May 14, 2024 • 28 mins
KFI's own Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Tech Tuesday'! Rich talks about OpenAI showing off new ChatGPT skills, Apple and Google phones will finally alert you about trackers, and Google showing off a teaser of what it’s AI will be able to do soon. Younger patients sought vasectomies after Roe vs. Wade overturned. Suddenly, there aren’t enough babies. The whole world is alarmed.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. You are
listening to the Bill Handle Show.And this is KFI AM six forty Bill
Handle here on a Taco Tuesday,May fourteenth, in Israel, looks like
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Israel has amassed enough troops on theedge of Rafa to begin their major attack
on Rafa. Boy, is thatgoing to be a game changer for sure?
Israel's reputation, which is already frayedaround the world. Boy, that'll
just put it right over the edge. And Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is
in Ukraine. He's in Kieth todayand it's just he's in talks with Zelenski
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and other high level officials, andthe arms have begun pouring into Ukraine desperately,
desperately needed to say the least,otherwise I'm going to lose the war.
It's that simple, Okay. It'stime for Tech Tuesday with Rich Dumurro
all the latest gun gadgets and stuffwith k MIS residents handsome nerd. It's
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Tech tech Tuesday with Rich Jamiro andit is a Tech Tuesday. Rich Tomorrow
hosts of Rich on Tech Here onKFI Saturdays eleven to two pm on Instagram
it's rich on Tech at rich onTech and the website is rich on tech
dot com and his newsletter good morning, rich Hey, good morning to you
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Bill. You're at Google right,Yeah, this is Google Io their yearly
events. And make no mistake,this is an exciting kind of festival atmosphere.
But this is a company that isfeeling the heat from the likes of
Chat GPT. So today they willhave to prove that they are doing stuff
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that's more unique and more interesting thanchat GPT. So is it the same
as when Google has these events?Is it on the same level? Is
Apple that really no one knows exactlywhat's going on and it's pentagon level security
to keep people from knowing. Notso much so with Google. We don't
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necessarily know what's going to happen,but some people are briefed on the announcements
before, unlike Apple, which thatjust does not happen for this event in
particular, it's not as you know, Apple really does things in a very
particular way. Everything is highly figuredout and highly coordinated and orchestrated. With
Google, it's a little different theyyou know, Google is much more kind
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of an open company where their productswork on a variety or their services work
on a variety of products, unlikeApple, which everything drives back to Apple.
And so it's just a very differentway of doing things, it seems,
even down to putting on the event, all right. So I always
ask this of the Apple event inany news event where people are invite to,
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particularly the press, and here itis rich. What are they feeding
you? What's the quality of thefood there? I knew you were going
to ask. I have not beeninto the press room just yet, so
I have not seen the spread there, but I'm standing outside the press room.
But they've so far had a Tshirt and a water bottle so far
has been given to me. Wow. Okay, that's impressive. So feel
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free to break in anytime during theday with breaking news AI. And we're
going to talk about AI because we'retalking about chat, GPT, what's going
on with that? Apple and GoogleiPhones also coming up with that. But
in terms of AI, is thereanything else going on in the tech industry,
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in the tech bubble that is notAI? Does anything else exist right
now? No? And it's actuallybecome a joke every interview I do,
no matter what the company is,I say, and how is AI affecting
your business? And sometimes it's ajoke, but the reality is every single
company is thinking about AI and theimpact on its products in so many different
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ways. And it sounds silly,but there are many many ways. Even
let's say you just had a todo app, right, an app that
helps you take care of your todo list, you know we're seeing AI
inside that. Even if something assimple as an Apple's operating system, when
you type in a grocery list,it now uses AI to organize the items
you put in by categories. Soif you type Apples, it will put
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it into a produce category. Andthat's something that is just small, but
it does have an impact. Butbill the big news right now? Of
course I mentioned the Google ioe,but Chat GBT yesterday one up to Google
by showing off their latest kind ofadvancement in Chat GBT, And the big
news I think for consumers is notonly is it getting better and more and
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smarter and all that stuff, butnow it can handle video, it can
handle photos, and it can handletext in various speech speaking languages. But
it's all free now, so there'sless of a of a reason to pay
the twenty dollars to chat GBT becausethey're unleashing a lot of their stuff for
free. It seems like this ischanging, not month month, week to
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week, but day to day.Have you ever seen changes this rapidly,
this enormous within the tech industry,not really typically with the tech industry,
we've been on a one to twoyear cycle with products, and that's fine
for a product, but now becausethings are so software oriented. I mean,
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we just had the update to theiPhone. The iOS seventeen point five
is available if you want to downloadthat, and even inside there they just
add and continue to tweak little featuresthat make your phone more useful, more
interesting, and you know, itjust continues to change on a weekly basis,
which I do think is a differentis definitely different than in years past.
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Our devices more complicated with AI.I mean I look at what my
phone, I look at what mycar can do, and I don't use
two percent of what's available. Wellthat's because the car makers have still not
figured out how to make a systemthat is actually usable to the average human.
And I think AI does change thatbecause when you think about just think
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about your information bill, whether it'syour photos, in a file. Just
think about your traditional computer. Youhave all these files on your desktop right
like in your hard drive, andtraditionally you had to know what was in
those files, or you had toname them a certain way or keep them
in a certain folder. System Nowyou just say, hey, bring up
that file I was working on yesterday, and it will show you the file
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that you were working on yesterday,or show me my slide presentation that I've
been working on. That's the kindof natural language that AI really brings into
fruition, and it's truly changing theway that we interact with these products.
