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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, thanks for being here this morning. We're almost through
the week. Always appreciate the fact that you're a listener
in the Big Three. Well, it was our top story
yesterday and today as we look back, it was a miracle.
It was a miracle fueled by the heroic work of
Ocean County firefighters that one of the biggest fires in
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New Jersey history only took one building.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
No residential structures were lost. We did lose one commercial structure.
Some outbuildings were also affected in several vehicles as well.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So last we heard it was about fifty percent contained
and we're looking for another update later today. But what
an amazing job by the firefighters, true heroes everyone. Coming
up at eight thirty five, we're going to speak with
Bob Nosty. He is the man who owned that one
business that was just droid by the fire. The bodies
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of a woman known as Peaches because of her tattoo
and her two year old daughter dubbed Baby Doe that
was found. That bodies were found years ago, over twenty
years ago. They've been identified as Tanya and Titanya Dykes
from Alabama. They were found near Gilgo Beach over twenty
years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Now, though Tanya and Tatiana have commonly been linked to
the Gilgo Beach serial killings because the timing and locations
of their recovered remains, we are not discounting the possibility
that their cases are unrelated from that investigation. Speculation and
theories by people and on the internet should not be
brought into this.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
After the arrest of twenty seven Trende Aragua members in
New York borders are Tom Holm and is praising Mayor
Adams and throwing shade at the City Council.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
What's specifically important to me about New York's and Mayor Adams,
who was getting beat up by the left for cooperating
with us. Look look what transpired. Look at the Look
at the lies we saved in New York City. Right
at the same time, you got the City Council follow
a lawsuit to shut down our memorandum, our understanding, the
executive work he's signed to get.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Us some Rikers Island.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
We proved yesterure what collaboration can do for the statue
of security in New York.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And there's a New Siena poll out that's making lots
of waves in New York, but one of the most
amazing things. That shows in this new poll that AOC
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is the most popular Democrat in the
state and would beat Chuck Schumer if she ran for
the Senate seat as of right now.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
But I really think she has her eye on something bigger.
I think she looks at running for president and taking
the mantle from Bernie Sanders. You know, Nate Silver said
that he thinks she could be the pick.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
How about that? Nate Silver, the pole guru, thinks right now,
as of right now, AOC is the lead to win
the Democratic presidential nomination. That's a long way off, but
they the Democratic Party certainly needs a leader right now.
Could it be AOC. We have John Decker, White House
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and Washington correspondent for w R. John, I know we
want to get to the tariffs, and we also want
to get to We also want to get to the
meeting in the Oval Office with the Vice President of Norway.
But if we can. We just talked about this senapol
you might have heard. We just talked about this Sieno
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pol and the fact that AOC is the most popular
person in New York State, and Nate Silver is now
saying if an election were held right now, a presidential
election we're held right now, or a primary, she would win.
She'd be the nominee. What do you think of that, John.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Well, that's pretty interesting. Remember we're talking about a primary
process versus a general election, and you know, I don't
have any disagreement with what Nate Silver said as it
relates to a primary election. Could AOC win a general election?
Is the country left of center?
Speaker 7 (04:13):
No, it's not.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
And that's the best way to describe AOC. She's left
of center. You know, the country can change, it can
move towards the center, it can move leftward. I just
don't see that happening between now and twenty twenty eight. Now,
she certainly has her options if she wants to challenge
Chuck Schumer for that Senate seat in New York. She's
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thirty five, Chuck Schumer is going to be seventy five,
And I think that there's just more excitement on the
Democratic side for her in a primary, a primary battle
between Schumer and AOC than you know then what we
see right now as it relates to the popularity that
Chuck Schumer has with his party and also with the
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state itself.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, the Sienna Paul was out and they show so
that in a race right now, AOC would win by
about eight points. His popularity in the state is lower
than it's ever been in Her popularity right now is
sky high. She's the most popular Democrat in the state
right now. But a lot of political analysts were looking
at these numbers and they said they thought they thought
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she had her eye on something bigger than the Senate
right now, and that the reason she's going around the
country with Bernie Sanders is because this is an early
presidential test. But I agree with you. I agree with you.
In a general election, I don't think that she's going
to be able to reach out to any Republicans or
independents because of how far to the left she is.
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It's just something fascinating, fascinating to talk about because the
Democrats are looking for a leadership right now, and she's
the only one that has been able to move the
needle at all. Do you see anybody else?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
No, I don't, you know, and you don't either.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
That's the fact of the matter is the person who
has really sucked up all the oxygen in the atmosphere
is Donald Trump. That's all that we talk about. That's
all that you talk about, and it's for good reason.
I mean, he dominates the news cycle each and every day,
each and every hour, everything he says, everything he does,
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the actions that he's taken, and it's just so hard
if you're in the opposition to break through as someone
who is the voice or the leader of the Democratic Party.
It's early, you know, the midterms don't happen until next year,
and then we're after we get past that, then we're
focused on the general election. But I don't see any
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clear front runner right now for Democrats in terms of
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I know that the Vice President of Norway was at
the White House yesterday talking about probably Tariff's more than
anything else. I know Ukraine comes up, and NATO comes up,
but probably you talking about Tariff's is fascinating. This tariff
war that now is on pause, and the White House
saying they have all these deals in front of them,
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and they have a deal they believe with India that's
been sketched out. They have a deal with all these
other countries. But we haven't seen any of these deals yet.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
No, and we really haven't seen the names of countries
we learned on Monday. According to Caroline Levitt, the White
House Press Secretary, eighteen countries are in the process of negotiating.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
With the US as it relates to trade deals.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
I've made this point before, those trade deals are hard
to hammer out. The USMCA trade deal between the US,
Canada and Mexico took one full year from start to finish.
And there's this ninety day pause it's in place, allowing
various countries.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
To negotiate trade deals.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
During the course of a three month period. And you know,
you know, all the countries impacted, all of our trading partners,
Larry get a trade deal done in that ninety day period.
I think that's pretty doubtful. And maybe the President extends
that ninety day pause in order to get more countries,
to give more countries time in terms of hammering out
a trade deal.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Do you think that was the strategy all along, to
threaten these high tariffs just to try to get some
better deals.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Oh? Absolutely. I think that there's no doubt that President Trump,
his administration following his lead, likes the idea of negotiating.
And you know, you start from a point that maybe
seems unsustainable. China is a perfect example of that. You know,
in some cases there are tariffs of two hundred and
forty five percent on Chinese goods, and even President Trump
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yesterday acknowledged that number is going to come down, so
he wants to hammer out a trade deal. And you
know China is one of those countries at all as
well that needs to get that tariff level down. They've
imposed one hundred and twenty five percent tariffs, by the way,
on US goods that are exported to China, So you
would say that they would try to tamp down this
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trade war that's playing out in real time.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
So country after country has been coming to the Oval Office.
