September 30, 2025 • 24 mins
KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich covers Amazon Prim Day, Windows 10, ChatGPT parental controls, and body cameras for retail workers. The Charlie Kirk suspect appeared in court and didn't offer a plea... Why people plead 'not guilty.'
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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AM six forty Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Here.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is a Tuesday morning, man, what a tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It is the peace plan that was and I use
the word planned fairly loosely, that was promulgated yesterday between
Natanyahu and Israel and bringing Hamas is going to go
no place. The government shuts down tonight at midnight, and
(00:35):
we'll talk more about that tomorrow. I'm going to talk
a little bit about Charlie Kirk and later on if
we have time. And we had Pete Hegseith that gave
his speech and we were expecting and then the President
also came in at the end of it and gave
his talk, and that one is just very typical Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And Hegseth was very specific.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I mean, there's no question and he followed the script.
He followed the rule book the president as he does
when tangily went off script.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And I'll talk about that coming up, because that's fun.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay, guess what is Taco Tuesday. Actually it's Tech Tuesday
with Rich Demurrow. He's heard every Saturday eleven am to
two pm right here at Kfi rich on Tech.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He every day is on KTLA.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You can follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech website,
rich on tech dot tv, and on Tuesdays he is
with us.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Good morning, rich Good morning to you, Bill, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I had a great time sorta I actually should have
talked about that. Yeah, it was like, you know, not
as good as I thought it would be. Okay, well,
all right, so much for that. Okay, Prime Day, well,
Prime week, well, Prime month is here and then soon
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to be Prime year next year. It's about a week away.
What I know is getting ridiculous, isn't it. What are
what are we looking at? What do we expect to see?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, okay, so this happens on October seventh and October eighth,
So that is next. Let's see here. That is next
Tuesday and Wednesday. So as always, you know, Amazon is
promising millions upon millions of deals on various items in
all the categories. But there are a few things you
can do right now. They've got a fifteen dollars off
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a fifty five dollars purchase at Amazon Fresh, so get
that wall. At last, they just closed all the Amazon
Fresh stores over in the UK. No word if that
will impact what we have going on here, but we
know that the grocery business is very, very tricky, especially
in southern California. So fifteen dollars off fifty five dollars
or more there. Amazon Music Unlimited, they're giving four months
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free for new users, so if you haven't ever subscribed,
you can get four months for free, which is I
think that's the best I've seen with that. Usually it's
about three months is the max. And then one medical
Have you heard about this one medical bill? It's like
Amazon's medical facilities.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No, I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I did hear something about how if you sign up
you get one free surgery and then no not true, No,
I haven't heard about it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Actually it's so it's basically like their clinics around They've
got them all over the place. But yeah, they it's
like they're you know, it's like a doctor, but Amazon style.
So it's like on demand, you can do it on
your phone, you can go into the place. Everything is digital.
It's actually pretty cool. I use them, so I know
firsthand it's very efficient. Thirty dollars off your first year
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there you do have to pay, like I think it's
ninety nine dollars a year. Plus you know your healthcare
fees or whatever, so thirty dollars off your first year
there if you want to try that. And then the
other thing to know is that if you have one
of these Alexa devices, you might get an invitation for
this thing called Alexa Plus. So if you're a Prime member,
it is free. Wise it's twenty dollars a month. I
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don't think anyone should ever pay for this. I would
just go with Prime because it's one forty a year.
But Alexa Plus. Have been testing it on my devices
and it is great. It's like an AI version of Alexa.
The only thing to know, Bill is when I mentioned
this on my radio show over the weekend, people were saying,
if you have smart home stuff, like a lot of
smart home stuff, Alexa Plus may may not be as
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good as the standard Alexa or I guess the old
school Alexa just yet. So maybe don't switch if you
have a ton of routines or things that you're turning
on and off with Alexa. But she's very good with information,
speaking to you in natural language and understanding things. In fact,
I asked it to play Kfi, which you usually had
to say something like very specific, like play Kfi on
(04:45):
iHeartRadio or whatever. Now you can just say play Kfi
and it works like a charm. It's really really good.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, that's a huge deal that there is a Nobel
prize there where you say, instead of play Kfi on iHeart,
all you have to do is say play Kfi.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Excellent.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Let me ask you a quick question legitimately, and that
is Prime Day used to be a big, big deal
when it first came out. I'm assuming it has lost
a lot of its luster in terms of the deals themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Am I right on that? You know?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I actually would disagree. I think last Prime Day was
the best deals that I've seen in a while. Like, well,
let's put it this way, the most deals because here's
the thing, Bill, every single person that sells on Amazon
knows that shoppers are coming with their wallets open on
these two days. They are looking to spend money. Now.
