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Speaker 1: time for Tech Tuesday with Rich de Burrow, our tech guy.
Speaker 1: He's also on KTLA every day, rich on Tech every Saturday,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Rich, Good morning to Bill. Okay, we have
Speaker 2: a few things to talk about.
Speaker 1: Microsoft is making a push to go password lists. How
Speaker 1: then do you have the kind of security that you
Speaker 1: need if there's no password there?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be honest. Passwords are actually the worst security
Speaker 3: in the world. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but they
Speaker 3: really are easy to crack, they're easy to steal, they're
Speaker 3: easy to trick humans into handing them over. And that's
Speaker 3: why Microsoft is really moving past passwords. And if you
Speaker 3: look at a lot of the startups that I'm seeing,
Speaker 3: when you and if you've signed up for a new
Speaker 3: product or service. Lately, you might have noticed when you
Speaker 3: go to the website, it says put your email address,
Speaker 3: and you put your email in. The next thing does
Speaker 3: not say create a password. It says, we just emailed
Speaker 3: you a code. Pop that code in or click what's
Speaker 3: called a magic link, and that magic link, you go
Speaker 3: to your email, you click it, and next thing you know,
Speaker 3: you're logged into that website. So this is definitely a
Speaker 3: trend we're seeing. Passwords are not going away overnight. But
Speaker 3: Microsoft is a big company that is really trying to
Speaker 3: push people to stop using them. So what do you
Speaker 3: use instead?
Speaker 2: Is that your question face recognition?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it be your face, it could be your
Speaker 3: fingerprint or even a pin. And you know, they say
Speaker 3: these are eight times faster than logging in. And really
Speaker 3: this is all part of something called past keys. So Bill,
Speaker 3: let me paint you the picture of what happens in
Speaker 3: the future. Let's say you get rid of your Microsoft password,
Speaker 3: which they're actually telling people, log onto your account and
Speaker 3: literally delete it. And so once you do that, the
Speaker 3: next time you log in, it'll say, hey, we just
Speaker 3: pushed a notification to your phone. Go to your phone
Speaker 3: and do your typical authentication, whether that's your face, your fingerprint,
Speaker 3: or your pin and the website will log you in.
Speaker 1: Huh, one of the things I And maybe I'm off
Speaker 1: track here because I'm you know, not your tech maven.
Speaker 2: That's why you're on the show.
Speaker 1: But whenever I get a code for my bank or
Speaker 1: whatever for authentication, and I use my phone, I don't
Speaker 1: use computers. Maybe that's my problem because my phone is
Speaker 1: my computer, so it gives me the code and I
Speaker 1: have to memorize that number because I'm switching over to
Speaker 1: the program itself. Am I doing something wrong?
Speaker 3: Well, there is an option on the iPhone to automatically
Speaker 3: have that code populate into the keyboard. So you should
Speaker 3: see a little option where that code coming from Messages
Speaker 3: should like appear right in the keyboard, like above the
Speaker 3: keyboard list. And that's pretty common for a lot of
Speaker 3: these apps to do. That is to basically, your Messages
Speaker 3: app is reading that you got a one time code
Speaker 3: and it's putting that there. So look for that next
Speaker 3: time bill because that does help. Otherwise, Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 3: you have to swipe to the other app, copy the code,
Speaker 3: put it back in, especially when you're on an email
Speaker 3: situation where they email you the code you got to
Speaker 3: go to your email. But I'm telling you there's a
Speaker 3: reason for all of this. It's because and Microsoft said,
Speaker 3: by the way, they are dealing with seven thousand password
Speaker 3: attacks per second right now, which is double last year's rate.
Speaker 3: These new systems are much more resistant to phishing because
Speaker 3: let's just say you set up a pass key on
Speaker 3: your on your Microsoft account, you go to a fake
Speaker 3: Microsoft account that's trying to log you know, get you
Speaker 3: to log in. It's not going to trigger that little
Speaker 3: activation to your phone or to your computer to say, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, log in with your password or your face,
Speaker 3: your fingerprint, because it can't. It's a fake website. It
Speaker 3: doesn't have that connection. So this is going to be
Speaker 3: a slow process. I know it's it's kind of confusing,
Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, we're very used
Speaker 3: to opening up our phone with our face or our
Speaker 3: fingerprint or a passcode. That's going to be kind of
Speaker 3: the new way to authenticate all of these apps that
Speaker 3: we're logging into as well, and websites and things like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, moving over something that I actually know something about
Speaker 1: and use all the time, and that's Roku. And this
Speaker 1: is and I'm switching over from Roku just to my
Speaker 1: smart TV because I find Roku a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2: We're going to do I.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: I don't know why smart TV running, what kind of
Speaker 3: operating system?