We had the Vice President of Norway in there yesterday
and I'm certain they talked about tariffs, probably NATO, probably Ukraine.
Did anything come out.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Of it, well, when you speak of Norway, the Norwegian
Prime Minister is meeting with President Trump today actually, and
that will be in the Oval Office, and I think
that there are two big issues on the plate for
that discussion. Always you have to talk about tariffs if
you're a leader of any country, because those teriffs do
impact the goods that in this case Norwegians purchase from America.
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The other big issue, because Norway does share a border
with Russia, is Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine, and Norway
is one of those members of NATO, and I think
they want assurances from President Trump that he continues to
support that defense alliance and continues to see Russia as
an adversary to Europe and as an adversary to the
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United States as well.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
John Decker, wr White House and Washington Correspondent, Thanks so much, John,
Talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Thanks, Larry, have a great day. Talk to you real soon.
By about how about this?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Did you know there's a coyote problem in New York?
Have you ever heard coyotes in the middle of the night.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Yes, you have heard them, Yes, at my house of course.
What are they doing in New York? In New York,
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
City York coyotes are making a racket and keeping people
up at night in the Bronx here for yourself next, plus,
we have tickets to give away at a twenty five
for the Brotherhood of Rock Tour.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We always love your talkbacks. You fill in the blank
sometimes some things that I may have missed, and you
also inspire conversations so thank you so much for your talkbacks.
You go to the iHeartRadio app, you look for seven
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then you're on the air.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
Hey, I just think it's very important that you mentioned
also about those Ocean County firefighters that there's probably about
I'm guessing eighty percent of those firefighters are volunteers, which
means they leave their families, they leave their jobs, they
leave their businesses just to go fight fires at save
buildings and do what they did. All right, you guys
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have a great time.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well I didn't point that out yesterday, but I'm so
glad you called because I did not say it today,
and I should have. It is amazing. Volunteer firefighters are
incredible heroes because they sacrifice so much and they're willing
to sacrifice more to save their communities. And so you're right. Absolutely,
God bless all of them. Thank you so much for
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what you do, and thank you for a miracle in
Ocean County and fighting back a fire that could have
been much much worse. Now, I want to get to
the Coyotes, and I'm sure there's some people that live,
you know, in New Jersey or Westchester. County or some
areas where they deal with coyotes all the time and
you hear them all the time. This is kind of
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new to me, and it's also new to the people
in the Bronx. So we're talking about in the city now,
where they're hearing these coyotes in the middle of the night.
And when you hear them for the first time, they're
like nothing you've ever heard before. It's like a horror film,
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isn't it.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
It's like, it's exactly right, screaming banshees m.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You've heard that.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Before, not like that.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I've heard one coyote and it sounds very desperate and scary,
you know, because it's one. But that you're right, that's
a horror movie. Yes, that means my skin crawl.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Isn't it bizarre? And that's that's like at three in
the morning that you're dealing with all of that. That
that was from Spidan Dival and the residence there in
the Bronx and the residence there, they don't know what
to make of it. At three o'clock in the morning.
They seem to have a convention. People are quite nervous
about it, you know, keeping their small pets indoors and
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things like that.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
It's kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So what are they doing? Like, why every single night
do they make those noises? Any guesses? Why what do
they Why do they feel like they have to yell
like that.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Because if they're up, they want you to be up.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I guess that must be it.
Speaker 10 (13:43):
I think to find each other.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Maybe, although the one I just played, they were all
together and they were doing it each other eating call
the director. That's what I thought at first, But the
director of the Bronx Zoo says this is the reason.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
It's territorial, basically setting their boundaries. It's a form of communication,
but as more as much as anything else, it's territorial
calling to other animals that may be in the area,
mostly notably other coyotes.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's Keith Love that the director of the Bronx Zoo.
I don't know what i'd move. I mean, this is
just happening recently, and Crash brought up a good point
that these they're right near Westchester County and one of
the largest parks, and they're probably all coming down at
night and just walking along the river and then making
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those noises. But do you get that where you live?
Me no, I'm talking to Natalie.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Sorry, that's gonna say.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Unless they're on my roof, I don't have, Thank goodness,
there's not one regularly. But we have had coyotes come
through the neighborhood and stay.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
For you know, a week or two.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
But they don't make that noise, not like that.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
But yes, they have a screechy it's not like a bark.
It's a howl.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's not what you expect from that ugly animal, and
they are. They are ugly animals.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Oh, Jacqueline, if you haven't seen one in person, and
I have, they look like they have Rabi's there.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
Well, mangee, very mangy, very well.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
The ones I've seen look sickly and skinny and ratty looking.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, they're not. They're not. Nobody would call.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Them cute, No, because we have foxes in the area
and they're beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Absolutely, especially jack foxes. Yeah, white tails, Yeah, they're gorgeous.
And then the other foxes that don't look like that
are just jealous.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
They who are always the same.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
They're almost embarrassed walking around and say, I know I'm
not red. Now let's get the news at seven thirty
with Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Good morning.
Speaker 12 (15:46):
Smoke from the New Jersey wildfire is now forcing an
air quality alert for New York City. Fire crews continue
to make progress on the Jones Road wildfire and Ocean County,
which has destroyed over thirteen thousand acres since Tuesday morning
and is now about fifty percent contained. Over five thousand
people were forced to evacuate because of the fire, and
(16:06):
testimony continues today at the sex crimes retrial of former
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 13 (16:13):
During opening statements Wednesday, prosecutors revealed details involving a new
accuser who was not part of the original trial. That
would be a former model accusing Weinstein a forcing her
to have sex with him back in two thousand and
six in exchange for getting her into the movie business.
Weinstein denies the allegation, and his defense countered saying he
has consensual relationships. Weinstein faces sex crimes charges related to
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that accuser and two others after his twenty twenty conviction
was overturned. I'm scappringle wrdw's.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
This next story reminds me of what might happen in
a small town community.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
It's kind of funny. I liked it. According to Fox
twenty nine, the life of a.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
Chick fil A delivery order was saved thanks to a
fast acting police officer in Deptford, New Jersey. The middle
of a delivery, the car of an unidentified door dash
driver broke down. That's when Officer Mike McInerney Junior sprung
into action, pointing out that quote, nobody wants cold Chick
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fil A. It's almost like a superhero tagline. McNerney happily
completed the delivery. It's not known if the driver and
officer split the tip, but the customer got a warm meal.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
Crisis averted.
