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Speaker 1: It's camp I AM sixty and you're listening to The

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Speaker 1: Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 1: It is the Conway Show. It's Friday, and it was

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Speaker 1: a tough week. Everybody thought about the fires, we've had,

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Speaker 1: the shootings with ice.

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Speaker 2: It's been a radical week.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna ignore all the heavy news and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do something a little lighter.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: We have our very first guest here, Jamie Simonov. You

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Speaker 1: may not know the name, but you certainly either own

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Speaker 1: his product or.

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Speaker 2: Have heard of his product.

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Speaker 1: He started ring ring cameras and he's sitting right here, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: how you bub?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great?

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Speaker 1: Man, oh man, what an invention? Look at you? Billion dollars?

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Speaker 2: Huh?

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Speaker 1: One point white five fucking wait, one point five billion?

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Speaker 2: That was that on the check? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: It was basically yeah.

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Speaker 2: That's the biggest check you've ever gotten. Yes, so far?

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Speaker 2: All right, Okay, let's go back your life. You start.

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Speaker 2: You're born in New Jersey. Yep. And when did you

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Speaker 2: move out here?

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Speaker 1: I moved out here almost twenty years ago. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: you were you know, in your teens or you know,

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Speaker 1: their twenties or so almost fifties. Yes, you look good

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Speaker 1: for almost thank you. I guess that's what a billion

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Speaker 1: dollars can do. Yeah, urse aging, This is a great line.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday the some of the women on the show were

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Speaker 1: talking about what they've had done filler and lips and

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Speaker 1: ears and you know, nose job and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: And somebody turned to Belly and said, what if you

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Speaker 1: had done? And she said nothing and that a woman said, oh,

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Speaker 1: you're so vain.

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Speaker 2: Like you think.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is really knocking it out. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to do anything right with that face. Then you're right, BELLYO,

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Speaker 1: you're right all right, ring camera, it's everywhere. The first year,

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Speaker 1: how made you sell?

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Speaker 2: The first year we did like three million dollars worth?

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Speaker 2: Three million dollars worth?

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Speaker 3: Okay, and what about that the first year, I said,

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Speaker 3: the first year that we had sales. You know, it

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Speaker 3: was a couple of years of building it. First year

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Speaker 3: having sales about three million bucks. Second year thirty wow,

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Speaker 3: third year.

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Speaker 1: Go for new year four all you're four four eighty wow,

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Speaker 1: you're five billion? Oh my god, So who got so

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Speaker 1: what came for? I guess Shark Tank came first. Were

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Speaker 1: you big when you went on Shark Tank.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: No, I was literally in my garage in the Palisades, Okay,

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Speaker 3: in my garage tinkering and tinkered up this thing and

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Speaker 3: we had like a it was called door bought at

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Speaker 3: the time. It was like this this terrible looking device

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Speaker 3: that I built in my garage with a bunch of

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Speaker 3: sort of friends and got it on Shark Tank.

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Speaker 2: And they said no.

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Speaker 3: They said no, I mean I got one of those

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Speaker 3: crazy deals from mister not Wonderful, right, and uh, but

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Speaker 3: I had to you couldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: It didn't didn't even work, and so yeah, they said no.

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Speaker 2: It's often referred to as their biggest mistake.

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Speaker 3: It is it is actually like, like the data shows

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Speaker 3: it is their biggest mistake because by far the biggest

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Speaker 3: company ever to appear on Shark Tank.

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Speaker 2: So that's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: So when you were on Shark Tank, what was the

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Speaker 1: offer that mister not so Wonderful offered you?

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Speaker 3: It was something with like ten percent royalties. And the

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Speaker 3: problem is, you know, the problem is you hear the

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Speaker 3: growth three million, thirty million, one seventy the cash, Like,

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Speaker 3: when you're growing that fast, you need cash desperately because

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Speaker 3: you're ordering for a physical product. You have to order

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Speaker 3: it before you sell it, sure, and so to have

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Speaker 2: That's what breaks a lot of businesses. It breaks down

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Speaker 2: that kind of money. It really is the cash flow.

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Speaker 3: I mean we were actually so you know, it sounds

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Speaker 3: it sounds glorious, but we were really going out of

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Speaker 1: Killing the business. Right And where do you where you

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Speaker 1: headquartered now? So we were headquartered in Santa Monica.