Speaker 2: How the hell do I know?
Speaker 1: Well, you know it's let me tell you, it's my wife,
Speaker 1: who's the tech mave. And I don't even know how
Speaker 1: phones work without a wire to the wall, for God's sake.
Speaker 1: Uh So that's where I'm at. But here is the issue.
Speaker 1: Roku users are starting to see ads when they pause content.
Speaker 2: And I pause all the time.
Speaker 1: I've got to go get I've got a pe I've
Speaker 1: got to deal with the.
Speaker 2: Dogs, and so I pause it and then move on.
Speaker 2: Big problem. Huh is this what Roku is really gonna do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is what they're gonna do. And uh so
Speaker 3: this is a new feature called pause ads. So when
Speaker 3: you pause your movie or TV show, a static AD
Speaker 3: will show up on the screen. And typically it's an
Speaker 3: AD along with a QR code for something. If it
Speaker 3: works properly, it's something that's related to maybe your search history,
Speaker 3: or they somehow have built a profile of the things
Speaker 3: that you might be interested based on your age or
Speaker 3: where you live, things like that. And this is appearing
Speaker 3: across multiple apps on the Roku, and people are starting
Speaker 3: to see this and yeah, this is a feature that
Speaker 3: we're seeing, or I guess a trend we're seeing across
Speaker 3: lots of streaming apps, especially when you're on you know,
Speaker 3: the ad supported apps like a Hulu or a YouTube
Speaker 3: or an HBO Max. This happened to me the other day.
Speaker 3: I was on Peacock watching a movie and I paused
Speaker 3: the movie, came back to the room, and.
Speaker 2: I was surprised. I was like, oh, there's the pause ad.
Speaker 3: So the first time you see it you're a little surprised,
Speaker 3: But I think bill at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: you know, these marketing companies are looking for ways of
Speaker 3: grabbing our attention, and they have a very small window
Speaker 3: at this point because of you know, just how everything is.
Speaker 3: We're all always kind of switching between different things and
Speaker 3: how we watch and our tension span, and if you're
Speaker 3: paused on the screen, you're going to notice it for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, I even Instagram, which I use because people
Speaker 1: will send me Instagram stuff all the time.
Speaker 2: You have the ad that appears for before you start.
Speaker 1: Anything, but it's like five seconds and then you go
Speaker 1: skip this ad, which that's livable. Are we talking five seconds,
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds, thirty seconds?
Speaker 3: Well, the ad itself is the Typically the ones that
Speaker 3: I've seen are static, so they are just on your
Speaker 3: screen while you're paused the entire time. So if you're
Speaker 3: pausing the show for a minute, you know, you might
Speaker 3: see that ad for a minute. But the idea is
Speaker 3: that these ads are just there in between, and so
Speaker 3: you know, and the ones I've seen, it just kind
Speaker 3: of works because otherwise, what do you see on the
Speaker 3: screen as your TV show paused right or your movie paused?
Speaker 3: But yes, it is a shift in the way that
Speaker 3: we think about entertainment because here you are, you know,
Speaker 3: watching an action movie or something and you pause and
Speaker 3: it's like an ad for Dominos. And those are the
Speaker 3: kind of ads that I've seen, and they're smart and savvy.
Speaker 3: And again I think that unless I think the delineation
Speaker 3: here will be if we start to see them on
Speaker 3: content that we have paid to be ad free. So
Speaker 3: for instance, Netflix, right like they have you know, their
Speaker 3: top of the line subscriptions don't have ads, but they
Speaker 3: do have subscriptions that are ads supported. So does Peacock,
Speaker 3: so does YouTube. So I understand if you're if you're
Speaker 3: getting your your subscription for Less because it's ads supported,
Speaker 3: if you see ads during pause, I mean that's kind
Speaker 3: of all fair game. I'd say, all.
Speaker 2: Right, fair enough, Rich.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the ads and Roku is now
Speaker 1: going to have ads, static ads when you put whatever
Speaker 1: show on pause. And this is one of the things
Speaker 1: that is really bothering me that we're moving in the
Speaker 1: direction where we're going to have ads no matter what
Speaker 1: or where unless you're willing to pay insane amounts of money.
