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‘Tech Tuesday’ with Rich DeMuro | More White House Construction · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. Bill Handle here on a Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 2: January twentieth, and it's the Taco Tuesday, and we are
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  Speaker 2: looking at what's going on in Switzerland right now, DeVos, Switzerland,
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  Speaker 2: where the annual summit. But it really is in a summit,
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  Speaker 2: it's more of a get together, a schmooze together where
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  Speaker 2: world leaders as well as the biggest manufacturing he has,
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  Speaker 2: of the biggest companies he has, the biggest companies get
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  Speaker 2: together and Donald Trump is there and he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be speaking, and everybody is watching because the topic is
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  Speaker 2: Greenland and tariffs. It is time for our Tech segment
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  Speaker 2: with Rich Demurow Rich, who is heard every Saturday here
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  Speaker 2: eleven o'clock to two pm on KFI. He's on KTLA
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  Speaker 2: every day, Instagram address at Rich on tech website, richon
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  Speaker 2: tech dot TV. And good morning Rich.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you. Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, We've got a lot to going on while the
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  Speaker 2: world's about to blow up talking about yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 2: talking about Sony and tcl TV shakeup. What is that about?
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  Speaker 1: This is huge, You're going to really be This is
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  Speaker 1: just wild news. So basically, Sony is saying they're putting
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  Speaker 1: their hands up in the air and they're saying, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, we give up no more TV business for us.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to seed our TV business to TCL.
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  Speaker 1: That is a huge shift. Now here's the deal. So basically,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to form a joint adventure that puts TCL
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  Speaker 1: in charge. They're going to own fifty one forty. TCL
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  Speaker 1: is going to bring to the table. You know, they're
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  Speaker 1: manufacturing skills, basically the ability to make TVs affordable for
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  Speaker 1: the masses, while Sony is going to bring all of
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  Speaker 1: its expertise and actually making very very high quality pictures
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  Speaker 1: and audio for their TVs. A new company is going
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  Speaker 1: to use the Bravia name. So they're basically saying, look,
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  Speaker 1: we know people understand that Bravia is a very high
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  Speaker 1: end name for TVs, and that's what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: use and we'll see what happens here. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: still has to be approved, but that is a huge
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  Speaker 1: shift in TVs, which used to be dominated by Japanese companies.
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  Speaker 1: Now obviously these Chinese startups are really coming to power here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, as far as the ownership of TCL, is Sony
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  Speaker 2: going to be a partner, a partial owner.
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  Speaker 1: Sony. We don't have forty nine percent, so I can't
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  Speaker 1: be the majority here.
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  Speaker 2: Understand, all right, So it is sort of kind of
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  Speaker 2: a Sony company, but spinning off, all right, And that
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  Speaker 2: makes sense. By the way, A quick story, you mean,
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  Speaker 2: I yeah, I think you'll appreciate. This is after the war,
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  Speaker 2: After World War two, the Japanese had to start an industry.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, they had to come back, and it was
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  Speaker 2: I remember as a kid, these little crappy little toys
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  Speaker 2: were Japanese. When you had really junky stuff, it was
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  Speaker 2: made in Japan. It was a pejorative. And there is
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  Speaker 2: a story, and it's not apocryphal. This actually happened where
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  Speaker 2: the head of Sony, and this is right after the
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  Speaker 2: war was sitting down with one of the major corporate
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  Speaker 2: heads and they were having dinner and he was talking
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  Speaker 2: about bringing up his manufacturing and the guy said to him,
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  Speaker 2: I forgot who it was. All you are good for
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  Speaker 2: are making those little umbrellas that they put in drinks,
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  Speaker 2: you know, my ties, And that's because that's where they
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  Speaker 2: came from. That was Japanese. And that's what he said
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  Speaker 2: to the head of Sony who of course they created
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  Speaker 2: this juggernaut and for a long period of time, technologically
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  Speaker 2: they were ahead of anything anywhere in the world. And
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  Speaker 2: then the Japanese product products were insane and they got
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  Speaker 2: very expensive. And now, as you explained what was going on. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: how I's been a while since the Japanese products, electronic
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  Speaker 2: products particularly were at the top of the heap, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Look, I think that people still understand that Japan
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  Speaker 1: has a knack for designing and engineering things in a
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  Speaker 1: very sophisticated way. I think that it's just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of economy at this point, like people are not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: willing to pay for that, and so China is like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do stuff. We're going to do it really well.
