October 9, 2025 • 9 mins
Tech Talk w/ Marc Salzman: Mark Saltzman joins the show to discuss the newest wave of ads coming to your $1,800 Samsung fridge, how Meta is using your AI chats to target you with ads, and the best remaining Fall Prime Day deals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had some time to kill and I made my
way through too many episodes of Love Is Blind and
everybody hates this season and hates everybody on this show
from the go, and I did two, but for some reason,
I fell into another episode and I took that. I
took the drugs. I took the drugs. I took the
Love Is Blind drugs and I got hooked. And I've
(00:21):
been telling people who are like, no, I'm not watching it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I hate everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm like, you have to make it to episode four
because honestly, it is insane what happens and Love is Blind.
They've gone too far. It's too much. It is cringe.
It was like I'm cringing. I hit pause, going I
can't do this anymore. I can't watch this play.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh my god. I get to it pause like.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And it's it's And I feel bad that I'm trying
to sell people on this because I want them to
have to live through episode four the way I had
to live through it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
At the top of next hour, we're going to do
our trending stories. Also the bane of my existence, these
e bikes that have become so fast, so big, and
kids rolling around have no idea how dangerous they are
because I'm an old man and I need you to
get off my lawn.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But first, it's tech Talk. The machines are getting smarter.
This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And Mark Saltzman joins us on Thursdays to talk about
tech and everything that is going on.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Mark, how's it been?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah? All good? Yeah, I'm good, all right on my
phone instead of our fancy box. That makes it sound
like I'm in the studio with you. But hopefully it
sounds good enough to our listeners. Good to chow with you.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, just sound great. One of the things I was
just talking with Shannon off the air about a doorbell
video doorbell thing, and it can help you with your hoa,
it can help you with your neighbors, it can help
you solve crimes, and now it can help you find
missing pets.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, So I was at Amazon's event in New York
last week where they showed off new hardware, including their
new ring video doorbells, and one of the features that's
coming next month is it's opt in. But should you
miss be missing your dog, let's say he or she
escapes in the neighborhood. You can push a message out
(02:20):
to those who have opted into this feature to the community,
to your neighborhood, and if the doorbell recognizes the dog
using AI, it will tell the owner that it's there.
And if you are the homeowner who owns that ring doorbell,
you would hopefully bring the dog in and contact the person,
which is all part of this opt in feature. But
(02:42):
you know, according to Amazon, millions of pets go missing
every year in the country. And so if this can
you play a small part to reunite your dog and
soon to other animals as well. But it's starting with dogs.
It's it's a move in the right direction. Yeah, So
this is going to be part of the new ring
service will be coming starting November.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Do you have a dog.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
We are dog sitting right now, a one hundred and
seventy pound Bernese Mountain dog named Moguli. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Is that the kind of dog that has the little
keg of liquor on it?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I think that's I think that's a that's a cousin
to the Saint Bernardo.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is this from the Jungle Book?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, my niece named named him that, And yeah, the neighbors.
But he's the most docile, biggest dog you've you've seen.
He just looks at other dogs that yelp around him.
When I took him out for a walk this morning,
he doesn't even looks at them for a second, in
turns keeps walking like he does no interest in engaging.
But yeah, he's big and he's hairy. But so yeah,
(03:46):
a robot vack is is on over overtime over time
right now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But he's so docile.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, Mogli's the best.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Wow man, how old is?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
He turned seven? Last week right before she went out
of town. She made him liver a liver based birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yum yum, yum, yum yum.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Would say that, yes, there's a bunch of a bunch
of the Amazon stuff that you were talking about. There's
an article from the National Post that that we will
also throw a link up to. But I was also
interested in Meta using your conversations with its AI chatbot
in order to turn around and market products to you.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
They're going to sell you stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So there's been, as you would expect, some pushback on this,
and the details are still a bit vague. But companies,
even though they're raking in like countless, uh countless millions,
if not billions, all the big tech companies that they
still want more. So we're seeing that a saying that
they want to customize as that you're seeing based on
(05:01):
what you're writing, but not knowing that it's you Gary
or you Shannon. It's it's it's like anonymized, but they
still know that you're interested in something and they're going
to cater things to you. Now, there's obviously we're going
to see if this actually rolls out. And similarly, I
read today that Samsung with their new fridges, you know,
(05:21):
they have these screens on them. They're going to these
fridges start at eighteen hundred dollars. They're going to start
displaying ads and promotions on the screen for you based
on your case literally, which is obviously very upsetting to.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Some people as well.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I mean, it just does an end we're paying for
you know, we talked about Amazon a moment ago. We're
paying for Amazon Prime, and now they're putting ads back
into the TV shows and movies unless you pay more.
