WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.400 You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:09.519 on demand on the iHeartRadio f KFI AM six forty 3 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:10.320 Bill Handle Here. 4 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:12.039 It is a Taco. 5 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:16.399 Tuesday, April eighth, And since it is Tuesday, and since 6 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.960 it is eight o'clock, it's time for our Tech segment 7 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:21.600 with Rich Demurow. 8 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:25.039 Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you, Bill, welcome back, 9 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:25.800 thank you. 10 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:28.440 I have to tell you, as you know and as 11 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:31.000 people now know, I went off to Italy where I 12 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:35.920 got married and engaged in my honeymoon. And did you know, 13 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:37.799 let me tell you, do you know how many times 14 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.320 your name came up in the two weeks that I 15 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:40.759 was gone? 16 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:42.320 Three weeks and I came that I. 17 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:49.520 Was gone, not once, that's correct, absolutely, yes, zero, Oh, 18 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:51.520 thank you, You're welcome me humble. 19 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:52.600 Absolutely. 20 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.119 Rich of course is not only kfi's tech guy and 21 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.840 heard on the show every Saturday here on KFI eleven 22 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:03.280 to two pm, but he's also a reporter on KTLA 23 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:07.280 every day, the tech Reporter Instagram at Rich on tech website, 24 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.040 rich on tech dot TV. We're also very proud of 25 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.400 the fact, or at least the station is that Rich, 26 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:17.560 you are syndicated and started right here on KFI. 27 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.680 Yes, right there, and have expanded since it's been great 28 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:22.359 and KFI is still my first love. 29 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.359 That's his contract talker, by the way, I have seen 30 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:27.040 his contract. 31 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:27.840 He has to say that. 32 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:33.079 All right, big news on the tariffs. Of course, that 33 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.400 is the economic news globally. And you think of tariffs 34 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:41.200 in terms of goods and services that are brought in. 35 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:45.000 Let's connect tariffs to tech because we get so much 36 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.079 tech from overseas, at least the manufactured. 37 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:47.799 Part of it. 38 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.239 Yeah, I mean I think that, you know, for me, 39 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.439 the only thing that I think of when it comes 40 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:55.959 to tariffs. I know we've talked about cars and all 41 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:59.680 these different things from maple syrup to whatever, But for me, 42 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.640 it's all about tech because all of these goods come 43 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:03.519 from overseas. 44 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:05.519 Pretty much a majority. 45 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:08.479 Of them are made in China and of course Vietnam, Taiwan. 46 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.960 So the entire tech industry is wondering, like, hey, what 47 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.599 is happening here? Are we going to be seeing higher 48 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.960 prices from the consumer standpoint? And also companies like what, 49 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:19.800 you know, what do they do? How do they react 50 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:21.840 to this? Do they immediately put these things on and 51 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:26.159 pass the added costs on to consumers or do they 52 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:28.759 wait and see Because there's so much turmoil right now, 53 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:30.240 we don't really know what's happening. 54 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:32.159 So the Chinese. 55 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:35.159 Tariffs are supposed to happen starting April ninth, which is tomorrow, 56 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:37.639 we don't know if that's going to happen. According to 57 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:41.400 a report out of Bloomberg, they're saying that Apple stores 58 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:45.639 saw a rush of consumers buying things like iPhones. And 59 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.120 I would say just in general, like people texting me 60 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:50.719 and asking me questions, there's been a lot of interest 61 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.800 in especially phones and laptop computers. That's what people are wondering, 62 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:56.919 you know, are these things going to increase in price? 