The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte - - 5 - 24 - 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Now the WR Saturday
Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty, Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show,
Curtis Leewa is here to explain how, even in the
heavily democratic New York City, he can be the first
Republican mayor since Michael Bloomberg. TV star Kelsey Grammer from
Frasier and Cheers tells a very emotional story that is

(00:27):
the topic of his new book. Karen a brother remembers
these are the days of miracles and wonders and just
this week, three big medical breakthroughs. Futurist reporter Kevin Cirelli
tells us about them, and our tech guy, Rich DeMuro
from the WR Show. Rich on Tech is excited about

(00:48):
a new mobile phone coming to market. He has the details,
but let's start with Republican candidate for mayor of New York,
Curtis Leewa. Good morning, Curtis, Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh, my pleasure, my pleasure.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
The rain is falling, but I'm getting ready to get
out on the campaign trail.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah. I see you out there all the time. I
follow you on social media and man, are you working
hard to win this job? It might be getting a
little bit easier for you, considering the fact that all
these other candidates seem to be tripping over themselves. Let's
talk about the investigation into Mario Cuomo now lying to Congress.

(01:28):
He has an ad out today running on the fact
that he lied to Congress. Anything that has to do
with taking on Donald Trump. He wants to get out
there immediately. It's a strange campaign when you do that.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, but it's his pathway to victory because, as you know,
he's facing a brutal Democratic primary with ranked choice voting,
and even though he's ahead of the polls of all
of his Democratic pros, when you're getting to rank choice voting, if.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
They're disciplined, can actually take him out by the fifth round.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
But I don't think what people realize is Janine Piro,
the former DA of Westchester who ran against Andrew Pomo
for Attorney General and loss as a Republican candidate, featured
on Fox News Channel, was a bitter critic of the
way he handled the lockdown and pandemic, and the way
he shuddled those elderly who were diagnosed with COVID nineteen

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into long term nursing home care units where that COVID
spread like fire and caused the death of fifteen thousand people.
He would never acknowledge it, he would never take responsibility
for it. Until now the Department of Justice has given
that taste to their brand new US attorney in Washington, DC.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Hasn't gotten much attention in the press.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Janine Piro, So, I think she's going for his jugular
on this.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
He wears it like a badge of courage.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh, this is law fair, this is Donald Trump's administration
coming at me. No, no, no, no, no, Andrew Como,
this has nothing to do with Republican or democratic interest.
This has to do with the fact that you are
responsible for the death of fifteen thousand elderly people, lied
before Congress, and tampered with one of the witnesses who

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used to be part of your administration. So I feel
it's a perfect time to address this issue because this
is one of his many achilles heels, along with no
cas fail raise the age, and so many other things.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah. No, absolutely, and he definitely lied to Congress. I
mean she has an easy case. That's the whole case.
The whole case are three counts of lying to Congress.
And we know that that was his handwriting in the
edited version of the Health Commissioner's report that cleared him.

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Everything he wrote was put into that report, and he
denied that he did that.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Not only that, he denied that he altered the death count,
along with his aide to camp, Melissa de Rose, who
actually admitted that to other Democratic leaders on a video
conference call in which she said, the reason we had
to change the figures is we thought that we would
get indicted by Jeff Sessions, who was in the US
Attorney of the United States and the first Trump administration.

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So they've lied every consistent step of the way on this.
And although some people will say, well, this is the
boost he needs because a Democrat is going to run
against the Trump administration, that's their pathway to victory in
the Democratic primary, that's going to hurt him in the
general election.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
And I'm waiting.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
I'm waiting in the wings since I don't have a
Republican primary to use that again, sim because Larry, it's
not just going to be me versus Cuomo. It's going
to be five candidates who are in the general election,
four of whom are Democrats. They're going to eviserate one
another and I'm going to have a pathway to victory
because I start off even Cuomo admits with thirty percent

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of the vote.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
This time I get it up to thirty five percent.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Larry, you are talking to the next mayor of New
York City, and it's right on time to get this
city back on track.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Now you've convinced me of that. I keep bringing it
up all the time since you were in here and
we got to talk Curtis. But it's a sad day
in New York when New Yorkers, when Democrats are so
inflicted with Trump derangement syndrome, they will go for a
man who caused the death of fifteen thousand in nursing homes.
It's really a sad day. But let's move off him

