November 19, 2024 • 34 mins
KFI's own Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Tech Tuesday'! Rich talks about the DOJ possibly forcing Google to split off Chrome, Instagram testing an algorithm reset button, Bluesky emerging, and Roblox adding parental controls. Weight-loss drugmakers’ new target? YOUR EMPLOYER!. Nearly 40% of young Americans get their news from influencers… many of them lean right, study finds.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI A
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That is correct, a mundo.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
What a clever name for the morning show, isn't it
kind of like it? I even chose it myself. Handle
here and the Morning crew on a Taco Tuesday, November nineteenth.
What we are looking at? First of all, I just
talked to Rod Pyle. The SpaceX rocket launching today, and
President elect Trump is going to be there because he
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and Elon Musk are now best buddies.
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That's one of the stories.
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And then Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist, is accusing the Onion
and Sandy Hook Elementary Schools of collusive bidding to grab
his Info Wars info World Wars platform.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Why not? You know, the guy's out of his mind?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Rich, Tomorrow's time for Tech Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Rich who is kfi's tech reporter and KTLA's tech reporter
every day herd Saturdays right here on KFI eleven am
to two pm. Rich on tech Instagram, the website, Rich
on tech dot Tv.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Rich, good morning, Good morning to Bill. Okay, Oh, a
couple of fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
First of all, roadblocks is adding parental controls and that
in parentheses it says important after that.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I don't know if you put that in there, but okay.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Okay, I did, because yeah, are you familiar with Roadblocks?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Okay, So this is huge for parents that have kids.
This is pretty much just as big as TikTok. I mean,
these kids are on this program all day long, every day.
They can't get enough of it. Hundreds of millions of users,
most of them under sixteen, So imagine that market share
right for this program, this Roadblocks, And what they're doing
(01:55):
is they're playing user created games. These games look like nothing.
I mean, they're very rudimentary, but these kids love them,
including my kids, and the problem is they can't get enough.
There's been some issues with the content that they come
up against, the chats that they have inside these apps,
the stuff other kids say or maybe adults pretending to
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be kids, and so I've really not liked Roadblocks a
lot in the past, but I do think what they're
doing with these new prontal controls are good. Basically, Number one,
parents can now manage their kids' accounts from their own account,
So you can sign up as a parent, link up
to your kids account, and from your phone you can
set daily time limits, You can see who they're chatting with,
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you can see the games they're playing, you can set
how much money they can spend in this game or
all these different games. And so that alone is a
huge win for parents. If your kids are playing robots,
please sign up for your own account and get in
there and manage some of these parental controls. I think
that's very important. And the other thing is that they're
moderating chat a little bit more so kids under thirteen
(03:00):
can no longer chat with other people outside of the games,
Like there's no free for all chat anymore for these kids.
They have to be inside a game to chat.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
After TikTok and Instagram and Facebook and YouTube and roadblocks,
as you said, because of the insane success, I'm assuming
people are coming up with various versions every single half hour.
Why does one have legs and one does not? How
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does one click? You mean with these games in fide, Yeah,
are these all of these all these platforms, because I'm
assuming I can't even imagine how many are actually being introduced.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, I mean, well that's the thing. I mean, everyone
wants to win with kids because you get a really
you get a good audience that plays a lot. They've
got a lot of free time. And by the way,
they've got the parents wallet. And that's exactly how roadblocks plays.
How do one of these things take you know, take
effect and people really care about it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I mean, I'm talking about all the platforms.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I mean, I think it's where the friends are, so
I mean something is a combination. I think it's where
the friends are. But I think something like TikTok, their
algorithm is so good and so sticky that it just
you know, kids don't get it. Like they sit there
and they just watch one video and next thing you know,
it's it figures out. Okay, they kind of like that,
and now they show you one hundred of those videos
of different versions, and kids they're not all the smarter,
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so they just kind of watch and watch and watch
until the parents say, are you still watching that stuff
over there? And then the parents, of course, you know,
they want their free time. They sometimes need to check
their work, email or do whatever. And you know, it's
it's very easy to kind of get sucked into these
platforms for a very long time as a kid. So
I think that's why we're seeing so much thought around.
(04:49):
You know, how do we better engineer these things that
they are safer and don't take up all of our
kids' time. And of course the companies don't want any
of that. They want them to be on these platforms
forever and ever. And I never have any parents. Yes,
it's Neil.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I have a seven year old and I obviously I'm
a fan of your show, so I listen every week
and I've heard you say that your kids are on roadblocks.
Now we've not let my son, who's seven, going to
be eight this month, we've not let him use that.
I'm encouraged more by what you're telling me now, But
how old were your kids? What do you do to
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protect them? Because he constantly asks about being on and
we've said no to this point.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, it's really tricky because his friends are on there,
and that's the thing. They all converge on these platforms
and parents feel bad that their kids aren't there because
it's almost like everyone's going for a play date and
you're like, no, I'm worried about my kids being at
that park, you know, alone, whatever. And so what we
did during the pandemic, that's when this really took off.
