Social Media Issues, AR Glasses & Helpful Money Apps

Samsung has a new premium phone at a more accessible price, Plus it has AI On day one, Adobe predicts record breaking holiday e commerce sales. I'll tell you the best days for discounts and the top items to watch. And a popular smart TV has a new way to put ads in front of your face. I'll tell you which one and how to turn them off so you can watch your TV shows in peace. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich

And how does this.

Sound to take an air taxi high above traffic. We're going to talk to Jobe Aviation's Eric Allison about their new all electric air taxi. I saw this this week and I have high hopes no pun intended. And later we're going to talk to Parent Collective founder Samuel Chapman. He's going to talk about social media safety and the recent impact of all the those school phone bands on student well being. Well, before we start, I do want to say a warm happy birthday to my mom. Mom,

My mom has taught me so much.

She had five kids, by the way, that is that is no easy feat and she's still smiling, so that's a good thing.

Anyway. Happy birthday, Mom.

Let me tell you about how I got in trouble for trying to help you out.

This is just wild and it.

Really just goes to show why I started a newsletter, why that I am on this show and trying to do things to you know. Like I say in the beginning, I talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. So let me tell you about my recent experience on Instagram. My Instagram is ruined at this point, and I'll tell you why.

So.

I don't know if you saw this.

I'm sure you did for a while, but there was this thing going around on Instagram that said goodbye Meta AI and attorney has advised us to put this on. Failure to do so may result in legal consequences.

You have to post this statement.

If you don't post, you're okay with them using your information and photos. I don't give Meta or anyone else's permission to use any of my personal data, profile information, or photos. This went around for a couple of days and it spread like wildfire. Now give me a break. This is not real. It's a fake legal warning, like you can't just post something on your Instagram stories or your Facebook and expect to change the relationship the legal

Copy and paste, post and tell your friends.

So I saw this, and I saw a bunch of people emailing me about it, asking me if it was real.

I said, all right, I got a post about this.

So I take the post, I screenshot it, and I put like a big bogus over it, and then I posted it with an explanation of why it's not real and all this stuff. Well, I could tell that Instagram was not showing it to a lot of people because you can see kind of like the likes and the comments, and they really weren't coming in. I was like, ah,

Have marked your post as false.

You should not be spreading false information and misinformation, and we had to take your post down. And they showed me like a picture of the post where it was like, this is false, it's been debunked, it's fake.

And I was like, you've got to be kidding me, like this is it's scanned.

You know, AI is always scanning the stuff that you upload to these social media networks and trying to figure.

Out what you're uploading, if it's real or if it's fake.

And of course they've heightened all of this stuff in recent years with the advent of all this fake news and things like that. And so my post that clearly any human being in the world could understand was factual and helpful and true, but their AI didn't. And so then not only that, not only did they take my post down and send me all these warnings, they said, oh, by the way, we've we've flagged your account now because

In people's feeds.

So if I post something important in the future, you probably won't see it because face face, Instagram says, now this guy's spreading false information. Also, you know, if I monetized my account in a big way, you no longer eligible for monetization. Instagram used to these things where like they get influencers to post and they give them like bonuses.

They don't really.

So it's funny because when reels first started, Instagram was paying people to post reels because they wanted to take over TikTok, and so they give you like a bonus if you reached like twenty thousand views on reels.

And what happened.

All the influencers went to post those things, and yes, I got a little money myself, and I tried it out and okay, sure, But then all of a sudden, as soon as reel's got popular, I guess what they did. Oh, they pulled back the reins on that, and nobody gets it now. Now they're doing the same thing with threads. I'm not eligible for that. But yes, if you're noticing

But guess what, Now you've.

Got three major information platforms all controlled by one company. You do something wrong, your loggin gets hacked and boom. It affects all three of these things. So that brings me my second part of this, which is the most common thing that people email me. They say, hey, my social media account was hacked, whether it's Facebook or Instagram, and they say, rich, can you help me get it back? And I really can There's not much I can do.

And so what you just.

Did was hand over your username and your password to hackers. And what do they do. They immediately go and take over your account. They change your email address, they change your password, they might even change other information on your account. They start sending out scams messages to all of your followers trying to get them into crypto scams, whatever, and you can't get back in. So the official way to get back in if this ever happens to you is

I'm not kidding. It's almost like you are.

A one of those you know, if you're hijacked or whatever, Like if you're yes, like you're a hostage. You have to literally hold up like a newspaper with like your ID and the date today's date, to like have them prove that it's you to get your account back. It's

Please.

I've said this over and over, and the reason I'm telling you this is because what they're gonna do is they're going to take that password and use their name. You just hand it over, and they're going to try on all the other popular accounts out there. So now you're gonna get hacked across other accounts because you reuse that password. Please use a password manager, set up two factor authentication. If you take nothing else away from me today.

On this show.

Those are the two most important things, because all of this frustration can be solved so easily. And I'm not saying these situations are perfect. These protections, but in ninety nine percent of the circumstances. They will protect you. So try it out. Please set it up, and please do not reuse the same passwords. Apple has a new passwords app and iosaighteen Bitwarden is free, and I also like

I don't know. For me, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Hopefully one day my account will come back to one hundred percent, but right now it's kind of sad.

All right.

Coming up on today's show, I'm gonna tell you about Samsung's new affordable smartphone. I'll tell you about that, and we're gonna take your calls. You're up next at eighty eight rich one O one that's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. My name is rich d'muro and you are listening to rich on Tech.

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Won't show you. Let's go to Arnold in Rancho Kukumonga Arnold drawn.

With Rich good One. Hey, I recently added about six or seven apps to my phone, and all of a suddenly I'm getting this. When I try to take a picture or do I just log in, I get this, A game pops up or an AD pops up, and I can't stop it, killing me, driving me crazy.

That is that is really annoying. Okay, so a couple of things. What did you want to install the apps?

I've tried to uninstall a few of them, but I haven't done them all yet. And I saw some instruction on the internet about going into safe mode and uninstalling them first or something. But you know what, yeah, and you know, you know, you know, I tried Google setting settings. I just have had no success.

Okay.

Now the other thing is are these coming up from apps or are they coming up as Chrome notifications, because that's that could be a difference. Like if they're popping up if it's a Chrome kind of browser, that could be a an app that you said, yes, i'll take notifications when you're browsing the web, and next thing you know, it's sending you all these notifications that look like, so what does the screen look like?