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for a second and talk about one of the other candidates.
Zorin Mom. Donnie is having a bad week because Politico
did a story about the fact that for four years
in a row, he passed on a bill that just said, yes,
there was a Holocaust, and he refused to vote on
that bill. And now he's saying it's all political, that

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it was a hit job, that he definitely believes the
Holocaust happened, he's not anti semitic. But when you have
to start denying like that, you're losing Curtis.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, not with his constituency, Larry.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
See, that's the constituency that's under the radar screen that
I see out in the streets. They tend to be
forty five years old and younger, a lot of them
thirty and younger. And to be honest with you, that
is just going to gin up them coming out to
vote because normally the people who vote are people who

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are forty five years of age and older. That's about
seventy percent of your normal vote. The rest of it,
the thirty percent of the vote, are those who are
forty five years of age and younger. He's got to
get the younger people out to vote if he's expected
to win that Democratic primary. But Larry, I don't think
he thinks he can win the Democratic primary, although he's

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going to put his full leffort and all of his
finances into it. He's going to be in the general
election as the Working Families Party candidate because they hate Como,
and rightfully so, he tried to destroy their third party.
All he did was strengthen it. When Senti and Nixon
ran against him for governor. He sought revenge, so he's
going to take some of the Democratic vote in the

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general election. Eric Adams will take some of the vote
on whatever he calls himself now whatever his party line is,
the independent line, CUOMO, a guy named Jim Walden who
is an Independent, has four different Democrats fighting for the
same number of votes, and then you have Curtis Lee
Well basically taking the high road to victory, starting out

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with thirty percent of the vote, and if I get
five percent more moderate Democrats and Independence, then I'm the
next mayor of the City of New York. And on
day one we start attacking the two most prominent issues
of this campaign, crime and quality of life, which Eric
Adams has failed to do.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
And You've been fighting crime your whole career, and I'm
glad you're running from there. You've always been a good
friend to me, and I really appreciate it, and I
wish you luck, and I like that you're already counting votes,
and I believe in you. It does seem like you
do have a path to victory. Republican candidate for New
York Mayor, thank you so much. I appreciate you talking
to us today, Curtis, we'll talk again.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Oh my pleasure to just go to sleep for NYC
dot com to get all the information you need to
know about my campaign and to help it.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Curtisliwa Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City. Up next,
Kelsey Grammer on his new book, which he says helped
him cope with the death of his sister, who was
brutally murdered years ago. Fraser Star Kelsey Grammer is next.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Now more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show and Larry
Minte welcome back.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
You know hi, miss Fraser. One of the greatest TV
sitcoms in history, and he made us all laugh back then,
but he was grieving still over the murder of his sister,
something he says he can now deal with because of
an amazing experience. The book is called Karen, a Brother Remembers.
Here's Kelsey Grammer. Sarah, thank you so much for talking

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with us today.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Thanks Claire An. It's my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
I can't imagine going through something like this, and I
can understand why it was so difficult to deal with,
let alone write about. How did you finally find the
strength to write about this after all these years.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Well, it was.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
In a session of channeling with a woman named Esther
who's a medium, who said, oh, your sister wants or
you to tell her story.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
So I thought, well, how would I go about doing that?

Speaker 6 (09:33):
I sat down and started to write some notes, and
a couple months after I had this session with her,
I finally had written about ten pages, and I thought
to myself, Oh, I'm writing a book.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
I'm writing a book.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
About my sister, and you know, and I realized that
it was going to be about the two of us
and about the love that we had shared, and mother
was like to try to deal with the fact that
she was taken the way she was in.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
Such a brutal way.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
And then the book itself started to find you know,
something else that I wanted to try to convey to people,
which was to try to help them heal if they've
suffered something similar. And we've all suffered something similar, we've
all lost a loved one. So that this idea of
cherishing the joy that I'd had with Karen and sort
of reviving and revivifying her was what became the thrust

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of the book, So that people would understand who Karen
was and kind of meet her and bring her into
their lives, into their imaginations, and so she would live again.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
And that was the That's what I hope the book
is accomplishing. It seems to be doing pretty well.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
What an amazing moment that is though, for you and
for everybody listening who have lost loved ones to know
that there is there is still some connection. Do you
feel like Karen is still in your life around.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
You, Yes, more now than before. It was funny all
throughout the book.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
I mean I started, it was then the first ten
pages where suddenly I felt I thought I was interrupted
by Karen and she said that's enough now you need
to move on, and I thought, wow, that's and.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Then that became kind of the foundations of the book.
She would she would guide me at times.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
And say, there's a one moment when she says, leave
us for a time with Gordon in the hospital, and
you have to go back to New York. There's something
you have to purge, and that's that's exactly what I heard,
and it was it was a very interesting thing to
sense that she was guiding me through some of it
and that our love was still sort of you know.
Biprunt alive, and it was a very gratifying experience, very

