October 22, 2024 • 26 mins
Tech Tuesday W/ Rich Demuro. The pollsters blew it in 2020. Will they be wrong in 2024? How Candy and Halloween became best friends.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:19):
You got it. It's time for Rich Tomorrow Tech Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Rich is heard Saturday eleven to two pm on right
Here on KFI every morning, KTLA Television, Instagram at, Rich
on tech website, Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Good morning Rich, Hey, good morning to Bill boy. We
sound happy like happy campers.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I do.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You're bad, actually, because yesterday I was Yesterday I was
so jet lagged from coming back from vacation. It was
just a god awful mess delays, layovers. All right, So
let's get right into it, because there's a lot of
stuff to talk about. The one that I'm more most
interested in because I hate cats. I'm a dog person.
(02:03):
Is you tested a robot kitty litter box? You're impressed
with it, and I'm thinking of using it for my
dogs or even for me if I want to. You know,
if I miss the toilet and I can't quite make it,
let's talk about that.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah, I mean that would be the first me hearing
about a human using this. But these, you know, these
are pretty popular. And I can't believe you admit that
you hate cats, because you know I.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Don't hate them. But I'm a dog person.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Okay, you're a dog person.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm one of the people that Trump talked about, you know, eating. No,
let's not go there. So tell me about this and
why you actually were impressed with it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So I've heard about these for a long time, these
automated kitty litter boxes. And I will tell you I
would be a cat person if I had a way
to keep my house clean with the cats and the kids.
They promised that they will scoop the kitty litter, and
of course who ends up doing it me, But we
foster cats in my house, so we kind of like,
you know, just take them for a couple of weeks
at a time and get them up to speed and
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then they get adopted. So anyway, but we've never gotten
a cat of our own because they wreck hav it.
You know, they leave the litter everywhere. You got to
scoop it. There's hair everywhere. Anyway, So we tried out
this self cleaning kitty litter box. This is the Nia
Casa m one and I knew these things were really expensive,
but I was curious, like, are they worth the price
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because they are kind of an investment. And I will
tell you after having this thing in my home for
about three four weeks now, it is a game changer.
It is completely incredible and it's probably the single best
piece of technology I've ever tested that actually impacts your
life in a meaningful way. You know, the room boss
sort of you know, sort of promise that, but my
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room gets stuck all the time.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
This does not. This just works.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It cleans the litter, the cat has a fresh place
to go every time, puts all the droppings in a
bin underneath it. It tells you when it's time to
empty that bin, which is once.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Every two weeks. And it's super easy. It's like a
on automated mode. Hmm.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And when you said it's expensive, how expensive?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
So the top probably the top seller is seven hundred dollars.
That's wild Whisker Literal robot. Yeah, the one I tested
is six hundred. But here's a thing. Over Prime Day
it got down to as low as four hundred bucks.
So I would say you probably want to, you know,
wait for this thing to go on sale. It's I think,
at four hundred dollars, it's an absolute steal because it
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is saving you time on a daily basis, saving you time,
saving you energy, and you know, the cat seems to
love it. It gives you even Bill, you even get
a little readout in the app of how long your
cat spent in this machine and how much they weigh,
so you can actually see if there's like maybe any
sort of illness or thing or something wrong with your
cat at any point.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Wow, that's important. How long did your cat sit there crapping?
I mean, I cannot think of technology that's more important
than that.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
It'll even text you a little video of the process. Bill,
you can.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's important because that's something I want to see. I
got that. Also.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I want to point something out when you said, and
I usually don't hear this from you, very rarely do
you have technology that really affects your life in a
big way. And this is one of those that will
affect your day to day life, probably more than anything
you've ever tested. Have you ever had open heart surgery
with some new technology?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
No, and I hope not to.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, Well, let me.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Tell you that affects your life just a little bit more.
I just wanted to throw that at you. Rich.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Just look, I'm talking for the average person, Bill, who
maybe has not had open heart surgery. But I'm just
saying in general, yes, there are millions of things that
have affected it.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Live no.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, And I'm just yeah, obviously I'm just jerking your
chain here, but that's kind of neat. Now, the other
question before we take a break, you only foster cats
because of the mess and the cleaning of the litter, etc.
Does this change your opinion? Do you get a cat
now because of this?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Honestly, Bill, this is the closest I've ever come to
saying yes. So because it is solved the main issue
I had, which was kitty litter, scooping kitty litter everywhere
because it just gets everywhere. It doesn't with this machine.
