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‘Tech Tuesday’ with Rich DeMuro | New California Laws for 2026 · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: morning crew. Handle is off today and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the week, but I'm here with Will Cole Schreiber Kono
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  Speaker 1: and we've got Heather Brooker in for Amy and Matthew
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  Speaker 1: in for and and.
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  Speaker 2: Of course today's Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got Rich der Muro, host of Rich on Tech,
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  Speaker 1: here on KFI Saturday's eleven am to two pm and
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  Speaker 1: all over the place on Channel five. Already seen him
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  Speaker 1: this morning, already graced OAR studio with your mug.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing Rich, Hey, I'm doing great. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: you got us tuned in over there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you always, sir always.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we've gone through all the different colors,
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  Speaker 1: Mondays and Fridays, Black Friday, Tech, Monday, whatever we've done
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  Speaker 1: prior to the holidays. Everybody gets all their tech stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and so what do we do now the holidays are over?
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  Speaker 2: What are we looking at? What's new?
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's on the tech highways and byways right now?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the interesting thing right now is that we go
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  Speaker 3: right from the holidays to new gadgets at CS. So
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  Speaker 3: next week kicking off on Sunday actually is CS in
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  Speaker 3: Las Vegas, which is we're all beheaded, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: this week for the average person right now is when
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  Speaker 3: they're playing.
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  Speaker 2: With their gadgets.
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  Speaker 3: So I just heard from some people here that saying, hey, Rich,
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  Speaker 3: thanks for recommendation. I got those metaglasses. I love them.
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  Speaker 3: And so that was something I saw a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: people playing with. You know, what I also saw over
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  Speaker 3: the holidays is a lot of people are using this
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  Speaker 3: thing called brick. Have you heard of this? Oh yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you tap your phone to it and it keeps you
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  Speaker 3: from scrolling on social media. So I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people got that, which of course works well with
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  Speaker 3: the new year, because we all have these resolutions that
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to scroll less, doom, scroll less, you know,
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  Speaker 3: work on ourselves more.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever. You had the creator on the show, didn't.
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  Speaker 3: You We didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't.
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  Speaker 3: We had a guy from an app called be Present,
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  Speaker 3: which is.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you might have mentioned it there because
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident I heard about it on your program.
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  Speaker 1: The whole concept of you know, bricking your phone in
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  Speaker 1: a temporary way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean there's like a million and one apps
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  Speaker 3: that will do this, and be Present is one of
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  Speaker 3: them that my kid downloaded. And you know, they have
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  Speaker 3: this thing called beast Mode, which basically, you know, all
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  Speaker 3: these apps they kind of work with Apple screen Time,
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  Speaker 3: and so you know, they let you kind of stop
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  Speaker 3: the blocking if you really want to. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: maybe two extra taps. But with this, with this block
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  Speaker 3: the brick thing, and also the be Present app, you
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  Speaker 3: have what's called beast Mode, and you can basically make
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  Speaker 3: it so that you cannot get past the blocking of
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  Speaker 3: these apps unless you just wait. You have to wait
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  Speaker 3: the time or tap the device.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: When I left management here at the station, the very
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  Speaker 1: first thing I did was turned off my ringer and interesting, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I have an Apple Watch, so I leave my phone.
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  Speaker 2: I never left my phone anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I've been called back to the station from vacations in
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  Speaker 1: the past, all kinds of stuff. But the minute I left,
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  Speaker 1: I turned off my ringer. It has not been on since.
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  Speaker 1: And I you know, if my phone, if my wrist rattles,
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  Speaker 1: I know someone's trying to get a hold of me.