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  Speaker 1: We're not maybe not going to have the same exact
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  Speaker 1: polish as these other companies around the world, but we
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  Speaker 1: are going to get these into the hands of the
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  Speaker 1: people for cheaper than you can imagine. And that has
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  Speaker 1: really worked pretty well for them.
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  Speaker 2: And the quality is good that no one notices the difference.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there used to be a time when the
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  Speaker 2: Japanese remember the Trino tron television. Yeah, when it came
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  Speaker 2: out was the best thing in the world by a
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  Speaker 2: long shot. No one came nearer to the Trindo Tron.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's all TV's are almost fungible now, aren't they.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my? I mean I was in Costco and I
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't believe that you can get a fifty five
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  Speaker 1: inch TV sixty five inch TV three hundred dollars now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it may not be the best quality for
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  Speaker 1: that price, but the price on these things are clearly down.
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  Speaker 1: I remember going to the Japanese electronics show they call
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  Speaker 1: it c Tech the first time about I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: fift ten years ago, fifteen years ago, and every brand
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  Speaker 1: you walk in there, and it was so clear to me,
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  Speaker 1: as a kid who grew up in the eighties, the
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  Speaker 1: dominance of Japanese electronics. Right, we're talking Sony, Hatachi, Nissan, Sanyo, Toyota, Honda,
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  Speaker 1: every company you ever heard of was all based in Japan.
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  Speaker 1: And that show over the years less and less, less
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  Speaker 1: and less, less and less. And now when you go
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  Speaker 1: to CS what is it. It's all the brands from
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  Speaker 1: China and they are the ones that have just taken
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  Speaker 1: over this entire industry. It's pretty wild to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the things in the music industry. I
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  Speaker 2: know we're just sharing stories back and forth, but I
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  Speaker 2: think is fascinating. One of the best pianos in the world,
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  Speaker 2: or it was for the money, was a Yamaha. Very
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  Speaker 2: few people knew that Yamaha made pianos, and you could
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  Speaker 2: go and get a Steinweight for eighteen or twenty two
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars and get a Yamaha for eight thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: and it was ninety five percent as good. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just extraordinary what they were able to do. And
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  Speaker 2: so Sony, I mean, great, great products. Also they had
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  Speaker 2: the walkman. I mean they pioneered a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: Sony did. All right, Rich, I don't know where to
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  Speaker 2: go to, Let's do the I bought automated eye test
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  Speaker 2: that you saw at CEES That looks kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought this was interesting. So CS they had
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of health tech. This was one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I bought is basically an eye test Kiosk, and they're
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  Speaker 1: putting them. They've already had a deal with Walmarts, so
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  Speaker 1: they're already in certain walmarts. But I tried it out.
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  Speaker 1: You basically walk up to the Kiosk. You put in
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  Speaker 1: some information and then it starts to test your eyes
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  Speaker 1: the traditional test where you look at letters and you
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  Speaker 1: type on the screen which letters you're seeing. Then it
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  Speaker 1: does something where you kind of watch something on the
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  Speaker 1: screen and it's scanning your eyes with infrared. You can
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  Speaker 1: put your glasses in there. It will scan those if
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  Speaker 1: you have already have glasses, and then that's It takes
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  Speaker 1: about five minutes. All the results are sent to a
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  Speaker 1: licensed tele optometrist, so that means the person is not
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  Speaker 1: on site. They are remote, and a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 1: later you get your prescription on your phone. Now I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you Bill, I don't wear glasses, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting to the age where things do look
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  Speaker 1: a little different sometimes. But I did get a prescription.
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  Speaker 1: So my theory is everyone gets a prescription from this machine.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not sure, but it's a very light prescription.
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  Speaker 1: But now I can get glasses if I need them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm assuming that makes it a lot easier, a
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  Speaker 2: lot cheaper too, because making an appointment with an octometrist
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  Speaker 2: and you got to win. Although they do the glaucoma test,
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  Speaker 2: which you can't get at ad on those machines. But
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  Speaker 2: it's it's kind of even interesting where the medical stuff
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing, you know, those fitbits and the wearables that
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  Speaker 2: connect directly to your phone and give you the information
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  Speaker 2: and download and do a whole medical chart way beyond
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  Speaker 2: just how many calories, how many steps you're taking kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing or pulse rate.