And yes, you will not haveto know the settings. You'll just say,
make my car warmer, make mypar cooler, tune into kfive,
whatever it is. The system willfigure it out on the back end in
a very natural language. And thatis the beauty of all this stuff.
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All right, Rich, I havean idea for an app that's some fourteen
year old. It's going to bea billionaire tomorrow morning. By tomorrow morning,
and here it is, and itmay already be around for all I
know. Okay, I go shoppinga couple times a week. And if
you ever go shopping, and unlessyou know the store cold you're going up
and down the aisle, and you'llthis happens to me. I'll pass things
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that I have to come back forand because I have my list and I
don't figure out strategically where everything ison the store. So ye, here
it is. You put in yourthe list of things you do, or
just say into the phone it's yourlist. The app knows which store you're
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at, The app knows where everythingis in the store. The app guides
you through the store, strategically,gives you every coupon, tells you what
to buy, and just does itall for you. So a minimum time
wasted because I'll take ten minutes ofshopping and make it forty five minutes.
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What do you think? Yeah,no, I love the idea. I
think this is brilliant. I've oftenthought about this. We've seen it in
several iterations. Obviously, Amazon hassomething that's similar to this, and other
retailers are trying to help you out. Like home Depot. You can type
in a product and see where youknow which aisle it's in, But nothing
to the extent of what you're talkingabout has been done in a very organized
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way. And I do think that'sbrilliant because ninety percent of the time,
you know what you want, youknow what's in the store, you just
have no idea how to get toit. And an app that would be
able to lead you right there wouldbe incredible. I think you got a
million dollar idea, Billy. Theother day, for example, I was
looking for a product and I boughtit, and then I went off to
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find another product and I went downthe list and there was product number four,
which was right behind me when Ipicked the first one up, and
I just, yeah, I'm tellingyou, that's it's gonna work for me
because everybody. I would think italso would work for everybody in the store,
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because occasionally people actually have to lookup where things are, and I
have seen employees look it up andI don't know what program they're looking at,
but usually you have to know,Hey, where's the flowers down Aisle
eight, and where's this? Youknow it's it's just shopping to me made
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much much much easier. And Idon't want to be one of those people
that says, you know, theold days were better, But Bill,
I don't know if you remember whenhome Depot first started, the employees there
were so knowledgeable about the location ofproducts in that store. They would actually
lead you to the aisle where thatitem was, and they knew exactly if
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you said, hey, I'm replacingmy sink and I need the little widget
that goes between the pump and thestall, and they're like, oh,
we got it right, let mebring you down to Aisle seventeen, Bay
number four. Now I'm not sayingthey don't still have those employees, but
I think there's less of them inthe store. So it used to be,
you know, at home Depot,they had an employee almost every aisle,
and now that's just maybe every otheraisle or every third aisle. But
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I think this is something that technologycould solve in a big way. It's
just a matter of getting consumers touse it as well. All right,
let's move over to chat GPT andwhat's going on with that, because I
understand that they're increasing their reach andtheir smarts. This is just wild.
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So yesterday they hadn't have been Itold you I'm here at Google Io up
in Mountain View, and so yesterdaychat GBT decided to one up Google and
say, okay, let's show offwhat we have working on. Because we
know you're going to show off whatyou're working on tomorrow, and so they
announced EP four. Oh and thisis a multi modal AI. What does
that mean. The O stands foromni. It means it's one box now
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for everything that you want to do, whether that's audio, whether that's vision,
whether that's text. Let me justgive you an example for the blind
visually impaired. You can just holdup your chat GBT app to a intersection
whatever you want and say, hey, tell me what's going on here?
What am I looking at? Andit will look at that video in lifetime
and detail what is happening. Thatis a huge shift. That's just one
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use case faster response time. Soit's almost like you're talking to an actual
human being. You can interrupt themwhile they're talking back to you and say
sorry, explain this to me better. And like I earlier mentioned, a
lot of these features used to beunder that twenty dollars monthly cost. Now
they're opening these up to everyone forfree, and they're limiting how much you
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can use it for free. Butstill this is a huge, huge paradigm
shift for open AI. Hey,all of these companies that are going to
AI, they obviously have to buythe program. I'm assuming that they don't
develop their own. Is is thatreally the market now is the commercial application
of AI, and those few AIproducers are reaping in money like you can't
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believe. Oh. Absolutely, that'sthe other side of it. It's all
about the API, which is whatyou know. Any company pretty much,
any company that's creating some sort ofapp or software tool, they're not generating
their own AI large language model.They're using one from Google, They're using
one from open Ai. They're usingone from Claude or sorry, from Anthropic
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or Mistral, and so those arethe main companies. They sell the access
to their back end system, andso you can do whatever you want.
Let's say your GM you're not goingto use open it. You're not going
to use chat Gypt on your computers. You're going to use your own GM
GPT that you know highly secure,the information does not leave the building.
And so you buy these tokens fromopen ai that lets you tap into their
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resources. But it's all kind ofcustomized for your business, and we're seeing
that built into almost every app usingthe back end of these major companies.