63 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.479 And then Nintendo, while you were gone last sweek bill 64 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.199 they announced the switch to and then they said they 65 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:06.039 have to delay pre orders because they're just not sure, 66 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:07.240 like how this is all going to shake out. 67 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:08.280 Do they have to charge more? 68 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:10.879 These things are going to be more expensive than four 69 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.319 hundred and fifty dollars, which is the announced price that 70 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:14.039 they came up with. 71 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.639 Yeah, with this tit for tat with China, and I 72 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:22.000 don't see g President g or President Trump backing down. 73 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:26.599 Both these guys have no problem playing chicken, and that's 74 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.000 what's going on. And they both have a lot to 75 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.159 lose and a lot to gain with these tariffs, more 76 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.199 to lose than to gain. But let's talk about iPhones. 77 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:40.719 If the tariffs go up to one hundred percent, which 78 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.080 looks like Wednesday, they very well might. I don't see 79 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.319 Trump backing down very quickly. What is an iPhone going 80 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:48.479 to cost right now? 81 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.520 It's a thousand bucks for an iPhone, yeah, I mean 82 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.199 there's a report over the weekend. You know, the top 83 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.280 of the line iPhone could be like over two thousand dollars, twenty. 84 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.199 Five hundred something like that. 85 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:01.439 You know, most people are getting the basic iPhone for 86 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:03.639 eight hundred dollars. If that doubled in price, that'd be 87 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.039 sixteen hundred. I from everything I can tell, the tech 88 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.240 companies are taking sort of a weight and see they 89 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.319 do not want to raise prices right now. And to 90 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:15.919 give an example of a computer, you know, there are 91 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:17.879 still deals to be had out there because a lot 92 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.839 of the stock that we're seeing is stock that has 93 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.240 already arrived in the country. It's already in the country, 94 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:27.360 so those prices don't go up necessarily overnight. But future 95 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.000 stock that arrives. That's where the problem is. And like 96 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.560 you said, you know, these are two countries that don't 97 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:34.399 want to back down. I mean, those are two leaders 98 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:37.639 that are just sitting there, you know, with the world 99 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.560 in their hands right now, and we're the consumers that 100 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:45.399 are just feeling uncertain. Cenet did a survey and basically 101 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.680 one in ten shoppers made big ticket purchases late last 102 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:53.040 year or early this year to avoid these tariff price jumps. 103 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.639 And I think the rest of the people are just 104 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.879 worried and wondering, like, hey, what do I do now? 105 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:02.480 Realistically, when we they talk about doubling prices, the price 106 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.920 is one thousand dollars. iPhone is not going to double 107 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.160 the two thousand dollars because shipping costs are not going 108 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.360 to increase. Certainly, the forty percent profit margin that Apple 109 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:15.800 makes or thirty five percent profit margin, that's not going 110 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:17.360 to double to seventy percent. 111 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:19.839 So it's the cost of. 112 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:23.160 The good at goods as it leaves China and comes 113 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:27.279 to the US. But still we're talking about a huge, 114 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.879 huge jump in price, and you. 115 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:33.480 Know what, and the go ahead. 116 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.959 You know, look, these companies, I think at the beginning, 117 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.120 if this goes on in a small way, these companies 118 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.319 are probably going to take a hit on the profits 119 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.399 that they make, right They're probably going to try to 120 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.600 hold off any giant price increases as long as possible 121 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.639 on the flip side if one company does it, because 122 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.000 right now, nobody wants to be the first electronics the 123 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.399 first tech company for a big headline to say iPhones 124 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.279 just went up by one hundred dollars, right They don't 125 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:59.519 want to be the first, because that's going to kick 126 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:03.439 off a chain of events where every tech company can 127 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:06.079 now say, okay, now we can raise the prices too. 128 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:08.480 And then for consumers. 129 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.199 Who are already sort of like in a tailspin here 130 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.279 wondering like what's going on, that's not a good thing 131 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:15.279 because then all of a sudden everyone has an excuse 132 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.560 to raise prices. And it reminds us a lot of 133 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.680 that pandemic era, right where one person raised prices and 134 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.120 the grocery store prices just kept going up, up. 135 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:25.639 Up up. We don't want that to happen with our gadgets. 