I know people come to Amazon every day, but this
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is a day where if you're like, all right, I
need a new blender, I need a new coffee maker,
I need clothes for school, I need gifts for the holidays,
And so they come with open arms, in an open
wallet to say, just give me these deals. And so
it's actually on these sellers on Amazon to give you
a good deal, like the onus is on them to say, hey, yes,
we're giving you our best deal of the year, so
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buy this thing right now, and that in turn brings
up the sales. The other thing is put this stuff
in your car. I give the same advice every single
three weeks when Prime Day starts again, put the stuff
that you want in your carts now so that you
can check for price drops. Already I'm seeing price drops
on things on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Hey, but in terms of margins, So let's say you
had this huge deal and people coming with wallets and
they expect really good prices, and that has to hit
the profit margins.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I mean it has to.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And is it worth it for your vendors, because I
know people that won't use and you know people in
business won't use Amazon anymore they don't make enough money.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, no, I think that is a consideration for sure.
In fact, I was searching for something on Amazon yesterday
and I noticed because Amazon rides a fine line, right
you search for Q tips if you get Amazon's brand
of Q tips every single time. That's what Q Tips
is going to do. They're going to say, we're not
selling on here anymore because you're just promoting your own stuff.
Every time someone searches for Huggies or you know whatever,
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you're promoting your own diapers. So it's interesting that Amazon
rides a very fine line of how they promote their
own stuff, which of course they make more money on.
Kind of like Costco. You go into Costco, you see
the stuff that's Kirkland brand right next to the regular
dog food from the main brand. So, you know, I
think that it really comes down to individual sellers. If
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they don't want to deal with Amazon, don't. But I
will tell you Amazon is a huge platform and something
that really can't be ignored.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Let's go into the this one I find fascinating.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
There's a few other things that we have to cover,
but body cameras for retail workers. Now, what does that
say about life in the retail world.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, it can be dicey. I mean we've all been
somewhere where I was at I won't say the retailer,
but you know, people were getting angry and they were yelling,
they were causing a scene, and you know this happens
all the time, especially in a big city like Los Angeles.
I mean, but it happens everywhere. We see it on
the news, We show the video, and I think retailers
have gotten really good with security cameras, but this is
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the next level. We know cops have these body cameras. Now, Axon,
the same company, is making a retail and healthcare worker bodycam.
It's called the Axon Body Workforce Mini. Now, they had
a new They had a model of this because I
remember covering it on KTLA last year, but it was
much bigger and bulkier. This one is way smaller and
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lighter and easier. So basically you wear it on your chest,
just like a police officer would, and it records for
up to or It has twelve hour battery life, so
you know it can record pretty much any situation that
you encounter during your retail shift or your nurse shift.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah. Finally find that fascinating, especially if you're looking at
the technology, because is it one of those tiny little
cameras that are, you know, the size of a button.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I wouldn't say it's that small because it has a
battery and a little display on it, so but it's
it's small enough but here's the thing. It's visible. So
you know, I think that there's two sides of this.
First off, it's a little concerning to see someone wearing that,
you know, like let's say a big retailer adopted this
and every single employee has this on. You know, it
would feel a little bit unnerving. You know, we're in
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this world of like, okay, are we just waiting for
something to happen at every moment? But the reality is
there's cameras everywhere. I mean, every single place has cameras.
I mean even if you go to construction sites, there's cameras, retail, outdoor, indoor.
They're just blanketing our streets at this point, and so
the next logical place to put them as people that
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are interacting with other people. But I do think it's
a little unerving to see that.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
How sound quality, because that's really important too.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, yeah, I think the audio and video quality is
probably the most important aspect of this. And they're saying
that the there's two way voice so which means you
can instantly alert supervisors with the audio so they can
and they can also stream the video from this device
as well. So I mean there's a lot of thought
that went into these for the retail or healthcare. I
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mean they're saying grocery stores, hospitals, and retail chains. So
you know, it just it gives that evidence that is
hard evidence. You know, if someone says, hey, this is
what happened, and you say this is what happened. The
camera doesn't lie. It knows what happened. And now you
have a way of capturing this every single time.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, life is changing. All right.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Let me move over to something that we didn't talk about,
but it's really interesting. The Galaxy ring battery scare YouTubers.
The Galaxy smart ring battery, well, does it ignite fingers,
So you literally have a mini tiki torch as you're
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wearing this thing.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That's scary. That's a scary thought. So we've been talking
about smart rings there, no doubt, very very popular. Aura
makes the most popular one, but Samsung came out with
one called the Galaxy Ring and I wore this thing.