That's that's popping up.

The game will come up like you know, the last you want to install it, or just will be an advertisement for what you know, just just advertising whatever, financial hotels, travel, whatever.

So frustrating when I.

First check in, you know that I'm trying to take a quick quota.

They said, yeah, okay, well, first thing you do, I'll tell you. I'll tell you all the steps that I would do. Okay, So first things first, you got to go through and uninstall all these apps that you install to get rid of them. And you don't need to do it in safe mode. You should be fine with just uninstalling them. So go into Google Play or just find the apps in your in your drawer and just uninstalled.

Just get rid of all that.

So that will get rid of it'll reset all the cookies, the cash, everything, the history, any of those pop ups that are happening, and that should that should fix it. But if it doesn't again. Once you're done with all these steps, restart your phone after each step. Then the next thing I would do is go into your settings. On the Samsung, they've actually have a malware scanner built in, so go into the settings and then under Device care,

I have a feeling this is.

Being served up by a rogue website that you visited on Chrome and it is now delivering Chrome notification pop ups at that look like ads, and I think that's what's happening. So thanks for the call today, Arnold. Very very frustrating trying to take a picture and it's just not really cooperating. Speaking of Samsung, they've got a new phone.

Do not buy it at that price.

It will go on sale, So do not pay six hundred and fifty dollars to this phone. But it's got great feature It's got a six point seven inch screen, it's got a bigger battery than last year. It's got a fifty megapixel wide angle lens, got an eight megapixel telephoto with three times optical. It's got an ultra wide and a ten megapixel selfie. The big thing that Samsung is promoting on this phone is that it's got AI

Got AI right now.

And I did take this phone out last night take some pictures at the pumpkin patch, and I am impressed with the pictures. I thought the pictures were actually pretty good. So if you're looking for a relatively inexpensive phone compared to some of the ultras out there, the Samsung Galaxy fe not a bad deal.

Check it out brand new. I'm not even sure what day it's shipping.

Let's see beginning of over third eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, we're gonna talk to Scott Stein of c neet about augmented reality glasses.

This is rich on Tech.

Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. So this week, U meta man, we're talking a lot about Facebook. This week they had their event called Meta Connect. This is when they show off all of their new products and features and things like that. And uh, the big headline was that they came out with these augmented reality glasses they call Oriyan.

You can't buy them.

They cost anywhere from like a thousand to ten thousand dollars. They are prototype, but they showed a whole bunch of people put them on and it's almost like a holographic display when you look through them. So I think what's interesting here is that Snapchat came out with augmented reality glasses last week and now Meta this week. And when we see two major companies doing stuff like this, we realize that this is happening. Here to talk about it is Scott Stein from CNET. He covers this stuff for

Well, it's the future where.

I think things need to go. You know, it's basically like the convergence point. So yes, but it reminded me a bit of vision pro in the sense that you see a lot of pieces coming together from the landscape, but not necessarily in the form that it needs to be. Vision Pro, I think is in terms of size and the bulkiness, but Orion is in terms of just even producing it. You know, that's the right size, but the cost and the software and even the resolution aren't there yet.

And what were you able to do? Like what was the demo that you saw?

Yeah, so I got through about forty five minutes of stuff, and a lot of it kind of felt some of us felt like vision pro in the sense that you've never used that before, where there's a grid of apps and I used eye tracking to locate the app. But what was interesting is to do pinch gestures to open the apps. I didn't use any cameras in front of me. I used a wristband that I wore that used EMG, which is a type of neural input sensor that can

So and just a quick refresher explain what augmented reality is versus virtual reality.

Yeah, so virtual reality is something where the whole world is blocked off and you're inside a three D you know landscape like a like an Oculus quest Meta quest that's out there, and augmented reality is the idea of putting that into the real world and seeing things that exist in overlaid or you know, three D or hovering into the real world. And some of that's already available now. When you see mixed reality headsets like the vision pro requests three, they use cameras that show you the real

Okay, so that's interesting because you know Zuckerberg used this holographic description Snapchat. I don't believe said the word holographic. I was at that event and I tried those on and you did as well. What did you think the difference was?

Like?

Was the you know who did this better?

Totally similar concept. The difference is in a lot of the nuances, you know, Snapchat viewing area is much narrower. You probably know it is like you can see areas of your viewing area where the three D effects you know, kind of cut off.

Yeah, it's like a postage stamp in the middle of the screen. Like it's like postage stamp in the middle of the screen. Imagine that's where the overlay area is. Yeah, it's like tall but very narrow. Med is is much better.

You did not see those edges, although also Metta had demos that you know, cleverly show things that are you know, in your area and not trying to overlap, almost like the original Apple watchspases. You know that we're designed well, you don't see the border as much, but you know still it's wide seventy degrees, which.

Is what it is.

Is actually less wide than what you have on a VR headset, which already feels a bit like a scuba mask. So it's not that it's your entire area, but it's close enough that you don't see that cutoff point. And the resolution was actually a little bit lower than stuff I've been used to, and Meta admitted that, you know, it was totally fine for icons and videos and stuff, but nowhere near where you'd want to watch a movie in it, you know, like something like Apple Vision pro

Will get there.

And I think at this point, and you can you can tell me what you think, but I think we've reached the tipping point now where, like I said, we have two major companies working on this and getting it to a really great demo in a small kind of form factor. The technology is just going to continue to evolve.

Do you think that's going to be a reality.

Yeah, I think so. I think it's only a matter of whether you choose to have it personally, kind of like when smart watches came out, some people wanted them, some people didn't. Or the battery life, you know, the battery life and the power and how you connect to it met is using this processor puck kind of like a little computer. It's kind of like a stand in for a phone, you know, but phones, to me, that's what it is. Phones right now, you know, already have

Yeah, and it is interesting because you mentioned the protocol, like, yeah, of course Google, Android, Apple, they would love to have a way for these glasses to interact so they can run all the processing on the phone and the glasses are just sort of a display. But of course these tech companies like Meta especially would love to have this takeover, you know, independent of something like iOS or Android, because that would be a win for them.