But we're already paying for Amazon Prime. So yeah, this
is a trend. That's a disturbing trend, but it could
be the way it's gonna go. Yay. Meta Meta is
(06:03):
so big and they make so much money, with the
exception of WhatsApp because there aren't really ads yet on
WhatsApp that's like, but everything else like threads and Facebook
and Instagram that feeds the WhatsApp, you know, because that's
that's the one they haven't really monetized yet. So this
it's it's gonna we're going to start seeing more stuff
on WhatsApp for us.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Unfortunately, Amazon's having its Prime Days of course, and there's
always great tech products that you can get during Amazon
Prime Days. Any suggestions, Yeah, there's a couple.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
So today's the last day of their Fall Prime Day,
So if you are looking to buy some holiday gifts
a little bit earlier, then you may have anticipated a
couple of ones I'd rattle off here. Apple air Tags
a four pack for sixty five bucks is thirty four
percent off. That's a really great price, so if you
(06:55):
you do have to be an iPhone user, but they're
the best bluetooth tracker, I would argue. I just wrote
an article yesterday for Costco Connection magazine about air Tag,
so yeah, certainly the best to track all of your stuff.
From your suitcase, to your wallet, to your purse, even
your TV remote or your furry friend, even though Apple
tells you not to put them on dog leashes for
fear that they may swallow them, which is a good point,
(07:17):
but that's a really good price. The Anchor Laptop power
Bank for ninety dollars, which is forty five dollars off,
is a power bank that you would use typically to
charge up your phone or your tablet, but it has
so much power that it can also power up your laptop.
So if you have a laptop with the USBC connection,
this little power bank that you would carry with you,
(07:38):
is a twenty five million amp power bank, which is
a lot and it will charge up the laptop so
you don't have to bring a power cable with you
on a business trip. If you know, or if you're
on a plane and it does not have an AC
outlet in front of you can use that power bank.
The Roku Streaming Stick Plus is only twenty four dollars,
(08:00):
is forty percent off. That is one of the best
streaming devices. To turn a regular TV into a smarter one.
Just plug it into the side or the back and
again for twenty four bucks, you can't go wrong. That's
a good stocking stuffer. And then finally, the Shark AI
robot vacuum with a self emptying base is fifty eight
percent off down to under two thirty. So this is
(08:23):
an AI powered robot back that you do not need
to keep cleaning the or emptying the the dust bin
underneath the robot itself. It will drive itself to a
base that's plugged into the wall, where it not only recharges,
but dumps all that dust and pet hair and dirt
into another bag that you only have to clean every
month or so. So good, some good deals there on
(08:45):
Amazon today.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So I can I get a robot to empty the
bag that stuff goes in and I don't have.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
To take out the trash, take out the freaking track, right,
that's so little of you.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Come on, wow, Mark, we're really getting lazy. Yeah, thank
you so much, Mark.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
And to you have a great wrest your Thursday.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thanks you too.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Make sure you follow Mark on x m arc Underscore
Saltsman Mark Saltzman with a Z all right, coming back,
you big better.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
My dad taught me about parlays as a youth, and
I've not stopped thinking about them and dreaming about them
and playing them, since parlays are nothing but fun.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But it's a big if game.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
If this happens, and if this happens, and if this happens,
and if this happens, then you could be in the money.
