Parents are filing lawsuits against schools for "indoctrinating" their kids into " woke culture." WNBA's 7-time All-Star Brittney Griner returned to the game she loves last weekend for the first time since being released from Russian imprisonment, and now has a higher appreciation for the United States' National Anthem. And KFI's Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro returns for 'Tech Tuesday'! HBO Max becomes just 'Max' today as the subscription service expands the content it offers, Amazon has a new tablet coming out that seems competitve for the cost, and a kitten scam has people paying an arm and a leg in advance!
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You're listening to k I AM sixforty the Bill Handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio f K five AM sixforty Handle here on a Tuesday morning,
May twenty third, Guess what TheDodgers who kicked out the Sisters of Professional
Perpetual Indulgence from their Gay Pride night, they've invited them back in. So
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good news, depending on which sideyou're on on that one. Now,
you know, my kids always theydid musicals when they were kids, maybe
because they got their love of musicals, because I love musicals. But in
the Fullerton School District there is asixth grade musical that's being done at an
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elementary school, and which is it? The Sound of Music? You know,
it's a wonderful musical. The musicis terrific. You've got the von
Trapp family dancing around and singing.It's based on a true story, except
the van von Traps were Nazis.They were a bunch of swastika wearing a
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hil Hitler Nazis. And in themusical, the kids who play the von
Trapp kids and the parents, wellthey wear Nazi symbols, they wear swastikas.
There's a hil Hitler or two,and needless to say, a lot
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of controversy has erupted, and thisis now. I am not one to
talk about controversy when I don't think, well, there's always controversy. But
I'm a big fan of the FirstAmendment. I do believe that even kids
should have the right to perform.I think they have a right to,
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for example, singing Porgy and Bass. So that's a difficult one. But
you know, when it comes toNazi symbols for third graders, that is
a little bit difficult. And sothe superintendent of the school district just pulled
it. Now the parents complained andbitched and moaned, which they should have
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I would do the same thing.And the superintendent said had nothing to do
with the parents. Even though theyhad practice it, they were going to
go forward with it. And thesuperintendent said, no, thank you.
And there are a couple of placeswhere maybe you don't want to produce plays,
produce musicals that have some of this. Now here's what the parents that
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were saying, this is simply censorship. And they're arguing that the place should
be the musicals should be produced.And they're saying, well, you have
to tell the kids you have toput it in context. And it's important
to start the discussion with your kids. Hey, I'll start the discussion with
my kids when it comes to whathappened with Nazi Germany and my father being
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a Holocaust survivor, on and onand on. But you know, this
is a six gray musical. Justforget about it. By the way,
they're not saying you can't do themusical, just can't wear the outfits.
And how important is it? Andhere is the argument. Let's say there
is a play in which somebody theytalk about hanging, they talk about lynching,
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because that's important historically. Do youdo it with six graders? Do
you do it so elementary school kidscan deal with it? Now? It's
important, It's critically important they learnabout it. I have no problem with
that. History has to be taught. Part of African American history in this
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country is the lynchings that took place. We have to know about it.
I think the last one was inthe twenties, if I'm not mistaken,
a hundred years ago. But it'sa musical. It's a sound of music.
It's kids dancing around the hills singing, you know I'm this time you
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forget about discussions, forget about historicalcontext, just don't do it. Why
they why they even allowed it inthe first places, beyond me, I
don't get it, you no doubthave. Of course you've heard of the
fight against wokeism, well, andeverybody has a different definition of woke,
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but woke the way I viewed itis basically looking at the history of United
States through the fact that we area racist society historically and even now,
and therefore we have to bring peoplein diversity, inclusion. We've been talking
a lot about that, and ifyou don't, it's woke. And one
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of the chief anti woke places isFlorida, because you have of the governor
running for president, Ronda Santis,who has said Florida is where woke comes
to die. All right, soyou figure that there wouldn't be a problem
in the private schools in Florida notteaching inclusion and diversity and the whole issue
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of what people call political correctness.Okay, that's over there. How about
here there is a school, veryhigh in private school, the Brentwood School
in la And this is where school, I mean, you pay it's like
fifty thousand dollars a year tuition forstudents first grade, third grade. I
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mean it gets pretty pricey. Andthis they were they send a huge number
of kids to Ivy League schools.I mean, this is a and it's
hard to get into. It's verydifficult. And it's all about sports,
a lot of sports and reading writingand Rittman Ti rit ritmatic. Jerome Eisenberg
as a parent and he enrolled hisdaughter at Brentwood and he's well off because
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how many people can pay fifty thousanddollars a year in tuition And he said
he expected her to get the traditionalliberal or liberal arts education. But and
this is across the country. Aftermurderer of George Floyd, he said that
the school was reimagining its purpose withan eye towards anti racism, diversity,
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equity and inclusion d EI. Andin fact that Brentwood was put Brentwood was
pulling a bait and switch on parents. So he's school sued the school for
breach of contract, civil rights violations, and emotional distress. That gets interesting.
Is he going to win? Probablynot, because private schools pretty well
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do what they do. I don'tthink that this is in the middle of
the semester when they did this school. The school officials aren't that dumb.
And what they say it here isour diversity, here's the way we are
teaching. And if you want tobe part of the school, fine,
you enroll your kid. If youdon't, fine you don't enroll your kid.
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So Brentwood succeeded in having the suitsent to private arbitration because that is
the contract. I remember my kidsgoing to a private school also, and
there was an arbitration arbitration clause inthere, and I was thinking of sending
my kids to Catholic school. Actually, you know Catholic school. I've always
been a huge fan of. Thisis just a quick aside because you get
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a phenomenal education. Those kids reallyget a great education, and it's subsidized
by the church, and the tuitionis probably a third of what it would
be, for example, in atraditional Jewish school where my kids ended up
going to. And it's amazing howmany Jewish kids parents send their kids to
school. There are some where wewent to school just down the hill where
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a huge number. And I said, you know what, I'm really thinking
about it, and I was tellingyou the kids, what do you think?
You know? The only thing iswhen you hear about Jesus, just
stick your fingers in your ears andgo la la la, la, la
la la, and you're going tosave a pile of money. But look
at when a Catholic school can teachalmost anything. Certainly it can. You
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imagine a public school cramming religion downanybody's throat, or a Catholic school cram
religion down the kids throat because that'swhat they're about. And private schools can
pretty well teach diversity or not andnot worry about kids civil rights because it's
a private school. So there isa lawyer, Sarah Goldsmith's Shorts of this
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huge law firm in Massachusetts who frequentlyrepresents schools against these kinds of lawsuits and
says there's an increased appetite for parentsusing the league process to fight for their
k their kids in a way thatjust never happened before. Ever. Now
you have the lawyer for Eisenberg,the father of the little girl, of
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the girl that went to Brentwood,and he said, the lawyer said,
you know, legal complaints against privateschools over diversity and inclusion have increased,
and as a matter of fact,the number that's being reported is actually far
less than the number is actually outthere because they go to arbitration and part
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of it are non disclosures where youdon't talk about it. So now you
know what you have. You havepitched legal and political battle just like just
like is happening across the country,and this one has to be in schools.
Now, in public schools, youcan see that because there's the issue
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of religion, separation of church andstate, the whole issue of diversity and
fighting against it. That is afight private school and not so much.
But there's a lawsuit, and there'smore and more happening, and parents determined
to challenge these schools. Private schoolsface a whole number of obstacles. First
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of all, if in public schoolsyou can argue that the government is infringing
on First Amendment rights, well reallynot. In private school you can always
bail out and you don't have asmany rights because parents give up those rights.
The school has a lot more controland you agree to it. I
remember the tuition agreement that I hadwith my kids school man. The school
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could pretty well do anything you wanted. Now, where is the lawsuit?
Forget about the civil rights lawsuit?Because I don't think that's going to fly.
But how about breach of contract.You promised to give my kids an
education, a traditional education, andwhat you're doing is giving them an education
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that is skewed and providing a politicalviewpoint that is diversity inclusion, and that
is not what schools do. Yeah, that one is. That's another tough
one too. And why well,because you've agreed to let the school teach
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its curriculum and even if you don'tget exactly what the curriculum is, if
they don't get the exact classes.A matter of fact, I think private
school they do give the exact classes. But the schools pretty well have have
the ability to do anything. Andagain the issue is if you don't like
it, go someplace else. Imean, you can always go to public
school. Now, the public schoolparents have a different issue because they really
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don't have a choice. Their kidshave to go to public school because they
don't have fifty thousand dollars a year. There's one school in Massachusetts that's sixty
thousand dollars a year year tuition.This is where Gwyneth Paltrow went. And
again, the same problem is havingis being had there so civil rights no
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breach of contract, no misrepresentation.No, And I'm going to end with
this. There is a US Senatorwho is a noted antidei crusader who sent
his kids to a Houston prep schoolthat teaches inclusion, Ted Cruz. That's
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where kids go to school where theyteach wokeism. Yep. The presidential race
and it's getting really interesting. It'snot so interesting on the Democratic side because
Joe Biden has it. He hasthe nomination for one rule, and that
is a rule that cannot be altered, you can't go against, and that
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is a sitting president of your ownparty. Running for president usually is the
second term. This time it's aterm between terms with Trump, but usually
running for a second term gets thenomination done. Finish. Now you got
the Republican side, and you wouldthink that it would be President Trump,
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former President Trump automatically getting it formerpresident, but keep in mind he's not
a president. There has been fouryears between that. That changes things pretty
dramatically. And then you have thepolarization. Are people just tired of it?
