Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demurro. Rich. Okay,
Speaker 1: both Will and I got to know what is an
Speaker 1: interactive restaurant? And tell us about the one you just
Speaker 1: went and saw.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I stayed out way too late last night going
Speaker 2: to downtown LA for this this place called the Gallery.
Speaker 2: So this is a new restaurant that's kind of like
Speaker 2: think about like.
Speaker 3: A modern theme restaurant.
Speaker 2: So it's a bunch of theme park designers that decided,
Speaker 2: you know what, let's do something kind of fun and different.
Speaker 3: And so you go in.
Speaker 2: Not only is the bar really cool and it's got
Speaker 2: all these little interactive kind of things going on in
Speaker 2: the background, but then you go into this dining room,
Speaker 2: and in the dining room, they've got all these projectors
Speaker 2: on the ceiling that are sort of hidden, but they
Speaker 2: project things onto your table. And then of course the
Speaker 2: walls all come to life as well. So while you're eating,
Speaker 2: this was like appealing to the five senses. And so
Speaker 2: they had like fire, I guess, not the senses, I
Speaker 2: guess the world the earth. It was like dirt and
Speaker 2: fire and water, and so the whole room comes alive
Speaker 2: with this sort of different theme depending on what you're eating.
Speaker 1: Okay, and what were you eating?
Speaker 2: All kinds of stuff. I couldn't you know, it's it
Speaker 2: was all like five course meals. So it was a
Speaker 2: lot of like the first one was like the one
Speaker 2: it was like a solid served on a bed of
Speaker 2: dirt and it was I mean, it looked like dirt.
Speaker 3: It was not dirt.
Speaker 2: But the whole point of this place is that it's
Speaker 2: sort of interactive and it's a sensory experience. The dinner
Speaker 2: theme is elementa. But here's the deal. I predict that
Speaker 2: this place will be rented out by a lot of
Speaker 2: companies because because of the design of the room, it's
Speaker 2: very tech forward, Like the whole thing can kind of
Speaker 2: be it can take on different looks. So I imagine
Speaker 2: like if you're premiering a movie or a new album,
Speaker 2: you can transform this room to kind of fit what
Speaker 2: you're trying to do. And I think that's the true
Speaker 2: magic of it.
Speaker 1: Well, cool, it was the food good.
Speaker 3: Food was good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I didn't try the duck, but everything else
Speaker 2: I did try and it was it was good.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to scams. Because man, they're coming
Speaker 1: up everywhere. I just got several messages on my phone
Speaker 1: and I was like, I got to ask rich about this.
Speaker 1: Where I got texts and the text appears to be
Speaker 1: from Microsoft. It says Microsoft someone else might have accessed,
Speaker 1: and then it shows like the asterisks and a bunch
Speaker 1: of those and then the last two letters or numbers
Speaker 1: of my email address, and it says you can recover
Speaker 1: at And I'm like, no.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I've been getting yep, yeah, a lot of
Speaker 2: people getting that one. Be careful, a lot of people
Speaker 2: getting that one. For sure, that one's trying to steal
Speaker 2: your Microsoft log in. But there's just so many these things,
Speaker 2: just NonStop all.
Speaker 3: Day, every day.
Speaker 2: And what I talk about on my radio show is
Speaker 2: that the scam artist do something that's very similar to
Speaker 2: what we actually get from a company. So they take
Speaker 2: that actual Microsoft confirmation text or fraud alert text and
Speaker 2: they kind of re engineer it right to be scammy.
Speaker 2: So it looks the same, it reads the same, but
Speaker 2: the link that you're getting is not the right one.
Speaker 2: So just be very careful look at who these things
Speaker 2: are coming from. And if you don't expect them, you know,
Speaker 2: be a little bit spidy sense, like, okay, I didn't
Speaker 2: really try logging in what's happening here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay?
Speaker 1: And then over on the phone side, you know, like
Speaker 1: when I get a phone call, sometimes it says spam risk.
Speaker 1: When I don't recognize the number, I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: I should pick up or not. But you have a
Speaker 1: way to detect spam calls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one, you know you can safely not pick up.
Speaker 2: But as any parent knows, if you've got kids, you can't.
Speaker 2: Even if it's a number you don't recognize, you kind
Speaker 2: of have to pick it up just because you know
Speaker 2: who knows. And that happened to me once my kid
Speaker 2: broke his arm, and it's like, I should I pick
Speaker 2: up this phone call?
Speaker 3: Should I not? Thankfully I did.
Speaker 2: But I tried this new thing where basically I got
Speaker 2: a call I didn't know if it was a scam
Speaker 2: artist or not. Is from the Bank of America credit
Speaker 2: card Verification Department, sounds very official, And I said, I
Speaker 2: think this might be a scam. So I pressed the
Speaker 2: little recording icon on the iPhone and I said, this
Speaker 2: call will be recorded, And all of a sudden, as
Speaker 2: soon as it announced that to the call boom, the
Speaker 2: person hung up. So I was like, oh, this must
Speaker 2: be a scam, So I posted this to my Instagram.
Speaker 2: Many people have tried it since, and I'm getting lots
Speaker 2: of reports that it almost works like a charm every
Speaker 2: single time, And I think it might even work for like,
Speaker 2: if you just want to get off the phone with
Speaker 2: like a telemarketer, just press that. Once they hear that,
Speaker 2: they don't want to be on the recording.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, good to know. And then I'm having issues
Speaker 1: with my DVD. But this is a different thing. There's
Speaker 1: something called disc rot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just basically wanted to say that because I've
Speaker 2: never heard of disc rop.
Speaker 3: But I understand.
Speaker 2: You know, if you've got old tapes around the house,
Speaker 2: like those are definitely at risk of like going bad,
Speaker 2: so definitely get those digitized. But DVDs are supposed to
Speaker 2: last like one hundred years. But apparently there was some
Speaker 2: manufacturing issues with Warner Brothers Home entertainment discs like these
Speaker 2: are you know, movies from two thousand and six to
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, so they're failing prematurely, which means
Speaker 2: people are putting them in their drives and they're not loading.
Speaker 2: They're freezing while they play, or they just don't play
Speaker 2: at all. And so Warner Brothers apparently is aware of this.
Speaker 2: You can get in touch with them. They will either
Speaker 2: replace the disc and if they can't get the disc anymore,
Speaker 2: they will give you a title of similar value. So basically,
Speaker 2: if you've got Warner Brothers movies that are a little
Speaker 2: bit older on DVD, put them in your DVD player
Speaker 2: if you still have one.
Speaker 3: I mean, who still has this thing?
Speaker 1: I have a DVD DVD player but it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean in La, look where, you know, it's
Speaker 2: a movie city, so people probably have more than other places.
Speaker 2: But check them out. Make sure you don't. You don't
Speaker 2: want disc rot to ruin your day.
Speaker 1: I know. And you can hear Rich say disc rot
Speaker 1: and so many other things when you listen to him
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Speaker 1: He is KFI is tech Guy. Rich Dimiro. Can also
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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Rich headed that way. Now have good