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You're listening to a wake up call
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Orange County. It's time for your morning

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wake up call. Here's any king, Good morning. This is your wake

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up call for Wednesday, July twelfth. I'm any king. Here's what's ahead

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on the wake up call. SAG
after on Hollywood studios are bringing in a

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federal mediator to try to resolve contract
issues before SAG's contract expires at midnight.

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A new report shows the LAPD's unarmed
response units can only handle a third of

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the mental health calls the department receives. And we're just getting this into the

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KFI newsroom. Crash in Illinois involving
a Greyhound bus and several commercial vehicles has

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killed three people. Fourteen others have
been injured six oh five. It's handle

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on the news. We're gonna be
talking about a wild standoff on the Las

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Vegas Strip. Twenty one stories up. It's a crazy one. Let's start

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with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsrooms.

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Sag AFRA and the major Hollywood studios
have called in a federal mediator to help

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resolve their ongoing contract dispute. The
union says it has agreed to get a

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last minute request from the Alliance of
Motion Picture and Television to get third party

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help with negotiations. SAG's contract expires
at midnight tonight, and the actors have

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already overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike
if a new deal isn't reached. The

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union hasn't gone on strike since nineteen
eighty. A fire that's burned at least

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fourteen acres near Castaic Lake is fifty
percent contained. It's been burning since about

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eight last night. John Miller with
the US Forest Service says fire danger is

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getting extreme in southern California. It's
getting warmer and it's gonna getting dried.

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We're anticipating between now and Monday humidities
anywhere from five to fifteen percent. Some

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roads in Castaic had to be closed
overnight. No communities in the area are

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threatened. LAPD Chief More says there
have been thirteen officer involved shootings so far

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this year. That's actually down from
eighteen last year. The chief says the

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drop in violent crimes most likely the
reason for the decrease in oiss. Moore

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says the number of fatal officer involved
shootings is also down seven so far this

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year compared to eight last year.
Are for your average at this time again,

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averaged over the course of the entire
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More says. Despite the dropping,
overall violent crimes, including homicides, property

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crimes, and robberies continue to climb. More says the numbers are slowly returning

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to pre pandemic levels. Steve Gregory, Kofi News California fielded more than two

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hundred eighty thousand calls, chats and
texts for suicide prevention in the first year

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of the state's new nine eight eight
crisis line. Nationally, we have seen

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several million contacts Steedie Hers's State crisis
line director Matt Taylor says the easy to

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remember nine eight eight number, which
started last July, has normalized the importance

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of help seeking about five percent increase
in the answer rays compared to pre launch

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and a close to twenty eight percent
volume increase for calls. Taylor says the

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text feature is also new and very
popular with young people seeking help. He

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says ninety eight percent of calls were
resolved without the need for further intervention.

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In La Corbin Carson ka if I
News the Iowa House has passed a bill

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that would ban abortion once a heartbeat
is detected. That's usually about six weeks

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into a pregnancy. Republican Governor Kim
Reynolds pushed for the passage of the new

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bill yesterday, which is nearly identical
to Iowa's fetal heartbeat law in twenty eighteen

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that was ruled unconstitutional by the state
Supreme Court. The measure has some exceptions

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for rape and incest, as long
as the cases are reported to police.

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South Korea says North Korea has launched
a ballistic missile toward the North Eastern Waters.

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The launch yesterday came after North Korea
threatened consequences to protest what it called

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provocative US reconnaissance activity. Earlier this
week, North Korea has accused the US

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of sending military planes to spy on
its territory. Nearly twenty thousand dollars in

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reward money has been offered for information
leading to the capture of an escaped inmate

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in Pennsylvania. Police Lieutenant Colonel George
Bivens says they believe the man is hiding

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in the woods nearby and could be
getting help from someone by caution, anyone

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that is currently giving help or is
contemplating it, we will prosecute you for

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it. Bivens says. The suspected
killer is believed to have climbed out onto

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a roof last week and shimming down
a rope made of sheeps sheets rather to

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escape. More than two hundred officers
are looking for him. The guy in

