September 10, 2024 • 21 mins
KFI's own Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Tech Tuesday'! Rich talks about iPhone 16 models, Airpods turning into hearing aids, the new Apple Watch features, and now being able to listen to KFI on your watch... without headphones. We are entering the cowboy era of spaceflight. The reason fed-up shoppers are abandoning dollar stores in drove.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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This is KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It is a Taco Tuesday, September tenth. Tonight is the
big debate Kamala Harris Donald Trump. We're certainly going to
pay attention to that. I think we're carrying it here
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be live starting at six o'clock. And we've got fires
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
Rich de Burrough, who also has a podcast, is here.
He's heard here eleven at two pm every Saturday, KTLA
and our reporter Instagram at rich on Tech website, rich
on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Good morning Rich Hey, good morning to Bill. Yeah, you
are up.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
In Cooper Tino, and Cooper Tino means you are at Apple,
so you know you every year you go there. So
what's the latest and the greatest from there?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Well, let's start with the I guess let's start with
the iPhone. So you got four new models of the iPhone,
iPhone sixteen, iPhone sixteen Pro models, and on the Pro
models you've got much bigger screens. So people always talk
about how screens are getting bigger on phones. These are
the biggest screens we've ever seen on an iPhone, six
point three inches six point nine inches. But of course
(01:57):
Apple and all of their wizardry didn't make phones feel
that much bigger. But the big new thing about all
of these devices across the board is this new button
that Apple refuses to call a button, even though it
is a button one hundred percent. It's called Camera Control,
and it's kind of like a camera shutter button on
the side of the phones that you can instantly press
(02:18):
it to access the camera. You can also use it
take pictures, take videos, and then app developers can actually
develop different camera functionality based on this.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Little new button.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
So it's pretty cool, but I don't know if it's
a reason to upgrade your phone other than that. Obviously
you've got the AI features that are coming soon.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, when I can see app developers going for it.
But I've always thought that as soon as a phone
comes out, and I just bought my fifteen, I don't know,
a few months ago, you have a new version of
the iPhone coming out and people go to it. There
are enough people that want the newest and greatest, even
(03:00):
though they don't particularly need it and it doesn't do
a whole lot more, and Apple just keeps on selling
zillions of them. At some point, you know, they've reached
everybody on the planet, and yet people still buy.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I mean they're selling close to like sixty million
of these phones every quarter, so they're doing pretty.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Well with these devices.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I mean, look, and the upgrade situation is very easy.
You've got great marking by Apple. You actually have incredible
products with some new features every single time. And then
people are on these upgrade cycles with their carriers. Where
right now Verizon, An eight and T and all these
different carriers are giving you up to one thousand dollars
if you trade in your old phone. Now, given you
(03:39):
have to be on a nice unlimited plan for the
next three years to.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Take advantage of that.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
But people figure, you know what, I'm paying for that anyway,
so I might as well get a new phone. And
so they're on this cycle of just every year or
so they get this new deal to upgrade, and you know, it.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Just keeps going. Now, I will say bill. When it
comes to the pro.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Models, Apple did a lot of things for content creators
when it comes to shooting video in four K one twenty.
When it comes to the audio, the microphones on this
new iPhone sixteen Pro. We got a demo yesterday. I'm
not kidding their studio quality. So at this point, if
you're a creator in the field, you can record a movie,
you can record voiceover on the iPhone without an additional microphone.
