Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
Speaker 1: I A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
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Speaker 2: I have a quick gass jobs alert. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: Richie's been fired? Why my wife fired him?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Is this because of the butterfly color scheme?
Speaker 5: Something like that?
Speaker 4: The bottom bottom five.
Speaker 5: That's probably.
Speaker 4: I like that everyone wants to defend your honor.
Speaker 2: Big story international. The leader of hes Belah Hassan.
Speaker 4: I know what she said. Not safe for work.
Speaker 5: No, okay, nope, that's great. But I'm glad. I like
Speaker 5: that people come to defend That's great.
Speaker 3: There is.
Speaker 2: The leader of hes Belah was speaking to followers today
Speaker 2: did a televised address to members of Hesblah uh and blamed,
Speaker 2: of course, the pager and walkie talkie bomb attacks on Israel.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: He accused Israel trying to kill four thousand people at
Speaker 2: once and said that yesterday's walkie talkie attack was also
Speaker 2: intended to kill around one thousand more.
Speaker 5: While now this is important.
Speaker 2: While he was speaking, Israeli warplanes were conducting air strikes
Speaker 2: in and around Lebanon, and they were creating sonic booms
Speaker 2: over Bay Route that you could not only hear if
Speaker 2: you were in that city, but you could hear over
Speaker 2: the telecast while he was giving the speech. So it
Speaker 2: sounded like there were even more explosions going on while
Speaker 2: he was given that speech.
Speaker 1: Today lawmakers are planning for a possible mass casualty event.
Speaker 4: It's where we kick off. Swamp watch.
Speaker 5: Swamp is horrible, the government does. Man, We're gonna make
Speaker 5: us like a reality TV shoot. Corn pop was a
Speaker 5: bad bos.
Speaker 4: Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, DC.
Speaker 2: Hey, Joey after a town hall too, clearly built on
Speaker 2: a swamp and in so many ways.
Speaker 5: Still a swamp.
Speaker 4: A batch of malarkey, he.
Speaker 5: Said, drain the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so I'll
Speaker 5: keep you happen.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: You know the thing, this is the stuff of movies.
Speaker 1: Yes, Well, when you think about recent events, though, it's
Speaker 1: the stuff of reality. In twenty twenty four, you think
Speaker 1: about the attempted assassination of members of that congressional baseball
Speaker 1: team practice in twenty seventeen, the Capitol riot in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, there's been a dramatic spike in threats against
Speaker 1: members of Congress. We got a second possible assassination attempt
Speaker 1: against a former president. So now they are trying to
Speaker 1: prepare for what could be a mass casualty event with Congress.
Speaker 2: So I mean, this is Tom Clancy level thinking. There
Speaker 2: was ah I can't remember which of his books it was.
Speaker 2: I want to say it was Debt of Honor where
Speaker 2: which would have been published in the mid nineties maybe
Speaker 2: early nineties, and it was about somebody who flew a
Speaker 2: plane into the capital and.
Speaker 5: That time.
Speaker 2: And then there of course the Designated Survivor that show
Speaker 2: on ABC recently with Kiefer Sutherland was about an attack
Speaker 2: on the in fact the State of the Union, where
Speaker 2: they had that designated survivor, a member of the cabinet
Speaker 2: who would become the president in the event that everybody's gone.
Speaker 2: In this case, they're talking about the and taking into
Speaker 2: account the Congressional baseball team practice attack, the attack on
Speaker 2: the Capitol, the second now assassination attempt against former President Trump,
Speaker 2: and the potential to deal with what would happen in
Speaker 2: the event that there is a mass casualty attack on
Speaker 2: or at least something that happens that kills multiple members
Speaker 2: of Congress at the same time.
Speaker 1: Now they are thinking about a constitutional amendment that would
Speaker 1: allow members to be replaced quickly in the event of
Speaker 1: a mass casualty event. Anytime you talk about a constitutional amendment,
Speaker 1: you're putting yourself in an unlikely scenario.
Speaker 4: It's very it would be very difficult to get this agreed.
Speaker 5: On well, and it takes a long time. I mean,
Speaker 5: constitutional amendments don't happen overnight.