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very moving and helpful.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
For me and comforting. It must have been comforting, I know, yes, absolutely.
In the book you detailed the murder of Karen. That
could not have been easy.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
No, it's it was challenging.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
I didn't want to inflict anything unnecessarily on the reader.
But I also I sensed it if I, if I
was going to be able to really help anybody that's
been through something similar, then there had to be a
kind of credibility, a credential of suffering that would you
be the same kind of mark. It's almost like showing
someone else your scars to prove that you've been through

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the same thing, and so that those people would trust
the journey I was taking with them and the advice
I was offering.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
Trust it as if from someone who'd been through a
similar thing.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Are you any tragedy like this? And I know I
was a news reporter for several years, so I dealt
with the families of many many murder victims. And there
are many victims. There's the parents, the families, the brothers.
Like you, sometimes they never recover. Has this book helped
you recover?

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (12:38):
It took me to a new place of h and
what I hope is what I hope the book can
do for others too, is it took me to the
place where the grief, though it's indelible and will never
be changed, it will never go away. The opposite image
now when you look at the grief, is one of
hope and joy and remembrance that is as powerful as

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the grief was, and maybe even sometimes a little more powerful.
The joy I feel now that I would sometimes not
be able to access before was overwhelmed by the grief
often and so the last image of Karen was you know,
her corpse basically, and that was a very hard thing.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
But now the image I have is the one.

Speaker 7 (13:21):
Of her alive and part of my life, and the
days we shared together and the joys we had together.
There are great, great days, and I just hope that
other people can focus on those days of their loved ones,
even as the you know, the specter of.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
The tragedy still haunt them.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, I think it will. I absolutely think it will.
And that's that's a wonderful thought, and that's a wonderful
way to put it. Let me ask you this, since
you are now still in connection with your sister. Did
she like the book?

Speaker 5 (13:54):
I think she's very happy about the book. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
I think she was almost pushing me in a way
to say, you know, you have a few other things
you got to do. Still opened my eyes up to
some other things, and there's another couple of books coming
I'm working on now. But also I've neglected my music
for a long time, and I think there's this kind

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of energy saying, you know, you got to go do
all these things like you started when we were a kid.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, Sarah, I thank you so much for your time
and for sharing that story, and I hope everybody goes
out to buy the book. Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Kelsey, thank sorry, take care you too.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I'll tell you what, I am absolutely a cynic when
it comes to things like mediums, you know, and being
able to connect with somebody in the afterlife. I'm absolutely
a cynic with that. But hearing him talk about it
and hearing the connection that he made or he says
that he made with his sister, and I believe him.
I believe there was something there because it just seemed

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too real he was talking makes me at least open
to the possibility. And you know there was part of me,
and I'm sure you might have felt the same way.
I'd love to hear from you. Leave us a talk
back at seven to ten WOR and the iHeartRadio app.
But I'm sure you may have felt the same way,
because all of us long for that connection. No matter

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who you are, if you lost someone near to you,
you still miss them, you still miss them, and you
long for that connection. So I would try it. I
would absolutely try it. The book Again is Karen a
Brother Remembers and it's available online in bookstores right now.
Just ahead on Saturday Morning, Futurist reporter Kevin Sirelli with

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big medical advances and it all happened just this past week.
We'll talk with Kevin. Still to come, Rich on Tech
says if you want money back on every Amazon order,
there's an app for that. That's still to come.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
On Saturday morning, here's Larry Mente with more of the
WOOR Saturday Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Welcome back. Because of AI, medical advances are happening at
a blinding speed. Futurist reporter Kevin Cirelli has three from
just this past week. Hey Kevin, good to talk to
you again.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
Hey, thanks for having me I mean, this is a
good news story, which is rare these days. Right, the
FEA just approves the first ever Alzheimer's blood tests. So previously,
if you have if anyone has any experience with Alzheimer's
or dementia or Huntington's or Parkinson's, I mean, you know
that you have to get a pet scan or a

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spinal tap in or order to detect Alzheimer's. But now
with this FDA approval, you just got to get a
blood test which early detection. Folks can start getting it
in their mid fifties. Early detection which means before the
symptoms even start to come on, which lets you get
earlier treatment. And as the treatments get better. You know,

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this is a main, major, major breakthrough for Alzheimer's.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
We have to point out that there are treatments to
slow Alzheimer's. So this is critical, Kevin.