(04:21):
It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Wow. Okay, that you know that is legitimate.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Not so much the new app aspect I'm talking about personally,
but since you know, with my new podcast and social media,
I'm really getting into I want to do outdoor stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know, I want to.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
See you know, I want to show me running a marathon,
never happen, show you diving, never happen, show you at
restaurants will always happen, so I can see that.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And how much is that puppy twelve hundred dollars?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
You're right, that's exactly how much.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So the standard phones, the iPhone sixteen models, they started
eight hundred. The new the Pro models started a thousand
and one. Thing that's nice is that last year we
saw some price increases. This year there are no price increases,
so everything is the same. And by the way, Bill,
if you have one of these standard phones that they
already have out there, they've got millions of them out there,
you're going to get a free software update on September
(05:19):
sixteenth with a lot of these new features. That's when
iOS eighteen comes out.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The new phones come out on the twentieth.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But again, it's all of these small upgrades that Apple
continues to push that does evolve this device, just ever
so slightly. Every year. There's little pain points, and then
Apple addresses those the next time around. It may take
a couple of cycles, but eventually they do, and so
again every year they say this is the best.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Phone we've ever made.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And for people at upgrade they go, Okay, is it
all that different? No, but it does do this that
I've wanted for a couple of years. And the camera
is better and the batteries longer.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Okay, Rich having come back from or you're still there
at coop, You know with the Apple event they do
every year, And what is the same question I ask
you every single year?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The food? What did they feed you?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, to be honest, I did eat at my hotel
yesterday morning because I knew I had a long day
and I was getting there later. But I did have
a lunch. I did have lunch bill just to make sure,
and I did scoop up a lot of snacks. So
for lunch, I had a grilled veggie sandwich, which I
will tell you it was one of the best boring
(06:30):
veggie sandwiches I've had, And then lots of snacks. I
kind of sneak snacks.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
The whole day.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They've got them all laid out everywhere because I have
meetings the whole day.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
And so I just keep putting them on back.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And so I got popcorn, I got cookies, I got
some Asian noodles. I mean there's all kinds of stuff
that they serve literally throughout the day.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, it sounds not urrageous.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
It takes these snacks.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, it was great.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It was just mostly snacks.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, okay, snacks, big deal. Okay, sometimes we'll get a
great menu.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
But all right, let's move on to something that's not
quite as important as what they feed you at the event,
and that is two questions.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
One.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
AirPods going to be hearing aids. I mean that is
a fairly big deal because there's so many dead people,
deaf people, dead people, and detecting sleep apnea, which so
many people suffer from.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So let's get into that for a moment.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, this is huge.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The AirPods, it's been well. They came out a couple
of new versions of the air pods. AirPods for those
are like their standard AirPods.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Those are great, they're really small. They don't have this
new feature.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It's the AirPods Pro two, their top of the line
AirPods that are already out there. They've been out there
for a couple of years now. If you have a
pair of these, they'll be activating a software update that
will literally turn them into hearing aids. They put a
hearing test in the health app.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I took it yesterday.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
It tests you're hearing in the comfort of your home.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
About five minutes, you listen to a bunch.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Of tones, you tap your screen when you hear them,
and then it says, okay, here's your results. You have
moderate hearing loss, you have severe or whatever it is,
and then it adjusts those earbuds the air pods to
help you hear. And Bill I really grilled them on this.
I said, you keep calling these clinical grade hearing aids, Like,
what's the difference between these and real hearing aids? And
they said virtually nothing except a lot of money, because
(08:25):
you know you might pay several thousand dollars for hearing aids.
These are not going to be as discreete. But Apple's
answer to that is, look, everyone's familiar.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
With their pods.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
If Grandpa's worrying them at a birthday party to hear
you better, nobody's gonna think twice. And I thought that
was pretty pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Now you're talking, are you talking about those white little
bars that you see or something actually goes in the
ear because I don't do air pods.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, it is those white little bars that you see.
So again, like I said, it's not going to be
as discreete as say a hearing aid that hides behind
the ear with a little wire. But at the same
time this is going to open up, you know, hearing
aids for people that maybe have a moderate hearing loss
or hearing loss, they just want to hear better.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
And it's two for you.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Everything you watch, movies, music, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
One the people everything, yeah cool, it's pretty all right.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
How about the sleep apnea the detection of the sleep apnea,
and I want to know how far that goes?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
For example, can I tell you if you have an STD?
I mean, that's pretty sophisticated stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
That'll be probably next year's model. That's actually necessary in
today's dating world, people meet and hook up, you know,
on Tinder, like in seconds. It'd be nice to know
if that, you know, if they don't have an STD.
But this is a serious feature sleep apnea. Apple says
about eighty percent of people have it that don't even
know it, and so that's pretty wild. You put this
(09:46):
watch on, you wear it to bed, and it looks
for micro motions in your wrist as you're sleeping, which
are breathing disturbances or associated with that you're using AI. Obviously,
this is all by the way, they're expecting FDA approval
for all of these features, so they are actually like
medical features. The sleep apnea thing, your phone will alert you.
