December 30, 2025 • 30 mins
(December 30,2025)
KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich talks about his favorite apps of 2025. New laws coming to California in the New Year. Can Jollibee beat American fast food at its own game?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Thanks kf I AM six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, everybody's Neil Savedra and the
morning crew. Handle is off today and the rest of
the week, but I'm here with Will Cole Schreiber Kono
(00:22):
and we've got Heather Brooker in for Amy and Matthew
in for and and.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Of course today's Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So we've got Rich der Muro, host of Rich on Tech,
here on KFI Saturday's eleven am to two pm and
all over the place on Channel five. Already seen him
this morning, already graced OAR studio with your mug.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
How you doing Rich, Hey, I'm doing great. I'm glad
you got us tuned in over there.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank you always, sir always.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So you know, we've gone through all the different colors,
Mondays and Fridays, Black Friday, Tech, Monday, whatever we've done
prior to the holidays. Everybody gets all their tech stuff,
and so what do we do now the holidays are over?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What are we looking at? What's new?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You know, what's on the tech highways and byways right now?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, the interesting thing right now is that we go
right from the holidays to new gadgets at CS. So
next week kicking off on Sunday actually is CS in
Las Vegas, which is we're all beheaded, and you know,
this week for the average person right now is when
they're playing.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
With their gadgets.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
So I just heard from some people here that saying, hey, Rich,
thanks for recommendation. I got those metaglasses. I love them.
And so that was something I saw a bunch of
people playing with. You know, what I also saw over
the holidays is a lot of people are using this
thing called brick. Have you heard of this? Oh yeah, okay,
you tap your phone to it and it keeps you
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from scrolling on social media. So I think a lot
of people got that, which of course works well with
the new year, because we all have these resolutions that
we're trying to scroll less, doom, scroll less, you know,
work on ourselves more.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Whatever. You had the creator on the show, didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You We didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
We had a guy from an app called be Present,
which is.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And I think you might have mentioned it there because
I'm pretty confident I heard about it on your program.
The whole concept of you know, bricking your phone in
a temporary way.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah. I mean there's like a million and one apps
that will do this, and be Present is one of
them that my kid downloaded. And you know, they have
this thing called beast Mode, which basically, you know, all
these apps they kind of work with Apple screen Time,
and so you know, they let you kind of stop
the blocking if you really want to. You know, it's
maybe two extra taps. But with this, with this block
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the brick thing, and also the be Present app, you
have what's called beast Mode, and you can basically make
it so that you cannot get past the blocking of
these apps unless you just wait. You have to wait
the time or tap the device.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
When I left management here at the station, the very
first thing I did was turned off my ringer and interesting, yeah,
but I have an Apple Watch, so I leave my phone.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I never left my phone anywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I've been called back to the station from vacations in
the past, all kinds of stuff. But the minute I left,
I turned off my ringer. It has not been on since.
And I you know, if my phone, if my wrist rattles,
I know someone's trying to get a hold of me.
And if the phone's not directly in front of me,
then I'll get back to them when I get back
to my phone. But that's been me slowly kind of
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backing off being i mean really highly reachable back in
the day to going You know what, if I know
where my wife and my boy are, then there's no emergencies.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, two notes on that. Number one back in the day,
and I'm sure maybe it's the same in the radio business,
but in TV when you're when you're coming up in
the world as a reporter, you have to sleep with
the scanner. Oh back in the day, so you you
would put the scanner next to your pillow and literally
sit there and listen for anything that might come over
the scanner that you've got to run out and cover
(04:26):
or call the station or whatever. So that's number one.
I posted what help? And nowadays I think a lot
of the scanners are like encrypted, so it's like tough
for those stations to listen to them or something. I
don't know, I know that's such a thing. The second
thing is I posted this on my on my Facebook.
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When I go home. I'm from New Jersey. When I
go home and anytime I'm with just my immediate family,
like my kids, my you know, my wife and kids,
or I'm at home, I am the most at peace
human being you have ever seen in your life, because
everything that's truly important to me is right there and
accounted for, and I sleep better. I am just totally relaxed.
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And I feel like it's it's you know, other people
feel that when they go home, when they're with their
family or just you know, their close loved ones and
you don't need the phone. You realize it just fades
into the background.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, it just is not it. It's been very freeing.
I remember getting my first iPhone oh so many years ago,
and I had had cell phones prior to that, but
the minute it was connected to my email and the notifications,
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I remember I had anxiety.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
At first.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It was like most of it was spam and garbage,
but it just I felt like I was needed every second.
It's like and then you know, we slowly get more
relaxed around that, but it is it is freeing to
go handle hates it, He goes, Yeah, I can never
get a hold of you. I said, listen, You'll always
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hear from me within an hour or so.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'll get back to you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But no, I don't have it up my ass like
I used to all the time. That's a pretty picture
because I needed, you know, worked in news and had
to be you know, reached at any and every moment.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's like I just don't. All right, we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I want to get into some stuff your core rule
for apps, cross platform compatibility and the like. Things like
that that are going on that are connecting us even
more when we return talking to Rich Dr Muro of course,
don't forget to sign up for his newsletter. Incredibly informative,
and I love the fact that I can go back.