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Speaker 3: Well, we were started in Pacific Palisades in my garage,

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Speaker 3: then Santa Monica, and now we're in Hawthorne.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and you're still involved with the company, still still

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Speaker 1: running it and partnered with Amazon. Yeah, we sold it

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Speaker 1: to Amazon in twenty eighteen. And you get a piece

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Speaker 1: of every camera that's sold. Yeah, almost all of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, no, I just I'm just a guy who works.

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Speaker 1: I know that you have. Is it called friendly faces?

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Speaker 1: There's a mode where familiar face familiar faces yep. And

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Speaker 1: so if I have a ring camera and I have

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Speaker 1: that kind of technology, if I bought the newer one.

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Speaker 1: I've I'm mindprobably about five or six years old. It

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Speaker 1: won't go on when it recognizes my face coming into

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can like.

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Speaker 3: Mute your alerts okay, and then you got to but

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Speaker 3: you can also say it that if you have your

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Speaker 3: kid that when they come in, maybe you want to

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Speaker 3: get the alert from your kid.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you don't, you know, so your wife, So.

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Speaker 3: You can kind of like where we're getting to with

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Speaker 3: especially with AI, is being able to really customize the

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Speaker 3: ring to be an intelligent assistant for you. You know,

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Speaker 3: when we started, it was just like motion alerts and

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Speaker 3: ding dongs that you get. Right now, we're trying to

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Speaker 3: give you the alerts that you need. So we're doing

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Speaker 3: anomaly detection so that we're really only giving you the

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Speaker 2: Oh I see.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's great because otherwise it goes off all the time,

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Speaker 1: all day long, all the time. For married guys, is

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Speaker 1: there a girlfriend mode?

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Speaker 2: No comment?

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Speaker 1: No, man, guys can't cheat anymore. There's cameras everywhere. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I guess I can't really say I'm sorry about that

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Speaker 3: about people. Yes, you can't be sorry.

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Speaker 2: For people not doing it.

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Speaker 3: But I do get you know, people say, oh, my kids,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you know I did.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't my intention. I wasn't I was trying to

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Speaker 2: stop criminals, not you. I didn't even think about that.

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Speaker 2: When your parents go out of town, you can't have

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Speaker 3: We call it always home, like that's our tagline has

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Speaker 3: always been always home, and that's what that's is what

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Speaker 3: ring like no, but they're there, they're in Palm Beach,

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Speaker 2: Your parents are literally always home. But you know what,

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Speaker 2: it's such a great time saver.

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Speaker 1: Like, for instance, if we get a knock at the

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Speaker 2: Now you just turn your phone on and you see

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're gonna talk to them, tell him, you

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Speaker 3: know what, Like, Yeah, it's it's been an incredible I mean,

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Speaker 3: I was in my garage. I couldn't hear the door.

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Speaker 3: What a cool thing, and what that's become is just

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Speaker 3: like unbelievable. I heard Adam Carolla talk about this. He

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Speaker 3: said once that everybody had a camera. He thought crime

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Speaker 3: of it. Well, I would say it actually has. We've

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Speaker 3: done We've had a pretty good impact. But Adam Carolla

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Speaker 2: I will take the joke, all right.

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Speaker 1: And you've written a book called Ding Dong Yes, which

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Speaker 1: is crazy because I wrote a book called Ring Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we swapped yeah right dah, and we swapped what

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Speaker 1: is that book? Is that book take you through the

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Speaker 1: whole story of the.

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Speaker 3: Camera, and it's the story of like from founding it

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Speaker 3: I said, you know, the even the cash.

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Speaker 2: Flow of how how it grew, and.

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Speaker 3: People don't realize how just how hard it is, especially

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Speaker 2: They're just they're crazy, crazy businesses.

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Speaker 1: And and what's new coming up? Is there anything in

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Speaker 3: Uh, most of the new stuff is around this idea

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Speaker 3: every time your ring alert goes off, it's for something

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Speaker 3: that you want to see. So it's not about us

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Speaker 3: really trying to take the AI and superpower it so

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Speaker 3: you and you're only interacting with ring when you need to.

