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‘Tech Tuesday’ with Rich DeMuro | California Aviation Fuel Raising Gas Prices · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: Rich Tomorrow rich on Tech every Saturday, eleven am to
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Rich, Good morning to you. Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry to take that time away from you to
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  Speaker 2: talk about the Jesus story, but it's a lot more
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh here, what a way to call me up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Amazon is acquiring the satellite company, and I mean
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  Speaker 2: for how many billions of dollars?
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  Speaker 3: So let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, this is a pretty big deal. So Amazon is
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  Speaker 6: acquiring global Star. This is the satellite company behind Apple's
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  Speaker 6: emergency SOS feature.
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  Speaker 1: So when I saw this, I said, ooh, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 6: Apparently the deal is valued around eleven billion dollars. And
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  Speaker 6: the main thing that well, there's two things here. Number one,
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  Speaker 6: Apple's iPhone satellite feature will continue working. That's the good news.
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  Speaker 6: They mentioned it specifically in this deal. But the bigger
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  Speaker 6: news is that this really bolsters Amazon's satellite project, which
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  Speaker 6: is called Leo. So instantly they're going to get like
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  Speaker 6: working satellites up in the sky already, and that's going
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  Speaker 6: to help them rival Elon Musk's Starlink in a bigger way,
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  Speaker 6: which is really the market leader here. But now global
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  Speaker 6: Star going to be a big contender now that they
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  Speaker 6: have Apple, not only Apple behind them, but also Amazon.
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  Speaker 6: At this point, hey.
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  Speaker 2: How many companies do this because the only one I
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  Speaker 2: was aware of his star Link. But of course there
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  Speaker 2: has to be competition out there.
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  Speaker 3: And are they.
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  Speaker 2: Throwing up thousands of satellites at each company?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and there are a couple of competitors out there.
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  Speaker 6: I think Global Star was probably the biggest competitor to
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  Speaker 6: Starlink at this point. There are others lots of people
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  Speaker 6: trying to do this. Problem is it costs a lot
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  Speaker 6: of money. And if you look at the satellites out
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  Speaker 6: in space, Starlink is ahead in a very very big way.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 6: You can look at this website that I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 6: Satellite Map dot Space. You can see they've got communications.
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  Speaker 6: Iridium is another company, Global Stars, like the one we
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  Speaker 6: just talked about. AST, that's the company I believe that
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  Speaker 6: Verizon is working with. And then link l y NK.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't heard of that one. They only have just
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  Speaker 6: four satellites out there. So when you look at these
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  Speaker 6: different satellite companies, there's just none of them. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: Iridium eighty satellites, Global starlet's how many they have eighty
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  Speaker 6: five and AST has seven. So this is the reason
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  Speaker 6: why when you actually try to use these emergency satellite
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  Speaker 6: features on your phone.
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  Speaker 1: That's not Starlink. By the way.
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  Speaker 6: Starlink it works everywhere, it works in your pocket. With
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  Speaker 6: these other companies, you have to hold your phone out
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  Speaker 6: in the sky for a period of time until the
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  Speaker 6: satellite literally passes over your phone to pick up that message.
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  Speaker 6: So it's a very different experience depending on whether you're
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  Speaker 6: using an iPhone or a Starlink enabled phone through T
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  Speaker 6: Mobile or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very big difference with an SOS called going out.
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  Speaker 2: How many satellites does the Musk organization have Starlink?
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  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, let me look, I think it's up
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  Speaker 6: to let's see here, we are up to ten and thirteen. Wow,
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  Speaker 6: that is an incredible number. And here's the you know,
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  Speaker 6: the real winner here are people because we are now
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  Speaker 6: living in a world where you have connectivity everywhere anywhere
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  Speaker 6: you go. So if you're hiking, if you know for
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  Speaker 6: emergency services, work out of home, you know you want
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  Speaker 6: to work anywhere in the world, you know you can
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  Speaker 6: do it now. The thing is this is just going
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  Speaker 6: to keep getting better, and the real winner will be
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  Speaker 6: when we can make calls on our phone using satellite
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  Speaker 6: from anywhere we are, which is something that you know,
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  Speaker 6: right now you need a satellite phone. Right now they're
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  Speaker 6: limiting you to texting, But in the future, your cell
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  Speaker 6: phone potentially will have that capability of just making a
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  Speaker 6: call anywhere over satellite's.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's truly incredible.