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  Speaker 1: And if the phone's not directly in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: then I'll get back to them when I get back
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  Speaker 1: to my phone. But that's been me slowly kind of
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  Speaker 1: backing off being i mean really highly reachable back in
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  Speaker 1: the day to going You know what, if I know
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  Speaker 1: where my wife and my boy are, then there's no emergencies.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, two notes on that. Number one back in the day,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sure maybe it's the same in the radio business,
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  Speaker 3: but in TV when you're when you're coming up in
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  Speaker 3: the world as a reporter, you have to sleep with
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  Speaker 3: the scanner. Oh back in the day, so you you
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  Speaker 3: would put the scanner next to your pillow and literally
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  Speaker 3: sit there and listen for anything that might come over
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  Speaker 3: the scanner that you've got to run out and cover
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  Speaker 3: or call the station or whatever. So that's number one.
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  Speaker 3: I posted what help? And nowadays I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the scanners are like encrypted, so it's like tough
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  Speaker 3: for those stations to listen to them or something. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, I know that's such a thing. The second
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  Speaker 3: thing is I posted this on my on my Facebook.
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  Speaker 3: When I go home. I'm from New Jersey. When I
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  Speaker 3: go home and anytime I'm with just my immediate family,
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  Speaker 3: like my kids, my you know, my wife and kids,
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  Speaker 3: or I'm at home, I am the most at peace
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  Speaker 3: human being you have ever seen in your life, because
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  Speaker 3: everything that's truly important to me is right there and
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  Speaker 3: accounted for, and I sleep better. I am just totally relaxed.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like it's it's you know, other people
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  Speaker 3: feel that when they go home, when they're with their
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  Speaker 3: family or just you know, their close loved ones and
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  Speaker 3: you don't need the phone. You realize it just fades
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  Speaker 3: into the background.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it just is not it. It's been very freeing.
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  Speaker 1: I remember getting my first iPhone oh so many years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and I had had cell phones prior to that, but
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  Speaker 1: the minute it was connected to my email and the notifications,
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  Speaker 1: I remember I had anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: At first.
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  Speaker 1: It was like most of it was spam and garbage,
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  Speaker 1: but it just I felt like I was needed every second.
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  Speaker 1: It's like and then you know, we slowly get more
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  Speaker 1: relaxed around that, but it is it is freeing to
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  Speaker 1: go handle hates it, He goes, Yeah, I can never
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  Speaker 1: get a hold of you. I said, listen, You'll always
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  Speaker 1: hear from me within an hour or so.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get back to you.
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  Speaker 1: But no, I don't have it up my ass like
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  Speaker 1: I used to all the time. That's a pretty picture
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  Speaker 1: because I needed, you know, worked in news and had
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  Speaker 1: to be you know, reached at any and every moment.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I just don't. All right, we come back.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get into some stuff your core rule
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  Speaker 1: for apps, cross platform compatibility and the like. Things like
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  Speaker 1: that that are going on that are connecting us even
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  Speaker 1: more when we return talking to Rich Dr Muro of course,
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  Speaker 1: don't forget to sign up for his newsletter. Incredibly informative,
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  Speaker 1: and I love the fact that I can go back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I'm in the shower getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: the show with a four report on Saturday or whatever ever,
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  Speaker 1: and you say something and go, God, it's great to
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  Speaker 1: be able to go back and go through your archives
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  Speaker 1: or be able to find a company or an app
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  Speaker 1: or what have you. And I know how much that
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  Speaker 1: must take to do. So I encourage people to utilize
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  Speaker 1: that as a resource so helpful.
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  Speaker 4: I sign up for it.
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  Speaker 5: But I also Rich talked about some flight software that
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  Speaker 5: gives you money back on plane tickets that you buy,
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  Speaker 5: and I signed up for that because I was like,
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  Speaker 5: this is amazing, what a great deal. So Rich has
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  Speaker 5: such great information. I sec I second that, Neil, thank you,
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  Speaker 5: look a.
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  Speaker 2: Look at your fans.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro on with us.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be going to CES soon and doing
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  Speaker 1: everything not to catch whatever crud everybody catches when they
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  Speaker 1: go there each year. But right now, talking about most
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  Speaker 1: relied on apps, let's start with travel.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, uh so number one E sims. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: you go to a different country, you can now pretty
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  Speaker 3: much use your phone as long as it's unlocked in
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  Speaker 3: that country with what's called an es and the app
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  Speaker 3: I like there is called aral A R A l O.
