BHS – 8A – Tech Tuesday w/ Rich Demuro

can watch him on KTLA every morning. And if you want to get a gander at him that's not so fleeting, you can follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech and on his website rich on Tech, dot tv and Elmer. You just said something to me, and I think what you said is Rich is not on yet. Okay, that's fine, So we are waiting for him to join. I hope he joins. He did send over things he wanted to talk about, so I know that he was planning to

come on. And boy, would it be ironic if the tech person that we bring on because he's so smart about tech is having technical difficulties. I can tell you a couple other stories that we're looking at while we wait for Rich. One of them is, you know, the whole thing with Sean Combs aka Diddy and the criminal charges and he's in custody and he can't make bail. Now their lawsuits are coming. New ones were filed yesterday

accusing him of sexual assault. You have men accusing him, women and a sixteen year old boy in these lawsuits. And it's almost like at this point in terms of his predicament entirely self made. This is like putting another drop of water in a swimming pool for him in terms of the trouble that he's in. All Right, ladies and gentlemen, here he is Rich Demro, Good morning.

been easy. A holy grail is really text to video, so you can say, you know, generate a video of you know, someone walking through a field of wildflowers and then it starts snowing, you know, whatever you want. So this is stuff that you know, Hollywood studios would maybe create with a with you know, their their high end image generation tools computers and things CGI. But now the fact that you can just type this stuff in and

have a computer generate it, that would be incredible. And the reason why it's incredible is only on the money side, because I think most artists would agree they probably don't want this stuff to take off in a huge way because it gets rid of their job.

So I think the interesting thing about this is that not only can it do this stuff, but again, this eventually will get so good where if you need a shot, let's say you need a shot of people walking a crowd of people walking through in the streets of downtown Los Angeles, instead of licensing that b roll from someone or hiring a bunch of extras or generating, you know, in a computer, you know, using CGI, this shot that

you probably have to compose from different things. You would just tell AI here's what I need and boom it would create that shot now right now. And the reason we're talking about this because Adobe, they unlaunched are released their Firefly video and this is in beta right now. Right now, they can only generate about two seconds worth of video. Meta last week, Facebook's parent company, they came out with their meta video. They call it metagen Ai

and theirs can do up to sixteen seconds. So as you can see, this is very limited in its scope right now, but it's day one and this is just going to get better and better. And of course Meta wants it because if you're making it reels and things like that, you don't have to go out.

a new way to do it. And you can tell us if it's better and if it's less creepy, because we all have parents and grandparents who are old. We're talking to rich Demurow on this Tech Tuesday, the host of rich on Tech every Saturday eleven am to two pm here on KFI on KTLA. That's television, folks, every morning, Instagram, rich on Tech website, rich on Tech dot TV. Okay, tell me about this new way to keep tabs on

your mom or grandma or dad. That is supposedly better than having cameras in their house or an armed guard watching them at all times.

you put them in mom's house. You can know, you know, when she gets out of a certain room, when she's up and around moving, you can get an alert if there's no movement at all after a certain time, or you know whatever. So it's just kind of a neat way to monitor a loved one without being invasive. You know, you don't need images, you don't need videos, and it's not very expensive. It's only sixty bucks for the three pack.

and see if she's okay. So you plug them in in Mom's house has them. Mom's house has to have the Wi Fi and be on the internet. And then you, as the as the child, you have an app on your phone that you can use to monitor these sensors. Correct.

in a certain room. Let's say that there's a couple of rooms in the house and you want to make sure that mom makes it to the living room in the morning. So there's so many ways you can do this. And I've you know, I've been to these shows where you know, they have all kinds of products for seniors living at their homes, and I think that this is

just a smart, simple way. And I love the fact that it's not that expensive because you know, cameras and subscription costs, you know, they can they can add up, and this doesn't have any subscription costs and you're getting a three pack for sixty bucks. So I do like that idea. Although I'm surprised Wayne that there's no subscription because pretty much every product that I take a look at these days has some sort of associated subscript for you with it.

could potentially charge for down the line. For now, I'm just making that up, but the idea is that there's many ways to charge people for things, and that's usually under that freemium model. Where most of it's free, but if there's something you really want, you got to pay for all.

