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‘Tech Tuesday’ with Rich DeMuro | The American Tourist · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're list Saints k I AM six forty. The bill
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  Speaker 1: bill handle Here it is a Tuesday Morning Taco Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: someone has to win. The caveat is it's not you.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to point that out. Have a good day, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: It's time for a tech segment. Rich Demurrow with us.
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  Speaker 1: Rich has heard Saturday's eleven Am to two pm or
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  Speaker 1: right here on KFI every day on KTLA, his website,
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  Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV, lots of great information, Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: rich at rich on tech rich good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Oh, a couple of stories. I want to ask
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  Speaker 1: one of them is the last story, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to make it the first story, and that has to
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  Speaker 1: time travel. Is happening on LinkedIn. Keep in mind, rich
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  Speaker 1: sends me these topics, so I don't have to think
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  Speaker 1: anything through because I am the laziest human being that
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  Speaker 1: you have ever met. Time travel. You know what I
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  Speaker 1: think of, you know what we think of, So explain
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  Speaker 1: that and LinkedIn.
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  Speaker 2: Well, number one, I love time travel. I'm a big
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  Speaker 2: fan of back to the few, so of course this
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  Speaker 2: was this story was a natural for me. But it
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  Speaker 2: really has nothing to do with time traveling. Basically, it
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  Speaker 2: is folks on LinkedIn rewriting their old job descriptions, jobs
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  Speaker 2: that they left years ago, and researchers found that they
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  Speaker 2: do it right before they start looking for a new job,
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  Speaker 2: so they're calling it LinkedIn time travel. And basically this
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  Speaker 2: means you're going back and changing the title or description
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  Speaker 2: of an old job after you already left one in
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  Speaker 2: five users did this. At least one in five users
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  Speaker 2: did this at least once between twenty twenty and twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, and the median edit happens four years after
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  Speaker 2: you leave a job, So basically, four years after you
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  Speaker 2: leave a job, you're saying, hmm, this might sound better
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  Speaker 2: saying I did this there, Especially when it comes to AI,
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  Speaker 2: people are adding in AI kind of aspects to their
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  Speaker 2: old jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Now, couldn't they do this?
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  Speaker 2: There's the kicker bill. Okay, well people already do this,
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  Speaker 2: But here's the kicker. They figured out. They did math,
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  Speaker 2: and they figured out that once you do this, you
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  Speaker 2: are sixty six percent more likely to change employers. So
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  Speaker 2: they're saying that this happens about six months before someone
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  Speaker 2: changes jobs. So if you see your coworkers changing their
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  Speaker 2: LinkedIn to all this new fancy schmancy AI talk, you
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  Speaker 2: know that they're probably looking for a job.
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  Speaker 1: How about just going on LinkedIn? Doesn't that tell you something?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think, I mean see, that's the that's the
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  Speaker 2: smart part about LinkedIn that they did this a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago. They turned it into a social media network,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, you can kind of masquerade under Oh
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at different people's posts and learning things
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  Speaker 2: about my industry, which is all very true, but it
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  Speaker 2: keeps you on there every day. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: every after you scroll through about four posts, it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we found a job that might be great for you,
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  Speaker 2: and you go, huh, let me see. Oh, okay, cool,
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  Speaker 2: let me check that out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as in as if employers aren't going to immediately
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  Speaker 1: know what you're actually doing. Heye, words, families need them again,
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  Speaker 1: And when I think of secret code words, For example,
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  Speaker 1: Neil and I are going to be at this dinner
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  Speaker 1: at the Anaheim White House this Sunday night, and people
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  Speaker 1: are invited to go, you know, pay and sit at
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  Speaker 1: our table. But you need a secret code word. You
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  Speaker 1: need a secret code word to get to there, and
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  Speaker 1: in our case, it happens to be Neil is a dick,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore, yeah, no, it's a super secret code word.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think you mean that. I just had
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  Speaker 1: to say that because I thought it was hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: It is hilarious, but I thought you were gonna say
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  Speaker 2: you two had a secret code work to like stop
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  Speaker 2: having to talk to your fans, you know, like if
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  Speaker 2: they just talk your ear off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't talk to anybody, so I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, that'll make for an awkward table. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: here's what I thought was interesting about this story. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, back in the day with kids and family,
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  Speaker 2: you know, back in the stranger danger era, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you still have kids, it's obviously a consideration you
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  Speaker 2: might have had a secret code word with your family, like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: if someone tries to pick you up from the why
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  Speaker 2: today and tells you mom and dad are in an accident,
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  Speaker 2: ask them for the code word so that they are
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  Speaker 2: not just stealing you or kidnapping you. And it's interesting
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  Speaker 2: because that worked pretty well for many families in the eighties, nineties, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But now tech experts are arguing that you would actually
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  Speaker 2: need this again because of AI scams. So Bill, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we've talked about it here all the AI
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  Speaker 2: voice cloning scams that are out there where basically grandma
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  Speaker 2: gets a call from grandson saying, hell, I've been in
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  Speaker 2: an accident. I need help. I need you to send
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  Speaker 2: me money, and the grandma may send money immediately, or hey,
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  Speaker 2: your family member, we've kidnapped them. They blah blah, blah
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  Speaker 2: all this. I mean because of AI voice scams, this
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  Speaker 2: stuff is happening a lot. But here's the deal. If
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  Speaker 2: you have a secret code word with your family members,
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  Speaker 2: you can just ask that person on the other end, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I hear you, Charlie, what's the secret code word? And
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  Speaker 2: if they don't know, guess what they are a scam artist.