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  Speaker 2: I've used it everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I only had one hiccup once using it on an
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  Speaker 3: Android phone in Japan, but otherwise it's a really great
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  Speaker 3: way to stay connected. And it's simple. You can buy
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  Speaker 3: the eSIM here in the US before you even leave,
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  Speaker 3: and it's all activated online on your phone. A low flighty.
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  Speaker 3: This app is the best flight tracking app I've ever used.
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  Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable. Like I knew the other day we
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  Speaker 3: were flying back from New Jersey. I knew before United
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  Speaker 3: said anything that our flight was delayed by like fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 3: My wife's like, how do you know? I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: my app Flighty that I used. She said, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a great flight. And I just love the
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  Speaker 3: data it gives you, like it'll tell you like the
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  Speaker 3: plane we were on. We were on that same exact
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  Speaker 3: plane going out to New Jersey. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is the same plane we were on there. How
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  Speaker 3: do you know that Flighty? Let's see what else? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: those are my favorite travel apps for now? What else
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  Speaker 3: you want to hear about?
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  Speaker 2: You know them?
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  Speaker 1: You brought to my attention and I ended up using
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  Speaker 1: it when I went to Handle's wedding in Italy last year.
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  Speaker 1: They airlow and it worked out beautifully.
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  Speaker 2: That was a hot time.
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  Speaker 1: So privacy is a big deal. Security, passwords, that type
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  Speaker 1: of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you go for that?
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  Speaker 3: Got a couple of recommendations there for sure. This year
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  Speaker 3: I switched to Bitwarden, which I was paying for a
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  Speaker 3: password manager. This one is cross platform, it's completely free,
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  Speaker 3: it works really well Bitwarden, and it's you know, I've
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  Speaker 3: interviewed the company before basically how do they do this
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  Speaker 3: for free? Well? The whole point is that, like someone
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  Speaker 3: that you know just enough people use it that people
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  Speaker 3: that make decisions and companies will say, hey, we should
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  Speaker 3: use this, you know, their corporate solutions for our company,
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  Speaker 3: and then they'll pay for that. But all this the
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  Speaker 3: personal stuff is free at the basic level, and it
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  Speaker 3: does a lot of stuff for free. The other thing
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  Speaker 3: is Proton Authenticator. So you always hear me talk about
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  Speaker 3: my radio show two factor authentication. Typically you might get
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  Speaker 3: those texts from companies that says, hey, here's your secret,
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  Speaker 3: enter it at the website. That's fine, but if your
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  Speaker 3: phone number was ever to get hacked or your phone
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  Speaker 3: got into the hands of a bad person, they would
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  Speaker 3: be able to access some of your accounts because of that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why I always recommend an authentication app that
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  Speaker 3: generates those numbers on your device, and Proton works really
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  Speaker 3: well at doing that. Proton Authenticator. So those are two
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  Speaker 3: apps I think that people should upgrade to this year
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  Speaker 3: to better improve their security.
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  Speaker 1: The password manager of who heard you talk before Bitwarden
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  Speaker 1: when they're free like that. I know that you've pointed
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  Speaker 1: to a way that they make money there, but do
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  Speaker 1: you ever worry that they're going to go out of
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  Speaker 1: business or it's going to be fly by night, because
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  Speaker 1: they don't have a business model that's directly tied to
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  Speaker 1: you as the user.
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  Speaker 3: Not with that company. They've been in the business for
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  Speaker 3: a very long time. They're very popular. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: tech folks like them, and they also are open source,
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  Speaker 3: which people love because you can dig into the code
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  Speaker 3: make sure everything's on the up and up. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that, you know, there's always a chance of a
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  Speaker 3: company going out of business. The other thing people don't
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  Speaker 3: realize about password managers is that you can export your data.
