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Speaker 1: Good morning Rich, Hey, good morning to Bill boy. We
Speaker 1: sound happy like happy campers.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: You're bad, actually, because yesterday I was Yesterday I was
Speaker 2: so jet lagged from coming back from vacation. It was
Speaker 2: just a god awful mess delays, layovers. All right, So
Speaker 2: let's get right into it, because there's a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff to talk about. The one that I'm more most
Speaker 2: interested in because I hate cats. I'm a dog person.
Speaker 2: Is you tested a robot kitty litter box? You're impressed
Speaker 2: with it, and I'm thinking of using it for my
Speaker 2: dogs or even for me if I want to. You know,
Speaker 2: if I miss the toilet and I can't quite make it,
Speaker 2: let's talk about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that would be the first me hearing
Speaker 5: about a human using this. But these, you know, these
Speaker 5: are pretty popular. And I can't believe you admit that
Speaker 5: you hate cats, because you know I.
Speaker 1: Don't hate them. But I'm a dog person.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're a dog person.
Speaker 2: I'm one of the people that Trump talked about, you know, eating. No,
Speaker 2: let's not go there. So tell me about this and
Speaker 2: why you actually were impressed with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I've heard about these for a long time, these
Speaker 5: automated kitty litter boxes. And I will tell you I
Speaker 5: would be a cat person if I had a way
Speaker 5: to keep my house clean with the cats and the kids.
Speaker 5: They promised that they will scoop the kitty litter, and
Speaker 5: of course who ends up doing it me, But we
Speaker 5: foster cats in my house, so we kind of like,
Speaker 5: you know, just take them for a couple of weeks
Speaker 5: at a time and get them up to speed and
Speaker 5: then they get adopted. So anyway, but we've never gotten
Speaker 5: a cat of our own because they wreck hav it.
Speaker 5: You know, they leave the litter everywhere. You got to
Speaker 5: scoop it. There's hair everywhere. Anyway, So we tried out
Speaker 5: this self cleaning kitty litter box. This is the Nia
Speaker 5: Casa m one and I knew these things were really expensive,
Speaker 5: but I was curious, like, are they worth the price
Speaker 5: because they are kind of an investment. And I will
Speaker 5: tell you after having this thing in my home for
Speaker 5: about three four weeks now, it is a game changer.
Speaker 5: It is completely incredible and it's probably the single best
Speaker 5: piece of technology I've ever tested that actually impacts your
Speaker 5: life in a meaningful way. You know, the room boss
Speaker 5: sort of you know, sort of promise that, but my
Speaker 5: room gets stuck all the time.
Speaker 4: This does not. This just works.
Speaker 5: It cleans the litter, the cat has a fresh place
Speaker 5: to go every time, puts all the droppings in a
Speaker 5: bin underneath it. It tells you when it's time to
Speaker 5: empty that bin, which is once.
Speaker 4: Every two weeks. And it's super easy. It's like a
Speaker 4: on automated mode. Hmm.
Speaker 1: And when you said it's expensive, how expensive?
Speaker 5: So the top probably the top seller is seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: That's wild Whisker Literal robot. Yeah, the one I tested
Speaker 5: is six hundred. But here's a thing. Over Prime Day
Speaker 5: it got down to as low as four hundred bucks.
Speaker 5: So I would say you probably want to, you know,
Speaker 5: wait for this thing to go on sale. It's I think,
Speaker 5: at four hundred dollars, it's an absolute steal because it
Speaker 5: is saving you time on a daily basis, saving you time,
Speaker 5: saving you energy, and you know, the cat seems to
Speaker 5: love it. It gives you even Bill, you even get
Speaker 5: a little readout in the app of how long your
Speaker 5: cat spent in this machine and how much they weigh,
Speaker 5: so you can actually see if there's like maybe any
Speaker 5: sort of illness or thing or something wrong with your
Speaker 5: cat at any point.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's important. How long did your cat sit there crapping?
Speaker 2: I mean, I cannot think of technology that's more important
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 4: It'll even text you a little video of the process. Bill,
Speaker 4: you can.
Speaker 1: It's important because that's something I want to see. I
Speaker 1: got that. Also.