That's when our kids started playing. My older kid, no problem.
(05:53):
He can play for an hour and be done. My
younger kid definitely has much more of an issue with
giving this stuff up. Although last night I will say
I gave him one hour and he was perfect, and
he said, Okay, one hour, I'm fine. So I think
it really comes down to the kid. But I would
say keep them off as long as possible, but also
if they go on, monitor what they're doing and get
(06:13):
familiar with the game, and also set up those time limits.
For sure.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, I have much the same problem because I have
two seven year olds and keeping them off of the
Internet is very difficult. By the way, they're twenty nine
year old chronologically, But if you've ever met them, you
know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
They don't put their dishes away. Still, it gets.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Rich It's a very long story. Okay, Tech Tuesday, Rich
host of host of the show here rich on Tech.
I'm sorry, I'm sort of lost it for a minute.
Rich on Tech Saturday's eleven am to two pm. Also
KTLA Reporter, also Instagram at rich on Tech.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Also a website rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Okay, Rich, the whole story, and this I've been looking
at for a very long time, and it may actually
be here, and that is waves actually start starting to
generate electricity here in Los Angeles. And I've always looked
at football games and seen the kind of the power
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that waves can have.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yes, and these are very similar. So these are water
not oh okay, got no beach ball necessary to bounce
around either this. But this is really it's an interesting company.
It's Eco Wave Power. They're out of Israel. They've already
got this installed there and they're going to two other places.
Los Angeles is one of them. This is the first
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in the US to do this. So what they do
is they install these kind of like just imagine you're
at the peer right like a you know, the Port
of Los Angeles. You've got a peer that's over the water,
and you put these big floating kind of like energy
floaters in the water and they're attached to piston. So
when these things go up and down with the waves,
those pistons push a generator on the shore, and that
(08:06):
generator captures that energy and makes it electricity. And so
this is supposed to be I mean, they're installing this
thing now. Apparently it's going to be ready by the
end of the first quarter. Next year and putting some
power into I don't know what they're doing with the
power right away, like if this is just a test
to see if it can work, but they're working with
Shell and so kind of an odd couple there. You know,
(08:28):
Shell obviously the petroleum company. But they say that this
could power one hundred and thirty million homes in the US.
Not this particular installation, I think in general, if we
did this in a big way around the US, and
if you think about it, there's not much downside. I'm
sure it's expensive right away to start this, but eventually
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it's kind of like, you know, you've got these waves
crashing anyway, all over the coasts everywhere, why not harness
some of that energy?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I mean thinking for example, solar when it first came
out was absolutely press phibitive. I mean it was crazy.
It was a political statement to put it in nothing more,
nothing less. But now it's not only competitive with fossil
fuel power plants, but in many cases it's actually.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Cheaper, so I'm assuming.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And turbine when turbans with you know, the huge generating capabilities,
and turbans were first when they first came out, they
were kind of small They look like something right out
of the Wizard of Oz, you know, on the farm
kind of thing, and it's changed. Do you see this
developing or is it basically here and now it's just
a question of money installation, not even technology anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Well, I think the technology could probably be optimized for efficiency,
and I think that's why they're doing these programs. But
you know, the way I see is exactly what you're saying.
It's like, anytime we can harness these natural kind of
energy production methods is a good thing. I think that
it's very expensive at the outset because it takes a
lot of R and B research and development. It takes
(09:59):
a lot for them initial equipment because you're not making
it in bulk. You're making these things. You know, you're
making eight of these wave floaters, right. So I think
as this energy production method progresses, it could get cheaper
and it's just a better thing, you know, especially in California,
as more people are getting electric cars on the grid,
we need ways to make power that's energy efficient and
(10:21):
also green, and so this seems like it checks all
those boxes.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, and unlike solar, and unlike you've got solar, you've
got wind power those are at the mercy of the
wind and the sun waves are there twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, like nuclear energy, it's there all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So that's and it's free too, well at least bringing
up except for actually building the thing. Hey Google, and
we've been talking about this, or we've been looking at this.
Google might be forced to split off Chrome even with
the new administra.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Is that what we're looking at.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
See, that's that's what I'm wondering, Bill, great question. So
this is this is related to I don't know if
you remember we talked about this months ago where a
judge found that Google was a monopoly when it came
to its search ads and so not the search necessarily,
but the ads that they placed. They say that, you know,
it was really tough for competitors to get in there.
(11:23):
Nothing has really come of that just yet, but now
regulators are apparently this is a Bloomberg report, so this
has not happened yet, but apparently the sources say regulators
are pressuring this same judge to say, you know what,
maybe we should do a little bit more with Google here.
