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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to k I AM sixty the bill Handle
- 0:04Speaker 1: show on demand on the iheartradiop KFI AM.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Six forty bill handle. Here on a Tuesday, July twenty one.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Some of the big stories we are looking at. The
- 0:15Speaker 2: war in Iran is escalating and that is not good news.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Price of oil, price of gas going up fairly dramatically. Also,
- 0:23Speaker 2: there is a story about a Santa Clarita girl, age three,
- 0:28Speaker 2: that was bitten by a rattlesnake. I guess her parents
- 0:32Speaker 2: were religious folks, know that those people that talked to
- 0:36Speaker 2: serpents out of the Bible. Well, she was talking to
- 0:39Speaker 2: a serpent and she lost the conversation. By the way,
- 0:42Speaker 2: That's absolutely not true, I know, absolutely at all. It
- 0:46Speaker 2: just sounded good, didn't it. It was under an Amazon package. Yeah,
- 0:51Speaker 2: an Amazon package came into the yard and she ran
- 0:55Speaker 2: out to go get it. She thought, Yes, for hers,
- 0:57Speaker 2: that's clever. So you know what you get for that Amazon?
- 1:01Speaker 2: You order Amazon? Now, you know, get bit my rattlesnake
- 1:04Speaker 2: every time. All right, Now it's also not true. Well
- 1:09Speaker 2: there we go. Okay, Rich to morrow, It's Rich on Tech.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Rich has heard every Saturday eleven am to two pm
- 1:18Speaker 2: Instagram at rich on Tech website, rich On Tech Dot TV.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Rich you're in London right now.
- 1:25Speaker 3: I am good afternoon to you, Bill. It's about four
- 1:28Speaker 3: o'clock here in London. I'm taking a look at the
- 1:31Speaker 3: Tower Bridge as we speak.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Oh that everybody thinks is London Bridge, which is absolutely
- 1:36Speaker 2: not true. Yeah, oh true.
- 1:38Speaker 3: I thought the same thing when I came here the
- 1:40Speaker 3: first time. I was taking all these pictures. Here's London Bridge,
- 1:44Speaker 3: And sure enough, No, London Bridge is down down the
- 1:48Speaker 3: river a little bit.
- 1:49Speaker 2: And the original London Bridge is in Lake Havasou. That
- 1:54Speaker 2: they did, they Lake bought London Bridge, took it apart
- 1:58Speaker 2: and brick by Bricks the owned by Stone built it
- 2:01Speaker 2: in or put it together at Lake Havasu, Lake Havasou.
- 2:05Speaker 2: So this is a second tier London Bridge. In any case,
- 2:08Speaker 2: you are there for Samsung. How the hell do you
- 2:10Speaker 2: get to London for a Samsung announcement?
- 2:14Speaker 3: Well, you know what they do, these announcements, and they
- 2:17Speaker 3: for the past couple of years they've been doing there
- 2:19Speaker 3: what they call unpacked events in different cities around the world.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Last year, gosh, where was it? Last year?
- 2:25Speaker 3: I got to remember San Francisco, a year before within Korea.
- 2:30Speaker 3: I mean, they just like to pick different places because
- 2:32Speaker 3: you know, it's kind of the heart and soul of
- 2:33Speaker 3: these different places. It's a very global companies, so they
- 2:36Speaker 3: want to kind of.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Give back for these different cities.
- 2:38Speaker 3: But yes, tomorrow is the big event where we will
- 2:41Speaker 3: learn all about Samsung's latest foldable phones. I'm not sure
- 2:45Speaker 3: if you've heard, but they've been making foldables now for
- 2:48Speaker 3: seven years. Is their eighth generation, and a lot of
- 2:51Speaker 3: people still you know, it's new to them. But I
- 2:53Speaker 3: think this year is going to be the big year
- 2:55Speaker 3: for these phones, not only because of Samsung, but also
- 2:58Speaker 3: because Apple is expected to come out vuldable phone in September,
- 3:02Speaker 3: which I think competition is good. It will list them all,
- 3:05Speaker 3: everyone will know about them now.
- 3:07Speaker 2: I loved my foldable phone and the original ones that
- 3:10Speaker 2: if a mountain I was taken, there was a small
- 3:12Speaker 2: Motorola phone that you would flip open and talk and
- 3:15Speaker 2: just loved it and then it would fold over and
- 3:18Speaker 2: become well half the size. Are we talking about something
- 3:22Speaker 2: similar to that?