And you have the fatigue of presidentformer president Trump. He's a pretty
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controversial guy. He's going to godown in history. Is probably the most
unusual president that the United States hasever had, and so you've got a
bunch of people are going against him. If he were other than Donald Trump,
would there be a bunch of peopleI don't think so, not as
many as there are here. Oneof the most interesting one is Tim Scott,
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the first black Republican elected to theUS Senate from the South since reconstruction.
Reconstruction happened right after the Civil Warwhen you have Andrew Johnson, who
followed Abraham Lincoln, very anti South, very virulent anti black, I mean,
pro slavery vice president, who becamethe president, and it was just
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crazy in the South that he hada lot of African Americans who were elected
Senate to Congress people and it wasit was just a mess because nobody was
ready for it. There was politicaldissension. The South was considered traitorous.
So that's reconstruction. But let mego on and talk about who he is.
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He's a Republican. He has alreadyraised a ton of money. He's
about to spend five and a halfmillion dollars in an advertising blitz in Iowa
and New Hampshire, early nominating states, and he's portraying himself first of all,
as clearly an African American running onthe Republican slate. There aren't too
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many that are out there that areconservative Republicans. He is sort of an
outlier in the sense that he believesan inclusion, he believes in diversity.
He's very proud of having grown upin an African American home with his mother,
a single mom, working like adog to raise her kids. And
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look at now his success. He'sbeen a rising star in the GOP.
Now a message of hope and inclusionresonating with the Republican base. I don't
know, I think that's going togo any place. The number of Republicans
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running to take the nomination growing moreand more crowded, which only helps former
President Trump. You got Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie, both very well
known Republicans, are going to runclearly with Ron De Santis being probably the
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number one of the people that arerunning against former President Trump, against Donald
Trump, and he has nowhere nearthe numbers to get the nomination. And
so here's the bottom line I think, and that is Donald Trump has his
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base. One of the arguments thatthe Republicans, the other people running is
he's lost three times. Do wereally want a I mean, he lost
the Congress, he lost the presidency. It's well, okay, two times
he's lost, I think is theway they're painting it. Now. Do
we want to lose again? Andfor his base, it doesn't matter.
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He could lose ten times in arow and his base doesn't go away.
And his base is such that ifyou look at the numbers, it virtually
guarantees his nomination on the Republican ticketbecause there are so many other Republicans that
are running, and they just splitup the vote and it becomes a plurality.
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Who gets the most votes, whogets the most delegates, wins and
gets the nomination. So we're gonnabe hearing more and more, and in
the coming days, I'm going tobe telling you who is who else is
running for president? Who they are? This is for the Republican nomination.
And this one's going to get interestingbecause the Republican Party is it in the
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mess? Well, it's got somereal issues because you've got the trumpets.
You've got I won't say there's noleft wingers, of course, and the
very few moderates, but you havethe trumpets, and you have the non
trumpets. That's the Republican Party,and that we're going to cover a whole
lot more so, you gotta hearthe name Tim Scott a lot in the
coming months. If you were watchingthe NBA w NBA game on Friday,
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of course you saw Brittany Griner,who is probably the best woman basketball player
out there. She scored eighteen points, six rebounds, blocked four shots.
This was the first regular season gamesince me being jailed in Russia. She
was in the jail Russia for tenmonths, which of course you have to
know about and probably followed the story. You know what happened before the game.
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She stood up for the national anthem. Whoa Now keep in mind that
prior to Friday, prior to hergoing to prison, what she did was
not stand up for the national anthem. As a matter of fact, she
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stayed in the dressing room, inthe locker room before while the anthem was
played, and then she would goout and play the game. Because it
was a political statement. Because theUnited States is a country of racism.
We are a country that to treatAfrican Americans in such a way that they
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will never be equal to us,to us white people that were certainly not
looking at inclusion. We're just notinterested and almost doesn't matter what kind of
strides the civil rights movement has made. You know, while I have said
many many times the way African Americanshave been treated historically in this country as
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the original sin of the United States, I don't think you can argue that
huge strides have not been made.Now what of course she was asked about
it like crazy, and what shesaid, this is to ESPN. You
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have the right to protest, theright to be able to speak out,
question, challenge and do all ofthese things. What I went through and
everything, it just means a littlebit more to me now. I want
to be able to stand. Iwas literally in a cage and couldn't even
stand. Just remember the videos ofher. She had to literally bend down.
The cage was too small. Theway they do it in Russia and
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many other countries around the world isthey put you in the courtroom in a
cage. You're not sitting at atable. The way we handle it,
defense and prosecution and the defendant sittingat the defense table. Oh no,
no, no, they're in cageswhile the entire trial goes on or whatever.
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Hearing whatever motion, and all ofa sudden she says, I can
stand. That means a little bitmore to me. Now. I want
to be able to stand, justbeing able to hear my national anthem,
see my flag. I definitely wantto stand. Boy, has she changed
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her tune. All it takes isten months to the Russian prison, and
I'll sort of do it for you. Ten months and just charged and having
no access to family, having horriblefood, being treated as if you've already
been convicted, which is what happensin prison. I'm not saying that we
don't do pretty bad things to peoplein prison, but nothing like a fair
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trial, nothing like defendants are treatedin our country. So she said,
I definitely want to stand. Nownow everybody will not stand or not come
out, and I totally support themone hundred. That's all right. As
as an American in this great country. It's gone from this great country.
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I'm proud to be an American.It has now come to that versus what
a racist society we are and howwe had to in her case, she
had to not even accept or recognizethe national anthem because of what the United
States stood for. And if youknow, after ten months, she was
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exchanged for a convicted that she wastraded for the convicted Russian arms dealer Victor
Boot, who was probably responsible forkilling thousands of people. I mean he
supplied arms to virtually every dictator,every army in the world. She stayed
in July twenty twenty, she thinn'tthink the national anthem should even be played
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during the season at the w NBAGames, not that she was one of
the people that should sit out.It shouldn't even be played for anybody,
and she wouldn't come out on thecourt for the antem if it were to
continue to be played before the games, which it did. Now, I
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want to say something about this country, and I think Grinder now has an
appreciation for the United States that veryvery few people have. Very few Americans
have. One of the things aboutnative born Americans. And I'm saying this
because I am not a native bornAmerican. I am I am the children
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of immigrants. I am an immigrant. I came to this country when I
was five years old and saw myparents, who were true immigrants. They
came to this country because they adoptedthis country. My father tells the story
that when he was a teenager,he would watch movies and see the American
flag during newsreels and said I wantto go to America. I want to
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live in America. So for himas a lifelong dream, and they came
over and they were fanatic Americans.You look at immigrants who appreciate what this
country is about. And I thinkthat immigrants in people who have been in
jail for ten months in a Russianprison appreciate this country far more than people
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who have been born here and havelived in the states, in the United
States and have been the recipient ofthe freedoms we have here. And I
again, yeah, I don't wantto sound Pollyannish here. I understand we
have huge issues, as every placedoes. And I'm not an exceptionalist.
And you know that. And whenyou say the greatest country in the world,
I ask you in what category?And infant mortality, no, we're
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number twenty something. In healthcare no, not even close. An education,
no, not even close. Anopportunity, right at the top, in
freedoms, right at the top,in terms of being able to protest against
our government, right at the top. And for me, it certainly makes
the United States the greatest country inthe world in many aspects. But what
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happened here with Griner is she hasgone from an America that she was born
in, grown up and taken forgranted, and taken her political position to
one who is thinking basically like animmigrant. Boy. Am I lucky to
be in the United States? Wow? What a place this is? And
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of course I'm going to stand forthe national anthem. And if you look
at immigrants, and I do thiswhen I stand, I actually choke up
when I hear the national anthem.And I'm not one to show emotion when
it comes to out because I'm thebiggest cynic in the world and you know
it. But you know, comingfrom an coming from immigrants, having lived
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in a country where there isn't anywherenear this kind of freedom, or wasn't
when I was there, it's avery different place. So I welcome Brittany
Griner to the fold. Welcome aboard, Brittany. So Tuesday, eight o'clock,
what time is it? It's timefor Tech Tuesday with Rich de Murrow.
All the latest on gadgets and stuffwith KF Vice resident Handsome Nerd.