Speaker 8 (17:08):
It's absolutely critical, and it really arrived faster because the
artificial intelligence is accelerating the pipeline. These AI trained on
massive data sets of patients to help identify which blood
proteins were reliable early markers. Now I'm not a doctor,
but I am a journalist and I'm translating all of this,
and essentially what it means is that what used to

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take years for trial and error now happens in months
thanks to the machine learning. Meanwhile, well we've got this
major breakthrough on Alzheimer's here in the US. In the UK,
bianists were using a handheld DNA sequencer to detect brain
tumors that typically took two months. Now it just takes
two hours, which is again a really major breakthrough. And

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where I grew up outside of Philly, this one really
got to me. I don't know if you guys saw
this in New York, but there was. There was the
first time doctors were able to go in when a
baby had a very rare disease and they offered a
personalized DNA fix. So it was code editing inside of
an actual human cell to correct the defect. So this

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isn't just like they found a cure. This was the
first time that they've ever done this, not just in
the United States but anywhere in the world. It's a massive,
massive medical breakthrough.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
As it relates to DNA, it is a wonderful breakthrough,
but the fact that they can remap DNA is a
little scary. Isn't it, Kevin.

Speaker 8 (18:33):
That's where the regulations have to meet the moment and
truly meets the future because the artificial intelligence and what's
coming after that, quantum computing. It's happening so fast that
the question becomes, are our human policies and our human
healthcare systems able to keep up with the pace of
how fast this is happening. These personalized treatments, they're powered

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by the AI. But see your point, could that ever
be used for bad? And you know, I think that
the regulations have to protect that, But the bottom line
is it can also be used.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
For good or for frivolous. I mean, if you if
you want your child to be blonde, if you want
your your child to be smarter, I'm sure there's some
kind of DNA mapping that would help with that. And
I just you worry sometimes when you hear these major breakthroughs.
And obviously this is a wonderful thing that's happened in Philadelphia.

(19:26):
I assume it happened to Chop Is that right?

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (19:29):
Yeah, yeah, which is which is awesome. Yeah, But to
your point, I mean, you're not asking the wrong questions.
And I mean, and I'll take a real STARp left
turn here, and then I'll note that in the pet world,
people are actually purchasing DNA genetics to have their pets cloned,

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which again is a very sharp term for this comment.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I understand, I understand how it makes sense. Yeah, because
how far are we away from having people cloned?

Speaker 8 (19:59):
And so so now there are regulators at the state
level in Texas who are having to look at this
because weirdly enough, Texas has become the place to do this.
I mean, Paris Hilton a couple of months ago was
out there talking about how she cloned one of her
beloved dogs. And there's a company in the UK that
is that is, there's like a whole cottage industry of this,

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and my dog is staring at me now as I'm
talking about this, like are you cloning me? But but
you know, I mean, we're living in the future where
there's an industry for that, So Larry, I mean, you
know you're not asking the wrong questions.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh no, I didn't think I was until you brought
it up. So anything else out there that you'd scare us,
because it seems like.

Speaker 8 (20:44):
I'd never want to scare you know, Well, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's a little bit scary, absolutely, And the problem is that,
of course many of these things that you're hearing about,
depending on what you know, what insurance covers are only
available to the rich well.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
And I think that's the biggest lesson for now, which
is AI is going to be able to be way
more prescriptive than we could ever imagine. And that is
an awesome, awesome capability. But can the AI fight through
the reductive and robust regulations and all of the paperwork

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and the wait times in the hospitals. I don't know
if it can, I mean, and the human systems just
have to keep up with that. But you know, the
robotics of all of this is also another interesting thing.
John Hopskins is testing just they announced this week that
robots are now making precisions on pigs. They're testing with
pigs and cutting open and stitching things together. So it's

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like robot do I call them doc bots that are
making incisions?

Speaker 9 (21:51):
You know?

Speaker 8 (21:52):
And so we're living in a world where robotics and
doctors are going to be working way more in tangent
with one another. So or it's the hip replacement and
knee replacement, these robots are really going to be more
at the future of in the oar scrubbing in the
dock bots?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Are there legislators, are there congressmen or people in health
and human services that are aware of this and talking
about legislation to limit.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Some of it?