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Texas police say went along with his
mother's lies about being missing for eight years

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has told US station in Houston he
felt brainwashed. I just wanted to be

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I wanted to have my own job. Rudy Ferry has told KTRK it felt

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like prison, having to stay in
isolation for almost a decade. He says

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he lost his brother and dad and
felt like he had to be there for

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his mom, who told him he'd
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with it. The social network Twins
are suing another former tech friend. Tyler

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and Cameron Winklevoss, are apparently once
again on the short end of a recent

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tech craze. The brothers took a
sixty five million dollars settlement from Mark Zuckerberg

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over who came up with the idea
of Facebook as featured in the twenty ten

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biopick movie The Social Network. The
winkle Vy as they've since become known,

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took some of that money and invested
in bitcoin and cryptocurrency. They're now suing

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their former friend in crypto king Barry
Silbert for a billion dollars after his digital

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currency company filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, big investment firms, including black Rock

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and Fidelity are recently embracing the crypto
industry, leaving the winkle Vye on the

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outside once again. Michael Krozer KFI
News Coming up at five twenty, we're

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gonna be talking with Rich to merrow
our tech guy. We got threads,

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we got Prime Day, and a
new AI chatbot. First, let's start

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with a look at traffic and Nick
polyo'keini got a slowing in the cahoone Pass

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on the fifteen. Good morning,
Amy, It's gonna be a busy one

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for folks that are making their way
southbound right now as they're coming through the

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pass. As you're seeing while leaving
the escape ramp heading toward at Lisa,

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let's say Claghorn loosens up before you
make your way toward Kenwood, and then

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even before that in the hyperiarea in
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got a reckon involving big rig.
Looks like the right landy is taken away

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and that's gonna be a rough go
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from Bear Valley Road for their southbound
on the fifteen through the Inland Empire.

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Not looking too bad for your drive
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patchy so far for you as you
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the two forty one Toll Road and
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Inda through Anaheim Hills, continuing toward
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you down pound to fifteen. Your
cell phone keyword is KFY traffic as you're

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heading fourteen southbound not too easy bad
this morning, but definitely some light patch

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you delay showing up for you out
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Pair Blossom Highway, and that'll be
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you continue through the Acting area into
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I find the sky helps get to
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you, Nick. It is five
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Well, you know that the heat
is here. We've been telling you about

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it, and of course you're feeling
it, I'm sure. So we thought

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we'd get an official look at what
we've got going and what we've got coming.

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It's the National Weather Services. Dave
Bruno. Good morning, Dave,

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good morning. How are you.
We're doing great, staying cool so far.

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So the heat is here. What
are we expecting for today and the

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rest of the week. Well,
unfortunately, this was yesterday was just kind

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of an appetizer. It's really going
to get quite increasingly hot as we moved

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toward the next few days and toward
the weekend. It looks like temperatures today

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we're probably top out around one hundred
degrees, maybe one hundred and two in

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the Antelopea, in the Santa Clarita
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But we're really expecting more dangerous heat
to begin tomorrow, and so we have

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a heat advisories for all of those
interior areas, basically the mountains and the

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Santa Clarita Valley and stuff like that. And then that expands into the closer

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valleys like the San Fernando and San
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and so basically it's just going to
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say, but it's going to keep
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You know, there will be some
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be a persistent marine layer that's probably
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you like cooler weather in the seventies
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and just be cloudy in the mornings, or how's that going to That is

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a million dollar question because this is
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tricky time of year because what you
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and there's a typically strong marine inversion. So sometimes it's really hard for the

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sun to burn that off right at
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on shore flow piling in. I
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amount of sunshine eat each afternoon.
But but you're right, that's a tough,

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tough question. In any event,
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lot better at the beaches than it
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inland. I think that's a good
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Man, it's already crowded at the
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might be a little more crowded.
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this heatwave? Yeah, it looks
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Saturday looks as though everything's coming together
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think there's a chance temperature could reach
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Antelope Valley, maybe one hundred and
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places like the Santa Clarita Valley and
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It's going to be very hot on
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going to be that much different.
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touch cooler, if anything, than
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looks like the heat's going to continue
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you know, there's going to be
there could be potential power issues when we