Speaker 2: But the way that they're talking about this, you've got
Speaker 2: you've got four members of Congress, two Democrats, two Republicans,
Speaker 2: Derek Kilmer, Democrat out of Washington and Emmanuel Cleaver, Democrat.
Speaker 5: Out of Missouri. Didn't we speak to him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Brad Weinstrip out of Ohio and William Timmins
Speaker 2: of South Carolina. The Republicans and their proposed constitutional amendment
Speaker 2: would require each member of the House submit names of
Speaker 2: at least five individuals from their political party to their
Speaker 2: state's governor, and in the event that that representative dies,
Speaker 2: the governor then chooses a name from that list within
Speaker 2: ten days, the House Speaker would be quired would required
Speaker 2: to seat that person immediately.
Speaker 4: They say that.
Speaker 1: This would discourage attempts to use violence to sway the
Speaker 1: balance of power in the House.
Speaker 4: But let me just say this. When you're put a
Speaker 4: list of.
Speaker 1: Five Republicans together, right, let's say, uh, Congressman Brown is
Speaker 1: in power and somebody takes out somebody wants to take
Speaker 1: out Congressman Brown because he's gone too far to the right,
Speaker 1: and they know the next guy up is more moderate.
Speaker 1: You know, there's such a there say, it's not just
Speaker 1: a Republican as a Republican as a Republican. There's so
Speaker 1: many differences. Do you hear that, Oh, there's an alarm.
Speaker 4: Going off here?
Speaker 1: A fire alarm, fire alarm. Oh man, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Go see if there's a fire to take a break.
Speaker 4: I mean, we ignore it where we are, But.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll continue with swamp watch and we'll check
Speaker 2: the fire alarm in Charlotte.
Speaker 5: Was there a fire?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's a fire alarm that goes off, and
Speaker 1: you know us we ignore these routinely.
Speaker 2: Well that's because oftentimes they're just I mean, they're planned,
Speaker 2: and we're told if you're on the air when the
Speaker 2: when the planned fire alarm test goes off, you.
Speaker 5: Don't know exactly.
Speaker 1: So I am not privy to iHeart Charlotte, so I
Speaker 1: would not have gotten that email had they gotten one.
Speaker 4: So I walk out of the studio.
Speaker 1: And I look down the hall and I see people
Speaker 1: and they're grabbing their stuff. And I see my contact guy,
Speaker 1: who's very serious about what he does. He's very conscientious,
Speaker 1: it seems to me to be a very by the
Speaker 1: book person.
Speaker 4: He was crying and he was harried, and I said,
Speaker 4: is this for real?
Speaker 1: And he looked at me like I had slapped his baby,
Speaker 1: like oh, you're one of those people kind of a thing,
Speaker 1: like a not a rule follower, and and he's like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's for real.
Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, so I come back, grab
Speaker 4: my stuff. I go outside.
Speaker 5: You're not supposed to grab your stuff. You're just supposed
Speaker 5: to leave me.
Speaker 1: I went in and out as refrigerator. Even I was
Speaker 1: the last one out. I was the last one.
Speaker 5: Out of the building the lip gloss exactly.
Speaker 1: And so I get out there, got my fresh gatorade,
Speaker 1: all my stuff. I'm the only one with stuff, by
Speaker 1: the way, the only one. And I took the elevator down.
Speaker 1: So anyway I broke. I'm going to get kicked out.
Speaker 1: I'm basically gonna get kicked out.
Speaker 2: The best part is everybody's been out on the out
Speaker 2: there waiting. They can't go back in until they know
Speaker 2: the building is clear, and you're the only one still
Speaker 2: in the building. Yeah, well, I'm glad that nobody.
Speaker 4: Burned making friends and influencing people.
Speaker 2: We'll do tech talk at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: But we're in the middle of swamp Watch, and there's
Speaker 2: a bunch of poles that have come out. One, for example,
Speaker 2: is all about the Swing States. By the way, this
Speaker 2: one from Emerson College and the Hill Trump edges out
Speaker 2: Harris in Arizona forty nine to forty eight, in Georgia
Speaker 2: fifty to forty seven, in Pennsylvania forty eight to forty seven,
Speaker 2: and Wisconsin forty nine to forty eight. But she leads
Speaker 2: and by similar one or two points in Michigan and
Speaker 2: North Carolina. According to this pole, they're tied in Nevada.