Maybe Google should be forced to sell Chrome, which of
course is the world's most popular web browser. It's got
sixty one percent of the market share, and then they
(11:45):
want it to take a step further as well. You know,
Google owns Android, and so whenever you make an Android phone,
if you want to play nice with Google, you have
to bundle Google Search in there, and also the play Store,
And of course that's Google's you know app system for
you know, getting all those apps on your phone, like
Google Maps and Chrome and Gmail and everything else. And
(12:06):
so the point is if Google is sort of untwined
from these products, they become less powerful. But I think
two things are going on here. Number one, we have
AI really taking changing the way that everyone searches and
looks for information and finds information. Plus you've got the
new administration coming in. I doubt anything's going to happen
(12:26):
with this Before that, these changes wouldn't even take effect
until at least August of next year. So I think
we have a long way in seeing what's going to
happen with Google here.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Okay, one last one, and that's Blue Sky and how
many followers it has gotten in the past few weeks
and what ended up happening with or what is happening
with X and the craziness of Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Well, yeah, so a lot of people are very unhappy
with X at this point because obviously you've got Elon Musk,
and as you know, Elon Musk and Trump are now
and so you know, there's a lot of if you look
at just how people voted, there's a lot of people
that probably don't like that, and so now they don't
want to be on that network, and so they've come over.
They found this new thing called Blue Sky, which has
been around for a while now, by the way, since
(13:13):
twenty nineteen, but they just recently opened it up to everyone,
and so you can go on there. It looks and
feels and acts just like Twitter back in the day,
complete with the growing pains. A lot of people were
having issues signing up and things like that over the
last couple of weeks because they've had an influx of
last count, I think it was three million new users.
(13:34):
So I think they're up to about a nineteen million
as of yesterday, which is a huge amount. You know.
Now X and Threads obviously have hundreds of millions of users,
but I think this is something that I've seen take.
People are going here very quickly, and it's one of
those things where I've seen a lot of social networks
come up over the years, but nothing this fast, and
(13:55):
where I see a huge concentration of the tech world
and a lot of different industries kind of coming over
and saying, Okay, we're going to try this out. All
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's you know, it's fascinating of the politics.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Of these platforms and the Internet and how well it's
actually ever since Trump started, for example, starting truth social
all right, which I don't think you put a diamond,
and now his share is three billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, I don't know how long that can last. I
mean that that you know, who's I don't know, it's
I think. I think the sad part for me as
a journalist is that there used to be a place
where you can go where everyone was in the same place,
and now we're going into our own silos. And I
think that's the problem. Is that when you look at X,
it's really like, you know more people on the right
on X, and if you look at Blue Sky, it's
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people that you know more on the left saying hey,
we want to leave X because we don't like that.
And so now you've got two places where you go
and people are talking about echo chambers and all this stuff.
But I think it's a real consideration is that, you know,
where do people actually come together for this stuff? Now
you've got to go to two separate places depending on
you know, what you believe and what you like.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And as a journalist, and that's what you are as
a genuine journalist. Yeah, I mean, you have to be
so frustrated as to how you have to stick to
the facts and everybody, or seems everybody else doesn't have to.
Eight fifty I'm going to do a story on forty
percent of young Americans get their news from influencers, not news.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yep, it's crazy. All right, Rich, thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
We'll talk to your page for everything they say.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Basically, Yeah, that lovely. We'll talk again next Tuesday. Thanks
for all the info.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Thanks Bill.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
All right, Hey, there was a meeting.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
This is out of the Wall Street Journal And it's
kind of interesting because, as you know, I'm fascinated with weight,
my weight, your weight, you're fat.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I used to be fat.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So there was a meeting the New Jersey State Policeman's
Benevolent Benevolent Association. This is basically the the cop union
in New Jersey, and something unusual because there was a
pitch from Lily, the pharmaceutical company, going to the union
specifically directly. And what they did is they presented a
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slide deck that laid out the data of the effectiveness
of zep bound, the new weight loss drug that they're pitching.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And here's what they're pitching. It used to be big picture.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
If you pay for preventive medicine, the union comes in
and negotiates, or any company is it enters in negotiation
with how much healthcare do you provide?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
How good is the insurance?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
And I'm sure the same thing happened with our union
and KFI saying we are we get insurance, how good
is it?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Does it include? For example, these new weight loss drugs.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Well, the companies that manufacture them are sitting down and saying, hey,
this isn't just long term for the health your employees,
which helps you out in the long run. We have
heart disease, you have diabetes, which really hurt hurts the
company and hurts the employee in the long run.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
This is about right now.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You spend the money for these new weight loss drugs
right now, and you're gonna get a healthier employee. You're
gonna get an employee that is not as sick, doesn't
have sick time as much, is going.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
To feel better, it is going to do better work.