So the major companies are not actuallydeveloping their own program. They're buying them
off the shelf with some modification andtons of security. Do I have that
right? I think for right now. In the future, I think we'll
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see more of an emphasis of thesecompanies. But here's the thing. It's
almost like, you know, whyreinvent the wheel? Open ai has already
trained their system and it's really good. Why do you think you're able to,
as a small company do that yourselfin that time? You just can't
do it. And also the computingpower you need, so it's much easier.
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It's kind of like online storage,you know, cloud storage. You're
not going to build your I mean, if you're a huge company, you
might build your own storage. Buta lot of these companies just buy cloud
storage from Microsoft, from Google,from Dropbox, you know AWS, that's
Amazon Amazon Web Services. That isa huge growth area for Amazon right now
because every company in the world justcarves out a little part of server space
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from Amazon and they don't have tomaintain the servers, they don't have to
maintain the network. Amazon does itall. They focus on running their business.
Hey, talking about cloud storage,I've always wondered the hardware part of
cloud storage, because you have toprovide some hardware that I can't even imagine
how much you need and how quicklythey have to build more. Oh,
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they're always building more. But it'salso you know, you don't want to
build too much because you don't wantthese servers sitting there because they're very expensive
to run. But no, theseserver buildings that I've been in are you
know, typically either underground, they'rehighly cooled, they're fireproof. I mean,
it's pretty wild the extent because theyhave to have redundancy. But that
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is a huge business in itself.There are a couple of major companies that
are doing very well. And againthis is the beauty of running a company.
Right now, if you have thatidea bill for that app that you
just built, you use the AIfrom open Ai, use a server space
from Amazon Web Storage, use youknow, the application protocols that Apple develops,
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so you can make the app andyou can do this all from the
comfort of your home. And thisis just the time that we have never
seen before. It's incredible. Well, I'm let me tell you, I've
just got very excited about doing thatbefore tomorrow morning. But first, yeah,
I have to learn how to turnmy microphone on and off, which
I haven't quite yet mastered. Onceyou figure that out, all right,
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We'll talk again next week Saturday,eleven to two, Instagram at rich on
Tech and the website is a richOn Tech dot TV. Have a good
one, rich we'll catch over theweekend. Thank you, Bill. We
have talked for the last two yearsabout Roe v. Wade, the DoD
decision and how it has overturned Roev. Wade and its aftermath. And
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this was a monumental decision. Imean, this was the iceberg that broke
open, the Titanic decision. Soafter the Supreme Court overturned Row almost two
years ago, as we all know, there were a whole series, a
whole number of states that ushered innew restrictions on abortion, restricting in many
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cases basically outlawing it. Outlawing abortionwith laws like you can't have an abortion
after first six weeks, when mostwomen don't even know they're pregnant until six
weeks had passed. So effectively donefinished no abortion. And so one of
the aftermaths of this and this thinkabout this for a moment, because it
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flies in the face of logic.More and more young people are seeking vasectomies,
were getting their tubes tied. Wow, but think about it for a
moment, does that makes sense?Utile researchers University of Utah researchers just published
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in the Journal of Urology saying thatthe greatest number of vasectomies and women getting
their tubes tied basically getting spade andfixed. And by the way, really
good news for veterinarians because they're doinga lot of this on guys particularly were
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under the age of thirty. Thepercentage went from basically six percent almost ten
percent of the number of young peoplegetting best sectomies or getting sterilized. I
guess that's a horrible word, gettingsterilized, because that beckons back to when
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the United States practice eugenics, whichdid happen and what happened in Nazi Germany
for serilization, and we had ourhistory too, So getting fixed, let's
say that. So. University ofUtah researchers found that before Row was overturned,
v sectomy rates were consistently higher instates categorized as hostile or illegal or
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very anti abortion, which makes alot of sense too, even if you
had a fundamental right to abortion perthe Supreme Court versus Row. There were
states that could make and did makeall kinds of restrictions. For example,
any doctor providing abortion had to begiven privileges at the local hospital. Well
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you had Catholic hospitals, it saidno, thank you. Or an outpatient
procedure where abortion was performed, whichis far safer than many other procedures,
had to have the same requirements asa hospital er. Anything they could do
to throw in making is simply moredifficult under Row. Now they don't have
to worry about it. But evenin California, where abortion has been protected
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to the point where the Constitution hasbeen amended allowing abortion, the rates of
men getting vack sectomy rose from sevento thirteen per one hundred thousand patients.
Even where abortion is absolutely allowed thereis no issue, the vasectomy rates went
up. Now. Is it becauseit was a matter of birth control?
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No one really knows. But eventalking about abortion, even parts of or
many states moving towards and actually havingsuccessfully banned abortion in those states where there
is no issue like ours, Imean, Roe v. Wade is alive
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and well here in California, Imean it's beyond alive and well in California.