Speaker 2: Now that's just one. There's been a bunch of other poles.
Speaker 2: And these are not just the you know, the crappy
Speaker 2: polls from schools you've never heard of.
Speaker 5: These are you know, three five star polls.
Speaker 2: One of them is New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and
Speaker 2: the other Sea on a College basically said that the
Speaker 2: race is deadlocked nationally, despite the fact, and this is
Speaker 2: an important thing, despite the fact that a lot of
Speaker 2: people gave Kamala Harris very positive reviews after the debate,
Speaker 2: and then the last poll from Washington Posts shows that
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris is favored by forty eight percent of both
Speaker 2: likely and registered voters. Trump is supported by forty seven percent.
Speaker 2: That again, nationwide. The first one that I mentioned, that
Speaker 2: Emerson College Hill Pole was the one that's important because
Speaker 2: it goes specifically swing state by swing state.
Speaker 1: That group in Michigan, remember the uncommitted from the primary.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a way of protesting Biden's policies in the
Speaker 1: Israel Hamas situation. They say they will not endorse the
Speaker 1: vice president voted but has urged against voting third party
Speaker 1: or for Trump. So they're just not going to show up.
Speaker 2: I guess they're not going to endorse her, but they
Speaker 2: don't want you to do anything.
Speaker 1: How big of a group is this, because I feel
Speaker 1: like they got outsized media attention in the primary season.
Speaker 5: I do think that's part of it.
Speaker 2: I think that's definitely an aspect of that story that's
Speaker 2: a little overblown perhaps, Yeah, But speaking of the teamsters
Speaker 2: are not going to endorse a candidate for president in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. That's the first time they've done that
Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety six, and since ninety six they've only
Speaker 2: endorsed Democrats. This is Sean O'Brien, the president. We didn't
Speaker 2: get solid commitments from either candidate, which was a major
Speaker 2: factor in our decision as a general executive.
Speaker 5: Board not to endorse any candidate.
Speaker 1: However, we did a lot of polling, as you know,
Speaker 1: and the polling leaned heavily towards former President Trump.
Speaker 2: Now what I didn't understand was, Okay, so that you
Speaker 2: polled your membership. Your membership said they wanted you to
Speaker 2: endorse Trump, but you're not going to.
Speaker 5: Why not.
Speaker 2: It's one thing to say we're not going to get
Speaker 2: involved in politics anymore, But if your membership has already
Speaker 2: told you that that's who they want, why don't you
Speaker 2: do it. There are individual groups within the Teamsters in general,
Speaker 2: the Teamsters National Black Caucus, a bunch of Teamsters locals,
Speaker 2: members of the national leadership. They have all endorsed Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris over the objections of Sean O'Brien, but opponents have
Speaker 2: organized a Teamsters Against Trump effort that has actually undermined
Speaker 2: Sean O'Brien for the last couple of years. So it's
Speaker 2: a strange version of we we're not going to endorse anybody,
Speaker 2: but the majority of our members want to vote for
Speaker 2: Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's going to Springfield, Ohio. No he's not where
Speaker 1: they eat the animals.
Speaker 5: No he's not.
Speaker 2: He has said he I know, he's said he's going
Speaker 2: to He also said he's probably never gonna make it
Speaker 2: out a lot.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go there in the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Springfield and I'm going to Aurora.
Speaker 5: You may never see me again, but that's okay. Gotta
Speaker 5: do what I gotta do.
Speaker 2: Whatever happened to Trump, well he never got out of Springfield.
Speaker 2: I'll I'll eat my words if in fact he ever
Speaker 2: sets foot in Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Why do you think he's going to be deterred from
Speaker 1: going there? If he wants to go there.
Speaker 5: I don't think he.
Speaker 4: Because you think he's this is going to happen if
Speaker 4: he says it.