136 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:29.519 Well, it's not going to be fun at all. 137 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.720 And thank goodness that I just bought my new iPhone, which, 138 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:34.240 by the way, I still don't know how to work it. 139 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.680 I just you know, it's kind of need the technology 140 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.519 and hopefully talked about this, but I've become a grilling 141 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:42.839 freak for you know, just for some reason. 142 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.519 I'm now grilling like every day. 143 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.279 And there is a thermometer that I have that works 144 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.839 on an app that immunigate to the meat. It's so 145 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.519 neat and I still don't know quite how to work 146 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.240 it because it's an app and it's I'll get. 147 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:01.720 There because right now I'm just the meter bill. Uh, 148 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:02.279 I don't know what. 149 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.879 It's a little thing with the black handle that you 150 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:06.519 it just sticks in the meat and you just put 151 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:07.079 it on the grill. 152 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:09.839 Yeah, it's about one hundred dollars. Meter is the big one. 153 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:12.160 Yeah, that's that's I mean, that's probably a meter, but 154 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:15.759 it's it's basically an app connected thermometer. So I tested 155 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.120 the first one way back in the day. Wasn't a 156 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.319 big fan because it was like a beta version. Now 157 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:21.800 they've you know, they sent me a new one. I 158 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.160 have yet to try it, but summer grilling seasons coming up. 159 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.000 What do you what do you make in most days? 160 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:26.480 Oh? 161 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:26.959 Steak? 162 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:29.480 And I went to, uh, this is this is one 163 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:31.800 that I never thought I would do, and that is 164 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.040 I go to Costco, of course, where I buy my meat, 165 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:39.079 and I am buying prime meat at twenty six dollars 166 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:43.120 a pound for the high end steak. Now keep in mind, 167 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:45.959 twenty six dollars for one pound of meat is equivalent 168 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.800 to two shirts or two pairs of pants at Costco. 169 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:52.439 And you gotta make choices. Do you want to be? 170 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.800 But that is uh, just just to become a grill nutcase? 171 00:07:58.040 --> 00:07:59.639 All right, We're gonna come back and we have a 172 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:04.839 bunch more to talk about. Smart watch a budget one 173 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.759 the day oh app which I have absolutely no idea. 174 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:12.079 Is this a Harry Belafani situation here? 175 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:14.560 I have no idea what that means. 176 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:18.319 But okay, okay, Frank, okay, you don't know what that means? 177 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:24.120 That stated me? Kno? That is that is that that day? 178 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:29.160 Have you depour bunch? 179 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:30.040 All right? 180 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:34.120 Banana? Okay? Uh, that's okay. 181 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.039 That's the deo song Harry Belifan eclips of music, having 182 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:38.960 nothing to do with this app at all. But I 183 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.799 just wanted to throw that out because I just wanted 184 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:42.399 to throw that out. 185 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:44.080 So what is the dao app? 186 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:45.240 Okay? 187 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:46.840 Well, I do know that song, by the way, that 188 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:48.960 was in the Beetlejuice movie, So I do know that. 189 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.559 Oh that's right, it wasn't the Beatle Juice music. 190 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:55.200 Harry Belafani introduced Calypso music the United States in the 191 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:58.679 nineteen fifties, and he also and he then went on 192 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.759 to become one of the great eros of the civil 193 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.799 rights movement. He was there at the march on Washington, 194 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.679 the Martin Luther King I have a dream speech day 195 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:08.960 and on and on. But anyway, let's talk about the app, 196 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:10.960 because this is good for you for knowing that. 197 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.600 By the way, the h what's the app? 198 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.399 You know a little bit of pop culture. So this 199 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.279 is an app called Deoh. It's based out of Portland, 200 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.000 and the whole thing is to reward you for spending 201 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.799 less time on social media. So if you can limit 202 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.200 your usage to thirty minutes a day, you could. 