I tested it, and I thought about the idea that
you're wearing battery on your wrist or with the Apple Watch,
and then on your finger at all times. So it
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just kind of crazy. Anyway, this YouTuber was in Hawaii,
his name's Zone of Tech and his Galaxy rings. Battery
swelled while it was on his finger. Happened right before
a flight, so they wouldn't even let him on the plane.
He had to go to a hospital that used ice
and medical grade lubricant to remove the ring, and when
he took it off, it showed that the inside of
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it was really bulging and warped, so the battery did
have some sort of issue. Samsung says this is extremely rare.
Customer safety is a top priority. Of course, we don't
know why this happened. Could have been the heat, could
have been the salt water, could have been a bunch
of flights, could have been a faulty battery. But it's
just a warning that you are wearing a battery on
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you at all times when you have one of these
smart rings or a watch on your wrists. We haven't
seen any issues with the Apple Watch, been ten years
of that. That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Now you just throw me a softball. Of course, with
the medical grade lubricant. And since you test everything, rich,
can you tell me the difference between medical grade and regular.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You need a lot less and it's much more viscous.
So the viscosity. It's just much more effect. We had
a ball with this on KTLA as well. No one
could say medical grade lubricant without you know, people, even
adults going wild. So I didn't know there was a
difference between medical grade and you know, the daily stuff,
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but there clearly is.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, clearly, all right, we are done. Great fun.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So Rich is here Saturday, eleven am to two pm
KTLA every day on Instagram. It's at rich on tech website,
which is so full of information. And what the hell
was that? Oh, here we go, my phone is doing
weird things. In any case, the website full of information.
(13:22):
I was there, and of course that is rich on
tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Rich. We'll catch you next week. We'll catch on Saturday.
Thanks Bill, take care off to use medical grade lubricant.
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
At midnight, there's going to be the government shutdown, which
looks like it's virtually certain to take place. Democrats Republicans
simply cannot come to terms. And this is who's going
to be blamed. Oh, Republicans have a great point, Democrats
have a great point, and both of them are wrong
and right. So we'll talk more about that tomorrow. Assuming
the government shuts down the peace plan proposed by the
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President and Netanyahu yesterday, a twenty point peace plan, and
it gives Israel basically everything it wanted. And does Hamas
accept it or not? Probably know. So the war is
going to continue for sure. And then this morning Pete
Hegseith the Defense secretary, excuse me, the War secretary. I
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has called or did call the senior Mary leaders from
around the world to sit in the audience at Quantico
in Virginia and listen to his raw Ross speech. And
it was a raw Ross speech. And it wasn't just
your great, We're great. I mean it's changing the military completely.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Wokenness is gone.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
He is going back to what the military was about.
And it's bottom line. During World War Two, it was
about killing people. It was about breaking things, and that
is what the military is about. You are warriors and
that is your job. That's where it starts, that's where
it stops. You're not here for quotas, You're not here
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for DEI, You're not here for wokeness. You are here
to be warriors to protect the United States.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Then that was followed by the President, which it didn't
make I was kind of wondering what the President was
going to say, and this is one of those issues.
I think this is one of those speeches which was
sort of kind of a campaign speech. And you do
that in front of a bunch of admirals in generals,
and for the most part, you know they're not going
to buy it. Some probably did. So what the President did,
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as he does, is it went all over the place.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
He spoke for thirty minutes and went all over the place.
He threatened to fire top military leaders who disagree with him,
and he told that pack meeting, if you don't like
what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course,
there goes your rank, there goes your future. But you
feel nice and loose.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Now Hegseth former Fox News host and.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Was in the service.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I think he was in Afghanistan or Iraq and received
a medal for valor. I mean, the guy is the
real deal. But he rallied against the kay at the
Defense Department. He's going to crack down on physical fitness
grooming standards, throw out all the woke policies. Trump went
beyond that and said he's going to fire military leaders
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right there on the spot if they didn't agree.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
He also said that he refers to the nuclear threat
as the N word, says, there are two N words
out there, and one of them being nuclear, And he
sent nuclear subs over to the coast of Russia because
of the comments made by the Russian spokesperson referencing a
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nuclear control system.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And he goes, we can't let people throw around that
world that word at all.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And what Trump said is we have dangerous cities and
back we go to a whole different political view than
he says. And those dangerous cities read Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland,
Oregon should be used as military training grounds.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's an interesting concept. Now.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Was there a lot of applause in the audience where
people cheering and going and poking.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Elbows at each other and going, yeah, do you hear
what he just said?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Damn right?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Nope. For the most part they were stonefaced.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
But frankly, I am not surprised because heg Seth was right.