But how much fun is it to think about such
a big win off of such a little money.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Gary and Channon will continue
I had some time to kill and I made my
way through too many episodes of Love Is Blind and
everybody hates this season and hates everybody on this show
from the go, and I did two, but for some reason,
I fell into another episode and I took that. I
took the drugs. I took the drugs. I took the
Love Is Blind drugs and I got hooked. And I've
(00:21):
been telling people who are like, no, I'm not watching it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I hate everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm like, you have to make it to episode four
because honestly, it is insane what happens and Love is Blind.
They've gone too far. It's too much. It is cringe.
It was like I'm cringing. I hit pause, going I
can't do this anymore. I can't watch this play.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh my god. I get to it pause like.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And it's it's And I feel bad that I'm trying
to sell people on this because I want them to
have to live through episode four the way I had
to live through it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
At the top of next hour, we're going to do
our trending stories. Also the bane of my existence, these
e bikes that have become so fast, so big, and
kids rolling around have no idea how dangerous they are
because I'm an old man and I need you to
get off my lawn.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But first, it's tech Talk. The machines are getting smarter.
This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And Mark Saltzman joins us on Thursdays to talk about
tech and everything that is going on.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Mark, how's it been?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah? All good? Yeah, I'm good, all right on my
phone instead of our fancy box. That makes it sound
like I'm in the studio with you. But hopefully it
sounds good enough to our listeners. Good to chow with you.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, just sound great. One of the things I was
just talking with Shannon off the air about a doorbell
video doorbell thing, and it can help you with your hoa,
it can help you with your neighbors, it can help
you solve crimes, and now it can help you find
missing pets.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, So I was at Amazon's event in New York
last week where they showed off new hardware, including their
new ring video doorbells, and one of the features that's
coming next month is it's opt in. But should you
miss be missing your dog, let's say he or she
escapes in the neighborhood. You can push a message out
(02:20):
to those who have opted into this feature to the community,
to your neighborhood, and if the doorbell recognizes the dog
using AI, it will tell the owner that it's there.
And if you are the homeowner who owns that ring doorbell,
you would hopefully bring the dog in and contact the person,
which is all part of this opt in feature. But
(02:42):
you know, according to Amazon, millions of pets go missing
every year in the country. And so if this can
you play a small part to reunite your dog and
soon to other animals as well. But it's starting with dogs.
It's it's a move in the right direction. Yeah, So
this is going to be part of the new ring
service will be coming starting November.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Do you have a dog.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
We are dog sitting right now, a one hundred and
seventy pound Bernese Mountain dog named Moguli. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Is that the kind of dog that has the little
keg of liquor on it?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I think that's I think that's a that's a cousin
to the Saint Bernardo.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is this from the Jungle Book?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, my niece named named him that, And yeah, the neighbors.
But he's the most docile, biggest dog you've you've seen.
He just looks at other dogs that yelp around him.
When I took him out for a walk this morning,
he doesn't even looks at them for a second, in
turns keeps walking like he does no interest in engaging.
But yeah, he's big and he's hairy. But so yeah,
(03:46):
a robot vack is is on over overtime over time
right now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But he's so docile.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, Mogli's the best.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Wow man, how old is?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
He turned seven? Last week right before she went out
of town. She made him liver a liver based birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yum yum, yum, yum yum.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Would say that, yes, there's a bunch of a bunch
of the Amazon stuff that you were talking about. There's
an article from the National Post that that we will
also throw a link up to. But I was also
interested in Meta using your conversations with its AI chatbot
in order to turn around and market products to you.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
They're going to sell you stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So there's been, as you would expect, some pushback on this,
and the details are still a bit vague. But companies,
even though they're raking in like countless, uh countless millions,
if not billions, all the big tech companies that they
still want more. So we're seeing that a saying that
they want to customize as that you're seeing based on
(05:01):
what you're writing, but not knowing that it's you Gary
or you Shannon. It's it's it's like anonymized, but they
still know that you're interested in something and they're going
to cater things to you. Now, there's obviously we're going
to see if this actually rolls out. And similarly, I
read today that Samsung with their new fridges, you know,
(05:21):
they have these screens on them. They're going to these
fridges start at eighteen hundred dollars. They're going to start
displaying ads and promotions on the screen for you based
on your case literally, which is obviously very upsetting to.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Some people as well.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I mean, it just does an end we're paying for
you know, we talked about Amazon a moment ago. We're
paying for Amazon Prime, and now they're putting ads back
into the TV shows and movies unless you pay more.