Yah, And yet the visectomy ratehas gone up. So doctor Teska
Shardian, who is a urol ofjust the University of Utah, said,
we're just seeing an overall increase invisectomy and that's regardless of political climate in
any state. And what she saysis where she believes people in generally in
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general, even if they don't havea uterus or the ability to create,
or simply taking responsibility for reproductive health. That's it. It's a movement towards
simply looking at and dealing with reproductivehealth, even if it's not going to
affect you. You. Vissectamies,by the way, are intended to be
permanent. That just let you know. And you can reverse vasectomies. Not
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easy, but you can reverse them. And you also have well here's a
University of Pittsburgh, School of PublicHealth, Boston University. Together they published
in Jama General mer Journal, AmericanHealth Journal, American Medical Association, and
an abrupt increase in vasectomies all overthe country and they're trying to figure that
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out. No surprise, no surprise, it's just a general We don't even
know the aftermath of ROW. It'sthat simple, and I'm sure we'll be
visiting them that issue again. Allright, I am going to make a
statement that is actually two statements,and I don't think I have done this
very often. And I'm going tonow give you some stats or a stat
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that has never before happened in thehistory of mankind. I know that sounds
like biblical proportions, and I knowthat sounds just intergalactic almost, But two
things are happening that have never happenedin the history of mankind. One,
at some point I'm going to figureout how this recording business works. That's
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never happen and in the history ofmankind. Two and slightly more important,
that for the first time, theglobal fertility rate is going to drop beyond
below the point needed to keep thepopulation constant. And it probably has already
happened. We are going to losepopulation, and that's never before happened.
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It's always gone up and up andup. And I think what we're at
seven and a half billion people,so demographics demographers will tell you this is
supposed to be pretty slow moving.But the baby bust is happening so rapidly
is just taking everybody by surprise.The same thing with climate change, the
scientist said, we're going to havemajor climate change. It just happened way
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sooner than anybody thought. And that'sexactly what's happening with the number of babies
that are born around the world,and not just in industrialized countries. That's
a given. You know. Forexample, the global replacement rate is about
two point two kids per married coupleor per couple. That happened way long
ago when we went below two pointtwo. South Korea, which has the
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world's lowest rate, is almost unimaginable. And if you're looking at high income
nations, fertility fell below replacement inthe nineteen seventies, and that makes sense.
You've got people that are not strugglingfor food. They don't wake up
in the morning desperate just to figureout how we're going to eat that day.
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And there are people that make aliving and they choose not to have
more than two kids. I mean, I could afford three or four,
No I was going to stop,but two, come hell or high water.
I mean, that's just what industrializedpeople do in industrialized nations. Now,
when you go to a country thatis at starvation level, you need
as many kids as you can getto help feed the family. Like the
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old days on the farm. Andsince the mortality rate is so much higher
in those countries, you gotta keeppumping out kids because you're gonna lose x
percent. Can you imagine you area family, you're a couple, and
you're living in some third world countryand you literally have to say, we're
gonna lose a percentage of our kids, so we have to punch out more.
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I mean, you may not besaying that, you may not be
writing it down. It's not aformula, but that's certainly part and parcel
of living that way. Donald Trump, by the way, said that a
collapsing fertility rate is a bigger threatto Western civilization than Russia. Okay,
I mean that's a little bit much. But a few years ago, Japanese
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Prime Minister Kashida said that the collapseof Japan's fertility rate, which has been
far greater, faster and bigger numbers, left it standing on the verse whether
we can continue to function as asociety. And here is the problem if
well, on the one hand,it's great news the fertility rate if we're
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over crowded anyway on this planet tobegin with, even though we do have
enough arable land to feed everybody onthe planet, but for civil wars and
dictators, etc. Where we havemass starvation. Climate change is changing that
it's going to be more difficult.And as people are getting more sophisticated,
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more educated, making more money,people are going the other way on that
one too. But even in thosecountries where they don't think the way we
do, fertility rate is dropping likecrazy, and that's what we're talking about.
So the good news is the earthis not going to be as populated
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as we thought it was going tobe, which is great news. And
the other news, the bad newshere is that the world is getting older,
and that means as we age,we don't produce. We're not working,
we're not farming, we're sitting insome assisted living facility, we're camped
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out at home playing with the grandchildren. We've got to be fed, we've
got to be taken care of.And if there are more of us than
of you, young people, thenyou've got a real problem going on in
the future. So aging populations andthat connects directly with fertility rates dropping,
are just a god awful mess.So I just wanted to make you feel
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better, you know me, inthe end, even if I have an
up topic or two, I absolutelyhave to ruin it, and I have.
On a Tuesday morning. I'm alsotaking phone calls in just a moment
off the air for marginal legal advice. You can give me your marginal legal
question. I will give you marginallegal advice, and I'll do that at
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fifty starting just as I lock out, And a quick reminder of what's going
on in the world today as weend the morning show, and that is
Anthony Blincoln. Just a quick recap. Anthony Blincoln, Secretary of State,
is in Ukraine right now with hisback's basket of goodies and that is the
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start of sixty billion dollars worth ofaid to Ukraine. And we're talking military
aid. But for it would justnever happen. The country was going to
lose the war with Russia. MichaelCohen, he's up again today. The
prosecute the Defense starts with Michael Cohentoday and that's going to be the fireworks.
I can't wait to see what theDefense is going to say. And
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it may not. It may notbe as powerful for them as you think,
because the prosecution has already laid itall out. And then that cargo
ship Dolly looks like it's going tobe refloated this week in Baltimore Hard So
yeah, a lot going on today, and of course you'll hear about it
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Handle here on a Taco Tuesday,May fourteenth, in Israel, looks like
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Israel has amassed enough troops on theedge of Rafa to begin their major attack
on Rafa. Boy, is thatgoing to be a game changer for sure?