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  Speaker 1: That's oh yeah, I've got go ahead. My phone will
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  Speaker 1: tell me how much I snored in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night. Like it literally records snoring, so it'll say, like,
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  Speaker 1: you snored for you know, sixteen minutes last night, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll show you exactly when and where. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty wild. But you know, I think you're you're
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  Speaker 1: tapping onto a bigger topic here of you know, health.
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  Speaker 1: The health industry is ripe for change with technology. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's happening as fast as some other industries,
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  Speaker 1: but stuff like this, like this iBOT, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: whole proposition is like, look, there are places in America
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  Speaker 1: where there's not an eye doctor nearby. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: or it's you know, the access to care is just
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  Speaker 1: not there, and so all these things will eventually help.
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  Speaker 1: Now that could just be their marketing materials who knows.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we live in LA where there's eye doctors everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, appointments, getting medical appointments can take while sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: so this is just one more way. But like you said,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't do the in depth I exam. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's more of an eye test that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Lift versus Uber, I mean that's the ongoing I know,
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  Speaker 2: say fight, but the ongoing you know, I would say
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  Speaker 2: fight for market share and for customers. You know, Lift
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  Speaker 2: and Uber. Are there any other ones that even exist?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I mean there's a couple out there, but there's
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  Speaker 1: It's actually funny you said that because when you go
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  Speaker 1: to LAX, they've got the LA exit and they've got
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  Speaker 1: some other one. I want to say Diplo. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's not that's the DJ, but there's like Dipolo or
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  Speaker 1: some they on the side. It's like Uber Lift and
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  Speaker 1: then some third part of that you've never heard of,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, who's taking that? Now? Maybe it's an
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  Speaker 1: international one that people you know from out of town
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  Speaker 1: use whatever. In China, I took one that was different
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  Speaker 1: at add I think it was called but I think
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  Speaker 1: it's all been absorbed. But yes, it's now Coke versus PEPSI,
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  Speaker 1: Uber versus Lyft, And this study from the National Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Economic Research I found fascinating because it says what
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  Speaker 1: I've always thought, you are overpaying for Uber or Lyft
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  Speaker 1: if you do not check each app every time you
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  Speaker 1: need a ride. And this is something that just people.
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  Speaker 1: They get used to the app that they use, they
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  Speaker 1: have a preference, and they just never compare. But with
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  Speaker 1: this study found is that if you're not comparing the prices,
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  Speaker 1: you are leaving money on the table because there is
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  Speaker 1: always or not always, but there is generally a difference
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  Speaker 1: in the price, and it could be substantial. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're used to one of these apps, it really it's
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  Speaker 1: best in your interest to open up the other app
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  Speaker 1: just to see what they're charging. It could be the
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  Speaker 1: same exact type of ride could be way cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: Now that goes up and down doesn't mean because that's
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  Speaker 2: dynamic pricing at its absolute best or worse. So I
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  Speaker 2: and is it regular in the sense is is Lift
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  Speaker 2: normally cheaper than Uber? Is a matter of business or
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  Speaker 2: it just changes Sometimes Lift is more expensive sometimes Uber,
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  Speaker 2: And it bounces all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did not find one cheaper than the other,
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  Speaker 1: but they did find big price differences. So they said,
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  Speaker 1: in New York City alone, people are leaving three hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars a year on the table just by not comparing.
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  Speaker 1: And most people you know, should be comparing, they just
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  Speaker 1: don't because they're used to it. So I've found in
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  Speaker 1: my personal experience it is completely random. Sometimes you will find,
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  Speaker 1: for like an even a nice ride like an Uber Black,
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  Speaker 1: it could be one price on Uber extremely expensive. Let's say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fifty bucks sixty bucks, same ride on Lift
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  Speaker 1: could be thirty I mean, it just depends on what
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  Speaker 1: is happening with their algorithm at that exact time that
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  Speaker 1: you're checking the app. So again, unless you have some
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  Speaker 1: sort of loyalty to one of these ride shares, or
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  Speaker 1: you know you don't want to use the other, check
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  Speaker 1: both apps, have them installed on your phone, put them
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  Speaker 1: side by side, and have all your information in there
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  Speaker 1: so that you can use one or the other each time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was that huge controversy with the CEO of
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  Speaker 2: Uber getting into it with one of the drivers. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: is yeah, and that had some far ranging ramifications because
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  Speaker 2: I know people, particularly women, because it was a fairly misogynous, misogynist,
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  Speaker 2: fairly misogynist move that simply will not touch Uber. They
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  Speaker 2: just won't do it. Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: They both. By the way, if you are interested, they
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  Speaker 1: both have a program in the settings where you can
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  Speaker 1: prefer a female driver if you are a woman. So
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  Speaker 1: I know my wife likes that. It's just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit more peace of mind. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get the creepy driver. But you know, they both have
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  Speaker 1: that option. Now it's not guaranteed, but you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't your options on Lifter or Uber, you can
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  Speaker 1: set that as a as a preference.