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have these hot, dry conditions.
It really causes problems and places at this

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time of the year when there's been
a lot of grass growth and the grass

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has really dried up, so you
have a chance of getting fires if people

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are careless, you know, careless
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actually have any We will have an
increase in fire danger over the next few

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days due to the heat. Are
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going to catch a break with that. There will be some winds in the

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Anilo Valley typically when we get this
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and one hundred and ten degrees over
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that density difference which allows the onshore
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get hot like a furnace in the
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because they're actually going to believe it
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but they're so far inland, it's
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relief. It's going to be very
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us when it's breezy and hot like
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outside, you're stepping into an oven. You know how you get that rush

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of heat when you walk outside.
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it's a dry heat. I'm like, wells is a convection oven. I

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don't know. But to be honest
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point. That's the only place that
I think the winds will be strong.

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Otherwise we are going to catch a
break in general from the winds with the

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thankf Litley. We're not in Santa
Anna season yet, so you know,

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that could be a real issue with
this year. Okay, and Dave,

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is this heat normal? I mean, it's always hot and stuff in California

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in the summer, but it seems
like the real heat traditionally comes a little

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bit later. I would yes,
that's that's true. I do think this

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is about we're approaching record territory for
the daytime highs across the interior, so

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it is I think it's among you
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five percent of of you know,
maybe Saturday, especially if if we're getting

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temperatures up near one hundred and ten
or one hundred and eleven degrees in Lancaster

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and Pondale. I mean, that's
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time record highs, which I believe
a one fifteen or one sixteen there.

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So, so when you're starting to
get numbers of one hundred and ten and

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you're only five degrees or so below
you're all time max, I think that's

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a pretty good, pretty good indicator
of just how hot this is. Well,

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and you're right, I think typically
we might expect this more toward the

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end of July and especially August.
But unfortunately, if you don't like the

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heat, I think you're gonna have
to try to get to the beach or

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stay in police stay in a cool
air condition place if you're fortunate enough to

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have that. Yeah, it's always
fun to break records, but in this

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case, let's hope that we don't
agreed. All right, Dave Bruno with

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the National Weather Service, thank you
so much for your information. It's gonna

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help a lot of people. Hey, welcome, stay safe and cool.

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All right, Okay, it's time
for us to check in with KTLA tech

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reporter Rich Demiro, host of Rich
on Tech right Here on KFI Saturdays from

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eleven am to two pm. Good
morning, rich Hey, good morning to

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you. So Wednesday, Happy Wednesday, and I would imagine the people at

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Meta are pretty happy on this Wednesday
because of threads. Yeah, I would

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say. So this is the new
alternative to Twitter. Some people are calling

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it the Twitter Killer, and it
is basically a text version of Instagram but

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mixed in with some Twitter features.
So basically, you sign up and you're

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able to send out short messages to
folks that follow you. And this is

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owned by Meta, like you said, and a lot of people have come

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over. They have one hundred million
people apparently that have signed up in the

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last week or so. That doesn't
necessarily mean that many people are using it,

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but from what I've seen on there, the intake is pretty good.

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People are liking it, and it's
a kind of a different experience than Twitter.

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We'll have to see what happens with
this one. How is it difference

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than Twitter? Well, I think
the people on there are breathing a sigh

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of relief. You have a lot
of people on there that, either for

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political reasons or elon Musk reasons,
are wanting to get away from Twitter,

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and so they're all sort of like, Okay, this is the new thing,

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let's try it. There's an excitement
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it's going to work. Nobody knows
if it's going to be very good.