Speaker 12 (17:25):
Now that feels like to me that would happen, like,
you know, if you lived in like some small town
in Ohio. Everybody will help everybody, no matter what their
job is. This was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You realize how much kidding he's getting in the police
department in Deptford right now. What's his name again.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
It's hard to say. It's Officer Mike McInerney.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Hey, Mike, I need some Chick fil A. Can you
run out and get it for me? That's what he's
getting right now. Uh, you've kept just one more time
let's play the most annoying sound in the world, just
for Natalie, who looked like somebody was scratching their nails
on the black board. That's the colonies.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
In the You say, why you're saying all four?
Speaker 12 (18:10):
I feel like if they had we've encroached on their land,
if they had their own place, their own hunting ground,
that they would they wouldn't be so mangy, they wouldn't
be you know, and they wouldn't.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Be bothering anybody, just their lives.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
If somebody just loved them.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
They just want some warm Chick fil A.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
If somebody just took them in. I see the next
career for you. What is it, coyote whisperer.
Speaker 12 (18:34):
Oh, the coyote. I'd definitely make more money.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Thanks so much, Jack Man. Carl rich Tomorrow, rich On
Tech is heard on Sunday Nights and he's coming up
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And Rich was just at a Roco event in the city,
a Roku event in the city. And you know, Rich
I never have used Roku. Is it worth it?
Speaker 14 (19:47):
Well, you know it's funny because I was talking with
a bunch of people at the event yesterday, and for
some reason, Roku is the only streaming platform that people
actually love, like they talk about their Roku like they
really enjoy the experience, Versus if you have an Apple
TV or a fire TV stick or a Google you
don't really say I love it. So people really do
(20:08):
like it because I think it was built for streamers
from the guy who started it back in two thousand
and two, because you just want an easier way to
watch streaming shows.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I don't want to make this a Roku commercial. But
how is it different than Apple TV or the Firestick.
Speaker 14 (20:23):
Well, I think, you know, a couple of their features,
like their universal search makes it really easy, their universal
watch list. I think those are the main things that
people like about it. Plus pretty much all of the
apps are available, and they also have a lot of
free content, and we know that free streaming is kind
of the biggest growing area of streaming and Roku offers.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
A lot of it.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So what were they doing yesterday? I mean, what did
you learn about Roku that you didn't know before, or
what new things are they offering.
Speaker 14 (20:53):
Well, they've got two new sticks and you know these things.
I said to Roku, I said, when do people need
to replace these things because they sort of last forever
And they said, yeah, we have people running devices ten
years old that are still getting updates. I said, yeah,
so you know, if your stick is slow, if it's
not working that well, these new sticks are their smallest ever,
so you can plug them in behind your TV. They
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don't block any other HDMI ports, which is nice. And
here's the key part. They're now power efficient, so you
don't need to run an extra power cable. They are
powered through the USB port on the back of your TV,
which is something that didn't work before. So basically self contained.
They start at thirty dollars and people seem to like
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to bring these on vacations and trips. They plug them
into their TV and their hotel room. And that makes
it really easy to do because again the self contained
nature of the power. And then the remote control they
upgraded even on the basic sticks that start at thirty dollars,
the remote control now controls the TV power and the volume,
which was kind of like a big thing people were
asking for. And finally voice control they added that on
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these inexpensive so it's just a nice package starting at
thirty dollars forty dollars if you want four k. They
come out on May sixth.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Speaking of streaming services, and speaking of a lot of services,
one of the things that these companies try to crack
down on is password sharing. And I know from myself.
I know I get messages all the time about someone's
using my account and they're not in my house. It's
a huge problem, isn't it.
Speaker 14 (22:28):
Well for us? Because now you can't share with your
friends and family anymore. It's a a I mean for us,
it was very convenient because in the growth period, all
the streaming services didn't really care, right, they just wanted
as many eyeballs as possible. But now that this market
has matured, Netflix really went in and said, you know what, Hey,
if you want to add that extra person, you got
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to pay eight bucks a month. Disney did the same thing.
Now Max is doing the same thing, so eight dollars
a month. If you have a cling on on your account,
an extra member, someone it's outside your household, the next
time they log in, it may say, hey, do you
want to claim this account as your own? And that's
what they're doing. They know they know when someone is
logging into your account that is not part of your household.
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They can tell when you're logging in from you know,
Kansas ninety nine percent of the time, and all of
a sudden someone logs in for Maine. They know it's
your kid off at school. So uh, they're going to
start cracking down on that. So if you see the
message from Max, like I say on my radio show,
the free ride is over.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I love this next story about Instagram because I thought
that was always a problem with Instagram that you had
to edit the video before you got on there, but
now you can edit it on Instagram.
Speaker 14 (23:40):
Well, they have a new app. So there is so
a lot of people that are like sort of Instagram
power users. They are using an app called cap cut, right,
and we know that's owned by TikTok. Not everyone likes
the idea of that, but now Instagram and Instagram didn't
like the idea either because, like you said, they had
their own built in video editing tools in the app,
but they were very rudimentary. Now they have a brand
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new app. It is called Clips. It's available for iOS
and Android. It's a standalone editing app that's completely free,
and it's for anyone who wants to you know, up
things a bit, you know what I mean, like make
their reels and stories and shorts look a little bit
better than the rest. You've got templates, you've got effects,
you've got those captions that everyone uses. And while capcut
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may charge for some of these features, Clips is free,
So go and download it. I have not used it
just yet to make a video, but I'll try it
out soon. I mean I tried it, but not for
a video yet.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I love that you take request Rich because I know
that you added a story just for me because I've
seen all of these photo apps online. They're advertised constantly
and they look amazing. They can take a picture and
they can take out all the flaws, they can create
new backgrounds. It is amazing, and they do it with AI.
(24:55):
But I don't trust any of them. Right now. I
wanted to hear from you which one I should get.
Speaker 14 (25:01):
Well, there are, I mean, there's so many. If you
want just one app where you can drop a picture
in and you don't even have to tap a button,
it just instantly cleans it up. This is the one
that I used ninety nine percent of the time. It's
called Radiant Photo, and it's available for iOS and Android. Yes,
all these apps, any photo app like you mentioned that
are advertised, they're going to try to push you to
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an expensive price. These subscription look for the little X
in the upper right hand or upper left hand corner.
Ninety nine percent of the time, you can use basic
functionality of these apps for free. Don't even sign up
for the free trial unless you want to support the developer.