The military has gone in a direction of wokeness and
DEI and inclusivity. And Heath says said, no, those days
are gone. Those days are gone. We're going back. He said,
this is Trump. The Defense Department, which is now the
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War Department. Is it was the first sign of wokeness
when they made it the Defense Department. It was the
War Department, and then it became I think was right
after World War Two, became the Defense Department, and he said,
of course it was his idea to change it to
the War Department. Well, naturally, we don't know who attended
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and who didn't attend. By the way, there was also
talk what a shocker about a rigged election in twenty twenty.
It's got to bring that up. And let's not forget
the Nobel Peace Prize, which he had to bring up.
And so there was a lot of Donald Trump that
came in after the excess speech, and this was, well,
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he likes to.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Hear himself talk.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I mean, that's the bottom line, whether you agree or
disagree on policy.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You know, what do you think about this guy who
wants to hear himself talk? And he does?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Okay, what I want to do is finish up this
show with a comment about the Charlie Kirk shooting and
how this is actually devolved in a horrible way, and
I'm gonna mention that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And then something that happened on the.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Cruise that I just was on and I ran into
a trumpist and we had a real good discussion as
we were smashing a dessert in each other's face, and
it was a really good argument. So the man charged
with killing Charlie Kirk appeared in court remotely yesterday and
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he and his newly appointed legal counsel decided they want
a preliminary hearing, and that's kind of surprising. Preliminary hearing
is when you go in front of a judge and
the judge determines whether or not there is enough evidence
to then move forward to trial.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I mean, there is no issue.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
The bar is very low, and you think there's enough
evidence here Utah. As a matter of fact, the prosecutors
are going for the death penalty because the shooting of
Charlie Kirk by this guy, Tyler Robinson and the alleged shooting,
and you have to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But what's he gonna do, sum me.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He's certainly not gonna get acquitted, And so they've decided
on a preliminary hearing. Why and by the way, he's
gonna plead not guilty. Why is he going to plead
not guilty? People ask, what are you talking about? And
he knows he's guilty. We know he's guilty. I mean,
they could have him on videotape, which I think to
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some extent they do. But the evidence is clearly overwhelming.
He will be convicted. Why would he plead not guilty.
Doesn't that just extend the time? For example, asking for
a play preliminary hearing extends the time. I'll tell you why.
They plead not guilty, which they always do. It gives
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them the time to do one of two things. The
defense look at the charges to see if there's any
holds the charges, which there aren't in this case at least,
I don't think so, and negotiate. Is there going to
be a negotiation here? I don't think so because political purposes.
But in many cases, most cases, yeah, when the death
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penalty is there, they cut a deal and they take
the death penalty off the table. If the defendant says, okay,
I'll plead guilty, that all takes time to negotiate.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
If you plead guilty, all that is done. All you
do is have the sentencing.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So there is a reason that they do that, and
that's what you're going to see. This happens virtually every case.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
The prosecutions by it usually is the cost of a
trial is huge and they just don't want to do that.
And frankly, the death penalty really isn't the death penalty anymore.
It takes thirty years before you're killed, before you're executed. Now,
the other thing I want to point out is what's
happened with the murder of Charlie Kirk, and it unfortunately
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has devolved.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
As I said, Charlie Kirk was a real player. I mean,
he had tremendous influence. He created a movement among college students.
I mean he should be taken very seriously. What do
I mean by devolving? The conspiracy theorists have now exploded already.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It's now on the internet, even more so as you're
going to see it grow and grow. There was a
trap door where the killer actually came up, and there
were other people involved, and the authorities are not looking
at what really happened. It's almost like the jfk assassination.
And it's such a shame that that happens. But then
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welcome to the internet, right, the Internet. The worst thing
that's ever happened. I was talking to my daughter yesterday.
Two things about the Internet it is the best thing
that ever happened, and it is the worst thing that
ever happened. And it's frightening, it really is. I mean,
I want to hear about the influence. I want to
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hear about what Charlie Kirk did. I want to hear
about how he led this movement and started it and
the kind of leadership he had within the movement.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Now do I disagree with it most of it?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I do.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I don't agree with a lot of what he said
and what he did, but that doesn't take away what
he was able to do.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
There was a trap door.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Come on, guys, and the real information is going to
come out. Will release the real information?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Okay, that's it. We are done, guys, coming up, Gary
and Shannon. We're back again tomorrow starting at five o'clock
with Amy and Neil and well with the wake up
Call and that's Amy and Kno and I think that's
it for you guys, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Pretty much?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well great here too.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah. Well Ann is always so you steal her at
five yeah, I mean Anne is always there.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Matter of fact, if you walk in three o'clock this afternoon,
there's Anne, not.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
This afternoon, She's going to be watching the Padres.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yes, that's true. All right, guys, catch you tomorrow when
we do this all over again. This is KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
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Speaker 3 (00:09):
Here.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is a Tuesday morning, man, what a tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It is the peace plan that was and I use
the word planned fairly loosely, that was promulgated yesterday between
Natanyahu and Israel and bringing Hamas is going to go
no place. The government shuts down tonight at midnight, and
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we'll talk more about that tomorrow. I'm going to talk
a little bit about Charlie Kirk and later on if
we have time. And we had Pete Hegseith that gave
his speech and we were expecting and then the President
also came in at the end of it and gave
his talk, and that one is just very typical Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And Hegseth was very specific.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I mean, there's no question and he followed the script.