203 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:29.759 Earn five dollars in rewards, and. 204 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:31.799 You can exchange those rewards, you can bank them and 205 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:36.480 then get discounts on products like JBL YETI a whole 206 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.159 bunch of other products that they have listed inside the app. 207 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:42.279 And the whole point is to keep you off of Instagram, TikTok, 208 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:46.519 Facebook X, and the founder said they did this because 209 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:49.320 you know, we're not getting anything in exchange for this 210 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.559 unless you're a social media influencer making money off this stuff. 211 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:56.320 You're basically giving up your data and your attention and 212 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.919 they want you to reclaim that. So we'll see how 213 00:09:58.919 --> 00:09:59.360 this goes. 214 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:01.000 Ye, I'm a little confused. 215 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.159 You're getting points for not going onto all of these 216 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:06.799 social media apps? 217 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:09.879 Correct? And how do they measure how many you're not 218 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:10.480 going to? 219 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:12.159 Great question? 220 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.000 So on the iPhone they're gonna I'm assuming they take 221 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.200 advantage of the screen time where they can read how 222 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.600 long you've been on certain apps. So under thirty minutes 223 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.279 you're good. Over thirty minutes, they start docking that five 224 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:25.720 dollars down to zero. 225 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:29.720 And who is coming up with the five dollars if 226 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:31.480 they're not monetizing this. 227 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.240 Well, it seems like since you have to put the 228 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.720 five dollars towards these rewards, it seems like it's more 229 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:42.519 of a these companies have you know, given products to 230 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:46.200 this day, oh, startup, and that's how you get it. 231 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:48.480 So let me look at the products that they've got. 232 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.320 They've got north Face hydro flask and Espresso diyce in. 233 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.159 So it seems like it's it's more of a partnership 234 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:57.720 with these companies to say, hey, look, you know, we'll 235 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:59.840 give you a discount. You know, it's like maybe you'll 236 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:01.639 get fifty dollars off of Dice and if you if 237 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.840 you spend that little bit of time on social media. 238 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.320 So it's kind of a partnership, it seems with these 239 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:06.919 makes sense. 240 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:10.480 It's a marketing I'll buy a marketing partnership. That's I'll 241 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:10.759 buy that. 242 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:15.440 Now, the five dollars is signifies what a length of 243 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.279 time and I don't quite know the formula. 244 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:21.320 Here, thirty minutes or less gets you five bucks. So 245 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:24.120 thirty minutes or less you get the five dollars. You 246 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:27.200 get that every day. So if you theoretically in a 247 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.159 month you can rack up one hundred and fifty dollars, 248 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:31.879 that to me, Bill seems way too good to be true, 249 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.000 because that that seems like if you're on this thing 250 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.879 for two months, that's three hundred dollars worth one of 251 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:40.000 these brands. So there must be like some fine print 252 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:42.919 the only use it towards like fifty percent of the 253 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:44.080 product or something like that. 254 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:47.440 Yeah, and you have to be some somewhere a Nigerian 255 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:48.679 prince is connected to this. 256 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:49.600 I'm convinced of. 257 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:53.879 That, well, a Nigerian prince in Portland. 258 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:58.240 But remember those, remember those scams. God, I love those, 259 00:11:58.480 --> 00:11:58.879 all right. 260 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.759 Rich Thank you Saturday morning, eleven to two pm here 261 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:06.600 on KFI and Instagram, at rich on Tech website, rich 262 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:07.559 on tech Dot TV. 263 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.279 Rich you have a good day. We'll catch you tomorrow 264 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.919 on this ship on the TV. Take care bye, Thank you. 265 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:12.159 Bill. 266 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:16.440 All right, there is a story out there that just 267 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.879 grabbed me, as it did with Ann also, and that 268 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:25.720 is about a biotech company called Colossal Biosciences, and it 269 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.919 has brought back it is claimed to have brought back 270 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.360 the dire wolf. The dire wolf went extinct ten thousand 271 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.840 years ago, and Colossal says. 272 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:38.080 Here it is, we have two of these little cubs. 273 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:39.000 Oh they're cutest pie. 274 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:40.440 I don't know if you've seen the video. Oh they're 275 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.840 the cutest things, a little white dire wolves. Anyway, it's 276 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.399 calling it the de extinction process. Interestingly enough, is it 277 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.080 genetic engineering? Is it cloning? Now I'm not an expert 278 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.840 in this stuff, the technical side of it, and there 279 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.000 seems to be a difference between what they did and 280 00:12:58.200 --> 00:12:59.279 actual cloning. 