The only other thing I got to figure out is
the cat hair. Cats love to sit on me. I
don't know what it is. They come to me. There's
four people in my house. They come right to me
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and rub up all against me and get their hair
all over me. And that's something else I need to
figure out.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Okay, And here's what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And I'm just pitching this right now and on the air,
because we haven't talked about this. When you do get
your cat, we're going to have a contest in terms
of naming your cat, and then we're going to choose
a winner and the winner will get absolutely nothing, which
is always fun when we do contests here on KFI.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Sounds like a great opportunity for someone.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It does.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
We'll be back and finish up Rich Ded Moureau and
tech Tuesday. The check in with Amy will rename Amy. Oh,
that's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Can we just Rich? They do that because they know
that you don't love them and they're trying to win
you over.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I know that's what people say, but I okay, yeah,
I guess that's it.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I admit that whatever feeling.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Hey, I wonder if they're going to do that with dogs,
you know, because I'm a little sick of my dog
peeing on my leg and we've got to do something
about that. Back we go to Rich Demurrow Tech Tuesday.
Apple's AirPods and what's going on with that and AirPods.
I mean, I would get an Apple AirPod, but I
find them very expensive.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, they are expensive, but for this new feature, it's
actually pretty good.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So let's see you.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Can get you can get the general There's obviously various
levels of the air pods. The ones that I'm going
to talk about right now are the AirPods Pro two,
which retail for two hundred and fifty dollars, but they
are regularly on sale, including right now for about two
hundred dollars. And these are the top of the line
AirPods that Apple makes. The cheapest I think is one
about one and twenty. So these are getting a feature
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next week. That's the hearing aid feature. We talked about
this back in September when Apple announced this, but now
it's actually coming out next week. So if you have
the Airpod's Pro too, they will basically be turned into
FDA authorized hearing aids with this software update. And so
this is going to be a heck of a lot
cheaper than a lot of other hearing aids out there.
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The battery life, I think is the biggest limitation from
the early reports I'm seeing of people who.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Tried this out six hours, So this is not going
to be something that's a permanent solution.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, well, let me ask you when you think about that.
So you're already wearing a hearing aid. And now I'm assuming
wearing a hearing aid gets in the way of an
Apple pod, the iPod or the AirPod. I'm sorry, And
how do you do the two at the same time.
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Do you take out your hearing aid and put it
in for six hours, put in the AirPod and then
switch it out.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Aga Well, it's interesting.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
A lot of a lot of the modern hearing aids,
like the ones that are very expensive that you get
from a doctor, a lot of them actually work with
the iPhone, so they've built that functionality in a long
time ago where you use them twenty four to seven,
so they become you know, you can take phone calls
through them, you can listen to audio through them, so
you don't really need to take them out. This is
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more for someone who has low to moderate hearing loss.
May not even know that, but you open up the
app next week, you take a little hearing test and
it will tune these air pods to help you hear better.
And so if you're like sitting there going you know what,
it is tough for me to hear conversations in a restaurant,
or it's tough for me to just hear in general.
Let me try this out, and you try it out
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and you say, Okay, I don't need hearing aids twenty
four to seven, but it would help maybe at work
when I'm in meetings or something like that. So you
can just pop these in. And I think the benefit
of the air pods is that they're ubiquitous. You know,
so many people are used to seeing them. It's probably
not that big of a deal if you're wearing them
no matter where you are.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Do you think there's a market for it?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I mean, that is really niche stuff the way I
see it, And obviously I don't do the kind of research.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'm sure Apple doesn't come out with something without really
researching it. But do you see that there's a big
market for this.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I could see it being a huge market if you know.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Look the price tag, I think is what's really interesting here.
So these are, you know, like I said, about two
hundred dollars compared to thousands of dollars for traditional hearing aids.
And it's also convenient. You know, it's a product that
many people already use. There's really no stigma attached, you know,
hearing aids. If you're thinking of getting them, it's kind
of a big deal because you have to go to someone,
You've got to take a test. You got to you know,
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it's a big part of your life. Whereas this you go, Okay,
let me just take this test on my iPhone and
the comfort of my home. Let me pop these earbuds in,
and suddenly I can hear better. So I do think
that there's going to be a lot of people that
will turn to these. Apple of course did their homework
and found that there's you know, like so many people
that have you know, undiagnosed hearing issues, and I think
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that those are the people that are going to turn
to something like this. Again, much more casual user, but
the use case, the actual help you get from these
are equivalent to anything you'd get that's from a doctor.
Because it is FDA authorized. I mean, it's a pretty
big deal that they've.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Done so much work into this.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Okay, one minute, because I spent way too much time
on this. And that is the new theft protection feature
on your Android.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
On your Android.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Now, I'm assuming if somebody takes it, who shouldn't, four
hundred volts goes through his body instantly and they're electrocuted
close close.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
This is this is actually a pretty smart feature. You
can turn it on right now on your Android phone
if you've done the latest software update. Basically, if someone
grabs your phone out of your hand, because theoretically it's
unlocked because you were like looking at it, a thief
comes by, runs by, grabs your phone, and it's going
to start, you know, venmoing themselves or getting into your
bank account whatever. This new Android theft protection feature uses
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the accelerometer on your phone to notice that something's wrong.
This person's running away with your phone, and it will
not only lock down your phone, but it also will
make it so they can't get back in, and then
you can also unlock it and do some things remotely.