He followed the rule book the president as he does
when tangily went off script.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And I'll talk about that coming up, because that's fun.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay, guess what is Taco Tuesday. Actually it's Tech Tuesday
with Rich Demurrow. He's heard every Saturday eleven am to
two pm right here at Kfi rich on Tech.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He every day is on KTLA.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You can follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech website,
rich on tech dot tv, and on Tuesdays he is
with us.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Good morning, rich Good morning to you, Bill, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I had a great time sorta I actually should have
talked about that. Yeah, it was like, you know, not
as good as I thought it would be. Okay, well,
all right, so much for that. Okay, Prime Day, well,
Prime week, well, Prime month is here and then soon
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to be Prime year next year. It's about a week away.
What I know is getting ridiculous, isn't it. What are
what are we looking at? What do we expect to see?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, okay, so this happens on October seventh and October eighth,
So that is next. Let's see here. That is next
Tuesday and Wednesday. So as always, you know, Amazon is
promising millions upon millions of deals on various items in
all the categories. But there are a few things you
can do right now. They've got a fifteen dollars off
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a fifty five dollars purchase at Amazon Fresh, so get
that wall. At last, they just closed all the Amazon
Fresh stores over in the UK. No word if that
will impact what we have going on here, but we
know that the grocery business is very, very tricky, especially
in southern California. So fifteen dollars off fifty five dollars
or more there. Amazon Music Unlimited, they're giving four months
(02:52):
free for new users, so if you haven't ever subscribed,
you can get four months for free, which is I
think that's the best I've seen with that. Usually it's
about three months is the max. And then one medical
Have you heard about this one medical bill? It's like
Amazon's medical facilities.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No, I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I did hear something about how if you sign up
you get one free surgery and then no not true, No,
I haven't heard about it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Actually it's so it's basically like their clinics around They've
got them all over the place. But yeah, they it's
like they're you know, it's like a doctor, but Amazon style.
So it's like on demand, you can do it on
your phone, you can go into the place. Everything is digital.
It's actually pretty cool. I use them, so I know
firsthand it's very efficient. Thirty dollars off your first year
(03:39):
there you do have to pay, like I think it's
ninety nine dollars a year. Plus you know your healthcare
fees or whatever, so thirty dollars off your first year
there if you want to try that. And then the
other thing to know is that if you have one
of these Alexa devices, you might get an invitation for
this thing called Alexa Plus. So if you're a Prime member,
it is free. Wise it's twenty dollars a month. I
(04:01):
don't think anyone should ever pay for this. I would
just go with Prime because it's one forty a year.
But Alexa Plus. Have been testing it on my devices
and it is great. It's like an AI version of Alexa.
The only thing to know, Bill is when I mentioned
this on my radio show over the weekend, people were saying,
if you have smart home stuff, like a lot of
smart home stuff, Alexa Plus may may not be as
(04:22):
good as the standard Alexa or I guess the old
school Alexa just yet. So maybe don't switch if you
have a ton of routines or things that you're turning
on and off with Alexa. But she's very good with information,
speaking to you in natural language and understanding things. In fact,
I asked it to play Kfi, which you usually had
to say something like very specific, like play Kfi on
(04:45):
iHeartRadio or whatever. Now you can just say play Kfi
and it works like a charm. It's really really good.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, that's a huge deal that there is a Nobel
prize there where you say, instead of play Kfi on iHeart,
all you have to do is say play Kfi.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Excellent.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Let me ask you a quick question legitimately, and that
is Prime Day used to be a big, big deal
when it first came out. I'm assuming it has lost
a lot of its luster in terms of the deals themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Am I right on that? You know?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I actually would disagree. I think last Prime Day was
the best deals that I've seen in a while. Like, well,
let's put it this way, the most deals because here's
the thing, Bill, every single person that sells on Amazon
knows that shoppers are coming with their wallets open on
these two days. They are looking to spend money. Now.