Is that true or not?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't know, Neil, I broadcast for so long. Was
any difference when I weighed three hundred plus pounds than
today when I weigh one hundred pounds less than that?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
As far as you're broadcasting and knows in general being
a happy camper, I'm still miserable. I still hate you.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You hate me, So that didn't change feeling a little
better about myself. No, But health wise, do you do
you see people lost the ton of weight.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Your knees used to bug the hell out of you,
that's true, and they don't. I never hear you talk
about that anymore. So you need your back occasionally would
mess with you, and I don't hear that any more.
Other than that, You're still an insufferable.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Riah.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You know all that.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
But it seems to be this is real because we're
not just talking long term. Because when you talk about
companies coming in and helping people with weight loss programs
and fitness programs and putting in gyms and subsidizing their
gym membership. You know, that's kind of okay, way out there,
and you know, the companies have a hard time really
(18:44):
looking at the advantages, really looking at how much.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It all helps.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I mean, they look at studies, they talk to people
this is Lily and other companies, looking at the unions,
looking at being told by the pharmaceutical reps saying this
is going to help you tomorrow, just pay the money.
And when you talk about just pay the money, when
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else one thousand dollars a month if you're paying for
it out of procket And that's the individual. So let's
say you cut a deal where you have a company
now allowing this to happen, or a benefit manager, a
pharmaceutical benefit manager that's adding on to its prescription plan.
(19:31):
That okay, so let's go get they get it for
five hundred or six hundred dollars a month extra.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
And convincing these companies, hey, you ought to spend this
much money because this not in question of it's going
to help your employees.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In reality is eh, you know, an employee.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Dies, you replace him. They're sort of you know, people
are fungible for the most part. This is bottom line
stuff for the company at this moment or two months
down the road.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So you to see more and more and more of
this happening.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
At some these new drugs. Well, are they the magic bullet?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
We don't have any long term evidence that they are
because they're so brand new. We know they work for
diabetes because they were originally diabetes drugs, this family of drugs,
and now if you overdose.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
On them, you lose weight.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So that's all they've really done is taken existing technology,
existing drugs and just say, okay, let's just overdose you
and look how much weight you're gonna lose, especially if
you go unconscious and you don't eat. I don't think
that's the case. I just I'm not a doctor, but
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Speaker 2 (27:59):
Are well Jake Paul right.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Influencer, twenty something million followers. We try to have our followers.
How many followers, Neil.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Do I have? Fourteen? I don't know, eighteen followers.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
It's every time you mention it, they go down. You're twelve, excellent, eleven.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
The problem is as much as we're joking, except I'm
not joking. Young American adults increasingly getting their news from
social media influence. There's most men and leaning to the right.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
This is a pure research.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Where it is today's politics are that and this is
it drives me nuts. Mainstream media is fake. Mainstream media
are liars. Right networks, the major newspapers, there are a
bunch of liars. The influencers, they're telling the truth. The
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Joe Rogans are telling the truth. The Alex Jones are
telling the truth. And the problem is the number of
people out there, particularly younger people, that is increasing by
leaps and bounds as to the truth coming from influencers.
I mean, it is scary stuff. And this really reached
(29:30):
new levels during the presidential election. And this was a
social scientist at Pew Research Center that did this survey
and they're analyzing this that's crazy. Contrary to claims of
the right wing censorship right, that's the right winger saying
that we're being censored.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You're being censored, and the left wing is taking over.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Twenty seven percent of the influencers were in fact Republican
or pro Trump, compared to twenty one percent that lean left.
We know, well, we know that talk radio, the kind
of radio we do is primarily right wing. There are
(30:14):
plenty of all right wing stations out there. Matter of fact,
KiB our sister station is pretty conservative.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I don't know of any left wing stations that exist.
NPR maybe, But.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
This business that we're in, Lean's right. It looks like
influencers Lean right now.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
There are entertainers.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Beyonce has thirty million followers, and you have entertainers that
have zillions. But I'm talking about political oriented stuff, and
this is something that has to be looked at.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
And I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
You know, the problem is both Kamala Harris and Donald
Trump went after influencers. It's just Donald Trump's campaign did
a better job, for example, clicking into the manosphere.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
The brodum did.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
A brilliant job of clicking into basically white males and
not just white males to vote white males. If you
look at young white males, I mean engaged. A matter
of fact, when we look at engagement, the anti abortion folks,
the super conservatives are engaged on the level that is astronomical.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Compared to the liberals.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
You take a fanatic liberal, you take a fanatic conservative,
the engagement level of politics, the conservative will be much
more engaged, will be much more excited. For the most part,
same thing with young people, particularly white males. Young white
males much more engaged, and the way to get to
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them is via these influencers. And the bottom line, and
this is there's a lot of research here that were
a lot of numbers, there's a lot of wonk and
analysis here. The bottom line, more and more people are
going to these influencers, not for opinion, for news, for
hard news, the conspiracy theorists. That's real news, the Wall
(32:20):
Street Journal, ABC, NBC UPI, that's fake.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And that is well, I tell you, it's pretty scary
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What we are looking at? First of all, I just
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All right?