Speaker 2: It just seems that just this is the blustery part
Speaker 2: of him where he's just saying the things. He's saying
Speaker 2: these things to the crowd. I mean, he mentioned this
Speaker 2: the other day in an interview where he talks about
Speaker 2: when he did the sit down interview with Sarah Huckabee
Speaker 2: Sanders in Michigan. I believe where he said, you know,
Speaker 2: I could say all of these things and people think
Speaker 2: I'm funny for or people think I'm not smart enough
Speaker 2: because I don't put all of the stuff together, or
Speaker 2: I speak in incomplete sentences. But when it comes together,
Speaker 2: it all comes together, and everybody loves me. He says
Speaker 2: things that aren't necessarily going to happen. I mean, how
Speaker 2: many times have we heard him say I'll have a
Speaker 2: plan for you in two weeks or I'll tell you
Speaker 2: what I'm going to do in three days, and never
Speaker 2: pays it off. This is just I just don't think
Speaker 2: this is one of those things. It's not in Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Is not important in terms of the election. It's important
Speaker 2: in terms of a message that he's trying to get across,
Speaker 2: where he says that immigrants are eating cats and dogs
Speaker 2: and ducks. I don't if I were advising him, nobody's
Speaker 2: listening to me in his campaign. Don't don't waste your
Speaker 2: time in Springfield, Don't don't make this an issue, because
Speaker 2: you're gonna be it's going to be debunked, and you're
Speaker 2: gonna look idiotic.
Speaker 1: I disagree, and I think it is a great moment
Speaker 1: that he will never meet. Okay, to use the lingo,
Speaker 1: but to go to Springfield and say, this was never
Speaker 1: about eating cats and dogs. It's about a city in America,
Speaker 1: a small city in America overrun with immigrants put here
Speaker 1: by the Biden administration, so saturated that the people who
Speaker 1: live in Springfield and have for decades do not have
Speaker 1: access to the services that are now being eaten up
Speaker 1: by Biden's immigrant program.
Speaker 2: Okay, if that's what I would do, and if that's
Speaker 2: the message, then again I'll eat my words and I
Speaker 2: would I would give credit to the campaign because they
Speaker 2: did it right.
Speaker 5: He can't do that, I know. He can't stick to
Speaker 5: a message that.
Speaker 1: A great moment to share all kidding aside, this is
Speaker 1: what's really happening, and it's happening in small towns all
Speaker 1: over the country.
Speaker 4: Could be very powerful.
Speaker 1: However, the mayor Republican mayor Springfield, Ohio says you can't
Speaker 1: come here, please don't. It would be an extreme strain
Speaker 1: on our resources. We are not set up to handle
Speaker 1: a visit like that.
Speaker 2: That I think would also be a roadblock for him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: which I don't know. Again, I don't know if that
Speaker 2: changes his ideas or not. Just a quick note. Also,
Speaker 2: Iran apparently now says, or I should say, the FBI
Speaker 2: says that Iran sent unsolicited emails, including materials stolen from
Speaker 2: the Trump campaign, to people associated with the Biden campaign.
Speaker 2: That those emails were sent to Biden. They did have
Speaker 2: information in there that was not available to the public.
Speaker 2: It's not clear if anybody from the Biden administration took
Speaker 2: the bait, or if they responded, or if they used
Speaker 2: any of the information. But we do know that Iranian
Speaker 2: hackers did send stolen Trump campaign information to Biden campaign associates.
Speaker 1: Oh, Tim Kates just sent me a picture of his
Speaker 1: grocery cart. And guess who the realtor on the grocery.
Speaker 5: Cart is bree king?
Speaker 4: No, justin Worsham, justin Worsham.
Speaker 1: Yes, want buying or selling your home to be professional
Speaker 1: and fun's going to use this guy.
Speaker 2: It's got the two pictures, all right, It's got the
Speaker 2: button down one where he just looks happy and fun,
Speaker 2: and then it's the one where he's got the crazy hair, and.
Speaker 4: I'll post it to our Instagram story.
Speaker 2: Okay, the fallout continues from two days of technology blowing
Speaker 2: up in the hands of members of Hesbelah and people
Speaker 2: in Lebanon, even in a few in Syria. The leader
Speaker 2: of Hesblah is vowed to retaliate for the attacks. Israel
Speaker 2: and Hesbela exchange strikes yesterday, sorry today, as Hassan Nosrala
Speaker 2: was speaking, In fact, there were several sonic booms that
Speaker 2: were heard over Beyroot as he was speaking. Israel's defenseman
Speaker 2: said that Hezbolah is going to pay an increasing price
Speaker 2: as Israel tries to return residents to homes near that
Speaker 2: Lebanon border.