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  Speaker 2: You can hang up on them. The problem is these
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  Speaker 2: people want to keep you on the phone. They want
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  Speaker 2: us to create a sense of urgency, and they want
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  Speaker 2: you to act before you tell anyone else in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And they usually tell you not to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So AI cannot somehow effectuate that. AI cannot help
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  Speaker 1: the bad guys or the good guys know what that
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  Speaker 1: word is, right, that's sort.
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  Speaker 2: Of because a secret it's between you and your family.
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  Speaker 2: You don't put that, you don't write that understanding, or
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  Speaker 2: you don't post it online.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm just curious how far AI can go. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, I once was quote not a victim, but
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  Speaker 1: I once was the recipient of one of those. My
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  Speaker 1: kid was traveling and of course I got the phone
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  Speaker 1: call saying that your child's been arrested and we have
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  Speaker 1: to make bail. And they won't let go. They won't
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  Speaker 1: let them out until you make bail. And I remember bonding.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep the kid. Okay, by the way, that's not
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  Speaker 1: far from the truth, okay, Rich Regarding the Samsung new phones,
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  Speaker 1: the foldables, and I want to make a point and
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  Speaker 1: ask you a question. The technology involving phones is now
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  Speaker 1: incrementally going up from phone to phone. You're not looking
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  Speaker 1: at any massive new technology. So it's little bits and pieces,
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  Speaker 1: a better camera, a little bit, better battery life a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. So I'm assuming they have to move, well,
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  Speaker 1: they have to move backwards. They have to you know,
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  Speaker 1: retro is the big thing. So retro. Yeah, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and six is the new two thousand and five. So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the new foldables from SAMs Samsung, and
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  Speaker 1: they are a surprising hit. Did you expect them to
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  Speaker 1: be this popular?
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  Speaker 2: You know? That's a good question. No, I did not,
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  Speaker 2: and especially the one that is turning out to be
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  Speaker 2: the most popular one. So there's two We've talked about
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  Speaker 2: these before. There is the standard kind of tall and
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  Speaker 2: skinny Galaxy Z fold A Ultra, and then there's this short,
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  Speaker 2: sort of short and wide, looks like a passport Galaxy
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  Speaker 2: Z fold eight and the smaller one is much lighter.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a little weird because you're scrolling a lot
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  Speaker 2: because the screen is so short compared to a regular smartphone.