They're saying, I don't really feel like paying anymore. And so all of the streaming services, some of the fastest growing ones are to be you know, you've got all the fling has a free level of service and so they're all you know, they're all adding this because people can just put them on their TV and watch stuff like Pluto that's another one. Yeah, and it doesn't cost them a dime. But what they're doing is they're selling a lot of advertise and they're getting a lot of

data from you because it's a very smart system. So anyway, direct TV is entering this whole platform with something called my Free direct TV. There's not a lot of details on what we're gonna be able to watch, but they haven't announced like specific channels, but there will be channels and then extensive on demand library and you'll be able to install this on your TV. It'll launch on November fifteenth.

But it's smart because DirecTV has the brand name and so people are gonna immediately know it versus something like a twov or a you know some of these other ones out there, Zumo, and you know they're gonna have sports, entertainment, kid stuff, And I think the idea is to get people to sign up for a paid subscription because they'll advertise a lot of stuff that you know you can't get for the free level, but hey, for you know, another eighty bucks a month, you can get the paid level.

I don't want commercials anymore. But then as the years went by and as the prices went up, and as it became more difficult to get the programming that you want from one commercial free streaming service, that people decided, you know what, commercials really aren't that bad to have to deal with. Is that what's happening here?

dollars a month, you want to get a value. But if you're paying zero dollars a month, you're like, okay, this is a value right here, I'm watching something for free, And so you don't mind me ads as much, all.

say it. Ever, FEMA has re zoomed their door to door neighborhood outreach efforts. I'm talking about in North Carolina in the areas that Hurricane Helene really hit hard. That they had to stop because people were threatening them and FEMA felt it was unsafe for the workers to be out there trying to help people. Someone's been arrested for making threats against FEMA employees, and now FEMA feels it's

safe again to resume their good work. The Israeli government has told the Biden administration that when it retaliates against Iran for a Ron's recent missile attack. They will not hit any nuclear sites. They will not hit any oil production sites, two big things that the United States really was hoping they would agree to, and they say that they have. Meanwhile, we're not having enough babies everybody. That's right now. Europe has been having this problem for longer

than the United States. But the United States is starting to catch up with the problem of low birth rates. And some countries are deciding to give big incentives, I mean big incentives to try to encourage their people to have some kids. Hungary is a big one of these they have. They have I'm gonna tell you about these robust enticements that they have to encourage people to have kids. They have a fertility rate of one point five right now.

And you need I think you need two point six berths per whatever, the one hundred thousand to have a replacement level. That's two point one you need. You need two point one is a replacement rate. Hungary has one point five. United States has one point six. So right now we're doing a little bit here in this country. You know, you have you have child tax credits, you have some promises of more child tax credits, but it's kind of shockingly sparse compared to what's going on in Hungary.

Holy smokes, do they want to have a lot more Hungarians. They have huge subsidized loan programs in Hungary. These are super low interest loan programs where you can get a big chunk of money right now and pay it back and really not pay much in the way of interest. And if you agree to have at least three kids in Hungary, you can get over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in these government subsidized loans. Here's another thing,

you want to take it one more kid. If you have four or more kids, mom is exempt from personal tax in Hungary for the rest of her life. What guess what else? If you can push out four or more kids, then you will get seven extra annual vacation days for mom and dad. Now, notice I'm not saying or mom and mom or dad and dad, because in Hungary they're not really interested in same sex couples having kids or getting, you know, adopting kids. They're not really

interested in single mothers having kids. They're really into the traditional it's a man and it's a woman and they're married and they're having kids, and they are so into the traditional family model that if you are getting these benefits and then you get divorced, you lose the benefits.

So let's say you got one hundred and fifty thousand dollars government subsidized loan with a super low interest rate, and then you get divorced, h your interest rate goes up back to whatever some childless schnook would have to pay. In some cases, you have to pay some of the money back if you get divorced. Now, in the United States, we're not there yet. I don't think we'll ever be there, not going to ever have social programs to this degree.

But this campaign, you know, Kamala Harris is talking about what is it, a six thousand dollars tax deduction or credit for having a child. Former President Trump, the other candidate he's mentioned maybe having the government pay for IVF and also introducing more tax deductions for parents. So, even though they're so far apart on so many things philosophically and in terms of actual policy, they both have ideas that are designed to encourage people to maybe have kids,

or at least offer some reward for doing so. And as an overall population. I suppose we should have enough kids that there, you know, we don't die out or whatever it is. But there are certain places and times when no kids are the best, like at the movie theater. So I don't know how you navigate that problem. And I don't know if we're ever going to be offering the kinds of things that Hungary is. You know, they also gave you a a big stipend to buy a