Speaker 1: So we're here right in Charlotte for the week, and
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh told us to bring board games and stuff.
Speaker 5: So I actually packed that scrabble.
Speaker 1: No, I got it at the target. Oh okay, And
Speaker 1: so I picked up a deck of cards and scrabble.
Speaker 1: And yesterday one of the writers, well, he said he
Speaker 1: saw the scrabble. He said, Oh, I'm totally down for
Speaker 1: a scrabble game. And I'm like, oh, oh, excellent last words, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm excellent.
Speaker 4: You have no idea what's about to happen.
Speaker 2: And are you saying that out of confidence that you're
Speaker 2: going to crush him or.
Speaker 1: I'm very serious. I'm very competitive when it comes to scrabble.
Speaker 1: That's why my husband will only play once a year
Speaker 1: on my birthday. But uh, I got the I got
Speaker 1: this writer's like, oh yeah, play scrabble, my great. So
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of tables outside the meal room, so
Speaker 1: players and coaches are walking by and stuff playing scrabble
Speaker 1: or whatever, and you know, it puts you in a different,
Speaker 1: in even more competitive feel, you know.
Speaker 4: And I had a leg up.
Speaker 1: I was up maybe fifty points or something on him,
Speaker 1: and then I decided to really just keep my foot
Speaker 1: on the gas and just crush him.
Speaker 4: And he couldn't believe it. He just said, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm a writer, this is what I do. I should
Speaker 4: do better than this.
Speaker 1: And I was like, don't get down on yourself, you know,
Speaker 1: But I showed no mercy.
Speaker 5: Condescending, don't get down on yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, he thinks I'm a nice person, so he has
Speaker 1: no idea that I'm like, bless your heart.
Speaker 4: Anyway, it's time for tech Talk Tektalk.
Speaker 5: The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought
Speaker 5: to you by Skynet.
Speaker 2: Mark Saltzman is joining us because Mark Saltzman is the
Speaker 2: guy that we go to when we talk about all
Speaker 2: things tech and scrabble in scrabble.
Speaker 4: He's a scrabble guy. I can tell.
Speaker 5: Because I'm a wordsmith.
Speaker 1: You are a wordsmith. Do we need this new iPhone?
Speaker 1: What's the deal?
Speaker 3: Uh? You know I'm hearing an echos, So I got
Speaker 3: to take out major buds story about this. So, like
Speaker 3: every year, it's a lot more evolutionary than revolutionary. And
Speaker 3: if my hands on time with the new iPhone sixteen's
Speaker 3: are any indication it's the same this year. But there's
Speaker 3: one major difference. If you ask a random person on
Speaker 3: the street who owns an iPhone what is their biggest
Speaker 3: pain point with their device, they're going to say battery life.
Speaker 3: And thankfully and finally Apple licked it, so they got
Speaker 3: it up to thirty three hours of video playback, not
Speaker 3: that you're going to binge that hard when you're watching
Speaker 3: something on your favorite streaming service, but that's on the
Speaker 3: Promax version, whereas the regular iPhone is about twenty two
Speaker 3: hours and on the plus because you know, there's different
Speaker 3: flavors of iPhone sixteen.
Speaker 5: It's twenty seven hours.
Speaker 3: So the bottom line is it's a bigger, better battery
Speaker 3: and smarter software management.
Speaker 5: So that's the biggest story out of the gate.
Speaker 3: The AI that they've been talking about for a few
Speaker 3: months and certainly made a big deal about Apple Intelligence
Speaker 3: last week, it's not ready just yet. Until October, it
Speaker 3: wasn't quite ready for prime time. See if you want
Speaker 3: to take a bit of a leap of faith, and
Speaker 3: it is Apple, so you know they're going to deliver.
