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You're listening to bill Handle on demand
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Thank you, Thank you. You
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Thank you technology from the bottom of
our laser pants technology. Thank you technology.

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And this is I AM six forty
Bill Handle here on a Tuesday morning,

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July the second. The big news
Hurricane Barrel, which is Burrel Beryl

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is just going through the Caribbean at
a Cat five one hundred and sixty miles

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sustained WIN, one hundred and sixty
miles per hour sustained WIN. I mean

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that is devastating. Well the words
catastrophic, that's the way it's being described.

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And it is. As it goes
over these Caribbean islands, it's just

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wiping them out. NASA and Saint
Kitts and Nevis and that whole area just

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gone. It's a shame. It's
a big one. It is really bad.

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The strongest hurricane at this point in
the season that we've ever had on

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well they've ever had on record.
We don't have to worry about it,

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Okay. Sign for tech Talk with
Rich Demurrow. Rich heard every Saturday here

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on KFI eleven am to two pm, right after Handle on the Law On

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Saturdays. You can follow Rich on
Instagram, at rich on Tech website,

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rich on tech dot TV and good
morning Rich. Hey, good morning to

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you. Bill. Oh, we
got an awful lot of going going on

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this morning. Okay, it seems
like we're going to start every single segment

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that we ever do with some kind
of a story about AI, and we're

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doing that this week too. Instagram
and the way it's labeling AI posts,

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what's going on with that? Yeah, this is and look, you know,

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AI is pretty much the hottest thing
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There's you know, companies that are
trying to implement it and then also companies

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reacting to it. So there's two
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towards this technology and also figuring out
how it all works. So Meta,

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which owns Facebook and Instagram, they
have this little label they've been slapping on

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posts that you make, and it
would say made with AI. If you

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posted some sort of picture that maybe
you adjusted in some way, even if

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it was a minor adjustment, it
would label it made with AI. And

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people are like, wait a second, Like all I did was brighten it

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up or change one little aspect.
Why are you putting this AI label on

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it. So now Meta after a
couple of weeks is changing their tune.

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They're going to change it to AI
info. So this is because you know,

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photographers were saying, look, we
were using Photoshop to just do little

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things, and we think this is
clear because it's not necessarily AI, you

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know, made with AI. It's
just kind of AI enhanced and so small

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change but kind of meaningful. Yeah. I don't get that. I don't

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understand how the algorithm knows that it's
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of that likeness. It's able to
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on the program. So many of
the mainstream programs at this point are putting

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a water mark in the file itself. So when you make a change on

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Photoshop or with something like a Google
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working. There's no standard just yet, but many of them do have a

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flag that they put in what's called
the metadata. That's the stuff that's inside

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the file. It's the stuff that
most people don't change or can't change,

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and so once it's in there,
the computer program, like when you upload

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it to Facebook, will look for
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this was created by Photoshop. There's
that little flag that says it was AI

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generated, and we'll place the label
on the photo, all right, So

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Photoshop itself would have to in fact
put that watermark on there, the very

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program itself, and then when it's
uploaded, it carries that signature. Do

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I have that right? Yeah?
And keep in mind that this is not

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a perfect system. There is no
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water marks. Some companies are putting
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So if you generate an image on
a Samsung phone using AI, there

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will be a little kind of magic
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Let's see where else have I seen
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image generator, and also Facebook's own
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So you know, nobody really knows
how this is all going to shake

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out in the future. We could
just assume everything's going to be AI generated,

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but some of these companies are taking
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they don't want the regulation from the
government. They want to say,

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hey, we can handle this stuff
ourselves, and that's what they're trying to

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do. Obviously, it's all over
the place. Hey, in terms of

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what's going on with AI and how
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Is it reaching the point where the
story is going to be what is not

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using a I you know, for
example, talking about electronic equipment that has

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tubes in it where it's the outlier. It is just you have to really

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look for that. Yeah, I
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product at this point that I've been
covering there is some aspect of AI to

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it. And I think in the
future, right now that's a selling point.

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I think in the future I will
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doing the stories about the dumb phones
people going back to like flip phones and

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stuff because they're anti all the notifications
and the technology and they want to be

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more you know, well being focused. I think we're gonna see that with

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AI, Like, hey, here's
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a writer that doesn't use AI to
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that? Yeah, it's completely crazy. Boy, that has changed. How

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long has AI been out there,
by the way, what we think about

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it in terms of the time that
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when AI really just became a thing. Well, chat gbt was launched in

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November twenty twenty two, so in
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of AI. But obviously, you
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have been using AI for many,
many years, probably a decade or more.