- 3:24Speaker 3: Yeah, So there's actually this year, you know, they've they've
- 3:27Speaker 3: had this what's called the Galaxy Z flip, and that's
- 3:30Speaker 3: the one you're talking about where it opens up. They
- 3:32Speaker 3: say clamshell style, the newer version of these, and they
- 3:35Speaker 3: still make that, and Motorola makes one, Samsung makes one.
- 3:38Speaker 3: They're both very popular, but the new you know, kind
- 3:41Speaker 3: of the more popular version, I guess you could say,
- 3:44Speaker 3: is the book style. And traditionally they've had one model.
- 3:49Speaker 3: This year they're expected to introduce a second model. It's
- 3:52Speaker 3: not really a secret because it's kind of been seen
- 3:54Speaker 3: all over the internet, but it's a much more passport
- 3:57Speaker 3: style looking device. That's what we're expecting this year. That's
- 4:00Speaker 3: also the same form factor that Apple is expected to
- 4:03Speaker 3: come out with, and the advantage there is that it's
- 4:06Speaker 3: much smaller, easier to manage. The screen on the outside
- 4:08Speaker 3: is bigger, and when you open it up you can
- 4:10Speaker 3: watch movies on the plane. It's basically like having a
- 4:13Speaker 3: tablet in your pocket.
- 4:14Speaker 2: And did you see is it about the size of
- 4:16Speaker 2: a passport? Is that what you said? This is the rumor.
- 4:20Speaker 3: I can't you know right now. It's all speculation because
- 4:22Speaker 3: the event is tomorrow, but that's what we're expecting to see.
- 4:25Speaker 3: I'm looking at the artwork outside of the event right now,
- 4:29Speaker 3: and it literally shows what is probably that form factor
- 4:33Speaker 3: right outside the event.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Are you doing any sight seeing in London?
- 4:37Speaker 3: Incidentally, I've done a lot of walking, but to be honest,
- 4:41Speaker 3: you know, you'd be surprised how much they pack us
- 4:43Speaker 3: with all kinds of stuff. But I did have fish
- 4:45Speaker 3: and chips last night in a bar that dates back
- 4:48Speaker 3: to six twelve hundred's and then they rebuilt it in
- 4:52Speaker 3: the sixteen hundreds, so that was pretty cool.
- 4:54Speaker 2: That is you want to go if you have a chance.
- 4:56Speaker 2: Tower of London you want to see. Also, there's a
- 5:01Speaker 2: lot of stuff you want to see. And I'd be
- 5:02Speaker 2: more than happy to tell you I love London, just
- 5:04Speaker 2: walking around to a great city, and they do great
- 5:06Speaker 2: fish and chips by the way, and it's gonna be
- 5:10Speaker 2: very hard to find a dentist over there because they
- 5:12Speaker 2: just don't do dentists well and their teeth fall out
- 5:15Speaker 2: and it's you welcome to England. All right, let's take
- 5:17Speaker 2: a bring.
- 5:18Speaker 3: I already had my braces bell.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding, okay, rich I have been reading and
- 5:23Speaker 2: looking at China and how it's challenging America across the board.
- 5:30Speaker 2: One of the things I noticed that I think eighty
- 5:32Speaker 2: percent of the world market in ev cars are from China.
- 5:36Speaker 2: They just do a better car, more features at less
- 5:40Speaker 2: money by far, and they're now coming into AI dominance.
- 5:44Speaker 2: And man, when the Chinese go for it, they go
- 5:48Speaker 2: balls to the wall. So what's going on with that?
- 5:51Speaker 3: I believe that's their official description of it as well. Yeah, so,
- 5:56Speaker 3: I mean you mentioned the electric car thing. Obviously, people
- 5:59Speaker 3: like go China go to other countries, they see these
- 6:01Speaker 3: vyd cars that are fully loaded, you know, under twenty
- 6:05Speaker 3: thousand dollars. They're not allowed here in the US, probably
- 6:09Speaker 3: for good reason because if they were, it would really
- 6:11Speaker 3: be a problem for some of the carmakers here. But
- 6:13Speaker 3: same thing is happening with AI and this is a
- 6:16Speaker 3: little bit tougher to stop. So China came out with
- 6:19Speaker 3: two models this week that people are going nuts over.