But Radiant Photo is excellent. That's going to brighten up
your pictures. It understands what's in the picture, and you
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literally don't have to do a thing. So that's my
number one. If you want something that's a little bit
higher end, Remedy r E m NI. This uses AI
to enhance your photos. And again it's a one tap
AI enhance. I think I look like that airbrush to
effect like your skin is almost too perfect. But if
you want something like that, Remedy will do it.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And so some of these were they made you thinner,
they changed your hair. They it's incredible what they can
do with AI.
Speaker 14 (26:13):
Oh yeah, I mean, and you could use chatchipt to
do those things too, But I mean the app that's
been out there forever is called face Tuned. That's really
when you want to say, Okay, I want whiter teeth,
I want to change my hairstyle, I want to sin
my you know, my mid section, something like that. You know,
all these this stuff has been around for a while.
I try I'm a little bit of a purist with
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my pictures. I try to keep them almost true to life.
But yes, I've played with a bunch of these. I
will tell you. Samsung phones, the built in photo gallery
has the best AI editor on a smartphone I've ever seen.
I'm not kidding, Larry. You can put your hand in
front of your face. It will remove your hand and
fill in the rest of your face. I don't even
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know how it does that, and I.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Don't mind the free botox from the app, So bring
it on.
Speaker 14 (27:02):
People like that. Now, if you want something really simple,
there's an app called touch retouch. If you just want
to kind of get a blemish out of there something,
you can just use that to get like a blemish
off or something. Maybe there's a stain on your shirt.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You can use that.
Speaker 14 (27:18):
But I use a combination of all of these different apps.
I use an app called pixart if I want to
put a picture into Instagram that doesn't fit. It's really
good for cropping or fitting a photo into like a square.
That's really great. Oh and then one more, if you're
trying to post something and it might have personal information
on it, you want to you know block that out right.
(27:38):
So there's an app on the web it's called Redact
dot Photo, and you upload the picture and it blurs
it perfectly and it's all done privately in your browser.
And it's a great way don't share the pictures. Would
like the you know blocked out like markup on your phone.
Because people have been found where they can actually erase
that and see what's underneath there.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Sometimes, Wow, that's a lot. Rich DeMuro rich on Tech
is her Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on
wor rich on Tech at Instagram. It's at rich on
Tech on Instagram if you want to ask them a question.
Thanks a lot, Rich, Thanks Larie.
Speaker 14 (28:12):
Hav a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Because of the price of homes, people are looking for
alternatives to buy a house. Rory O'Neil has a couple
of the favorite options. Next, and you want to add
to the conversation, leave us a talk back. Go to
seven ten WOR on the iHeartRadio app and click the
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on your presets. Well, as you've probably heard, there's a
(28:34):
housing crisis in the country and interest rates have gone
up too high. There's not available, but there's not enough
available houses those that are available or just too darn expensive.
But there are alternatives. And here to talk about that
is Rory O'Neil Wor National Correspondent. So what are people
doing these days to find a place to live.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Well, they're actually in many ways turning to renting, which
when you run, the numbers might make more sense for you,
and that really depends where you are in life as well.
And we're also seeing a surge in the popularity of
manufactured homes. You might call them a trailer even, but
between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty four the number of
new manufactured homes shipped across the US actually increased by
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more than sixty six zero percent in that timeframe, as
more and more people think that either that's their entry
level home or it's their last home, as a lot
of these communities are fifty five and up.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, I've never heard the term manufactured homes because in
a way, all homes are manufactured in some way. What
are they specifically? Are they really mobile homes or is
there a wider category?
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Well, right, we say mobile homes, but they never move right,
so they're not really mobile. But what happens is, in
most cases you imagine a trailer park, as you might
call it. That the homes don't. They're usually installed on property,
a manufactured in its essence, though at one location, shipped
out to usually some sort of a trailer park or
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manufactured home community, and then sort of made permanent there.
People like them because they're affordable. You essentially buy it
like you would a car, but you rent the property
that it sits on and what it has been, you know,
mom and pop places that have been these locations for years.
They can be a real deal. But what we're seeing
is big business, those private equity firms. They're all starting
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to sweep in now and buy up these properties and
jack up the rent that people are being forced to pay,
or the fees or you know, doing what those private
equity firms do. So while this is seen as a
much more attractive option for as I said, either that
entry level or that last home, even that now is
starting to feel a lot of the pricing pressure.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And is that specifically the fact that they there's an
increase in these mobile homes and there's an increase in rentals,
is that specifically related to the housing crisis.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Yes, it is. And as part of this, people are
looking for alternatives, right. I mean, you can buy some
of these manufactured homes for fifteen twenty forty thousand dollars.
Some get really nice, by the way, and can top
over one hundred thousand dollars, but you know, they're seen
as a sensible alternative or maybe a way to enter
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the housing market. And look, and that's a big issue
as to whether or not you're going to keep on
renting or buying. In some places, renting can make sense.
I'm looking at the New York, Jersey City, Pennsylvania area
for average rents right now, averaging about thirty two hundred
dollars a month. But your average mortgage payment in that
same area is just under five thousand dollars a month.
(31:44):
And yeah, I get it. That's investing in you though,
that's going to be long term. Maybe that works for you,
but trying to you know, when you're twenty five and
coming out and struggling, you know, rent seems to make
a whole lot more sense these days than buying.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Hey, real quick, I know there's another story you're and
that's the air quality out there. Uh, just if we
can cut that to chase what's the best, what's the worst?
And how are we doing in the New York City area.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, most of the worst places are out west. A
lot of California cities are on the American Lung Association
of the worst. The New York metropolitan area worked sixteenth
out of two hundred and twenty eight places when it
comes to that smoggy ozone pollution. A lot of the
numbers went down because of the Canadian wildfires from twenty
twenty three kicked up a lot of stuff. We were
all breathing in. About half the country breeds bad air
(32:32):
sometime of the year.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Wow, we do pretty good at sixteen. That's not bad
at all. Thank you for well, thankfull.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Yeah, you'd rather be closer to that two twenty eight.
Number sixteen is bad.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
You don't want to.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Be in the oh.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I thought sixteen was usually good. They flipped the list
on me. Thanks for the bad.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Yet sixteen is good of your the jets, But otherwise we're.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Rory O'Neal wr National correspondent, thanks a lot. Will there
be a Sans casino in Nasa County, Lorica and has
breaking news about the potential deal. We'll talk to her
next
Well, thanks for being here this morning. We're almost through
the week. Always appreciate the fact that you're a listener
in the Big Three. Well, it was our top story
yesterday and today as we look back, it was a miracle.
