Speaker 1: One to one j R. Orlando's Rock Station. Happy Halloween,
Speaker 1: Devil's Child from Judas Priest Pat Lynch and Taco Bob.
Speaker 1: Good morning. It is not only Halloween, but it's a Thursday,
Speaker 1: which means tech news. And check it out, Taco, Let's
Speaker 1: check it out.
Speaker 2: I love how you're pumping in all the halloweensens.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you can tie them to Halloween. Have a
Speaker 1: little fun this morning, right, it's our musical treats for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get that in the morning and then the
Speaker 2: kids get the chocolatey treats tonight.
Speaker 1: Let's see what we got happening here. So a lot
Speaker 1: of the big tech companies are reporting their earnings this week,
Speaker 1: Meta and Google yesterday, big big profits. But despite that,
Speaker 1: the market plunged. What's going on here ahead of Amazon
Speaker 1: expected to announce their earnings today, Well, investors have a
Speaker 1: bit of concern that these big tech giants, even though
Speaker 1: they're still making gobs of money, or in a little
Speaker 1: too much pouring it into aii and maybe begetting a
Speaker 1: little too far ahead of themselves and may cut into
Speaker 1: the potential profits, which is what all Wall Street cares about.
Speaker 2: I knew you were gonna say, AI when you were
Speaker 2: building that up.
Speaker 1: Dude. I'm telling you as I prepare this segment every
Speaker 1: week and I go through a whole bunch of sources
Speaker 1: that I.
Speaker 2: Use, AI's everywhere.
Speaker 1: Eighty percent of the stories have to do with artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: Talk to telling you, I've said it from the get
Speaker 2: go to the beginning of the end for us.
Speaker 1: More and more, I'm starting to align with your thinking
Speaker 1: on the can of worms that has just been opened
Speaker 1: or Pandora's box probably are more accurate.
Speaker 2: And the problem is it's been open for long enough
Speaker 2: to where it's just gonna.
Speaker 1: Get They're just scratching the surface of this, just scratching
Speaker 1: the Sas the new CEO of Starbucks, Brian Nicol was
Speaker 1: on his first earnings call this week, and he did
Speaker 1: tailed one of the first things he plans to do
Speaker 1: as being the new guy in charge. Now. I can't
Speaker 1: speak to this personally because I don't drink coffee, neither
Speaker 1: does taco, but I know a lot of you do,
Speaker 1: and a lot of you probably stopped by Starbucks and
Speaker 1: utilize their ordering app.
Speaker 2: I used to drink coffee, never Starbucks, I.
Speaker 1: Know, so the ordering app with Starbucks, I guess isn't
Speaker 1: all it's cracked up to be, and at times it well,
Speaker 1: it causes chaos, at least according to the Starbucks CEO,
Speaker 1: and he says that's gonna be one of his first
Speaker 1: orders of business is to bring order to mobile ordering,
Speaker 1: which I guess he's not real happy with how it's
Speaker 1: being executed right now, as are some of the customers.
Speaker 1: I heard that.
Speaker 2: This new dude is gonna bring a lot of Starbucks
Speaker 2: back to what it was from the get go, because
Speaker 2: I think I don't quote me on this bits and
Speaker 2: pieces Bobby here, I believe they said, hey, it's just
Speaker 2: getting too expensive. It's we want to do what the
Speaker 2: customers want.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of these retailers that sell food
Speaker 1: and beverage now are the first ones really starting to
Speaker 1: get the message that hey, hello, we're hurting out here.
Speaker 1: You worry about your consumers. Without us, you don't have anything.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. I'm wishing well. The streaming TV industry
Speaker 1: is snooping on us on a grand scale. This according
Speaker 1: to a new forty eight forty eight page report release
Speaker 1: this week. Just get in line, everybody is although, dude,
Speaker 1: you're smart TVs right now, there's a reason they call
Speaker 1: them smart TVs. They literally, if you let them, can
Speaker 1: find out everything about us. Sure, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get into the weeds with this. I will tell you
Speaker 1: this though, If you are somewhat even just a little
Speaker 1: tech savvy, you can cut down on how much which
Speaker 1: information is spit out about you to these various streamers
Speaker 1: that you utilize apps to watch so much content. By
Speaker 1: getting into your settings in your TV and turning some
Speaker 1: stuff off that's on by default, that gives them the
Speaker 1: green light to scoop up and use all of our information.
Speaker 2: My TV's gonna look at my background and say this,
Speaker 2: dude watches cooking shows and below deck well and that
Speaker 2: industry show you turned me on too. Wow, that's a
Speaker 2: heavy hitter.
Speaker 1: They're not so much concerned with what you're watching, but
Speaker 1: what your habits are so they can market to you.
Speaker 2: That's all I know.
Speaker 1: So just know that if you want to drill down
Speaker 1: here and try to cut off some of this info
Speaker 1: that's flowing freely by default in the settings, you can
Speaker 1: do so. You're not gonna be able to eliminate all
Speaker 1: of the info being put out there.
Speaker 2: But again, pat get in line. Every other company has
Speaker 2: been doing this with When you're you're online, you search
Speaker 2: a rental car. Okay, Now rental cars pop up every
Speaker 2: time you open a phone or the computer.
Speaker 1: Robert Downey Junior has declared, speaking of AI Taco, that
Speaker 1: he will sue any future Hollywood executives who try to
Speaker 1: recreate his likeness using AI digital replicas, even after he's dead.