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Speaker 1: And I know that you have the front door, the

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Speaker 1: product with the with the button you can you know,

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Speaker 1: ring the bell. But you also have cameras you can

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Speaker 1: that's not a ring it's a ring camera, but it's

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Speaker 1: you know, it's got two lights and it just takes

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Speaker 1: when we're gone, I can see three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of you know the new cars have

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Speaker 1: I can see the guy robbing me, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then we oh, no, idea who he was.

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Speaker 3: And then we have a bunch of stuff that ties

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Speaker 3: in the neighborhood too. So we have a thing called

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Speaker 3: search Party. If when a dog goes missing in a neighborhood,

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Speaker 3: you post the dog to the neighbors app, which people

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Speaker 3: do right now, and then we look for that dog

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Speaker 3: on the camera and we're like, hey, like, Jamie, this

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Speaker 3: dog that's missing.

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Speaker 2: Looks like this dog in front of your house. You

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Speaker 2: want to contact your neighbor.

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Speaker 3: And we are literally every day reuniting at least one

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Speaker 3: family with their dog through this thing. So we're doing

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Speaker 3: like a lot of cool stuff like that. That's really exciting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great because you know, you're almost fifty.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little older than you in and we've talked

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Speaker 1: He created Ring Camera, sold it for over a billion

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Speaker 2: That is a cool deal.

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Speaker 1: ring camera and I don't know how you did this,

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Speaker 3: putting out this fire. Wow, and they were they were great.

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Speaker 1: Right, But when you're doing that, that wasn't a twelve

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Speaker 1: He created ring cameras where the billion dollars? The hell

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Speaker 1: And there's been a lot of great technology that came

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Speaker 3: So we've done that, and then we also do we

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Speaker 2: Oh Firewatch is yours? Yeah, firewatches us. We did that.

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Speaker 3: So now in the Palisades, we had over ten thousand cameras. Wow,

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Speaker 3: They're listening to radio calls like on this street, there's

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Speaker 2: Right, can't be as bad as that, that's right.

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Speaker 1: He's also got a book out called Ding Dong, which

443
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Speaker 1: is a great title. And I sold the company for

444
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Speaker 1: one point one billion dollars one point one five.

445
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Speaker 2: One point one five. Okay, gotta add that accounting. Yeah,

446
00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:55,720
Speaker 2: that's right.

447
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Speaker 1: But you started your company in the garage. But there

448
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Speaker 1: are a lot of companies that we know, household names

449
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Speaker 1: that have started in the garage.

450
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Speaker 2: Amazon, Google, I mean, you just go through the list.

451
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Speaker 3: It's amazing how the garage has been this incubator of

452
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Speaker 3: just like these great companies and great ideas.

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Speaker 1: You know, Facebook, while Facebook was in a dorm, but

454
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Speaker 1: similarly similar, I.

455
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Speaker 3: Say, the same idea of this like unstructured place to

456
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Speaker 3: do it where I think you can just innovate and.

457
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Speaker 1: Think without your wife around. Well, you know, for Mark Zuckerberg,

458
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Speaker 1: that wasn't his problem, that's true. But the other guys, uh,

459
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Speaker 1: their wives were inside while they were a tinkering.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but that that is a great deal.

461
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Speaker 1: Are guys constantly like old friends and family members banging

462
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Speaker 1: on you for money?

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Speaker 2: Uh? You know I had that for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: There was there was a time when people definitely I

465
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Speaker 3: got like a little bit of request for money. It's

466
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Speaker 3: kind of I think now it's when you say no

467
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Speaker 3: enough times, you tapers off.

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Speaker 1: My body who's made a lot of money, he's got

469
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Speaker 1: a policy and and uh, he said when his friends

470
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Speaker 1: or family or coworkers ask for money, he's got one.

471
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Speaker 1: He's got two policies. One, you have to know his

472
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Speaker 1: kid's name and get if you get past that, he's

473
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Speaker 1: got a son and a daughter. If you get past that,

474
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Speaker 1: he's not going to lend you money. He's gonna give

475
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Speaker 1: it to you, but you can't ask him for anymore.

476
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Speaker 1: So if you want ten thousand dollars, you got to

477
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Speaker 1: know his kids' names. He'll give you the ten gram,

478
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Speaker 1: but you can't ask for any more money. You got

479
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Speaker 1: asked for a lot down on the first shot. Yeah right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what do you do entertainment wise?