(10:09):
It'll say, hey, you've got this. It'll give you a
little notification on your phone, and then a principal PDF
you bring to your doctor with your report, so you know,
they say. The good news is this is all highly
treatable and only one more important thing that's available for
the Apple Watch Series eight, Series nine, and the Ultra
Watch two, so it is coming to some previous models
(10:31):
as well.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Okay, in less than a minute, how you can listen
to the radio oKFI hopefully specifically on your watch without headphones.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That must be pretty amazing with a speaker on your wrist.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
So that's a new feature they're enabling. They put a
better speaker on the new Apple watches, so series ten
and the Ultras you can now listen to audio like
music and podcasts through the actual watch. I know it
sounds silly, Bill, but you used to only be able
to take phone calls through the watch, not listen to music.
Now you can actually listen to music. So if you're
(11:08):
out on a walk, you know you don't have to
have headphones. You can just listen to your you know,
your radio, like you said, right through your wrist. And
it's just it gives people options, you know, not every
time you want to have headphones in, or maybe you
forgot your headphones and you still want to listen to something.
So that will be coming to the series ten Apple
Watch and the Ultra Models.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
All right, hey, enjoy, I assume you're coming back. This
thing goes for a few days.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Right, Yes, I will come back eventually, eventually I.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Appeared to Yes, right, I understand that. All right, this Saturday,
eleven to two right here on KFI. Rich you have
a good one. We'll catch you over the weekend and
next week.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Thank you, Bill.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
All right, okay, Spaceflight is now entering yet a new area.
And of course they said to do with the Elon Musk.
Uh we have Rod Pile with us, which we do. Uh.
Rod is co host of This Week in Space and
you can reach them at pie books dot com. That's
his website which has all kinds of great stuff pyl
(12:04):
Ebooks dot com. Rode, Good morning, Good morning Bill, Okay, woo,
what is going on? Some really interesting Elon musk let's
beat everybody to the punch news.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Yeah, pick your target, right.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So what's happening?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Well, so we have a couple of things the last
few days. The big one is the Polaris Dawn launch
that happened this morning at about two twenty our time,
and it was delayed from August twenty six. But this
is poor people, completely private citizens. Two of those SpaceX employees,
one Jared Isaacman, this billionaire, and the retired Air Force
(12:47):
colonel all taking off of the SpaceX Capital the first
of three flights from a private program called Claris Down.
So the big deal about this the TLDR, is they're
going to fly higher anybody's flown sent the Apollo program
in NY two, about eight hundred miles, which is way
(13:08):
way up there. So they'll be crossing in a half belts,
which are areas of high radiation. So we'll do some
research on that. And then the big thing happens when
they come back down to a lower altitude of about
four hundred and seventy miles where they're going to do
the first private spacewalk and two of them are going
to go outside in these newly designed iron man looking
(13:29):
SpaceX EVA pressure suits and they're going to be out
there for about two hours on umbilicals. And this will
will also be the first time they've had to actually
depressurize a whole spacecraft sense of Skylab program, So a
bunch of firsts on this thing.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And one of the things I was reading is I
had no idea that the first spacewalks, the Gemini spacewalks,
it was so difficult getting in and out of that capsule,
like dangerous difficulty and designed everything.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Oh yeah, So I mean the SpaceX Crew Dragon caps
is much bigger, and they're going out a hatch on
the nose which is plenty big arounds, So no big
deal in Gemini. If you've ever seen one of those spacecraft,
and I think they still have it over at the
Science Museum downtown Los Angeles an exposition park, it's just
(14:27):
big enough for guys smaller than us to get in
and out. And I mean a lot of these astronauts
were well under six feet and literally sitting in a
Gemini spacecraft, which is where they did those first spacewalks,
your shoulders are almost touching the hatch is maybe an
inch or two above your helmet, and they spent up
to two weeks in those things without opening the hatches,
(14:49):
and that includes all the bodily functions you need to
eat and get rid of the food.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
So I was assuming that was all about diapers.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Because it's two weeks you have to use baggies.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's great.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I'll let your imagination run wild.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
No, No, let's go on that one, because you know
where I'm going to go in this what I do.