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  Speaker 2: And then then Elon Musk, as crazy as he is,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody knows he is nuts. I mean, you talk
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  Speaker 2: about a visionary not only with the cars, electric cars,
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  Speaker 2: but with this, I mean all of it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the starlink.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just way above you know, his space system.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, the guy is scary, brilliant and crazy
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  Speaker 2: at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: And so how does anybody how does.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody catch up with a guy You're at eighty satellites
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  Speaker 2: and he's at two thousand, or he's at yeah, two
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  Speaker 2: thousand satellites.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you go with that ten thousand?
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  Speaker 6: I mean this guy ten thousand and I stay corrected.
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  Speaker 2: Where how do you compete against that without spending billions?
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  Speaker 1: And over the course of years, Well, look what just happened.
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  Speaker 6: I mean Amazon tried to do it on their own
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  Speaker 6: with their you know, they were launching, they planned on
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  Speaker 6: launching I think about three thousand satellites in the next year.
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  Speaker 6: So now they just acquired this company that doesn't have much,
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  Speaker 6: but they've got the infrastructure and they have that huge
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  Speaker 6: deal with Apple. So that is one way of catching up,
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  Speaker 6: is just acquiring other companies that are doing what you're
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  Speaker 6: trying to do. And the fact is, look, the fact
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  Speaker 6: that Amazon is getting into this in such a big
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  Speaker 6: way is going to have a lot of repercussions for
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  Speaker 6: their company. Actually a lot of benefits for their company,
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  Speaker 6: because think about it, Amazon is a logistics company. They
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  Speaker 6: need to know where their trucks are, they need to
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  Speaker 6: know where their people are, where their packages are at any.
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  Speaker 1: Given moment in time.
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  Speaker 6: And they probably spent a lot of money on communications.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that.
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  Speaker 6: They bought this satellite company probably helps them in a
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  Speaker 6: big way to you know, to lower some costs and
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  Speaker 6: also to make some money from reselling these communication services.
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  Speaker 2: Got it all, right, Rich, We talk about the cybercrime
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  Speaker 2: and how badly it's gotten. We really don't know a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the actual numbers because a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: is dealing with banks and credit cards, and the banks
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  Speaker 2: and credit card companies do not share with us how
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  Speaker 2: much money that they're sucking up, but we do know
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  Speaker 2: that it's growing like crazy, So if you would jump
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  Speaker 2: in on that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of underreporting in this
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  Speaker 6: area because people are embarrassed to come forward. They don't
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  Speaker 6: even know they've gotten scammed. A lot of it is
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  Speaker 6: written off as like well I just paid for that
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  Speaker 6: and I didn't get anything. But we do have an
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  Speaker 6: FBI report latest report. According to them, Americans lost twenty
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  Speaker 6: one billion dollars to cybercrime twenty one billion last year,
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  Speaker 6: So that's a huge jump from last year. And scams
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  Speaker 6: are definitely getting more sophisticated. Obviously, a lot of this
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  Speaker 6: stuff happens online. The biggest category is investment scams and
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  Speaker 6: if you can imagine, crypto related fraud is huge. And
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  Speaker 6: I will give you a personal story here. So I
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  Speaker 6: was talking to a family member who was trying to
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  Speaker 6: sell a car and they got contacted on one of
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  Speaker 6: these websites and the person wanted them to send him crypto.
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  Speaker 6: And I said to this family member, I said, you
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  Speaker 6: don't even know crypto, is't you don't have a crypto account.
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  Speaker 6: Oh well, they sent me all the information to sign
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  Speaker 6: up and get get the account up and running and
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  Speaker 6: I said, no, that is a scam. Nobody needs to
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  Speaker 6: be paid in crypto, and actually they want to be
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  Speaker 6: They wanted to pay, they wanted him to pay, or
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  Speaker 6: the person wanted to pay them more than the car
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  Speaker 6: was worth, and then they would get the money back
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  Speaker 6: in cash.
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  Speaker 1: It was a whole thing. It's just like, come on.
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  Speaker 6: Business emails still get compromised, tech support scams, romance scams,
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  Speaker 6: all these scams. What's interesting a lot of them don't
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  Speaker 6: even involve hacking. It's just about tricking people. And so
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  Speaker 6: that's my takeaway is just be aware. A lot of
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  Speaker 6: people don't realize they're getting scammed. Slow down, take a breath,
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  Speaker 6: take a moment, and tell someone else. Because this family
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  Speaker 6: member didn't want to tell anyone else they were doing
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  Speaker 6: this because oh, you're too busy. I don't want to
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  Speaker 6: deal with you. I don't want to have to you know,
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  Speaker 6: bother you, no, bother your friends and family.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The one that strikes me and I get these questions
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  Speaker 2: on hand along the law, that's really devastating and just
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  Speaker 2: you know, heartbreaking, is these you know, little old ladies
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  Speaker 2: who are lonely there by themselves, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: the scams start and just take advantage of vulnerable people.