Yeah, and I see a similarity there between Snap Spectacles and Meta Orion and that they're both companies will you know that have phone apps that have that don't have their own over the OS ecosystem, but are trying to find ways to drive stuff. Met is a lot bigger and has a lot more pieces to that puzzle. But yeah, that's exactly it. And I feel like that still needs to be solved, like you know, use vision pro or questadsets and things at home because they can't be phones.

All right, Scott, we're gonna leave it there.

Thanks so much for joining me today, Scott Stein at cnet. He's been covering VR and AR for a while now, so if you want to read up on all that stuff, jets Scott on social media. Scott, thanks so much for joining me today. Hey, thank you, rich all right, great day. And by the way, little little trivia, me and Scott. I think we went to the same magic store growing up, right, the mecha magic?

Did you I know about the one I did go? Where was mecha magic?

Mecha Magic? I think it was like in like somewhere in New Jersey. I feel like that's for anyway it was. It was a while ago, amazing. I went to Ron Joe's and I went to Tannin's. But now I'm gonna have to look out for look up, to look up for yours, look up Mecha Magic. I think it was in Bloomfield, New Jersey. I think anyway here and oh my god.

Wish it was still open. Oh no, I never went there.

Okay, that's a shame.

I wish I had.

Thanks, Scott, appreciate it all right.

Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. I knew Scott was into magic. I had a feeling because he's in New Jersey that we went to the same but I guess not eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

More of your calls right up next, Let's go to Diana in Torrance. What can I help you with?

Thank you so much for taking my call. And I had called in a while back to your show with a question about how to log in remotely and screenshare from my Max to other computers, and you helped me with a great suggestion, which was team viewer.

Great.

We'll leave the call right there. Thank you, No says kidding. Now you're having a problem with it.

Well, it worked, you know. I figured it out without too much trouble, and I got it working, and it was working great for a while, like maybe a month or two, and then all of a sudden, one day it started just logging me out after five minutes with seemingly no explanation, and so I couldn't see I thought

Yeah.

So, so the way that Team Viewer works is it is, you know, it's kind of a freemium thing, so they do have you know, their main business is obviously selling this to people who pay them, right, and that's how they make it and survive and all that good stuff. But then they give away a free version for personal use. Now I think, you know what happens is there must be a limit on the free use because they don't want people that run companies using this for their company,

How many hours a day are you using this? You think.

It was well, not not a regular not consistently in a long period of time every day, but some on some days I might use it for quite a while, and then it might be you know, days in between when I use it, So it's not it was not on a consistent basis or anything.

Okay, but I but I did have.

Like various different devices I would try to connect to.

Yeah, and you know, so I think I think what's happening is you're just flagging their systems. So you can try to get in touch with them and appeal and say, hey, look, you know, i'm personal I'm just using this to do this and whatever. The other thing you can do is try a different program, which is uh, it's see. The problem is, I think it's a little bit more complicated

The alternative is rust desk.

You might also want to pay, like there's so many companies like go to my PC and all these other companies that you know, you can pay for any desk. I mean, there's many many paid services here. You might even pay for Team Viewer if you feel like it's worth it. But those are some of the big ones. But Chrome Remote Desktop is another alternative that you may want to look into. Thanks for call Diana, appreciate it. In torrents today, let's see oh lgtvs ads on the screen.

Worst comes to worst. You can also just pull your TV.

Out from the internet if you don't need that smart TV functionality, you know, turn off that Wi Fi or take it out of the internet. Eighty eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. We're Rich on Tech right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology.

Welcome back to the show.

Phone lines are open at eight eight eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up in the show, We've still got some great guests. We're gonna talk about flying air taxis. I don't know if you watched The Jetsons like I did when I was a kid, but I've dreamed of a flying car of course, back to the future. I mean, who doesn't want this, Well, probably a lot of people, but I do. I mean, how many times have I been stuck in traffic and I'm just like

They've got this new thing called Google TV.

Free Play, and it's like one hundred and fifty channels of like free stuff you can watch. But the best part is that's nothing new. The best part is they've made it so you can flip through the channels, just

But as a kid, that show was so fun.

You know, they're running through that grocery store, pulling all these I always wondered there must have been a rule in that show where you couldn't just like sweep the stuff off the shelf into your cart, like with a big scoop of a hand, because people didn't do that. They like pick stuff off the shelves and like put it in the basket, So there must have been a

Anyway.

That's called Google TV free Play. It's really I mean, this box is fine. I think that the Google stuff is really cool. Apparently two hundred and seventy million people use Google TV every month. So if you're looking for a new kind of like streaming streaming box that's a little different from the Apple TV, the Roku, the fire TV, this is a nice alternative.

Also.

The other thing I liked is it has a find my Remote button on the back, so you lose the remote and the seat cushions, you go up to the actual streaming box.

Theer's a button on the back of it.

You press it and the remote makes a sound, which you know, some of the other things do that as well, but that's that's the other cool feature. I thought you could also make screen art with AI. It's really good at like finding movies and stuff with AI. So if you want like a really cutting edge kind of like I don't know, streaming system, I think Google's doing a

Like me?

Whenever we have these you're really on with this uh things today? Yes, Okay, Adam doesn't talk to me. He only talks me through the ringing of that bell.

Anyway.

So I've been I've had this thing to set up for like a couple of months now, and I've been waiting for the right opportunity to test out this self cleaning litter box.

And maybe you've seen them.

They have some that like you put the litter in and they rotate around to scoop out, you know, whatever the cat does in there. This one actually kind of sits flat, like an open which they say the cats like better because they can see around the box when

Letter.

I mean, we'll see, I'm testing it, we'll see, But already the cat used it once today and as soon as the cat jumped out, the litter cleaned itself. You could hear a little stuff like falling into the bottom. I thought that was pretty cool. Not cheap this one is. It looks like it's currently on sale for about five hundred bucks. So that's probably what keeps most people from saying, oh, this would be a great thing to have in my house.

These things absolutely love them.

So anyway, the cat we got, by the way, is an adult cat, and it was like a stray that they found, and they're like, be very gentle with it. It's gonna be you know, skittish and this and that. This cat is like it's like a dog. It follows you around the house and it just literally is just like the happiest little cat I've ever seen. And by the way, it's like small, it's like fully grown, but

All of a sudden.