So bottom line is do they have an adhesive where
they attached the bag to your ass and then in
zero gravity you do the work you have to do. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
They called it the top hat and it was a
plastic bag with an adhesive gasket. A little glove fit
into it so you could help things along with your hands.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Did they ever do practical jokes with each other with
those things?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Not with that. No, they did one of those flights.
First one they carried up the corn beef sandwich as
a private joke. Unfortunately, not stopping to think that in
zero gravity corn beef turns into little flakes of drifts
all over the spacecraft and that was a bad day.
But you know, I don't think our new astronauts will
be doing those things they've learned a lot since then.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Hey, in terms of this spacewalk, is anything going to
happen other than they simply leave the capsule, float around
for a couple hours then come back.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
As far I know, they don't have any activities planned
because the dragon isn't really set up. So back to
the Gemini days, they would do experiments like climbing along
the back of the spacecraft that little busy box back
there to test, you know, being able to do things
with their gloves and all that. But there's been so
much work done with that since the space station started
(16:29):
that you really don't need a lot of those kinds
of experiments. They do have other stuff though, that They're
going to be doing a number of science experiments as
they keep changing altitude, because their first orbit goes from
like one hundred and eighty miles up to this eight
hundred and seventy high altitude. So there's a lot going
on while they're doing that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
All right, Rod, thank You's co host of This Week
in Space, and the website is Pile Books pyl Epilebooks
dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Rod as always, thank you.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I take care, okay, the dollar stores, I mean there's
a bunch of them. There's five or six major dollar
stores out there, and they were growing like crazy. I mean,
tens of thousands of stores. Well guess what they all
seem to be in the toilet. Now they've hit that
bump dollar tree, nine year low in stocks, closing family
(17:25):
dollar stores, six hundred of those going down. Dollar General,
the biggest dollar store in the US, mainly in low
income rural areas, saw its stock goes south, dismal sales.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Now, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
The economic anxiety of the customer bases. You know, financially
strapped Americans are is cutting down on even the most
basic items after years of punishing inflation that hit nine percent,
and by the way, you're going to hear a lot
about that tonight during the debate. But there was also
supply chain issues, business missteps, miserable management, under investment in
(18:06):
these shabby stores, and competition for the major other stores.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
People just going to Walmart, They're going to other stores
that instant.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Also, low income Americans are cutting back on spending and
the cracks are starting to show. Lower income Americans are
basically running out of money at the end of the month.
You know, one of the stores. I think it's dollar stores.
The average income is thirty five thousand dollars a year
for people that shop there. They just run out of money.
(18:38):
When I say management, bad management. For example Dollar General,
it went the way of decorations and candles rather than
focusing on core consumable products like food.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And cleaning supplies.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Neil has always been a family, a friend, a fan
of those dollars. We talked about it a lot, what
you can get at those dollar stores, and frankly, they're
all going down.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And they sold produce, not the greatest necessarily, but they
and they sold canned goods that were equal to what
you would buy in the regular grocer. The thing was
you had to make sure that the cost, prouns and
all of that was better.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
And the cans were all bulging, so you knew there
was a problem.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And the produce was all rotten. And they weren't even seconds.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
They were takita, they were regular bananas, they were fine. Well,
it's sad in a time where people are looking for
ways to save money. It's sad that these places are
going under.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah, and you would think it'd be the exact opposite,
And that's what miserable management can do, I mean across
the board. All right, guys, we'll probably talk a lot
more about that coming up.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The debate tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
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no patience. Also the podcast, The Bill Handles Show podcast
coming up, the Death in the House of the Mouse.
All right, guys, Wow, are we done? We are done,
and let's not forget the fires. It's all good news
(20:24):
this morning, isn't it. Oh yeah, well, hopefully by tomorrow
it'll be better in terms of the fires, and the
weather is going to be better by tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
So we've got some good news up there. All right,
we start again tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
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This is KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It is a Taco Tuesday, September tenth. Tonight is the
big debate Kamala Harris Donald Trump. We're certainly going to
pay attention to that. I think we're carrying it here
on KFI, aren't we in? We always do, And that'll
be live starting at six o'clock. And we've got fires
all over a sudden California. Isn't that special? Also, I
(00:30):
want to remind you that my podcast is up and
running every Tuesday and Thursday, which means today at nine o'clock.