(06:47):
You know, sometimes I'm in the shower getting ready for
the show with a four report on Saturday or whatever ever,
and you say something and go, God, it's great to
be able to go back and go through your archives
or be able to find a company or an app
or what have you. And I know how much that
must take to do. So I encourage people to utilize
(07:07):
that as a resource so helpful.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I sign up for it.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
But I also Rich talked about some flight software that
gives you money back on plane tickets that you buy,
and I signed up for that because I was like,
this is amazing, what a great deal. So Rich has
such great information. I sec I second that, Neil, thank you,
look a.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Look at your fans.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Rich DeMuro on with us.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
He's going to be going to CES soon and doing
everything not to catch whatever crud everybody catches when they
go there each year. But right now, talking about most
relied on apps, let's start with travel.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Okay, uh so number one E sims. You know, when
you go to a different country, you can now pretty
much use your phone as long as it's unlocked in
that country with what's called an es and the app
I like there is called aral A R A l O.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I've used it everywhere.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I only had one hiccup once using it on an
Android phone in Japan, but otherwise it's a really great
way to stay connected. And it's simple. You can buy
the eSIM here in the US before you even leave,
and it's all activated online on your phone. A low flighty.
This app is the best flight tracking app I've ever used.
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It's just unbelievable. Like I knew the other day we
were flying back from New Jersey. I knew before United
said anything that our flight was delayed by like fifteen minutes.
My wife's like, how do you know? I'm like, oh,
my app Flighty that I used. She said, oh my gosh.
So that's a great flight. And I just love the
data it gives you, like it'll tell you like the
plane we were on. We were on that same exact
plane going out to New Jersey. I was like, oh,
this is the same plane we were on there. How
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do you know that Flighty? Let's see what else? Okay,
those are my favorite travel apps for now? What else
you want to hear about?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You know them?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You brought to my attention and I ended up using
it when I went to Handle's wedding in Italy last year.
They airlow and it worked out beautifully.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That was a hot time.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So privacy is a big deal. Security, passwords, that type
of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Where do you go for that?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Got a couple of recommendations there for sure. This year
I switched to Bitwarden, which I was paying for a
password manager. This one is cross platform, it's completely free,
it works really well Bitwarden, and it's you know, I've
interviewed the company before basically how do they do this
for free? Well? The whole point is that, like someone
that you know just enough people use it that people
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that make decisions and companies will say, hey, we should
use this, you know, their corporate solutions for our company,
and then they'll pay for that. But all this the
personal stuff is free at the basic level, and it
does a lot of stuff for free. The other thing
is Proton Authenticator. So you always hear me talk about
my radio show two factor authentication. Typically you might get
those texts from companies that says, hey, here's your secret,
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enter it at the website. That's fine, but if your
phone number was ever to get hacked or your phone
got into the hands of a bad person, they would
be able to access some of your accounts because of that.
So that's why I always recommend an authentication app that
generates those numbers on your device, and Proton works really
well at doing that. Proton Authenticator. So those are two
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apps I think that people should upgrade to this year
to better improve their security.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The password manager of who heard you talk before Bitwarden
when they're free like that. I know that you've pointed
to a way that they make money there, but do
you ever worry that they're going to go out of
business or it's going to be fly by night, because
they don't have a business model that's directly tied to
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you as the user.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Not with that company. They've been in the business for
a very long time. They're very popular. A lot of
tech folks like them, and they also are open source,
which people love because you can dig into the code
make sure everything's on the up and up. So I
think that, you know, there's always a chance of a
company going out of business. The other thing people don't
realize about password managers is that you can export your data.
(11:12):
So when I switched this year from dash Lane, I
literally just did one export of my passwords, brought them
into the new password manager, and that's it. It's done.
It's that simple, So it's not something where you're stuck
in that password manager forever if something were to happen
with that company.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Onto productivity, you have in your hands and a lot
of different things, and most of us don't have one
singular job or interest anymore, So what about productivity, memory, capture,
voice memos, this type of thing.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, so a couple of apps for the iPhone that
I love, and I'm saying iPhone because you know you
mentioned earlier in the t's that my rule of thumb
is that I like apps that work on both iPhone
and Android. People accuse me of being an iPhone lover
Android lover. Whatever I'm covering, I'm the opposite, right like, oh,
you only talk about Samsung, Oh you only talk about iPhone.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Not true.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I talk about them all, and I like things that
work on both platforms because I think that text should
be open. I think that there should be connecting people
and not dividing them, which is what Apple did for
a long time with I Message and it still bugs
me anyway. So a couple of things I like that
are only sometimes things are only available on the iPhone.
One of those things is called whisper Memos, and this
is my all time favorite memo note taking app. You
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say something into your Apple Watch or your iPhone and
it transcribes it perfectly and then sends it to your
email so you can deal with it later you have
a memory of whatever it is. The other one I
like is called whisper flow wispr whisperflow dot Ai. I
turned a lot of people onto this typing app. It
works on iPhone, it works on Windows, it works on Mac,
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and it's basically just a really easy way to dictate
your thoughts for emails and things, and it just works
really well voice to text. It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Lastly, ais the top of everyone's list automation that type
of thing where your go to apps for that.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
You know. I this year I really used chat gibt
the most. I know that sounds generic, but I think
chat gbt is the best overall. AI. I don't think
it's the best at everything. I will tell you that
Gemini Nano Banana, their image generation and editing is just unbelievable.
I mean it truly is. If you haven't tried it,
Gemini dot Google dot com, put in a photo, old photo,
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new photo, ask for an edit something that would take
photoshop years of experience and hours to do, take seconds.
And I will tell you the one that I am
most impressed with that I just started using is Grock
and it's a sleeper. I'm telling you it's really really good.
I know people, you know, sometimes people are on either
side of elon Musk, but Grok is actually really good
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and it has a little bit of a personality compared
to the other one. So give it a spin if
you're into that. So what would you use grock for?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
You know what I find is it for is like
up to date information. Like it's really good at showing
you when it's searching the web in real time to
find more information about what you're asking for. And I
really like how it does that. It'll say scanning you know,
one hundred and two hundred websites at the same time,
and it gets stuff right. I mean, it's really really good. Now,
(14:18):
all of these things make stuff up, so you have
to be careful, but I will tell you that I
think that you know, again, overall, chat GBT does a
great job. It's kind of like the Kleenex of chatbots.