Israel's reputation, which is already frayedaround the world. Boy, that'll
just put it right over the edge. And Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is
in Ukraine. He's in Kieth todayand it's just he's in talks with Zelenski
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and other high level officials, andthe arms have begun pouring into Ukraine desperately,
desperately needed to say the least,otherwise I'm going to lose the war.
It's that simple, Okay. It'stime for Tech Tuesday with Rich Dumurro
all the latest gun gadgets and stuffwith k MIS residents handsome nerd. It's
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Tech tech Tuesday with Rich Jamiro andit is a Tech Tuesday. Rich Tomorrow
hosts of Rich on Tech Here onKFI Saturdays eleven to two pm on Instagram
it's rich on Tech at rich onTech and the website is rich on tech
dot com and his newsletter good morning, rich Hey, good morning to you
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Bill. You're at Google right,Yeah, this is Google Io their yearly
events. And make no mistake,this is an exciting kind of festival atmosphere.
But this is a company that isfeeling the heat from the likes of
Chat GPT. So today they willhave to prove that they are doing stuff
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that's more unique and more interesting thanchat GPT. So is it the same
as when Google has these events?Is it on the same level? Is
Apple that really no one knows exactlywhat's going on and it's pentagon level security
to keep people from knowing. Notso much so with Google. We don't
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necessarily know what's going to happen,but some people are briefed on the announcements
before, unlike Apple, which thatjust does not happen for this event in
particular, it's not as you know, Apple really does things in a very
particular way. Everything is highly figuredout and highly coordinated and orchestrated. With
Google, it's a little different theyyou know, Google is much more kind
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of an open company where their productswork on a variety or their services work
on a variety of products, unlikeApple, which everything drives back to Apple.
And so it's just a very differentway of doing things, it seems,
even down to putting on the event, all right. So I always
ask this of the Apple event inany news event where people are invite to,
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particularly the press, and here itis rich. What are they feeding
you? What's the quality of thefood there? I knew you were going
to ask. I have not beeninto the press room just yet, so
I have not seen the spread there, but I'm standing outside the press room.
But they've so far had a Tshirt and a water bottle so far
has been given to me. Wow. Okay, that's impressive. So feel
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free to break in anytime during theday with breaking news AI. And we're
going to talk about AI because we'retalking about chat, GPT, what's going
on with that? Apple and GoogleiPhones also coming up with that. But
in terms of AI, is thereanything else going on in the tech industry,
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in the tech bubble that is notAI? Does anything else exist right
now? No? And it's actuallybecome a joke every interview I do,
no matter what the company is,I say, and how is AI affecting
your business? And sometimes it's ajoke, but the reality is every single
company is thinking about AI and theimpact on its products in so many different
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ways. And it sounds silly,but there are many many ways. Even
let's say you just had a todo app, right, an app that
helps you take care of your todo list, you know we're seeing AI
inside that. Even if something assimple as an Apple's operating system, when
you type in a grocery list,it now uses AI to organize the items
you put in by categories. Soif you type Apples, it will put
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it into a produce category. Andthat's something that is just small, but
it does have an impact. Butbill the big news right now? Of
course I mentioned the Google ioe,but Chat GBT yesterday one up to Google
by showing off their latest kind ofadvancement in Chat GBT, And the big
news I think for consumers is notonly is it getting better and more and
(04:51):
smarter and all that stuff, butnow it can handle video, it can
handle photos, and it can handletext in various speech speaking languages. But
it's all free now, so there'sless of a of a reason to pay
the twenty dollars to chat GBT becausethey're unleashing a lot of their stuff for
free. It seems like this ischanging, not month month, week to
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week, but day to day.Have you ever seen changes this rapidly,
this enormous within the tech industry,not really typically with the tech industry,
we've been on a one to twoyear cycle with products, and that's fine
for a product, but now becausethings are so software oriented. I mean,
(05:36):
we just had the update to theiPhone. The iOS seventeen point five
is available if you want to downloadthat, and even inside there they just
add and continue to tweak little featuresthat make your phone more useful, more
interesting, and you know, itjust continues to change on a weekly basis,
which I do think is a differentis definitely different than in years past.
(06:01):
Our devices more complicated with AI.I mean I look at what my
phone, I look at what mycar can do, and I don't use
two percent of what's available. Wellthat's because the car makers have still not
figured out how to make a systemthat is actually usable to the average human.
And I think AI does change thatbecause when you think about just think
(06:25):
about your information bill, whether it'syour photos, in a file. Just
think about your traditional computer. Youhave all these files on your desktop right
like in your hard drive, andtraditionally you had to know what was in
those files, or you had toname them a certain way or keep them
in a certain folder. System Nowyou just say, hey, bring up
that file I was working on yesterday, and it will show you the file
(06:46):
that you were working on yesterday,or show me my slide presentation that I've
been working on. That's the kindof natural language that AI really brings into
fruition, and it's truly changing theway that we interact with these products.
And yes, you will not haveto know the settings. You'll just say,
make my car warmer, make mypar cooler, tune into kfive,
whatever it is. The system willfigure it out on the back end in
a very natural language. And thatis the beauty of all this stuff.