But we're already paying for Amazon Prime. So yeah, this
is a trend. That's a disturbing trend, but it could
be the way it's gonna go. Yay. Meta Meta is
(06:03):
so big and they make so much money, with the
exception of WhatsApp because there aren't really ads yet on
WhatsApp that's like, but everything else like threads and Facebook
and Instagram that feeds the WhatsApp, you know, because that's
that's the one they haven't really monetized yet. So this
it's it's gonna we're going to start seeing more stuff
on WhatsApp for us.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Unfortunately, Amazon's having its Prime Days of course, and there's
always great tech products that you can get during Amazon
Prime Days. Any suggestions, Yeah, there's a couple.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
So today's the last day of their Fall Prime Day,
So if you are looking to buy some holiday gifts
a little bit earlier, then you may have anticipated a
couple of ones I'd rattle off here. Apple air Tags
a four pack for sixty five bucks is thirty four
percent off. That's a really great price, so if you
(06:55):
you do have to be an iPhone user, but they're
the best bluetooth tracker, I would argue. I just wrote
an article yesterday for Costco Connection magazine about air Tag,
so yeah, certainly the best to track all of your stuff.
From your suitcase, to your wallet, to your purse, even
your TV remote or your furry friend, even though Apple
tells you not to put them on dog leashes for
fear that they may swallow them, which is a good point,
(07:17):
but that's a really good price. The Anchor Laptop power
Bank for ninety dollars, which is forty five dollars off,
is a power bank that you would use typically to
charge up your phone or your tablet, but it has
so much power that it can also power up your laptop.
So if you have a laptop with the USBC connection,
this little power bank that you would carry with you,
(07:38):
is a twenty five million amp power bank, which is
a lot and it will charge up the laptop so
you don't have to bring a power cable with you
on a business trip. If you know, or if you're
on a plane and it does not have an AC
outlet in front of you can use that power bank.
The Roku Streaming Stick Plus is only twenty four dollars,
(08:00):
is forty percent off. That is one of the best
streaming devices. To turn a regular TV into a smarter one.
Just plug it into the side or the back and
again for twenty four bucks, you can't go wrong. That's
a good stocking stuffer. And then finally, the Shark AI
robot vacuum with a self emptying base is fifty eight
percent off down to under two thirty. So this is
(08:23):
an AI powered robot back that you do not need
to keep cleaning the or emptying the the dust bin
underneath the robot itself. It will drive itself to a
base that's plugged into the wall, where it not only recharges,
but dumps all that dust and pet hair and dirt
into another bag that you only have to clean every
month or so. So good, some good deals there on
(08:45):
Amazon today.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So I can I get a robot to empty the
bag that stuff goes in and I don't have.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
To take out the trash, take out the freaking track, right,
that's so little of you.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Come on, wow, Mark, we're really getting lazy. Yeah, thank
you so much, Mark.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
And to you have a great wrest your Thursday.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thanks you too.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Make sure you follow Mark on x m arc Underscore
Saltsman Mark Saltzman with a Z all right, coming back,
you big better.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
My dad taught me about parlays as a youth, and
I've not stopped thinking about them and dreaming about them
and playing them, since parlays are nothing but fun.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But it's a big if game.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
If this happens, and if this happens, and if this happens,
and if this happens, then you could be in the money.
But how much fun is it to think about such
a big win off of such a little money.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Gary and Channon will continue
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