It's on Apple and Spotify and iHeartRadio app. It's the
Bill Handle Show Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And today it is Death in.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The House of the Mouse, People dying at Disney Disneyland,
Disney World.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You know how much I love death.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And also you can go to do you can go
to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Podcast dot com. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Rich de Burrough, who also has a podcast, is here.
He's heard here eleven at two pm every Saturday, KTLA
and our reporter Instagram at rich on Tech website, rich
on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Good morning Rich Hey, good morning to Bill. Yeah, you
are up.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
In Cooper Tino, and Cooper Tino means you are at Apple,
so you know you every year you go there. So
what's the latest and the greatest from there?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Well, let's start with the I guess let's start with
the iPhone. So you got four new models of the iPhone,
iPhone sixteen, iPhone sixteen Pro models, and on the Pro
models you've got much bigger screens. So people always talk
about how screens are getting bigger on phones. These are
the biggest screens we've ever seen on an iPhone, six
point three inches six point nine inches. But of course
(01:57):
Apple and all of their wizardry didn't make phones feel
that much bigger. But the big new thing about all
of these devices across the board is this new button
that Apple refuses to call a button, even though it
is a button one hundred percent. It's called Camera Control,
and it's kind of like a camera shutter button on
the side of the phones that you can instantly press
(02:18):
it to access the camera. You can also use it
take pictures, take videos, and then app developers can actually
develop different camera functionality based on this.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Little new button.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
So it's pretty cool, but I don't know if it's
a reason to upgrade your phone other than that. Obviously
you've got the AI features that are coming soon.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, when I can see app developers going for it.
But I've always thought that as soon as a phone
comes out, and I just bought my fifteen, I don't know,
a few months ago, you have a new version of
the iPhone coming out and people go to it. There
are enough people that want the newest and greatest, even
(03:00):
though they don't particularly need it and it doesn't do
a whole lot more, and Apple just keeps on selling
zillions of them. At some point, you know, they've reached
everybody on the planet, and yet people still buy.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I mean they're selling close to like sixty million
of these phones every quarter, so they're doing pretty.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Well with these devices.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I mean, look, and the upgrade situation is very easy.
You've got great marking by Apple. You actually have incredible
products with some new features every single time. And then
people are on these upgrade cycles with their carriers. Where
right now Verizon, An eight and T and all these
different carriers are giving you up to one thousand dollars
if you trade in your old phone. Now, given you
(03:39):
have to be on a nice unlimited plan for the
next three years to.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Take advantage of that.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
But people figure, you know what, I'm paying for that anyway,
so I might as well get a new phone. And
so they're on this cycle of just every year or
so they get this new deal to upgrade, and you know, it.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Just keeps going. Now, I will say bill. When it
comes to the pro.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Models, Apple did a lot of things for content creators
when it comes to shooting video in four K one twenty.
When it comes to the audio, the microphones on this
new iPhone sixteen Pro. We got a demo yesterday. I'm
not kidding their studio quality. So at this point, if
you're a creator in the field, you can record a movie,
you can record voiceover on the iPhone without an additional microphone.