I think that GROCK is if you want something that's
a little bit more edgy, a little bit more attitude personality.
And then Google Gemini is great for built into Google apps.
And also the image generation and editing is just unsurpassed
(14:43):
right now.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Some of this the tech issues is somebody who'd been
using a joke and use tell people I've been using
photoshops since it was in black and white, but I
have done worked on it for a long long time.
Even recently said hey, I like this picture, but I
wear a different hat. Now, can you put this hat
on me, and it just did and it was I mean,
(15:08):
it would have taken me so long to do, even
though I'm incredibly proficient at photoshop. It's like, I know
that it would have taken me longer, and I would
have had to take a picture of the hat at
the right angle and all these different things.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It was.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Very impressive.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And I still, even as an artist who has used
these tools for a living many years ago, look at
that and go, you know what, it's amazing. It just
is nothing short of amazing. And we have to work
around the fact that it is. I know everybody thinks
it's just a plagiarism machine, but there's so much more
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to it than that, and it can actually push us
further in creativity, I believe. So we'll see what happens.
Rich Demiro, ladies and gentlemen everywhere on Channel five, and
of course you can hear him here on KFI every
Saturday eleven am to two pm. Get his newsletter, check
out his resources. They're very rich and thorough, no pun intended.
(16:08):
Thanks Rich, Thanks Neil, appreciate it all right, we'll talk
again soon. Happy to be with you, you know, kind
of bringing in the new year. This week, as we
slide into January and covering new laws and looking back
at twenty twenty five and all those things we've been doing.
Right now, we'll look at California laws that are going
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to take effect in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
These are kind of the highlights of them.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
When it comes to consumer business type stuff, plastic bags
are at the top of list. They're band statewide. I
hate this stuff, hate it. Being rational is a hard
thing to be these days. And if you have been
here long enough to know how many times we've switched
(16:53):
back and forth between pa we were saving the trees
the first time, and then we had problems with plastic
because you know, people can't throw things away properly, and
so all of us have to be modified because of
you know, a small percentage of a stupid that's just
the law of eighty twenty twenty percent of the people
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do stupid things, and eighty percent has to deal with
the laws that come up based on them. So that
means we're still going to be paying ten cents for
a recycled paper bag, which, by the way, the making
of a recycled paper grocery bag costs roughly zero point
zero two five to zero point zero five per bag,
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so actually not a bad you know, hefty return on
their investment when it comes to those things.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
All of that is to get us to.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And it's not a tax by the way, that actually
goes to the bottom line to pay for these bags
supposed to. But the ultimate change here is they just
want you to bring reusable bags. Now, I keep reusable
bags in the car, but you gotta clean reusable bags.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You got to make sure to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Plus, you know, you still use those thin plastic ones,
those wispy, thin plastic ones when you're getting any produce.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I don't know, it just is.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's one of those things that we can't get it
right because who are you trying to serve?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What is your what is your goal?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
There's so much waste going on in the packaging department
to begin with that. It's ridiculous because we don't sell
whole food anymore. We sell a bunch of processed food
and with that comes you know, all kinds of waste
in the packaging as well. So that's something we got to,
you know, keep dealing with food delivery refunds are required,
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so Uber Eats, door Dash, rub Hub must issue full
refunds for missing or incorrect orders. You know that that's
a bummer when you do that. When it, I mean,
it's bound to happen every now and again. We use
a Walmart delivery service as well. We're trying it out
(19:18):
for a year, and I got to tell you, it
is like a mystery bag. Sometimes sometimes you get what
you want. Sometimes you get twice as much as you ordered.
Sometimes you don't get the thing you order. Sometimes it deliver.
They deliver the food or some of the food that
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you ordered, and then some of it is mailed to you.
It's an interesting process. Don't know if it's thumbs up
or thumbs down. It's convenient as heck so far. But
there's also places like Yummy if you have one in
your area in Santa Monica, Silver Lake, different parts of
LA have them that you can have food delivered as well.
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So when things don't show up. I've never had a
problem with door Dash or uber Eats or anything like
that if something didn't show up with them just paying,
just crediting you or whatever. Used car buyers can get
a three day right to return vehicles for a refund.
(20:25):
What is that doesn't CarMax already do that. By the way,
not a commercial for Carmacks. They're not a sponsor that
I'm aware of or anything like that. But I got
to tell you I should sponsor us. No I know,
but I will tell you that I've had nothing but
great experiences with CarMax.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
My husband tried it for the first time with his
last car deal and was like, this is the best
thing ever.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It's why don't I do this more often?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You feel like you're getting away with something.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I've even turned in cars there and gotten better that
I would have gotten anywhere. Trade In, Yeah, trade in
was amazing, and there they My wife turned me onto them.
She bought a bunch of cars through them over the years,
and she's like, we'll try this, and I did it
and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And then.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
She got a car and it was great. And then
the screen was giving problems. A little screen on there
was giving problems, and they're like, yeah, just bring it in,
we'll switch it up.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Oh why do they do that?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh my god, they've been great.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Oh I know that they did that after the sale
as well.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
It's just the easiest. And then there was a couple
of little holes or something and it's like like.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
The bottom of the car was falling out.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, no wheels, that type of thing. No, it was
like a little hole in the upholstery and they picked
it up.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
You know, I had a friend who used to hurt
her husband. They lease their cars and then at the
end of the lease, they sell them, take the money
that they make off of the sale of the car,
and then keep it and then go and they lease
another car. And you know, I had Joel Larsgard on
this morning, Yeah, kind of money conversation.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, and I want to do it.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Well, yeah, I'm like, I don't do cars, right, I know,
I don't. I know, I'm losing my money.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
He's a financial guy, I know, and that's the horrible rogre.