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It's te tech Tuesday with Rich Jamiroand Welcome Rich Demurrow. Heard Saturday Morning,
eleven to twelve, Saturday at elevento two pm right here on KFI
and his social addresses at Rich onTech Morning, Rich, Hey, good
morning, Hugh Bill. All right, we have a you're gonna get right
to it. Replacing HBO Max isjust Max. First of all, why
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does anybody call anything max after theBoeing fiasco? I mean, I but
is it the same thing? It'sjust one of a group of letters just
removed. Well, it's slightly different. It's tough for me to tell what's
different exactly. But this is apparentlyHBO, Warner Brothers, Discovery. It's
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all in one app now. Sothese companies continue to sort of merge and
mash and mold together. And sothey wanted a new identity for all of
their programming because HBO Max, whichis what it's called right now, is
too HBO specific. And there's alsostuff inside this app like TLC and HGTV
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and Food Network, and you wouldnot think that if you're looking at HBO
Max on your TV screen. Sonow it's just called Max. Now.
The weird thing is there's still theHBO Max app. That's not going away
just yet, but I assume itwill eventually, and if you have HBO
Max, you have access to thenew Max starting today. Your same log
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in works, all of your watchlists and everything follows over. Your pricing
stays the same, at least fornow. They're not saying when that's going
to change, but to entice peopleto change to a more expensive plan,
they're only offering the four K contentin the most expensive twenty dollars plan,
which is let's see, it usedto be fifteen ninety nine, so four
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dollars more for four K content.Yeah, I'm noticing we've talked about this
before, where cable and or satelliteused to particularly a streaming used to be
pretty cheap. Four ninety nine amonth, seven ninety nine a month.
Even Netflix was very cheap. Imean today you go through three or four
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or five of these things, you'repaying in the hundreds and hundreds of dollars
a month. I lived at thebill the other day, and I do
a lot of them like you do. I do Amazon, and what else
do I have? Certainly Netflix andHulu And there's a whole list about that
document entry one you had, Yeah, Curiosity channel, I do, what's
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the one that has nat Geo Disneyplus I do because they have some stuff
that I really like. Yeah,yeah, you're right, I mean it
used to be. And look,here's the thing. A lot of these
still have cheaper plans and or they'readding cheaper plans. But I would say
kind of like the new price pointfor all of these services, what they
want you to pay is about twentydollars a month. You can for you
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know, five to seven nine whateverthose are with commercials, and the entire
premise of streaming is no commercials,right, But we've talked about this.
The fastest growing area for streaming rightnow is with commercials. And do we
talk about the TV. Do wetalk about this the free TV that they're
giving away that now the entire premiseof the TV, there's a commercial bar
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at the bottom so you can seecommercials, and that pays for the TV.
It's it's you know, obviously it'sgotten very expensive to do to pick
up a fair number of streaming services, and I can understand price point is
a big deal. But to me, I mean, I've been an HBO
customer for years and Netflix for years, and I was actually one of the
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first ones. There was something calledthe Z channel. I don't know,
if you remember that the Z Channelwas very early I'm not telling Rich about
this now. The Z Channel wasvery early days, just the beginning of
cable, and it would show filmsthat were going to be up for We're
up for Academy Awards for the mostpart, because everybody who votes is in
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southern California and to get them togo see movies was not easy to do
to get people that were voting inthe Acamity Academy. So they had this
cable service, started the Z Channel, and then of course you had Netflix
and you had all the other streamingHBO started streaming, But in any case,
it's been around for a long time. And I'm of the old school,
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and that is cable means no commercialsunless you watchable. I mean for
the premium channels, yes, andthat's what HBO really built its name upon.
That's what you know. Netflix ofcourse, famously, they're the ones
that really kind of did it forstreaming with no commercials. And now,
of course they have a commercial plan, and all the news services they all
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come out with some sort of planthat includes ads, which people seem to
be okay with doing. And youknow, obviously they like it free.
But if it's you know, tendollars a month for Netflix versus twenty and
you say, all right, final, I'll watch the ads, it may
not be the same programming either.Amazon's tablet as brand new, I'm assuming,
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and what's going on with that?So this is the fire tablet we
talked about Max. This is actuallycalled the Max as well. This is
the Fire Max eleven, Amazon's biggesttablet so far, eleven inch display.
It's also their most powerful tablet,which is fifty percent faster than the next
best one they make. Now here'sthe deal. This tablet seems and we
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haven't gone hands on just yet,but it seems like a very competitive device
because it starts at two hundred andthirty dollars, which is one hundred dollars
cheaper than the cheapest iPad. ButI think for kids playing games on an
iPad or on a tablet, Imight actually start recommending this one because it's
not that expensive. It's going tobe on sale or even cheaper ones,
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you know, Amazon discounts it,and it actually seems like it's a very
good tablet, which I typically don'trecommend Amazon tablets because I don't like them.
They're too cheap and the software ispretty bad. Well, you know,
I look at these things and Ialways I don't pay attention to the
screen size because that's really easy todeal with. It's the thickness of the
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device itself and the cinner the better. And what are we looking at here?
Yeah, this one, I don'thave the let's see if five of
the stats on exactly how thin itis. No, but it is thinner
than before. It also is analuminum design, which is going to be
nicer. You know. The mostpopular Amazon tablet is like this Fire HD
eight. The thing sells for likeunder one hundred bucks, so a lot
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of parents will get it. Butit's just not very good. It's cheap,
but it feels cheap and it actscheap, so you know, it's
frustrating. This tablet, I feellike Amazon finally did their homework because there
is a sweet spot here of abouttwo hundred dollars, which makes it cheaper
than the iPad, but it haspretty much the features that you need.
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I still think the applications on theiPad are going to be better. But
we've seen some other tablets come out. Notably, Google has a tablet coming
out next month, and so doesa company called One. Plus both of
those tablets are like double the priceof this, So it really puts those
companies on notice because you're getting apretty good device here for half the price
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of almost every tablet out there.One of the limitations of a tablet,
well, I think the biggest limitationis that this does not run Google Play.
And so what does that mean.It means that you can't go on
here and download your favorite Google appseasily. Now I say easily, because
yes you can, you can sideloadit it's Android, but that gets a
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little complicated. So if you wantsomething like the Gmail app, or the
Chrome web browser, or pretty muchany app that's inside Google Play, you
can't download it easily to this tablet. Amazon has their own app store,
kind of like what Apple has donewith their app store, but it's not
necessarily as vast as what you canget on the standard Android operating system app
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store. Yeah. I didn't evenwhen you talk about app stores, all
I do is think of on myiPhone, and it is Apple. I
didn't even know there was another appstore out there. Yeah, and if
you look at it, I mean, look, if you want to rate
sort of the app stores out there. Apple, I mean they invented the
entire genre of an app store.But now you have an app store that
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lives on iOS devices and Apple devices. You have Google, which is is
huge. I mean Google is hugeworldwide. I would say the apps are
sometimes a little bit better on iOS, sometimes they're a little bit better on
Android. Then you have Amazon,they have their own app store. Then
you have Windows, they have theirown app store for Windows computers. You
know, what does this tell youthat? I have been using an iPhone
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and that's it since they came out? Oh yeah, I mean, look
it makes sense. If you're onan iPhone, you're in the Apple ecosystem.
I get it. But I'm justtelling you that this is kind of
like what all of these manufacturers wantto do because there's money in this.
You know, Nintendo has their ownapp store on their devices, so it's
PlayStation does too. It's all aboutmoney, and that's really what it comes
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down to. Money and control.And of course, you know, if
you have a spectacular app, likea five star app, and it's not
available on your platform, you've gotsome negotiation power, right, So if
you say, hey, I've gotFortnite and they tried this with app fully
they took they yanked it off ofApple's operating system. Fortnite one of the
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most popular games in the world,and they tried to make Apple agree to
some of their provisions, and Appleso far has not and Fortnite is not
playable. It's just not there.All right, Let's switch over for and
we do this all the time.And this is the part that I think
is probably the most valuable of thesegments that we do, and that people
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being scammed. And there's another level. And it doesn't matter whenever anything new
comes out that you mentioned. Withinprobably days, the scammers have come up
with the abial any security issue,it doesn't matter they come out. So
let's talk about this scams segment.Oh, this is this is I actually
really like this website. It's fromthe Better Business Bureau. It's called the
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Scam Tracker. And we met upwith this woman who you know, she
wanted to adopt a cat. Sheended up getting She tried to buy a
cat through one of these Facebook groupsand you know, she got taken for
like I think it was fifteen hundredbucks. They first requested three hundred dollars
through Zel then another twelve hundred,and then when she was just about to
get this cat, or so shethought, they said, hey, can
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we get another This is the bestpart, Bill, can we get another
five hundred dollars? We only needtwenty five, but we're going to reimburse
you the four seventy five when wesee you and give you this cat.