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All right, Rich, I havean idea for an app that's some fourteen
year old. It's going to bea billionaire tomorrow morning. By tomorrow morning,
and here it is, and itmay already be around for all I
know. Okay, I go shoppinga couple times a week. And if
you ever go shopping, and unlessyou know the store cold you're going up
and down the aisle, and you'llthis happens to me. I'll pass things
(07:33):
that I have to come back forand because I have my list and I
don't figure out strategically where everything ison the store. So ye, here
it is. You put in yourthe list of things you do, or
just say into the phone it's yourlist. The app knows which store you're
(07:55):
at, The app knows where everythingis in the store. The app guides
you through the store, strategically,gives you every coupon, tells you what
to buy, and just does itall for you. So a minimum time
wasted because I'll take ten minutes ofshopping and make it forty five minutes.
(08:15):
What do you think? Yeah,no, I love the idea. I
think this is brilliant. I've oftenthought about this. We've seen it in
several iterations. Obviously, Amazon hassomething that's similar to this, and other
retailers are trying to help you out. Like home Depot. You can type
in a product and see where youknow which aisle it's in, But nothing
to the extent of what you're talkingabout has been done in a very organized
(08:37):
way. And I do think that'sbrilliant because ninety percent of the time,
you know what you want, youknow what's in the store, you just
have no idea how to get toit. And an app that would be
able to lead you right there wouldbe incredible. I think you got a
million dollar idea, Billy. Theother day, for example, I was
looking for a product and I boughtit, and then I went off to
(08:58):
find another product and I went downthe list and there was product number four,
which was right behind me when Ipicked the first one up, and
I just, yeah, I'm tellingyou, that's it's gonna work for me
because everybody. I would think italso would work for everybody in the store,
(09:18):
because occasionally people actually have to lookup where things are, and I
have seen employees look it up andI don't know what program they're looking at,
but usually you have to know,Hey, where's the flowers down Aisle
eight, and where's this? Youknow it's it's just shopping to me made
(09:39):
much much much easier. And Idon't want to be one of those people
that says, you know, theold days were better, But Bill,
I don't know if you remember whenhome Depot first started, the employees there
were so knowledgeable about the location ofproducts in that store. They would actually
lead you to the aisle where thatitem was, and they knew exactly if
(10:00):
you said, hey, I'm replacingmy sink and I need the little widget
that goes between the pump and thestall, and they're like, oh,
we got it right, let mebring you down to Aisle seventeen, Bay
number four. Now I'm not sayingthey don't still have those employees, but
I think there's less of them inthe store. So it used to be,
you know, at home Depot,they had an employee almost every aisle,
and now that's just maybe every otheraisle or every third aisle. But
(10:22):
I think this is something that technologycould solve in a big way. It's
just a matter of getting consumers touse it as well. All right,
let's move over to chat GPT andwhat's going on with that, because I
understand that they're increasing their reach andtheir smarts. This is just wild.
(10:43):
So yesterday they hadn't have been Itold you I'm here at Google Io up
in Mountain View, and so yesterdaychat GBT decided to one up Google and
say, okay, let's show offwhat we have working on. Because we
know you're going to show off whatyou're working on tomorrow, and so they
announced EP four. Oh and thisis a multi modal AI. What does
that mean. The O stands foromni. It means it's one box now
(11:07):
for everything that you want to do, whether that's audio, whether that's vision,
whether that's text. Let me justgive you an example for the blind
visually impaired. You can just holdup your chat GBT app to a intersection
whatever you want and say, hey, tell me what's going on here?
What am I looking at? Andit will look at that video in lifetime
and detail what is happening. Thatis a huge shift. That's just one
(11:31):
use case faster response time. Soit's almost like you're talking to an actual
human being. You can interrupt themwhile they're talking back to you and say
sorry, explain this to me better. And like I earlier mentioned, a
lot of these features used to beunder that twenty dollars monthly cost. Now
they're opening these up to everyone forfree, and they're limiting how much you
(11:54):
can use it for free. Butstill this is a huge, huge paradigm
shift for open AI. Hey,all of these companies that are going to
AI, they obviously have to buythe program. I'm assuming that they don't
develop their own. Is is thatreally the market now is the commercial application
of AI, and those few AIproducers are reaping in money like you can't
(12:18):
believe. Oh. Absolutely, that'sthe other side of it. It's all
about the API, which is whatyou know. Any company pretty much,
any company that's creating some sort ofapp or software tool, they're not generating
their own AI large language model.They're using one from Google, They're using
one from open Ai. They're usingone from Claude or sorry, from Anthropic
(12:41):
or Mistral, and so those arethe main companies. They sell the access
to their back end system, andso you can do whatever you want.
Let's say your GM you're not goingto use open it. You're not going
to use chat Gypt on your computers. You're going to use your own GM
GPT that you know highly secure,the information does not leave the building.
And so you buy these tokens fromopen ai that lets you tap into their
(13:05):
resources. But it's all kind ofcustomized for your business, and we're seeing
that built into almost every app usingthe back end of these major companies.
So the major companies are not actuallydeveloping their own program. They're buying them
off the shelf with some modification andtons of security. Do I have that
right? I think for right now. In the future, I think we'll
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see more of an emphasis of thesecompanies. But here's the thing. It's
almost like, you know, whyreinvent the wheel? Open ai has already
trained their system and it's really good. Why do you think you're able to,
as a small company do that yourselfin that time? You just can't
do it. And also the computingpower you need, so it's much easier.