- 6:22Speaker 3: One is called Kimmi, the other is called Twen. They're
- 6:25Speaker 3: both made by Chinese companies. One's Ali Baba, the other
- 6:28Speaker 3: is called moonshaw Ai. And these are models that they've created,
- 6:32Speaker 3: not using you know, you've heard about the NVIDIA and
- 6:36Speaker 3: the shortage of RAM and all these components that open
- 6:39Speaker 3: AI and Tropic are gobbling up. Meanwhile, China over there
- 6:42Speaker 3: is making these models that are super powerful at a
- 6:45Speaker 3: fraction of the price that American companies are spending. And
- 6:49Speaker 3: not only that, but they're open sourcing them, which means
- 6:52Speaker 3: anyone in the world can download this model integrate it
- 6:55Speaker 3: into their app for pennies on the dollar or even free,
- 6:59Speaker 3: which is a problem for all the American companies like
- 7:02Speaker 3: open Ai and Anthropic and Google that charge a pretty
- 7:06Speaker 3: penny for the similar type of technology.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Okay, based on that, if the Chinese are able and
- 7:12Speaker 2: they're coming up with stuff that's amazing, if they are
- 7:16Speaker 2: able to do this and enter the American market, doesn't
- 7:19Speaker 2: that simply wipe out the big AI players here?
- 7:25Speaker 3: Well, I think it depends. I think if you're an
- 7:27Speaker 3: American company and you want a product that's vetted from
- 7:29Speaker 3: another American company, I don't think you're going to use
- 7:32Speaker 3: some random off the shelf Chinese AI to power your app. Right,
- 7:36Speaker 3: if you're General Motors, or if you're Forward, or if
- 7:39Speaker 3: you're any company a magnifact that's making an app, you.
- 7:42Speaker 2: May not do that.
- 7:42Speaker 3: But that doesn't keep the millions of other developers around
- 7:46Speaker 3: the world that are also making apps from doing something
- 7:49Speaker 3: very similar and they say, hey, look, I can pay
- 7:51Speaker 3: open Ai for all of this technology. I can just
- 7:54Speaker 3: download this model from this Chinese company that seems to
- 7:58Speaker 3: be pretty good, integrate into my app, and I don't
- 8:01Speaker 3: have to pay a dime for it. So I think
- 8:03Speaker 3: that is the problem that we can run up against
- 8:06Speaker 3: in this economy that we've built here in America, where
- 8:09Speaker 3: these companies have invested so much money in their infrastructure
- 8:12Speaker 3: and their research, and now they want to see that
- 8:15Speaker 3: return by selling that technology to other companies around the world.
- 8:19Speaker 2: And I'm assuming that once the new AI programs are
- 8:23Speaker 2: coming in from China become vetted and become safe and
- 8:29Speaker 2: basically ability to be used, the major companies you're talking
- 8:33Speaker 2: about have to switch instead of paying these astronomical sums
- 8:38Speaker 2: that they're paying Anthropic and they're paying Google, and they're
- 8:40Speaker 2: paying other companies. I don't know if I have that right.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Would you comment on that?
- 8:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely. I mean, look, if you take
- 8:48Speaker 3: a look at the market as a whole, let's say
- 8:50Speaker 3: it's one hundred percent and right now you've got Google,
- 8:53Speaker 3: You've got you know, Anthropic, You've got open Ai, let's
- 8:57Speaker 3: see Microsoft. You know, you've got all these companies with
- 9:00Speaker 3: splitting up kind of what these other companies are purchasing from.
- 9:04Speaker 3: Even if you take away let's say twenty percent forty
- 9:07Speaker 3: percent of the market from them, that is a big
- 9:10Speaker 3: shift and that is a problem for them because again,
- 9:12Speaker 3: they've invested so much money in this and China over
- 9:16Speaker 3: and over. We saw it with Deep Seek last year.
- 9:19Speaker 3: They just continue to put out these models that are
- 9:21Speaker 3: very good and they don't cost as much. And I
- 9:25Speaker 3: mean it's kind of the thing we see from China
- 9:27Speaker 3: all the time with products and everything else.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's pretty scary. The war with China is
- 9:34Speaker 2: going to be an economic war, There's no question about it.
- 9:36Speaker 2: And I'm guessing that China is going to win this one.