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  Speaker 3: So when I switched this year from dash Lane, I
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  Speaker 3: literally just did one export of my passwords, brought them
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  Speaker 3: into the new password manager, and that's it. It's done.
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  Speaker 3: It's that simple, So it's not something where you're stuck
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  Speaker 3: in that password manager forever if something were to happen
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  Speaker 3: with that company.
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  Speaker 1: Onto productivity, you have in your hands and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different things, and most of us don't have one
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  Speaker 1: singular job or interest anymore, So what about productivity, memory, capture,
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  Speaker 1: voice memos, this type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so a couple of apps for the iPhone that
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  Speaker 3: I love, and I'm saying iPhone because you know you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned earlier in the t's that my rule of thumb
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  Speaker 3: is that I like apps that work on both iPhone
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  Speaker 3: and Android. People accuse me of being an iPhone lover
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  Speaker 3: Android lover. Whatever I'm covering, I'm the opposite, right like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you only talk about Samsung, Oh you only talk about iPhone.
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  Speaker 2: Not true.
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  Speaker 3: I talk about them all, and I like things that
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  Speaker 3: work on both platforms because I think that text should
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  Speaker 3: be open. I think that there should be connecting people
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  Speaker 3: and not dividing them, which is what Apple did for
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  Speaker 3: a long time with I Message and it still bugs
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  Speaker 3: me anyway. So a couple of things I like that
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  Speaker 3: are only sometimes things are only available on the iPhone.
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  Speaker 3: One of those things is called whisper Memos, and this
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  Speaker 3: is my all time favorite memo note taking app. You
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  Speaker 3: say something into your Apple Watch or your iPhone and
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  Speaker 3: it transcribes it perfectly and then sends it to your
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  Speaker 3: email so you can deal with it later you have
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  Speaker 3: a memory of whatever it is. The other one I
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  Speaker 3: like is called whisper flow wispr whisperflow dot Ai. I
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  Speaker 3: turned a lot of people onto this typing app. It
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  Speaker 3: works on iPhone, it works on Windows, it works on Mac,
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  Speaker 3: and it's basically just a really easy way to dictate
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  Speaker 3: your thoughts for emails and things, and it just works
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  Speaker 3: really well voice to text. It's pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Lastly, ais the top of everyone's list automation that type
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  Speaker 1: of thing where your go to apps for that.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I this year I really used chat gibt
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  Speaker 3: the most. I know that sounds generic, but I think
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  Speaker 3: chat gbt is the best overall. AI. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's the best at everything. I will tell you that
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  Speaker 3: Gemini Nano Banana, their image generation and editing is just unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it truly is. If you haven't tried it,
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  Speaker 3: Gemini dot Google dot com, put in a photo, old photo,
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  Speaker 3: new photo, ask for an edit something that would take
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  Speaker 3: photoshop years of experience and hours to do, take seconds.
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  Speaker 3: And I will tell you the one that I am
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  Speaker 3: most impressed with that I just started using is Grock
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  Speaker 3: and it's a sleeper. I'm telling you it's really really good.
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  Speaker 3: I know people, you know, sometimes people are on either
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  Speaker 3: side of elon Musk, but Grok is actually really good
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  Speaker 3: and it has a little bit of a personality compared
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  Speaker 3: to the other one. So give it a spin if
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  Speaker 3: you're into that. So what would you use grock for?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I find is it for is like
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  Speaker 3: up to date information. Like it's really good at showing
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  Speaker 3: you when it's searching the web in real time to
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  Speaker 3: find more information about what you're asking for. And I
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  Speaker 3: really like how it does that. It'll say scanning you know,
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and two hundred websites at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: and it gets stuff right. I mean, it's really really good. Now,
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  Speaker 3: all of these things make stuff up, so you have
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  Speaker 3: to be careful, but I will tell you that I
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  Speaker 3: think that you know, again, overall, chat GBT does a
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  Speaker 3: great job. It's kind of like the Kleenex of chatbots.