481
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Speaker 2: Do you gamble all that money? Are you Vegas? He's

482
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Speaker 2: just Vegas, just trying to get rid of that horsees.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 4: You know.

485
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Speaker 3: I like to run, skiing a little, you know, mountain biking.

486
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Speaker 3: I do a little bit kitesurfing.

487
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Speaker 1: So I kind of active, you know, too active, active

488
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Speaker 1: active things, way too active.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's talk a little more about this fire.

490
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Speaker 1: You're you're up in Palisades but closer to Brentwood than

491
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Speaker 1: the ocean, and so day one was horrible.

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Speaker 2: Day two is horrible. But for a lot of people

493
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Speaker 2: who don't know this.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I know this is because I took

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Speaker 1: a flight on Friday night and I could see this.

496
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Speaker 1: But day three was when the fire came back and

497
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Speaker 1: was really threatening your home.

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Speaker 3: It came back Mandeville, which is like kind of like

499
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Speaker 3: basically like you, It like kind of went around and

500
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Speaker 3: then it was coming back sort of for.

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Speaker 2: Us, right, and you had to be exhausted by then,

502
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Speaker 2: you know, I should have been. I was.

503
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Speaker 3: I was probably like not thinking straight because I just

504
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Speaker 3: adrenaline going through.

505
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Speaker 2: You didn't feel exhausted.

506
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Speaker 3: You felt more just like ready, you know, we were

507
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Speaker 3: just like gearing up and ready for this like next

508
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Speaker 3: wave to come in.

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Speaker 1: And and you uh, you were acquired fire trucks or

510
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Speaker 1: water trucks.

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Speaker 2: So we yeah, we got some water trucks.

512
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Speaker 3: They came in from Arizona, these like like big water

513
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Speaker 3: tanker trucks that also have pumps on them to like

514
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Speaker 3: you get hook hoses up to them and spray water.

515
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Speaker 3: So we had some neighbors chipped in and we got

516
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Speaker 3: those in and we had pool pumps then, and we

517
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Speaker 3: were like gearing up literally for you know, at that time,

518
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Speaker 3: it was neighbors were back, and we were we were

519
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Speaker 3: not going to allow what hadn't burned to burn like

520
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Speaker 3: we were.

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Speaker 2: We were done with this thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised that the millionaires and billionaires in that area

523
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Speaker 1: and around the United States if you have a huge

524
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Speaker 1: and you don't have a water pump, but I don't

525
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Speaker 1: know where you're spending that money. I mean they're you know,

526
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Speaker 1: there were two, three, four, maybe five grand for a

527
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Speaker 1: great pump. They could save your house.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it is funny that humans were so reactive

529
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Speaker 3: and not proactive, like no matter how much money you have, yes,

530
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Speaker 3: Like of course when a fire is coming, you're like,

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Speaker 3: I wish I had spent the money to have I

532
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Speaker 3: mean that pool puby's like hundreds of dollars, right, and

533
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Speaker 3: if you had one, I mean, and that was the

534
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Speaker 3: pool pumps saved.

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Speaker 2: The people that had those saved a lot of areas.

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Speaker 3: Like I know of a friend that had one, and

537
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Speaker 3: he kept walking around with it, basically dragging it around

538
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Speaker 3: to different houses, right, putting it in and saving these

539
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Speaker 3: houses with it. And that's why some of these areas,

540
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Speaker 3: like when you drove to go with the fire areas,

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Speaker 3: there's some places where all of a sudden, it's like,

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Speaker 3: why didn't this whole area burn? And it's because one

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Speaker 3: crazy person was like going around and spraying, and you

544
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Speaker 3: know it was dangerous. I mean, twelve people did die,

545
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Speaker 3: so it's not it's not like it was, you know,

546
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Speaker 3: but I think I also, I don't know. I believe

547
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Speaker 3: we're adults, and I believe that, you know, if if

548
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Speaker 3: you want to go back and you want to risk

549
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Speaker 3: your life to save your house, you should be able

550
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Speaker 3: to do it.

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Speaker 1: One hundred you know, because a lot of people that's

552
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Speaker 1: their only investment in their life, you know, they don't

553
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Speaker 1: own the Lakers or a mall or an airplane.

554
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Speaker 3: And it's also I mean, it is your house, is

555
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Speaker 3: I I think it's worth protecting.

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Speaker 2: I think people.