(13:48):
It's kind of like online storage,you know, cloud storage. You're
not going to build your I mean, if you're a huge company, you
might build your own storage. Buta lot of these companies just buy cloud
storage from Microsoft, from Google,from Dropbox, you know AWS, that's
Amazon Amazon Web Services. That isa huge growth area for Amazon right now
because every company in the world justcarves out a little part of server space
(14:11):
from Amazon and they don't have tomaintain the servers, they don't have to
maintain the network. Amazon does itall. They focus on running their business.
Hey, talking about cloud storage,I've always wondered the hardware part of
cloud storage, because you have toprovide some hardware that I can't even imagine
how much you need and how quicklythey have to build more. Oh,
(14:35):
they're always building more. But it'salso you know, you don't want to
build too much because you don't wantthese servers sitting there because they're very expensive
to run. But no, theseserver buildings that I've been in are you
know, typically either underground, they'rehighly cooled, they're fireproof. I mean,
it's pretty wild the extent because theyhave to have redundancy. But that
(14:56):
is a huge business in itself.There are a couple of major companies that
are doing very well. And againthis is the beauty of running a company.
Right now, if you have thatidea bill for that app that you
just built, you use the AIfrom open Ai, use a server space
from Amazon Web Storage, use youknow, the application protocols that Apple develops,
(15:18):
so you can make the app andyou can do this all from the
comfort of your home. And thisis just the time that we have never
seen before. It's incredible. Well, I'm let me tell you, I've
just got very excited about doing thatbefore tomorrow morning. But first, yeah,
I have to learn how to turnmy microphone on and off, which
I haven't quite yet mastered. Onceyou figure that out, all right,
(15:39):
We'll talk again next week Saturday,eleven to two, Instagram at rich on
Tech and the website is a richOn Tech dot TV. Have a good
one, rich we'll catch over theweekend. Thank you, Bill. We
have talked for the last two yearsabout Roe v. Wade, the DoD
decision and how it has overturned Roev. Wade and its aftermath. And
(16:02):
this was a monumental decision. Imean, this was the iceberg that broke
open, the Titanic decision. Soafter the Supreme Court overturned Row almost two
years ago, as we all know, there were a whole series, a
whole number of states that ushered innew restrictions on abortion, restricting in many
(16:26):
cases basically outlawing it. Outlawing abortionwith laws like you can't have an abortion
after first six weeks, when mostwomen don't even know they're pregnant until six
weeks had passed. So effectively donefinished no abortion. And so one of
the aftermaths of this and this thinkabout this for a moment, because it
(16:48):
flies in the face of logic.More and more young people are seeking vasectomies,
were getting their tubes tied. Wow, but think about it for a
moment, does that makes sense?Utile researchers University of Utah researchers just published
(17:12):
in the Journal of Urology saying thatthe greatest number of vasectomies and women getting
their tubes tied basically getting spade andfixed. And by the way, really
good news for veterinarians because they're doinga lot of this on guys particularly were
(17:33):
under the age of thirty. Thepercentage went from basically six percent almost ten
percent of the number of young peoplegetting best sectomies or getting sterilized. I
guess that's a horrible word, gettingsterilized, because that beckons back to when
(17:55):
the United States practice eugenics, whichdid happen and what happened in Nazi Germany
for serilization, and we had ourhistory too, So getting fixed, let's
say that. So. University ofUtah researchers found that before Row was overturned,
v sectomy rates were consistently higher instates categorized as hostile or illegal or
(18:19):
very anti abortion, which makes alot of sense too, even if you
had a fundamental right to abortion perthe Supreme Court versus Row. There were
states that could make and did makeall kinds of restrictions. For example,
any doctor providing abortion had to begiven privileges at the local hospital. Well
(18:44):
you had Catholic hospitals, it saidno, thank you. Or an outpatient
procedure where abortion was performed, whichis far safer than many other procedures,
had to have the same requirements asa hospital er. Anything they could do
to throw in making is simply moredifficult under Row. Now they don't have
to worry about it. But evenin California, where abortion has been protected
(19:10):
to the point where the Constitution hasbeen amended allowing abortion, the rates of
men getting vack sectomy rose from sevento thirteen per one hundred thousand patients.
Even where abortion is absolutely allowed thereis no issue, the vasectomy rates went
up. Now. Is it becauseit was a matter of birth control?
(19:34):
No one really knows. But eventalking about abortion, even parts of or
many states moving towards and actually havingsuccessfully banned abortion in those states where there
is no issue like ours, Imean, Roe v. Wade is alive
(19:56):
and well here in California, Imean it's beyond alive and well in California.