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Speaker 2 (01:10):
Rich, good morning, Good morning to Bill. Okay, Oh, a
couple of fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
First of all, roadblocks is adding parental controls and that
in parentheses it says important after that.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I don't know if you put that in there, but okay.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Okay, I did, because yeah, are you familiar with Roadblocks?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Okay, So this is huge for parents that have kids.
This is pretty much just as big as TikTok. I mean,
these kids are on this program all day long, every day.
They can't get enough of it. Hundreds of millions of users,
most of them under sixteen, So imagine that market share
right for this program, this Roadblocks, And what they're doing
(01:55):
is they're playing user created games. These games look like nothing.
I mean, they're very rudimentary, but these kids love them,
including my kids, and the problem is they can't get enough.
There's been some issues with the content that they come
up against, the chats that they have inside these apps,
the stuff other kids say or maybe adults pretending to
(02:16):
be kids, and so I've really not liked Roadblocks a
lot in the past, but I do think what they're
doing with these new prontal controls are good. Basically, Number one,
parents can now manage their kids' accounts from their own account,
So you can sign up as a parent, link up
to your kids account, and from your phone you can
set daily time limits, You can see who they're chatting with,
(02:37):
you can see the games they're playing, you can set
how much money they can spend in this game or
all these different games. And so that alone is a
huge win for parents. If your kids are playing robots,
please sign up for your own account and get in
there and manage some of these parental controls. I think
that's very important. And the other thing is that they're
moderating chat a little bit more so kids under thirteen
(03:00):
can no longer chat with other people outside of the games,
Like there's no free for all chat anymore for these kids.
They have to be inside a game to chat.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
After TikTok and Instagram and Facebook and YouTube and roadblocks,
as you said, because of the insane success, I'm assuming
people are coming up with various versions every single half hour.
Why does one have legs and one does not? How
(03:33):
does one click? You mean with these games in fide, Yeah,
are these all of these all these platforms, because I'm
assuming I can't even imagine how many are actually being introduced.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, I mean, well that's the thing. I mean, everyone
wants to win with kids because you get a really
you get a good audience that plays a lot. They've
got a lot of free time. And by the way,
they've got the parents wallet. And that's exactly how roadblocks plays.
How do one of these things take you know, take
effect and people really care about it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I mean, I'm talking about all the platforms.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I mean, I think it's where the friends are, so
I mean something is a combination. I think it's where
the friends are. But I think something like TikTok, their
algorithm is so good and so sticky that it just
you know, kids don't get it. Like they sit there
and they just watch one video and next thing you know,
it's it figures out. Okay, they kind of like that,
and now they show you one hundred of those videos
of different versions, and kids they're not all the smarter,
(04:28):
so they just kind of watch and watch and watch
until the parents say, are you still watching that stuff
over there? And then the parents, of course, you know,
they want their free time. They sometimes need to check
their work, email or do whatever. And you know, it's
it's very easy to kind of get sucked into these
platforms for a very long time as a kid. So
I think that's why we're seeing so much thought around.
(04:49):
You know, how do we better engineer these things that
they are safer and don't take up all of our
kids' time. And of course the companies don't want any
of that. They want them to be on these platforms
forever and ever. And I never have any parents. Yes,
it's Neil.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I have a seven year old and I obviously I'm
a fan of your show, so I listen every week
and I've heard you say that your kids are on roadblocks.
Now we've not let my son, who's seven, going to
be eight this month, we've not let him use that.
I'm encouraged more by what you're telling me now, But
how old were your kids? What do you do to
(05:25):
protect them? Because he constantly asks about being on and
we've said no to this point.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, it's really tricky because his friends are on there,
and that's the thing. They all converge on these platforms
and parents feel bad that their kids aren't there because
it's almost like everyone's going for a play date and
you're like, no, I'm worried about my kids being at
that park, you know, alone, whatever. And so what we
did during the pandemic, that's when this really took off.
That's when our kids started playing. My older kid, no problem.
(05:53):
He can play for an hour and be done. My
younger kid definitely has much more of an issue with
giving this stuff up. Although last night I will say
I gave him one hour and he was perfect, and
he said, Okay, one hour, I'm fine. So I think
it really comes down to the kid. But I would
say keep them off as long as possible, but also
if they go on, monitor what they're doing and get
(06:13):
familiar with the game, and also set up those time limits.
For sure.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, I have much the same problem because I have
two seven year olds and keeping them off of the
Internet is very difficult. By the way, they're twenty nine
year old chronologically, But if you've ever met them, you
know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
They don't put their dishes away. Still, it gets.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Rich It's a very long story. Okay, Tech Tuesday, Rich
host of host of the show here rich on Tech.
I'm sorry, I'm sort of lost it for a minute.