Speaker 2: I want to point something out when you said, and
Speaker 2: I usually don't hear this from you, very rarely do
Speaker 2: you have technology that really affects your life in a
Speaker 2: big way. And this is one of those that will
Speaker 2: affect your day to day life, probably more than anything
Speaker 2: you've ever tested. Have you ever had open heart surgery
Speaker 2: with some new technology?
Speaker 4: No, and I hope not to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, let me.
Speaker 2: Tell you that affects your life just a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to throw that at you. Rich.
Speaker 5: Just look, I'm talking for the average person, Bill, who
Speaker 5: maybe has not had open heart surgery. But I'm just
Speaker 5: saying in general, yes, there are millions of things that
Speaker 5: have affected it.
Speaker 4: Live no.
Speaker 2: No, And I'm just yeah, obviously I'm just jerking your
Speaker 2: chain here, but that's kind of neat. Now, the other
Speaker 2: question before we take a break, you only foster cats
Speaker 2: because of the mess and the cleaning of the litter, etc.
Speaker 2: Does this change your opinion? Do you get a cat
Speaker 2: now because of this?
Speaker 5: Honestly, Bill, this is the closest I've ever come to
Speaker 5: saying yes. So because it is solved the main issue
Speaker 5: I had, which was kitty litter, scooping kitty litter everywhere
Speaker 5: because it just gets everywhere. It doesn't with this machine.
Speaker 5: The only other thing I got to figure out is
Speaker 5: the cat hair. Cats love to sit on me. I
Speaker 5: don't know what it is. They come to me. There's
Speaker 5: four people in my house. They come right to me
Speaker 5: and rub up all against me and get their hair
Speaker 5: all over me. And that's something else I need to
Speaker 5: figure out.
Speaker 1: Okay, And here's what I want to do.
Speaker 2: And I'm just pitching this right now and on the air,
Speaker 2: because we haven't talked about this. When you do get
Speaker 2: your cat, we're going to have a contest in terms
Speaker 2: of naming your cat, and then we're going to choose
Speaker 2: a winner and the winner will get absolutely nothing, which
Speaker 2: is always fun when we do contests here on KFI.
Speaker 4: Sounds like a great opportunity for someone.
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 2: We'll be back and finish up Rich Ded Moureau and
Speaker 2: tech Tuesday. The check in with Amy will rename Amy. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's a great idea.
Speaker 3: Can we just Rich? They do that because they know
Speaker 3: that you don't love them and they're trying to win
Speaker 3: you over.
Speaker 5: I know that's what people say, but I okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: I guess that's it.
Speaker 4: I admit that whatever feeling.
Speaker 2: Hey, I wonder if they're going to do that with dogs,
Speaker 2: you know, because I'm a little sick of my dog
Speaker 2: peeing on my leg and we've got to do something
Speaker 2: about that. Back we go to Rich Demurrow Tech Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Apple's AirPods and what's going on with that and AirPods.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would get an Apple AirPod, but I
Speaker 2: find them very expensive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they are expensive, but for this new feature, it's
Speaker 5: actually pretty good.
Speaker 4: So let's see you.
Speaker 5: Can get you can get the general There's obviously various
Speaker 5: levels of the air pods. The ones that I'm going
Speaker 5: to talk about right now are the AirPods Pro two,
Speaker 5: which retail for two hundred and fifty dollars, but they
Speaker 5: are regularly on sale, including right now for about two
Speaker 5: hundred dollars. And these are the top of the line
Speaker 5: AirPods that Apple makes. The cheapest I think is one
Speaker 5: about one and twenty. So these are getting a feature
Speaker 5: next week. That's the hearing aid feature. We talked about
Speaker 5: this back in September when Apple announced this, but now
Speaker 5: it's actually coming out next week. So if you have
Speaker 5: the Airpod's Pro too, they will basically be turned into
Speaker 5: FDA authorized hearing aids with this software update. And so
Speaker 5: this is going to be a heck of a lot
Speaker 5: cheaper than a lot of other hearing aids out there.
Speaker 5: The battery life, I think is the biggest limitation from
Speaker 5: the early reports I'm seeing of people who.
Speaker 4: Tried this out six hours, So this is not going
Speaker 4: to be something that's a permanent solution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let me ask you when you think about that.