It just basically locks everything down using an algorithm that says, hey,
we noticed someone's running away with this lock this unlocked phone.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Let's uh, let's lock that thing up.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
How does it know that you're not just running around
with your phone?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, it could do that.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I mean it would definitely, you know, if you I'm
sure people will try this and see if that works.
But the reality is this is an algorithm, so they've
tested a whole bunch of different you know, snatching a
phone out of someone's hand scenarios, but go to settings,
tap Google all Services, theft protection, theft protection, theft detection lock.
It's not enabled by default, but it's just one more
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to keep someone from grabbing your phone, running away and
stealing all your information.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
All right, Rich This Saturday, eleven am to two pm
KTLA every morning and Instagram at rich on tech website,
richontech dot TV. We will catch you next week or
I'll hear you on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Thanks Bill, you too, All right?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Coming up?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
The pollsters completely blew it in twenty twenty? Are they
going to be wrong again?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Coming up in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
One of the things that happens during the course of
any election, whether it's presidential, senatorial, governorship, etc. Is looking
at the polls, and you always get two views of
the polls. Who's ever losing in the polls? Who's behind
says I don't pay attention to the polls. Who's ever
winning in the poll says? Look at the poll numbers,
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look at the sport I'm getting. So which one is true?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Both?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Depending on the year. In twenty twenty, the posters were
dead wrong. Twenty sixteen, the posters were closer than they
had been in eighty years. So here's the problem with
polling is right now, the posters are easy because it
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is a dead heat. The only voting that counts is
in the battleground states California. Waste of time for anybody.
California is going Democrat.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
We are not going to see television, radio ads, billboards
touting one candidate or another, particularly in presidential Why because
everybody knows California.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Now, if you happen to.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Own a media media outlet, even a small media outlet,
in any of the battleground states, do you know that
those are Every commercial is sold out everyone. There is
no product or corporation that wants to go in and
buy a radio ad or a TV ad in those
battleground states. Tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars
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being spent.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So let's look at the polls. Who's ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, if you look at the battleground states, a couple
of them in the States they are dead. Even that's
former President Trump and Vice President Harris dead. Even others
put one or the other ahead, but all.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Within the margin of error.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You can flip a coin to see who's going to
win on this one.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
It is that close.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And the pollsters do not want a repeat of twenty
twenty in which they are wrong. And so you think
in this modern age, between artificial intelligence and algorithms and
the way people can be reached via Internet and phone,
they would have a good idea of which way the
electorate's going to go. Well in reality, no, why because,
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for example, Republicans who did far better, they're harder to reach.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Republicans don't pay attention to polls.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Someone really, I don't, and I'm not a Republican, nor
am I a Democrat. I've been unaffiliated ever since I
started broadcasting, and that was a lot of years ago.
Someone calls me up about the poll. I don't pay
attention now, not interested? Would you take a poll?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I will not.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I don't want to spend the time. How about internet, No,
don't take the time. I won't do it now. The
way I don't do it is far greater in numbers
among Republicans, and that really screws things up because one
of the things the pollsters have a real problem with
is reaching those people who otherwise would not tell the
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poster which way they are going. And so particularly the
shift of black and Latino voters going towards Trump that
the pollsters are looking at that's never happened before. John Krasnik,
a Stanford University political science says, we're headed for more disaster.
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Why because the new polling methods that they're using, the
algorithms and the polling on the internet, et cetera. Frankly,
they're unproven in terms of sampling methods. It is not easy.
And we all pay attention to the polls I was watching.
I watched a couple of national news stations and first off,
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first story the polls, which way it's going, and it's
changing day to day, matter of fact, what does And yesterday,
for example, I was listening to ABC with David Muhr,
and he started the broadcast with I'm gonna get you
the latest poll numbers, and the poll numbers that I quoted,
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the dead heat, basically the dead heat among the battleground
states came off of that, the poll that ABC was
involved with. And if you look at the polls that
other organization, Pew, CBS, Gallop Poll. I don't know if
Gallup is still doing it, but everybody, even the ones
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that disagree with each other, which we always get, all
within the margin.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So are we going to.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Pay attention to the pollsters, you know, not this time around,
Not this time around, because they have gone from twenty sixteen,
the most accurate polling that has ever happened, to twenty
twenty one of the biggest disasters that have ever happened.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And so we'll see what happens this time around.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
All right, I want to end the program, And by
the way, I'm taking a handle on the lock calls
for the first time in weeks because I've been on
a vacation as soon as I out at the end
of the show.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And I'll tell you a little bit more about that
when we come back.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Candy and Halloween, how the two are inextricably connected. You
can't have Halloween without Candy. Well, there's a whole history
here and why it is what it is today. After
the show, which I do Tuesdays and Thursdays, which I
haven't done for a few weeks or several weeks I
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Speaker 1 (19:47):
Hours without a line being open.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So that's coming up right as I lock out of
the show. Now a quick handle history segment. Always a
lot of fun. Candy and Halloween get connected. We're gonna
spend about two billion dollars Americans on candy during this
Halloween season.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh here's a fun fact.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
California Milk per Processors Board said, an average Jacko lanyard bucket,
you know the kids carry around, We'll have about two
hundred and fifty pieces of candy candy, nine thousand calories,
about three pounds of sugar. Who all right, it's go
back one hundred years. Boy, Halloween looked different. The biggest
difference by the ways trick or treating. That's a recent
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American invention, and costumes and doorbell ringing and expectation of
candy at the door actually happened for the first time
in the late nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties. It
wasn't until late forties that trick were treating became a
national issue, and even then, candy was not the obvious treat.