And she was like, That's whenshe realized, Um, this doesn't sound
right because that's a pretty common scam. Long story short, if she went
to this website searched the keyword kitten, she would have realized that there are
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thousands of people across the US thatare getting scammed with these kitten adoption scams,
and not really adoption. I feellike that's bad to use that term
because it's really what are they calledbreeders? Right, So it's when these
breeders try to try to or theytry to pretend they're a breeder. Anyway,
I've got it linked up on richon Tech dot TV. Tell your
family. If you all you needis a keyword, Just search the website
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for whatever thing you think is ascam, and if you think it sounds
too good to be true, putit in here. You will see stories
from across the US of people whosay, hey, I've I've got this
that happened to me or they triedto scam me. And it's a really
good resource. If you think it'stoo good to be true, a thirty
five cat. Well, look,people will pay for pets. I mean,
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I'm not advocating. You know,people will say you should adopt,
and still a lot of people dothese breeders, and these breeders bill can
be very very expensive. Yeah.No, I mean I know the world
of dogs, and I know thereare cats like hairless cats, where strangely
enough, you you would think youwould have you would pay for more hair
and you don't. With a harrowscat. Are quite understood that. I
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don't know. I yeah, that'skind of interesting, but I guess it's
probably like a rare breed. Idon't know. I'm just I'm pulling your
hairless foot, all right, Rich, Thank you, Saturday eleven to two
o'clock. Take care, We'll catchyou next Tuesday. Now, something that
has just been part of our livesfor ever as long as I can remember,
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well, certainly for the last bunchof years, has been with the
lack of water and the droughts,and I remember times by going all the
way back to the first the firstoh my god, my mind just went
first adminiterstation Jerry Brown and where wehad water shortages and we had to reduce
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water usage. And just recently,you can't water your lawns, you couldn't
wash your cars, and of coursewe had these huge rains and all of
a sudden, all those restrictions aregone. So throughout all of this,
over the last several years, manyyears, the Colorado River is being sucked
up dry by southern California and theImperial Valley. We because we use so
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much water, they because they growso much hay and alfalfa, and so
there has been an ongoing fight overthe use of Colorado River water. Now
not only is it geographical, andnot only did it have to do with
agricultural versus urban it also has todo with treaties with the Indian tribes and
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agreements that go back one hundred,one hundred and twenty years between the states.
And one of the reasons we getall the water, or the vast
majority of the water is we arefirst up when it comes to water rights.
It's first up, first served,and so the other states have gone
away a minute, Arizona Nevada hassaid, hang on a minute, that's
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not the way it works. Sothis has been negotiations. I mean it's
gone on and on and on,and there have been intense negotiations. And
finally, well they couldn't come toa deal the Sphery estates and the water
districts and the Indian tribes. Sothey couldn't come to a deal. Federal
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government comes in and says, Okay, here is the deal we're going to
make all about a reduction in watervarious places. The amount of the percentage
that was going to be reduced somethirteen percent, some eighteen percent, some
twenty five percent. And so thestates couldn't come to a deal. Federal
government comes in and says, okay, we're gonna make you a deal,
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and this is the deal we're cutting. The states come back and go,
no, we don't like that dealeither. And after i mean intense negotiations
for about a year this last goaround, they came up with a deal.
They absolutely came up with a deal, and it's going to be a
reduction of water used by California,Nevada, Arizona, the farmers particularly going
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to get hit by this. Thefarmers are not particularly get hit by this
because they're going to be paid realmoney for not growing. We're not receiving
water and the federal government is writingthose checks. So how effected are we
here in southern California. Not atall. We're the ones that have lucked
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out. It's not going to affectus one iota, and that is a
good news. The rest of thestate. The farmers, you bet,
but not us. So the newsis they finally sat down. The fun
part is is no deal. Federalgovernment comes in. No deal, States
go back to the original plan.Okay, we have ourselves in agreement.
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All great news. All right,let's finish the program with the topic that's
near and dear to my heart.Number one, you know, is death.
I love death. Number two delisare very near dear to my heart.
There's nothing better than needing a pastramisandwich at a funeral. I mean,
that's sort of the top of thelist. And then I'm sorry,
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I said, wow, oh yeah, aspirations unlimited there here, No,
it's yeah, if you've ever beenwith me at a funeral, it's a
lot of fun. And the otherissue that I love to talk about religion,
and I do that a lot.And the question that I often ask,
actually I mutter it under my breath, is do you believe in God?
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And you'd say most people do believein God? Would you guess that?
By the way, Jennifer, Yes, all right? How about this?
Half Americans say that they are sureGod exists. Half don't even know
what kind of God. In sevenpercent don't think there's a God at all.
Interesting, and that number keeps ongoing up. There is something called
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the General Social Survey that's done everyyear and ask questions like this, and
just a little bit under fifty percentAmericans say they have no doubt about the
existence of God. It's just whatdoes God look like? There was a
released justice study released by Universe ofChicago, and this is some information taken
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in twenty twenty two, and asrecently as two thousand and eight, the
share of sure believers topped sixty percent. Now it's under fifty percent. Thirty
four Americans thirty four percent never goto church, and that's the highest figure
recorded in fifty years of this.So there is a historic decline in the
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nation's Christian population. I want topoint that out. Muslims are doing fine
in terms of growth. I meanthere aren't too many. Jews are doing
okay. Moonies are doing spectacular becausethey don't have to buy pants and so
they thank you che sec Okay,fair enough. But even the weird religions
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are doing okay. But the Christianpopulation is dropping. For example, white
evangelical procedent Protestants, right, thathas gone from twenty three percent to fourteen
percent. This is two thousand andsix. I mean that is dropping precipitously.
And Whites have fallen from eighteen tofourteen percent. Catholics have gone down.
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Now a quick point, it's notto say Americans are not spiritual.
Three quarters of people believe in lifeafter death. Now that one I don't
understand. I really don't. It'slike Poltergeist. So I don't get it.
Jennifer, do you believe there's lifeafter death? Yeah, it's called
heaven. I'm not going to heaven. If there is a heaven, you
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know that. Oh, I knowthat. Okay, that's why it's called
heaven. That's why it's called heaven. Here's a question, why is everybody
on the right hand side of Jesusdo you know how many people have died,
they're on the right hand side,and if you're on the left hand
side, aren't she just much thatmuch closer? Am I missing something?
All? Right? Now? Movingon? It's most Christians do believe.
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It's amazing how people believe there islife after death, some kind of reincarnation
or heaven. And a political scientistwho has studied this Eastern Illinois University says
belief is very stubborn in American society. Either way, membership and church has
gone down, Church attendance has gonedown, Belief in God has gone down,
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particularly since the pandemic. But thetrend away from organized religion that goes
way back. Organized religion is justhaving a tough time. You Know,
what I find interesting about Americans isthat there's even much organized religion out there,
especially as the polarization comes through.You've got people who are right wing
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and don't believe in institutions, becauseinstitutions are the bad guys. I mean,
we're told, well, they liketo be told what to do in
many cases, but it's the institutionthat's the deep state. Even in religion,
unless you're an evangelical Christian, thenthe institution is fine. I mean
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it's so it's all over the placewhen it comes from religion in this country,
and we are getting more and wellless and less religious, but we
actually are more religion religious than alot of countries, a lot of countries
out there. You go to Europeand you talk about the people who claim
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no religion in the US is nineteenpercent, Germany is twenty six percent believe
in or don't believe in religion atall. Britain thirty one percent don't believe,
China fifty two percent. Now thatmakes sense with China because China has
During the communist era, the atheismwas part of the culture. I mean
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that was part of the state plan. If you believed in a god or
advocated it, you couldn't be inthe Communist Party. Japan sixty claim no
religion in Russia A lot of peopledo. In Italy a lot well,
Italy, you know what, theCatholic Church, a lot of people do.
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So it turns out then more peoplebelieve in a god or some kind
of god or spirituality, which I'venever understood. I'mpecially expecting Jenna to say
something at this point, so sorry, we're uh, it's doesn't matter.
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It doesn't. No, I'm goingto hell, that's all. That's the
bottom line, and you know that. So I'm not territual. I'm none
of it. All right, We'redone, guys. I could have gone
on and on with that, butI just wanted to throw a stat or
two out there for you about theexistence of God, and someday we'll discuss
whether there really is a God ornot. Yeah, of course there is.
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Well if there if there is aGod, he's behind the counter of
Brents. Okay that right now,your higher power can be wherever you need
him to be. Handle. Thankyou so much. Makes me feel so
special. Coming up, Gary andShad, Oh real quickly, I'm taking
phone calls for Handle on the laweight hundred five two zero eleven fifty.
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Eight hundred five two zero eleven fiftystarting a just a moment. In the
meantime, Gary and Shannon are upnext. Shannon, what's going on?
We have so much going on today. We have an update on that U
haul crash near the White House.They don't like it when you run your
U haul into the barriers outside ofthe White House. Also, that cop
that was molesting relatives and kids athis house. He's been whacked. Don't
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tell me that was a natural causedeath. Also the latest when it comes
to performance crimes. Have you heardabout this? TikTok given rise to look
at me. I'm committing a crimeand it's all live on TikTok. Yeah.