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Speaker 3: I think people you know. For me, like I felt like, yeah,

558
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Speaker 3: I wanted to predate. It's not just something you just replaced.

559
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Speaker 3: Like I was not okay with it happening, and I

560
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Speaker 3: was gonna. I was willing to try to. I thought

561
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Speaker 3: I had some I thought I was smart enough to

562
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Speaker 3: know how to get out if something was really going wrong.

563
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Speaker 2: But who I mean, I maybe you weren't. Maybe I wasn't.

564
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but but I understand that you know, the memories

565
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Speaker 1: you have in your house, you can't recreate those. You

566
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Speaker 1: can create the walls, the bathroom, the kitchen and all

567
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Speaker 1: that stuff, but you can never recreate you know, where

568
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Speaker 1: your grandmother sat on her last Thanksgiving or grandfather or

569
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Speaker 1: dad or whatever. What is your what do? What is

570
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Speaker 1: your background with your parents? Are they entrepreneurs? Have they

571
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Speaker 1: created something?

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Speaker 3: My dad was like a guy who worked with an entrepreneur,

573
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Speaker 3: so he was kind of like the entrepreneur assistant.

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Speaker 2: And it was always a very he was funny, a conservative.

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Speaker 3: He'd be like James, this is what you have, James,

576
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Speaker 3: and so, and my brother would be like, yes, James,

577
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Speaker 3: you know so I kind of grew up with that

578
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Speaker 3: family that is a little bit more like conservative.

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Speaker 2: I was always going to trying to do crazy, crazy stuff.

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Speaker 1: Right, So he wanted you nine to five, get a

581
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Speaker 1: job at a bank, you know, retire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was like it was like kind of like work

584
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Speaker 3: at the bank nine to five, but maybe like be

585
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Speaker 3: a little crazy, like maybe tell them you could do

586
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Speaker 3: something you know, exceptional, you know, but.

587
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Speaker 1: Like but still be at the bank. All right, we've

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Speaker 1: got to take a break. One more segment and then

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Speaker 1: we'll let you out of here. Jamie seven office with us.

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Speaker 1: The book is called Ding Dong. How's it selling? How's

591
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Speaker 1: the book going?

592
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Speaker 2: It's going, It's going great. It's been fun.

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Speaker 1: Have you gone around by you signing it anywhere? I've

594
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Speaker 1: gone around to do some signing stuff. It's it's been

595
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Speaker 1: really fun.

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Speaker 3: It's been fun seeing people's reactions that people are saying,

597
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Speaker 3: like how like they've read it and it motivates them

598
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Speaker 3: because of like, you know.

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Speaker 2: Real hope of what they can build. And so I

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Speaker 2: love that.

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Speaker 1: I do like the fact that you were properly raised

602
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Speaker 1: because you came in here when Rings started in its

603
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Speaker 1: first year and you were broke and you're trying to

604
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Speaker 1: make the you know, the company happen. And I can't

605
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Speaker 1: see the difference between then and now. You know, you're

606
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Speaker 1: the same guy. That's as me as me. But that's

607
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Speaker 1: that's good parenting. You know your parents raised you properly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they did a good job. Yeah, that is great.

609
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Speaker 2: What does your brother do. He's a stock trader.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so he's uh, he's probably made as much as

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Speaker 1: you he's doing. Okay, that's great, all right. Jamie simmondoffs

612
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Speaker 1: with us. He started Ring Camera. He's got a book

613
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Speaker 1: Ding Dong as well. We'll come back and finish up

614
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Speaker 1: with him. And then at five o'clock, Petros Papadakas is on.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI

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Speaker 4: AM six forty oh.

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Speaker 1: Jamie simonoffice with us. He started Ring Camera and he's

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Speaker 1: on Channel two right now on CBS. This is a

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Speaker 1: This piece that they're doing on you is is longer

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Speaker 1: than the fire.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Suzie Sue did a great job I think putting

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Speaker 3: a piece together around you know, some.

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Speaker 2: Of the people who helped save the palisades. And this

624
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Speaker 2: is not about ring camera. This is they only mentioned it.