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all these other terms. But when
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sort of forward facing consumer product.
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slash machine learning, slash neural network
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first get into the market? Oh
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Well forever what nineteen nineties, two
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I mean since Look, Google has
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since its inception. I mean,
I think it's it's safe to say that

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every tech company has been using if
they're using computer networks, if they're using

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systems that they've trained on machine learning. It's been around for a long time.

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So it's not it's just the branding
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think, is the new AI aspect, and also the fact that we can

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interact with these machines in a much
more natural language. I think that's the

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shift that we've seen recently. But
yeah, these things have been around for

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a long time. Okay, that
helps explain it. Put in perspective for

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me at least. All Right,
let's talk about Koperski. I didn't even

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know what a Koperski was, but
it's some kind of anti virus. Explain

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what's going on with that. Yeah, it's actually pretty pretty popular antivirus.

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You probably know, like McAfee and
Norton. It's a along those lines.

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Okay, but yeah, Kaspersky,
you know. But just given the name,

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you can understand probably why the US
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ties to Russia, obviously, and
that's the problem. And so President by

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and has banned the sale of this
antivirus software in the US effective immediately for

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new sales. And if you have
this already on your computer, which millions

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do, existing users will have until
September twenty ninth to find alternative software.

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Now, the Department of Commerce,
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TikTok treatment. They're saying, Look, we think this is a risk to

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the United States national security, but
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on that, and Kasperski obviously denies
any issue with their software whatsoever. They

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say this is all based on global
politics and not actually the quality of their

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product. But you know, this
puts a lot of people in a tough

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position because some have paid for this
for the next year or two and now

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you've got to switch to something different. So the recommendation is to uninstall this,

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and you can use Microsoft Defender,
which is built into the computer,

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or you can use a free alternative
like a vast Okay, well, let

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me ask this. Where is Koperski
based out dead Is it Russia? Yeah?

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I believe they are based in Russia. Yeah, okay, So I

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mean that's there's an argument there.
And when you talk about there are free

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anti viral viruses out there versus paid, can you get just as good protection

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with a free one? You know, it's interesting a lot of the tech

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folks are now recommending that you can
just get away with what's built into my

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into Windows. So Windows has this
thing called Defender, and that's built into

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Windows. And most people say that's
fine for the average person, But you

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know, there's been so much talk
about anti virus over the years and paying

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for antivirus that most people I think
still prefer to pay because they feel like

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they're getting more protection, and you
do get other things versus the free versus

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paid paid. You might get,
you know, more up to date virus

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definitions, you might get more real
time scanning versus you know, a scan

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that happens, you know, every
once in a while. So there are

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some benefits to that. But I
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the average person is really clicking on
phishing links. That's the number one thing

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that's really nailing people. And some
of these systems, even the antivirus,

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they can't really detect those links in
real time. A lot of times your

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browser does that, so if you
use something like micros, Google Chrome,

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it's using AI to actually sift through
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if those are going to be bad. Hey, Internet prices and they're all

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over the place, and boy do
I know that because I broadcast from home

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occasionally, as you know, and
I have a dedicated line I think they

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call it an IP line or ISP
line, and it costs me hundreds of

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dollars a month, and I'd love
to know how I can save money.

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Yeah, I'll be honest, you
probably don't even need that, but I

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mean it's probably these days, it's
probably overkill. But I think what you

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have is a fixed IP address,
which means your signal is constant, like

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all the time. It doesn't doesn't
change, which is good for doing a

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radio show from home. But anyway, so, the average price for internet,

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and I'm sure you're paying more than
this, is sixty three dollars a

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month. This is from c neet. They did a kind of an analysis

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of some of the popular providers.
Equipment rental averages fifteen dollars a month,

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which brings the total monthly to about
seventy eight. Now Here in Los Angeles,

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if you're in the urban areas,
you probably have some pretty good choices

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when it comes to Internet and speeds. Some people don't have such good options.