Earlier this month, people found that this program just changed names. The Kespersky uninstalled itself and installed this new program called ultra AV, and people were like what they were concerned. They were confused, as many people are in general, wondering if this was malware. And sure enough, Ultra av purchased the business from Kespersky. Because I don't if you remember, we talked about this on the show a while back,

Computers.

I mean, we saw what happened with CrowdStrike, you know where that was a mistake, and look how many computers it took down. Imagine if a company wanted to take down computers in the US. And you know, I'm not saying that Kespersky is nefarious in any way, shape or form, but if they wanted to be, they could because they're on a lot of computers.

A lot of programs could do that.

So anyway, so this was purchased by a company called Pango Group. They have VPN brands as well, and people were like, well, you never told us you were going to do this, and Pango.

Said, yeah, we did.

We notified you like September fifth, starting via email, in app alerts, website notices, and of course what do you do. You ignore all that stuff until you know this happens. And they're like, wait a second. What So if you have ultra av I can't vouch for it. I can't tell you if it's good or bad. But if you had a subscription with Kesperski, that's what happened, and your subscription will follow over, so you will get charged by this new company when your subscription is up.

What I personally would do is ditch it all together. You know, let your.

Subscription go, like just cancel it and then you know, let the let the subscription run out, and then you know, most people say you can pretty much use the Windows Defender built into Windows Microsoft Defender and that should be just fine. As long as you keep that up to date inactive, you should be okay. The bigger issue these days is really phishing. I mean viruses in malware and ransomware.

This is rich On Tech. Let's go to Robert in Alhambra. Robert, you're on with.

Rich Hey, thanks you kicking to that call, Rich, I'm looking for a new phone. I'd like something that can open and close apps with the voice commands and make phone calls.

Okay, so you're you're interested in all the in the voice command aspect.

Yes, I'm visually impairied.

Okay, what do you have right now?

Sam sum?

Okay? And what don't you like about? It doesn't and not have the features and.

The opening closing the apps is not very good.

Okay.

I mean, I know you know the answer that I have is going to be pretty stereotypical. But I think the iPhone does a great job with the with the accessibility features.

I really do. Have you looked into that?

No?

Really?

Yeah, I mean I I think that the They've got a feature called like voiceover, which can read pretty much anything on your screen. They've got Siri and you can you can basically program this thing to do whatever you need it to do. When it comes to accessibility, Like if you go into the accessibility section of the iPhone, there are just so many features.

Now.

I think the pixel is pretty good too. I think Google is doing a good job. But I really think that Apple is kind of like a leader in this area. I mean, I'm looking okay. So for vision, you said, visually impaired vision's got. They've got voiceover, which will pretty

Then you've got.

Zoom to make the screen a lot bigger display in text size, and it's got I mean, Robert, I'm telling you the the options you have in here, I really think are gonna help you out motion. You can reduce motion spoken content, you can speak pretty much anything that's on the screen. Then you've got eye tracking that's a brand new feature in iOS eighteen, so you can actually, if your mobility impaired, you can actually use your eyes

You can get the iPhone SE, the iPhone fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen.

So I would say, if you're just needing like a basic phone, the iPhone fourteen is going to be fine. It's a couple of years old, and it's going to be, you know, just a little bit cheaper than the current phone. Let's see how much are they selling that for. Uh, it's going to be six hundred dollars for the iPhone fourteen. So if you want to, I wouldn't go with the iPhone SE right now. That's kind of the one that

So and I think Samsung does a good job.

I just I think that from what I see and hear from Apple, Like when I go to Apple events, they actually make a point of talking about the accessibility features. Like they make a point of saying, here's what we are actively doing to make these devices easier for people of all abilities to use. And they're always thinking about this stuff. I mean the the not just the iPhone, but the Apple Watch and the I mean they just added the ability to use air pods as hearing aids, the air pods pros two.

So I mean, imagine all the people.

That already have AirPods out there that can now just turn them into hearing aids when this software update hits.

It has not hit just yet.

I mean, these are really incredible things that're they're pushing forward. And I think that Google, I think, does a lot of stuff for accessibility.

I don't hear about it as much through Google, but.

I think that when I go to their events, it's definitely a topic that they are. You know, it's prevalent at the events as well, Like they've had people on stage that talk about it. They've had special guests, and they do show how they're helping along people, you know, varying.

Abilities use their devices as well. But I think the.

iPhone is going to have the widest ranging features and also if you need help, you can go to an Apple store and they will be happy to help you walk you through some of these features. Thanks for the call today, Robert eighty to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, we're going to talk to some from Joby Aviation. They are creating an electric air taxi. Hear all about

So Joby is a company that's developing a vertical takeoff and landing all electric air taxi and also developing a service that will be able to deliver that air taxi to you anywhere you.

Want to an app on your iPhone. Okay, well let's break it down. So first off, yeah, give me the idea of this kind of aircraft versus a typical plane or helicopter.

So our aircraft is uses new technology, the technology of batteries, electric motors, high performance electronics to be able to take up and land vertically like a helicopter, but then transition to forward flight like a regular airplane. So but that gets us the flexibility of a helicopter with the efficiency of an airplane. Then what it lets you do as well is do all that with low noise. So we bring all that together basically to have high efficiency, have

So what is the benefit of an air taxi?

So our air taxi lets you wherever you are. You can open up your phone in with one of our partners like Uber or Delta, select where you are, and then basically get a ride to where you want to go. But instead of being stuck in traffic, which I know that consumers in LA get stuck on average to what like one hundred hours I think of traffic per year you're sitting in you can just fly through the air at up to two hundred.

Miles an hour.

So a trip that might take an hour and a half to go from someplace like downtown LA to lax could take seven or eight minutes and set so freeze you from the traffic in a way that you just can't right now with any other technology.

Yeah.

So there will be landing designated takeoff and landing areas, so we call them skyports or verteports, basically places where the aircraft can take off and land just kind of like a heliport would be with the old technology of helicopters, And what we'll do is use rideshare to connect you with wherever you are to those verteports, and then from wherever the kind of remote vertiport is to where you want to be. So it's an end to end journey, but it's going to be through a couple of different

And so tell them about the aircraft itself. I mean, you said it's electric, you said it's quiet. What else do we need to know? It looks pretty simple.