Speaker 2: So you're already wearing a hearing aid. And now I'm assuming
Speaker 2: wearing a hearing aid gets in the way of an
Speaker 2: Apple pod, the iPod or the AirPod. I'm sorry, And
Speaker 2: how do you do the two at the same time.
Speaker 2: Do you take out your hearing aid and put it
Speaker 2: in for six hours, put in the AirPod and then
Speaker 2: switch it out.
Speaker 4: Aga Well, it's interesting.
Speaker 5: A lot of a lot of the modern hearing aids,
Speaker 5: like the ones that are very expensive that you get
Speaker 5: from a doctor, a lot of them actually work with
Speaker 5: the iPhone, so they've built that functionality in a long
Speaker 5: time ago where you use them twenty four to seven,
Speaker 5: so they become you know, you can take phone calls
Speaker 5: through them, you can listen to audio through them, so
Speaker 5: you don't really need to take them out. This is
Speaker 5: more for someone who has low to moderate hearing loss.
Speaker 5: May not even know that, but you open up the
Speaker 5: app next week, you take a little hearing test and
Speaker 5: it will tune these air pods to help you hear better.
Speaker 5: And so if you're like sitting there going you know what,
Speaker 5: it is tough for me to hear conversations in a restaurant,
Speaker 5: or it's tough for me to just hear in general.
Speaker 5: Let me try this out, and you try it out
Speaker 5: and you say, Okay, I don't need hearing aids twenty
Speaker 5: four to seven, but it would help maybe at work
Speaker 5: when I'm in meetings or something like that. So you
Speaker 5: can just pop these in. And I think the benefit
Speaker 5: of the air pods is that they're ubiquitous. You know,
Speaker 5: so many people are used to seeing them. It's probably
Speaker 5: not that big of a deal if you're wearing them
Speaker 5: no matter where you are.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's a market for it?
Speaker 2: I mean, that is really niche stuff the way I
Speaker 2: see it, And obviously I don't do the kind of research.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Apple doesn't come out with something without really
Speaker 1: researching it. But do you see that there's a big
Speaker 1: market for this.
Speaker 4: I could see it being a huge market if you know.
Speaker 5: Look the price tag, I think is what's really interesting here.
Speaker 5: So these are, you know, like I said, about two
Speaker 5: hundred dollars compared to thousands of dollars for traditional hearing aids.
Speaker 5: And it's also convenient. You know, it's a product that
Speaker 5: many people already use. There's really no stigma attached, you know,
Speaker 5: hearing aids. If you're thinking of getting them, it's kind
Speaker 5: of a big deal because you have to go to someone,
Speaker 5: You've got to take a test. You got to you know,
Speaker 5: it's a big part of your life. Whereas this you go, Okay,
Speaker 5: let me just take this test on my iPhone and
Speaker 5: the comfort of my home. Let me pop these earbuds in,
Speaker 5: and suddenly I can hear better. So I do think
Speaker 5: that there's going to be a lot of people that
Speaker 5: will turn to these. Apple of course did their homework
Speaker 5: and found that there's you know, like so many people
Speaker 5: that have you know, undiagnosed hearing issues, and I think
Speaker 5: that those are the people that are going to turn
Speaker 5: to something like this. Again, much more casual user, but
Speaker 5: the use case, the actual help you get from these
Speaker 5: are equivalent to anything you'd get that's from a doctor.
Speaker 5: Because it is FDA authorized. I mean, it's a pretty
Speaker 5: big deal that they've.
Speaker 4: Done so much work into this.
Speaker 2: Okay, one minute, because I spent way too much time
Speaker 2: on this. And that is the new theft protection feature
Speaker 2: on your Android.
Speaker 1: On your Android.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm assuming if somebody takes it, who shouldn't, four
Speaker 2: hundred volts goes through his body instantly and they're electrocuted
Speaker 2: close close.
Speaker 5: This is this is actually a pretty smart feature. You
Speaker 5: can turn it on right now on your Android phone
Speaker 5: if you've done the latest software update. Basically, if someone
Speaker 5: grabs your phone out of your hand, because theoretically it's
Speaker 5: unlocked because you were like looking at it, a thief
Speaker 5: comes by, runs by, grabs your phone, and it's going
Speaker 5: to start, you know, venmoing themselves or getting into your
Speaker 5: bank account whatever. This new Android theft protection feature uses
Speaker 5: the accelerometer on your phone to notice that something's wrong.