I love it, every bit ofit. All right, that's Gary
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May twenty third, Guess what TheDodgers who kicked out the Sisters of Professional
Perpetual Indulgence from their Gay Pride night, they've invited them back in. So
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good news, depending on which sideyou're on on that one. Now,
you know, my kids always theydid musicals when they were kids, maybe
because they got their love of musicals, because I love musicals. But in
the Fullerton School District there is asixth grade musical that's being done at an
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elementary school, and which is it? The Sound of Music? You know,
it's a wonderful musical. The musicis terrific. You've got the von
Trapp family dancing around and singing.It's based on a true story, except
the van von Traps were Nazis.They were a bunch of swastika wearing a
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hil Hitler Nazis. And in themusical, the kids who play the von
Trapp kids and the parents, wellthey wear Nazi symbols, they wear swastikas.
There's a hil Hitler or two,and needless to say, a lot
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of controversy has erupted, and thisis now. I am not one to
talk about controversy when I don't think, well, there's always controversy. But
I'm a big fan of the FirstAmendment. I do believe that even kids
should have the right to perform.I think they have a right to,
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for example, singing Porgy and Bass. So that's a difficult one. But
you know, when it comes toNazi symbols for third graders, that is
a little bit difficult. And sothe superintendent of the school district just pulled
it. Now the parents complained andbitched and moaned, which they should have
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I would do the same thing.And the superintendent said had nothing to do
with the parents. Even though theyhad practice it, they were going to
go forward with it. And thesuperintendent said, no, thank you.
And there are a couple of placeswhere maybe you don't want to produce plays,
produce musicals that have some of this. Now here's what the parents that
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were saying, this is simply censorship. And they're arguing that the place should
be the musicals should be produced.And they're saying, well, you have
to tell the kids you have toput it in context. And it's important
to start the discussion with your kids. Hey, I'll start the discussion with
my kids when it comes to whathappened with Nazi Germany and my father being
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a Holocaust survivor, on and onand on. But you know, this
is a six gray musical. Justforget about it. By the way,
they're not saying you can't do themusical, just can't wear the outfits.
And how important is it? Andhere is the argument. Let's say there
is a play in which somebody theytalk about hanging, they talk about lynching,
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because that's important historically. Do youdo it with six graders? Do
you do it so elementary school kidscan deal with it? Now? It's
important, It's critically important they learnabout it. I have no problem with
that. History has to be taught. Part of African American history in this
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country is the lynchings that took place. We have to know about it.
I think the last one was inthe twenties, if I'm not mistaken,
a hundred years ago. But it'sa musical. It's a sound of music.
It's kids dancing around the hills singing, you know I'm this time you
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forget about discussions, forget about historicalcontext, just don't do it. Why
they why they even allowed it inthe first places, beyond me, I
don't get it, you no doubthave. Of course you've heard of the
fight against wokeism, well, andeverybody has a different definition of woke,
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but woke the way I viewed itis basically looking at the history of United
States through the fact that we area racist society historically and even now,
and therefore we have to bring peoplein diversity, inclusion. We've been talking
a lot about that, and ifyou don't, it's woke. And one
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of the chief anti woke places isFlorida, because you have of the governor
running for president, Ronda Santis,who has said Florida is where woke comes
to die. All right, soyou figure that there wouldn't be a problem
in the private schools in Florida notteaching inclusion and diversity and the whole issue
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of what people call political correctness.Okay, that's over there. How about
here there is a school, veryhigh in private school, the Brentwood School
in la And this is where school, I mean, you pay it's like
fifty thousand dollars a year tuition forstudents first grade, third grade. I
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mean it gets pretty pricey. Andthis they were they send a huge number
of kids to Ivy League schools.I mean, this is a and it's
hard to get into. It's verydifficult. And it's all about sports,
a lot of sports and reading writingand Rittman Ti rit ritmatic. Jerome Eisenberg
as a parent and he enrolled hisdaughter at Brentwood and he's well off because
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how many people can pay fifty thousanddollars a year in tuition And he said
he expected her to get the traditionalliberal or liberal arts education. But and
this is across the country. Aftermurderer of George Floyd, he said that
the school was reimagining its purpose withan eye towards anti racism, diversity,
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equity and inclusion d EI. Andin fact that Brentwood was put Brentwood was
pulling a bait and switch on parents. So he's school sued the school for
breach of contract, civil rights violations, and emotional distress. That gets interesting.
Is he going to win? Probablynot, because private schools pretty well
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do what they do. I don'tthink that this is in the middle of
the semester when they did this school. The school officials aren't that dumb.
And what they say it here isour diversity, here's the way we are
teaching. And if you want tobe part of the school, fine,
you enroll your kid. If youdon't, fine you don't enroll your kid.
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So Brentwood succeeded in having the suitsent to private arbitration because that is
the contract. I remember my kidsgoing to a private school also, and
there was an arbitration arbitration clause inthere, and I was thinking of sending
my kids to Catholic school. Actually, you know Catholic school. I've always
been a huge fan of. Thisis just a quick aside because you get
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a phenomenal education. Those kids reallyget a great education, and it's subsidized
by the church, and the tuitionis probably a third of what it would
be, for example, in atraditional Jewish school where my kids ended up
going to. And it's amazing howmany Jewish kids parents send their kids to
school. There are some where wewent to school just down the hill where
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a huge number. And I said, you know what, I'm really thinking
about it, and I was tellingyou the kids, what do you think?
You know? The only thing iswhen you hear about Jesus, just
stick your fingers in your ears andgo la la la, la, la
la la, and you're going tosave a pile of money. But look
at when a Catholic school can teachalmost anything. Certainly it can. You
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imagine a public school cramming religion downanybody's throat, or a Catholic school cram
religion down the kids throat because that'swhat they're about. And private schools can
pretty well teach diversity or not andnot worry about kids civil rights because it's
a private school. So there isa lawyer, Sarah Goldsmith's Shorts of this
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huge law firm in Massachusetts who frequentlyrepresents schools against these kinds of lawsuits and
says there's an increased appetite for parentsusing the league process to fight for their
k their kids in a way thatjust never happened before. Ever. Now
you have the lawyer for Eisenberg,the father of the little girl, of
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the girl that went to Brentwood,and he said, the lawyer said,
you know, legal complaints against privateschools over diversity and inclusion have increased,
and as a matter of fact,the number that's being reported is actually far
less than the number is actually outthere because they go to arbitration and part
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of it are non disclosures where youdon't talk about it. So now you
know what you have. You havepitched legal and political battle just like just
like is happening across the country,and this one has to be in schools.
Now, in public schools, youcan see that because there's the issue
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of religion, separation of church andstate, the whole issue of diversity and
fighting against it. That is afight private school and not so much.
But there's a lawsuit, and there'smore and more happening, and parents determined
to challenge these schools. Private schoolsface a whole number of obstacles. First
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of all, if in public schoolsyou can argue that the government is infringing
on First Amendment rights, well reallynot. In private school you can always
bail out and you don't have asmany rights because parents give up those rights.
The school has a lot more controland you agree to it. I
remember the tuition agreement that I hadwith my kids school man. The school
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could pretty well do anything you wanted. Now, where is the lawsuit?
Forget about the civil rights lawsuit?Because I don't think that's going to fly.
But how about breach of contract.You promised to give my kids an
education, a traditional education, andwhat you're doing is giving them an education
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that is skewed and providing a politicalviewpoint that is diversity inclusion, and that
is not what schools do. Yeah, that one is. That's another tough
one too. And why well,because you've agreed to let the school teach
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its curriculum and even if you don'tget exactly what the curriculum is, if
they don't get the exact classes.A matter of fact, I think private
school they do give the exact classes. But the schools pretty well have have
the ability to do anything. Andagain the issue is if you don't like
it, go someplace else. Imean, you can always go to public
school. Now, the public schoolparents have a different issue because they really
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don't have a choice. Their kidshave to go to public school because they
don't have fifty thousand dollars a year. There's one school in Massachusetts that's sixty
thousand dollars a year year tuition.This is where Gwyneth Paltrow went. And
again, the same problem is havingis being had there so civil rights no
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breach of contract, no misrepresentation.No, And I'm going to end with
this. There is a US Senatorwho is a noted antidei crusader who sent
his kids to a Houston prep schoolthat teaches inclusion, Ted Cruz. That's
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where kids go to school where theyteach wokeism. Yep. The presidential race
and it's getting really interesting. It'snot so interesting on the Democratic side because
Joe Biden has it. He hasthe nomination for one rule, and that
is a rule that cannot be altered, you can't go against, and that
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is a sitting president of your ownparty. Running for president usually is the
second term. This time it's aterm between terms with Trump, but usually
running for a second term gets thenomination done. Finish. Now you got
the Republican side, and you wouldthink that it would be President Trump,
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former President Trump automatically getting it formerpresident, but keep in mind he's not
a president. There has been fouryears between that. That changes things pretty
dramatically. And then you have thepolarization. Are people just tired of it?