Yeah, So it's four seats, so four passenger seats and one pilot, so it's operated by a commercially rated pilot. It can take off and land vert just like a helicopter. Right here in this configuration, the propellers are pointed up, but once it takes off, it transitions forward and those propellers come down and point forward just like a regular aircraft.

It can fly really quietly.

So if it was flying over here at about one thousand feet, which is like low even for a helicopter, it basical would be silent. You wouldn't hear it as it flies over and in takeoff and landing, we could have this conversation if the aircraft was three hundred feet away and we wouldn't have to raise our voices.

We did a demonstration flight last year in New York City.

Actually we flew off of the Lower Manhattan Heliport within a mayor press conference with the mayor there and just kind of did a little circuit around over the river.

And it was amazing that to.

See people's response because helicopter noises a real problem, and when places that actually have an option to use helicopters in a regular basis, people don't like.

The racket all right.

So I know the question that is on a lot of people's minds is safety.

How safe is something like this?

So that's what's really incredible about this new technology. So that what we've done is taken a new approach to how we design and build aircraft that actually lets us add in kind of unprecedented levels of redundancy and kind of architecture that really makes this kind of a remarkable machine.

So I'll give you an example of this.

So in our aircraft, there's not just one battery, there's four batteries, and each of those four batteries are completely independent, and they're hooked up to different motors in such a way that if you had a failure of one of

When are we going to see something like this in a city like Los Angeles?

So we are hard at work.

We've got almost two thousand people at JOBI, the vast majority of which are.

Working on FA certifications.

So in order to launch commercially in the US, we have to be certified with the FAA, just.

Like any other commercially operated aircraft. We're working hard at that.

We publish a quarterly update basically on how we're doing relative to all the steps and certification.

It's a very long process.

That has a really high bar and so you know, we're we're happy to be going through it, but it's a lot of work.

Cost Obviously, you're not selling this to the general public, you're operating it.

But what can someone expect to pay for a ride in.

This so we think that we can launch at something like Uber black pricing per seat.

So that's our goal is to launch kind of in that range.

So kind of it's a you know, like a premium ride, so kind of for a depending on the trip, right, so kind of on a per mile basis, kind of Uber black like pricing per seat.

We think that as we are able to develop.

That network, get more verteports installed, kind of have more efficiency overall, and how we get filled more seats on demand, we'll be able to drive that price down more towards Uber x like pricing on a per seat basis as we get more and more volume of people using these types of aircraft for air taxis on a regular basis.

What's the range on this aircraft often? How long does it take to recharge?

So we are able to service flights for up to one hundred miles, so that's kind of the target max distance that will serve in terms of our flights. And then we actually have designed it to be rechargeable during the loading and off loading period of when we have this air taxi service operating, so you know, when it lands at the vertiport, whoever is in it will get out, and then more people will get in the pilot will

They're in an air taxi operation.

And if these were everywhere, what do you think the impact is on transportation?

So I think that's one of the most exciting things that if we think about just even taking starting to take a small dent out of the amount of traffic. You know, studies have shown that you just take a few percent of cars off the road, particularly during peak times, you actually start to see an overall benefit to the overall system.

I'm over and over and over again.

I think that for me, like the idea of being able to go to work, you know, go out for dinner and not be stuck in traffic. I mean, even in the best case scenario, if you matter how much you want to pay for ground transportation, if you're you know, going from here to Dodger Stadium or something on a Thursday evening, it's just going to take a really long time. And to have an option that I can do that in seven minutes or eight minutes instead of an hour and a half.

That's that's amazing.

And I think that it starts to change our relationship with mobility. It starts to change about how we think about moving around our cities, and I think it makes a world a better place.

So I'm really excited to see us launch.

You've taken test flights, I imagine.

Yeah, so we actually have flown I think it's over ten thousand miles of test flying so far on our prototype. So we have several prototypes that our facility up up in near Monterey, California. Marina is the airport that we

Have you flown in it? I have not.

All of our flights so far either remote a test pilot so far and I'm not a test pilot.

How would you describe How would they describe what it feels like? Does it feel like a helicopters? It feel like floating, It feels different than a helicopter.

It's just like a different type of a machine.

And so they love it, they want They are very excited to do lots more flying and we're really excited to have more people experience this as our system matures and as we move through that testing with the FAA to get to our full commercial launch.

Once again, that was Eric Allison of Joby giving us a glimpse into the future of urban transportation. The company is targeting a launch next year. And a bit of trivia for you. Joby Aviation was started by the same guy who created Joby Gorilla pods, those flexible mobile tripods for smartphones. I'm Rich Deimiro more Rich on Tech coming your way right after this, Jeff, you're on with Rich.

Yeah, thanks for taking the call. The reason I'm calling is we have a couple of us with several Apple

So delete, So delete an email from one of those devices and that's not deleted on the other one, or what's the problem.

Yeah, that as well as we just don't have the current you know, emails come through. It might be a day or two with the last one showing when we know that there's been other emails.

That's weird.

OK. The only thing for that is we've found so far as we go in to the settings for mail, delete the Yahoo account at it back in and then it's okay for a period of time, maybe a day or two, maybe a week or two. But we constantly have to do that, and I never have the problem she does. She has more read emails than I that are in I don't know if that's the reason, you know, I tend to delete them you know, read them to do something with them and delete them. But that's the

Is this a Yahoo email address through Yahoo? Or is it through like cops or something like that.

No, through through Yeah?

Yeah, okay, Well look, I mean, you know, I was going to suggest deleting the emails and uh and readding them. That's usually the way that's going to work because sometimes these accounts, if they're they've been added a long time ago, you know, the protocol was different.

But it sounds like she's done that. When was the last time you.

Did that across Have you deleted them across all the different devices and then readded them?

Well, yeah, I just did last night, went through and deleted the Yahoo account from the iOS mail on the phone, and then about a half hour later did it to the iPad. So they're all thinking now right and then I stop, you know, okay, well look it will it'll eventually stop. It hasn't stopped thinking yet, but it seems like it will.

If I had a dollar for every time someone had a problem with Yahoo email, I don't know what the deal is, and they just revamped it and it's supposed to be better. I mean, I remember when Yahoo email is like, you know, it's really good, and now people just complain about it for some reason.

I don't know why.

But look, I think the easiest thing to do here in this situation, if you're not if it's not sinking properly, is to use the Yahoo app to to check the email. Is there a reason that she doesn't want to do that, because that would make it work for sure.