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  Speaker 2: What if you're a man, can you suggest can you
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  Speaker 2: request a woman?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so, that's just creepy and strange. But
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  Speaker 1: my you know, my wife does this all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'll always talk to the woman that's driving,
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  Speaker 1: and she, you know, she'll tell stories forever about you know,
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  Speaker 1: how much they love doing this and how nice it
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  Speaker 1: is and how great it is that they can carry,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just transport mostly females. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: system works for you know, I think it's a good
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  Speaker 1: thing for to have that option if you're more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to know how many I'd like to know
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  Speaker 2: how many drivers are women? Of lifting uber, I'm assuming
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  Speaker 2: the overwhelming majority have to be men.
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  Speaker 1: In my experience. Yes, that is the case, I think.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I take these things a lot, and it's
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  Speaker 1: been far and few between.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, even allowing women to drive is like
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  Speaker 2: beyond my comprehension. You know, you know, nineteen twenty they
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  Speaker 2: actually gave women the right to vote. What the hell
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  Speaker 2: happened there? You know? Okay, Rich, you're not joining in
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  Speaker 2: on that conversation. Obviously, we will touch that one, no kidding,
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  Speaker 2: all right, tomorrow morning, oh today on KTLA every day
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  Speaker 2: Saturday eleven to two, and you can reach him on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: His address is at rich on tech and of course
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  Speaker 2: his website which is pretty extraordinary, a lot of information
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  Speaker 2: rich on tech dot TV. Have a good one, Rich,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you beer. Okay, a quick word. This is the
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  Speaker 2: last day of raising money for Kno for his car,
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  Speaker 2: all over the neighborhood. No, no, no, no, no, come on.
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  Speaker 2: I know you have a job or two on the side.
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  Speaker 2: You have a side hustle. Yeah, yeah, I know. And
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  Speaker 2: needs a car. One of them is, of course, that
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that makes you wake up very quickly and
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  Speaker 2: go at a one hundred miles an hour. Yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 2: moving along, moving along, singing a song. A little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a history I want to share with you for
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  Speaker 2: a moment. The President of the United States ordering the
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  Speaker 2: secret construction of a secure underground facility under the East
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  Speaker 2: Wing okay, underground East wing. There was an extension of
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  Speaker 2: the East Wing on top and that we go back
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  Speaker 2: to nineteen forty one when that happened. Franklin Roosevelt was
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  Speaker 2: encouraged and did build a bomb shelter at the White
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  Speaker 2: House after the attack on Pearl Harbor under the East Wing,
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  Speaker 2: and at the time there was no public acknowledgment of
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  Speaker 2: anything under construction, only that the East Wing was being rebuilt.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, by the way, when he says, when you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody says, that's horrible, how do you square around with
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  Speaker 2: a White House of such historical importance, Well, the problem
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  Speaker 2: is not. The problem is the reality is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of presidents have done that. I mean, the Oval Office
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  Speaker 2: didn't even happen until Teddy Roosevelt and you've got Truman
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  Speaker 2: redid a lot of the White House, the interior part,
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  Speaker 2: and Franklin Roosevelt did a lot of work. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is is that they didn't quite do that big, big,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful ballroom, big the big BBB, right, which is a
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  Speaker 2: little bit yeah, yeah, kind of a little garish, don't
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  Speaker 2: you think.
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  Speaker 1: And let's talk about who gutted it, because at one
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  Speaker 1: point it was like.