And you have the fatigue of presidentformer president Trump. He's a pretty
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controversial guy. He's going to godown in history. Is probably the most
unusual president that the United States hasever had, and so you've got a
bunch of people are going against him. If he were other than Donald Trump,
would there be a bunch of peopleI don't think so, not as
many as there are here. Oneof the most interesting one is Tim Scott,
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the first black Republican elected to theUS Senate from the South since reconstruction.
Reconstruction happened right after the Civil Warwhen you have Andrew Johnson, who
followed Abraham Lincoln, very anti South, very virulent anti black, I mean,
pro slavery vice president, who becamethe president, and it was just
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crazy in the South that he hada lot of African Americans who were elected
Senate to Congress people and it wasit was just a mess because nobody was
ready for it. There was politicaldissension. The South was considered traitorous.
So that's reconstruction. But let mego on and talk about who he is.
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He's a Republican. He has alreadyraised a ton of money. He's
about to spend five and a halfmillion dollars in an advertising blitz in Iowa
and New Hampshire, early nominating states, and he's portraying himself first of all,
as clearly an African American running onthe Republican slate. There aren't too
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many that are out there that areconservative Republicans. He is sort of an
outlier in the sense that he believesan inclusion, he believes in diversity.
He's very proud of having grown upin an African American home with his mother,
a single mom, working like adog to raise her kids. And
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look at now his success. He'sbeen a rising star in the GOP.
Now a message of hope and inclusionresonating with the Republican base. I don't
know, I think that's going togo any place. The number of Republicans
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running to take the nomination growing moreand more crowded, which only helps former
President Trump. You got Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie, both very well
known Republicans, are going to runclearly with Ron De Santis being probably the
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number one of the people that arerunning against former President Trump, against Donald
Trump, and he has nowhere nearthe numbers to get the nomination. And
so here's the bottom line I think, and that is Donald Trump has his
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base. One of the arguments thatthe Republicans, the other people running is
he's lost three times. Do wereally want a I mean, he lost
the Congress, he lost the presidency. It's well, okay, two times
he's lost, I think is theway they're painting it. Now. Do
we want to lose again? Andfor his base, it doesn't matter.
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He could lose ten times in arow and his base doesn't go away.
And his base is such that ifyou look at the numbers, it virtually
guarantees his nomination on the Republican ticketbecause there are so many other Republicans that
are running, and they just splitup the vote and it becomes a plurality.
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Who gets the most votes, whogets the most delegates, wins and
gets the nomination. So we're gonnabe hearing more and more, and in
the coming days, I'm going tobe telling you who is who else is
running for president? Who they are? This is for the Republican nomination.
And this one's going to get interestingbecause the Republican Party is it in the
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mess? Well, it's got somereal issues because you've got the trumpets.
You've got I won't say there's noleft wingers, of course, and the
very few moderates, but you havethe trumpets, and you have the non
trumpets. That's the Republican Party,and that we're going to cover a whole
lot more so, you gotta hearthe name Tim Scott a lot in the
coming months. If you were watchingthe NBA w NBA game on Friday,
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of course you saw Brittany Griner,who is probably the best woman basketball player
out there. She scored eighteen points, six rebounds, blocked four shots.
This was the first regular season gamesince me being jailed in Russia. She
was in the jail Russia for tenmonths, which of course you have to
know about and probably followed the story. You know what happened before the game.
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She stood up for the national anthem. Whoa Now keep in mind that
prior to Friday, prior to hergoing to prison, what she did was
not stand up for the national anthem. As a matter of fact, she
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stayed in the dressing room, inthe locker room before while the anthem was
played, and then she would goout and play the game. Because it
was a political statement. Because theUnited States is a country of racism.
We are a country that to treatAfrican Americans in such a way that they
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will never be equal to us,to us white people that were certainly not
looking at inclusion. We're just notinterested and almost doesn't matter what kind of
strides the civil rights movement has made. You know, while I have said
many many times the way African Americanshave been treated historically in this country as
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the original sin of the United States, I don't think you can argue that
huge strides have not been made.Now what of course she was asked about
it like crazy, and what shesaid, this is to ESPN. You
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have the right to protest, theright to be able to speak out,
question, challenge and do all ofthese things. What I went through and
everything, it just means a littlebit more to me now. I want
to be able to stand. Iwas literally in a cage and couldn't even
stand. Just remember the videos ofher. She had to literally bend down.
The cage was too small. Theway they do it in Russia and
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many other countries around the world isthey put you in the courtroom in a
cage. You're not sitting at atable. The way we handle it,
defense and prosecution and the defendant sittingat the defense table. Oh no,
no, no, they're in cageswhile the entire trial goes on or whatever.
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Hearing whatever motion, and all ofa sudden she says, I can
stand. That means a little bitmore to me. Now. I want
to be able to stand, justbeing able to hear my national anthem,
see my flag. I definitely wantto stand. Boy, has she changed
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her tune. All it takes isten months to the Russian prison, and
I'll sort of do it for you. Ten months and just charged and having
no access to family, having horriblefood, being treated as if you've already
been convicted, which is what happensin prison. I'm not saying that we
don't do pretty bad things to peoplein prison, but nothing like a fair
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trial, nothing like defendants are treatedin our country. So she said,
I definitely want to stand. Nownow everybody will not stand or not come
out, and I totally support themone hundred. That's all right. As
as an American in this great country. It's gone from this great country.
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I'm proud to be an American.It has now come to that versus what
a racist society we are and howwe had to in her case, she
had to not even accept or recognizethe national anthem because of what the United
States stood for. And if youknow, after ten months, she was
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exchanged for a convicted that she wastraded for the convicted Russian arms dealer Victor
Boot, who was probably responsible forkilling thousands of people. I mean he
supplied arms to virtually every dictator,every army in the world. She stayed
in July twenty twenty, she thinn'tthink the national anthem should even be played
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during the season at the w NBAGames, not that she was one of
the people that should sit out.It shouldn't even be played for anybody,
and she wouldn't come out on thecourt for the antem if it were to
continue to be played before the games, which it did. Now, I
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want to say something about this country, and I think Grinder now has an
appreciation for the United States that veryvery few people have. Very few Americans
have. One of the things aboutnative born Americans. And I'm saying this
because I am not a native bornAmerican. I am I am the children
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of immigrants. I am an immigrant. I came to this country when I
was five years old and saw myparents, who were true immigrants. They
came to this country because they adoptedthis country. My father tells the story
that when he was a teenager,he would watch movies and see the American
flag during newsreels and said I wantto go to America. I want to
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live in America. So for himas a lifelong dream, and they came
over and they were fanatic Americans.You look at immigrants who appreciate what this
country is about. And I thinkthat immigrants in people who have been in
jail for ten months in a Russianprison appreciate this country far more than people
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who have been born here and havelived in the states, in the United
States and have been the recipient ofthe freedoms we have here. And I
again, yeah, I don't wantto sound Pollyannish here. I understand we
have huge issues, as every placedoes. And I'm not an exceptionalist.
And you know that. And whenyou say the greatest country in the world,
I ask you in what category?And infant mortality, no, we're
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number twenty something. In healthcare no, not even close. An education,
no, not even close. Anopportunity, right at the top, in
freedoms, right at the top,in terms of being able to protest against
our government, right at the top. And for me, it certainly makes
the United States the greatest country inthe world in many aspects. But what
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happened here with Griner is she hasgone from an America that she was born
in, grown up and taken forgranted, and taken her political position to
one who is thinking basically like animmigrant. Boy. Am I lucky to
be in the United States? Wow? What a place this is? And
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of course I'm going to stand forthe national anthem. And if you look
at immigrants, and I do thiswhen I stand, I actually choke up
when I hear the national anthem.And I'm not one to show emotion when
it comes to out because I'm thebiggest cynic in the world and you know
it. But you know, comingfrom an coming from immigrants, having lived
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in a country where there isn't anywherenear this kind of freedom, or wasn't
when I was there, it's avery different place. So I welcome Brittany
Griner to the fold. Welcome aboard, Brittany. So Tuesday, eight o'clock,
what time is it? It's timefor Tech Tuesday with Rich de Murrow.
All the latest on gadgets and stuffwith KF Vice resident Handsome Nerd.
(26:29):
It's te tech Tuesday with Rich Jamiroand Welcome Rich Demurrow. Heard Saturday Morning,
eleven to twelve, Saturday at elevento two pm right here on KFI
and his social addresses at Rich onTech Morning, Rich, Hey, good
morning, Hugh Bill. All right, we have a you're gonna get right
to it. Replacing HBO Max isjust Max. First of all, why
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does anybody call anything max after theBoeing fiasco? I mean, I but
is it the same thing? It'sjust one of a group of letters just
removed. Well, it's slightly different. It's tough for me to tell what's
different exactly. But this is apparentlyHBO, Warner Brothers, Discovery. It's
(27:18):
all in one app now. Sothese companies continue to sort of merge and
mash and mold together. And sothey wanted a new identity for all of
their programming because HBO Max, whichis what it's called right now, is
too HBO specific. And there's alsostuff inside this app like TLC and HGTV
(27:38):
and Food Network, and you wouldnot think that if you're looking at HBO
Max on your TV screen. Sonow it's just called Max. Now.