Well, we can except that the r that she uses both Gmail and the Yahoo as well as I do, and it's in one list that it's something with your calendar, and it's all in one list. And if you want to just say creative, you know, invite someone sends you an invite into Yahoo, it's a little more. I don't know if it's easier, but it's least consistent the way you do it, you know. Yeah, and it is the Gmail.

So yeah, so the only other thing you could do is perhaps, I mean, I'm really trying to I don't.

There's no reason why this should not work.

I mean, if she's using the only other thing I can think of is that the way that her her mail is set up on the device. Are these recent devices? Are they older devices?

No, We've had them both for year or two.

Okay, so it's a recent yeah.

And the only thing I can think of is the background sinking is not working, like when she deletes an email, like the the mail app is just not like updating somehow, and that's you know, it's not sending the signal to Yahoo to say, hey, you know.

Get rid of this email or put this in this fold or whatever. Uh.

That's the only thing I can think of the other The only other thing I might say is if you can go into your Yahoo account and check to see if if there's like signed in devices or anything like that and get rid of any of those devices. And I'm trying to sign into my Yahoo account, I can't

Hopefully you figure that out.

But again, the backup is to use the Yahoo email app, and you know that's gonna work for sure, So that might be I know it's not ideal because it's nice to have all the emails in one list and all that stuff, but that's a surefire away around this issue. Let's go to Paully in uh Michigan. Polly, you're on with Rich.

Hey, Rich, you made me laugh about old school TV, and I was thinking, you don't have an old school television channel changer until you need vice scripts.

Oh my gosh, that's what like the the old like rotary knob. Are you talking like that used to pop off the TV?

Yeah, because the that's always frolks.

Oh my gosh, that's like that's really bringing it back. That's like, uh, you have to get up to change the channel, right you did?

Yeah?

Oh my gosh, that's that's like that's not like almost probably the beginning of my time.

I'm not sure.

Like I think my first memory was like the cable box like changer like that slid left and right. I don't remember that. No, anyway, that was really old school back in New Jersey. Maybe it was a Jersey thing. Anyway, what can I help you with, Polly.

I have a business and had a YouTube channel, and the YouTube removed it permanently. I'm just hoping you had some advice. They said it was dude to spam and hate speech or something like that, which they would give me no examples, and I appealed it. They denied it. I wonder if you had any advice, and they said, I can't have another channel again.

Oh my gosh, what did you do, Polly? What was your channel about.

Humming Bird theaters? What so devices?

Oh?

Come on, really, really, Polly, that is wild and nobody at YouTube would would they read your appeal?

And they still said no.

It sounded pretty automated when they denied the appeal too.

Hmm. Interesting.

Well, the only thing I can think of, so you log into YouTube and you've got nothing. You can't get in, got nothing, Okay. The only thing I can think of is you have to write a letter. Use AI write a letter, and you've got to send another appeal and tell them this is your channel, this is the content. The only thing I can think of is that you got hacked on this channel somehow and someone else did something on your behalf that you did not know about.

You're on with Rich Hi, I'm what I'm looking for is a program or an app that would sync with my bank so I can see sort of real time what my bank bounces. I know I could go online and look, but you know, we do still write checks and I hope that that, but have some way to manually enter a check in that I write and you know, the bank doesn't know about it till it hits them.

Oh yeah, like a budgeting Okay, so you're talking like more like a budgeting program.

Okay.

Well, I mean I'll tell you what I do. I just use a spreadsheet. I mean, that's the easiest way to do it. That's free and simple.

I mean it's like, you know, I tried that with Excel all But the problem I'm having is, you know, between my wife and I, we're making multiple ATM purchases a day. We just don't seem to use cash. And you know, you buy gas, you go out to lunch, you know, go to the doctor, there's cocaine. It's just and you know, it's just hundreds of dollars over a few days.

Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what I do.

So there's two ways you could do this, and I do something kind of different that because I I'm not a fan of using my credit card, so I want to spend cash when possible because that way I can stay within budget.

And it sounds like that's what you're doing as well.

So what I do is I actually set up a separate debit card just for all those days to day expenditures. So I'm sure there's like an average of what you're spending on this stuff. You can put that into that debit card every week and then you don't have to track it as much. And what I do is my wife and I both we just know the balance every day.

Now.

That's just a very simple example. Hopefully we keep enough in there where it's like you can do the things that you need to do. But that's what we're doing, is we're every single transaction. I don't have to monitor the day to day transactions of the cope at the doctor's office, the Jersey mics I get for lunch, whatever it is, because it's all coming out of that account

But have you heard of any of those programs I mentioned?

I have not, But it's just something I've been frustrated with and trying to figure out a way. And I thought, and it hurts me, like you know, if it's sinkd Very often I would see a really pretty accurate thing, you know, it's on my phone or something. But then I'm kind of worried about you know what if I'm walking into a Starbucks when it starts thinking or something. Yeah, you know that it might be you know a security.

Issue, right, Well, yeah, it's if it's.

On three times a day with my bank, that's a lot of activity.

Yeah, and it is. And most of these things, don't you know, they they sink sort of like on demand. You know, like if I if I go into like let's say Rocket Money or something like that, it's not SYNCD in the background. It's like sinking when you open the app. I think for that reason also, I think they have to pay. There's like a third party company like plaid is typically the company that connects your bank to these apps. And I think that, of course that's

You know. I like my method. I've used it for many years.

It works very very well, and it's simple, and again I only have to worry about that account once a week or so. And again you get that side, that side benefit of you're not overspending and you can spend as you want because you just look at that balance. If you have five hundred dollars in there, you can spend up to five hundred dollars, you know, as long as you have your you know, make sure that you've

Like?

Is that for your I don't know, You're you're dining out fund or whatever it is. So that's that's probably the best way to do it. I think that budgeting is not easy. It's it's a very complicated process, even with all these apps, because if you think about it, you know, they all want to make money. They want to have some sort of freemium thing and they want to make your life easy, but also they have a

Open up the spreadsheet, go through all the stuff.

I literally have to input every single item into that spreadsheet, balance it out, and make sure that it's like a checkbook, you know, make sure that it's all balanced and the money's there. But with the exception of what I call that fun money account, I call it a reverse credit card. So that is money that already goes in there, and so when you know, let's say you put in you know, three hundred dollars a week, and that money you can do whatever you want with because you're actually doing your

You just know that balance on fun money.