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  Speaker 2: But when you open it up, these are foldables. When
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  Speaker 2: you open it up, it's got this nice big screen
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  Speaker 2: that lets you watch movies, watch YouTube, also read books,
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  Speaker 2: read articles, and it's really good for all that because
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  Speaker 2: it's so lightweight and simple and easy to hold that
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  Speaker 2: people just are finding that they love it for this,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a content consumption device, kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: tablet in your pocket, which you know, I take a
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  Speaker 2: little issue with because my entire career is building content, right,
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  Speaker 2: like creating content, So for me to adopt a phone
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  Speaker 2: that's more for consuming something is a little weird. But
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  Speaker 2: for the average person that's you know, mostly scrolling through
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  Speaker 2: Instagram and reading things on their phone and watching videos,
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  Speaker 2: it's great anyway. Samsung, I think they were a little
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  Speaker 2: surprised by this too. They are reportedly increasing production into
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  Speaker 2: the millions of units. They didn't think they were going
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  Speaker 2: to sell that many. And then we have Apple coming
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  Speaker 2: out with a theoretically a very similar phone in just
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks here, and I think that's going
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  Speaker 2: to do even more to sell more for Samsung.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, one of the things about phones, my favorite
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  Speaker 1: was that razor, the Motorola razor that had the flip
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  Speaker 1: and all you did was talk into it. That was
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  Speaker 1: my favorite and easy to hold, and as far as
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  Speaker 1: I'm concerned, the easiest to you. So now I have
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  Speaker 1: the big iPhone, the Blasto five thousand, whatever the latest
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  Speaker 1: iPhone is, and it's big, and it fills up the
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  Speaker 1: palm of my hand and I hate holding it up
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  Speaker 1: to my ear, so I usually use speaker, and I
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  Speaker 1: see people talking into the speaker where they hold it
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  Speaker 1: horizontal and talking to the end, and no one seems
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  Speaker 1: very comfortable with that, And so it almost seems like
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  Speaker 1: a contradiction in terms of conflict, where you have to
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  Speaker 1: do this to get all of the information and doing
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  Speaker 1: content if you will, or give up all of that
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to have a phone that's comfortable. Is
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  Speaker 1: that fair?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, everything you said I agree with. And I
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  Speaker 2: test a lot of phones, and I would say majority
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  Speaker 2: are tiring to hold up to your ear at this point,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't want to. And that's why you're right
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  Speaker 2: like people, they either avoid calls and they text, or
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  Speaker 2: you know, they hold their phone up. I see a
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  Speaker 2: lot of drivers, which by the way, they shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: It really incenses me when I see this, but they're
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  Speaker 2: sitting there in their car, you know, holding the phone
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  Speaker 2: up like you mentioned, vertically or horizontally and talking into
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  Speaker 2: it as a drive and swerve all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say, and I think that's why people
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  Speaker 2: are liking this foldable from Samsung, is that it actually
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  Speaker 2: is very comfortable in your hand. You're not doing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of finger gymnastics to reach the different parts of
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  Speaker 2: the screen. All the buttons are in the right place.
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  Speaker 2: You can swipe her on the screen with one hand.
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  Speaker 2: It's very lightweight, and so I think it's almost like
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  Speaker 2: we've been giving people more and more and more and
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  Speaker 2: more and more over the years, and this one, in
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  Speaker 2: a way, it's more, yes, because it's a foldable phone
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  Speaker 2: and it opens, but it's also less. It has less
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  Speaker 2: camera lenses, it's lighter, it's a little shorter than your
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  Speaker 2: typical phone, and so it almost feels like something that's
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  Speaker 2: completely different than what we've had for the past ten
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  Speaker 2: years that people are like, Ah, that's refreshing. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: Apple one and this one both costs so much money
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  Speaker 2: that it's prohibitively expensive for a lot of people. But
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  Speaker 2: like we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, now these
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  Speaker 2: companies are leasing phones, they're spicing the payments out over
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  Speaker 2: you know, seventy two months. It's like, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: get your mortgage, you mix your phone payment into the mortgage.
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  Speaker 2: So it's much easier to get nowadays, apparently, And who.
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  Speaker 1: Is going to switch from, for example, Apple to an
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  Speaker 1: Android the Samsung. I mean, the thought of learning a
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  Speaker 1: new system for me. I mean they've got me. I
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  Speaker 1: use Apple, and there is no chance I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: relearn any kind of way to use a phone. What's
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thinking or you're kind of thinking on that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great question. No, I don't even I don't even try
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  Speaker 2: to persuade my first like ten years of my career,
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  Speaker 2: I was always trying to persuade people to switch one
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  Speaker 2: way or the other, right, Like, here's what's good about Apple,
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  Speaker 2: here's what's good about Samsung. Here's why you should choose this,
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  Speaker 2: here's why you should choose that. Now it's there's no
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  Speaker 2: way people are switching at this point because you are
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  Speaker 2: so ingrained in your ways. Number one, you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to learn something new. And number two, you know, Apple
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  Speaker 2: specifically has done a very good job of getting all
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  Speaker 2: of your data into their servers. And yes, you could
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  Speaker 2: get it out, of course, you could switch, you could
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  Speaker 2: try other things, but the average miror mortal does not
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  Speaker 2: want to do that. And Samsung made a bit big
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  Speaker 2: deal and Google about how easy they've made it to
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  Speaker 2: switch from iPhone to Android at this point with all
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  Speaker 2: their new tools, you know, brings over your stuff, But
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  Speaker 2: I still don't see a lot of people doing that,
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  Speaker 2: which is why I think when Apple comes out with
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  Speaker 2: their foldable, it's going to do pretty good numbers because
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing so much interest in Samsung's side of things,
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  Speaker 2: and we know people aren't switching from iPhone to a
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  Speaker 2: Samsung right now.