The weird thing is there's still theHBO Max app. That's not going away
just yet, but I assume itwill eventually, and if you have HBO
Max, you have access to thenew Max starting today. Your same log
(28:00):
in works, all of your watchlists and everything follows over. Your pricing
stays the same, at least fornow. They're not saying when that's going
to change, but to entice peopleto change to a more expensive plan,
they're only offering the four K contentin the most expensive twenty dollars plan,
which is let's see, it usedto be fifteen ninety nine, so four
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dollars more for four K content.Yeah, I'm noticing we've talked about this
before, where cable and or satelliteused to particularly a streaming used to be
pretty cheap. Four ninety nine amonth, seven ninety nine a month.
Even Netflix was very cheap. Imean today you go through three or four
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or five of these things, you'repaying in the hundreds and hundreds of dollars
a month. I lived at thebill the other day, and I do
a lot of them like you do. I do Amazon, and what else
do I have? Certainly Netflix andHulu And there's a whole list about that
document entry one you had, Yeah, Curiosity channel, I do, what's
(29:03):
the one that has nat Geo Disneyplus I do because they have some stuff
that I really like. Yeah,yeah, you're right, I mean it
used to be. And look,here's the thing. A lot of these
still have cheaper plans and or they'readding cheaper plans. But I would say
kind of like the new price pointfor all of these services, what they
want you to pay is about twentydollars a month. You can for you
(29:26):
know, five to seven nine whateverthose are with commercials, and the entire
premise of streaming is no commercials,right, But we've talked about this.
The fastest growing area for streaming rightnow is with commercials. And do we
talk about the TV. Do wetalk about this the free TV that they're
giving away that now the entire premiseof the TV, there's a commercial bar
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at the bottom so you can seecommercials, and that pays for the TV.
It's it's you know, obviously it'sgotten very expensive to do to pick
up a fair number of streaming services, and I can understand price point is
a big deal. But to me, I mean, I've been an HBO
customer for years and Netflix for years, and I was actually one of the
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first ones. There was something calledthe Z channel. I don't know,
if you remember that the Z Channelwas very early I'm not telling Rich about
this now. The Z Channel wasvery early days, just the beginning of
cable, and it would show filmsthat were going to be up for We're
up for Academy Awards for the mostpart, because everybody who votes is in
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southern California and to get them togo see movies was not easy to do
to get people that were voting inthe Acamity Academy. So they had this
cable service, started the Z Channel, and then of course you had Netflix
and you had all the other streamingHBO started streaming, But in any case,
it's been around for a long time. And I'm of the old school,
(30:59):
and that is cable means no commercialsunless you watchable. I mean for
the premium channels, yes, andthat's what HBO really built its name upon.
That's what you know. Netflix ofcourse, famously, they're the ones
that really kind of did it forstreaming with no commercials. And now,
of course they have a commercial plan, and all the news services they all
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come out with some sort of planthat includes ads, which people seem to
be okay with doing. And youknow, obviously they like it free.
But if it's you know, tendollars a month for Netflix versus twenty and
you say, all right, final, I'll watch the ads, it may
not be the same programming either.Amazon's tablet as brand new, I'm assuming,
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and what's going on with that?So this is the fire tablet we
talked about Max. This is actuallycalled the Max as well. This is
the Fire Max eleven, Amazon's biggesttablet so far, eleven inch display.
It's also their most powerful tablet,which is fifty percent faster than the next
best one they make. Now here'sthe deal. This tablet seems and we
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haven't gone hands on just yet,but it seems like a very competitive device
because it starts at two hundred andthirty dollars, which is one hundred dollars
cheaper than the cheapest iPad. ButI think for kids playing games on an
iPad or on a tablet, Imight actually start recommending this one because it's
not that expensive. It's going tobe on sale or even cheaper ones,
(32:25):
you know, Amazon discounts it,and it actually seems like it's a very
good tablet, which I typically don'trecommend Amazon tablets because I don't like them.
They're too cheap and the software ispretty bad. Well, you know,
I look at these things and Ialways I don't pay attention to the
screen size because that's really easy todeal with. It's the thickness of the
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device itself and the cinner the better. And what are we looking at here?
Yeah, this one, I don'thave the let's see if five of
the stats on exactly how thin itis. No, but it is thinner
than before. It also is analuminum design, which is going to be
nicer. You know. The mostpopular Amazon tablet is like this Fire HD
eight. The thing sells for likeunder one hundred bucks, so a lot
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of parents will get it. Butit's just not very good. It's cheap,
but it feels cheap and it actscheap, so you know, it's
frustrating. This tablet, I feellike Amazon finally did their homework because there
is a sweet spot here of abouttwo hundred dollars, which makes it cheaper
than the iPad, but it haspretty much the features that you need.
(33:31):
I still think the applications on theiPad are going to be better. But
we've seen some other tablets come out. Notably, Google has a tablet coming
out next month, and so doesa company called One. Plus both of
those tablets are like double the priceof this, So it really puts those
companies on notice because you're getting apretty good device here for half the price
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of almost every tablet out there.One of the limitations of a tablet,
well, I think the biggest limitationis that this does not run Google Play.
And so what does that mean.It means that you can't go on
here and download your favorite Google appseasily. Now I say easily, because
yes you can, you can sideloadit it's Android, but that gets a
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little complicated. So if you wantsomething like the Gmail app, or the
Chrome web browser, or pretty muchany app that's inside Google Play, you
can't download it easily to this tablet. Amazon has their own app store,
kind of like what Apple has donewith their app store, but it's not
necessarily as vast as what you canget on the standard Android operating system app
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store. Yeah. I didn't evenwhen you talk about app stores, all
I do is think of on myiPhone, and it is Apple. I
didn't even know there was another appstore out there. Yeah, and if
you look at it, I mean, look, if you want to rate
sort of the app stores out there. Apple, I mean they invented the
entire genre of an app store.But now you have an app store that
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lives on iOS devices and Apple devices. You have Google, which is is
huge. I mean Google is hugeworldwide. I would say the apps are
sometimes a little bit better on iOS, sometimes they're a little bit better on
Android. Then you have Amazon,they have their own app store. Then
you have Windows, they have theirown app store for Windows computers. You
know, what does this tell youthat? I have been using an iPhone
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and that's it since they came out? Oh yeah, I mean, look
it makes sense. If you're onan iPhone, you're in the Apple ecosystem.
I get it. But I'm justtelling you that this is kind of
like what all of these manufacturers wantto do because there's money in this.
You know, Nintendo has their ownapp store on their devices, so it's
PlayStation does too. It's all aboutmoney, and that's really what it comes
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down to. Money and control.And of course, you know, if
you have a spectacular app, likea five star app, and it's not
available on your platform, you've gotsome negotiation power, right, So if
you say, hey, I've gotFortnite and they tried this with app fully
they took they yanked it off ofApple's operating system. Fortnite one of the
(36:05):
most popular games in the world,and they tried to make Apple agree to
some of their provisions, and Appleso far has not and Fortnite is not
playable. It's just not there.All right, Let's switch over for and
we do this all the time.And this is the part that I think
is probably the most valuable of thesegments that we do, and that people
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being scammed. And there's another level. And it doesn't matter whenever anything new
comes out that you mentioned. Withinprobably days, the scammers have come up
with the abial any security issue,it doesn't matter they come out. So
let's talk about this scams segment.Oh, this is this is I actually
really like this website. It's fromthe Better Business Bureau. It's called the
(36:52):
Scam Tracker. And we met upwith this woman who you know, she
wanted to adopt a cat. Sheended up getting She tried to buy a
cat through one of these Facebook groupsand you know, she got taken for
like I think it was fifteen hundredbucks. They first requested three hundred dollars
through Zel then another twelve hundred,and then when she was just about to
get this cat, or so shethought, they said, hey, can
(37:15):
we get another This is the bestpart, Bill, can we get another
five hundred dollars? We only needtwenty five, but we're going to reimburse
you the four seventy five when wesee you and give you this cat.
