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‘Tech Tuesday’ with Rich DeMuro | Fast Food is Expensive · 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 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: KFIN AM sixty forty. Bill Handle Here.
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  Speaker 3: It is a Tuesday morning, June thirtieth, last day of June,
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  Speaker 3: last day of the session of Supreme Court, and they
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  Speaker 3: usually the Court usually does hand out major decisions on
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  Speaker 3: the last day, which it just did in birthrights, citizenship
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  Speaker 3: and denied President's claim that you're not necessarily a US
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  Speaker 3: citizen if you are born in the United States, and
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  Speaker 3: the Court said you got to read that Fourteenth Amendment.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're having a hard time understanding if you're
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  Speaker 3: born in the United States you're a citizen. Very confusing.
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  Speaker 3: I get that on the fourteenth Amendment. Okay, Tomorrow, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to go through what the Court has decided this
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  Speaker 3: term and I'll do a quick rundown of the important
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  Speaker 3: cases that have come down this term. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 3: it is time for Tech Tuesday with Rich Tomorrow, kfi's
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  Speaker 3: tech Guy. He's live every Saturday eleven am to two
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  Speaker 3: pm rich on Tech. You can follow him on Instagram
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  Speaker 3: at rich on Tech and his website rich on Tech
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  Speaker 3: dot TV.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Rich, Good morning to you. Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, We've got a few things to talk about. Apple
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  Speaker 3: and Microsoft both raised prices on some of their products.
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  Speaker 3: Quick question before we talk about, how much does it
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  Speaker 3: come to the point where it almost doesn't matter the
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  Speaker 3: prices where we pay for We're willing to pay for
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  Speaker 3: virtually anything in the world of these handheld devices.
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  Speaker 2: It's like utilities. He can't live.
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  Speaker 3: Without them, And no matter how much they raise the
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  Speaker 3: price of electricity, you got to buy it. It's almost
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  Speaker 3: reached that point, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think so for most consumers. I
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  Speaker 1: think that it depends. I think people are keeping things longer,
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  Speaker 1: and when these prices go up, it definitely has an
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  Speaker 1: impact for some people. Which you know, if you're looking
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  Speaker 1: for something new, you're thinking of buying something new, you
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  Speaker 1: had your eye on it. Now you're in a mode
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  Speaker 1: of like, let's just sit back and wait. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you need something, sure, like you're going to get it right.
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  Speaker 1: Your kids going to school, they need a laptop for school.
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  Speaker 1: Your laptop broke, you're going to replace it. But if
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  Speaker 1: you are just thinking about, oh, i'd like a new computer,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like a new iMac, I'd like a new iPad,
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  Speaker 1: all these prices went up, and Bill, these prices went
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  Speaker 1: up a lot in pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Wild, I mean, interrupting you for just a moment, we
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  Speaker 3: go through these prices. If I'm not mistaken, did you
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  Speaker 3: actually disagree with me when I asked you this question.
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  Speaker 3: If you did, which I think you did, we will
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  Speaker 3: not be doing that again.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I knew it.
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  Speaker 1: I know it.
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  Speaker 3: We do not disagree with me. But moving on, let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about the prices.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's the deal. Okay. So the one thing that
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  Speaker 1: is really interesting here is that, well, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you the prices. Okay, So number one, you heard me
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  Speaker 1: talking about this MacBook neal right, this was Apple's inexpensive laptop.
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  Speaker 1: It was the savior for the actually the killer for
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  Speaker 1: the PC industry, the savior for Apple for these inexpensive
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  Speaker 1: laptops and the competition to the Chromebook that went up
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  Speaker 1: by one hundred dollars. So when I first told you
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  Speaker 1: about it, it was a price tag of five ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine for the average person, four ninety nine for students.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's five ninety nine for students, six ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: for the average person. That is no longer a bargain.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be a bargain. Now it's not. MacBook
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  Speaker 1: airs went up by two hundred dollars, MacBook pros went
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  Speaker 1: up by as much as five hundred dollars. Even things
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  Speaker 1: like the iPad. Like I was in the Apple Store
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  Speaker 1: a day before these were announced. I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: a new iPad and all the iPads went up at
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  Speaker 1: least a hundred bucks. Home Pod Mini, which is their speaker,
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  Speaker 1: thirty dollars. I mean that's a thirty percent increase.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this is no small amount. This is not incremental.