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  Speaker 2: And it's with AI. I think it's fairly easy to
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  Speaker 2: find out who's who lives alone, how old someone is,
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  Speaker 2: family members that live at least a thousand miles away
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  Speaker 2: or two thousand miles away. We can find out anything,
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  Speaker 2: can't we. I mean, if you actually ran my information,
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  Speaker 2: you'd know everything about me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of that happening. A lot. That's
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  Speaker 1: the other thing.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of these you know, people don't really like
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  Speaker 6: you said, there is so much information about people out
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  Speaker 6: there online.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these things are targeted.
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  Speaker 6: Some of them are broad, you know, you just get
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  Speaker 6: a phone call or a scam text whatever, but a
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  Speaker 6: lot of it, like they do, actually have more information
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  Speaker 6: about you than you might think, and so you have
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  Speaker 6: to be aware that, like, no matter who's calling you,
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  Speaker 6: there may be a nefarious purpose, you know, if it's
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  Speaker 6: and especially like you said, with these deep fake scams,
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  Speaker 6: the phone call scams where they clone the voices, people
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  Speaker 6: actually get these things. And like you said, you mentioned
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  Speaker 6: them on your show, my show on the weekends. When
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  Speaker 6: I talk about these things, people come out of the
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  Speaker 6: woodwork and they email me and they say rich. This
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  Speaker 6: actually happened to a family member. They got scammed by
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  Speaker 6: a voice cloning scam where literally they will call your house.
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  Speaker 6: The person on the other end sounds like your loved one,
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  Speaker 6: your daughter, your son, family member saying they need money
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  Speaker 6: or they need help, and you know a lot of
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  Speaker 6: times they don't want you to get off the phone,
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  Speaker 6: and so you can't call to confirm this person. But
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  Speaker 6: the one that the person that emailed me said, you know,
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  Speaker 6: they were standing right there and so they knew it
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  Speaker 6: was a scam immediately. But these things do happen, so
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  Speaker 6: you just have to be aware.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Philippines, your loved one is in jail
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  Speaker 2: and needs bail money like right now, and police send
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  Speaker 2: it here, and it was and people fall for that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, people fall because they you know,
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  Speaker 2: they love their kids, they love their grandchildren. I'm never
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to worry about that. If anybody were to
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  Speaker 2: call me, I'd go, yeah, go ahead and just keep them.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I've been.
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  Speaker 2: A victim of scams before, but mine was the business
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  Speaker 2: scams where I was billed for little bits of money,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, eighty dollars here for you know,
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  Speaker 2: paper goods or whatever. And because it's when you have
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  Speaker 2: a business and you're dealing with thousands of dollars going out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, someone sends you one hundred and twenty dollars bill,
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  Speaker 2: you don't pay attention to it.
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  Speaker 3: And when you look at that coming up.
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  Speaker 2: And I was a victim of that until I looked
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  Speaker 2: really carefully at at what was going on.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's eight million.
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  Speaker 2: And I consider myself fairly sophisticated because I'm a cynic.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe anything anybody sends me at all.
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  Speaker 2: Uh uh. But you know, I don't know how I've
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  Speaker 2: been scammed. I know, and that instance I was, so
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  Speaker 2: let me ask you, have you been scammed?
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  Speaker 3: And you're a multi stated as I know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I have not been scammed, thankfully, But
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  Speaker 6: I will tell you that I think that what you
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  Speaker 6: just mentioned is a is a pretty big vector area
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  Speaker 6: because think about it. If you're getting all these little
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  Speaker 6: charges on your card. Now, we buy on Amazon all
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  Speaker 6: the time. You know, if someone were to put an
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  Speaker 6: Amazon charge on your card, how would you know if
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  Speaker 6: that was a legitimate charge? You do you remember every
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  Speaker 6: single Amazon charge that you have made, and for the
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  Speaker 6: exact amount probably not so if companies were you know,
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  Speaker 6: if scam artists were putting these little charges on your
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  Speaker 6: credit card that were Amazon seemingly related, you may not
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  Speaker 6: know the difference. So, you know, people don't like to
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  Speaker 6: check their bills. They don't like to you know, you
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  Speaker 6: get a bill in the mail, you pay it, especially
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  Speaker 6: medical billing. You know, oh, this blood test, whatever it was,
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  Speaker 6: you just pay it. So just be aware. I got
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  Speaker 6: I got a thing bill in the mail the other
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  Speaker 6: day for the statement of information from the California you know,
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  Speaker 6: Security Off whatever they call it, for the if you
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  Speaker 6: have an LLC and it turns out it was a scam,
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  Speaker 6: like this company charges you five hundred dollars to file
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  Speaker 6: it on your behalf or whatever, when it's really something
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  Speaker 6: you can charge do yourself for twenty bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see a lot of those homestead homestead your
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  Speaker 2: home or yeah, a lot of that. All right, Rich,
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  Speaker 2: we'll catch you this Saturday, eleven o'clock today, KTLA every
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  Speaker 2: day and Instagram at rich on Tech website, rich on
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  Speaker 2: Tech dot tv. You have a good one, Rich, Take care.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks. Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom in Calififornia. I mean, we're big on alternative
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  Speaker 2: energy as much as the Trump administration goes one way,
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  Speaker 2: California goes.