- 9:40Speaker 2: That's at least the way it's looking now. A scam warning,
- 9:45Speaker 2: we talk about that all the time, where the FBI
- 9:48Speaker 2: is warning that scammers are impersonating the FBI. So what
- 9:54Speaker 2: is happening with that?
- 9:56Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, And I've decided on my radio
- 9:58Speaker 3: show that I'm really going to vamp up the coverage
- 10:01Speaker 3: of scams because I started a book on the plane
- 10:04Speaker 3: Dark Side of the Boom. It's called and you know,
- 10:06Speaker 3: it goes through all these scams that people are subject
- 10:10Speaker 3: to on a daily basis. I mean, we take for
- 10:12Speaker 3: granted we talk about them on the radio bill and
- 10:14Speaker 3: you know, okay, people fall form. But this is a
- 10:17Speaker 3: serious problem. So this latest one is the FBI. You know,
- 10:21Speaker 3: I get this thing called the Internet Crime Complaint Center, right,
- 10:24Speaker 3: People go there to report that they've been a victim
- 10:27Speaker 3: of a crime. And what's happening is the scam artists
- 10:30Speaker 3: are now reaching out to people that have been scammed.
- 10:33Speaker 3: They say, hey, have you been scammed. We can help
- 10:35Speaker 3: you recover money. And they're recreating this website, this government website.
- 10:40Speaker 3: It looks very realistic thanks to AI, so they can
- 10:42Speaker 3: make it look identical, and they say, oh, give us
- 10:44Speaker 3: your name, your phone number, your address, and we'll get
- 10:47Speaker 3: in touch with you and we'll help you recover your funds. Well,
- 10:50Speaker 3: the IC three does not do that. They will investigate scams,
- 10:53Speaker 3: and you know sometimes they may send a field agent
- 10:55Speaker 3: or someone to talk to you, but they're not sitting
- 10:58Speaker 3: there trying to help you recover money. What happens is
- 11:01Speaker 3: people end up getting scammed a second time because they
- 11:04Speaker 3: respond to these outgoing messages saying, hey, we can help
- 11:08Speaker 3: you with the scam you experienced.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Is uh, it ever.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Going to be Well, I know, I've just answered my
- 11:15Speaker 2: own question. The scammers are always going to be in
- 11:18Speaker 2: front of the authorities who chase after them, and it's
- 11:22Speaker 2: becoming more and more sophisticated. Let me ask you know,
- 11:26Speaker 2: I'm not a big believer. I don't jump into scams.
- 11:29Speaker 2: I've never been scammed. How what are my chances based
- 11:34Speaker 2: on how good AI is and I use the Internet
- 11:37Speaker 2: to my stuff?
- 11:39Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I don't even think that's the problem. I
- 11:41Speaker 3: think Bill, you're a public personality. People know a lot
- 11:44Speaker 3: about you, and these scams are increasingly getting more sophisticated
- 11:48Speaker 3: because of AI and because of targeting, and so they
- 11:51Speaker 3: can say, okay, let's collect all the information we know
- 11:53Speaker 3: about Bill, right, even something you may mention on the
- 11:55Speaker 3: radio one day, and let's use that against him and
- 11:58Speaker 3: call him and you know, a to his senses, appeal
- 12:01Speaker 3: to his urges. You know, you know someone's in trouble,
- 12:05Speaker 3: someone needs money. This has to be done quick. And yes,
- 12:08Speaker 3: you're a smart person, you'll probably avoid that kind of thought.
- 12:11Speaker 3: But everyone who gets scammed, the stories I read over
- 12:13Speaker 3: and over, and it seems to be on a daily basis.
- 12:16Speaker 3: These are not dumb people. They're smart people. They just
- 12:18Speaker 3: happen to be caught off guard and they do something
- 12:21Speaker 3: stupid and then they realize, oh my gosh, what did
- 12:23Speaker 3: I just do? And you know, maybe one thousand dollars
- 12:26Speaker 3: two thousand, five thousand, ten thousand your whole life savings.