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  Speaker 1: So you're only selling to the choir. That's basically it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same system. Well Apple doesn't. There is no
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  Speaker 1: I don't see any company that Apple is actually giving
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  Speaker 1: any issue to or cannibalizing Apple, Is that right? Your
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  Speaker 1: iPhones an iPhone is an.
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  Speaker 2: iPhone, Yeah, yeah, and it's just it's its own thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's become the premium phone to have in the world. Now,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, when you talk about phones on a
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  Speaker 2: global scale, you know, the Chinese manufacturers are really doing
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  Speaker 2: some interesting things. You go to different countries, there's a
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  Speaker 2: much wider variety of phones out there that not just
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  Speaker 2: that people are using, but also for sale. So in
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  Speaker 2: the US, you know, we're hamstrung. We've got Samsung, We've
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  Speaker 2: got Apple, and then to a lesser extent, Google Pixel.
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  Speaker 2: That's basically it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I look at Chinese phones that I can't
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  Speaker 1: tell the difference. They all look the same to me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Uh, thank you sir. We will catch you
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  Speaker 1: again this Saturday, eleven to two o'clock right here on KFI.
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  Speaker 1: Rich have a good win.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Bill.
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  Speaker 1: You are right, Neil. You want to tell us about
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it used to be just hot dogs and peanuts
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  Speaker 1: never mind, Okay, jealousy abounds, yes it does, fair enough,
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me start. It's a story about La
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  Speaker 1: Unified school district. This is where I went to school,
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  Speaker 1: and I spent all the way from kindergarten right through
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  Speaker 1: high school. So I am a product of LA Unified.
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  Speaker 1: And I know it doesn't seem like I am literate,
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  Speaker 1: but I am. And that's because I went to La
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  Speaker 1: Unified and it was it was a good school district,
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  Speaker 1: so second largest in the country. It is now have
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  Speaker 1: problems and why well, because La Unified is basically ungovernable.
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  Speaker 1: It has become such a challenge because there is such
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  Speaker 1: an influx, mainly Hispanic students coming in, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them illegal, and a lot of them don't speak English,
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  Speaker 1: and that makes it very difficult to teach because the
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  Speaker 1: argument is they're teaching at the lowest common and I'm
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  Speaker 1: a denominator because regular school, at the level that students
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  Speaker 1: go from kindergarten to first to fifth to junior high
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  Speaker 1: high school has to be well held back a bit
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  Speaker 1: a lot. So that's a starter with LA Unified. Also,
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  Speaker 1: it's top heavy with management and that's a problem. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the BUDGETLA LA Unified School District. As
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  Speaker 1: schools reopen and many are reopening next Monday, the district
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  Speaker 1: leaders are trying to calm fears over this looming budget
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  Speaker 1: crisis and thousands of job cuts, and county and state
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  Speaker 1: officials have backed off immediate intervention because well, they came
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  Speaker 1: up with a forty five day letter telling LA Unified
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  Speaker 1: you have better balance your budget. If you don't, we
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  Speaker 1: are going to take over the school. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be us. Or the other possibility is LA Unified because
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  Speaker 1: it can't meet its responsibilities, could just go bankrupt. You know,
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  Speaker 1: school district can go bankrupt, bankrupt utilities could go bankrupt.
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  Speaker 1: Counties can go bankrupt. You know, Orange County went bankrupt
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago. An entire county just went bankrupt.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing stops a school district from going bankrupt. So in
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  Speaker 1: order to stop that, the state and the county has said,
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  Speaker 1: you don't get this stuff straightened out, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to take over and the school board will have nothing
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: to say about it. Well, it turns out that LAUSD
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: has become compliant with this budget deadline. And how have
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: they done it? Well? Taking the can and cooking and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: kicking it down the road in a major, major way.