Speaker 5: This person's running away with your phone, and it will
Speaker 5: not only lock down your phone, but it also will
Speaker 5: make it so they can't get back in, and then
Speaker 5: you can also unlock it and do some things remotely.
Speaker 5: It just basically locks everything down using an algorithm that says, hey,
Speaker 5: we noticed someone's running away with this lock this unlocked phone.
Speaker 4: Let's uh, let's lock that thing up.
Speaker 1: How does it know that you're not just running around
Speaker 1: with your phone?
Speaker 4: Well, it could do that.
Speaker 5: I mean it would definitely, you know, if you I'm
Speaker 5: sure people will try this and see if that works.
Speaker 5: But the reality is this is an algorithm, so they've
Speaker 5: tested a whole bunch of different you know, snatching a
Speaker 5: phone out of someone's hand scenarios, but go to settings,
Speaker 5: tap Google all Services, theft protection, theft protection, theft detection lock.
Speaker 5: It's not enabled by default, but it's just one more
Speaker 5: to keep someone from grabbing your phone, running away and
Speaker 5: stealing all your information.
Speaker 2: All right, Rich This Saturday, eleven am to two pm
Speaker 2: KTLA every morning and Instagram at rich on tech website,
Speaker 2: richontech dot TV. We will catch you next week or
Speaker 2: I'll hear you on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Thanks Bill, you too, All right?
Speaker 1: Coming up?
Speaker 2: The pollsters completely blew it in twenty twenty? Are they
Speaker 2: going to be wrong again?
Speaker 1: Coming up in two weeks.
Speaker 2: One of the things that happens during the course of
Speaker 2: any election, whether it's presidential, senatorial, governorship, etc. Is looking
Speaker 2: at the polls, and you always get two views of
Speaker 2: the polls. Who's ever losing in the polls? Who's behind
Speaker 2: says I don't pay attention to the polls. Who's ever
Speaker 2: winning in the poll says? Look at the poll numbers,
Speaker 2: look at the sport I'm getting. So which one is true?
Speaker 1: Both?
Speaker 2: Depending on the year. In twenty twenty, the posters were
Speaker 2: dead wrong. Twenty sixteen, the posters were closer than they
Speaker 2: had been in eighty years. So here's the problem with
Speaker 2: polling is right now, the posters are easy because it
Speaker 2: is a dead heat. The only voting that counts is
Speaker 2: in the battleground states California. Waste of time for anybody.
Speaker 2: California is going Democrat.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: We are not going to see television, radio ads, billboards
Speaker 2: touting one candidate or another, particularly in presidential Why because
Speaker 2: everybody knows California.
Speaker 1: Now, if you happen to.
Speaker 2: Own a media media outlet, even a small media outlet,
Speaker 2: in any of the battleground states, do you know that
Speaker 2: those are Every commercial is sold out everyone. There is
Speaker 2: no product or corporation that wants to go in and
Speaker 2: buy a radio ad or a TV ad in those
Speaker 2: battleground states. Tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 2: being spent.
Speaker 1: So let's look at the polls. Who's ahead.
Speaker 2: Well, if you look at the battleground states, a couple
Speaker 2: of them in the States they are dead. Even that's
Speaker 2: former President Trump and Vice President Harris dead. Even others
Speaker 2: put one or the other ahead, but all.
Speaker 1: Within the margin of error.
Speaker 2: You can flip a coin to see who's going to
Speaker 2: win on this one.
Speaker 1: It is that close.
Speaker 2: And the pollsters do not want a repeat of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty in which they are wrong. And so you think
Speaker 2: in this modern age, between artificial intelligence and algorithms and
Speaker 2: the way people can be reached via Internet and phone,
Speaker 2: they would have a good idea of which way the
Speaker 2: electorate's going to go. Well in reality, no, why because,
Speaker 2: for example, Republicans who did far better, they're harder to reach.
Speaker 1: Republicans don't pay attention to polls.
Speaker 2: Someone really, I don't, and I'm not a Republican, nor
Speaker 2: am I a Democrat. I've been unaffiliated ever since I
Speaker 2: started broadcasting, and that was a lot of years ago.