It was a miracle fueled by the heroic work of
Ocean County firefighters that one of the biggest fires in
(00:23):
New Jersey history only took one building.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
No residential structures were lost. We did lose one commercial structure.
Some outbuildings were also affected in several vehicles as well.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So last we heard it was about fifty percent contained
and we're looking for another update later today. But what
an amazing job by the firefighters, true heroes everyone. Coming
up at eight thirty five, we're going to speak with
Bob Nosty. He is the man who owned that one
business that was just droid by the fire. The bodies
(01:02):
of a woman known as Peaches because of her tattoo
and her two year old daughter dubbed Baby Doe that
was found. That bodies were found years ago, over twenty
years ago. They've been identified as Tanya and Titanya Dykes
from Alabama. They were found near Gilgo Beach over twenty
years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Now, though Tanya and Tatiana have commonly been linked to
the Gilgo Beach serial killings because the timing and locations
of their recovered remains, we are not discounting the possibility
that their cases are unrelated from that investigation. Speculation and
theories by people and on the internet should not be
brought into this.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
After the arrest of twenty seven Trende Aragua members in
New York borders are Tom Holm and is praising Mayor
Adams and throwing shade at the City Council.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
What's specifically important to me about New York's and Mayor Adams,
who was getting beat up by the left for cooperating
with us. Look look what transpired. Look at the Look
at the lies we saved in New York City. Right
at the same time, you got the City Council follow
a lawsuit to shut down our memorandum, our understanding, the
executive work he's signed to get.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Us some Rikers Island.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
We proved yesterure what collaboration can do for the statue
of security in New York.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And there's a New Siena poll out that's making lots
of waves in New York, but one of the most
amazing things. That shows in this new poll that AOC
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is the most popular Democrat in the
state and would beat Chuck Schumer if she ran for
the Senate seat as of right now.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
But I really think she has her eye on something bigger.
I think she looks at running for president and taking
the mantle from Bernie Sanders. You know, Nate Silver said
that he thinks she could be the pick.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
How about that? Nate Silver, the pole guru, thinks right now,
as of right now, AOC is the lead to win
the Democratic presidential nomination. That's a long way off, but
they the Democratic Party certainly needs a leader right now.
Could it be AOC. We have John Decker, White House
(03:14):
and Washington correspondent for w R. John, I know we
want to get to the tariffs, and we also want
to get to We also want to get to the
meeting in the Oval Office with the Vice President of Norway.
But if we can. We just talked about this senapol
you might have heard. We just talked about this Sieno
(03:35):
pol and the fact that AOC is the most popular
person in New York State, and Nate Silver is now
saying if an election were held right now, a presidential
election we're held right now, or a primary, she would win.
She'd be the nominee. What do you think of that, John.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Well, that's pretty interesting. Remember we're talking about a primary
process versus a general election, and you know, I don't
have any disagreement with what Nate Silver said as it
relates to a primary election. Could AOC win a general election?
Is the country left of center?
Speaker 7 (04:13):
No, it's not.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
And that's the best way to describe AOC. She's left
of center. You know, the country can change, it can
move towards the center, it can move leftward. I just
don't see that happening between now and twenty twenty eight. Now,
she certainly has her options if she wants to challenge
Chuck Schumer for that Senate seat in New York. She's
(04:35):
thirty five, Chuck Schumer is going to be seventy five,
And I think that there's just more excitement on the
Democratic side for her in a primary, a primary battle
between Schumer and AOC than you know then what we
see right now as it relates to the popularity that
Chuck Schumer has with his party and also with the
(04:56):
state itself.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, the Sienna Paul was out and they show so
that in a race right now, AOC would win by
about eight points. His popularity in the state is lower
than it's ever been in Her popularity right now is
sky high. She's the most popular Democrat in the state
right now. But a lot of political analysts were looking
at these numbers and they said they thought they thought
(05:18):
she had her eye on something bigger than the Senate
right now, and that the reason she's going around the
country with Bernie Sanders is because this is an early
presidential test. But I agree with you. I agree with you.
In a general election, I don't think that she's going
to be able to reach out to any Republicans or
independents because of how far to the left she is.
(05:42):
It's just something fascinating, fascinating to talk about because the
Democrats are looking for a leadership right now, and she's
the only one that has been able to move the
needle at all. Do you see anybody else?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
No, I don't, you know, and you don't either.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
That's the fact of the matter is the person who
has really sucked up all the oxygen in the atmosphere
is Donald Trump. That's all that we talk about. That's
all that you talk about, and it's for good reason.
I mean, he dominates the news cycle each and every day,
each and every hour, everything he says, everything he does,
(06:23):
the actions that he's taken, and it's just so hard
if you're in the opposition to break through as someone
who is the voice or the leader of the Democratic Party.
It's early, you know, the midterms don't happen until next year,
and then we're after we get past that, then we're
focused on the general election. But I don't see any
(06:44):
clear front runner right now for Democrats in terms of
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I know that the Vice President of Norway was at
the White House yesterday talking about probably Tariff's more than
anything else. I know Ukraine comes up, and NATO comes up,
but probably you talking about Tariff's is fascinating. This tariff
war that now is on pause, and the White House
saying they have all these deals in front of them,
(07:09):
and they have a deal they believe with India that's
been sketched out. They have a deal with all these
other countries. But we haven't seen any of these deals yet.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
No, and we really haven't seen the names of countries
we learned on Monday. According to Caroline Levitt, the White
House Press Secretary, eighteen countries are in the process of negotiating.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
With the US as it relates to trade deals.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
I've made this point before, those trade deals are hard
to hammer out. The USMCA trade deal between the US,
Canada and Mexico took one full year from start to finish.
And there's this ninety day pause it's in place, allowing
various countries.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
To negotiate trade deals.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
During the course of a three month period. And you know,
you know, all the countries impacted, all of our trading partners,
Larry get a trade deal done in that ninety day period.
I think that's pretty doubtful. And maybe the President extends
that ninety day pause in order to get more countries,
to give more countries time in terms of hammering out
a trade deal.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Do you think that was the strategy all along, to
threaten these high tariffs just to try to get some
better deals.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Oh? Absolutely. I think that there's no doubt that President Trump,
his administration following his lead, likes the idea of negotiating.
And you know, you start from a point that maybe
seems unsustainable. China is a perfect example of that. You know,
in some cases there are tariffs of two hundred and
forty five percent on Chinese goods, and even President Trump
(08:40):
yesterday acknowledged that number is going to come down, so
he wants to hammer out a trade deal. And you
know China is one of those countries at all as
well that needs to get that tariff level down. They've
imposed one hundred and twenty five percent tariffs, by the way,
on US goods that are exported to China, So you
would say that they would try to tamp down this
(09:02):
trade war that's playing out in real time.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
So country after country has been coming to the Oval Office.