Yah, And yet the visectomy ratehas gone up. So doctor Teska
Shardian, who is a urol ofjust the University of Utah, said,
we're just seeing an overall increase invisectomy and that's regardless of political climate in
any state. And what she saysis where she believes people in generally in
(20:22):
general, even if they don't havea uterus or the ability to create,
or simply taking responsibility for reproductive health. That's it. It's a movement towards
simply looking at and dealing with reproductivehealth, even if it's not going to
affect you. You. Vissectamies,by the way, are intended to be
permanent. That just let you know. And you can reverse vasectomies. Not
(20:47):
easy, but you can reverse them. And you also have well here's a
University of Pittsburgh, School of PublicHealth, Boston University. Together they published
in Jama General mer Journal, AmericanHealth Journal, American Medical Association, and
an abrupt increase in vasectomies all overthe country and they're trying to figure that
(21:11):
out. No surprise, no surprise, it's just a general We don't even
know the aftermath of ROW. It'sthat simple, and I'm sure we'll be
visiting them that issue again. Allright, I am going to make a
statement that is actually two statements,and I don't think I have done this
very often. And I'm going tonow give you some stats or a stat
(21:36):
that has never before happened in thehistory of mankind. I know that sounds
like biblical proportions, and I knowthat sounds just intergalactic almost, But two
things are happening that have never happenedin the history of mankind. One,
at some point I'm going to figureout how this recording business works. That's
(21:59):
never happen and in the history ofmankind. Two and slightly more important,
that for the first time, theglobal fertility rate is going to drop beyond
below the point needed to keep thepopulation constant. And it probably has already
happened. We are going to losepopulation, and that's never before happened.
(22:23):
It's always gone up and up andup. And I think what we're at
seven and a half billion people,so demographics demographers will tell you this is
supposed to be pretty slow moving.But the baby bust is happening so rapidly
is just taking everybody by surprise.The same thing with climate change, the
scientist said, we're going to havemajor climate change. It just happened way
(22:48):
sooner than anybody thought. And that'sexactly what's happening with the number of babies
that are born around the world,and not just in industrialized countries. That's
a given. You know. Forexample, the global replacement rate is about
two point two kids per married coupleor per couple. That happened way long
ago when we went below two pointtwo. South Korea, which has the
(23:12):
world's lowest rate, is almost unimaginable. And if you're looking at high income
nations, fertility fell below replacement inthe nineteen seventies, and that makes sense.
You've got people that are not strugglingfor food. They don't wake up
in the morning desperate just to figureout how we're going to eat that day.
(23:34):
And there are people that make aliving and they choose not to have
more than two kids. I mean, I could afford three or four,
No I was going to stop,but two, come hell or high water.
I mean, that's just what industrializedpeople do in industrialized nations. Now,
when you go to a country thatis at starvation level, you need
as many kids as you can getto help feed the family. Like the
(23:57):
old days on the farm. Andsince the mortality rate is so much higher
in those countries, you gotta keeppumping out kids because you're gonna lose x
percent. Can you imagine you area family, you're a couple, and
you're living in some third world countryand you literally have to say, we're
gonna lose a percentage of our kids, so we have to punch out more.
(24:22):
I mean, you may not besaying that, you may not be
writing it down. It's not aformula, but that's certainly part and parcel
of living that way. Donald Trump, by the way, said that a
collapsing fertility rate is a bigger threatto Western civilization than Russia. Okay,
I mean that's a little bit much. But a few years ago, Japanese
(24:45):
Prime Minister Kashida said that the collapseof Japan's fertility rate, which has been
far greater, faster and bigger numbers, left it standing on the verse whether
we can continue to function as asociety. And here is the problem if
well, on the one hand,it's great news the fertility rate if we're
(25:10):
over crowded anyway on this planet tobegin with, even though we do have
enough arable land to feed everybody onthe planet, but for civil wars and
dictators, etc. Where we havemass starvation. Climate change is changing that
it's going to be more difficult.And as people are getting more sophisticated,
(25:32):
more educated, making more money,people are going the other way on that
one too. But even in thosecountries where they don't think the way we
do, fertility rate is dropping likecrazy, and that's what we're talking about.
So the good news is the earthis not going to be as populated
(25:52):
as we thought it was going tobe, which is great news. And
the other news, the bad newshere is that the world is getting older,
and that means as we age,we don't produce. We're not working,
we're not farming, we're sitting insome assisted living facility, we're camped
(26:14):
out at home playing with the grandchildren. We've got to be fed, we've
got to be taken care of.And if there are more of us than
of you, young people, thenyou've got a real problem going on in
the future. So aging populations andthat connects directly with fertility rates dropping,
are just a god awful mess.So I just wanted to make you feel
(26:38):
better, you know me, inthe end, even if I have an
up topic or two, I absolutelyhave to ruin it, and I have.
On a Tuesday morning. I'm alsotaking phone calls in just a moment
off the air for marginal legal advice. You can give me your marginal legal
question. I will give you marginallegal advice, and I'll do that at
(26:59):
eight seven seven five to zero elevenfifty eight seven seven five to zero eleven
fifty starting just as I lock out, And a quick reminder of what's going
on in the world today as weend the morning show, and that is
Anthony Blincoln. Just a quick recap. Anthony Blincoln, Secretary of State,
is in Ukraine right now with hisback's basket of goodies and that is the
(27:25):
start of sixty billion dollars worth ofaid to Ukraine. And we're talking military
aid. But for it would justnever happen. The country was going to
lose the war with Russia. MichaelCohen, he's up again today. The
prosecute the Defense starts with Michael Cohentoday and that's going to be the fireworks.
I can't wait to see what theDefense is going to say. And
(27:45):
it may not. It may notbe as powerful for them as you think,
because the prosecution has already laid itall out. And then that cargo
ship Dolly looks like it's going tobe refloated this week in Baltimore Hard So
yeah, a lot going on today, and of course you'll hear about it
throughout the day. Here on KFIphone number. You can call me right
(28:07):
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