Speaker 2: Someone calls me up about the poll. I don't pay
Speaker 2: attention now, not interested? Would you take a poll?
Speaker 1: I will not.
Speaker 2: I don't want to spend the time. How about internet, No,
Speaker 2: don't take the time. I won't do it now. The
Speaker 2: way I don't do it is far greater in numbers
Speaker 2: among Republicans, and that really screws things up because one
Speaker 2: of the things the pollsters have a real problem with
Speaker 2: is reaching those people who otherwise would not tell the
Speaker 2: poster which way they are going. And so particularly the
Speaker 2: shift of black and Latino voters going towards Trump that
Speaker 2: the pollsters are looking at that's never happened before. John Krasnik,
Speaker 2: a Stanford University political science says, we're headed for more disaster.
Speaker 2: Why because the new polling methods that they're using, the
Speaker 2: algorithms and the polling on the internet, et cetera. Frankly,
Speaker 2: they're unproven in terms of sampling methods. It is not easy.
Speaker 2: And we all pay attention to the polls I was watching.
Speaker 2: I watched a couple of national news stations and first off,
Speaker 2: first story the polls, which way it's going, and it's
Speaker 2: changing day to day, matter of fact, what does And yesterday,
Speaker 2: for example, I was listening to ABC with David Muhr,
Speaker 2: and he started the broadcast with I'm gonna get you
Speaker 2: the latest poll numbers, and the poll numbers that I quoted,
Speaker 2: the dead heat, basically the dead heat among the battleground
Speaker 2: states came off of that, the poll that ABC was
Speaker 2: involved with. And if you look at the polls that
Speaker 2: other organization, Pew, CBS, Gallop Poll. I don't know if
Speaker 2: Gallup is still doing it, but everybody, even the ones
Speaker 2: that disagree with each other, which we always get, all
Speaker 2: within the margin.
Speaker 1: So are we going to.
Speaker 2: Pay attention to the pollsters, you know, not this time around,
Speaker 2: Not this time around, because they have gone from twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: the most accurate polling that has ever happened, to twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one of the biggest disasters that have ever happened.
Speaker 1: And so we'll see what happens this time around.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to end the program, And by
Speaker 2: the way, I'm taking a handle on the lock calls
Speaker 2: for the first time in weeks because I've been on
Speaker 2: a vacation as soon as I out at the end
Speaker 2: of the show.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you a little bit more about that
Speaker 1: when we come back.
Speaker 2: Candy and Halloween, how the two are inextricably connected. You
Speaker 2: can't have Halloween without Candy. Well, there's a whole history
Speaker 2: here and why it is what it is today. After
Speaker 2: the show, which I do Tuesdays and Thursdays, which I
Speaker 2: haven't done for a few weeks or several weeks I
Speaker 2: have been on vacation, I take phone calls off the
Speaker 2: air for a handle on the law. And if you
Speaker 2: have a marginal legal question which I can answer marginally,
Speaker 2: call me at eight seven seven five to two zero
Speaker 2: eleven fifty eight seven seven five to zero eleven fifty
Speaker 2: and it's Handle on the law answers off the air
Speaker 2: because sometimes on Saturday we can go to three.
Speaker 1: Hours without a line being open.
Speaker 2: So that's coming up right as I lock out of
Speaker 2: the show. Now a quick handle history segment. Always a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. Candy and Halloween get connected. We're gonna
Speaker 2: spend about two billion dollars Americans on candy during this
Speaker 2: Halloween season.
Speaker 1: Oh here's a fun fact.
Speaker 2: California Milk per Processors Board said, an average Jacko lanyard bucket,
Speaker 2: you know the kids carry around, We'll have about two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty pieces of candy candy, nine thousand calories,
Speaker 2: about three pounds of sugar. Who all right, it's go
Speaker 2: back one hundred years. Boy, Halloween looked different. The biggest
Speaker 2: difference by the ways trick or treating. That's a recent
Speaker 2: American invention, and costumes and doorbell ringing and expectation of
Speaker 2: candy at the door actually happened for the first time
Speaker 2: in the late nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties. It
Speaker 2: wasn't until late forties that trick were treating became a
Speaker 2: national issue, and even then, candy was not the obvious treat.