We had the Vice President of Norway in there yesterday
and I'm certain they talked about tariffs, probably NATO, probably Ukraine.
Did anything come out.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Of it, well, when you speak of Norway, the Norwegian
Prime Minister is meeting with President Trump today actually, and
that will be in the Oval Office, and I think
that there are two big issues on the plate for
that discussion. Always you have to talk about tariffs if
you're a leader of any country, because those teriffs do
impact the goods that in this case Norwegians purchase from America.
(09:40):
The other big issue, because Norway does share a border
with Russia, is Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine, and Norway
is one of those members of NATO, and I think
they want assurances from President Trump that he continues to
support that defense alliance and continues to see Russia as
an adversary to Europe and as an adversary to the
(10:03):
United States as well.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
John Decker, wr White House and Washington Correspondent, Thanks so much, John,
Talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Thanks, Larry, have a great day. Talk to you real soon.
By about how about this?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Did you know there's a coyote problem in New York?
Have you ever heard coyotes in the middle of the night.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Yes, you have heard them, Yes, at my house of course.
What are they doing in New York? In New York,
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
City York coyotes are making a racket and keeping people
up at night in the Bronx here for yourself next, plus,
we have tickets to give away at a twenty five
for the Brotherhood of Rock Tour.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We always love your talkbacks. You fill in the blank
sometimes some things that I may have missed, and you
also inspire conversations so thank you so much for your talkbacks.
You go to the iHeartRadio app, you look for seven
to ten WR and you push the talk feature and
then you're on the air.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
Hey, I just think it's very important that you mentioned
also about those Ocean County firefighters that there's probably about
I'm guessing eighty percent of those firefighters are volunteers, which
means they leave their families, they leave their jobs, they
leave their businesses just to go fight fires at save
buildings and do what they did. All right, you guys
(11:25):
have a great time.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well I didn't point that out yesterday, but I'm so
glad you called because I did not say it today,
and I should have. It is amazing. Volunteer firefighters are
incredible heroes because they sacrifice so much and they're willing
to sacrifice more to save their communities. And so you're right. Absolutely,
God bless all of them. Thank you so much for
(11:49):
what you do, and thank you for a miracle in
Ocean County and fighting back a fire that could have
been much much worse. Now, I want to get to
the Coyotes, and I'm sure there's some people that live,
you know, in New Jersey or Westchester. County or some
areas where they deal with coyotes all the time and
you hear them all the time. This is kind of
(12:10):
new to me, and it's also new to the people
in the Bronx. So we're talking about in the city now,
where they're hearing these coyotes in the middle of the night.
And when you hear them for the first time, they're
like nothing you've ever heard before. It's like a horror film,
(12:41):
isn't it.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
It's like, it's exactly right, screaming banshees m.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You've heard that.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Before, not like that.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I've heard one coyote and it sounds very desperate and scary,
you know, because it's one. But that you're right, that's
a horror movie. Yes, that means my skin crawl.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Isn't it bizarre? And that's that's like at three in
the morning that you're dealing with all of that. That
that was from Spidan Dival and the residence there in
the Bronx and the residence there, they don't know what
to make of it. At three o'clock in the morning.
They seem to have a convention. People are quite nervous
about it, you know, keeping their small pets indoors and
(13:24):
things like that.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
It's kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So what are they doing? Like, why every single night
do they make those noises? Any guesses? Why what do
they Why do they feel like they have to yell
like that.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Because if they're up, they want you to be up.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I guess that must be it.
Speaker 10 (13:43):
I think to find each other.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Maybe, although the one I just played, they were all
together and they were doing it each other eating call
the director. That's what I thought at first, But the
director of the Bronx Zoo says this is the reason.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
It's territorial, basically setting their boundaries. It's a form of communication,
but as more as much as anything else, it's territorial
calling to other animals that may be in the area,
mostly notably other coyotes.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's Keith Love that the director of the Bronx Zoo.
I don't know what i'd move. I mean, this is
just happening recently, and Crash brought up a good point
that these they're right near Westchester County and one of
the largest parks, and they're probably all coming down at
night and just walking along the river and then making
(14:32):
those noises. But do you get that where you live?
Me no, I'm talking to Natalie.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Sorry, that's gonna say.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Unless they're on my roof, I don't have, Thank goodness,
there's not one regularly. But we have had coyotes come
through the neighborhood and stay.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
For you know, a week or two.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
But they don't make that noise, not like that.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
But yes, they have a screechy it's not like a bark.
It's a howl.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's not what you expect from that ugly animal, and
they are. They are ugly animals.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Oh, Jacqueline, if you haven't seen one in person, and
I have, they look like they have Rabi's there.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
Well, mangee, very mangy, very well.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
The ones I've seen look sickly and skinny and ratty looking.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, they're not. They're not. Nobody would call.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Them cute, No, because we have foxes in the area
and they're beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Absolutely, especially jack foxes. Yeah, white tails, Yeah, they're gorgeous.
And then the other foxes that don't look like that
are just jealous.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
They who are always the same.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
They're almost embarrassed walking around and say, I know I'm
not red. Now let's get the news at seven thirty
with Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Good morning.
Speaker 12 (15:46):
Smoke from the New Jersey wildfire is now forcing an
air quality alert for New York City. Fire crews continue
to make progress on the Jones Road wildfire and Ocean County,
which has destroyed over thirteen thousand acres since Tuesday morning
and is now about fifty percent contained. Over five thousand
people were forced to evacuate because of the fire, and
(16:06):
testimony continues today at the sex crimes retrial of former
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 13 (16:13):
During opening statements Wednesday, prosecutors revealed details involving a new
accuser who was not part of the original trial. That
would be a former model accusing Weinstein a forcing her
to have sex with him back in two thousand and
six in exchange for getting her into the movie business.
Weinstein denies the allegation, and his defense countered saying he
has consensual relationships. Weinstein faces sex crimes charges related to
(16:36):
that accuser and two others after his twenty twenty conviction
was overturned. I'm scappringle wrdw's.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
This next story reminds me of what might happen in
a small town community.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
It's kind of funny. I liked it. According to Fox
twenty nine, the life of a.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
Chick fil A delivery order was saved thanks to a
fast acting police officer in Deptford, New Jersey. The middle
of a delivery, the car of an unidentified door dash
driver broke down. That's when Officer Mike McInerney Junior sprung
into action, pointing out that quote, nobody wants cold Chick
(17:12):
fil A. It's almost like a superhero tagline. McNerney happily
completed the delivery. It's not known if the driver and
officer split the tip, but the customer got a warm meal.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
Crisis averted.