Is four hundred and ninety three dollars and you've got that to spend until the next week rolls around, or payday or whatever you want to do. But that's a good Another good topic which a lot of people ask about too, Rick, thanks for the call, is how to

And then there's one from Fidelity.

I've not tried this, but it's called Fidelity Full View, and same thing. You can see all of your accounts and uh, you know it's neat because you've got money in one account, but you know, you've got money in this account, that account. That account puts it all together and it does net worth, so it takes all the accounts and you can actually see what kind of your final balance is like the stuff you have, the money you have minus the money you owe.

How much is that you know? Leftover? Great question, Rick, Thanks so much for the call.

Toda eight thousand, oaks eighty eight, rich one o one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. My two favorite things, two favorite topics, money and tech collide here on the rich on Tech Show. Coming up, speaking of money, Disney, the free ride is over. No more sharing your password. I'll explain how they're cracking down.

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Yes, you should be alarmed.

So Meta had their Meta connect this week and they mentioned that they're really pushing AI down the throats of everyone that uses Facebook. Apparently a lot of people are actually using their Meta AI. Even though when it first started people were like, how do I turn this thing off?

It's actually quite good.

So if you want to use a completely free version of AI, metas ai is actually really good. And why is it good Because it's been training on your posts for the past twenty years or so, so that's why it's so good. Well, when did Facebook come out? Let's see Facebook launch date? Facebook February fourth, twenty two thousand and four. Oh, can I get a ding that's exactly twenty years? Come on, let's see anyway, Facebook twenty years? Yes,

They already have one, to their own.

And if you're away from your house, like if you're trying to watch your on vacation, you're probably gonna get a message that says, hey, hold up, we gotta verify this as you. So we're gonna send you a text message or an email with a code and you have to say, yeah, that's me and pop in that code.

So that helps.

Like someone that let's say you live in California, You've got your friend sharing your account in Minnesota. They try to log in, they're gonna have to text you and be like, hey, can I get that code? And even then Disney might not allow the log in to proceed because they might sniff out the fact that all of your connections are in California except for that one. And unless that's a college kid, you know that's in your family and your household, they're not going to allow it.

So just be aware. Free ride is over.

Let's go to Kevin in Malibu. Beautiful place. Kevin, you're on with Rich Rich.

Good afternoon. Good to hear your voice.

Thank you. What's up?

Rich?

I got a big problem here on our iMac in a contacts program. Yeah, my information is starting to miss going away. The contacts are missing and dressors are missing. Notes are missing as simple as well. I use my mother as an example. I had all her passwords lifted in the notes. I see you there now is her phone number?

Well that's not good. Don't keep the passwords in the notes. You've talked about this on the show Highly Insecure.

So well that's the next one.

That's for another day.

But yes, use a password manager iOS eighteen passwords built in. What are you using? Where are these kept normally? Are they kept in iCloud? Are they kept in Gmail? Where are these kept?

Well, what I'm concerned with is the contact app on my iMac. I'm running high Sierra. I called the Apple and we looked into it and I told him this was missing. He looked at my screen and we put in the time machine and went back and in June I had all the information on time machine. But now in September on the actual app it's gone.

Okay, And again, how are you sinking these? Are these stored in eye cloud?

This is just on the iMac, but yes, it is connected to i cloud.

Okay.

So what I would recommend is going to icloudicloud dot com seeing if the contacts are in there, and that's the best way. But again you've got to go to that time machine backup and download them and then re upload them to this app, and you got to figure out why they're actually going away every time.

This is rich on Tech.

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Now.

Typically on this show, I like to keep things light, fun, interesting, obviously, always and helpful. And we are seeing a movement here in the US where people are realizing and by the way, this is serious conversation. People are realizing that some of this tech is not always the best for us and for everyone, especially when it comes to teenagers and even adults.

Huh.

Yes, Well, I'm sort of the cautionary tale. Three and a half years ago, we were on lockdown and we thought our children were in the safest place possible in our home. But it turns out one of the most dangerous items you can give your kids our cell phone or laptop, and a dealer on Snapchat, driven by their algorithms, found our son by networking through his school. Other schoolmates had the quick ad feature on and that as a drug dealer to network with everyone they're connected to.

A colorful drug menu was.

Offered something free to our son because what was being offered is addictive if it doesn't kill you, and addictive for life. So lethal dose of fentanyl was delivered to our home like a pizza after we were asleep, and we found our son dead on the floor, tried to resuscitate him and failed. The EMT showed up and tried, and then the coroners came and we told the police, let's contact Snapchat and find out about this dealer.

See what the profile says.

And we were in Santa Monica at the time, which is actually where snap Inc. Is located, and the police told us that they don't bother calling, that they don't help.

Snap Inc. Doesn't help in these cases.

In fact, we found out later through the DEEA that snapped chat users were being notified when law enforcement was looking into their profiles, so in a way, they were collaborating with these people. And to this day, Snapchat is an active drug market. My wife likes to say that if you put your kid on social media, it's like dropping him off in the most dangerous drug filled neighborhood and hoping they do well for themselves.

Wow.

Well, I'm sorry to hear that, and I'm glad you're here to share what you've learned in this situation and you've been working on Now I know you're working on something called Sammy's Law.

What's the status of that.

Well, Sammy's Law right now is in the House of Representatives. It's HR five seven seven eight, and we're hoping to get it passed in the lame duck session coming up.

It's gone pretty far.

It's gone to committee and we've got a bipartisan group of sponsors and sponsors. It would require third party safety software on any social media or a gaming platform with children. And this technology exists today. It stops seventeen school shootings, called the police over a thousand times when there was imminent harm, and given warnings to parents over a million

Now, you know.

So let's talk for a minute about this idea of talking to your kids. How do you think parents should start a conversation? Were you blindsided by this? And you know, do you think that you can give parents some ideas on how to like make sure that something like this doesn't happen in their home.

So until the law has changed, it's going to be very hard to stop it. Snapchat, for instance, exists because the snaps disappear, and so unless you're literally looking over your child's shoulder if they're on Snapchat, you can't monitor

Or the teacher or their schoolmates.