He doesn't ever say, honey, don't do that anymore.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
We talk about things, we talk about it. He's gonna
kill me because he's probably gonna.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Be like, what are you doing.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I think he's got a better head for different corporate finance, gotcha,
it's a different day.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
He's dealing with.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Billions of dollars and tens of millions of dollars. But
when it comes to like us going should we save
fifty dollars on you know this whatever. We're like, eh,
it's a different type of mindset for finance than your
budgeting and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Well, my wife's like calls me and goes, eh, I
saw something I really want. I'm like, well, we'll get it.
Get it, and she's like it's like it's like thirty dollars.
I'm like, oh my god, you're calling me for thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Whereas my husband's like, please don't go to Home Goods.
Please don't go, don't go Home Goods.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'll go, Honey, I'm sorry. I bought a new machine
for the shop.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Like sorry, well it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Hashtag Home Goods sponsor US Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Hashtag Star Wars Props sponsoring please please I love that,
all right. Food and Health, the insulin capped at thirty
five dollars a month for most state regulated plans. California
branded insulin. That's that cal RX that's going to launch
at eleven bucks per penn one that we've been hearing
(23:36):
a lot. I heard this morning with Heather Brooker on
wake Up Call. Tortillas and corn massa must include fullic
acid and this is to reduce birth defects with latinas.
Apparently they aren't getting enough fullock acid. And I'm trying
to think where full of acid coming from. I'm trying
(23:58):
to break down as to where you would where's the
natural place for fullic acid.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I was gonna say, you mean, like naturally, Yeah, I
don't know where that is. I remember I had to
take it when I was pregnant. I had to take
a full of acid supplement. That was the first thing
that my OBI recommended.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Are you a Latina? No, maybe maybe get some Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
But maybe uh cereals, bread, pasta, okay, leafy greens, beans
and fruits and nuts.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That seems like a lot of places to get it.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
But I got the fruits and nuts down, get it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
From the tortillas, and then everybody's taken care of. Ultra
processed foods are going to be phased out of school
lunches by twenty thirty five. That seems like a long time.
How come we can't just say, hey, why don't we
turn that off?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Like really, like there's not Why do you got to
wait till five?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Things do seem to take a really long time. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Why maybe they are a public will be jarred suddenly.
You know, we won't know what to do with ourselves
if they quickly make a rule and implement it.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
That's your credit crap to me, is what that is? Education?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
You've got student phone use restricted all K through twelve
schools much must adopt phone limiting policies.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's a no brainer to me. I never understood.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I Handle gets uptight about it because he started going, well, well,
my kids if they needed if there's a school shooting,
I get it. First of all, school shootings don't happen
as much as we think they do. They happen way
too much. One is way too much, don't get me wrong.
But two, what are you going to do about it?
(25:50):
I mean, that's just a I didn't have I didn't
have school shootings when I was a kid, but we
didn't have phones. I think that is like that overparent,
helicopter parent. Yeah, would I be freaked out?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Hell yes, but.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't know of As a matter of fact, the
last time I recall a student, a young student calling
the authorities or something saying don't let us die or
they're shooting, it didn't help.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
They still waited, So I.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Think, yeah, well, maybe a phone, a phone in there
somewhere to be able to use, or something that like
a far day cage that can be turned on, or
a disruptor that can be turned on or turned off
to where if there's an emergency, a button can be
hit and it you know, lets them all become active again.
Whatever it is, I just think it's super distracting. Bullying
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and all that stuff. I think is much more prominent
and prolific than the other Just my two cents.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
All gender restrooms required in public schools.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That seems like a mess to a problem waiting to happen,
mostly because women shouldn't have to be subjected to what
boys doing there. But I'm not sure how they're planning
that and how it's going to be if it's just
going to be you know, one offs where or is
(27:21):
it going to still be a bunch of stalls. That
seems like a problem. Automatic CSU admission for eligible high
school graduates. Stronger protections against anti Semitism, and it's ridiculous
(27:42):
across the board. You should have strong protections against any
sort of racism or other than type policies crime. This
is stupid policing and immigration, no mask law enforcement. They
can't do anything to a federal They don't have jurisdiction
(28:03):
over a federal ice agent to tell them to take
off the mask. Two. If you're going to go that far,
then no masks at all when you go shopping, No
masks at all in a public area.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No masks at.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
All because because it causes theft and difficulty and all
those things. Immigration enforcement restrictions on school campuses, in the hospitals.
I don't have a problem with that. Some of the
the overreach or some of the ugliness that comes out
of these raids are just nasty that else want to
(28:45):
squeeze one more minimum wage raises to sixteen ninety an
hour statewide. I'm not a fan of the raising, the manditating,
the mandating of raising of minimum way. I think you
educate people to make more money, don't just give them
(29:05):
more money. It ends up causing all kinds of issues
on the back end. We're seeing them now with fast
food at thirty five dollars for two meals and everything else,
and they just have less staff. I don't think it
helps anybody.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
All right, let me just climb off my soapbox here.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
WHOA okay, so now I'm good. Hey, on Friday, we're
going to go ahead and do ask us anything. So
if you have any questions for Cono, Heather, me, Will, Matthew,
whatever it might be, you can hit us up on
the talk back and we'll call through and pick about
eight or nine of them for Friday. Alrighty, folks, stay
(29:45):
tuned for Gary and Shannon and I'll see you tomorrow
starting at six after wake up call with Heather Brooker.