Speaker 8 (22:19):
I will, you know, this is where I will be
a little pessimistic, Larry. I'm here in Washington, d C.
Where I'm based, and you know, no, the conversations that
are had well and this is a large part of
why I found in Me in the Future is because
the conversations in Washington are just so rerun, repeat same
old battle lines. They're not thinking of how the citizens

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experience is dramatically changing in real time as a result
of the new technology. And so you know, you have
to wonder when will the policy conversations be shifted to
get not even just into the few, but into the
present day, whether it's on digital currency or these new
medical breakthroughs. It's just it's very antiquated the conversations, and

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so there doesn't seem to be right now an outlook
for the future on from from any policymakers. It seems
to be much more of the scale conversations that we're
all used to.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
It was great news in the beginning. Let's go back
to what you said at the beginning.

Speaker 8 (23:23):
Larry Friday on a holiday weekend, I was like, I
was so excited. I'm like, Larry, I just got Larry's
show and now I'm like talking about dog cloning and like, all.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Suff have a great weekend. We're all happy with what
you told us.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
We're not.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's years from now. We're not happy about Thanks so much.
Kevin's a really futurist reporter and founder of Meet the
Future website. You should visit that. He knows a lot.
One of the geniuses behind many of Apple's products is
back now with a new company. Rich On Tech is
up next to talk about his first product that takes

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on the iPhone. Rich's next.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Back now to the WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minti.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Rich Demurro from rich On Tech is really excited about
a new mobile phone hitting the market. And when he
gets excited about something, you should too. Here's Rich Demurro.
Rich as always, thanks for being here, Hey, thanks for
having me, Larry, sure this idea? Is it a new iPhone?
It's like an iPhone?

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Right?

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Is a new phone that is designed by a former
Apple designer.

Speaker 9 (24:34):
Yeah, This is actually a pretty big headline in the
tech world. So Johnny Ive had been with Apple for many,
many years. He is credited with pretty much the design
of almost every major Apple product of the last twenty
or thirty years, specifically the iPhone. Of course, he left
a couple of years ago started his own company. But

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now OpenAI is buying his hardware startup for you know,
a cool six billion dollars and they are going to
work together to create some sort of AI gadgets. Now
we don't know what that is exactly. I mean, it
could be a phone that would be kind of too easy,
but more like moving past the phone, moving past the screen,

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something like a wearable, something like glasses, something like a pendant.
Everyone's trying to figure out how to make AI work
in real time for the average person without typing into
a computer or looking at a screen. And I think
that's what they're going to work on here.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
But this would be in direct competition to Apple, right.

Speaker 9 (25:34):
Yeah, to everyone, I mean you're talking right now, open Ai.
They have a lot of partnerships with companies, but they
are in direct competition with everyone Google, Apple, every Facebook, Meta,
every major tech company. But at the same time, they
have to ride this line where you know, open ai
is partnered with the iPhone to provide shat EBT not

(25:55):
so much Google, for sure. Those two are definitely not
frenemies at all, or even enemies, I'd say so. I mean,
you know, in Meta, same thing. I mean, Meta has
their own Ai. So open ai is sort of the
powerhouse right now in the tech world, and them partnering
with such an iconic designer to work on hardware is
a massive deal.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, I guess I'm just shocked that he doesn't have
a noncompete. Usually when somebody like that leaves a company,
they make sure he doesn't compete with him for a
long time. But here he is. I mean, maybe it
ran out.

Speaker 9 (26:28):
Yeah, I could have he started his own company that
he's done a lot of design work for third you know,
for other companies as well. But this is this is
interesting because they're buying his hardware startup outright, So he
still has his design firm, which you know, he's got
a bunch of things, you know, a bunch of things
cooking here, but he still has his design firm. This
is his hardware startup again. Six point five billion dollars.

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It must be good. They must be working on something big.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yes, yes, well everybody wants to be part of AI.
Now I see you have a story about Fortnite. My
kids are big fans of four and that's coming back
to iPhone.