I know people come to Amazon every day, but this
(05:41):
is a day where if you're like, all right, I
need a new blender, I need a new coffee maker,
I need clothes for school, I need gifts for the holidays,
And so they come with open arms, in an open
wallet to say, just give me these deals. And so
it's actually on these sellers on Amazon to give you
a good deal, like the onus is on them to say, hey, yes,
we're giving you our best deal of the year, so
(06:03):
buy this thing right now, and that in turn brings
up the sales. The other thing is put this stuff
in your car. I give the same advice every single
three weeks when Prime Day starts again, put the stuff
that you want in your carts now so that you
can check for price drops. Already I'm seeing price drops
on things on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Hey, but in terms of margins, So let's say you
had this huge deal and people coming with wallets and
they expect really good prices, and that has to hit
the profit margins.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I mean it has to.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And is it worth it for your vendors, because I
know people that won't use and you know people in
business won't use Amazon anymore they don't make enough money.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, no, I think that is a consideration for sure.
In fact, I was searching for something on Amazon yesterday
and I noticed because Amazon rides a fine line, right
you search for Q tips if you get Amazon's brand
of Q tips every single time. That's what Q Tips
is going to do. They're going to say, we're not
selling on here anymore because you're just promoting your own stuff.
Every time someone searches for Huggies or you know whatever,
(07:08):
you're promoting your own diapers. So it's interesting that Amazon
rides a very fine line of how they promote their
own stuff, which of course they make more money on.
Kind of like Costco. You go into Costco, you see
the stuff that's Kirkland brand right next to the regular
dog food from the main brand. So, you know, I
think that it really comes down to individual sellers. If
(07:29):
they don't want to deal with Amazon, don't. But I
will tell you Amazon is a huge platform and something
that really can't be ignored.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Let's go into the this one I find fascinating.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
There's a few other things that we have to cover,
but body cameras for retail workers. Now, what does that
say about life in the retail world.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, it can be dicey. I mean we've all been
somewhere where I was at I won't say the retailer,
but you know, people were getting angry and they were yelling,
they were causing a scene, and you know this happens
all the time, especially in a big city like Los Angeles.
I mean, but it happens everywhere. We see it on
the news, We show the video, and I think retailers
have gotten really good with security cameras, but this is
(08:14):
the next level. We know cops have these body cameras. Now, Axon,
the same company, is making a retail and healthcare worker bodycam.
It's called the Axon Body Workforce Mini. Now, they had
a new They had a model of this because I
remember covering it on KTLA last year, but it was
much bigger and bulkier. This one is way smaller and
(08:35):
lighter and easier. So basically you wear it on your chest,
just like a police officer would, and it records for
up to or It has twelve hour battery life, so
you know it can record pretty much any situation that
you encounter during your retail shift or your nurse shift.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah. Finally find that fascinating, especially if you're looking at
the technology, because is it one of those tiny little
cameras that are, you know, the size of a button.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I wouldn't say it's that small because it has a
battery and a little display on it, so but it's
it's small enough but here's the thing. It's visible. So
you know, I think that there's two sides of this.
First off, it's a little concerning to see someone wearing that,
you know, like let's say a big retailer adopted this
and every single employee has this on. You know, it
would feel a little bit unnerving. You know, we're in
(09:30):
this world of like, okay, are we just waiting for
something to happen at every moment? But the reality is
there's cameras everywhere. I mean, every single place has cameras.
I mean even if you go to construction sites, there's cameras, retail, outdoor, indoor.
They're just blanketing our streets at this point, and so
the next logical place to put them as people that
(09:51):
are interacting with other people. But I do think it's
a little unerving to see that.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
How sound quality, because that's really important too.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, yeah, I think the audio and video quality is
probably the most important aspect of this. And they're saying
that the there's two way voice so which means you
can instantly alert supervisors with the audio so they can
and they can also stream the video from this device
as well. So I mean there's a lot of thought
that went into these for the retail or healthcare. I
(10:20):
mean they're saying grocery stores, hospitals, and retail chains. So
you know, it just it gives that evidence that is
hard evidence. You know, if someone says, hey, this is
what happened, and you say this is what happened. The
camera doesn't lie. It knows what happened. And now you
have a way of capturing this every single time.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, life is changing. All right.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Let me move over to something that we didn't talk about,
but it's really interesting. The Galaxy ring battery scare YouTubers.
The Galaxy smart ring battery, well, does it ignite fingers,
So you literally have a mini tiki torch as you're
(11:02):
wearing this thing.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That's scary. That's a scary thought. So we've been talking
about smart rings there, no doubt, very very popular. Aura
makes the most popular one, but Samsung came out with
one called the Galaxy Ring and I wore this thing.
I tested it, and I thought about the idea that
you're wearing battery on your wrist or with the Apple Watch,
and then on your finger at all times. So it
(11:26):
just kind of crazy. Anyway, this YouTuber was in Hawaii,
his name's Zone of Tech and his Galaxy rings. Battery
swelled while it was on his finger. Happened right before
a flight, so they wouldn't even let him on the plane.