Speaker 1: When TV first came out, it was a minute top
Speaker 1: and bottom for ads, and then we went to cable
Speaker 1: and you would pay to not have ads. And I
Speaker 1: still think in terms of paying anybody to not put
Speaker 1: ads in, and it's moving the other way, and it
Speaker 1: is Is there any possibility that you know, unless you're
Speaker 1: willing to pay twenty five to thirty dollars a month
Speaker 1: maybe more, that you're going to have ads in everything
Speaker 1: you see on television?
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, I mean it. Look and here's the thing.
Speaker 3: The fastest growing area of television. We've talked about this before,
Speaker 3: is these free ads supported streaming services. So people are
Speaker 3: actually looking to cut costs with their cable bill, with
Speaker 3: their streaming bill, with their cell phone bill, and they
Speaker 3: don't mind having the ads, and so it's not that
Speaker 3: big of a deal. And the options for having no
Speaker 3: ads remain, but they're getting more and more expensive, like
Speaker 3: you said, and so people will pay to get rid
Speaker 3: of ads if they want to. But there are many
Speaker 3: many people out there who don't really mind the ads.
Speaker 3: They see it as a natural break. They see it
Speaker 3: as you know, this is the way TV was in
Speaker 3: the past. This is free content, so why not why
Speaker 3: not just get it for free? And it powers a
Speaker 3: lot of businesses. So I think that no matter what
Speaker 3: there will be, there will always be a level that
Speaker 3: is ads supported. I think it's interesting that some of
Speaker 3: these ads supported plans cost money. Like Netflix, you know
Speaker 3: their ad supported plan, You're still paying for it. So
Speaker 3: it's interesting versus something like a two B or a
Speaker 3: Pluto TV, where you don't pay anything and you get
Speaker 3: all the content for free because of the ads.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I think my gripe is.
Speaker 1: And it could because I'm dated, because I'm used to
Speaker 1: starting non paid TV subscription TV, which wouldn't even dream
Speaker 1: of having an AD, And now you're paying, paying to
Speaker 1: have ads.
Speaker 2: And the only.
Speaker 1: Place that I ever remember having ads where it was
Speaker 1: not appropriate was in the movie theaters and you'd have
Speaker 1: La times run.
Speaker 2: And this was way back in the day.
Speaker 1: And I come from a generation of people who came
Speaker 1: into watching at that point cable TV, and I didn't
Speaker 1: pay for it.
Speaker 2: But I think you're right.
Speaker 1: Uh, if you have someone who has only recently started
Speaker 1: watching TV, I'm talking about the last decade or two,
Speaker 1: just getting involved with their kids, you know what, It's
Speaker 1: just part of doing business.
Speaker 3: And hold on Bill, even taking it a step further,
Speaker 3: half the content nowadays is ads. So when you're flipping
Speaker 3: through Instagram or you know, Instagram reels or TikTok, a
Speaker 3: lot of that content is sponsored itself. So the content
Speaker 3: that you're watching, like if it's a review of a toaster,
Speaker 3: oven or something like that, like a lot of times
Speaker 3: the company has paid that influencer to make that video.
Speaker 3: And so now it's like this merging of like hold
Speaker 3: on what's true, what's real, and what's not sponsored in
Speaker 3: any way. And I think that part of it is
Speaker 3: also really tricky moving forward.
Speaker 2: And for some reason. Well, you know, that seems to work.
Speaker 1: I mean, that doesn't really bother me, because I'm pretending
Speaker 1: that I'm seeing content. The influencer is pretending that there's
Speaker 1: content there, and everybody's happy. For example, we have a
Speaker 1: success from Scratch which we just brought back, and it
Speaker 1: is a sponsored segment and it is literally sponsored by,
Speaker 1: and the rest of it is truly content. Now, if
Speaker 1: I were do a sponsored by and I would do
Speaker 1: the content on that ad or on that business every week,
Speaker 1: it's a different story. So I guess it's just a
Speaker 1: question of levels. And by the way, on the sponsored stuff,
Speaker 1: I stopped. I stopped really caring when I saw an
Speaker 1: eleven year old kid getting twenty million dollars a year
Speaker 1: for opening birthday presents.