- 12:29Speaker 2: These things run the gamuck crazy. Oh I used AI
- 12:33Speaker 2: and I'm not much a user, but I did just
- 12:36Speaker 2: for fun a couple of nights ago. And that is
- 12:40Speaker 2: a hypothetical obituary. And you try that, oksh Yeah, try that,
- 12:46Speaker 2: Rich Yeah, mine was fascinating. It started with he was
- 12:51Speaker 2: a dick, and then it went on and on about
- 12:55Speaker 2: my background, etc. Give it a try. I'd love to
- 12:58Speaker 2: have you comment on are your hypothetical obituary? You'll have
- 13:02Speaker 2: a good time with that.
- 13:04Speaker 3: That will be humbling. I will try that.
- 13:06Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, you got it. We're going to come back
- 13:09Speaker 2: next week. Rich this weekend eleven am to two pm
- 13:12Speaker 2: on Saturday. Rich on Tech dot tv is the website
- 13:17Speaker 2: at rich on Tech is Instagram. Catch you this weekend,
- 13:21Speaker 2: Rich Take care, Thanks Bill. Okay, the reason we are
- 13:26Speaker 2: we played oh garbage because garbage trucks may may soon
- 13:32Speaker 2: do more than simply collect collect trash, they may actually
- 13:37Speaker 2: identify code violations using AI cape Coral, Florida officials are
- 13:43Speaker 2: considering equipping equipping garbage trucks with AI powered cameras that
- 13:49Speaker 2: would photograph properties as the garbage truck is driving past
- 13:53Speaker 2: and collecting the trash, and what the system would do
- 13:57Speaker 2: is identify potential issues like overgrown lawn, peeling paint, illegal dumping,
- 14:02Speaker 2: flag violations so the city can review them and tag
- 14:06Speaker 2: these owners. Of course, privacy advocates have said, oh no, no, no, no,
- 14:11Speaker 2: we can't do that. Expanding camera networks raise all kinds
- 14:15Speaker 2: of new concern about how data collected is stored, how
- 14:20Speaker 2: it's shared, and it's repurposed. And that's legitimate. I don't
- 14:23Speaker 2: have a problem with that. For those people that said
- 14:26Speaker 2: that there should not be cameras on garbage trucks or
- 14:29Speaker 2: anything else, Yeah, your argument, there shouldn't be cameras on drones.
- 14:34Speaker 2: There shouldn't be cameras on helicopters, police helicopters flying overhead.
- 14:39Speaker 2: There is no privacy. Okay, Today you can't get home
- 14:42Speaker 2: insurance without a draw, without a drone flying over your
- 14:46Speaker 2: house and figuring out if does your roof need repair,
- 14:50Speaker 2: what your backyard looks like the problem is, and I
- 14:53Speaker 2: think it's a legitimate problem. What do they do with
- 14:57Speaker 2: that information? Is it sold, for example, to people that
- 15:04Speaker 2: do lawn installments or sprinkling sprinkler or landscapers. Is it
- 15:10Speaker 2: sold to painting companies. Is it stored and used for
- 15:15Speaker 2: other purposes?
- 15:16Speaker 4: You know what, I have another thought about this, because
- 15:20Speaker 4: they send people around our neighborhood to check through our
- 15:23Speaker 4: trash to make sure that the recycling is in the
- 15:26Speaker 4: recycling and.
- 15:27Speaker 2: All that stuff.
- 15:29Speaker 4: And we have a lot of homeless people, We have
- 15:33Speaker 4: a lot of traffic from the boulevards that they come
- 15:36Speaker 4: up and people throw things. Once we move it to
- 15:40Speaker 4: the street, how do we know what people put in
- 15:43Speaker 4: it or whatever?
- 15:43Speaker 2: And then we're liable for that. Now you're only talking
- 15:46Speaker 2: about well, I mean that is a violation in terms
- 15:49Speaker 2: of trash on the street. But this is what your
- 15:51Speaker 2: lawn looks like. This is what your paint looks like.
- 15:54Speaker 4: But I'm saying, if the garbage truck has the camera
- 15:57Speaker 4: in the AI, they all I have to bring my
- 16:01Speaker 4: garbage pails, my bins to the street. Once Wheel Street,
- 16:06Speaker 4: I'm no longer monitoring them. Right, somebody puts garbage in there,
- 16:10Speaker 4: and now it flags my garbage bin for having you know,
- 16:14Speaker 4: electronics or whatever it is.
- 16:15Speaker 2: I don't think so, and I'll tell you why, because well,
- 16:18Speaker 2: it does to that extent. But if your normal garbage
- 16:21Speaker 2: truck goes past and every single house is photographed and
- 16:26Speaker 2: AI through the algorithm is able to determine are there violations?