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If you're in a rural location,
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Those are much slower. But fiber
is the fastest. And the thing

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I like about fiber is that it's
the same speed up and down. So

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here in Los Angeles, we have
a lot of people working in Hollywood,

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a lot of people working with large
video files, large audio files. Fiber

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has the same speed up and down
typically, which means when you're uploading or

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downloading, it's going to be just
as fast. So the ways to save

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bill You can bring your own equipment, so you can you know, instead

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of renting your modem, you can
buy your own. You can negotiate,

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although a lot of providers are not
negotiating as much as they used to.

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You can downgrade your plan. If
you think you have too much speed,

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you can actually go to a cheaper
plan that has a lower speed. Or

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if you're in the lucky area where
you have more than one provider, you

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can switch. And that's actually opened
up bill. Because all these companies you'll

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probably see them advertising, like Verizon
Home Internet and T Mobile five G.

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That's putting a little pressure on the
cable companies because it used to be they

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were the only game in town.
Now, if you just have a basic

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need for your Internet, you could
easily be serviced by a T Mobile five

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G or a Verizon over the air. They're using cellular signals to actually deliver

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internet to your house. Enter price
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in general. I mean, I
think for the speeds you're getting, they're

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going down, that's generally, but
I think overall they're going up. You

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know, people, nothing goes down
meaningfully. I think the speeds have gotten

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Let's put it this way, your
speeds have gotten faster for what you're paying

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for. But I don't think you
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we did. I think the speeds
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said, the five G I just
mentioned, those prices are very much cheaper.

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But even those prices are going up
already. I've noticed. All right,

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Rich, thank you. This Saturday, right after my show that is

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the Tech Show eight to eleven o'clock. Excuse me, eleven to two pm.

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I'm eight to eleven right here Saturday
morning. KFI on Instagram is at

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rich on tech website, rich on
tech dot TV. You have a good

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one, Rich. We'll catch over
the weekend. Thanks Bill. Now,

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a couple things are happening around the
world that I want to share with you.

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One of them is that the Western
world is turning right wing. Now

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when you talk about Russia, for
example, already has of course with putin

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China no issue because of course the
Communist party is in charge. So we

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don't even worry about liberal conservative,
but when you talk about the democracies of

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the Western world, it's becoming a
lot more conservative. These democracies, even

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though they're legitimate democracies, people vote
becoming much more conservative. One of the

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big reasons is demographics. People are
getting older, lasting longer. Birth rate

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is dropping, which means that the
older people who have immense power always have

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you know why, because they vote. That is the largest single block of

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voters that exist. And man,
is that powerful? And what is the

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first rule for any politician? Way
beyond putting the country first, making sure

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that he or she is a patriot, It's all about getting reelected. That's

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all that matters. Why is a
Republican party so pro Trump? Why does

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he control it? Very simple reason. You don't go against him. You're

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primaried out. You go against them. It's over in terms of even the

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primaries. Where that's it done?
And what's the number one rule? You

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get reelected. That's what it's all
about. So people, as they're getting

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older, they are their vote is
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And you know what older people tend
to do. Older people tend to

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vote much more conservatively. And why
is that. Well, when you're young,

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you're a communist. That's probably the
most liberal point of your life.

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I remember in college screaming about distribution
of wealth, and you have to be

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poor. I mean, you have
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take care of poor people. Well, as you get older, you sort

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of want to hang on your money
because first of all, you get some

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and you don't want to take it
away. Hell, I've worked all these

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years. Do I want the government
to take my money and give it to

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those people? There were times when
I work seven days a week. I

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know Neil does. There were times
when I worked fourteen, sixteen hours a

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day, especially when I was building
my law practice. There were many times

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that I worked all night, pulled
all nighters. And do I want to

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share my money? No? No, I've worked damn hard and I would

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like to keep most of my money. That's the way older people tend to

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think in far greater numbers, and
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And the major problem when you're talking
about a democracy, you've got to

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vote. It's not that complicated.
You've got to vote. There was a

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time when Hispanics, even though they
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no influence. Why is that because
Hispanics didn't vote. Now they've turned around

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and go, oh, okay,
it's time for a little political power.