He had to go to a hospital that used ice
and medical grade lubricant to remove the ring, and when
he took it off, it showed that the inside of
(11:48):
it was really bulging and warped, so the battery did
have some sort of issue. Samsung says this is extremely rare.
Customer safety is a top priority. Of course, we don't
know why this happened. Could have been the heat, could
have been the salt water, could have been a bunch
of flights, could have been a faulty battery. But it's
just a warning that you are wearing a battery on
(12:09):
you at all times when you have one of these
smart rings or a watch on your wrists. We haven't
seen any issues with the Apple Watch, been ten years
of that. That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Now you just throw me a softball. Of course, with
the medical grade lubricant. And since you test everything, rich,
can you tell me the difference between medical grade and regular.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You need a lot less and it's much more viscous.
So the viscosity. It's just much more effect. We had
a ball with this on KTLA as well. No one
could say medical grade lubricant without you know, people, even
adults going wild. So I didn't know there was a
difference between medical grade and you know, the daily stuff,
(12:53):
but there clearly is.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, clearly, all right, we are done. Great fun.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So Rich is here Saturday, eleven am to two pm
KTLA every day on Instagram. It's at rich on tech website,
which is so full of information. And what the hell
was that? Oh, here we go, my phone is doing
weird things. In any case, the website full of information.
(13:22):
I was there, and of course that is rich on
tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Rich. We'll catch you next week. We'll catch on Saturday.
Thanks Bill, take care off to use medical grade lubricant.
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
At midnight, there's going to be the government shutdown, which
looks like it's virtually certain to take place. Democrats Republicans
simply cannot come to terms. And this is who's going
to be blamed. Oh, Republicans have a great point, Democrats
have a great point, and both of them are wrong
and right. So we'll talk more about that tomorrow. Assuming
the government shuts down the peace plan proposed by the
(14:00):
President and Netanyahu yesterday, a twenty point peace plan, and
it gives Israel basically everything it wanted. And does Hamas
accept it or not? Probably know. So the war is
going to continue for sure. And then this morning Pete
Hegseith the Defense secretary, excuse me, the War secretary. I
(14:22):
has called or did call the senior Mary leaders from
around the world to sit in the audience at Quantico
in Virginia and listen to his raw Ross speech. And
it was a raw Ross speech. And it wasn't just
your great, We're great. I mean it's changing the military completely.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Wokenness is gone.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
He is going back to what the military was about.
And it's bottom line. During World War Two, it was
about killing people. It was about breaking things, and that
is what the military is about. You are warriors and
that is your job. That's where it starts, that's where
it stops. You're not here for quotas, You're not here
(15:06):
for DEI, You're not here for wokeness. You are here
to be warriors to protect the United States.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Then that was followed by the President, which it didn't
make I was kind of wondering what the President was
going to say, and this is one of those issues.
I think this is one of those speeches which was
sort of kind of a campaign speech. And you do
that in front of a bunch of admirals in generals,
and for the most part, you know they're not going
to buy it. Some probably did. So what the President did,
(15:38):
as he does, is it went all over the place.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
He spoke for thirty minutes and went all over the place.
He threatened to fire top military leaders who disagree with him,
and he told that pack meeting, if you don't like
what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course,
there goes your rank, there goes your future. But you
feel nice and loose.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Now Hegseth former Fox News host and.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Was in the service.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I think he was in Afghanistan or Iraq and received
a medal for valor. I mean, the guy is the
real deal. But he rallied against the kay at the
Defense Department. He's going to crack down on physical fitness
grooming standards, throw out all the woke policies. Trump went
beyond that and said he's going to fire military leaders
(16:31):
right there on the spot if they didn't agree.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
He also said that he refers to the nuclear threat
as the N word, says, there are two N words
out there, and one of them being nuclear, And he
sent nuclear subs over to the coast of Russia because
of the comments made by the Russian spokesperson referencing a
(16:58):
nuclear control system.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And he goes, we can't let people throw around that
world that word at all.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And what Trump said is we have dangerous cities and
back we go to a whole different political view than
he says. And those dangerous cities read Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland,
Oregon should be used as military training grounds.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's an interesting concept. Now.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Was there a lot of applause in the audience where
people cheering and going and poking.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Elbows at each other and going, yeah, do you hear
what he just said?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Damn right?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Nope. For the most part they were stonefaced.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
But frankly, I am not surprised because heg Seth was right.