Speaker 2: I mean that did it to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think he has a line of toys
Speaker 3: at Target now, and I think he's actually uh, I
Speaker 3: think he just turned forty seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's just, uh, it's like the cars
Speaker 1: for causes kids. I won't even tell you what happened
Speaker 1: to them, right, you know most of them are dead
Speaker 1: of old age now.
Speaker 3: And you're right, my gosh, okay, I know nothing saturd
Speaker 3: than when I watch movies and I look up the
Speaker 3: actor and I'm like, oh, please, don't some of that
Speaker 3: person's dead? Oh yep, they're dead.
Speaker 2: Or how about when they're alive and they don't look
Speaker 2: so good?
Speaker 3: Well, no comment there that has some people.
Speaker 2: Some people don't age.
Speaker 3: Well, no, no, we can't. We can't figure that out.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Like, you can't you can't
Speaker 3: make that happen. I think on the flip side, when
Speaker 3: you go to further, you know, when you're really changing
Speaker 3: your look. So many times it's like, wait, who's this
Speaker 3: person now? You don't even recognize them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Rich, we're out of time.
Speaker 1: I wish we had gone some a little bit more
Speaker 1: time because there's a bunch of stuff we'll probably do
Speaker 1: next week. Then Rich demurow r Tech Guy KTLA every day,
Speaker 1: Channel five every.
Speaker 2: Saturday, eleven in the morning at two pm.
Speaker 1: Right here on KFI, Instagram, at rich on Tech website,
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV. See this, I'm pitching you
Speaker 1: and people pretend we pretend this is not sponsored stuff.
Speaker 2: When I give the.
Speaker 3: Pitch, it's not sponsored. You're no, it's not sponsored.
Speaker 2: Come on, I'm accusing you of paying for that.
Speaker 4: Hey, don't hate the player, hate the game, you gots no,
Speaker 4: let's start that rumor.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Rich, take care, catch you over the weekend. Bye.
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Speaker 1: can join me on this one, okay, Because this has
Speaker 1: to do with something we love and we trust so much,
Speaker 1: and that is snacking. Chips and munchies. Sales are dropping precipitously.
Speaker 1: We Americans are just snacking less. And why worries about money?
Speaker 1: And by the way, the cost of snacks are ridiculous now,
Speaker 1: I mean just crazy. We want to eat healthier. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't reduce artificial dies. I don't care.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The increased use of prescription drugs, you know with Govi
Speaker 1: and ozembic that make you not want to eat snacks
Speaker 1: between meals, and so you've got well the brain name
Speaker 1: brand name, snack companies Dorito's Ding Dogs, ding Dongs sales
Speaker 1: have been going south south south. So neil uh, let's
Speaker 1: let's first of all, let's talk about why it's so
Speaker 1: damn expensive. You go, we go to that machine down
Speaker 1: the hall, you know, our many on the seven to
Speaker 1: eleven on the honor system, except they have videos and
Speaker 1: I you look at a pack of chips over the
Speaker 1: last year, year and a half, it had to have doubled.
Speaker 5: Oh well, they're definitely on the rise. And in addition
Speaker 5: to being on the rise, we even heard this with
Speaker 5: the last administration when by was going after shrinkflation. So
Speaker 5: in addition to them either staying the same or going
Speaker 5: up a little bit, they were reducing the cost or
Speaker 5: changing the cost per ounce, and that was raising because
Speaker 5: they were putting less chips in the bag, or they
Speaker 5: had modified the packaging to put less you know, beverage
Speaker 5: in whatever it might be. So that was turning people
Speaker 5: off as well because values not there. But I think
Speaker 5: it's a handful of things, like you pointed out, I
Speaker 5: think it's the Wagovis and the Ozempics. I think it's
Speaker 5: the people looking towards other snack type things and just
Speaker 5: the sheer cost of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the crazy part because when you look at that.
Speaker 1: For me, that's the crazy part because when you look
Speaker 1: at a bag of potato chips with an ounce less
Speaker 1: of potato chips, which is not a lot of potato chips.
Speaker 2: So let's say it's eight chips.
Speaker 1: Less in a bag, in a small bag, how much
Speaker 1: can eight chips cost freeedo lay versus the cost of distribution,
Speaker 1: the cost of marketing, the cost of packaging.
Speaker 2: The chips themselves have to.