281 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:02.080 Cloning is taking DNA. 282 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:06.159 From For example, they're working on the wooly mammoth, bringing 283 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:11.759 a wooly mammoth back. And if you ever saw Jurassic Park, 284 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.240 which of course everybody has, they took the DNA of 285 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:19.639 dinosaurs that the mosquitoes sucked up its blood and then 286 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:23.240 got encased in amber. But that was the actual DNA, 287 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.480 which can be preserved for certainly ten thousand years. 288 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:29.120 Isn't the problem. This is a little bit different. 289 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:34.320 This is using wolves that are in existence now, but 290 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.559 the closest thing to dire wolves doing some a little manipulation. 291 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:42.159 Don't know whether or not they've actually gotten DNA from 292 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:47.960 dire wolves either, bones certainly that would be it. I 293 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.960 think there's not a little bray of tarpits I have 294 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:54.200 dire wolves in it, and they took. 295 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.279 It out for the exhibit. I think dire wolves are 296 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:56.759 part of it. 297 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:01.039 But anyway, these guys are long gone and they're saying, 298 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.039 here we go, We've brought back this puppy and it 299 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.519 went extinct ten thousand years ago. Now, BOYD, does that 300 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.720 open up all kinds of issues? Does that mean that 301 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.039 I guess you can bring back dinosaurs. Probably not, because 302 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.919 you know, there isn't much DNA left the species that 303 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:24.360 died forty million years ago. But if this is real, 304 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.759 and I'm not saying it's not real, it's a question 305 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.960 of is this genetically is this a dire wolf or 306 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.360 is it kind of sort of looks like a dire 307 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.279 wolf and it is as close as you can get 308 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:41.360 without it being the real thing. And there are detractors 309 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.639 that say, no, it's close, it looks like it, but 310 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.720 it really isn't. On the other hand, what Colossal is 311 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:56.759 saying is it looks like it, it talks like it, 312 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.159 it walks like it. 313 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.600 It is much like a quacking duck. 314 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:08.759 And so the head of the team, the investigative team, 315 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:13.879 the scientific team that did this, extracted dire wolf DNA 316 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:17.559 from two existing fossils to sequence the animal's genome. Did 317 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:21.799 they use that DNA specifically? You know, I don't know 318 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:27.679 the science here, but there is a difference. They've taken 319 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:32.240 a gray wolf genome. A gray wolf is genetically ninety 320 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.320 nine point five percent identical to dire wolves, so the 321 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.879 two are really close. And they said they edited the 322 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:44.240 cells that multiple places to sequence the dire wolf version 323 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:47.440 of the DNA. Again, I'm not an expert, and I'd 324 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.440 love to have someone who is in dire need of information. 325 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:55.919 That's very funny, who is in need of information to 326 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.080 send me an email and say, handle, you got it, 327 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.120 or handle you don't know what the hell you're talking about, 328 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.360 Probably the latter. But this is such fascinating stuff because 329 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:08.600 when I started practicing in third brought party reproduction. One 330 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:13.120 of the issues and we're talking about I was teaching. 331 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:15.080 I know it's hard to believe, but I taught law 332 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.879 school for four years and reproductive law. One of the 333 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:24.200 issues was genetic engineering in terms of human reproduction and 334 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.679 where this is going to go and the ethics involved 335 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.919 in that. There's nothing unethical about this bringing a dire 336 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.039 wolf back. No one's going to argue bringing a human 337 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.440 being back as a clone, or genetically engineering a human 338 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:41.039 being is a very different animal, as a dire wolf 339 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:42.120 is a very different animal. 