625
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Speaker 1: This is about the people lived in your area going

626
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Speaker 1: around and saving home after home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of neighbors that came back, I mean,

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Speaker 3: did help to save the you know, these areas and

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Speaker 3: some of the houses. And I mean obviously a lot,

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Speaker 3: a lot happened, but I think we also were able

632
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Speaker 3: to make it maybe not as bad as you know,

633
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Speaker 3: maybe we did save some houses.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you did, because you know, that fire was

635
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Speaker 2: all around you.

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Speaker 3: It was it literally went all the way around our neighborhood,

637
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Speaker 3: and neighbors at each point, like different neighbors stop different

638
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Speaker 3: parts of the fire. We helped, We helped in like

639
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 3: one little area, but everyone sort of divided and conquered

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Speaker 3: and herd immunity.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying for the last twenty years to you know,

642
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Speaker 1: no success at all, that that they should not allow

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Speaker 1: palm trees anymore in those hills, and yet they keep

644
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Speaker 1: growing them and they blow up.

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Speaker 2: When you see a palm tree burn, you definitely do

646
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Speaker 2: not think they should be anywhere in a place that

647
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Speaker 2: can catch on fire. They are like literally roaming candle.

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Speaker 2: I can't.

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Speaker 3: I never had any I had no idea what they

650
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Speaker 3: could do. They are the scariest things you've ever seen.

651
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: They just they spit fire out of the top of them.

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Speaker 1: And as you said, they're also it's it's sticky, so

653
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Speaker 1: when the embers fly around, they stick to homes.

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Speaker 3: It's like an oily like ember. It's it's, it's, it

655
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Speaker 3: is the scariest. I mean, I think the and I

656
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Speaker 3: think the palm trees. Yeah, I think they really did,

657
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Speaker 3: like cause a lot of damage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But but saving your house.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you that, you know, the mandatory I

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Speaker 1: understand the mandatory evacuation from la PD because you know

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Speaker 1: they don't want to have to go in there and

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00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 1: risk their lives to save lives all day long. But

663
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: I would I would not leave my house.

664
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 2: I think there.

665
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 3: Should be some sort of way of saying like I'm like,

666
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 3: I'm don't rescue me, Like you know, I would have

667
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 3: signed something, done something to say like like, I I

668
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 3: appreciate the fact I don't want someone risking their life

669
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 3: to come back for me, but I'm making this decision

670
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 3: that I want to I want to do this, and

671
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 3: I I think we should be able to do that.

672
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 2: And I also there's not enough people.

673
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 3: It's not like it's not the government's fault that they

674
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 3: don't have enough people to stop a fire like this.

675
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 3: No one could have enough people to stop a fire

676
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 3: like this, right, And I think allowing citizens to go

677
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 3: in and fight it just like any foreign entity coming

678
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 3: in and fighting. Like if some people came in and

679
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 3: tried to take over the Palisades, I would have fought

680
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 3: that too.

681
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 2: Right, And why is fire any different. I'm not going

682
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 2: to allow it to do this.

683
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: My sister lives in Malibu in an apartment building that

684
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: was built in nineteen fifties and it's all wood. The roof,

685
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: the walls, everything is wood. And so she was she left,

686
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: and she was gone for three days. She goes back

687
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: to it, and it's all there because four guys stayed

688
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: back to defend it.

689
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: And that's the only reason it's there. That's it.

690
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 3: And so I think I really do think it's something

691
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 3: we should be looking at it, how to support that

692
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 3: and also having people understand that it is the risk.

693
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the risk you're taking, but.

694
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: Right, and one of the risks is you might go

695
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: down with the ship one hundred percent and you wanted to,

696
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: and you didn't mind taking that on because you wanted to,

697
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: you know. And there's also man, when when you're sitting

698
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: there with four other guys and you're fighting these spots fires,

699
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: there is an adrenaline rush you probably never experienced before.

700
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 2: Now.

701
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 3: I never understood why someone would come back from like

702
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 3: Iraq or a war and then re sign up to

703
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 3: go back to go back.

704
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 2: I'm like, why would you do that?

705
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 3: You just you finally made it out like you're okay,

706
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 3: And there is something about being and fighting against something

707
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 3: like this, like this foreign entity that wants to sort

708
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 3: of kill you, which is this fire, and there's something

709
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 3: there's something about it that is like it's it's very

710
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 3: primal and being with people doing it and being with

711
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 3: a group that's doing it.

712
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's the one year anniversary. So one year

713
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: ago today, you guys were still up fighting that fire,

714
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: probably for another couple of days.