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  Speaker 3: This is not inflation. Is hit as and we're raising
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  Speaker 3: our prices. These are massive increases.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and it's not really inflation. It's it's all
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  Speaker 1: because of AI. So the AI companies are scooping up
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  Speaker 1: just about every chip in the world, every piece of
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  Speaker 1: RAM in the world, every storage drive in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And these big companies that make all this stuff have
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  Speaker 1: kind of said, you know what, We're going to focus
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  Speaker 1: on making stuff for AI companies because guess what, Joe
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  Speaker 1: Schmoe over here buys one thing from us for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars every five years. This company Open AI buys
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  Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars worth of stuff from us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: every six months. They ask for more. So that's what's
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  Speaker 1: happening here, is that all these companies are passing along
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  Speaker 1: these higher cost to consumers. And anyway, the one bright
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  Speaker 1: spot in this bill is that iPhone prices did not raise.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the deal that's very strategic. Because the new
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  Speaker 1: iPhones launched in September. I can almost guarantee you that
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  Speaker 1: we will be talking about higher prices across the board
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  Speaker 1: on iPhones, which is going to be tough for Apple
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  Speaker 1: because they're introducing this new serie AI. They want people
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  Speaker 1: to buy the new phones, so they're going to somehow
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  Speaker 1: have to candy code it and you know, make it
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  Speaker 1: palatable for the average person to want to buy a
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  Speaker 1: new phone and not just keep what they have.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, has there ever been an I don't keep up
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  Speaker 3: with this and you obviously do. Has there ever been
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  Speaker 3: a release of a new phone or a new device
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  Speaker 3: that just didn't do very well because the benefits were
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  Speaker 3: incremental and you go, I'm not getting what I need.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to pay extra money for what I'm
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  Speaker 3: getting here, there's not enough.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's always been a pressure from the phone companies,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the phone manufacturers, to talk about a feature
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  Speaker 1: that is a must have feature, right, better camera, better zoom,
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  Speaker 1: better screen, more privacy, you know, better battery life, more AI.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, these are all things that are used to
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  Speaker 1: sell phones. But the reality is, over the years, we've
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  Speaker 1: seen the number creep up on the months people are
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  Speaker 1: keeping their So I think now we're holding steady at
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  Speaker 1: around thirty six to thirty nine months, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: over three years for a phone. Used to be remember
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  Speaker 1: back in the day when you used to pay like
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine bucks for a new phone and it was
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  Speaker 1: all part of your you know plan or whatever. So
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  Speaker 1: people were upgrading every year. Every time the new iPhone
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  Speaker 1: came out. There were these huge, you know kind of
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  Speaker 1: upgrades to the phone, and people would feel compelled to
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  Speaker 1: buy a new one. And now they just don't feel
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  Speaker 1: that way anymore for the most part.
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  Speaker 3: All right, what's going on with WhatsApp? And that seems
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  Speaker 3: to be good news because I use WhatsApp.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is great news. It's actually getting a lot
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  Speaker 1: more private, getting a feature that people have wanted for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time, and that is user names. In
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  Speaker 1: the past, you had to give out your phone number
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  Speaker 1: for someone to contact you on WhatsApp. Now you will
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  Speaker 1: be able to use a username, just like you do
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  Speaker 1: on a whole bunch of other apps like Instagram and
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  Speaker 1: Facebook and things like that. So right now you can
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  Speaker 1: reserve your username by going into your WhatsApp setting, tap
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  Speaker 1: account and then tap username. If you don't see it,
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  Speaker 1: it's still rolling out because they're not going to actually
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  Speaker 1: enable these until a little bit later this year. So
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  Speaker 1: this is a good thing for privacy. Now you'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to tell people in your class or you know, friends, family,
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  Speaker 1: whoever you meet, hey, here's my username. Text me on
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  Speaker 1: WhatsApp does not give them. It does not reveal your
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  Speaker 1: phone number to them. Phone number is still required though
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  Speaker 1: to create a WhatsApp account.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so.
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  Speaker 3: On a personal note, then if your username is rich
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  Speaker 3: tomurrow cleverly enough, does that mean that everybody on the
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  Speaker 3: planet just has to go with WhatsApp and connect with
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  Speaker 3: rich tomorrow and.
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  Speaker 1: They reach you Bill, You are such a smart guy. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's exactly. So here's the deal. That is
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons why some people may not want
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  Speaker 1: to use their name, right, Like you may want to
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  Speaker 1: come up with a username that is not your true name.
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  Speaker 1: Like for me, I'm trying to debate. Do I want
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  Speaker 1: rich on tech because then I can tell people on
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  Speaker 1: the radio, Hey, text me on WhatsApp just search rich
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  Speaker 1: on Tech. I don't have that yet, but maybe I
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  Speaker 1: want something that's more complicated, because then you can't just
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  Speaker 1: find me because there is no directory by the way,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't just like search for people's names. You
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  Speaker 1: would actually have to type in the name and then
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  Speaker 1: send them a message. So I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how this kind of plays out for privacy purposes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people may want to use their real names.
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  Speaker 1: You may not want to use your real name because
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  Speaker 1: you do have to think about that privacy aspect.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So I got a name for you. How
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  Speaker 3: about Neil Savedra can be you your user.
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  Speaker 1: Name and taking it right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely nothing like it. It's like these passwords that
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  Speaker 3: it just drives me nuts. I'm trying to get passwords
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  Speaker 3: and there's just not enough of them. So I have
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  Speaker 3: to do You have to do those magical passwords that
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  Speaker 3: come up every you know where they come up randomly,
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  Speaker 3: and you then have to have people can have them,
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  Speaker 3: which is impossible anyway. So this is now, this came
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  Speaker 3: up with the with WhatsApp simply because of the pressure
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  Speaker 3: that the users were telling the WhatsApp folks, you got
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  Speaker 3: to do this.