Speaker 12 (17:25):
Now that feels like to me that would happen, like,
you know, if you lived in like some small town
in Ohio. Everybody will help everybody, no matter what their
job is. This was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You realize how much kidding he's getting in the police
department in Deptford right now. What's his name again.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
It's hard to say. It's Officer Mike McInerney.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Hey, Mike, I need some Chick fil A. Can you
run out and get it for me? That's what he's
getting right now. Uh, you've kept just one more time
let's play the most annoying sound in the world, just
for Natalie, who looked like somebody was scratching their nails
on the black board. That's the colonies.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
In the You say, why you're saying all four?
Speaker 12 (18:10):
I feel like if they had we've encroached on their land,
if they had their own place, their own hunting ground,
that they would they wouldn't be so mangy, they wouldn't
be you know, and they wouldn't.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Be bothering anybody, just their lives.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
If somebody just loved them.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
They just want some warm Chick fil A.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
If somebody just took them in. I see the next
career for you. What is it, coyote whisperer.
Speaker 12 (18:34):
Oh, the coyote. I'd definitely make more money.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Thanks so much, Jack Man. Carl rich Tomorrow, rich On
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And Rich was just at a Roco event in the city,
a Roku event in the city. And you know, Rich
I never have used Roku. Is it worth it?
Speaker 14 (19:47):
Well, you know it's funny because I was talking with
a bunch of people at the event yesterday, and for
some reason, Roku is the only streaming platform that people
actually love, like they talk about their Roku like they
really enjoy the experience, Versus if you have an Apple
TV or a fire TV stick or a Google you
don't really say I love it. So people really do
(20:08):
like it because I think it was built for streamers
from the guy who started it back in two thousand
and two, because you just want an easier way to
watch streaming shows.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I don't want to make this a Roku commercial. But
how is it different than Apple TV or the Firestick.
Speaker 14 (20:23):
Well, I think, you know, a couple of their features,
like their universal search makes it really easy, their universal
watch list. I think those are the main things that
people like about it. Plus pretty much all of the
apps are available, and they also have a lot of
free content, and we know that free streaming is kind
of the biggest growing area of streaming and Roku offers.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
A lot of it.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So what were they doing yesterday? I mean, what did
you learn about Roku that you didn't know before, or
what new things are they offering.
Speaker 14 (20:53):
Well, they've got two new sticks and you know these things.
I said to Roku, I said, when do people need
to replace these things because they sort of last forever
And they said, yeah, we have people running devices ten
years old that are still getting updates. I said, yeah,
so you know, if your stick is slow, if it's
not working that well, these new sticks are their smallest ever,
so you can plug them in behind your TV. They
(21:14):
don't block any other HDMI ports, which is nice. And
here's the key part. They're now power efficient, so you
don't need to run an extra power cable. They are
powered through the USB port on the back of your TV,
which is something that didn't work before. So basically self contained.
They start at thirty dollars and people seem to like
(21:34):
to bring these on vacations and trips. They plug them
into their TV and their hotel room. And that makes
it really easy to do because again the self contained
nature of the power. And then the remote control they
upgraded even on the basic sticks that start at thirty dollars,
the remote control now controls the TV power and the volume,
which was kind of like a big thing people were
asking for. And finally voice control they added that on
(21:58):
these inexpensive so it's just a nice package starting at
thirty dollars forty dollars if you want four k. They
come out on May sixth.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Speaking of streaming services, and speaking of a lot of services,
one of the things that these companies try to crack
down on is password sharing. And I know from myself.
I know I get messages all the time about someone's
using my account and they're not in my house. It's
a huge problem, isn't it.
Speaker 14 (22:28):
Well for us? Because now you can't share with your
friends and family anymore. It's a a I mean for us,
it was very convenient because in the growth period, all
the streaming services didn't really care, right, they just wanted
as many eyeballs as possible. But now that this market
has matured, Netflix really went in and said, you know what, Hey,
if you want to add that extra person, you got
(22:50):
to pay eight bucks a month. Disney did the same thing.
Now Max is doing the same thing, so eight dollars
a month. If you have a cling on on your account,
an extra member, someone it's outside your household, the next
time they log in, it may say, hey, do you
want to claim this account as your own? And that's
what they're doing. They know they know when someone is
logging into your account that is not part of your household.
(23:11):
They can tell when you're logging in from you know,
Kansas ninety nine percent of the time, and all of
a sudden someone logs in for Maine. They know it's
your kid off at school. So uh, they're going to
start cracking down on that. So if you see the
message from Max, like I say on my radio show,
the free ride is over.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I love this next story about Instagram because I thought
that was always a problem with Instagram that you had
to edit the video before you got on there, but
now you can edit it on Instagram.
Speaker 14 (23:40):
Well, they have a new app. So there is so
a lot of people that are like sort of Instagram
power users. They are using an app called cap cut, right,
and we know that's owned by TikTok. Not everyone likes
the idea of that, but now Instagram and Instagram didn't
like the idea either because, like you said, they had
their own built in video editing tools in the app,
but they were very rudimentary. Now they have a brand
(24:02):
new app. It is called Clips. It's available for iOS
and Android. It's a standalone editing app that's completely free,
and it's for anyone who wants to you know, up
things a bit, you know what I mean, like make
their reels and stories and shorts look a little bit
better than the rest. You've got templates, you've got effects,
you've got those captions that everyone uses. And while capcut
(24:24):
may charge for some of these features, Clips is free,
So go and download it. I have not used it
just yet to make a video, but I'll try it
out soon. I mean I tried it, but not for
a video yet.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I love that you take request Rich because I know
that you added a story just for me because I've
seen all of these photo apps online. They're advertised constantly
and they look amazing. They can take a picture and
they can take out all the flaws, they can create
new backgrounds. It is amazing, and they do it with AI.
(24:55):
But I don't trust any of them. Right now. I
wanted to hear from you which one I should get.
Speaker 14 (25:01):
Well, there are, I mean, there's so many. If you
want just one app where you can drop a picture
in and you don't even have to tap a button,
it just instantly cleans it up. This is the one
that I used ninety nine percent of the time. It's
called Radiant Photo, and it's available for iOS and Android. Yes,
all these apps, any photo app like you mentioned that
are advertised, they're going to try to push you to
(25:21):
an expensive price. These subscription look for the little X
in the upper right hand or upper left hand corner.
Ninety nine percent of the time, you can use basic
functionality of these apps for free. Don't even sign up
for the free trial unless you want to support the developer.