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  Speaker 3: The other way.
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  Speaker 2: And when it comes to renewable energies, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to climate change, when it comes to basically taking care
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  Speaker 2: of an environment, California's at the forefront. So here's what
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom just did. And some of this makes sense,
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  Speaker 2: and well, actually none of it makes sense. And what
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  Speaker 2: he wants to do is to use road repair funds
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  Speaker 2: to subsidize green jet fuel. And there was a company,
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  Speaker 2: a Houston oil company that lobbied Newsom's office.
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  Speaker 3: This all happened really quietly.
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  Speaker 2: So Newsom is advancing a plan that could funnel hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of millions dollars in road dollars to A and one
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  Speaker 2: oil refinery and pitching it as a cleaner jet fuel initiative,
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  Speaker 2: and it is the problem is does it make any sense?
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  Speaker 2: And so the credit will come from vote from funds
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: that we designated for highway and local streets, and no
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  Speaker 2: doubt it will raise gas prices for most drivers. And
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  Speaker 2: here is the problem with it. Although it will be
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  Speaker 2: better for the environment, we're talking about biofuels. Jet biofuels,
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  Speaker 2: you make it out of rotten seaweed, and grease that
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  Speaker 2: you get from McDonald's and Burger King, and you make
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  Speaker 2: it out of whatever the hell they make.
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  Speaker 3: Biofuels out of.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is is that most economists say it costs
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  Speaker 2: ten times more to cut emissions than it would with
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  Speaker 2: almost any other program. I mean, that's kind of crazy,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to take money away from the roads.
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  Speaker 3: It's a four page proposal, and so here is the
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  Speaker 3: way it works.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tax credit to producer, of which only two
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  Speaker 2: companies who produce state certified jet biofuel and oh diesel
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  Speaker 2: taxes in California. They're the only two companies that can
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  Speaker 2: claim the credit. Only one, Phillips sixty six, has confirmed
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  Speaker 2: it would qualify for the credit. The company spent one
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  Speaker 2: point twenty five billion dollars converting a refineryate has in
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  Speaker 2: Contra Costa County from a traditional petroleum refinery to biofuels.
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  Speaker 2: And it's all about not using normal aviation gas. It's
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  Speaker 2: all about using these biofuels which are hideously expensive to produce,
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  Speaker 2: but it's better for the environment used cooking grease, animal fats.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that is discussing although if you know there
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  Speaker 2: are cars that I use biofuel.
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  Speaker 3: You ever smelled a car that put bio.
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  Speaker 2: Fuel into the tank and as they pass you smells
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  Speaker 2: like French fries.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, That's what I was gonna say. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: smells great. It's like, oh, it's tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, the state this is the State Analyst's office, estimates
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  Speaker 2: that the proposal is going to cost between one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty five to three hundred million dollars. But the
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  Speaker 2: legislature we're talking about, the the legislative analysts are saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a lot higher than that. And
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  Speaker 2: so here's newsom isn't that terrific? And we're going to
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  Speaker 2: make this place green even if it makes absolutely no
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  Speaker 2: sense whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: When does reality ever hit anybody? At this point?
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  Speaker 2: Where do people come to the table and not go crazy?
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  Speaker 2: I think those days are gone. They really have, Oh
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  Speaker 2: talking about going crazy?
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  Speaker 7: Why I am six forty bill handle here? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 7: everybody's doing the way. Oh good for you, hands up
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  Speaker 7: in the air, yes, Hi, good for you.
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  Speaker 2: This is when I wish this was television, truly, I
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  Speaker 2: wish it were Okay, why is that?