And believe it or not, this is happening more often to young boys than to young girls, which is a surprise. Sammy's law also would be active on the largest gaming platforms, and those are particularly dangerous because your children are playing with adults and they don't even know it, and they think it's one of their best friends. And the adult may be playing with your kid for months before they set the hook and try and do some harm.

Yeah, I know my kids are.

They're always asking me for something like Discord or you know, it's interesting because all these games, you know, they try to have some some precautions built in, right, like filters and things like that. But the smart people that are trying to take advantage, they're always telling your kids to Hey, let's start this conversation on Discord, or let's sign up on this server, let's use this chatting app.

And that's the whole point is to get.

Outside of that chat system that they have built into some of these gaming services like the Roadblocks of the World and things like that, because they know that it's limited in what they can get away with in there, and so rich.

Yeah, so that's exactly it, and that's why we need a law. We need all of them to protect at once, so that they don't give up competitive advantage to the other platforms or allow the kids to just switch from one platform to the other. It's why the one off safety features that they announce aren't effective, number one, because they're mostly pr games, and when they are effective, they

It was a PR stunt.

So what do you think about any of the tools or apps that are available now? Is there anything that you think parents can do in the meantime? I mean, the law is obviously something that would you know, it's going to take a long time to happen, if it ever happens.

But do you think there's anything parents can do in the meantime.

Well, a couple of things.

The first thing is I advise, as sort of a quid pro quo for giving them these devices, that you require all of the user names and passwords for the devices and the software that they're using. And that way, in an emergency you can check or if you have a problem kid, you can spot check. But like I said, on Snapchat, the snaps disappear, so there's nothing to check. Of all the platforms, I would say that Google has the safest ones. They have the most easy to operate parent device controls.

They don't allow a lot.

Of the curse words and the sexuality and the things that can be found on the other platforms. So I would just say that YouTube is the safest of them.

You know, Google seems to.

Take this very seriously. Nothing is perfect. The most important thing is the longer you can keep them off of the platforms, the better. The longer you can go without giving your kid social media, the better. Bark has got the third party software that I was talking about. Their site is Bark dot us. We have no commercial relationship

All Right, we're gonna leave it there, Sam, Thank you so much. Sam Chapman from the Parent Collective the Web. Do you have a website or how can people find more information?

Yesparentcollective dot org.

Okay, Sam Chapman, thanks so much for sharing your story and sharing those tips.

I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you rich All right, coming up, we're gonna have more rich on tech right here and get into some of your emails and things that you sent me throughout the week.

We'll be right back.

Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. So Adobe already forecasting a record breaking twenty twenty four holiday shopping season.

This is all online. Total shopping spending.

Expected to reach two hundred and forty billion, up eight percent over last year. They're expecting major discounts up to thirty percent off across a lot of categories. Best days for discount Thanksgiving days. People shop on Thanksgiving Day. I guess so toys, appliances, furniture, and sporting goods. Best day to score those deals. Black Friday best day for TV deals.

We know that.

Computers Saturday after Black Friday best day for computer deals. And if you're looking for electronics and apparel, the best day is Cyber Monday. Some of the trends social media influencers driving sales. Yep, that makes a lot of sense. Some of the top sellers bluey toys, PlayStation, iPhone, and various video games. I think you could read that like any year. It's like always the same video games, iPhones

And I will agree to that.

It's my kid's birthday coming up, and my wife and I were trying to figure out what to get them.

I said, let's ask AI. And I'm not kidding.

We got the most thorough list of ideas I've ever seen in my entire life. No website visit necessary, and that's what's worried to some of these websites that you know you do affiliate links and research and things like that. It's just go to AI and you find all the information you need succinctly and easily.

All right, let's get to the feedback.

These are your emails, comments, questions that you write in at the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit Contact. Christian from Cypress writes in, I have a mother in law who is in her late seventies and a widow. She has a partial grasp of modern tech, but luckily she checks in with me for most of the help. She was watching Amazon Prime via her Apple TV one day.

That's it, not going to call you for your bank account information.

David writes in I think you should stress the importance of safekeeping recovery codes for major accounts like Microsoft and your password authenticators. Sometimes people forget the backup of security apps doesn't include the underlying security recovery codes, and replacing them becomes a pain when something when one does something stupid like wiping an old iPhone when you trade it in for a new one. I am looking forward to

Why not? Well, I think I did, But.

You know people have gotten used to those tiny screens, Laurel, thanks for the comment.

Let's see here, Lisa.

When listening to you broadcasting from Las Vegas, I found myself wondering, how's that set up? It sure doesn't sound like you're in a hotel room. Maybe you are. How do you manage the phone calls, the music? I'd like a peek behind the curtain. Oh, great and powerful tech dude, Lisa on the road to SoCal from Surprise, Arizona, Lisa, you'd be surprised.

How amazing it is. I mean, it's it's a system that the engineers that are much smarter than me.

Set up, and I bring it around in a suitcase and somehow we connect in it.

The microphone said, sounds good.

The system connects to our systems here, and it's quite impressive. I could do that show from anywhere, and you wouldn't even know if I didn't mention that I was in Las Vegas. So it's it's incredible, a little more complicated than doing TV from other places, but TV have live shots, you know. Same thing. Jim writes in Hey, Rich, you need to become an honorary Jew so you can pronounce the Yiddish words correctly. Chutzpa is pronounced hutspa.

Did I get that right? Hutspa.

It means having a lot of nerve or a lot of confidence, or if you're pronouncing it with the Yiddish accent, you could do ch like a soft k, like the way some people pronounce hankkah, which, of course most people pronounce that hankah. Okay, I'm reading this all wrong anyway. That's the Yiddish lesson for today. I don't actually speak Yiddish, but my late mother did take care Jim.

Thank you Jim for the Yiddish lesson. I will do. They have dual lingo for Yiddish.

I don't think so, Shirley writes in, Hey, Rich, thanks for all of you, Thank you for all the tech info you TV viewers and radio listeners.

Best to you, Shirley. Thank you, Shirley.

That's a good way to end the show here, if you could believe it. And every week I say this, I can't believe how fast this show goes. If you want three hours of your life to go really fast, get a radio show, because I'm telling you, it just flies by. I have so much more to talk about, so many more things to go through, so many emails, comments, questions, and it's just not enough time in the day to do it. Thank you so much. You can follow me

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