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  Speaker 2: No, that was the main that was the main residence
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  Speaker 2: that was under Truman, where they went down to the
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  Speaker 2: steel literally a concrete and the steel because it was
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  Speaker 2: falling apart, literally falling apart. And the way they discovered
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  Speaker 2: it is Truman one day looks up and there is
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  Speaker 2: the leg of a piano that was sticking through the
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  Speaker 2: ceiling and he said, something's wrong. Oh yeah, that's a
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: true story. Yeah, yeah, no, that's absolutely true. Yes, oh yeah.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: And they found out the whole place I was about
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: to collapse, so they gutted it and redid the whole thing.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: But when you talk about what happened under the East
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  Speaker 2: Wing that Roosevelt put in and had to demolish most
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: of it, it actually is almost a submarine like bunker,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: and it included, because they're redoing it now, the Presidential
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Emergency Operations Center and everything around it, and so it
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: is a whole bunker that can house the president, senior
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: staff members, certainly the president's family, and that space has
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: been used for everything watching a parody film that the
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Nixon administration considered pornographics, so some people went down there
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: to watch a film, some senior aides. It was Biden's
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: clandestine trip to Ukraine was planned there. Vice President Dick
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Cheney was evacuated there during nine to eleven, and now
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: the space is being totally redone and it's all being
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: replaced with new technology because this is old, I mean,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: at best, nineteen sixties technology down there. And there is
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: some controversy in terms of and this is my feeling,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of people believe this and agree with me,
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  Speaker 2: that the ballroom itself is an abomination. It's a bigger
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: footprint than even the White House itself. It is so big,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: and they have to build in order to match that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: On the other side, the West wing is going to
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: be torn apart. I mean, the whole thing is an abomination.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Now underneath the East wing or the West wing, it
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. You now have this bunker, the super super
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: secret bunker of where the president can work in the
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: event of an attack. That is that one's I think serious.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Now I don't have a problem with that. So here's
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: what's going on. There are actually two sections of it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: One is the building itself, the ballroom. Beneath the ballroom
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: is already in place a bunker where the president and
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: senior staff members go, and it's set up as a
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: location where the government can still function. And it was
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: originally built actually it was built in nineteen forty one,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: and it was after it started nineteen forty one after
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: the attack on Pearl Harbord and Harbor, and Frank Roosevelt,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Franklin Roosevelt actually built it and it's still being used.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: So the upper part of that big, beautiful ball room
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: is going to be built with private donations. It started
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: a two hundred million dollars is now at four hundred
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: million dollars and climbing. So Trump is changing the whole
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: footprint as well as the entire view of the curb
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: appeal of the White House, which I think is going
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: to go in the toilet now. With the military is
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: saying the recently when talk a lot about it, why
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: we didn't know much about it as the building is
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: taking place. Is the argument that they are using the
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: government is using is it is so secret we can't
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: allow any information out, And the government typically does that
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: because this is as secret as it comes and there
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: has to be communications at the technology is very very old.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Now you think of the situation room as where the
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: presidents and senior staff goes. Did you know that the
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: situation room is used twenty four hours a day, is
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: used by everybody in the White House. You know, general
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: sit down and use it. Senior aids will grab someone
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: and use it. It's a meeting place that is secure,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: not bomb proof, the way the Operations Center is under
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the East Wing. But it's used all the time. See,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: we think of the Situation Room as empty and then
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the presence as we have to meet in the situation
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: room when there's a major catastrophe or a major issue
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: going on internationally. No, not at all. It's used for everything. Well,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: that is not the case with this bunker underneath the
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: East Wing. And we're not going to know how much
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: it costs, We're not going to know what's in there.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: We're not going to know much about it because it
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: is secret. And I'm okay with that. And on top
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: of that, I'm okay with the taxpayer paying for that.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I have no problem underground, taxpayer, above the ground, private donations,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: gold purchased on the world market, lots of it. Matter
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: of fact, it is going to be so incredibly ornate
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and ostentatious that the only people that the only diplomats
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: that will feel comfortable is the embassy. Embassy personnel from Iran.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: They're going to be comfortable with how gaudy it's going
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: to be. Okay, we're done, guys. Oh I had to
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: throw something out there, didn't I.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: You'll be red flocked wallpaper in the bathroom. There'll be
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: chandeliers at every corner of this place.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Fit a bro, Why fix it?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: That's correct? All right, guys, We are done. Gary and
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: shann Was it Gary and Shannon? Today is the whole
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: team back? Okay? Gary and Shannon are back again. We're
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: back in with everybody. Look and John comes back. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: think today John coleblt. So the whole crew is here.
• 23:35
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