Speaker 1: Be virtually nothing, and yet you know they I have
Speaker 1: price fatigue, and it was going to happen at some
Speaker 1: point and we've reached critical mass.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but those chips you're you're thinking in in the
Speaker 5: smaller the package sense, pennies add up with these larger
Speaker 5: companies that are making massive amounts of these things. I mean,
Speaker 5: they end up saving a ton more money than you
Speaker 5: might expect just because it's pennies.
Speaker 1: No, I understand, but my point is, and I guess
Speaker 1: they they're obviously a lot smarter than I am. Weighing
Speaker 1: the costs of raising the price versus reducing the amount
Speaker 1: of product inside.
Speaker 2: It used to be where you would get.
Speaker 1: Now forty four ounces more or now two ounces more
Speaker 1: for the same price.
Speaker 2: It used to be the reverse.
Speaker 1: And instantly they don't say on the label two ounces
Speaker 1: less for the same price. Have you noticed that it's
Speaker 1: always when it's two ounces more they blasted on the package.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or they'll they'll. This is one of my favorites.
Speaker 5: They will advertise new packaging like that's a you know,
Speaker 5: new package, which is less product. Yeah, less product. They
Speaker 5: don't say, yeah, it's a smaller package. And sometimes those
Speaker 5: snacks are not as you know, fulfilling. Twinkies are smaller.
Speaker 5: Ding Dongs are smaller ding dongs. You remember ding dongs
Speaker 5: used to come and foil. They don't needmore. They come
Speaker 5: in just a little place. Plastic wrap foyle was more expensive.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about do you snack because you're
Speaker 1: pretty hefty? Uh oh, I've had no wait till I
Speaker 1: get to Will. I'm you know, right when I finished
Speaker 1: to you wait with you, Wait wait till I get
Speaker 1: to Will on this one.
Speaker 5: Uh Oh, I'm bigger than Will, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's close. I gotta tell you it's close.
Speaker 5: Not even close now.
Speaker 3: But he's shorter than me.
Speaker 2: How tall are you? Will?
Speaker 5: Six feet?
Speaker 2: Are you both? Six feet?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 4: And you'll better leave your.
Speaker 1: Numbers numbers I have. By the way, I have a
Speaker 1: I have a question. Hither I wasn't gonna go there.
Speaker 1: Let me quickly ask a question for all of you
Speaker 1: before we bail.
Speaker 2: Are you a snacker?
Speaker 5: Neil? Yes, Will, emotional snacker?
Speaker 2: Snacker? What the whatever that means?
Speaker 5: Snack when I'm happy, snack when I'm a will?
Speaker 2: Are you a snacker food? Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, uh so two out of two? Kno snacker alright,
Speaker 1: Heather snacker?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do like a boredom snacker when I'm bored
Speaker 4: all snack on pop corners, oh.
Speaker 2: So throughout the whole show. And snacker, Yes, I prefer
Speaker 2: snacks to meals. Yeah, and I'm a snacker too. Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 2: all right, I just thought i'd point that out. I
Speaker 2: don't know what that tells us. We need to buy more? Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we need to buy more.
Speaker 1: And then you know the big chips, even a Costco,
Speaker 1: a big bag of chips is ridiculous. I said, do
Speaker 1: you ever try the shrimp chips at Costco?
Speaker 5: They are they're shrimp flavored.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're I know, they're made with the real shrimp.
Speaker 1: They're Oriental of some kind.
Speaker 2: I don't know. They're Japanese, Korean.
Speaker 5: I like them.
Speaker 1: I like them, and they they the whole house smells
Speaker 1: of shrimp.
Speaker 2: It's just it really works.
Speaker 4: Okay, there's a place in the mall and then the
Speaker 4: name is just gaving me. I'll look it up. But
Speaker 4: they have Korean chips and it is the craziest flavors.
Speaker 4: But they are so good. It's like spaghetti and meatball
Speaker 4: flavored chips or like you know, garlic cheese bread chips.
Speaker 2: And it sounds great.
Speaker 5: There's ket chip chip. Yes, ketchup chips are great.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, smoke mackerel.
Speaker 4: That sounds Canadian. I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I feel like that's Canadian.
Speaker 2: Moose flavored chips. Why not? All right, guys, we're done.
Speaker 2: We're done with that.
Speaker 5: I have a Mosquiteoh, b it's just really badly.
Speaker 2: Here's the mosquiteo cream that's better than you dead. Oh
Speaker 2: that's cute.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's sort of fun and uplifting and
Speaker 1: you're gonna die of dangy fever.
Speaker 2: But that is beside the point.