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And you get that simply by voting
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in. So we are more conservative
as we are getting older. This is

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a story that came into Wall Street
Journal and actually looked at Britain. But

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Britain is just an example of what's
going on throughout the Western democracies. There

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are more people over sixty than there
are people under forty, and people under

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forty generally don't die. People over
sixty do die. Macrone, for example,

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in France, just got nailed.
One of his big reasons is he

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wanted to bring the retirement age from
sixty two to sixty four. We're sixty

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five, and he got nailed for
that. He just lost so many well

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the first round his party just got
slaughtered. Why because you know, people

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want to retire early. The people
that are over over forty, over sixty

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are well, are really interested in
keeping their money. And the way you

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keep your money is not letting people
retire earlier. And you have to balance

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the budget. And McCrone said,
we can't afford it, and you can't

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say we don't afford it. So
we're here at sixty five, all right,

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and we retire at sixty five,
and all of a sudden, we're

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collecting unemployment. Excuse me, we're
collecting I sound starting to sound like Joe

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Biden. We're collecting Medicare, we
are collecting social Security, and it costs

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of fortune. And younger people they
don't care. They don't care. So

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those of us who are baby boomers
and are over sixty five. And by

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the way, when they say when
you hear the phrase, sixty five is

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just a number, they're right,
sixty five is just the number. It's

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sixty five. That's the number.
It's like dog years. How long is

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a dog year? It's one year. That's how long a dog year is.

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They just last till they're fifteen.
So when we hit sixty five,

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we hit sixty five. But here's
the problem. As I said, we're

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getting older. My mother retired at
sixty two. She died at ninety eight.

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And so you figure those numbers out
how much it cost you, how

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much it cost me to support her? She should have died at ninety three,

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that's when she went south. But
since I was paying for her care

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over and above social Security, she
lasted five more years just to screw with

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me, and she succeeded beyond my
wile ofest expectations. Years of that check

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over and over again, and the
only thing she could do was smile as

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she was screwing me over Why because
I was paying those taxes and I wasn't

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receiving social Security. Okay, back
we go with the concept that older people

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are voting more and more because there
are more older people. The world is

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aging. The birth rate is dropping, certainly among industrialized nations, which means

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there are simply more older people around
because they're lasting longer and they vote conservatively,

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which means in many ways the world
is turning very right wing. So

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storing in the Wall Street Journal and
they use England as an example of the

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UK, but it's the same in
all industrialized nation because older people just vote

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more and get incredible power. So
in the run up to the election coming

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up on Thursday by elections in Britain, every major party backs the country's triple

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lock guarantee for retirees that state pension
effectively social security. There will outpace inflation

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over the long term. Last year, their social Security their pincha their checks

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rose ten percent medium age in medium
age medium age wage for workers that was

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between nineteen forty nine rose by five
point seven. Okay, so ten percent

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bump versus six percent wage increase.
This is for Social Security recipients or their

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version. This year another eight percent
bump for elderly people. Why well,

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because they vote and young young people
just don't care. And when they do

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care, they're a bunch of communists
and they want us to simply give them

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money, and we're saying absolutely not. In twenty twenty two the US midterms,

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two thirds of the citizens over sixty
five voted. I mean that is

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this is in the midterms. Two
thirds voted, double the rate of eighteen

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to twenty nine year olds. Well, when you have twice as many people

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voting, guess what happens, You
get more power. Social Security is the

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third rail. No one screws with
Social Security. Medicare started in Lyndon Johnson's

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presidency, and man, it was
a vicious fight. Get a politician today

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anywhere on the spectrum and say how
do you feel about Medicare? Social Security

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is running out of money, just
straight out running out of money. Ask

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a politician here, how do you
feel about so security, more taxes?

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What do you think? How about
this fewer benefits? Try doing that and

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get re elected. So as you
get older, especially anybody over the age

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of sixty five, and that's boomer
land, you know, keep in mind,

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you've got more power than you ever
ever could imagine. All right,

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we're done, guys, I'm taking
phone calls. Handle on the law off

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the air eight seven seven five two
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zero eleven fifty no breaks and no
patients on my part. Calls go very

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quickly as you can imagine, and
you can still listen to KFI right there

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on the phone while you're waiting,
and you're not going to be waiting long,

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believe me. Eight seven seven five
two zero eleven fifty. Back we

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come again tomorrow. That's January third, the day before the Did I say

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January? Okay, sorry, I
misspoke. January is not the date.

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July fourth is Thursday. Let me
okay, July fourth is Thursday. President.

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Would you like to go back?
Yeah? I would. Let me

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Let me confuse Medicare. We made
Medicare happen, and July fourth is Thursday.

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I'll figure this out. So tomorrow
we're coming back, starting with wake

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up Call Heather Brooker and then six
o'clock Neil and I come aboard and as

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always, Cono never goes home as
does and never going home catching tomorrow.

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