(04:21):
It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Wow. Okay, that you know that is legitimate.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Not so much the new app aspect I'm talking about personally,
but since you know, with my new podcast and social media,
I'm really getting into I want to do outdoor stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know, I want to.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
See you know, I want to show me running a marathon,
never happen, show you diving, never happen, show you at
restaurants will always happen, so I can see that.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And how much is that puppy twelve hundred dollars?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
You're right, that's exactly how much.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So the standard phones, the iPhone sixteen models, they started
eight hundred. The new the Pro models started a thousand
and one. Thing that's nice is that last year we
saw some price increases. This year there are no price increases,
so everything is the same. And by the way, Bill,
if you have one of these standard phones that they
already have out there, they've got millions of them out there,
you're going to get a free software update on September
(05:19):
sixteenth with a lot of these new features. That's when
iOS eighteen comes out.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The new phones come out on the twentieth.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But again, it's all of these small upgrades that Apple
continues to push that does evolve this device, just ever
so slightly. Every year. There's little pain points, and then
Apple addresses those the next time around. It may take
a couple of cycles, but eventually they do, and so
again every year they say this is the best.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Phone we've ever made.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And for people at upgrade they go, Okay, is it
all that different? No, but it does do this that
I've wanted for a couple of years. And the camera
is better and the batteries longer.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Okay, Rich having come back from or you're still there
at coop, You know with the Apple event they do
every year, And what is the same question I ask
you every single year?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The food? What did they feed you?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, to be honest, I did eat at my hotel
yesterday morning because I knew I had a long day
and I was getting there later. But I did have
a lunch. I did have lunch bill just to make sure,
and I did scoop up a lot of snacks. So
for lunch, I had a grilled veggie sandwich, which I
will tell you it was one of the best boring
(06:30):
veggie sandwiches I've had, And then lots of snacks. I
kind of sneak snacks.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
The whole day.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They've got them all laid out everywhere because I have
meetings the whole day.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
And so I just keep putting them on back.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And so I got popcorn, I got cookies, I got
some Asian noodles. I mean there's all kinds of stuff
that they serve literally throughout the day.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, it sounds not urrageous.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
It takes these snacks.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, it was great.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It was just mostly snacks.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, okay, snacks, big deal. Okay, sometimes we'll get a
great menu.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
But all right, let's move on to something that's not
quite as important as what they feed you at the event,
and that is two questions.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
One.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
AirPods going to be hearing aids. I mean that is
a fairly big deal because there's so many dead people,
deaf people, dead people, and detecting sleep apnea, which so
many people suffer from.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So let's get into that for a moment.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, this is huge.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The AirPods, it's been well. They came out a couple
of new versions of the air pods. AirPods for those
are like their standard AirPods.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Those are great, they're really small. They don't have this
new feature.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It's the AirPods Pro two, their top of the line
AirPods that are already out there. They've been out there
for a couple of years now. If you have a
pair of these, they'll be activating a software update that
will literally turn them into hearing aids. They put a
hearing test in the health app.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I took it yesterday.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
It tests you're hearing in the comfort of your home.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
About five minutes, you listen to a bunch.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Of tones, you tap your screen when you hear them,
and then it says, okay, here's your results. You have
moderate hearing loss, you have severe or whatever it is,
and then it adjusts those earbuds the air pods to
help you hear. And Bill I really grilled them on this.
I said, you keep calling these clinical grade hearing aids, Like,
what's the difference between these and real hearing aids? And
they said virtually nothing except a lot of money, because
(08:25):
you know you might pay several thousand dollars for hearing aids.
These are not going to be as discreete. But Apple's
answer to that is, look, everyone's familiar.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
With their pods.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
If Grandpa's worrying them at a birthday party to hear
you better, nobody's gonna think twice. And I thought that
was pretty pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Now you're talking, are you talking about those white little
bars that you see or something actually goes in the
ear because I don't do air pods.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, it is those white little bars that you see.
So again, like I said, it's not going to be
as discreete as say a hearing aid that hides behind
the ear with a little wire. But at the same
time this is going to open up, you know, hearing
aids for people that maybe have a moderate hearing loss
or hearing loss, they just want to hear better.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
And it's two for you.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Everything you watch, movies, music, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
One the people everything, yeah cool, it's pretty all right.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
How about the sleep apnea the detection of the sleep apnea,
and I want to know how far that goes?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
For example, can I tell you if you have an STD?
I mean, that's pretty sophisticated stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
That'll be probably next year's model. That's actually necessary in
today's dating world, people meet and hook up, you know,
on Tinder, like in seconds. It'd be nice to know
if that, you know, if they don't have an STD.
But this is a serious feature sleep apnea. Apple says
about eighty percent of people have it that don't even
know it, and so that's pretty wild. You put this
(09:46):
watch on, you wear it to bed, and it looks
for micro motions in your wrist as you're sleeping, which
are breathing disturbances or associated with that you're using AI. Obviously,
this is all by the way, they're expecting FDA approval
for all of these features, so they are actually like
medical features. The sleep apnea thing, your phone will alert you.