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Twitter has are just not built in,

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Like you can't search for something,
and you know, there's limited things like

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I can't tag a post where the
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features are still not there yet.
So do you think that threads will evolve

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and add some of the things that
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I think so. If we look
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start with something that clones something else
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We saw it with the news Feed, we saw it with the stories,

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we saw it with reels. You
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much taken from somewhere else, and
so you know, this is very bare

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bones and basic. But it's promising
because it's easy to sign up, it's

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connected to your Instagram, it's easy
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I think, is that I don't
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going to use this. A lot
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It's just kind of like the standard
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people, It's more people that are
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just, like the average person download
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of you know, tech people are
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it could be, but I'm not
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way. I still think Twitter rules
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and tougher because a lot of the
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still trying to still use it.
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I like Instagram because of pictures.
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even for myself, like where do
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of in the past had my ways
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videos would go to reels, texts
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to Twitter stories for stuff that's just
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it's like this threads is thrown in
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do I post here? What do
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How are people using this? I
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out. It It's interesting because so
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platforms and I remember we we tread
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they never quite took hold. And
this one obviously came out of the gates

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just screaming yeah we had I mean, you know, in recent memory,

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obviously Mastered On and Blue Sky they
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to be the Twitter killers. They
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This one does have a chance because
it's meta, which is funny the

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irony that, you know, not
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of years ago with the Cambridge Analytica
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let's embrace Meta because they have this
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a little scared to have Meta controls
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it does control Instagram, Facebook,
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you know, people will be the
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so let's talk about to ai that. So there's one main ai chat

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bot. And now there's another that's
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several. So you've got i mean, obviously everyone knows chat GBT that's become

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a proprietary eponem for um chatbots.
But then of course you have barred from

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Google. And then you have being
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and they're all very you know,
similar, They answer questions, they

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can do different things. You can
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stuff. Now there's a new one
from a company named Anthropic, and this

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is a company that has a lot
of backing. They've got a lot of

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buzz, but they're not as much
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Francisco startup. But they have launched
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so you can check it out.
And I've got to say, Amy,

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I am very very impressed with it. Like it's it's pretty slick,

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and they're positioning it as a friendlier
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more enthusiasticum they think, they say to

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think of it as a personal assistant
chat GBT. You know, you can

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ask it really technical things. This
is quite impressive, but again same kind

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of restrictions. It doesn't know today's
date. It was trained on Internet data

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that could be two years old,
so you know, it's not fully up

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to date. I think Google is
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date with the latest information from the
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so even if you use this AI, you still have to fact check it.

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Oh any ai? I mean,
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AI chatbots literally will write an amazing
thing and then they'll just put one or

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two facts in there are three or
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I'll just type in, you know, my bio and it'll get like eighty

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five percent right, And that just
literally gets things wrong based on other people's

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names that are similar, or other
people's positions that are similar. And it's

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really wild because you know that because
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you're looking up information about something else, a topic that you're trying to learn

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about, how do you know?
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tricky with these chatbots, that you
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information they're putting in there. Okay, here's a quick question. Can you

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have the chatbot, like like you
said, give you information about something you

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want to learn about. Can you
ask the chatbot to fact check itself on

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Google? It will do that.
It will give you some of the links

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where it came up with stuff.
I'm trying to look on this anthropic if

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it doesn't really give me the where
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on being it does that as well. So I think we're going to see

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that be a bigger part of these
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you know, I guess it's like
citing, like a what do they call

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us back in school, like a
bibliography or citations whatever it is. Footnotes.

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need because you need to see,

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you know, cross reference where this
information came from. You cannot just copy

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and paste this information. It will
really burn you in some way, believe

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me. Okay, and where do
we find the the new one? Uh,

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Claude dot Ai I'll put the link
on my website, rich on tech

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dot tv as well. Just look
for the mentioned on radio. Okay,

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you got it, rich Tomeros,
thank you. I wish we had more

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time to talk because I love here
in tech stuff from you. Well,

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thank you, I appreciate it.
There's never enough time in the world,

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I know. Right, We'll have
a great day. And of course you

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can listen to rich on Tech right
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to two pm. Also, you
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Tech. His website is rich on
Tech dot TV. Right now, let's

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say good morning to ABC's Mike Dubusky. Mike, there's a new smartphone company

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that could be Nothing or is it
something? Something from nothing? Think what

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we've got here today. Yeah,
so Nothing is a new smartphone brand,

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at least new to the United States. Wait, the brand is Nothing.