And she was like, That's whenshe realized, Um, this doesn't sound
right because that's a pretty common scam. Long story short, if she went
to this website searched the keyword kitten, she would have realized that there are
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thousands of people across the US thatare getting scammed with these kitten adoption scams,
and not really adoption. I feellike that's bad to use that term
because it's really what are they calledbreeders? Right, So it's when these
breeders try to try to or theytry to pretend they're a breeder. Anyway,
I've got it linked up on richon Tech dot TV. Tell your
family. If you all you needis a keyword, Just search the website
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for whatever thing you think is ascam, and if you think it sounds
too good to be true, putit in here. You will see stories
from across the US of people whosay, hey, I've I've got this
that happened to me or they triedto scam me. And it's a really
good resource. If you think it'stoo good to be true, a thirty
five cat. Well, look,people will pay for pets. I mean,
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I'm not advocating. You know,people will say you should adopt,
and still a lot of people dothese breeders, and these breeders bill can
be very very expensive. Yeah.No, I mean I know the world
of dogs, and I know thereare cats like hairless cats, where strangely
enough, you you would think youwould have you would pay for more hair
and you don't. With a harrowscat. Are quite understood that. I
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don't know. I yeah, that'skind of interesting, but I guess it's
probably like a rare breed. Idon't know. I'm just I'm pulling your
hairless foot, all right, Rich, Thank you, Saturday eleven to two
o'clock. Take care, We'll catchyou next Tuesday. Now, something that
has just been part of our livesfor ever as long as I can remember,
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well, certainly for the last bunchof years, has been with the
lack of water and the droughts,and I remember times by going all the
way back to the first the firstoh my god, my mind just went
first adminiterstation Jerry Brown and where wehad water shortages and we had to reduce
(39:29):
water usage. And just recently,you can't water your lawns, you couldn't
wash your cars, and of coursewe had these huge rains and all of
a sudden, all those restrictions aregone. So throughout all of this,
over the last several years, manyyears, the Colorado River is being sucked
up dry by southern California and theImperial Valley. We because we use so
(39:53):
much water, they because they growso much hay and alfalfa, and so
there has been an ongoing fight overthe use of Colorado River water. Now
not only is it geographical, andnot only did it have to do with
agricultural versus urban it also has todo with treaties with the Indian tribes and
(40:15):
agreements that go back one hundred,one hundred and twenty years between the states.
And one of the reasons we getall the water, or the vast
majority of the water is we arefirst up when it comes to water rights.
It's first up, first served,and so the other states have gone
away a minute, Arizona Nevada hassaid, hang on a minute, that's
(40:38):
not the way it works. Sothis has been negotiations. I mean it's
gone on and on and on,and there have been intense negotiations. And
finally, well they couldn't come toa deal the Sphery estates and the water
districts and the Indian tribes. Sothey couldn't come to a deal. Federal
(40:59):
government comes in and says, Okay, here is the deal we're going to
make all about a reduction in watervarious places. The amount of the percentage
that was going to be reduced somethirteen percent, some eighteen percent, some
twenty five percent. And so thestates couldn't come to a deal. Federal
government comes in and says, okay, we're gonna make you a deal,
(41:19):
and this is the deal we're cutting. The states come back and go,
no, we don't like that dealeither. And after i mean intense negotiations
for about a year this last goaround, they came up with a deal.
They absolutely came up with a deal, and it's going to be a
reduction of water used by California,Nevada, Arizona, the farmers particularly going
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to get hit by this. Thefarmers are not particularly get hit by this
because they're going to be paid realmoney for not growing. We're not receiving
water and the federal government is writingthose checks. So how effected are we
here in southern California. Not atall. We're the ones that have lucked
(42:05):
out. It's not going to affectus one iota, and that is a
good news. The rest of thestate. The farmers, you bet,
but not us. So the newsis they finally sat down. The fun
part is is no deal. Federalgovernment comes in. No deal, States
go back to the original plan.Okay, we have ourselves in agreement.
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All great news. All right,let's finish the program with the topic that's
near and dear to my heart.Number one, you know, is death.
I love death. Number two delisare very near dear to my heart.
There's nothing better than needing a pastramisandwich at a funeral. I mean,
that's sort of the top of thelist. And then I'm sorry,
(42:49):
I said, wow, oh yeah, aspirations unlimited there here, No,
it's yeah, if you've ever beenwith me at a funeral, it's a
lot of fun. And the otherissue that I love to talk about religion,
and I do that a lot.And the question that I often ask,
actually I mutter it under my breath, is do you believe in God?
(43:13):
And you'd say most people do believein God? Would you guess that?
By the way, Jennifer, Yes, all right? How about this?
Half Americans say that they are sureGod exists. Half don't even know
what kind of God. In sevenpercent don't think there's a God at all.
Interesting, and that number keeps ongoing up. There is something called
(43:37):
the General Social Survey that's done everyyear and ask questions like this, and
just a little bit under fifty percentAmericans say they have no doubt about the
existence of God. It's just whatdoes God look like? There was a
released justice study released by Universe ofChicago, and this is some information taken
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in twenty twenty two, and asrecently as two thousand and eight, the
share of sure believers topped sixty percent. Now it's under fifty percent. Thirty
four Americans thirty four percent never goto church, and that's the highest figure
recorded in fifty years of this.So there is a historic decline in the
(44:24):
nation's Christian population. I want topoint that out. Muslims are doing fine
in terms of growth. I meanthere aren't too many. Jews are doing
okay. Moonies are doing spectacular becausethey don't have to buy pants and so
they thank you che sec Okay,fair enough. But even the weird religions
(44:49):
are doing okay. But the Christianpopulation is dropping. For example, white
evangelical procedent Protestants, right, thathas gone from twenty three percent to fourteen
percent. This is two thousand andsix. I mean that is dropping precipitously.
And Whites have fallen from eighteen tofourteen percent. Catholics have gone down.
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Now a quick point, it's notto say Americans are not spiritual.
Three quarters of people believe in lifeafter death. Now that one I don't
understand. I really don't. It'slike Poltergeist. So I don't get it.
Jennifer, do you believe there's lifeafter death? Yeah, it's called
heaven. I'm not going to heaven. If there is a heaven, you
(45:34):
know that. Oh, I knowthat. Okay, that's why it's called
heaven. That's why it's called heaven. Here's a question, why is everybody
on the right hand side of Jesusdo you know how many people have died,
they're on the right hand side,and if you're on the left hand
side, aren't she just much thatmuch closer? Am I missing something?
All? Right? Now? Movingon? It's most Christians do believe.
(45:59):
It's amazing how people believe there islife after death, some kind of reincarnation
or heaven. And a political scientistwho has studied this Eastern Illinois University says
belief is very stubborn in American society. Either way, membership and church has
gone down, Church attendance has gonedown, Belief in God has gone down,
(46:20):
particularly since the pandemic. But thetrend away from organized religion that goes
way back. Organized religion is justhaving a tough time. You Know,
what I find interesting about Americans isthat there's even much organized religion out there,
especially as the polarization comes through.You've got people who are right wing
(46:42):
and don't believe in institutions, becauseinstitutions are the bad guys. I mean,
we're told, well, they liketo be told what to do in
many cases, but it's the institutionthat's the deep state. Even in religion,
unless you're an evangelical Christian, thenthe institution is fine. I mean
(47:06):
it's so it's all over the placewhen it comes from religion in this country,
and we are getting more and wellless and less religious, but we
actually are more religion religious than alot of countries, a lot of countries
out there. You go to Europeand you talk about the people who claim
(47:28):
no religion in the US is nineteenpercent, Germany is twenty six percent believe
in or don't believe in religion atall. Britain thirty one percent don't believe,
China fifty two percent. Now thatmakes sense with China because China has
During the communist era, the atheismwas part of the culture. I mean
(47:49):
that was part of the state plan. If you believed in a god or
advocated it, you couldn't be inthe Communist Party. Japan sixty claim no
religion in Russia A lot of peopledo. In Italy a lot well,
Italy, you know what, theCatholic Church, a lot of people do.
(48:12):
So it turns out then more peoplebelieve in a god or some kind
of god or spirituality, which I'venever understood. I'mpecially expecting Jenna to say
something at this point, so sorry, we're uh, it's doesn't matter.
(48:34):
It doesn't. No, I'm goingto hell, that's all. That's the
bottom line, and you know that. So I'm not territual. I'm none
of it. All right, We'redone, guys. I could have gone
on and on with that, butI just wanted to throw a stat or
two out there for you about theexistence of God, and someday we'll discuss
whether there really is a God ornot. Yeah, of course there is.
(48:54):
Well if there if there is aGod, he's behind the counter of
Brents. Okay that right now,your higher power can be wherever you need
him to be. Handle. Thankyou so much. Makes me feel so
special. Coming up, Gary andShad, Oh real quickly, I'm taking
phone calls for Handle on the laweight hundred five two zero eleven fifty.
(49:15):
Eight hundred five two zero eleven fiftystarting a just a moment. In the
meantime, Gary and Shannon are upnext. Shannon, what's going on?
We have so much going on today. We have an update on that U
haul crash near the White House.They don't like it when you run your
U haul into the barriers outside ofthe White House. Also, that cop
that was molesting relatives and kids athis house. He's been whacked. Don't
(49:37):
tell me that was a natural causedeath. Also the latest when it comes
to performance crimes. Have you heardabout this? TikTok given rise to look
at me. I'm committing a crimeand it's all live on TikTok. Yeah.
I love it, every bit ofit. All right, that's Gary
and Shannon coming up right here kfive am, six forty live everywhere on
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