- 16:31Speaker 2: Is the landscaping done per is done per city code,
- 16:37Speaker 2: or let's say in fire areas. And that's not how
- 16:40Speaker 2: I heard this story.
- 16:41Speaker 4: My understanding is that it's on the truck and the
- 16:44Speaker 4: truck is going it's literally going through your trash.
- 16:48Speaker 2: Ah that I didn't know, Okay, I don't How does
- 16:51Speaker 2: the truck go through your trash? I mean, well as
- 16:53Speaker 2: it's going in. Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. I
- 16:56Speaker 2: agree with you that that might be maybe okay, I
- 16:59Speaker 2: think you're wrong, but that that But even if you are,
- 17:01Speaker 2: that's a hell of an argument. I agree. But this
- 17:04Speaker 2: has to do with you know, for example, let's say
- 17:06Speaker 2: shrubbery is too close to the house, or it's the
- 17:09Speaker 2: wrong kind of shrubbery, or the grass is so green
- 17:14Speaker 2: that the only way you can get that green is
- 17:17Speaker 2: over use of water. I mean, there are a million
- 17:20Speaker 2: different ways of doing it and the big issue is
- 17:23Speaker 2: what do they do with that information? And the civil libertarians,
- 17:26Speaker 2: who I rarely agree with on issues like this, have
- 17:30Speaker 2: a point. Now is it easy to fix? Yeah, you
- 17:33Speaker 2: simply say you can't share the information. That's it. We're
- 17:37Speaker 2: going to stop you from sharing the information. And if
- 17:39Speaker 2: you have an AI program that does, you can have
- 17:43Speaker 2: an AI program that says you can't and stops it.
- 17:46Speaker 2: But the technology is such that I mean every well,
- 17:50Speaker 2: look at the ring cameras that are out there. There's
- 17:53Speaker 2: still such thing today. If you have a ring buzzard,
- 17:57Speaker 2: door buzzer in front that it's not a camera, and
- 18:03Speaker 2: we do, I mean, I think, Neil, you do. And
- 18:06Speaker 2: what ends up happening is anybody that comes on the porch,
- 18:09Speaker 2: anybody that passes close to the house notified on the
- 18:13Speaker 2: app and there it is. You're seeing who it is. Now,
- 18:17Speaker 2: as far as the garbage truck is concerned in people
- 18:20Speaker 2: going through the trash, I have no problem with the
- 18:24Speaker 2: truck having a weapon and automatic, some kind of weapon
- 18:29Speaker 2: that would just spray the sidewalk and tell those folks
- 18:32Speaker 2: you don't want. They'll end up being garbage that are
- 18:35Speaker 2: put in the garbage from the time they Okay, never mind,
- 18:38Speaker 2: I'm going off on a tangent that I shouldn't. A
- 18:41Speaker 2: Dodger announcement from Neil Savedra. Indeedy do.
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- 19:14Speaker 2: Got ho there you go, and as we finish it up, Oh,
- 19:18Speaker 2: here's a story that is trending that we're talking about,
- 19:21Speaker 2: and that's that three year old Santa Clarita girl was
- 19:25Speaker 2: bitten by a rattlesnake that was hiding under an Amazon
- 19:28Speaker 2: package at her house. Rushed to the hospital. Looks like
- 19:32Speaker 2: she's going to be Okay, Amy, I am sick and
- 19:35Speaker 2: tired of these three year olds getting bit by rattlesnakes
- 19:38Speaker 2: under Amazon boxes. Let's not do any more of these stories.
- 19:41Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just so tired of stories like that. Also,
- 19:45Speaker 2: you want to be a little careful buying anything from
- 19:47Speaker 2: Amazon Amazon anymore, because well, Rattlesnake's being bitten. You know
- 19:52Speaker 2: what that's about. Okay, a story about Social Security, and
- 19:56Speaker 2: this is something that everybody is going to be involved with.