Speaker 2: How are you gonna do that?
Speaker 1: That's what AI is capable of doing. All all AI
Speaker 1: needs is a sample or several samples of whatever.
Speaker 2: To I'm familiar, I meant, how is he going to
Speaker 2: sue when he's dead.
Speaker 1: He's paying his current legal representation to keep a monitor
Speaker 1: on this stuff, and the second anything goes that way,
Speaker 1: sue them and give the benefits to my surviving family.
Speaker 2: R DJ man not to be confused. That's Robert Downey Janner.
Speaker 2: Not to be confused with rj D. Go ahead, Ronnie
Speaker 2: James Deal, thank you, rest in peace. You have a
Speaker 2: hologram or a holograph.
Speaker 1: Comcast and Charter are suing the Federal Trade Commission over
Speaker 1: efforts to make canceling services easier. Now, I told you
Speaker 1: about this weeks ago, that there's some new regulations in
Speaker 1: place that literally are supposed to make canceling streaming and
Speaker 1: video and cable and all that one click away from
Speaker 1: being able to do that without getting sent into some
Speaker 1: voicemail hell loop and Well. The companies are suing, claiming
Speaker 1: the new roles are arbitrary, erroneous, capricious, and abuse of
Speaker 1: the industry's existing authority. The Interactive Advertising Bureau, with members
Speaker 1: ranging from Disney to Google, have also joined the lawsuit.
Speaker 1: May God forbid we cancel anything and make it easy.
Speaker 2: I'm all about canceling. You know your subscriptions, Just don't cancel.
Speaker 2: Culture and People, speaking of some of these big content
Speaker 2: companies Netflix, Disney, Comcast, Google, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and Paramount.
Speaker 2: By the time this year's over will have spent a
Speaker 2: combined one hundred and twenty six billion dollars on producing
Speaker 2: and acquiring content for their various platforms. One hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty six billion dollars. They're putting out some good shows though.
Speaker 1: Well there's good stuff, but there's an awful lot of
Speaker 1: junk too. They what their move has been is you
Speaker 1: throw everything against the wall.
Speaker 2: If it's sticks right, keep going with it right, that'll
Speaker 2: pay off. The three turns.
Speaker 1: The Department of Justice is supporting the injunction that is
Speaker 1: against Disney, Fox and Warner Brothers, that joint streaming sports
Speaker 1: streaming service that was called Venue that was supposed to
Speaker 1: launch back in August. Remember, Fubo got the emergency injunction
Speaker 1: to prevent that app from coming to mary Well. Now
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice's Anti Trust Division is preparing an
Speaker 1: amicust brief in support of the judge's recent decision to
Speaker 1: slap Venue with that temporary injunction. So now you've got
Speaker 1: the government getting involved in this thing. Hey, we're with
Speaker 1: the judge as well. We think that if that app
Speaker 1: comes to market, it will create an unfair competition atmosphere.
Speaker 1: So will Venue ever see it a light of day
Speaker 1: for sports fans? Not anytime soon, at least it looks
Speaker 1: that way. If you notice, if you use Google Chrome
Speaker 1: as your browser, you'll see an update is available. I
Speaker 1: wanted to point out one of the new features you
Speaker 1: might find helpful. It will now alert you to which
Speaker 1: open tabs are hogging up all of your memory and
Speaker 1: slowing down your usage. That's good, so you know if
Speaker 1: that's something you want to have active or not that
Speaker 1: you might find that have you done that before you
Speaker 1: got However, many tabs open, you go, why is this
Speaker 1: thing so aslow? Well, one of those or two of
Speaker 1: those might be using up all of your computer's resources.
Speaker 1: The Chrome browser will now alert you to which one
Speaker 1: so you can shut them off.
Speaker 2: And think about it. That also goes with your phone
Speaker 2: when you're online on your phone. Yeah, the same thing,
Speaker 2: when it's burning up your battery because you know so
Speaker 2: much stuff's getting eaten.
Speaker 1: Google Chrome browser specifically here, which we're talking about, which
Speaker 1: whether it's your device being a phone or your home
Speaker 1: computer or whatever. Yeah, and this is kind of comical
Speaker 1: as well. Russia has find Google an incredible amount of money,
Speaker 1: a fine of two undecillion rubles. That's approximately this many
Speaker 1: in US dollars. I don't know what that number is, taco.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen that many zeros before.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's like twenty gajillion.
Speaker 1: So Russia has find Google. Why well, they say it's
Speaker 1: all about restrictions that Google has placed on Russian media
Speaker 1: channels on YouTube. They just just won't host some of
Speaker 1: these things because it's propaganda. So Russia has just decided
Speaker 1: to find Google that good luck collecting it By the way,
Speaker 1: whatever that number is with all those zeros, it's a
Speaker 1: ludicrous amount of money. It's about two hundred trillion times
Speaker 1: the current estimated amount of liquid monetary value in all
Speaker 1: currencies from all countries currently in circulation on the planets.
Speaker 2: Just to let the listeners know how many zeros this
Speaker 2: is that ballpark, it's got to be twenty five zero.
Speaker 1: Twenty something zeros? Yeah, three six an Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's a two and about twenty something zeros is what
Speaker 2: they're doing Google.
Speaker 1: For two undecillion rubles.
Speaker 2: That's an air putin. I'm no, I'm not even gonna
Speaker 2: mess with that guy. He'll get on his horseback watching
Speaker 2: you through through his TV. Your TV Linchin Tago on demand.
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