Rich on Tech Saturday's eleven am to two pm. Also
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Speaker 2 (06:56):
Also a website rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Okay, Rich, the whole story, and this I've been looking
at for a very long time, and it may actually
be here, and that is waves actually start starting to
generate electricity here in Los Angeles. And I've always looked
at football games and seen the kind of the power
(07:21):
that waves can have.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yes, and these are very similar. So these are water
not oh okay, got no beach ball necessary to bounce
around either this. But this is really it's an interesting company.
It's Eco Wave Power. They're out of Israel. They've already
got this installed there and they're going to two other places.
Los Angeles is one of them. This is the first
(07:44):
in the US to do this. So what they do
is they install these kind of like just imagine you're
at the peer right like a you know, the Port
of Los Angeles. You've got a peer that's over the water,
and you put these big floating kind of like energy
floaters in the water and they're attached to piston. So
when these things go up and down with the waves,
those pistons push a generator on the shore, and that
(08:06):
generator captures that energy and makes it electricity. And so
this is supposed to be I mean, they're installing this
thing now. Apparently it's going to be ready by the
end of the first quarter. Next year and putting some
power into I don't know what they're doing with the
power right away, like if this is just a test
to see if it can work, but they're working with
Shell and so kind of an odd couple there. You know,
(08:28):
Shell obviously the petroleum company. But they say that this
could power one hundred and thirty million homes in the US.
Not this particular installation, I think in general, if we
did this in a big way around the US, and
if you think about it, there's not much downside. I'm
sure it's expensive right away to start this, but eventually
(08:48):
it's kind of like, you know, you've got these waves
crashing anyway, all over the coasts everywhere, why not harness
some of that energy?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I mean thinking for example, solar when it first came
out was absolutely press phibitive. I mean it was crazy.
It was a political statement to put it in nothing more,
nothing less. But now it's not only competitive with fossil
fuel power plants, but in many cases it's actually.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Cheaper, so I'm assuming.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And turbine when turbans with you know, the huge generating capabilities,
and turbans were first when they first came out, they
were kind of small They look like something right out
of the Wizard of Oz, you know, on the farm
kind of thing, and it's changed. Do you see this
developing or is it basically here and now it's just
a question of money installation, not even technology anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Well, I think the technology could probably be optimized for efficiency,
and I think that's why they're doing these programs. But
you know, the way I see is exactly what you're saying.
It's like, anytime we can harness these natural kind of
energy production methods is a good thing. I think that
it's very expensive at the outset because it takes a
lot of R and B research and development. It takes
(09:59):
a lot for them initial equipment because you're not making
it in bulk. You're making these things. You know, you're
making eight of these wave floaters, right. So I think
as this energy production method progresses, it could get cheaper
and it's just a better thing, you know, especially in California,
as more people are getting electric cars on the grid,
we need ways to make power that's energy efficient and
(10:21):
also green, and so this seems like it checks all
those boxes.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, and unlike solar, and unlike you've got solar, you've
got wind power those are at the mercy of the
wind and the sun waves are there twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, like nuclear energy, it's there all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So that's and it's free too, well at least bringing
up except for actually building the thing. Hey Google, and
we've been talking about this, or we've been looking at this.
Google might be forced to split off Chrome even with
the new administra.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Is that what we're looking at.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
See, that's that's what I'm wondering, Bill, great question. So
this is this is related to I don't know if
you remember we talked about this months ago where a
judge found that Google was a monopoly when it came
to its search ads and so not the search necessarily,
but the ads that they placed. They say that, you know,
it was really tough for competitors to get in there.
(11:23):
Nothing has really come of that just yet, but now
regulators are apparently this is a Bloomberg report, so this
has not happened yet, but apparently the sources say regulators
are pressuring this same judge to say, you know what,
maybe we should do a little bit more with Google here.
Maybe Google should be forced to sell Chrome, which of
course is the world's most popular web browser. It's got
sixty one percent of the market share, and then they
(11:45):
want it to take a step further as well. You know,
Google owns Android, and so whenever you make an Android phone,
if you want to play nice with Google, you have
to bundle Google Search in there, and also the play Store,
And of course that's Google's you know app system for
you know, getting all those apps on your phone, like
Google Maps and Chrome and Gmail and everything else. And
(12:06):
so the point is if Google is sort of untwined
from these products, they become less powerful. But I think
two things are going on here. Number one, we have
AI really taking changing the way that everyone searches and
looks for information and finds information. Plus you've got the
new administration coming in. I doubt anything's going to happen
(12:26):
with this Before that, these changes wouldn't even take effect
until at least August of next year. So I think
we have a long way in seeing what's going to
happen with Google here.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Okay, one last one, and that's Blue Sky and how
many followers it has gotten in the past few weeks
and what ended up happening with or what is happening
with X and the craziness of Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Well, yeah, so a lot of people are very unhappy
with X at this point because obviously you've got Elon Musk,
and as you know, Elon Musk and Trump are now
and so you know, there's a lot of if you look
at just how people voted, there's a lot of people
that probably don't like that, and so now they don't
want to be on that network, and so they've come over.