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Kids would ring a stranger's doorbell nineteen forty eight and
nineteen fifty two and would receive all kinds of stuff
coins or nuts, or fruits, or cookies or cakes, toys,
small little crappy ones. In the nineteen fifties, kool Aid
and Kellogg's promoted their non candy products as trick or
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treat options. So it took a while for candy to
become what it is today. Matter of fact, we go
even further back to the early decades of last century,
candy didn't have any role to play on a.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Trick or treat. The trick or treat special day of
Halloween and costumes are fairly new.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So what was it about, let's say one hundred and
ten hundred and twenty years ago, Well, boys, specifically, Halloween
was the one night of the year when communities generally
tolerated pranking.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now pranking is is different.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Back then, mailboxes, fences, street cars, gravestones were partular targets,
but it was a mischief issue, not one to do
serious damage, and not to gather treats. Halloween also was
in the gift giving holiday, and that's become big stuff
that you actually gift people for Halloween. I've never understood
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that while the kids were out there, particularly boys, out
there causing all this kinds of mischief, what you would
have is Halloween parties with adults.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And that's recent.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And really the menus and the amount of the decor
and what people did with were actually seasonal fruits, pumpkins,
apples particularly important. So when candy makers in nineteen ten
nineteen twenties look for ways to grow fall sales, Halloween
barely registered as a marketing opportunity. Tell you the big
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ones Christmas and Easter, those are the big candy events
already been established by nineteen hundred. Yet box chocolates, hard
candies for Christmas, jelly eggs, molded bunnies for Easter. And
I'll tell you what else was a huge candy on
candy holiday was Washington's Birthday special mars of pan cherries,
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cocoa dusted logs.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It was during the fifties nineteen fifties. The rise of
trick or treating.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Made a holiday perfect for marketing a product associated with
kids and fun. Candy easy to buy, easy to distribute, convenient,
and it was economical as hell and small, inexpensive candies
became really popular. I remember trick or treating as a kid,
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and I was in a middle class neighborhood, so I'd
get the hard candies that were wrapped up, a handful
of them, and the real neat ones were the small
candy bars. Man, that was big stuff. Now you can
go into a very wealthy area and there are kids
that are bust into those areas. And you knock on
the door of a super wealthy area today trigg or
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treat and you get a small car.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Not when I was a kid, that certainly didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And it wasn't until the seventies a candy came to
be seen as the only treat, and of course the
candy industry went crazy. And it was not wait, it
was not their marketing that did it, you know what,
It was our fear. We became helicopter parents, and homemade
treats pose the risk of tampering, poisoning. Remember the razor
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blades in the apple.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Which of course never happened.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Commercial wrap candy, that's the only way to go about it. Now,
the candy manufacturers did try to come up with a
holiday that just dealt with candy, and that was in
nineteen sixteen, and what they came up with a new
holiday call Old Candy Day. You ever heard of it? No,
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that did not work out. All right, we're done, don't forget.
Tomorrow morning at five thirty am, Amy talking to Colonel
Haig on the space station. That's a fun interview. And
I am taking phone calls starting in just a moment
as I lock out after the show, and I'll be
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Speaker 1 (25:40):
So we do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Is Neil coming Well, Neil wasn't ill. Neil wasn't feeling
particularly good today, So hopefully Neil.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Comes back tomorrow. Handle and the morning crew.
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Yes, you have an interview with a real live astronaut
who is really on the ISS.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Let us promote it because it is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Tomorrow morning during wake up call, we're going to be
talking to Space Force guardian and NASA astronaut, also the
commander of the Crew nine mission to the International Space Station,
Colonel Nick Haig. And that's happening right at about five
point thirty and so we're going to hook up with
NASA and Houston and they're going to hook us up
(00:39):
to the International Space Station and we're going to talk
to Colonel Haig, who we've talked to several times as
he was getting ready to go to the Space station.