340 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:44.519 This gets very complicated. So you know what I'm gonna do. 341 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.639 I'm going to bail out of this one, and I'll 342 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.679 pick up this story later on as it develops, and 343 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:50.759 and I'll talk about. 344 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:51.000 This all right. 345 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:54.039 I want to end the show with the concept of 346 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:58.399 space ads, a sky full of ads. Now I'm not 347 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:02.240 talking about sky writing, which are adds up in the air. 348 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.880 Even those drones that fly around those are kind of 349 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:05.640 neat how they can. 350 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:07.400 It's in lieu of fireworks. 351 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:09.720 The drones make American flags and you see all kinds 352 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:12.640 of fun stuff that you can do with drones. But 353 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.240 that is near what's right on top of it's a 354 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.839 few hundred feet up in the air. These are ads 355 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:24.480 in space. And there's a Russian company that's doing exactly that. 356 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.799 They've actually sent up a prototype already. The company is 357 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:33.240 Avant Space. It has deployed the first space media satellite 358 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.039 into Earth's orbit and it's a prototype for a quote 359 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:42.640 planned fleet of small, low cost laser equipped satellites designed 360 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.480 to and here's according to the Scientific American and they 361 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:51.599 described it to emblazon the Earth's sky with corporate logos, 362 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:56.400 QR codes and other consumer cultural ephemerara. 363 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:01.079 I even had to look that up. What the hell epemera. 364 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:05.200 Something it's temporary, Yes, that's exactly right. It's something that's 365 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:09.519 very temporary, like fireworks. And so imagine this. You're talking 366 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:11.759 about looking up at the night sky and it's only 367 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:14.680 going to be between this hilarious how they scribe it 368 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:19.559 between dusk and daylight. Wow, really, thank you for telling 369 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.839 us that, because up in the middle of the sun, 370 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.000 in the middle of the day, yeah, you'd be able 371 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:28.079 to see it, right, Thank you, you geniuses. So it's 372 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:30.960 only at night, and they say it's only going to 373 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:36.079 be above populated cities because the big concern actually is 374 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:41.000 telescopes that would be wiped out. 375 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:43.839 They wouldn't be able to see the stars. 376 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:45.359 I mean, it's kind of weird, but that seems to 377 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:48.079 be the major complaint. Now a lot of scientists are 378 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:50.839 a little upset about this, having these giant billboards up 379 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:55.000 in the sky and I'm talking about filling the sky up. 380 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.559 And it's cheap too. They're saying, sixty five million dollars. 381 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:02.359 They can put these puppies up and make a bucket 382 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:05.279 of money. Is anything stopping them? Is there a loss 383 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:10.799 stopping them? Absolutely not. You know, space is internationalized by treaty. 384 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:16.359 It belongs to nobody. Now everybody has their own every 385 00:19:16.440 --> 00:19:19.880 country has its own airspace, but it only goes up 386 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:26.519 to the stratosphere. After that it's an open playground. You 387 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.960 can no one can tell anybody what to put up 388 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:31.200 what not to put up. 389 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:33.599 Elon musk. 390 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:38.200 Now he is because it's an American company, SpaceX, he 391 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:42.839 has to comply. And if you're launching rockets off the 392 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.920 United States, you have to comply. The FAA actually controls that. 393 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:50.400 But you go to other countries, they're by treaty, they 394 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.000 can do whatever the hell they want. And that is 395 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.880 the fear, and scientists are going nuts. Now can you 396 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:00.279 imagine you walk out, Not that we don't have a 397 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.440 lot of pollution with billboards already as you drive down 398 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:07.519 the street, but you look up and the sky is 399 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:12.960 filled with effectively what these drones can do. And it's 400 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:16.759 all pretty neat stuff. And my in favor of it 401 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.799