They found this new thing called Blue Sky, which has
been around for a while now, by the way, since
(13:13):
twenty nineteen, but they just recently opened it up to everyone,
and so you can go on there. It looks and
feels and acts just like Twitter back in the day,
complete with the growing pains. A lot of people were
having issues signing up and things like that over the
last couple of weeks because they've had an influx of
last count, I think it was three million new users.
(13:34):
So I think they're up to about a nineteen million
as of yesterday, which is a huge amount. You know.
Now X and Threads obviously have hundreds of millions of users,
but I think this is something that I've seen take.
People are going here very quickly, and it's one of
those things where I've seen a lot of social networks
come up over the years, but nothing this fast, and
(13:55):
where I see a huge concentration of the tech world
and a lot of different industries kind of coming over
and saying, Okay, we're going to try this out. All
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's you know, it's fascinating of the politics.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Of these platforms and the Internet and how well it's
actually ever since Trump started, for example, starting truth social
all right, which I don't think you put a diamond,
and now his share is three billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, I don't know how long that can last. I
mean that that you know, who's I don't know, it's
I think. I think the sad part for me as
a journalist is that there used to be a place
where you can go where everyone was in the same place,
and now we're going into our own silos. And I
think that's the problem. Is that when you look at X,
it's really like, you know more people on the right
on X, and if you look at Blue Sky, it's
(14:46):
people that you know more on the left saying hey,
we want to leave X because we don't like that.
And so now you've got two places where you go
and people are talking about echo chambers and all this stuff.
But I think it's a real consideration is that, you know,
where do people actually come together for this stuff? Now
you've got to go to two separate places depending on
you know, what you believe and what you like.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And as a journalist, and that's what you are as
a genuine journalist. Yeah, I mean, you have to be
so frustrated as to how you have to stick to
the facts and everybody, or seems everybody else doesn't have to.
Eight fifty I'm going to do a story on forty
percent of young Americans get their news from influencers, not news.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yep, it's crazy. All right, Rich, thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
We'll talk to your page for everything they say.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Basically, Yeah, that lovely. We'll talk again next Tuesday. Thanks
for all the info.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Thanks Bill.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
All right, Hey, there was a meeting.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
This is out of the Wall Street Journal And it's
kind of interesting because, as you know, I'm fascinated with weight,
my weight, your weight, you're fat.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I used to be fat.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So there was a meeting the New Jersey State Policeman's
Benevolent Benevolent Association. This is basically the the cop union
in New Jersey, and something unusual because there was a
pitch from Lily, the pharmaceutical company, going to the union
specifically directly. And what they did is they presented a
(16:10):
slide deck that laid out the data of the effectiveness
of zep bound, the new weight loss drug that they're pitching.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And here's what they're pitching. It used to be big picture.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
If you pay for preventive medicine, the union comes in
and negotiates, or any company is it enters in negotiation
with how much healthcare do you provide?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
How good is the insurance?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
And I'm sure the same thing happened with our union
and KFI saying we are we get insurance, how good
is it?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Does it include? For example, these new weight loss drugs.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Well, the companies that manufacture them are sitting down and saying, hey,
this isn't just long term for the health your employees,
which helps you out in the long run. We have
heart disease, you have diabetes, which really hurt hurts the
company and hurts the employee in the long run.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
This is about right now.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You spend the money for these new weight loss drugs
right now, and you're gonna get a healthier employee. You're
gonna get an employee that is not as sick, doesn't
have sick time as much, is going.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
To feel better, it is going to do better work.
Is that true or not?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't know, Neil, I broadcast for so long. Was
any difference when I weighed three hundred plus pounds than
today when I weigh one hundred pounds less than that?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
As far as you're broadcasting and knows in general being
a happy camper, I'm still miserable. I still hate you.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You hate me, So that didn't change feeling a little
better about myself. No, But health wise, do you do
you see people lost the ton of weight.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Your knees used to bug the hell out of you,
that's true, and they don't. I never hear you talk
about that anymore. So you need your back occasionally would
mess with you, and I don't hear that any more.
Other than that, You're still an insufferable.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
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this is Lily and other companies, looking at the unions,
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else one thousand dollars a month if you're paying for
it out of procket And that's the individual. So let's
say you cut a deal where you have a company
now allowing this to happen, or a benefit manager, a
pharmaceutical benefit manager that's adding on to its prescription plan.
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That okay, so let's go get they get it for
five hundred or six hundred dollars a month extra.
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That's a lot of money.
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And convincing these companies, hey, you ought to spend this
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In reality is eh, you know, an employee.
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Speaker 2 (20:00):
So you to see more and more and more of
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At some these new drugs. Well, are they the magic bullet?
