 3: the same time. So I'll be honest. I want to
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  Speaker 3: try this thing because it's been a while since my
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  Speaker 3: standard toothbrush that I had been meaning to replace for
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  Speaker 3: years has gotten an upgrade.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's a lot cheaper ultimately than a
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  Speaker 2: trip to the dentist's office to get it cleaned.
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  Speaker 3: I have to ask, is there some kind of monthly
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  Speaker 3: subscription that goes along with this? Oh my gosh. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't see any word of a monthly subscription, but I
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  Speaker 3: would not be surprised if everything has a subscription, but
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  Speaker 3: I love that. That's, that's exactly what I thought, Curtis.
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  Speaker 3: I said, you know what? I just got my teeth cleaned.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like 150 bucks, whatever it is after insurance.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll gladly pay $ 500 to not have to deal
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  Speaker 3: with another cavity filling in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this thing is, it's different.
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  Speaker 1: It's big.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if this thing lasts the test of time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes these products come out, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: first generation because it doesn't really take off. They never
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  Speaker 3: come out with a second one, but they've done pretty
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  Speaker 3: well with their vacuums and other things. So we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how this one is.
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  Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro, I try to force you to apologize to
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  Speaker 2: me because I use MySpace and they're making a comeback.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to apologize to me because I am
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  Speaker 2: probably the last guy to use MapQuest and I see
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  Speaker 2: they're having a tremendous comeback.
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  Speaker 3: I apologize. Once again, you're right on AOL. Clearly, you're
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  Speaker 3: right on MapQuest because it is the number one app
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  Speaker 3: on the iPhone right now. Why? People are downloading it
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  Speaker 3: because they refuse to change the name of Lake Ontario
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  Speaker 3: to Lake America. They're the last holdout. Apple Maps finally
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  Speaker 3: changed it. Google Maps was first to change it. And
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  Speaker 3: now people are going there. And here's the thing. So I,
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  Speaker 3: doing my due diligence, opened up the app today on
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  Speaker 3: the iPhone. And what else did I find? Blockbuster Video.
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  Speaker 3: You can get directions to the locations there. Circuit City
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  Speaker 3: is still on there. Radio Shack.
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  Speaker 2: No!
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  Speaker 3: You're kidding me! I am kidding. But yes, I would
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  Speaker 3: not be surprised. That would be great.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So all of you who made fun of
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  Speaker 2: me about MySpace and then MapQuest. You know, these things
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  Speaker 2: come in threes. What's next?
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  Speaker 1: AOL address? Do you have an AOL address?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has one. Get one of them.
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  Speaker 3: We all have one. We just hide it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I'd love to be Rich DeMuro.
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  Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro goes all around the country. Do you go
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  Speaker 1: to Europe for some of these conventions, by the way?
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  Speaker 3: I do. I was in London a couple weeks ago. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. He gets to go all these places.
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  Speaker 1: They treat him like a star when he gets there.
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  Speaker 1: They want him to try all his products. So you
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  Speaker 1: were recently in New York. What did you see there?
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  Speaker 3: Sonos actually had an open house in New York City,
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  Speaker 3: and basically they showed off, I love Sonos, this is
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  Speaker 3: your whole home audio system. So they basically came up
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  Speaker 3: with the idea, they said, you know what, we make
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  Speaker 3: great speakers, but now we're going to kind of take
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  Speaker 3: control of your whole audio in your home with a
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  Speaker 3: new operating system. So they're calling it Sonos 27, and
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  Speaker 3: it's going to mix not just better voice commands for
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  Speaker 3: your speakers, so now you can control your speakers with
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  Speaker 3: your voice, in a much easier way, just like we
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  Speaker 3: do with AI, but they're also bringing AI into the mix.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're sitting at your computer all day on ChatGBT,
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  Speaker 3: you can now control your Sonos system right from ChatGBT.
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting. They also came out with a new pair
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  Speaker 3: of headphones that the first pair were great a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years ago. These are even better. and then a
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  Speaker 3: new sound bar that sounds amazing. I mean, I've had
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  Speaker 3: Sonos for at least 15 years in my home, and
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  Speaker 3: it's one of these products that, yes, they are very expensive,
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  Speaker 3: more expensive than a Bluetooth speaker, but if you start
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  Speaker 3: with one, you can add them over time, and the
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  Speaker 3: speakers always work. I mean, I have speakers as old as,
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  Speaker 3: you know, 10 years old. They still work fine. So
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  Speaker 3: now they're just trying to bring them into kind of
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  Speaker 3: the modern era with easier voice commands and more AI.
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  Speaker 1: Very expensive, but do you get your Sonos for free?
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  Speaker 3: I have gotten some for free in the past, yes,
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  Speaker 3: but I have bought a majority of my systems. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: my soundbar needs an upgrade because I paid a decent
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  Speaker 3: amount for that thing, but I've had it for 10 years.
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  Speaker 3: That thing needs an upgrade. The new soundbar is about $ 700,
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  Speaker 3: and so I will either be testing that or buying
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  Speaker 3: that myself, one or the other.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's good to be rich, DeMuro. You get some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the tchotchkes.
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  Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, is heard Sunday nights from
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  Speaker 1: 8 to 11 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: On WOR.
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  Speaker 1: You can also see what he has to say on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: at Rich on Tech on Instagram. Rich, thanks a lot. Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: See you.