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The brand is Nothing. I feels
like we're talking about Seinfeld here. It's

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about Nothing the uh no? So
yeah, no, the brand is called

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Nothing, Okay. And their phone, their new phone to the United States,

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is called the Phone two. So
it's the Nothing Phone two. And

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if you just look at the spec
sheet here, it's pretty standard smartphone fair

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It runs a Snapdragon eight plus Gen
one chip, which is not the latest

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thing, but it's pretty recent and
it will be fast enough I think for

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most people's purposes. It's got two
fifty megapixel cameras on the back. It

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has a six point seven inch screen
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hundred and twenty hurts. It's very
bright, and frankly, none of that

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is very interesting because when you flip
this phone over, it's completely transparent.

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You can see through it. It's
like the early days of like consumer tech

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with the iMac that you can look
into. And on top of that,

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you have what nothing calls the glyph
interface, which is it's a series of

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lights on the back. There are
eleven led light strips that are arranged into

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kind of interesting patterns on the back
of this phone, and they can light

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up and dance around and illuminate depending
on how you program to work. So

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let's say you got a notification from
you know, Kfi. For example,

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you're you know, the bosses a
Kfi have sent you a notification. You

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can program your phone to illuminate with
a specific pattern so that you know that

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it's them. Or if you have
a you know, a notification coming in

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from your best friend, you can
program it to dance around in a different

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way. That is just one application
of this glyph interface. They also have

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a partnership with Uber, which I
think is kind of interesting where the lights

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will slowly go down depending on how
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can also see applications here with things
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And Nothing says this is their attempt
to get people to cut down on their

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screen time. Right. We've all
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your phone because you got a notification
from someone, and half an hour later

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you're you know, knee deep in
a Twitter doom scroll. So Nothing says

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you want to put your phone screen
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still get some information. You can
still know that you have notifications coming in,

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you can know what those notifications look
like, but you won't get lost

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in your phone. In other words, so it's kind of like custom ring

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tones, but it's custom light tones. Yeah yeah, And of course this

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can you know, make noise and
vibrate just like any other phone does.

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But they say this back, you
know, panel, this glyph interface is

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kind of just a different way to
experience notifications that's maybe a little bit more

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mindful, and they say this is
also a means by which to make technology

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fun again. Nothing is again a
pretty new brand, and they Carl pay

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who is the CEO of this company, looked around, essentially in his telling

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at the smartphone market, looked at
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three, which are kind of the
big players in the American market, and

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they kind of look the same.
They were just glass sandwiches and you can

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get them in a couple of different
colors. But like, phones have kind

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of looked the same for a long
time, and you know, in his

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estimation, it was worth trying something
new, trying something a little bit different,

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and this is what they've come up
with. Okay, so you said

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the back is clear, so you
can see the guts of the phone basically

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you can, Yeah, you can
see the charging coil is kind of the

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big thing. This is a wirelessly
charging phone, so you can put it

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down in the way they do that
as there's a little copper coil of wires

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in there. So that's kind of
the main thing. And they have lights

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that go around that you can see
part of the camera system that kind of

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appears in the upper left hand corner. There's you can kind of see where

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the plug goes in if you do
want to charge it. With a cord,

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and you know that's it's kind of
interesting. They call it two point

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five D, which I think is
like one step down from three D because

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phones are pretty flat as it is. But it is a very unique design.

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a note of it, I think, just because it does look pretty different,

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you know, not just the lights
but the c through design. And

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it comes in two colors. It
comes in white and sort of a grayish

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black, so you know, you
can kind of customize it in that way

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as well. They will also,
of course sell you a case that is

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see through, and that's pretty much
the size of it. And I think,

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you know, it's worth kind of
putting this into context, right,

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This phone is six hundred dollars.
It's the same price as Google's Pixel seven

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phone. It's two hundred dollars cheaper
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cheaper than a Samsung Galaxys twenty three, So it kind of undercuts those phones

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on price. But one plus or
excuse me, but nothing this new brand.