715
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 3: I was, Yeah, I would have been there for another

716
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 3: day or two doing it, like probably right now. It

717
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 3: would have been on my roof starting to look at like,

718
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 3: you know, where was stuff, where was spot fires?

719
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: You know, kind of trying to plan and from.

720
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: The video I just saw on CBS. They interviewed you

721
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: and your neighbors. There were spot fires everywhere. They were everywhere.

722
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: In fact, it's you become numb to it. I mean,

723
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: imagine driving by right now and seeing a fire and

724
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: being like, no, I think that one's okay. I mean,

725
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: there's so many that you'd be like, now, that one's okay,

726
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: but this one we're gonna put out.

727
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: You know.

728
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 3: It's like you to be deciding like which ones to

729
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 3: work on and which ones to that probably were just

730
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 3: gonna burn themselves out right.

731
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 2: I mean you you kind of became a firefighter, you know,

732
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 2: pretty quickly. Did you do you have a pool? Oh

733
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 2: you have a pool? Did you have a pump? You know?

734
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 2: I didn't have a pump? Pump now? Imp I mean, and.

735
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: I say, my old partner said, there's two types of

736
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: people in this world non learners, and I'm like, I'm

737
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: a slow learner. Yeah, but it's better than being a

738
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: non learner, you know. I mean, how many people in

739
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: Palisades are going to rebuild their house. They're gonna have

740
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: a pool and they're not gonna have a pump.

741
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 3: Actually, you know, I think a lot of people are rebuilding,

742
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 3: not even just a pump, but they're putting actually they're

743
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 3: now putting outdoor sprinklers in four fires, and so I'm

744
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 3: not And anytime you do that, that helps everyone because

745
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: that means that if your house isn't burning, then the

746
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 3: firemen can work on something else that's happening. So I

747
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: I do think I think the Palasades will build back

748
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 3: and build very resilient to fire in the future.

749
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: Right like we have.

750
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: You know, Rick caruz So had his own private fire department,

751
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: and everyone was saying, you know, how dare he? You know,

752
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: there's homes burning around, but he wanted to protect his

753
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: own home, his own businesses. But he had a great reason.

754
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: He said, if I could, you know, have my own

755
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: fire department, which loosens up other firefighters to go help

756
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: you guys.

757
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: I think it's a win win. It absolutely did.

758
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 3: It also didn't create more embers, right, And you know, Rick,

759
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 3: Rick planned ahead. He's a private business person. He saw

760
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 3: that the winds were coming and they planned ahead. And

761
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 3: I think it's great. I wish I wish more of us.

762
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 3: I wish I had done a better job planning ahead

763
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 3: and done more. I mean I I I you know,

764
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 3: I wish everyone had because the more people that did that,

765
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 3: the better outcome we would have had.

766
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: Well, I've on the side.

767
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: I have a side business now and I've started my

768
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: own fire department, and so I'm taking checks for one

769
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: hundred grand to protect your house.

770
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that afterwards. N Perfect, we appreciate you.

771
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: We appreciate people like that. I'll grab some of that

772
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 2: ring money out of you.

773
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: But you know what's a real tragedy or travesty is

774
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: is the loss of Gelson's in the Palisades. I can't

775
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: tell you how many times I went to a party

776
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: in that area and always stopped at Gelston's to get something.

777
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gelson's was such a great market. The people that

778
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 2: worked there all you know, they're all the same people

779
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: that were there for like.

780
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: Thirty years, right, But that's where you bought your son's

781
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: birthday cake, and you know, you went for cookies and

782
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: all that stuff.

783
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's gone to think that was the Palisades.

784
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 3: You know, all those stores in the Palisades, all those

785
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 3: places were like these sort of family businesses and the

786
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 3: people had worked there for a long time, and it

787
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 3: was really like it was a it really it still

788
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 3: is a.

789
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 2: Special place, but it really was a special place. All right.

790
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 2: So you created a ring camera. What else are you

791
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 2: working on or is that a wrap? You know?

792
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 3: I have some passion project things that I work on,

793
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 3: but really Ring is it's really it's what I'm working on.

794
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 3: It's also where I can have the most impact, you know,

795
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 3: finding finding dogs, helping in fires. You know, we're doing

796
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff with you know, police departments and

797
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 3: working with them on crime and safety. So there's lots

798
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 3: there's so many areas that we can work on through

799
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 3: Ring to make an impact that it really keeps me busy.