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  Speaker 3: What is going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me start with a statement and that is,
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  Speaker 2: if I were a Republican running for Congress, maybe rerunning
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  Speaker 2: for Congress, and I am putting basically putting myself in
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the coattails of Donald Trump, I'd be sweating some bullets
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: right now because I'm going to argue that President Trump
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: is doing everything he can to destroy chances of Republicans
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: winning the next election. Coming out case in point his
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  Speaker 2: latest episode, and that is his decision to post an
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  Speaker 2: Ai generated him depicting him.
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  Speaker 3: As Jesus, straight out Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you think there's some pushback from Catholic Evangelical Christian supporters.
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  Speaker 2: John Yepp, who CEO of Catholics for Catholics, who has
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: hosted faith events at Mar A Lago, said, we're a
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: little bit beside ourselves really. On Sunday night, he was
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: eating dinner after church services. His phone lights up and messages.
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  Speaker 2: Now are the now deleted image. They're talking about that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, this is crazy, And the sentiment around
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: the table said, yeah, one of sadness, because we are
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: truly confused by this president, especially after Catholics gave him
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: such a resounding vote, and he is treating our religion,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: our faith was such disrespect at this moment. If you
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: look at the posts and it's up there, you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: you can google it. You know he deleted it, but
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: it's still.
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  Speaker 3: There for the world.
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  Speaker 2: See there he is in what appears to be well
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  Speaker 2: robes that look an awful light like the robes that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus would would wear. He is holding an orb in
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: his hand, which from eminite emanates light from his other
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: hand is putting it on the forehead of someone laying down,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: and behind that someone's head light emanates from there. And
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the bottom line is he's got people praying in the background.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: He's got the American.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Flag fighters fighter jet fighters over the Statue of Liberty.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's all one conflated mess. And the problem
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: is is the backlash. And here is his problem, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I think it is his problem. He will never either
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: apologize or not double down. Not once have I heard
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: him not doubled, seen him double down, not once that
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: he has not done that.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just see the prompt.
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  Speaker 5: If he I want to see the prompt, and if
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: he prompted, AI make me look like a doctor. Oh
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: that's the other thing, yes, you know, it's he claims,
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  Speaker 5: the way you prompted, make me look like a doctor,
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: and that's what came out of the AI.
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  Speaker 2: And when he uh, when that came out and he
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: looks like Jesus. I mean, there's no question if you
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: take a look at this saying there is Donald Trump
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: is Jesus straight out And he said, no, No, I
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: thought I was being depicted as a doctor helping people
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Red Cross because I really support the Red Cross.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: All right. I I don't know who believes that.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Jd Vance said it was a joke, and then he
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: ran a video of pop Leo just laughing his ass off,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: saying that was one of the funniest jokes I've ever heard, right,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: of course, And so there's a are you surprised that
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: he didn't just say, you know what, I made mistake.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have put that up there, But he can't.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: He just can't say that. So is the backlash going
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: to go away? Of course it is, of course it is?
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  Speaker 3: Was it?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Here is the White House was asked for a statement.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And by the way, this also statement about when he
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: posted on true Social and AI generated image of himself
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: as pope. But this one's one step above this is Jesus.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: So I guess that crosses another line and the White House.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: The only thing the White House said when asked about
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: this post, the President has delivered unprecedented victories for Americans
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  Speaker 2: the faith, and he will continue to protect and expand
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: our sacred right to religious freedom.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: That was a statement by the White House.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: How about the fact that he posted as himself as Jesus.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: The President has delivered unprecedented victories for religious folks in
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: this country.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: So is this going to hurt him?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Well, you add this, and you add what's going on
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: in Iran, you add what's going on with his depiction
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: of the pope you ask for, you talk about his
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: fight with Pope Leo, And that's the other thing. The
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: hubris strives me nuts. The only reason Pope Leo was
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: elected pope is because he is an American and they
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: had to take into account Donald Trump as president. That
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: was the overriding reason why the College of Cardinals elected
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Leo the pope because of Donald Trump. Is there anything
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: that happens in this world that is not affected by
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump anything?
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I guess not. I guess not. It is crazy.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: And for those of you that are saying, oh handle,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: you're just all one sided, I gotta tell you this
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: is getting better and better. You know what, for those
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: of you who disagree with everything I say, which you
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: know is legitimate. I mean there are people that are
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: on the other side of the coin when it comes
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: to this administration, defend this one for me.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Would you please defend this one? All right? We're done.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Coming up Gary and Shannon tomorrow we are back again.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Wake Up Call with Amy and Will Neil and I
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: come aboard and there's Cono and Ann desperately looking for
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Jesus and unfortunately they're looking at a picture of Donald
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Trump and don't really understand what's going on.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, we're done. Well, I don't know if that was
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: sacrilege or not, but yeah, that almost worked. No, it didn't.
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