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  Speaker 3: I think that GROCK is if you want something that's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more edgy, a little bit more attitude personality.
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  Speaker 3: And then Google Gemini is great for built into Google apps.
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  Speaker 3: And also the image generation and editing is just unsurpassed
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of this the tech issues is somebody who'd been
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  Speaker 1: using a joke and use tell people I've been using
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  Speaker 1: photoshops since it was in black and white, but I
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  Speaker 1: have done worked on it for a long long time.
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  Speaker 1: Even recently said hey, I like this picture, but I
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  Speaker 1: wear a different hat. Now, can you put this hat
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  Speaker 1: on me, and it just did and it was I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it would have taken me so long to do, even
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  Speaker 1: though I'm incredibly proficient at photoshop. It's like, I know
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  Speaker 1: that it would have taken me longer, and I would
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  Speaker 1: have had to take a picture of the hat at
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  Speaker 1: the right angle and all these different things.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: Very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: And I still, even as an artist who has used
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  Speaker 1: these tools for a living many years ago, look at
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  Speaker 1: that and go, you know what, it's amazing. It just
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  Speaker 1: is nothing short of amazing. And we have to work
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  Speaker 1: around the fact that it is. I know everybody thinks
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  Speaker 1: it's just a plagiarism machine, but there's so much more
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  Speaker 1: to it than that, and it can actually push us
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  Speaker 1: further in creativity, I believe. So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Demiro, ladies and gentlemen everywhere on Channel five, and
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  Speaker 1: of course you can hear him here on KFI every
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  Speaker 1: Saturday eleven am to two pm. Get his newsletter, check
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  Speaker 1: out his resources. They're very rich and thorough, no pun intended.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Rich, Thanks Neil, appreciate it all right, we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: again soon. Happy to be with you, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of bringing in the new year. This week, as we
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  Speaker 1: slide into January and covering new laws and looking back
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  Speaker 1: at twenty twenty five and all those things we've been doing.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, we'll look at California laws that are going
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  Speaker 1: to take effect in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: These are kind of the highlights of them.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to consumer business type stuff, plastic bags
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  Speaker 1: are at the top of list. They're band statewide. I
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  Speaker 1: hate this stuff, hate it. Being rational is a hard
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: thing to be these days. And if you have been
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: here long enough to know how many times we've switched
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: back and forth between pa we were saving the trees
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the first time, and then we had problems with plastic
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: because you know, people can't throw things away properly, and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: so all of us have to be modified because of
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: you know, a small percentage of a stupid that's just
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the law of eighty twenty twenty percent of the people
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: do stupid things, and eighty percent has to deal with
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the laws that come up based on them. So that
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: means we're still going to be paying ten cents for
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: a recycled paper bag, which, by the way, the making
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: of a recycled paper grocery bag costs roughly zero point
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: zero two five to zero point zero five per bag,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: so actually not a bad you know, hefty return on
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: their investment when it comes to those things.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: All of that is to get us to.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And it's not a tax by the way, that actually
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: goes to the bottom line to pay for these bags
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: supposed to. But the ultimate change here is they just
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: want you to bring reusable bags. Now, I keep reusable
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: bags in the car, but you gotta clean reusable bags.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: You got to make sure to do that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Plus, you know, you still use those thin plastic ones,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: those wispy, thin plastic ones when you're getting any produce.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it just is.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: It's one of those things that we can't get it
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: right because who are you trying to serve?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: What is your what is your goal?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: There's so much waste going on in the packaging department
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to begin with that. It's ridiculous because we don't sell
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: whole food anymore. We sell a bunch of processed food
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and with that comes you know, all kinds of waste
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: in the packaging as well. So that's something we got to,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you know, keep dealing with food delivery refunds are required,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: so Uber Eats, door Dash, rub Hub must issue full
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: refunds for missing or incorrect orders. You know that that's
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a bummer when you do that. When it, I mean,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: it's bound to happen every now and again. We use
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: a Walmart delivery service as well. We're trying it out
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: for a year, and I got to tell you, it
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: is like a mystery bag. Sometimes sometimes you get what
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you want. Sometimes you get twice as much as you ordered.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't get the thing you order. Sometimes it deliver.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: They deliver the food or some of the food that
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you ordered, and then some of it is mailed to you.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting process. Don't know if it's thumbs up
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: or thumbs down. It's convenient as heck so far. But
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: there's also places like Yummy if you have one in
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: your area in Santa Monica, Silver Lake, different parts of