minivan in Hungary if you had kids. Stuff like that. All right, we're going to get some news from Amy King, and then when we come back and we're going to talk about milk. There are a lot of kinds of milks, real milks like from an animal, and milks with finger quotes not from animals. There's a ton of it. And there's one kind of milk that is unbelievably popular all over the world except here in the United States, where we will not drink it. What is it? Why won't

we drink it? A new minimum wage increase for some healthcare workers in California goes into effect tomorrow. It's part of a law that will increase the pay for these healthcare workers to twenty five dollars an hour, which seems pretty good, except it takes the next decade to get them to twenty five dollars an hour, but it does take effect tomorrow. Now let's talk about milk. There's so

many milks. There's the obvious milk that comes from a cow, and then I guess you could say there's the variance. There's a low fat and skim milk, in half and half in heavy cream. You have goat milk. You can get goat milk pretty much any supermarket. Pretty sure, it's not popular as cow milk, but it's out there. Then you've got your soy milk, your almonds, your oats, cashews. There's banana based milk. There's pistachio based milk. There's hazelnut

based milk. There's flax seed based milk. There's a I don't know how long this has been out, but there's some product called ripple that's some kind of vegetable oil and pea protein milk, and these are very popular. All of these are popular in the United States. And when you go into a grocery store, you go to the milk area and you'll see moo cow milk, and goat milk and a lot of these other milks. Now, when you go to a grocery store in most of Europe,

you won't see tons of milks over there. You're not gonna see it. There's a kind of milk that is extremely popular in parts of Europe and growing in popularity in some other parts of the world, like China in Central America, and you can get it here. It's not illegal, not at all. It's just that you're you're not going to find it in the milk section. You're going to find it somewhere else, down some aisle, maybe on a

bottom shelf. There won't be a lot of it, and there won't be a lot of it because we're not buying it and we're not drinking it. And I'm talking about shelf stable milk. They also call it ultra high temperature milk UHT milk. When was the last time you had any shelf stable milk from a box that was on the shelf and didn't need to be refrigerated until you opened it? Yeah, I can't remember. I don't know

if I've ever had it. Now, if you go to France, ninety percent of the milk sold in France is in a box on the shelf in Spain, it's ninety I'm trying to convert some numbers here, it's ninety six percent, thank you very much, brain, ninety six percent of the milk in Spain is this is this ultra high temperature milk in a box. And here it's I don't even know if you can measure the market share for this stuff. That's how much we don't want it. Now, how do

they even do it? Well, you get milk and then you blast it with super high heat, hotter than pasteurization, like three hundred degrees boom, one, two, three, four, maybe five seconds boom, and so it's faster than pasteurization. It's hotter, and it's more effective at killing bacteria. And then they go it goes into a special package. It's sterile and it's air tight, and you can stick it on a

shelf and it can be there for months easily. Some people say it's immortal that if there's a box of this ultra high temperature shelf stable milk heat, you can sit there for five years and it's fine when you open it. We would never do that, I mean, we're not even going to try it, right, and we definitely would not try one that was five years old. Because we have a very particular view of milk in this country, and milk in a box does not fit it.

up space in the fridge. All of that is true. It's more convenient.

cow hot I mean milk. The freshest milk you could have is straight out of the udder of a cow, and if you do, it's over one hundred degrees. But we think fresh means cold. I don't know why. I don't know anybody really knows why. It's just what we think. And as you pointed out, you can refrigerate it first if that's what you want to do, but in Europe they don't. They just they just drink it. They're not concerned with it being cold, and they're not concerned with

it being fresh. Then the other thing is, even though, and you would agree with this too, I think you cover food all the time. In America. We love junk food, processed food, we love it, and yet when it comes to milk, we want it natural. And milk in a box is not natural. Even though I think people think it's full of preservatives, it's not. It's just milk in a box. It's just as natural as the milk in a carton that you get. So they've tried the milk

the box. Milk companies have tried. Do you remember when they threw that free concert by Pavarotti in Central Park? Does that ring any bells? Sure? That was thrown by Parmelat, which is you know, the big milk in a box company in Europe. They were trying like hell to get Americans to do it, and it didn't work at all.

But if you have a situation like Neil has, and you want milk, but you don't want to have to worry about keeping it cold, even if you're just if you're going on a picnic or something like that, milk in a box is great. Not to be confused with something else in a box. On Saturday Night Live, all right, Gary and Shannon are coming up next. This is KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.