But now that he's up there, we get to talk
to him and see how life is whizzing around the
Earth in orbit.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, it's kind of neat, So I'm super excited.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
No, you know, it's a real real get in terms
of an interview.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So that's tomorrow with an astronaut on KFI and he's
on the International Space Station.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, and he is awesome. If you've heard wake up
Call when we've talked to him before. Wealth of information,
super friendly, super knowledgeable, and just I'm, like I said,
super excited to talk to him again. I'm going to
call him a friend of wake up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You got it. It's time for Rich Tomorrow Tech Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Rich is heard Saturday eleven to two pm on right
Here on KFI every morning, KTLA Television, Instagram at, Rich
on tech website, Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Good morning Rich, Hey, good morning to Bill boy. We
sound happy like happy campers.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I do.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You're bad, actually, because yesterday I was Yesterday I was
so jet lagged from coming back from vacation. It was
just a god awful mess delays, layovers. All right, So
let's get right into it, because there's a lot of
stuff to talk about. The one that I'm more most
interested in because I hate cats. I'm a dog person.
(02:03):
Is you tested a robot kitty litter box? You're impressed
with it, and I'm thinking of using it for my
dogs or even for me if I want to. You know,
if I miss the toilet and I can't quite make it,
let's talk about that.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah, I mean that would be the first me hearing
about a human using this. But these, you know, these
are pretty popular. And I can't believe you admit that
you hate cats, because you know I.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Don't hate them. But I'm a dog person.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Okay, you're a dog person.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm one of the people that Trump talked about, you know, eating. No,
let's not go there. So tell me about this and
why you actually were impressed with it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So I've heard about these for a long time, these
automated kitty litter boxes. And I will tell you I
would be a cat person if I had a way
to keep my house clean with the cats and the kids.
They promised that they will scoop the kitty litter, and
of course who ends up doing it me, But we
foster cats in my house, so we kind of like,
you know, just take them for a couple of weeks
at a time and get them up to speed and
(03:01):
then they get adopted. So anyway, but we've never gotten
a cat of our own because they wreck hav it.
You know, they leave the litter everywhere. You got to
scoop it. There's hair everywhere. Anyway, So we tried out
this self cleaning kitty litter box. This is the Nia
Casa m one and I knew these things were really expensive,
but I was curious, like, are they worth the price
(03:23):
because they are kind of an investment. And I will
tell you after having this thing in my home for
about three four weeks now, it is a game changer.
It is completely incredible and it's probably the single best
piece of technology I've ever tested that actually impacts your
life in a meaningful way. You know, the room boss
sort of you know, sort of promise that, but my
(03:44):
room gets stuck all the time.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
This does not. This just works.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It cleans the litter, the cat has a fresh place
to go every time, puts all the droppings in a
bin underneath it. It tells you when it's time to
empty that bin, which is once.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Every two weeks. And it's super easy. It's like a
on automated mode. Hmm.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And when you said it's expensive, how expensive?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
So the top probably the top seller is seven hundred dollars.
That's wild Whisker Literal robot. Yeah, the one I tested
is six hundred. But here's a thing. Over Prime Day
it got down to as low as four hundred bucks.
So I would say you probably want to, you know,
wait for this thing to go on sale. It's I think,
at four hundred dollars, it's an absolute steal because it
(04:25):
is saving you time on a daily basis, saving you time,
saving you energy, and you know, the cat seems to
love it. It gives you even Bill, you even get
a little readout in the app of how long your
cat spent in this machine and how much they weigh,
so you can actually see if there's like maybe any
sort of illness or thing or something wrong with your
cat at any point.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Wow, that's important. How long did your cat sit there crapping?
I mean, I cannot think of technology that's more important
than that.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
It'll even text you a little video of the process. Bill,
you can.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's important because that's something I want to see. I
got that. Also.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I want to point something out when you said, and
I usually don't hear this from you, very rarely do
you have technology that really affects your life in a
big way. And this is one of those that will
affect your day to day life, probably more than anything
you've ever tested. Have you ever had open heart surgery
with some new technology?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
No, and I hope not to.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, Well, let me.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Tell you that affects your life just a little bit more.
I just wanted to throw that at you. Rich.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Just look, I'm talking for the average person, Bill, who
maybe has not had open heart surgery. But I'm just
saying in general, yes, there are millions of things that
have affected it.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Live no.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, And I'm just yeah, obviously I'm just jerking your
chain here, but that's kind of neat. Now, the other
question before we take a break, you only foster cats
because of the mess and the cleaning of the litter, etc.
Does this change your opinion? Do you get a cat
now because of this?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Honestly, Bill, this is the closest I've ever come to
saying yes. So because it is solved the main issue
I had, which was kitty litter, scooping kitty litter everywhere
because it just gets everywhere. It doesn't with this machine.