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: LA have them that you can have food delivered as well.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: So when things don't show up. I've never had a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: problem with door Dash or uber Eats or anything like
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that if something didn't show up with them just paying,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: just crediting you or whatever. Used car buyers can get
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a three day right to return vehicles for a refund.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: What is that doesn't CarMax already do that. By the way,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: not a commercial for Carmacks. They're not a sponsor that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'm aware of or anything like that. But I got
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to tell you I should sponsor us. No I know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: but I will tell you that I've had nothing but
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: great experiences with CarMax.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: My husband tried it for the first time with his
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: last car deal and was like, this is the best
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: thing ever.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: It's why don't I do this more often?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: You feel like you're getting away with something.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Yes, you do.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I've even turned in cars there and gotten better that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I would have gotten anywhere. Trade In, Yeah, trade in
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: was amazing, and there they My wife turned me onto them.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: She bought a bunch of cars through them over the years,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and she's like, we'll try this, and I did it
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and I loved it.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: She got a car and it was great. And then
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the screen was giving problems. A little screen on there
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: was giving problems, and they're like, yeah, just bring it in,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: we'll switch it up.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Oh why do they do that?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, they've been great.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Oh I know that they did that after the sale
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: It's just the easiest. And then there was a couple
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of little holes or something and it's like like.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: The bottom of the car was falling out.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no wheels, that type of thing. No, it was
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: like a little hole in the upholstery and they picked
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: it up.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: You know, I had a friend who used to hurt
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: her husband. They lease their cars and then at the
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: end of the lease, they sell them, take the money
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: that they make off of the sale of the car,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: and then keep it and then go and they lease
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: another car. And you know, I had Joel Larsgard on
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: this morning, Yeah, kind of money conversation.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I want to do it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I'm like, I don't do cars, right, I know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: I don't. I know, I'm losing my money.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: He's a financial guy, I know, and that's the horrible rogre.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: He doesn't ever say, honey, don't do that anymore.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: We talk about things, we talk about it. He's gonna
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: kill me because he's probably gonna.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Be like, what are you doing.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: I think he's got a better head for different corporate finance, gotcha,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: it's a different day.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: He's dealing with.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Billions of dollars and tens of millions of dollars. But
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: when it comes to like us going should we save
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: fifty dollars on you know this whatever. We're like, eh,
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: it's a different type of mindset for finance than your
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: budgeting and whatnot.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Well, my wife's like calls me and goes, eh, I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: saw something I really want. I'm like, well, we'll get it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Get it, and she's like it's like it's like thirty dollars.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, you're calling me for thirty dollars.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I gotta go.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Whereas my husband's like, please don't go to Home Goods.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Please don't go, don't go Home Goods.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I'll go, Honey, I'm sorry. I bought a new machine
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: for the shop.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Like sorry, well it's awesome.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:09
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• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Hashtag Star Wars Props sponsoring please please I love that,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: all right. Food and Health, the insulin capped at thirty
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: five dollars a month for most state regulated plans. California
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: branded insulin. That's that cal RX that's going to launch
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: at eleven bucks per penn one that we've been hearing
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: a lot. I heard this morning with Heather Brooker on
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: wake Up Call. Tortillas and corn massa must include fullic
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: acid and this is to reduce birth defects with latinas.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Apparently they aren't getting enough fullock acid. And I'm trying
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to think where full of acid coming from. I'm trying
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to break down as to where you would where's the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: natural place for fullic acid.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, you mean, like naturally, Yeah, I
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: don't know where that is. I remember I had to
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: take it when I was pregnant. I had to take
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: a full of acid supplement. That was the first thing
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: that my OBI recommended.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Are you a Latina? No, maybe maybe get some Yeah,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: But maybe uh cereals, bread, pasta, okay, leafy greens, beans
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: and fruits and nuts.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: That seems like a lot of places to get it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: But I got the fruits and nuts down, get it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: From the tortillas, and then everybody's taken care of. Ultra
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: processed foods are going to be phased out of school
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: lunches by twenty thirty five. That seems like a long time.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: How come we can't just say, hey, why don't we
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: turn that off?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Like really, like there's not Why do you got to
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: wait till five?