This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My
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morning crew. Handle is off today and the rest of
the week, but I'm here with Will Cole Schreiber Kono
(00:22):
and we've got Heather Brooker in for Amy and Matthew
in for and and.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Of course today's Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So we've got Rich der Muro, host of Rich on Tech,
here on KFI Saturday's eleven am to two pm and
all over the place on Channel five. Already seen him
this morning, already graced OAR studio with your mug.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
How you doing Rich, Hey, I'm doing great. I'm glad
you got us tuned in over there.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank you always, sir always.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So you know, we've gone through all the different colors,
Mondays and Fridays, Black Friday, Tech, Monday, whatever we've done
prior to the holidays. Everybody gets all their tech stuff,
and so what do we do now the holidays are over?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What are we looking at? What's new?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You know, what's on the tech highways and byways right now?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, the interesting thing right now is that we go
right from the holidays to new gadgets at CS. So
next week kicking off on Sunday actually is CS in
Las Vegas, which is we're all beheaded, and you know,
this week for the average person right now is when
they're playing.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
With their gadgets.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
So I just heard from some people here that saying, hey, Rich,
thanks for recommendation. I got those metaglasses. I love them.
And so that was something I saw a bunch of
people playing with. You know, what I also saw over
the holidays is a lot of people are using this
thing called brick. Have you heard of this? Oh yeah, okay,
you tap your phone to it and it keeps you
(01:56):
from scrolling on social media. So I think a lot
of people got that, which of course works well with
the new year, because we all have these resolutions that
we're trying to scroll less, doom, scroll less, you know,
work on ourselves more.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Whatever. You had the creator on the show, didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You We didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
We had a guy from an app called be Present,
which is.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And I think you might have mentioned it there because
I'm pretty confident I heard about it on your program.
The whole concept of you know, bricking your phone in
a temporary way.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah. I mean there's like a million and one apps
that will do this, and be Present is one of
them that my kid downloaded. And you know, they have
this thing called beast Mode, which basically, you know, all
these apps they kind of work with Apple screen Time,
and so you know, they let you kind of stop
the blocking if you really want to. You know, it's
maybe two extra taps. But with this, with this block
(02:51):
the brick thing, and also the be Present app, you
have what's called beast Mode, and you can basically make
it so that you cannot get past the blocking of
these apps unless you just wait. You have to wait
the time or tap the device.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
When I left management here at the station, the very
first thing I did was turned off my ringer and interesting, yeah,
but I have an Apple Watch, so I leave my phone.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I never left my phone anywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I've been called back to the station from vacations in
the past, all kinds of stuff. But the minute I left,
I turned off my ringer. It has not been on since.
And I you know, if my phone, if my wrist rattles,
I know someone's trying to get a hold of me.
And if the phone's not directly in front of me,
then I'll get back to them when I get back
to my phone. But that's been me slowly kind of
(03:47):
backing off being i mean really highly reachable back in
the day to going You know what, if I know
where my wife and my boy are, then there's no emergencies.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, two notes on that. Number one back in the day,
and I'm sure maybe it's the same in the radio business,
but in TV when you're when you're coming up in
the world as a reporter, you have to sleep with
the scanner. Oh back in the day, so you you
would put the scanner next to your pillow and literally
sit there and listen for anything that might come over
the scanner that you've got to run out and cover
(04:26):
or call the station or whatever. So that's number one.
I posted what help? And nowadays I think a lot
of the scanners are like encrypted, so it's like tough
for those stations to listen to them or something. I
don't know, I know that's such a thing. The second
thing is I posted this on my on my Facebook.
(04:47):
When I go home. I'm from New Jersey. When I
go home and anytime I'm with just my immediate family,
like my kids, my you know, my wife and kids,
or I'm at home, I am the most at peace
human being you have ever seen in your life, because
everything that's truly important to me is right there and
accounted for, and I sleep better. I am just totally relaxed.
(05:10):
And I feel like it's it's you know, other people
feel that when they go home, when they're with their
family or just you know, their close loved ones and
you don't need the phone. You realize it just fades
into the background.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, it just is not it. It's been very freeing.
I remember getting my first iPhone oh so many years ago,
and I had had cell phones prior to that, but
the minute it was connected to my email and the notifications,
(05:42):
I remember I had anxiety.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
At first.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It was like most of it was spam and garbage,
but it just I felt like I was needed every second.
It's like and then you know, we slowly get more
relaxed around that, but it is it is freeing to
go handle hates it, He goes, Yeah, I can never
get a hold of you. I said, listen, You'll always
(06:05):
hear from me within an hour or so.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'll get back to you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But no, I don't have it up my ass like
I used to all the time. That's a pretty picture
because I needed, you know, worked in news and had
to be you know, reached at any and every moment.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's like I just don't. All right, we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I want to get into some stuff your core rule
for apps, cross platform compatibility and the like. Things like
that that are going on that are connecting us even
more when we return talking to Rich Dr Muro of course,
don't forget to sign up for his newsletter. Incredibly informative,
and I love the fact that I can go back.
(06:47):
You know, sometimes I'm in the shower getting ready for
the show with a four report on Saturday or whatever ever,
and you say something and go, God, it's great to
be able to go back and go through your archives
or be able to find a company or an app
or what have you. And I know how much that
must take to do. So I encourage people to utilize
(07:07):
that as a resource so helpful.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I sign up for it.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
But I also Rich talked about some flight software that
gives you money back on plane tickets that you buy,
and I signed up for that because I was like,
this is amazing, what a great deal. So Rich has
such great information. I sec I second that, Neil, thank you,
look a.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Look at your fans.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Rich DeMuro on with us.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
He's going to be going to CES soon and doing
everything not to catch whatever crud everybody catches when they
go there each year. But right now, talking about most
relied on apps, let's start with travel.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Okay, uh so number one E sims. You know, when
you go to a different country, you can now pretty
much use your phone as long as it's unlocked in
that country with what's called an es and the app
I like there is called aral A R A l O.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I've used it everywhere.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I only had one hiccup once using it on an
Android phone in Japan, but otherwise it's a really great
way to stay connected. And it's simple. You can buy
the eSIM here in the US before you even leave,
and it's all activated online on your phone. A low flighty.