Speaker 1: So if it turns out that you are looking at
Speaker 1: your property tax bill and there is your assessment, your
Speaker 1: property taxes x percent one percent of the value in
Speaker 1: the assessed value of your home, and then you go
Speaker 1: through the added fees, and some of them makes sense.
Speaker 2: For example, the.
Speaker 1: Water district is on there, and if the city provides trash,
Speaker 1: the trash pickup is on your property tax bill. You
Speaker 1: will see something called the mosquito abatement district and you go, okay,
Speaker 1: these are added fees and it's not very much money.
Speaker 1: And there is a world to mosquito abatement. There are
Speaker 1: actually whole divisions. There are districts of mosquito abatement.
Speaker 2: And why is that Because mosquitos aren't fun.
Speaker 1: They bite you, they transmit some horrific diseases and you
Speaker 1: die or you get malaria, and you got new and
Speaker 1: more fun diseases coming in. So there's been a recent
Speaker 1: surge of denay fever in southern California, and I've talked
Speaker 1: to doctor Jim Keney about this. You do not want
Speaker 1: dan gay fever and it came from Africa, but everything
Speaker 1: comes from every place now. And you have two vector
Speaker 1: controlled districts, that is mosquito abatement districts. And these are
Speaker 1: local agencies that are tasked with controlling mosquitoes and other organisms,
Speaker 1: but mainly mosquitoes. And here is how they deal with mosquitoes.
Speaker 1: How do you kill mosquitoes? Do they have these giant
Speaker 1: mosquito traps out there?
Speaker 2: How about those.
Speaker 1: Little uh, those little what do you call it blue?
Speaker 2: You know what kind of light do they produce? I'm
Speaker 2: trying to think.
Speaker 1: And when the mosquitos appers, and it's great fun when
Speaker 1: the mosquitoes come zapping.
Speaker 2: Ah, got another one, when you hear a zapp.
Speaker 1: No, there aren't many of those that the city produces
Speaker 1: or the county producers.
Speaker 2: What do they do?
Speaker 1: They release sterile mosquitoes, sterile male mosquitoes, because when sterile
Speaker 1: male mosquitoes stoop female mosquitoes, there is no offspring. And
Speaker 1: if you release enough of them, the population declines. Now,
Speaker 1: releasing and I mean millions of them out there, theoretically
Speaker 1: the population of mosquitos declines because they're not going.
Speaker 2: To be born.
Speaker 1: It works, It actually works. And what you're I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what they do. Also is I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've seen this, and this has to be with is
Speaker 1: it mosquitos.
Speaker 2: Where you see these trucks roll.
Speaker 1: By and they spray the entire neighborhood on the street.
Speaker 2: I remember seeing those.
Speaker 1: It's almost like street cleaners going past, except their spraying,
Speaker 1: you know, in the air.
Speaker 2: You see this sort of missed this miasthma.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they do that anymore, because I
Speaker 1: remember seeing that when we had all kinds of issues
Speaker 1: coming in when there was you know, when infection was
Speaker 1: going up, and they could say, okay, this area is
Speaker 1: particularly vulnerable. But what you're going to see is a
Speaker 1: lot more of mosquito news because there are a couple
Speaker 1: of mosquitos that have just come in and they are
Speaker 1: not fun. They don't fly very far. That's the Egypty
Speaker 1: mosquitoes egypt Egyptian mosquitoes.
Speaker 2: Nile fever also came in because.
Speaker 1: Of them because the nile and they don't fly very far,
Speaker 1: but they can lay eggs in virtually a tea spoonful
Speaker 1: of water that is outside, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they multiply like crazy because they lay zillions of eggs,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to talk to Jim probably about dingay
Speaker 1: fever tomorrow because it's one of those things where it's
Speaker 1: really going to affect you and your family. And the
Speaker 1: more something does, you know, the more I like it.
Speaker 1: Are we done? Yes, we are done. Gary and Shannon
Speaker 1: are up next. Also, we're back again tomorrow. Heather Brooker
Speaker 1: is here. She's filling in for Amy this week, and
Speaker 1: I think Monday also, right Heather, that's right, okay, And
Speaker 1: Will of course is here every day. So tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: it's wake up call with Heather and Will, Neil and
Speaker 1: I come aboard. And of course a very big but
Speaker 1: marginal part of this show is Kono and Ann yep,
Speaker 1: catch you tomorrow, everybody.
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