(10:09):
It'll say, hey, you've got this. It'll give you a
little notification on your phone, and then a principal PDF
you bring to your doctor with your report, so you know,
they say. The good news is this is all highly
treatable and only one more important thing that's available for
the Apple Watch Series eight, Series nine, and the Ultra
Watch two, so it is coming to some previous models
(10:31):
as well.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Okay, in less than a minute, how you can listen
to the radio oKFI hopefully specifically on your watch without headphones.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That must be pretty amazing with a speaker on your wrist.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
So that's a new feature they're enabling. They put a
better speaker on the new Apple watches, so series ten
and the Ultras you can now listen to audio like
music and podcasts through the actual watch. I know it
sounds silly, Bill, but you used to only be able
to take phone calls through the watch, not listen to music.
Now you can actually listen to music. So if you're
(11:08):
out on a walk, you know you don't have to
have headphones. You can just listen to your you know,
your radio, like you said, right through your wrist. And
it's just it gives people options, you know, not every
time you want to have headphones in, or maybe you
forgot your headphones and you still want to listen to something.
So that will be coming to the series ten Apple
Watch and the Ultra Models.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
All right, hey, enjoy, I assume you're coming back. This
thing goes for a few days.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Right, Yes, I will come back eventually, eventually I.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Appeared to Yes, right, I understand that. All right, this Saturday,
eleven to two right here on KFI. Rich you have
a good one. We'll catch you over the weekend and
next week.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Thank you, Bill.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
All right, okay, Spaceflight is now entering yet a new area.
And of course they said to do with the Elon Musk.
Uh we have Rod Pile with us, which we do. Uh.
Rod is co host of This Week in Space and
you can reach them at pie books dot com. That's
his website which has all kinds of great stuff pyl
(12:04):
Ebooks dot com. Rode, Good morning, Good morning Bill, Okay, woo,
what is going on? Some really interesting Elon musk let's
beat everybody to the punch news.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Yeah, pick your target, right.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So what's happening?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Well, so we have a couple of things the last
few days. The big one is the Polaris Dawn launch
that happened this morning at about two twenty our time,
and it was delayed from August twenty six. But this
is poor people, completely private citizens. Two of those SpaceX employees,
one Jared Isaacman, this billionaire, and the retired Air Force
(12:47):
colonel all taking off of the SpaceX Capital the first
of three flights from a private program called Claris Down.
So the big deal about this the TLDR, is they're
going to fly higher anybody's flown sent the Apollo program
in NY two, about eight hundred miles, which is way
(13:08):
way up there. So they'll be crossing in a half belts,
which are areas of high radiation. So we'll do some
research on that. And then the big thing happens when
they come back down to a lower altitude of about
four hundred and seventy miles where they're going to do
the first private spacewalk and two of them are going
to go outside in these newly designed iron man looking
(13:29):
SpaceX EVA pressure suits and they're going to be out
there for about two hours on umbilicals. And this will
will also be the first time they've had to actually
depressurize a whole spacecraft sense of Skylab program, So a
bunch of firsts on this thing.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And one of the things I was reading is I
had no idea that the first spacewalks, the Gemini spacewalks,
it was so difficult getting in and out of that capsule,
like dangerous difficulty and designed everything.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Oh yeah, So I mean the SpaceX Crew Dragon caps
is much bigger, and they're going out a hatch on
the nose which is plenty big arounds, So no big
deal in Gemini. If you've ever seen one of those spacecraft,
and I think they still have it over at the
Science Museum downtown Los Angeles an exposition park, it's just
(14:27):
big enough for guys smaller than us to get in
and out. And I mean a lot of these astronauts
were well under six feet and literally sitting in a
Gemini spacecraft, which is where they did those first spacewalks,
your shoulders are almost touching the hatch is maybe an
inch or two above your helmet, and they spent up
to two weeks in those things without opening the hatches,
(14:49):
and that includes all the bodily functions you need to
eat and get rid of the food.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
So I was assuming that was all about diapers.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Because it's two weeks you have to use baggies.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's great.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I'll let your imagination run wild.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
No, No, let's go on that one, because you know
where I'm going to go in this what I do.