This app is the best flight tracking app I've ever used.
(08:26):
It's just unbelievable. Like I knew the other day we
were flying back from New Jersey. I knew before United
said anything that our flight was delayed by like fifteen minutes.
My wife's like, how do you know? I'm like, oh,
my app Flighty that I used. She said, oh my gosh.
So that's a great flight. And I just love the
data it gives you, like it'll tell you like the
plane we were on. We were on that same exact
plane going out to New Jersey. I was like, oh,
this is the same plane we were on there. How
(08:47):
do you know that Flighty? Let's see what else? Okay,
those are my favorite travel apps for now? What else
you want to hear about?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You know them?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You brought to my attention and I ended up using
it when I went to Handle's wedding in Italy last year.
They airlow and it worked out beautifully.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That was a hot time.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So privacy is a big deal. Security, passwords, that type
of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Where do you go for that?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Got a couple of recommendations there for sure. This year
I switched to Bitwarden, which I was paying for a
password manager. This one is cross platform, it's completely free,
it works really well Bitwarden, and it's you know, I've
interviewed the company before basically how do they do this
for free? Well? The whole point is that, like someone
that you know just enough people use it that people
(09:38):
that make decisions and companies will say, hey, we should
use this, you know, their corporate solutions for our company,
and then they'll pay for that. But all this the
personal stuff is free at the basic level, and it
does a lot of stuff for free. The other thing
is Proton Authenticator. So you always hear me talk about
my radio show two factor authentication. Typically you might get
those texts from companies that says, hey, here's your secret,
(10:00):
enter it at the website. That's fine, but if your
phone number was ever to get hacked or your phone
got into the hands of a bad person, they would
be able to access some of your accounts because of that.
So that's why I always recommend an authentication app that
generates those numbers on your device, and Proton works really
well at doing that. Proton Authenticator. So those are two
(10:21):
apps I think that people should upgrade to this year
to better improve their security.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The password manager of who heard you talk before Bitwarden
when they're free like that. I know that you've pointed
to a way that they make money there, but do
you ever worry that they're going to go out of
business or it's going to be fly by night, because
they don't have a business model that's directly tied to
(10:47):
you as the user.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Not with that company. They've been in the business for
a very long time. They're very popular. A lot of
tech folks like them, and they also are open source,
which people love because you can dig into the code
make sure everything's on the up and up. So I
think that, you know, there's always a chance of a
company going out of business. The other thing people don't
realize about password managers is that you can export your data.
(11:12):
So when I switched this year from dash Lane, I
literally just did one export of my passwords, brought them
into the new password manager, and that's it. It's done.
It's that simple, So it's not something where you're stuck
in that password manager forever if something were to happen
with that company.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Onto productivity, you have in your hands and a lot
of different things, and most of us don't have one
singular job or interest anymore, So what about productivity, memory, capture,
voice memos, this type of thing.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, so a couple of apps for the iPhone that
I love, and I'm saying iPhone because you know you
mentioned earlier in the t's that my rule of thumb
is that I like apps that work on both iPhone
and Android. People accuse me of being an iPhone lover
Android lover. Whatever I'm covering, I'm the opposite, right like, oh,
you only talk about Samsung, Oh you only talk about iPhone.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Not true.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I talk about them all, and I like things that
work on both platforms because I think that text should
be open. I think that there should be connecting people
and not dividing them, which is what Apple did for
a long time with I Message and it still bugs
me anyway. So a couple of things I like that
are only sometimes things are only available on the iPhone.
One of those things is called whisper Memos, and this
is my all time favorite memo note taking app. You
(12:27):
say something into your Apple Watch or your iPhone and
it transcribes it perfectly and then sends it to your
email so you can deal with it later you have
a memory of whatever it is. The other one I
like is called whisper flow wispr whisperflow dot Ai. I
turned a lot of people onto this typing app. It
works on iPhone, it works on Windows, it works on Mac,
(12:48):
and it's basically just a really easy way to dictate
your thoughts for emails and things, and it just works
really well voice to text. It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Lastly, ais the top of everyone's list automation that type
of thing where your go to apps for that.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
You know. I this year I really used chat gibt
the most. I know that sounds generic, but I think
chat gbt is the best overall. AI. I don't think
it's the best at everything. I will tell you that
Gemini Nano Banana, their image generation and editing is just unbelievable.
I mean it truly is. If you haven't tried it,
Gemini dot Google dot com, put in a photo, old photo,
(13:29):
new photo, ask for an edit something that would take
photoshop years of experience and hours to do, take seconds.
And I will tell you the one that I am
most impressed with that I just started using is Grock
and it's a sleeper. I'm telling you it's really really good.
I know people, you know, sometimes people are on either
side of elon Musk, but Grok is actually really good
(13:51):
and it has a little bit of a personality compared
to the other one. So give it a spin if
you're into that. So what would you use grock for?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
You know what I find is it for is like
up to date information. Like it's really good at showing
you when it's searching the web in real time to
find more information about what you're asking for. And I
really like how it does that. It'll say scanning you know,
one hundred and two hundred websites at the same time,
and it gets stuff right. I mean, it's really really good. Now,
(14:18):
all of these things make stuff up, so you have
to be careful, but I will tell you that I
think that you know, again, overall, chat GBT does a
great job. It's kind of like the Kleenex of chatbots.