Speaker 3: It's not going to be working when you get your
Speaker 3: iPhone sixteen tomorrow when it comes out, so you just
Speaker 3: got to wait another month and all of the things
Speaker 3: like you know, a smarter sery and summarizing meetings and
Speaker 3: giving you you know, real time language translations and cleaning
Speaker 3: up your photos like you know, with little Billy giving
Speaker 3: the rabbit years behind Grandma's back, you can remover her
Speaker 3: with the tap of the finger.
Speaker 5: Coming.
Speaker 3: See yeah, you know, so this is all coming. So
Speaker 3: that's the biggest story is the AI is just not
Speaker 3: quite ready. But everything else, you know, as you would
Speaker 3: expect a great camera for shooting videos and videos. There's
Speaker 3: a new camera control button on the side in fact
Speaker 3: that is touch and pressure sensitive that does different things.
Speaker 3: And then on the left side of the iPhone, it's
Speaker 3: an action button that was previously only available with the
Speaker 3: pro version. So what that is it's basically a shortcut
Speaker 3: that you can program whatever you wanted to do when
Speaker 3: you press this button on the left side of the device,
Speaker 3: so it can turn on your flashlight, it can open
Speaker 3: up your favorite app. It can open up Shazam to
Speaker 3: listen to whatever song you're hearing and you want to
Speaker 3: capture that. It can launch the translator, create a memo,
Speaker 3: mute your phone is what it is by default. So
Speaker 3: they're trickling down some of the more premium features to
Speaker 3: the regular iPhone sixteen now and then the pro versions have,
Speaker 3: you know, bigger screen, better camera, faster process or all
Speaker 3: the things you'd expect.
Speaker 2: Any real changes to the design of this thing, I
Speaker 2: mean the outside portions of it, and we know what
Speaker 2: goes on on the inside.
Speaker 3: Not really, you know, I don't even when I write
Speaker 3: articles about I don't even mention colors because you're going
Speaker 3: to probably or you should at least have a case
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 5: So I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3: I don't waste any ink on oh new colors, even
Speaker 3: though Apple thinks it's such a big deal because you're
Speaker 3: going to cover it up unless you buy a transparent case,
Speaker 3: which is I guess an option. But then the only
Speaker 3: other thing that I've noticed is just a little bit
Speaker 3: more rounded corners you know, who cares, and and a
Speaker 3: little bit more of a screen, like less bezel or
Speaker 3: border around the actual display, Like the front of the
Speaker 3: iPhone is like one sheet of glass now, so you
Speaker 3: don't see really any border as you normally would.
Speaker 5: So that's a little bit better. And they're pretty big.
Speaker 3: I mean, the Promax is six point nine inches.
Speaker 5: That's that's a pretty big phone, you know.
Speaker 3: And you can, but you may not be able to
Speaker 3: type with one hand on it unless you like. There's
Speaker 3: that option on the virtual keyboard to tug the keyboard
Speaker 3: a little bit over to one side more the virtual keyboard, right,
Speaker 3: so unless you're a two handed typer, Yeah, if you
Speaker 3: liked it to hold it and navigate at the same time,
Speaker 3: I might be a bit tricky. So but other than that, no,
Speaker 3: it's it's the biggest iPhone, yeah, with the smallest border
Speaker 3: or bezel on the to answer your question on the outside,
Speaker 3: but I think a lot of the magic is under
Speaker 3: the hood. So the new camera features are pretty wild,
Speaker 3: the new buttons, the better battery life, and then AI
Speaker 3: coming in October.
Speaker 2: And then only just two mortgage payments and it can
Speaker 2: be yours.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, they're pretty consistent with their pricing, so they
Speaker 3: do start. I mean, it is a premium phone, but
Speaker 3: it's Apple, right, So they start at seven to ninety
Speaker 3: nine for the iPhone sixteen, not including any trade ins,
Speaker 3: the iPhone Plus, which is a little bit bigger, so
Speaker 3: instead of six point three at six point seven inches,
Speaker 3: it's eight ninety nine, and then the Pro starts at
Speaker 3: nine ninety nine. And the Pro Max, which is the
Speaker 3: biggest of the phone with the best processor, the most
Speaker 3: storage available and the best cameras, starts at eleven ninety nine.