So bottom line is do they have an adhesive where
they attached the bag to your ass and then in
zero gravity you do the work you have to do. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
They called it the top hat and it was a
plastic bag with an adhesive gasket. A little glove fit
into it so you could help things along with your hands.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Did they ever do practical jokes with each other with
those things?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Not with that. No, they did one of those flights.
First one they carried up the corn beef sandwich as
a private joke. Unfortunately, not stopping to think that in
zero gravity corn beef turns into little flakes of drifts
all over the spacecraft and that was a bad day.
But you know, I don't think our new astronauts will
be doing those things they've learned a lot since then.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Hey, in terms of this spacewalk, is anything going to
happen other than they simply leave the capsule, float around
for a couple hours then come back.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
As far I know, they don't have any activities planned
because the dragon isn't really set up. So back to
the Gemini days, they would do experiments like climbing along
the back of the spacecraft that little busy box back
there to test, you know, being able to do things
with their gloves and all that. But there's been so
much work done with that since the space station started
(16:29):
that you really don't need a lot of those kinds
of experiments. They do have other stuff though, that They're
going to be doing a number of science experiments as
they keep changing altitude, because their first orbit goes from
like one hundred and eighty miles up to this eight
hundred and seventy high altitude. So there's a lot going
on while they're doing that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
All right, Rod, thank You's co host of This Week
in Space, and the website is Pile Books pyl Epilebooks
dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Rod as always, thank you.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I take care, okay, the dollar stores, I mean there's
a bunch of them. There's five or six major dollar
stores out there, and they were growing like crazy. I mean,
tens of thousands of stores. Well guess what they all
seem to be in the toilet. Now they've hit that
bump dollar tree, nine year low in stocks, closing family
(17:25):
dollar stores, six hundred of those going down. Dollar General,
the biggest dollar store in the US, mainly in low
income rural areas, saw its stock goes south, dismal sales.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Now, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
The economic anxiety of the customer bases. You know, financially
strapped Americans are is cutting down on even the most
basic items after years of punishing inflation that hit nine percent,
and by the way, you're going to hear a lot
about that tonight during the debate. But there was also
supply chain issues, business missteps, miserable management, under investment in
(18:06):
these shabby stores, and competition for the major other stores.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
People just going to Walmart, They're going to other stores
that instant.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Also, low income Americans are cutting back on spending and
the cracks are starting to show. Lower income Americans are
basically running out of money at the end of the month.
You know, one of the stores. I think it's dollar stores.
The average income is thirty five thousand dollars a year
for people that shop there. They just run out of money.
(18:38):
When I say management, bad management. For example Dollar General,
it went the way of decorations and candles rather than
focusing on core consumable products like food.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And cleaning supplies.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Neil has always been a family, a friend, a fan
of those dollars. We talked about it a lot, what
you can get at those dollar stores, and frankly, they're
all going down.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And they sold produce, not the greatest necessarily, but they
and they sold canned goods that were equal to what
you would buy in the regular grocer. The thing was
you had to make sure that the cost, prouns and
all of that was better.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
And the cans were all bulging, so you knew there
was a problem.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And the produce was all rotten. And they weren't even seconds.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
They were takita, they were regular bananas, they were fine. Well,
it's sad in a time where people are looking for
ways to save money. It's sad that these places are
going under.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah, and you would think it'd be the exact opposite,
And that's what miserable management can do, I mean across
the board. All right, guys, we'll probably talk a lot
more about that coming up.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The debate tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I'm taking phone calls eight seven seven five two zero
eleven fifty off the air, no breaks, no news, no weather,
no patience. Also the podcast, The Bill Handles Show podcast
coming up, the Death in the House of the Mouse.
All right, guys, Wow, are we done? We are done,
and let's not forget the fires. It's all good news
(20:24):
this morning, isn't it. Oh yeah, well, hopefully by tomorrow
it'll be better in terms of the fires, and the
weather is going to be better by tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
So we've got some good news up there. All right,
we start again tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Don't forget phone calls eight seven seven five to zero
eleven fifty, starting just a moment or two after I
lock out, and we start in the morning with wake
up Call and excuse Me with Amy, and then at
six o'clock Neil and I join Amy and don't forget
Cono and and because.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
They're part of the show, although we never hear them talk.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
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