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  Speaker 1: District leaders are downplaying fears that this budget crisis number
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: one could lead to the county takeover, which is going
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: to mandate to move forward with plans to cut thousands
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: of jobs. If La County takes over the school board,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: thousands of jobs are going to immediately be cut. Maybe
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: employees are going to accept unpaid furlough days as part
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of it, closing an unspecified number of schools, either buildings
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: or entire campuses. But they met the requirements. They meet
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the requirements. They backloaded because the vast majority don't take
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: effect this year. So they made it this year and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: it all starts next year and basically in a couple
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of years, it's going to be so overwhelming. What's going
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: to happen? Well, if thousands of people are not let
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: go administrators, teachers, if schools do not close down because
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: fewer and fewer students go and the buildings are still there,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: if employees are no longer being paid relatively astronomical funds
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of money, and I know that teachers deserve a lot more.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And that's a whole different topic, because teachers will never
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: get paid enough as far as I'm concerned. One of
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the big reasons is according to the county, and this
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: is both county and state officials say that the reason,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: one of the big reasons is that LA Unified negotiated
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: this contract with employees that they simply couldn't afford. They
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: just couldn't afford it. And the employees won out, the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: union one out. And so what's going to happen, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's certainly different. It's certainly different
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: than when I went to school. But again, ungovernable, I think,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: so LA Unified is very very different animal. It really is.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: You know, they used to give us crayons when we
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: were kids to eat. Yes, we ate crayons, that's correct.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And during recess, for example, in junior high, the food
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was cheap and it was good and my favorite with
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: those cheese sandwiches, which were normally fifteen cents until unless
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the government gave free cheese to the schools surplus cheese,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: government cheese, that's gov m e nt government cheese. And
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: then we paid ten cents for those great grill cheese sandwiches. Okay,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a story about traveling. You go back to the fifties
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and sixties air travel, and it was a big deal.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: First of all, is expensive and you're ready for this.
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  Speaker 1: People used to dress up. Men would be in coat
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and ties, women we in dresses. I mean it was
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: just a huge deal where it was just you know,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: it was a special event. Today, you know, big deal. Well,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: how about this. Americans took a record twenty four million
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: trips to Europe in twenty twenty five. Wow, more than
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: fifty percent of Americans now hold passports. In nineteen ninety
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: it was five percent. And it used to be that
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: European countries loved tourists. I mean hated Americans, the ugly Americans,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: but they loved the tourists. Why because tourists brought in money,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: big money, particularly Americans. Americans spend a lot of money.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: They tip because we're a tipping society. Things have changed.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Why is that, Well, because there's too many, and that
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: means that, for example, airbnbs are now all over Europe,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and property has gone up in value and people can't
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: afford it anymore, and things are too expensive, and things
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: are too and the cities themselves are too crowded. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: remember a couple of years ago going to Venice in
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the middle of the summer. It was literally a bumper
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to bumper going over the bridges. You'd have people on
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the right which'd be going in one direction, people on
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the left going in the other direction, and it was
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: basically you're crammed together. I mean it was like sardines
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and you go, come on, And it's much that way.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: For example, Portugal received nearly five times as many US
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: visitors as it did a decade earlier. Greece took in
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: four times as many. And so it is why, Well,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: first of all, we have a supercharge US economy, so
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we have a larger and wealthier class of Americans. Travel
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is now essential rather than a luxury. Older Americans hold
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten trillion dollars in wealth, and they're
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: living longer, and they want to make the most out
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of those ears and travel is kind of meat. So
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: what's going on with this? Well, Europe is being overrun
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: not only by other tourists from other parts of the world,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: but as far as Americans are concerned, it's going back
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to the ugly Americans. And by the way, we aren't ugly.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: It used to be where there were ugly Americans. Not
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: so much anymore, not even close. And then that old
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: saw about the French being rude and crude, You know what,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: The French are actually very nice. The first time I
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: went to France, I had a French Canadian girlfriend and
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I was expecting waiters to be rude to me, and
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: so I had her teach me some French phrases like
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: your mother was a collaborator during World War two, wasn't she?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: That didn't go over very well. Or your parents were
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: here in the Shampstalyse with Nazi flags as Hitler marched
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: down the Champs Dealyse. Didn't go over very well. Rude,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: rude frenchmen and women. Okay, we're done, just And by
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the way, if you're going to go to Europe, first
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of all, airfare is very inexpensive relative to what it was,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and you are going to see crowds like you cannot
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: believe you're better off going to Disneyland on the hottest,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: most crowded day of the season. It's going to be
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: less crowded than what you're going to see at the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: major sites in Europe. Okay, we're done, guys. We come
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: back tomorrow morning five to six wake up call with
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Amy and Will, Neil and I jump aboard at six
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: right till about now, and then you have Kono and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Ann and a quick word about the ratings just came
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: out and we have exploded in ratings. And that's in
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: spite of the rest of the morning crew. It's all
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: about me. It's that simple. Okay, We're done. Gary and
• 25:21
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