The only other thing I got to figure out is
the cat hair. Cats love to sit on me. I
don't know what it is. They come to me. There's
four people in my house. They come right to me
(06:20):
and rub up all against me and get their hair
all over me. And that's something else I need to
figure out.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Okay, And here's what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And I'm just pitching this right now and on the air,
because we haven't talked about this. When you do get
your cat, we're going to have a contest in terms
of naming your cat, and then we're going to choose
a winner and the winner will get absolutely nothing, which
is always fun when we do contests here on KFI.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Sounds like a great opportunity for someone.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It does.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
We'll be back and finish up Rich Ded Moureau and
tech Tuesday. The check in with Amy will rename Amy. Oh,
that's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Can we just Rich? They do that because they know
that you don't love them and they're trying to win
you over.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I know that's what people say, but I okay, yeah,
I guess that's it.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I admit that whatever feeling.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Hey, I wonder if they're going to do that with dogs,
you know, because I'm a little sick of my dog
peeing on my leg and we've got to do something
about that. Back we go to Rich Demurrow Tech Tuesday.
Apple's AirPods and what's going on with that and AirPods.
I mean, I would get an Apple AirPod, but I
find them very expensive.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, they are expensive, but for this new feature, it's
actually pretty good.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So let's see you.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Can get you can get the general There's obviously various
levels of the air pods. The ones that I'm going
to talk about right now are the AirPods Pro two,
which retail for two hundred and fifty dollars, but they
are regularly on sale, including right now for about two
hundred dollars. And these are the top of the line
AirPods that Apple makes. The cheapest I think is one
about one and twenty. So these are getting a feature
(08:03):
next week. That's the hearing aid feature. We talked about
this back in September when Apple announced this, but now
it's actually coming out next week. So if you have
the Airpod's Pro too, they will basically be turned into
FDA authorized hearing aids with this software update. And so
this is going to be a heck of a lot
cheaper than a lot of other hearing aids out there.
(08:23):
The battery life, I think is the biggest limitation from
the early reports I'm seeing of people who.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Tried this out six hours, So this is not going
to be something that's a permanent solution.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, well, let me ask you when you think about that.
So you're already wearing a hearing aid. And now I'm assuming
wearing a hearing aid gets in the way of an
Apple pod, the iPod or the AirPod. I'm sorry, And
how do you do the two at the same time.
(08:54):
Do you take out your hearing aid and put it
in for six hours, put in the AirPod and then
switch it out.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Aga Well, it's interesting.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
A lot of a lot of the modern hearing aids,
like the ones that are very expensive that you get
from a doctor, a lot of them actually work with
the iPhone, so they've built that functionality in a long
time ago where you use them twenty four to seven,
so they become you know, you can take phone calls
through them, you can listen to audio through them, so
you don't really need to take them out. This is
(09:22):
more for someone who has low to moderate hearing loss.
May not even know that, but you open up the
app next week, you take a little hearing test and
it will tune these air pods to help you hear better.
And so if you're like sitting there going you know what,
it is tough for me to hear conversations in a restaurant,
or it's tough for me to just hear in general.
Let me try this out, and you try it out
(09:43):
and you say, Okay, I don't need hearing aids twenty
four to seven, but it would help maybe at work
when I'm in meetings or something like that. So you
can just pop these in. And I think the benefit
of the air pods is that they're ubiquitous. You know,
so many people are used to seeing them. It's probably
not that big of a deal if you're wearing them
no matter where you are.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Do you think there's a market for it?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I mean, that is really niche stuff the way I
see it, And obviously I don't do the kind of research.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'm sure Apple doesn't come out with something without really
researching it. But do you see that there's a big
market for this.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I could see it being a huge market if you know.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Look the price tag, I think is what's really interesting here.
So these are, you know, like I said, about two
hundred dollars compared to thousands of dollars for traditional hearing aids.
And it's also convenient. You know, it's a product that
many people already use. There's really no stigma attached, you know,
hearing aids. If you're thinking of getting them, it's kind
of a big deal because you have to go to someone,
You've got to take a test. You got to you know,
(10:45):
it's a big part of your life. Whereas this you go, Okay,
let me just take this test on my iPhone and
the comfort of my home. Let me pop these earbuds in,
and suddenly I can hear better. So I do think
that there's going to be a lot of people that
will turn to these. Apple of course did their homework
and found that there's you know, like so many people
that have you know, undiagnosed hearing issues, and I think
(11:05):
that those are the people that are going to turn
to something like this. Again, much more casual user, but
the use case, the actual help you get from these
are equivalent to anything you'd get that's from a doctor.
Because it is FDA authorized. I mean, it's a pretty
big deal that they've.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Done so much work into this.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Okay, one minute, because I spent way too much time
on this. And that is the new theft protection feature
on your Android.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
On your Android.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Now, I'm assuming if somebody takes it, who shouldn't, four
hundred volts goes through his body instantly and they're electrocuted
close close.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
This is this is actually a pretty smart feature. You
can turn it on right now on your Android phone
if you've done the latest software update. Basically, if someone
grabs your phone out of your hand, because theoretically it's
unlocked because you were like looking at it, a thief
comes by, runs by, grabs your phone, and it's going
to start, you know, venmoing themselves or getting into your
bank account whatever. This new Android theft protection feature uses
(12:08):
the accelerometer on your phone to notice that something's wrong.