Speaker 9 (27:02):
Yeah, this is a big deal because it's been five years.
Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, they fought Apple really
really hard on the idea that the only way you
can make a purchase through the apps that you download
on the iPhone is through the app store, you know,
through Apple's own app store purchasing and app purchasing. And
Fortnite said, why are we paying you thirty percent on

(27:24):
all these people making in app purchases in our game
for year in, year out. And they said, we're not
doing that anymore. We want to open this up. And
it was a huge court case, took them five years,
but they finally won. And now you'll notice if you
look at a lot of apps, a lot of popular
apps on the iPhone, they're starting to give you third
party payment options that could be through your credit card,

(27:46):
that could be through PayPal, could be through an external website.
But Fortnite is back after a major legal battle, and
it's already like the top app downloaded on the iPhone
for reason. People missed it, like your kids.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Well, I'll tell you. It must be good to be
rich to muro. You know what you're like. You're like
a movie critic that gets to see all the movies,
or are somebody that covers sports that gets to see
all the sports events for free. You get to see
everything first, and you got to see a new edition
from Google.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (28:15):
So I was just up at Google Io up in
their headquarters in Mountain View, and yes, I do appreciate that.
I'm also like that doctor at the party where someone's like, hey,
would you take a quick look at my rash I'm like, yeah,
I'm just trying to have a nice night here. You know,
your email does not work on your phone? Okay, fine,
I'll figure it out for you. But yeah, Google had
what's called Google Io. This is their big conference, and

(28:36):
they showed off a couple of new things that you
can try immediately this if you haven't tried it, it's
called Ai Mode, And when you go to Google dot com,
look for the little tab or the button that says
AI mode. It is really good, Larry. It is like
their answer to chat GBT. You can ask really detailed
questions inside Google search Box now and get really detailed,

(28:59):
concise answers. They it'll even show you it's searching through
like one hundred and fifty websites to find the answer
for you. And it's really good, so definitely be on
the lookout for that. The other new feature that they
announced is called Gemini Live and this basically embodies AI,
which you know, their brand of AI is called Gemini.
Embodies it with your phone's camera, so you can literally

(29:21):
aim your camera at something and ask about that. And
this is through the Gemini app if you download it.
It's available on iPhone now they just made it available.
But you can literally broadcast your cameras, you know, whatever
your camera sees, and AI will say, hey, see what
you're looking at.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
What can I help you with?

Speaker 7 (29:38):
Wow?

Speaker 9 (29:38):
And you can say, hey, I'm trying to identify this
painting or help with troubleshooting, whatever you need. Larry, it
is quite incredible.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
No, that is amazing, by the way, I feel your pain,
or at least my son feels your pain. He worked
at Apple for fifteen years and every time people knew
he was going to be at a party, they would
bring devices for him to look at. They would actually
sometimes be alone, so I can't imagine what you go
through when you're at it.

Speaker 9 (30:03):
Well, not that popular, I mean that's next level.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
You have five super useful websites that everybody should know about.
We do only have a limited time here, but can
you get through a couple of them?

Speaker 9 (30:16):
Yeah, and I'll link this up on my website as well.
Rich on tech dot tv. This kind of stuff's very popular.
It's just little helpful sites. Like if you want to
avoid spam, maybe you're signing up for a newsletter for
a promo code. There's a website called ten minute mail
dot com. You go there, they give you an email address.
You can check that email for ten minutes. Then it
just self destruct so you don't have to worry about it.

(30:38):
File dot Pizza. Let's say you have an Android, your
friend has an iPhone, You have a Windows computer, they
have a Mac. You want to transfer a large file.
Just open upfile dot pizza, drag it in and you'll
get a little QR code they can scan on their
phone and it will transfer that file right to their device.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (30:54):
Let's see buy nothing project dot org. You want free
stuff in your neighborhood. Lario was in my neighborhood. This
guy comes to my neighbor's house and he says, hey,
I'm just picking something up, And I said, oh, yeah,
that's my neighbor right there. People just leave stuff out
on their porch. Someone else picks it up.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's all free.

Speaker 9 (31:09):
It's like a giving economy. So buy Nothingproject dot organ Rich,
let's do this.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Let's do this. Let's make this a big tease for
your website. Just gave you three. The last two. You
got to go to rich on tech dot tv to
get rich on tech dot tv, and if you forgot
any of the other ones, you can get all five
of the websites that you should check out. Rich Is
that a good idea?

Speaker 9 (31:31):
Six for the price of five. I love it, Larry,
We're reeling and dealing here.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Rich to v Hero rich on tech has Heard Sunday
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on Instagram. That wraps up Saturday morning for this week.
Thank you for listening, and thanks to producers Peter Arolano
and Natalie Vaka. I'll be back Monday morning from six
to ten for Mente in the morning. Hope you join us.
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