I think that GROCK is if you want something that's
a little bit more edgy, a little bit more attitude personality.
And then Google Gemini is great for built into Google apps.
And also the image generation and editing is just unsurpassed
(14:43):
right now.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Some of this the tech issues is somebody who'd been
using a joke and use tell people I've been using
photoshops since it was in black and white, but I
have done worked on it for a long long time.
Even recently said hey, I like this picture, but I
wear a different hat. Now, can you put this hat
on me, and it just did and it was I mean,
(15:08):
it would have taken me so long to do, even
though I'm incredibly proficient at photoshop. It's like, I know
that it would have taken me longer, and I would
have had to take a picture of the hat at
the right angle and all these different things.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It was.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Very impressive.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And I still, even as an artist who has used
these tools for a living many years ago, look at
that and go, you know what, it's amazing. It just
is nothing short of amazing. And we have to work
around the fact that it is. I know everybody thinks
it's just a plagiarism machine, but there's so much more
(15:47):
to it than that, and it can actually push us
further in creativity, I believe. So we'll see what happens.
Rich Demiro, ladies and gentlemen everywhere on Channel five, and
of course you can hear him here on KFI every
Saturday eleven am to two pm. Get his newsletter, check
out his resources. They're very rich and thorough, no pun intended.
(16:08):
Thanks Rich, Thanks Neil, appreciate it all right, we'll talk
again soon. Happy to be with you, you know, kind
of bringing in the new year. This week, as we
slide into January and covering new laws and looking back
at twenty twenty five and all those things we've been doing.
Right now, we'll look at California laws that are going
(16:29):
to take effect in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
These are kind of the highlights of them.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
When it comes to consumer business type stuff, plastic bags
are at the top of list. They're band statewide. I
hate this stuff, hate it. Being rational is a hard
thing to be these days. And if you have been
here long enough to know how many times we've switched
(16:53):
back and forth between pa we were saving the trees
the first time, and then we had problems with plastic
because you know, people can't throw things away properly, and
so all of us have to be modified because of
you know, a small percentage of a stupid that's just
the law of eighty twenty twenty percent of the people
(17:17):
do stupid things, and eighty percent has to deal with
the laws that come up based on them. So that
means we're still going to be paying ten cents for
a recycled paper bag, which, by the way, the making
of a recycled paper grocery bag costs roughly zero point
zero two five to zero point zero five per bag,
(17:43):
so actually not a bad you know, hefty return on
their investment when it comes to those things.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
All of that is to get us to.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And it's not a tax by the way, that actually
goes to the bottom line to pay for these bags
supposed to. But the ultimate change here is they just
want you to bring reusable bags. Now, I keep reusable
bags in the car, but you gotta clean reusable bags.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You got to make sure to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Plus, you know, you still use those thin plastic ones,
those wispy, thin plastic ones when you're getting any produce.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I don't know, it just is.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's one of those things that we can't get it
right because who are you trying to serve?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What is your what is your goal?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
There's so much waste going on in the packaging department
to begin with that. It's ridiculous because we don't sell
whole food anymore. We sell a bunch of processed food
and with that comes you know, all kinds of waste
in the packaging as well. So that's something we got to,
you know, keep dealing with food delivery refunds are required,
(18:58):
so Uber Eats, door Dash, rub Hub must issue full
refunds for missing or incorrect orders. You know that that's
a bummer when you do that. When it, I mean,
it's bound to happen every now and again. We use
a Walmart delivery service as well. We're trying it out
(19:18):
for a year, and I got to tell you, it
is like a mystery bag. Sometimes sometimes you get what
you want. Sometimes you get twice as much as you ordered.
Sometimes you don't get the thing you order. Sometimes it deliver.
They deliver the food or some of the food that
(19:40):
you ordered, and then some of it is mailed to you.
It's an interesting process. Don't know if it's thumbs up
or thumbs down. It's convenient as heck so far. But
there's also places like Yummy if you have one in
your area in Santa Monica, Silver Lake, different parts of
LA have them that you can have food delivered as well.
(20:03):
So when things don't show up. I've never had a
problem with door Dash or uber Eats or anything like
that if something didn't show up with them just paying,
just crediting you or whatever. Used car buyers can get
a three day right to return vehicles for a refund.
(20:25):
What is that doesn't CarMax already do that. By the way,
not a commercial for Carmacks. They're not a sponsor that
I'm aware of or anything like that. But I got
to tell you I should sponsor us. No I know,
but I will tell you that I've had nothing but
great experiences with CarMax.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
My husband tried it for the first time with his
last car deal and was like, this is the best
thing ever.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It's why don't I do this more often?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You feel like you're getting away with something.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I've even turned in cars there and gotten better that
I would have gotten anywhere. Trade In, Yeah, trade in
was amazing, and there they My wife turned me onto them.
She bought a bunch of cars through them over the years,
and she's like, we'll try this, and I did it
and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And then.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
She got a car and it was great. And then
the screen was giving problems. A little screen on there
was giving problems, and they're like, yeah, just bring it in,
we'll switch it up.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Oh why do they do that?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh my god, they've been great.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Oh I know that they did that after the sale
as well.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
It's just the easiest. And then there was a couple
of little holes or something and it's like like.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
The bottom of the car was falling out.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, no wheels, that type of thing. No, it was
like a little hole in the upholstery and they picked
it up.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
You know, I had a friend who used to hurt
her husband. They lease their cars and then at the
end of the lease, they sell them, take the money
that they make off of the sale of the car,
and then keep it and then go and they lease
another car. And you know, I had Joel Larsgard on
this morning, Yeah, kind of money conversation.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, and I want to do it.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Well, yeah, I'm like, I don't do cars, right, I know,
I don't. I know, I'm losing my money.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
He's a financial guy, I know, and that's the horrible rogre.