This person's running away with your phone, and it will
not only lock down your phone, but it also will
make it so they can't get back in, and then
you can also unlock it and do some things remotely.
It just basically locks everything down using an algorithm that says, hey,
we noticed someone's running away with this lock this unlocked phone.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Let's uh, let's lock that thing up.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
How does it know that you're not just running around
with your phone?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, it could do that.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I mean it would definitely, you know, if you I'm
sure people will try this and see if that works.
But the reality is this is an algorithm, so they've
tested a whole bunch of different you know, snatching a
phone out of someone's hand scenarios, but go to settings,
tap Google all Services, theft protection, theft protection, theft detection lock.
It's not enabled by default, but it's just one more
(13:00):
to keep someone from grabbing your phone, running away and
stealing all your information.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
All right, Rich This Saturday, eleven am to two pm
KTLA every morning and Instagram at rich on tech website,
richontech dot TV. We will catch you next week or
I'll hear you on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Thanks Bill, you too, All right?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Coming up?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
The pollsters completely blew it in twenty twenty? Are they
going to be wrong again?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Coming up in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
One of the things that happens during the course of
any election, whether it's presidential, senatorial, governorship, etc. Is looking
at the polls, and you always get two views of
the polls. Who's ever losing in the polls? Who's behind
says I don't pay attention to the polls. Who's ever
winning in the poll says? Look at the poll numbers,
(13:52):
look at the sport I'm getting. So which one is true?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Both?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Depending on the year. In twenty twenty, the posters were
dead wrong. Twenty sixteen, the posters were closer than they
had been in eighty years. So here's the problem with
polling is right now, the posters are easy because it
(14:21):
is a dead heat. The only voting that counts is
in the battleground states California. Waste of time for anybody.
California is going Democrat.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
We are not going to see television, radio ads, billboards
touting one candidate or another, particularly in presidential Why because
everybody knows California.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Now, if you happen to.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Own a media media outlet, even a small media outlet,
in any of the battleground states, do you know that
those are Every commercial is sold out everyone. There is
no product or corporation that wants to go in and
buy a radio ad or a TV ad in those
battleground states. Tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars
(15:11):
being spent.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So let's look at the polls. Who's ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, if you look at the battleground states, a couple
of them in the States they are dead. Even that's
former President Trump and Vice President Harris dead. Even others
put one or the other ahead, but all.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Within the margin of error.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You can flip a coin to see who's going to
win on this one.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
It is that close.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And the pollsters do not want a repeat of twenty
twenty in which they are wrong. And so you think
in this modern age, between artificial intelligence and algorithms and
the way people can be reached via Internet and phone,
they would have a good idea of which way the
electorate's going to go. Well in reality, no, why because,
(16:09):
for example, Republicans who did far better, they're harder to reach.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Republicans don't pay attention to polls.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Someone really, I don't, and I'm not a Republican, nor
am I a Democrat. I've been unaffiliated ever since I
started broadcasting, and that was a lot of years ago.
Someone calls me up about the poll. I don't pay
attention now, not interested? Would you take a poll?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I will not.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I don't want to spend the time. How about internet, No,
don't take the time. I won't do it now. The
way I don't do it is far greater in numbers
among Republicans, and that really screws things up because one
of the things the pollsters have a real problem with
is reaching those people who otherwise would not tell the
(16:59):
poster which way they are going. And so particularly the
shift of black and Latino voters going towards Trump that
the pollsters are looking at that's never happened before. John Krasnik,
a Stanford University political science says, we're headed for more disaster.
(17:20):
Why because the new polling methods that they're using, the
algorithms and the polling on the internet, et cetera. Frankly,
they're unproven in terms of sampling methods. It is not easy.
And we all pay attention to the polls I was watching.