800
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 3: And then watch fire watch what ours is called fire watch,

801
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 3: which works watch duty okay, and you know, in the

802
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 3: next sort of catastrophic disaster event, watch duty we'll send

803
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 3: to our system an alert. We'll send that alert out

804
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 3: to all of our customers. They can then join in

805
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: and help us together with watch duty to hopefully bring

806
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 3: more information to everybody faster to have a better outcome

807
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 3: in the next one.

808
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 2: I'm one of those idiots where we want.

809
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: We used watch duty every single second while we were

810
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: on the air, and when I went home, that's all

811
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: I looked at Watch duty from out the entire fire

812
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: watch do we watch you? And then I get a

813
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: text from them, Hey, can you send us two dollars

814
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: and ninety nine cents to help us out?

815
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know, so yeah.

816
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 3: And the founder of this guy, John Mills, is amazing,

817
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,479
Speaker 3: eccentric guy. It's a non for profit that he did

818
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 3: to help people. It's like it's an unbelievable I would

819
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 3: I'd like to say company, but it's like this unbelievable

820
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 3: thing that someone brought to the world.

821
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: It's really just to or the world. Yeah, it's great.

822
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 2: And a lot of people that I know used that.

823
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 3: Well.

824
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 2: So but you you didn't decide to give the two

825
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: ninety we gave.

826
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 3: We gave it.

827
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 2: We gave them a million dollars. Oh is that right?

828
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 4: Yeah?

829
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 3: Right, so I'm pro with you. So we so we

830
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: gave them a million. So it's collectively we gave them,

831
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 3: but we did. We gave them a million dollars. We

832
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 3: felt like it was just such an incredible and this

833
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 3: is from Amazon and Ring. We just felt like to

834
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 3: support such an incredible thing that helps people in so

835
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: many areas.

836
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 2: When you sold to Amazon, did Jeff Bezos call you personally?

837
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 3: Uh?

838
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 2: He sent me an email that day. Yeah, it was

839
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:36,479
Speaker 2: a very memorable one.

840
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 3: It's a very good I mean, and I've spent a

841
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 3: lot of time with Jeff, you know, since then, and

842
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 3: so Jeff, Jeff's great, you know, but it's a very

843
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 3: He sent me a very funny one line email. I

844
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 3: will not tell you exactly what it said, but it

845
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 3: was it was, it was awesome.

846
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 2: Okay, that's great.

847
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: You know when he bought Whole Foods, he bought it

848
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: for I think I think it's six or seven billion dollars.

849
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: But his stock went up so much that day that

850
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: he got Whole Foods for free. Yeah, the rich get

851
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: richer sometimes.

852
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 2: That's great. What is so real? Quickly?

853
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: Could you give us any stock tips or business tips

854
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: to make some money for people out there?

855
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 3: That's always a good idea to do on the radio.

856
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 3: I appree, I appree, I appreciate that.

857
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 2: You know. What I'll tell you is read read the book,

858
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,919
Speaker 2: work hard. I think that's what you know. Grit.

859
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like we're we're the American dream is

860
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 3: still out there, you know. I think it's it's, uh,

861
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 3: let's let's just go out there and let's build some

862
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 3: cool stuff. And everyone needs to get in there and

863
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 3: do stuff.

864
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 2: But I appreciate you coming on, come on again with us.

865
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 2: We love having you on.

866
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: Jamie simming Off by the book ding Dong is the

867
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: name of the book. And I wrote a book called

868
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 1: Ring Camera, so I'll be out signing that. And you

869
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: can also get Ring Camera in almost any store. But

870
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: you can also it's available on Amazon.

871
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 2: Mony it's available everywhere, and so it's available not only

872
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 2: in stores but Amazon and stores. Yeah, Amazon and stores.

873
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 2: What does it go for now?

874
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 3: For the for the it's really like from you know,

875
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 3: forty nine dollars up to five hundred. It's kind of

876
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 3: we have we have models in sort of every different area,

877
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 3: like every different need, every different you know.

878
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: And I will say this not because you're sitting there,

879
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: but it does help. It was the easiest thing in

880
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: the world to set up, the easiest setup. Constructions were perfect.

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