- 20:02Speaker 2: If you are going to retire in six years and
- 20:05Speaker 2: you are an average dual income couple, expect to receive
- 20:10Speaker 2: about seventeen thousand dollars less in Social Security benefits per year,
- 20:17Speaker 2: seventeen grand less per year. And that's what's going to
- 20:21Speaker 2: happen if Congress doesn't shore up the funds again. And
- 20:26Speaker 2: just how do you do that, Well, you do it
- 20:29Speaker 2: one of two ways or both ways, and that is
- 20:32Speaker 2: reduce the benefits so the Social Security Fund doesn't have
- 20:37Speaker 2: to pay for everything, or increase the age when people retire,
- 20:45Speaker 2: or pay for or tax people more, which is probably
- 20:49Speaker 2: gonna happen with all three. And the shame of it
- 20:52Speaker 2: is is social Security goes into insolvency all orts. It's
- 20:58Speaker 2: scheduled to go into insolvency constantly. I mean, over the years,
- 21:02Speaker 2: we said, okay, it's going to run out by twenty
- 21:04Speaker 2: twenty eight, it's going to run out by twenty thirty two.
- 21:06Speaker 2: Now it's not going to run out. People think that
- 21:09Speaker 2: when Social Security becomes insolvent it runs out of money.
- 21:12Speaker 2: No it doesn't. What it does is simply will become
- 21:16Speaker 2: fewer benefits, less money you get from Social Security, the
- 21:22Speaker 2: more taxes will have to be charged to make up
- 21:25Speaker 2: for the shortfall. And this is well, it's going to
- 21:32Speaker 2: be tough for people who are not collecting Social Security
- 21:36Speaker 2: now because they're grandfathered in. There's no question about that.
- 21:40Speaker 2: Right now, I think the age to retire is sixty seven,
- 21:45Speaker 2: it used to be sixty five. That helps the Social
- 21:48Speaker 2: Security fund big time. Right now. The Social Security tax
- 21:52Speaker 2: is I don't know what it's ten percent, eight percent,
- 21:56Speaker 2: nine percent up to I think one hundred and fifty
- 21:58Speaker 2: thousand dollars of income. And that is on both sides.
- 22:03Speaker 2: The employer pays that as well as the employee. So
- 22:07Speaker 2: we're talking about what ten percent. It's a fortune. It's
- 22:13Speaker 2: thousands of dollars a year, and be prepared if you
- 22:17Speaker 2: are looking at retirement later on, you are going to
- 22:20Speaker 2: have some big problems unless we charge. Unless the government
- 22:26Speaker 2: does something in the way. The government is going to do,
- 22:28Speaker 2: which it always does, is increased, the increased the retirement age,
- 22:33Speaker 2: which I think is going to go to seventy at
- 22:35Speaker 2: some point because people just live a whole lot longer
- 22:39Speaker 2: and they retire a whole lot later, and you're not
- 22:42Speaker 2: going to see as much. You're not going to see
- 22:44Speaker 2: the benefits. And that is Hey, welcome to the world,
- 22:49Speaker 2: Welcome to the socialist quote state in which people receive
- 22:55Speaker 2: governmental benefits Medicare for examples, in the same situation. By
- 23:00Speaker 2: the way, for those of you that hate socialism and
- 23:03Speaker 2: a socialist government, make sure that when Medicare kicks in
- 23:06Speaker 2: when you're sixty five, don't accept Medicare. Just pay for
- 23:11Speaker 2: everything out of pocket or pay for insurance.
- 23:13Speaker 4: And for those of you that love socialistic society, look
- 23:17Speaker 4: how great it's working with that is for security and medicare.
- 23:21Speaker 2: That is also correct. On the other side, and a
- 23:24Speaker 2: lot of argument is those countries that do have national insurance,
- 23:29Speaker 2: national health plans, which I'm in favor of, but the
- 23:33Speaker 2: wait for elective surgery. You can wait fifteen months for
- 23:38Speaker 2: a knee replacement, for example in Canada, you can wait
- 23:42Speaker 2: fourteen months for an abortion. It is just a different
- 23:47Speaker 2: way of dealing with how a government runs it's medical
- 23:52Speaker 2: plans and medical services. Okay, guys, we're done. It is over.
- 23:57Speaker 2: Tomorrow morning we start all over again. We are back
- 24:01Speaker 2: with Amy and Will Coleschreiber. Wake up Call and Neil
- 24:04Speaker 2: and I come aboard. At six Amy and Kono, the
- 24:07Speaker 2: rest of the crowd make all of this happen. Gary
- 24:10Speaker 2: and Shannon Up and well. Tomorrow, same time, same station,
- 24:15Speaker 2: kf I am six forty.
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