The military has gone in a direction of wokeness and
DEI and inclusivity. And Heath says said, no, those days
are gone. Those days are gone. We're going back. He said,
this is Trump. The Defense Department, which is now the
(18:06):
War Department. Is it was the first sign of wokeness
when they made it the Defense Department. It was the
War Department, and then it became I think was right
after World War Two, became the Defense Department, and he said,
of course it was his idea to change it to
the War Department. Well, naturally, we don't know who attended
(18:27):
and who didn't attend. By the way, there was also
talk what a shocker about a rigged election in twenty twenty.
It's got to bring that up. And let's not forget
the Nobel Peace Prize, which he had to bring up.
And so there was a lot of Donald Trump that
came in after the excess speech, and this was, well,
(18:50):
he likes to.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Hear himself talk.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I mean, that's the bottom line, whether you agree or
disagree on policy.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You know, what do you think about this guy who
wants to hear himself talk? And he does?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Okay, what I want to do is finish up this
show with a comment about the Charlie Kirk shooting and
how this is actually devolved in a horrible way, and
I'm gonna mention that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And then something that happened on the.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Cruise that I just was on and I ran into
a trumpist and we had a real good discussion as
we were smashing a dessert in each other's face, and
it was a really good argument. So the man charged
with killing Charlie Kirk appeared in court remotely yesterday and
(19:48):
he and his newly appointed legal counsel decided they want
a preliminary hearing, and that's kind of surprising. Preliminary hearing
is when you go in front of a judge and
the judge determines whether or not there is enough evidence
to then move forward to trial.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I mean, there is no issue.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
The bar is very low, and you think there's enough
evidence here Utah. As a matter of fact, the prosecutors
are going for the death penalty because the shooting of
Charlie Kirk by this guy, Tyler Robinson and the alleged shooting,
and you have to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But what's he gonna do, sum me.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He's certainly not gonna get acquitted, And so they've decided
on a preliminary hearing. Why and by the way, he's
gonna plead not guilty. Why is he going to plead
not guilty? People ask, what are you talking about? And
he knows he's guilty. We know he's guilty. I mean,
they could have him on videotape, which I think to
(20:46):
some extent they do. But the evidence is clearly overwhelming.
He will be convicted. Why would he plead not guilty.
Doesn't that just extend the time? For example, asking for
a play preliminary hearing extends the time. I'll tell you why.
They plead not guilty, which they always do. It gives
(21:06):
them the time to do one of two things. The
defense look at the charges to see if there's any
holds the charges, which there aren't in this case at least,
I don't think so, and negotiate. Is there going to
be a negotiation here? I don't think so because political purposes.
But in many cases, most cases, yeah, when the death
(21:28):
penalty is there, they cut a deal and they take
the death penalty off the table. If the defendant says, okay,
I'll plead guilty, that all takes time to negotiate.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
If you plead guilty, all that is done. All you
do is have the sentencing.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So there is a reason that they do that, and
that's what you're going to see. This happens virtually every case.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
The prosecutions by it usually is the cost of a
trial is huge and they just don't want to do that.
And frankly, the death penalty really isn't the death penalty anymore.
It takes thirty years before you're killed, before you're executed. Now,
the other thing I want to point out is what's
happened with the murder of Charlie Kirk, and it unfortunately
(22:17):
has devolved.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
As I said, Charlie Kirk was a real player. I mean,
he had tremendous influence. He created a movement among college students.
I mean he should be taken very seriously. What do
I mean by devolving? The conspiracy theorists have now exploded already.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It's now on the internet, even more so as you're
going to see it grow and grow. There was a
trap door where the killer actually came up, and there
were other people involved, and the authorities are not looking
at what really happened. It's almost like the jfk assassination.
And it's such a shame that that happens. But then
(23:00):
welcome to the internet, right, the Internet. The worst thing
that's ever happened. I was talking to my daughter yesterday.
Two things about the Internet it is the best thing
that ever happened, and it is the worst thing that
ever happened. And it's frightening, it really is. I mean,
I want to hear about the influence. I want to
(23:22):
hear about what Charlie Kirk did. I want to hear
about how he led this movement and started it and
the kind of leadership he had within the movement.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Now do I disagree with it most of it?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I do.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I don't agree with a lot of what he said
and what he did, but that doesn't take away what
he was able to do.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
There was a trap door.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Come on, guys, and the real information is going to
come out. Will release the real information?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Okay, that's it. We are done, guys, coming up, Gary
and Shannon. We're back again tomorrow starting at five o'clock
with Amy and Neil and well with the wake up
Call and that's Amy and Kno and I think that's
it for you guys, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Pretty much?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well great here too.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah. Well Ann is always so you steal her at
five yeah, I mean Anne is always there.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Matter of fact, if you walk in three o'clock this afternoon,
there's Anne, not.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
This afternoon, She's going to be watching the Padres.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yes, that's true. All right, guys, catch you tomorrow when
we do this all over again. This is KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
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