He doesn't ever say, honey, don't do that anymore.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
We talk about things, we talk about it. He's gonna
kill me because he's probably gonna.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Be like, what are you doing.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I think he's got a better head for different corporate finance, gotcha,
it's a different day.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
He's dealing with.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Billions of dollars and tens of millions of dollars. But
when it comes to like us going should we save
fifty dollars on you know this whatever. We're like, eh,
it's a different type of mindset for finance than your
budgeting and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Well, my wife's like calls me and goes, eh, I
saw something I really want. I'm like, well, we'll get it.
Get it, and she's like it's like it's like thirty dollars.
I'm like, oh my god, you're calling me for thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Whereas my husband's like, please don't go to Home Goods.
Please don't go, don't go Home Goods.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'll go, Honey, I'm sorry. I bought a new machine
for the shop.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Like sorry, well it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Hashtag Home Goods sponsor US Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Hashtag Star Wars Props sponsoring please please I love that,
all right. Food and Health, the insulin capped at thirty
five dollars a month for most state regulated plans. California
branded insulin. That's that cal RX that's going to launch
at eleven bucks per penn one that we've been hearing
(23:36):
a lot. I heard this morning with Heather Brooker on
wake Up Call. Tortillas and corn massa must include fullic
acid and this is to reduce birth defects with latinas.
Apparently they aren't getting enough fullock acid. And I'm trying
to think where full of acid coming from. I'm trying
(23:58):
to break down as to where you would where's the
natural place for fullic acid.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I was gonna say, you mean, like naturally, Yeah, I
don't know where that is. I remember I had to
take it when I was pregnant. I had to take
a full of acid supplement. That was the first thing
that my OBI recommended.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Are you a Latina? No, maybe maybe get some Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
But maybe uh cereals, bread, pasta, okay, leafy greens, beans
and fruits and nuts.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That seems like a lot of places to get it.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
But I got the fruits and nuts down, get it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
From the tortillas, and then everybody's taken care of. Ultra
processed foods are going to be phased out of school
lunches by twenty thirty five. That seems like a long time.
How come we can't just say, hey, why don't we
turn that off?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Like really, like there's not Why do you got to
wait till five?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Things do seem to take a really long time. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Why maybe they are a public will be jarred suddenly.
You know, we won't know what to do with ourselves
if they quickly make a rule and implement it.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
That's your credit crap to me, is what that is? Education?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
You've got student phone use restricted all K through twelve
schools much must adopt phone limiting policies.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's a no brainer to me. I never understood.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I Handle gets uptight about it because he started going, well, well,
my kids if they needed if there's a school shooting,
I get it. First of all, school shootings don't happen
as much as we think they do. They happen way
too much. One is way too much, don't get me wrong.
But two, what are you going to do about it?
(25:50):
I mean, that's just a I didn't have I didn't
have school shootings when I was a kid, but we
didn't have phones. I think that is like that overparent,
helicopter parent. Yeah, would I be freaked out?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Hell yes, but.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't know of As a matter of fact, the
last time I recall a student, a young student calling
the authorities or something saying don't let us die or
they're shooting, it didn't help.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
They still waited, So I.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Think, yeah, well, maybe a phone, a phone in there
somewhere to be able to use, or something that like
a far day cage that can be turned on, or
a disruptor that can be turned on or turned off
to where if there's an emergency, a button can be
hit and it you know, lets them all become active again.
Whatever it is, I just think it's super distracting. Bullying
(26:48):
and all that stuff. I think is much more prominent
and prolific than the other Just my two cents.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
All gender restrooms required in public schools.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That seems like a mess to a problem waiting to happen,
mostly because women shouldn't have to be subjected to what
boys doing there. But I'm not sure how they're planning
that and how it's going to be if it's just
going to be you know, one offs where or is
(27:21):
it going to still be a bunch of stalls. That
seems like a problem. Automatic CSU admission for eligible high
school graduates. Stronger protections against anti Semitism, and it's ridiculous
(27:42):
across the board. You should have strong protections against any
sort of racism or other than type policies crime. This
is stupid policing and immigration, no mask law enforcement. They
can't do anything to a federal They don't have jurisdiction
(28:03):
over a federal ice agent to tell them to take
off the mask. Two. If you're going to go that far,
then no masks at all when you go shopping, No
masks at all in a public area.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No masks at.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
All because because it causes theft and difficulty and all
those things. Immigration enforcement restrictions on school campuses, in the hospitals.
I don't have a problem with that. Some of the
the overreach or some of the ugliness that comes out
of these raids are just nasty that else want to
(28:45):
squeeze one more minimum wage raises to sixteen ninety an
hour statewide. I'm not a fan of the raising, the manditating,
the mandating of raising of minimum way. I think you
educate people to make more money, don't just give them
(29:05):
more money. It ends up causing all kinds of issues
on the back end. We're seeing them now with fast
food at thirty five dollars for two meals and everything else,
and they just have less staff. I don't think it
helps anybody.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
All right, let me just climb off my soapbox here.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
WHOA okay, so now I'm good. Hey, on Friday, we're
going to go ahead and do ask us anything. So
if you have any questions for Cono, Heather, me, Will, Matthew,
whatever it might be, you can hit us up on
the talk back and we'll call through and pick about
eight or nine of them for Friday. Alrighty, folks, stay
(29:45):
tuned for Gary and Shannon and I'll see you tomorrow
starting at six after wake up call with Heather Brooker.
This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
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