Speaker 2: Kids would ring a stranger's doorbell nineteen forty eight and
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty two and would receive all kinds of stuff
Speaker 2: coins or nuts, or fruits, or cookies or cakes, toys,
Speaker 2: small little crappy ones. In the nineteen fifties, kool Aid
Speaker 2: and Kellogg's promoted their non candy products as trick or
Speaker 2: treat options. So it took a while for candy to
Speaker 2: become what it is today. Matter of fact, we go
Speaker 2: even further back to the early decades of last century,
Speaker 2: candy didn't have any role to play on a.
Speaker 1: Trick or treat. The trick or treat special day of
Speaker 1: Halloween and costumes are fairly new.
Speaker 2: So what was it about, let's say one hundred and
Speaker 2: ten hundred and twenty years ago, Well, boys, specifically, Halloween
Speaker 2: was the one night of the year when communities generally
Speaker 2: tolerated pranking.
Speaker 1: Now pranking is is different.
Speaker 2: Back then, mailboxes, fences, street cars, gravestones were partular targets,
Speaker 2: but it was a mischief issue, not one to do
Speaker 2: serious damage, and not to gather treats. Halloween also was
Speaker 2: in the gift giving holiday, and that's become big stuff
Speaker 2: that you actually gift people for Halloween. I've never understood
Speaker 2: that while the kids were out there, particularly boys, out
Speaker 2: there causing all this kinds of mischief, what you would
Speaker 2: have is Halloween parties with adults.
Speaker 1: And that's recent.
Speaker 2: And really the menus and the amount of the decor
Speaker 2: and what people did with were actually seasonal fruits, pumpkins,
Speaker 2: apples particularly important. So when candy makers in nineteen ten
Speaker 2: nineteen twenties look for ways to grow fall sales, Halloween
Speaker 2: barely registered as a marketing opportunity. Tell you the big
Speaker 2: ones Christmas and Easter, those are the big candy events
Speaker 2: already been established by nineteen hundred. Yet box chocolates, hard
Speaker 2: candies for Christmas, jelly eggs, molded bunnies for Easter. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what else was a huge candy on
Speaker 2: candy holiday was Washington's Birthday special mars of pan cherries,
Speaker 2: cocoa dusted logs.
Speaker 1: It was during the fifties nineteen fifties. The rise of
Speaker 1: trick or treating.
Speaker 2: Made a holiday perfect for marketing a product associated with
Speaker 2: kids and fun. Candy easy to buy, easy to distribute, convenient,
Speaker 2: and it was economical as hell and small, inexpensive candies
Speaker 2: became really popular. I remember trick or treating as a kid,
Speaker 2: and I was in a middle class neighborhood, so I'd
Speaker 2: get the hard candies that were wrapped up, a handful
Speaker 2: of them, and the real neat ones were the small
Speaker 2: candy bars. Man, that was big stuff. Now you can
Speaker 2: go into a very wealthy area and there are kids
Speaker 2: that are bust into those areas. And you knock on
Speaker 2: the door of a super wealthy area today trigg or
Speaker 2: treat and you get a small car.
Speaker 1: Not when I was a kid, that certainly didn't happen.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't until the seventies a candy came to
Speaker 2: be seen as the only treat, and of course the
Speaker 2: candy industry went crazy. And it was not wait, it
Speaker 2: was not their marketing that did it, you know what,
Speaker 2: It was our fear. We became helicopter parents, and homemade
Speaker 2: treats pose the risk of tampering, poisoning. Remember the razor
Speaker 2: blades in the apple.
Speaker 1: Which of course never happened.
Speaker 2: Commercial wrap candy, that's the only way to go about it. Now,
Speaker 2: the candy manufacturers did try to come up with a
Speaker 2: holiday that just dealt with candy, and that was in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixteen, and what they came up with a new
Speaker 2: holiday call Old Candy Day. You ever heard of it? No,
Speaker 2: that did not work out. All right, we're done, don't forget.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow morning at five thirty am, Amy talking to Colonel
Speaker 2: Haig on the space station. That's a fun interview. And
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Speaker 1: So we do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Is Neil coming Well, Neil wasn't ill. Neil wasn't feeling
Speaker 2: particularly good today, So hopefully Neil.
Speaker 1: Comes back tomorrow. Handle and the morning crew.
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