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I don't know.
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We don't have any long term evidence that they are
because they're so brand new. We know they work for
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So that's all they've really done is taken existing technology,
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you go unconscious and you don't eat. I don't think
that's the case. I just I'm not a doctor, but
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It is a Taco Tuesday, November nineteenth, at the end
of the hour. As I lock out, which I do
Tuesdays and Thursdays, I will take phone calls for Handle
on the Law off the air, because sometimes on Saturdays
you can't even get in.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So for those of you that do not listen on Saturday,
which I hope you do, A to eleven Handle on
the Law.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I'm taking legal questions right after the show off the air,
and I will answer your questions. And there are no
commercials or anything, so there's no break, so as you
can imagine, I zip through them pretty quickly and no
patience either. So the number eight seven seven five to
zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five to zero eleven
fifty marginal legal advice. I want to end the show
(27:53):
talking about influencers, and influencers.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Are well Jake Paul right.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Influencer, twenty something million followers. We try to have our followers.
How many followers, Neil.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Do I have? Fourteen? I don't know, eighteen followers.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
It's every time you mention it, they go down. You're twelve, excellent, eleven.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
The problem is as much as we're joking, except I'm
not joking. Young American adults increasingly getting their news from
social media influence. There's most men and leaning to the right.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
This is a pure research.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Where it is today's politics are that and this is
it drives me nuts. Mainstream media is fake. Mainstream media
are liars. Right networks, the major newspapers, there are a
bunch of liars. The influencers, they're telling the truth. The
(29:08):
Joe Rogans are telling the truth. The Alex Jones are
telling the truth. And the problem is the number of
people out there, particularly younger people, that is increasing by
leaps and bounds as to the truth coming from influencers.
I mean, it is scary stuff. And this really reached
(29:30):
new levels during the presidential election. And this was a
social scientist at Pew Research Center that did this survey
and they're analyzing this that's crazy. Contrary to claims of
the right wing censorship right, that's the right winger saying
that we're being censored.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You're being censored, and the left wing is taking over.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Twenty seven percent of the influencers were in fact Republican
or pro Trump, compared to twenty one percent that lean left.
We know, well, we know that talk radio, the kind
of radio we do is primarily right wing. There are
(30:14):
plenty of all right wing stations out there. Matter of fact,
KiB our sister station is pretty conservative.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I don't know of any left wing stations that exist.
NPR maybe, But.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
This business that we're in, Lean's right. It looks like
influencers Lean right now.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
There are entertainers.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Beyonce has thirty million followers, and you have entertainers that
have zillions. But I'm talking about political oriented stuff, and
this is something that has to be looked at.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
And I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
You know, the problem is both Kamala Harris and Donald
Trump went after influencers. It's just Donald Trump's campaign did
a better job, for example, clicking into the manosphere.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
The brodum did.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
A brilliant job of clicking into basically white males and
not just white males to vote white males. If you
look at young white males, I mean engaged. A matter
of fact, when we look at engagement, the anti abortion folks,
the super conservatives are engaged on the level that is astronomical.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Compared to the liberals.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
You take a fanatic liberal, you take a fanatic conservative,
the engagement level of politics, the conservative will be much
more engaged, will be much more excited. For the most part,
same thing with young people, particularly white males. Young white
males much more engaged, and the way to get to
(31:53):
them is via these influencers. And the bottom line, and
this is there's a lot of research here that were
a lot of numbers, there's a lot of wonk and
analysis here. The bottom line, more and more people are
going to these influencers, not for opinion, for news, for
hard news, the conspiracy theorists. That's real news, the Wall
(32:20):
Street Journal, ABC, NBC UPI, that's fake.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And that is well, I tell you, it's pretty scary
stuff if you.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Really want to know. Even if you don't want to know,
it's pretty scary stuff. Okay, We're done a couple things.
I'm taking phone calls as soon as I lock out
and say goodbye until tomorrow. The number eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty Marginal Legal Advice Off the
air eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty, and
we start all over again tomorrow morning with Amy.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Wake up call starts at five am.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Neil and I jump aboard with Amy from six to
nine with this show, and of course KNO and and
always being part of the background.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
You know, what is it fair to call you guys? Wallpaper.
What do you think? Cono, man, I don't mind a wallpaper? Okay,
hell what what?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Don't forget? All right, I forget.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Conway is out at Wendy's in what is it Mission
vie Hoo Fridays.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Is yes, Mission Viejo on Friday for his show and
this is all for pastapon.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Yeah, and we're out for the FOURK Report on Saturday
on El Toro Road in Lake Forest at the Smart
and Final doing the show from two to five.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
And you'll be out there with me.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
I will and I may even stop by at in
Mission Viejo because.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I'll be in that part of town. All Right, We're done, guys.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the
number off the air for marginal legal advice.
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You'll start in just a moment.
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