But Radiant Photo is excellent. That's going to brighten up
your pictures. It understands what's in the picture, and you
(25:42):
literally don't have to do a thing. So that's my
number one. If you want something that's a little bit
higher end, Remedy r E m NI. This uses AI
to enhance your photos. And again it's a one tap
AI enhance. I think I look like that airbrush to
effect like your skin is almost too perfect. But if
you want something like that, Remedy will do it.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And so some of these were they made you thinner,
they changed your hair. They it's incredible what they can
do with AI.
Speaker 14 (26:13):
Oh yeah, I mean, and you could use chatchipt to
do those things too, But I mean the app that's
been out there forever is called face Tuned. That's really
when you want to say, Okay, I want whiter teeth,
I want to change my hairstyle, I want to sin
my you know, my mid section, something like that. You know,
all these this stuff has been around for a while.
I try I'm a little bit of a purist with
(26:33):
my pictures. I try to keep them almost true to life.
But yes, I've played with a bunch of these. I
will tell you. Samsung phones, the built in photo gallery
has the best AI editor on a smartphone I've ever seen.
I'm not kidding, Larry. You can put your hand in
front of your face. It will remove your hand and
fill in the rest of your face. I don't even
(26:55):
know how it does that, and I.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Don't mind the free botox from the app, So bring
it on.
Speaker 14 (27:02):
People like that. Now, if you want something really simple,
there's an app called touch retouch. If you just want
to kind of get a blemish out of there something,
you can just use that to get like a blemish
off or something. Maybe there's a stain on your shirt.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You can use that.
Speaker 14 (27:18):
But I use a combination of all of these different apps.
I use an app called pixart if I want to
put a picture into Instagram that doesn't fit. It's really
good for cropping or fitting a photo into like a square.
That's really great. Oh and then one more, if you're
trying to post something and it might have personal information
on it, you want to you know block that out right.
(27:38):
So there's an app on the web it's called Redact
dot Photo, and you upload the picture and it blurs
it perfectly and it's all done privately in your browser.
And it's a great way don't share the pictures. Would
like the you know blocked out like markup on your phone.
Because people have been found where they can actually erase
that and see what's underneath there.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Sometimes, Wow, that's a lot. Rich DeMuro rich on Tech
is her Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on
wor rich on Tech at Instagram. It's at rich on
Tech on Instagram if you want to ask them a question.
Thanks a lot, Rich, Thanks Larie.
Speaker 14 (28:12):
Hav a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Because of the price of homes, people are looking for
alternatives to buy a house. Rory O'Neil has a couple
of the favorite options. Next, and you want to add
to the conversation, leave us a talk back. Go to
seven ten WOR on the iHeartRadio app and click the
microphone and when you're there, put seven to ten WOR
on your presets. Well, as you've probably heard, there's a
(28:34):
housing crisis in the country and interest rates have gone
up too high. There's not available, but there's not enough
available houses those that are available or just too darn expensive.
But there are alternatives. And here to talk about that
is Rory O'Neil Wor National Correspondent. So what are people
doing these days to find a place to live.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Well, they're actually in many ways turning to renting, which
when you run, the numbers might make more sense for you,
and that really depends where you are in life as well.
And we're also seeing a surge in the popularity of
manufactured homes. You might call them a trailer even, but
between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty four the number of
new manufactured homes shipped across the US actually increased by
(29:20):
more than sixty six zero percent in that timeframe, as
more and more people think that either that's their entry
level home or it's their last home, as a lot
of these communities are fifty five and up.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, I've never heard the term manufactured homes because in
a way, all homes are manufactured in some way. What
are they specifically? Are they really mobile homes or is
there a wider category?
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Well, right, we say mobile homes, but they never move right,
so they're not really mobile. But what happens is, in
most cases you imagine a trailer park, as you might
call it. That the homes don't. They're usually installed on property,
a manufactured in its essence, though at one location, shipped
out to usually some sort of a trailer park or
(30:07):
manufactured home community, and then sort of made permanent there.
People like them because they're affordable. You essentially buy it
like you would a car, but you rent the property
that it sits on and what it has been, you know,
mom and pop places that have been these locations for years.
They can be a real deal. But what we're seeing
is big business, those private equity firms. They're all starting
(30:29):
to sweep in now and buy up these properties and
jack up the rent that people are being forced to pay,
or the fees or you know, doing what those private
equity firms do. So while this is seen as a
much more attractive option for as I said, either that
entry level or that last home, even that now is
starting to feel a lot of the pricing pressure.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And is that specifically the fact that they there's an
increase in these mobile homes and there's an increase in rentals,
is that specifically related to the housing crisis.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Yes, it is. And as part of this, people are
looking for alternatives, right. I mean, you can buy some
of these manufactured homes for fifteen twenty forty thousand dollars.
Some get really nice, by the way, and can top
over one hundred thousand dollars, but you know, they're seen
as a sensible alternative or maybe a way to enter
(31:21):
the housing market. And look, and that's a big issue
as to whether or not you're going to keep on
renting or buying. In some places, renting can make sense.
I'm looking at the New York, Jersey City, Pennsylvania area
for average rents right now, averaging about thirty two hundred
dollars a month. But your average mortgage payment in that
same area is just under five thousand dollars a month.
(31:44):
And yeah, I get it. That's investing in you though,
that's going to be long term. Maybe that works for you,
but trying to you know, when you're twenty five and
coming out and struggling, you know, rent seems to make
a whole lot more sense these days than buying.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Hey, real quick, I know there's another story you're and
that's the air quality out there. Uh, just if we
can cut that to chase what's the best, what's the worst?
And how are we doing in the New York City area.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, most of the worst places are out west. A
lot of California cities are on the American Lung Association
of the worst. The New York metropolitan area worked sixteenth
out of two hundred and twenty eight places when it
comes to that smoggy ozone pollution. A lot of the
numbers went down because of the Canadian wildfires from twenty
twenty three kicked up a lot of stuff. We were
all breathing in. About half the country breeds bad air
(32:32):
sometime of the year.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Wow, we do pretty good at sixteen. That's not bad
at all. Thank you for well, thankfull.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Yeah, you'd rather be closer to that two twenty eight.
Number sixteen is bad.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
You don't want to.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Be in the oh.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I thought sixteen was usually good. They flipped the list
on me. Thanks for the bad.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Yet sixteen is good of your the jets, But otherwise we're.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Rory O'Neal wr National correspondent, thanks a lot. Will there
be a Sans casino in Nasa County, Lorica and has
breaking news about the potential deal. We'll talk to her
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