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I don't think it's trying to challenge
the Samsungs and the Googles and the

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Apples of the world. When it
comes to you know, sales numbers.

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Right, Apple and Samsung, they
dominate the American smartphone market. It's really

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tough for new players, even big
names like Google, to break into that

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duopoli. But it does allow Nothing
the opportunity to sort of play around with

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different form factors, to sort of
experiment with things that obviously Apple would not

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want to do to the iPhone,
right to alienate their scores of buyers.

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Nothing can you know, has a
little bit more nimbleness to it, And

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that's important because you can imagine the
executives at Apple and Samsung and Google will

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be watching what this kind of upstart
company does, maybe integrate some of those

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features into their later phones. So
if you want to see what's on the

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iPhone, you know, seventeen,
you might want to pay attention to what

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Nothing is doing now. And I
would imagine this would be big with kids,

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I mean, you know, obviously

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you would have to make your decision
as a parent whether you want to spend

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six hundred dollars on a phone for
a child. But you know, a

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lot of kids because they're coming up, you know, they get iPhones and

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if that is an eight hundred dollars
proposition, now, yeah, you can

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imagine that this is something that would
be attractive at least on price alone,

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and the sort of notification component of
it. You can see an application in

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the car. Maybe instead of getting
a notification that you have to sit and

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read while you're driving, well your
phone can just light up and you know

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that you have a notification in the
background that you need to attend to later.

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But again you won't get sucked into
your phone and that you know,

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as a parent of a teen who's
maybe starting driving, you can see why

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that would be attractive. So yeah, that is kind of is certainly something

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that could be appealing to people.
What from Nothing's point of view, they

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seem to be targeting people who are
like into smartphones. Carl pay who again

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is the CEO, used to run
a company called one plus, and while

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again they were not huge sales leaders
in the United States, they did garner

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this sort of cult following. The
company had a very close relationship with its

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fans. A lot of fan suggestions
eventually made it into future phones. It

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seems like Nothing is kind of trying
the same strategy here. So this is

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a smartphone, at least from my
perspective for people who are into smartphones.

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It's for smartphone enthusiasts, okay.
And is it available now? It is

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available for pre order now. It
will go on sale July seventeenth next week

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against six hundred dollars. And it
works with Verizon AT and T T Mobile.

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But important to note you can't go
into any of those stores. Can't

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go into a T Mobile store for
example. And one of these things,

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where do you get it? You
have to buy it online. You don't

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know carry your partnership yet. It's
not like on Amazon or anything like you

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have to go to nothing dot com
or do you know you may be able

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to buy it on Amazon. I'm
not sure. But there Essentially, what

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I mean to say there is that
there is no carrier partnership. The brand

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is a little too young to do
that. We might have to wait for

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the Phone three or the Phone four
in order to see, you know,

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a carrier partnership like that where you
can just walk into a carrier provider store

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and get a deal on one of
these things. We're not quite there yet

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with Nothing, Okay, phone still
confuse because I'm like, well, what

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do I get the phone, and
then what do I do? But if

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you don't have the brand carrier,
then how do you get at and t

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on it? Uh? Well,
I think you can call up your carrier

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or switch out your SIM card.
That's often what I think. You know,

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I bought my I have a Google
Pixel seven full disclosure, and I

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switched out my SIM card from an
old one plus phone, which I then

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switched out from an iPhone before that. So um, yeah, it's it's

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pretty pretty easy. You just gotta, you know, keep track of your

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SIM card. You are obviously much
more tech savvy than I am. So

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okay, great, so but nothing
phone two, phone two. Yeah,

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And every time you talk about it
and you say, well, nothing does

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this and nothing does this, I'm
just I just I'm not cracking up just

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a little bit because it's so funny
to hear. It's really hard to keep

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it all straight in your mind.
Yeah, it's kind of like talking about

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Seinfeld. It's the exactly all right. Mike Dubuski, thanks so much for

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taking some time with us this morning. Do you want to check out Nothing?

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You can pre order the phone two
now? Does sound kind of fun?

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We lead Local live from the KFI
twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy

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