Speaker 5: So not cheap.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, no, no question there. You know, it's not
Speaker 3: for everyone, but that's Apple. They don't want to, you know,
Speaker 3: they have their iPhone se which is they're less expensive
Speaker 3: or you can still probably get a fourteen or fifteen,
Speaker 3: but they don't want to play in that space. They
Speaker 3: let the Android folks duke it out. For some of
Speaker 3: the less expensive devices. The leftovers got it. That's Apple,
Speaker 3: you know, God bless them. Mark, Thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You too, save troubles guys.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Mark Saltzman there with tech talk, and remember you can
Speaker 2: always follow Mark on Twitter, m arc underscore Saltzman. He's
Speaker 2: got some great tech tips, et cetera. The Federal Trade
Speaker 2: Commission says they found several social media and streaming services
Speaker 2: do engage in what they refer to as vast surveillance
Speaker 2: of consumers, including my kids. Yeah, that's they collect. They
Speaker 2: share more personal information than what most of us realize.
Speaker 2: It's here's the thing. It's more than what most of
Speaker 2: us realize. But it's not necessarily more than what they
Speaker 2: tell you. We just don't read the TNC's, We don't
Speaker 2: read the terms and conditions. We just go say yes,
Speaker 2: shut up and let me watch my show.
Speaker 1: It's wild that I'll be talking on the phone and
Speaker 1: I will bring up a topic of conversation and then
Speaker 1: I flipped to Instagram and the very thing I was
Speaker 1: talking about is in a meme or it's an ad.
Speaker 4: It's wild.
Speaker 1: It makes me just want my phone to explode, like
Speaker 1: I do. Work for hesbula.
Speaker 2: It's terrifying, but while it's in a safe space, not well,
Speaker 2: it's in your hand or your pocket or something, right right.
Speaker 2: They said that the Federal Trade Commission looked at how
Speaker 2: nine companies, including the biggies you know meta which is Facebook,
Speaker 2: and Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, how they collected and used data.
Speaker 2: Most of those offer some form of free service. Some
Speaker 2: of them also have paid services for more things. But
Speaker 2: they really make the profit off the information that you
Speaker 2: give them by advertising to you, advertising the target specific
Speaker 2: users through demographics, among other things. They said they studied this,
Speaker 2: started studying it four years ago to offer the first
Speaker 2: holistic look into the business practices of some of these
Speaker 2: biggest online platforms. Linda Khan FTC chair said in the statement,
Speaker 2: surveillance practices can endanger people's privacy, threaten their freedoms, and
Speaker 2: expose them to a host of harms from identity identity,
Speaker 2: identity theft to stalking. We know, here's here's what I
Speaker 2: think blows me away. I'm as guilty of this as
Speaker 2: everybody else. I know this, I see this, I witness it.
Speaker 2: I mean, to your point, the things that we talk about,
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden show up on our phones
Speaker 2: or our Amazon accounts, but we don't curb our usage.
Speaker 1: I do. I've I've started doing that. I don't look
Speaker 1: at Instagram nearly as much as I used to. I
Speaker 1: usually now only will check it out if if I
Speaker 1: am killing time or I'm lying. And I hate that too,
Speaker 1: that I can't just be bored or just stare at
Speaker 1: something that's not stimulating for five minutes. But I try
Speaker 1: not to because it kind of got weird in terms
Speaker 1: of of the stuff that was popping up and just
Speaker 1: I was just talking about that, or I was just
Speaker 1: looking at that on another device, or saying some not
Speaker 1: even on my phone, having conversation with you in the studio,
Speaker 1: and that these things just they just come up, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, eh, I do like this.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 2: And there's no way it's going to change because there's
Speaker 2: you are in the absolute minority, I mean, the tiny
Speaker 2: sliver of society that would have the consciousness to change
Speaker 2: behavior in order to curb this. Until huge portions of
Speaker 2: society do this, it's never going to change because the
Speaker 2: government's not going to come in and crack down on it,
Speaker 2: not in a way that's going to be meaningful.
Speaker 1: It's the cost of doing business with your addiction that
Speaker 1: is social media.
Speaker 4: If you want to be on it all the time,
Speaker 4: it's going to be on you all the time.
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