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Things do seem to take a really long time. I
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Why maybe they are a public will be jarred suddenly.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: You know, we won't know what to do with ourselves
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: if they quickly make a rule and implement it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: That's your credit crap to me, is what that is? Education?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: You've got student phone use restricted all K through twelve
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: schools much must adopt phone limiting policies.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: That's a no brainer to me. I never understood.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I Handle gets uptight about it because he started going, well, well,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: my kids if they needed if there's a school shooting,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I get it. First of all, school shootings don't happen
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: as much as we think they do. They happen way
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: too much. One is way too much, don't get me wrong.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: But two, what are you going to do about it?
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a I didn't have I didn't
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: have school shootings when I was a kid, but we
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: didn't have phones. I think that is like that overparent,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: helicopter parent. Yeah, would I be freaked out?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Hell yes, but.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know of As a matter of fact, the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: last time I recall a student, a young student calling
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the authorities or something saying don't let us die or
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: they're shooting, it didn't help.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: They still waited, So I.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Think, yeah, well, maybe a phone, a phone in there
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: somewhere to be able to use, or something that like
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a far day cage that can be turned on, or
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a disruptor that can be turned on or turned off
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to where if there's an emergency, a button can be
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: hit and it you know, lets them all become active again.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, I just think it's super distracting. Bullying
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I think is much more prominent
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and prolific than the other Just my two cents.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: All gender restrooms required in public schools.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: That seems like a mess to a problem waiting to happen,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: mostly because women shouldn't have to be subjected to what
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: boys doing there. But I'm not sure how they're planning
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: that and how it's going to be if it's just
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: going to be you know, one offs where or is
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: it going to still be a bunch of stalls. That
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: seems like a problem. Automatic CSU admission for eligible high
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: school graduates. Stronger protections against anti Semitism, and it's ridiculous
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: across the board. You should have strong protections against any
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: sort of racism or other than type policies crime. This
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: is stupid policing and immigration, no mask law enforcement. They
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: can't do anything to a federal They don't have jurisdiction
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: over a federal ice agent to tell them to take
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: off the mask. Two. If you're going to go that far,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: then no masks at all when you go shopping, No
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: masks at all in a public area.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: No masks at.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: All because because it causes theft and difficulty and all
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: those things. Immigration enforcement restrictions on school campuses, in the hospitals.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. Some of the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the overreach or some of the ugliness that comes out
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: of these raids are just nasty that else want to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: squeeze one more minimum wage raises to sixteen ninety an
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: hour statewide. I'm not a fan of the raising, the manditating,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the mandating of raising of minimum way. I think you
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: educate people to make more money, don't just give them
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: more money. It ends up causing all kinds of issues
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: on the back end. We're seeing them now with fast
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: food at thirty five dollars for two meals and everything else,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and they just have less staff. I don't think it
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: helps anybody.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: All right, let me just climb off my soapbox here.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: WHOA okay, so now I'm good. Hey, on Friday, we're
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: going to go ahead and do ask us anything. So
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: if you have any questions for Cono, Heather, me, Will, Matthew,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: whatever it might be, you can hit us up on
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the talk back and we'll call through and pick about
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: eight or nine of them for Friday. Alrighty, folks, stay
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: tuned for Gary and Shannon and I'll see you tomorrow
• 29:49
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