I watched a couple of national news stations and first off,
(17:44):
first story the polls, which way it's going, and it's
changing day to day, matter of fact, what does And yesterday,
for example, I was listening to ABC with David Muhr,
and he started the broadcast with I'm gonna get you
the latest poll numbers, and the poll numbers that I quoted,
(18:05):
the dead heat, basically the dead heat among the battleground
states came off of that, the poll that ABC was
involved with. And if you look at the polls that
other organization, Pew, CBS, Gallop Poll. I don't know if
Gallup is still doing it, but everybody, even the ones
(18:26):
that disagree with each other, which we always get, all
within the margin.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So are we going to.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Pay attention to the pollsters, you know, not this time around,
Not this time around, because they have gone from twenty sixteen,
the most accurate polling that has ever happened, to twenty
twenty one of the biggest disasters that have ever happened.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And so we'll see what happens this time around.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
All right, I want to end the program, And by
the way, I'm taking a handle on the lock calls
for the first time in weeks because I've been on
a vacation as soon as I out at the end
of the show.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And I'll tell you a little bit more about that
when we come back.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Candy and Halloween, how the two are inextricably connected. You
can't have Halloween without Candy. Well, there's a whole history
here and why it is what it is today. After
the show, which I do Tuesdays and Thursdays, which I
haven't done for a few weeks or several weeks I
have been on vacation, I take phone calls off the
(19:27):
air for a handle on the law. And if you
have a marginal legal question which I can answer marginally,
call me at eight seven seven five to two zero
eleven fifty eight seven seven five to zero eleven fifty
and it's Handle on the law answers off the air
because sometimes on Saturday we can go to three.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Hours without a line being open.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So that's coming up right as I lock out of
the show. Now a quick handle history segment. Always a
lot of fun. Candy and Halloween get connected. We're gonna
spend about two billion dollars Americans on candy during this
Halloween season.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh here's a fun fact.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
California Milk per Processors Board said, an average Jacko lanyard bucket,
you know the kids carry around, We'll have about two
hundred and fifty pieces of candy candy, nine thousand calories,
about three pounds of sugar. Who all right, it's go
back one hundred years. Boy, Halloween looked different. The biggest
difference by the ways trick or treating. That's a recent
(20:32):
American invention, and costumes and doorbell ringing and expectation of
candy at the door actually happened for the first time
in the late nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties. It
wasn't until late forties that trick were treating became a
national issue, and even then, candy was not the obvious treat.
(20:56):
Kids would ring a stranger's doorbell nineteen forty eight and
nineteen fifty two and would receive all kinds of stuff
coins or nuts, or fruits, or cookies or cakes, toys,
small little crappy ones. In the nineteen fifties, kool Aid
and Kellogg's promoted their non candy products as trick or
(21:16):
treat options. So it took a while for candy to
become what it is today. Matter of fact, we go
even further back to the early decades of last century,
candy didn't have any role to play on a.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Trick or treat. The trick or treat special day of
Halloween and costumes are fairly new.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So what was it about, let's say one hundred and
ten hundred and twenty years ago, Well, boys, specifically, Halloween
was the one night of the year when communities generally
tolerated pranking.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now pranking is is different.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Back then, mailboxes, fences, street cars, gravestones were partular targets,
but it was a mischief issue, not one to do
serious damage, and not to gather treats. Halloween also was
in the gift giving holiday, and that's become big stuff
that you actually gift people for Halloween. I've never understood
(22:18):
that while the kids were out there, particularly boys, out
there causing all this kinds of mischief, what you would
have is Halloween parties with adults.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And that's recent.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And really the menus and the amount of the decor
and what people did with were actually seasonal fruits, pumpkins,
apples particularly important. So when candy makers in nineteen ten
nineteen twenties look for ways to grow fall sales, Halloween
barely registered as a marketing opportunity. Tell you the big
(22:55):
ones Christmas and Easter, those are the big candy events
already been established by nineteen hundred. Yet box chocolates, hard
candies for Christmas, jelly eggs, molded bunnies for Easter. And
I'll tell you what else was a huge candy on
candy holiday was Washington's Birthday special mars of pan cherries,
(23:16):
cocoa dusted logs.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It was during the fifties nineteen fifties. The rise of
trick or treating.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Made a holiday perfect for marketing a product associated with
kids and fun. Candy easy to buy, easy to distribute, convenient,
and it was economical as hell and small, inexpensive candies
became really popular. I remember trick or treating as a kid,
(23:45):
and I was in a middle class neighborhood, so I'd
get the hard candies that were wrapped up, a handful
of them, and the real neat ones were the small
candy bars. Man, that was big stuff. Now you can
go into a very wealthy area and there are kids
that are bust into those areas. And you knock on
the door of a super wealthy area today trigg or
(24:07):
treat and you get a small car.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Not when I was a kid, that certainly didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And it wasn't until the seventies a candy came to
be seen as the only treat, and of course the
candy industry went crazy. And it was not wait, it
was not their marketing that did it, you know what,
It was our fear. We became helicopter parents, and homemade
treats pose the risk of tampering, poisoning. Remember the razor
(24:39):
blades in the apple.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Which of course never happened.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Commercial wrap candy, that's the only way to go about it. Now,
the candy manufacturers did try to come up with a
holiday that just dealt with candy, and that was in
nineteen sixteen, and what they came up with a new
holiday call Old Candy Day. You ever heard of it? No,
(25:06):
that did not work out. All right, we're done, don't forget.
Tomorrow morning at five thirty am, Amy talking to Colonel
Haig on the space station. That's a fun interview. And
I am taking phone calls starting in just a moment
as I lock out after the show, and I'll be
taking phone calls off the air for Handle on the law.
(25:29):
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Speaker 1 (25:40):
So we do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Is Neil coming Well, Neil wasn't ill. Neil wasn't feeling
particularly good today, So hopefully Neil.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Comes back tomorrow. Handle and the morning crew.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
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