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  Speaker 1: I think that WhatsApp probably expanded in the early days
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  Speaker 1: pretty quickly, and you know, it's used internationally. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: very It's pretty much the way to communicate internationally here
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  Speaker 1: in the US, where, of course most people are obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with I Message from Apple, but you know that does
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  Speaker 1: use your phone number. Two, they're in the way to
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  Speaker 1: use a username on I message, but nobody does that.
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  Speaker 1: So I think for WhatsApp to expand and you know,
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  Speaker 1: truly be useful here in the US, not everyone wants
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  Speaker 1: to give out their phone number, and so I think
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  Speaker 1: that they just realized it's easier, it's simpler, and especially
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  Speaker 1: you know, like for me personally, it's like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of international friends will give you their WhatsApp, they give
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  Speaker 1: you their phone number. It's like this long string of digits.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know if you should include the one or not.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a whole thing. And so I think by saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: here's my use her name on WhatsApp, it just makes
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  Speaker 1: life a lot easier.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, last topic, gas Buddy.
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  Speaker 3: The latest data on the cheapest day of the week
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  Speaker 3: to buy gas, because that's part of the part of
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  Speaker 3: formula two.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to guess which data is?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just just pulling it out of my butt.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday night, Wednesday, Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Interesting is according to gas Buddy, they looked at all
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  Speaker 1: of their data for a year of gas prices in
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  Speaker 1: all fifty states. Gas Buddy, as you know, is the
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  Speaker 1: app that kind of helps you figure out where the
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  Speaker 1: cheapest gas is around you. They found that Sunday is
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  Speaker 1: the cheapest day to buy gas in most states, and
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  Speaker 1: then Monday is a close follow Tuesday not very good,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday not very good, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, avoid at all costs.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you know, if you read between the lines,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of understand why number one, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's gearing up for the weekend. Right, people are buying
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  Speaker 1: more gas. Maybe it drives up prices. Number two. Think
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  Speaker 1: about the news cycle in America, right, Things sort of
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  Speaker 1: amp up towards the end of the week. Anything bad
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  Speaker 1: that happens that it might affect gas prices happens, and
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  Speaker 1: then the gas prices react. So Sunday quieter day. These
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  Speaker 1: are all just theories, don't they don't say that, but
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  Speaker 1: basically they're saying, if you see prices spike waight five
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  Speaker 1: to seven days, you can often save money, and good
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  Speaker 1: timing you could save you know, anywhere from five to
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  Speaker 1: ten cents. But they'd say, in general, makes Sunday your
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  Speaker 1: fill up day and avoid the middle of the week.
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  Speaker 3: God, oh, you know we should do this, but we're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna have enough time. The Supreme Court talking about
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  Speaker 3: geo fencing warrants. But I'll do that tomorrow probably and
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  Speaker 3: my discussion of what the decisions were. So rich, thank you,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll catch you this Saturday, eleven am right here
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  Speaker 3: on KFI, Instagram, at rich on Tech website, rich on
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  Speaker 3: tech dot TV.
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  Speaker 2: I have a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks. Bill promised never to disagree again.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, let's see you guys. That was your
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  Speaker 2: last shot.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, all right, last day of the Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court session today and we're getting some decisions this morning.
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  Speaker 3: We had a big one on birthright citizenship. Nope, you're
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  Speaker 3: a citizen if you're born here. So the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 3: went against the President Trump. Now on the transgender issue,
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  Speaker 3: the Court backed up the states, saying the states can
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  Speaker 3: say transgender athletes cannot compete, and I think everybody agreed
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  Speaker 3: with that because it's a huge advantage. A man turns
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  Speaker 3: into a woman or trans is into a woman, and
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  Speaker 3: there becomes a huge advantage because women and men are
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  Speaker 3: just built differently, and not just plumbing either. We're talking
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  Speaker 3: about the skeletal body mass, muscle mass. It's just a
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  Speaker 3: huge advantage to be a guy. Let's not forget nuts
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  Speaker 3: or uh yeah, the rest of it. Okay, never mind,
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to get a little bit anatomical there
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  Speaker 3: and it didn't quite work out. Also, before we get
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  Speaker 3: into our topic of fast food, which Neil is our
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  Speaker 3: supreme leader in the Grand Vizier of fast food, Neil
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  Speaker 3: A Dodgers mentioned.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but just for you, Bill, because I know you're
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  Speaker 4: such but such the sports may then your official home
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  Speaker 4: you're back to back world champion Dodgers take on the
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  Speaker 4: athletics Cono.
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  Speaker 2: You're a big athletic supporter, right, Elien, what.
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  Speaker 3: I wear the support? Yeah, I you know, athletics supporter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I just got that right past it. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I just got that. Neil thank you the world.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Dodgers take on the Athletics and Sacramento with
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  Speaker 2: Boots, Yeah, yes, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever I do a topic of food, particularly Neil expertise,
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  Speaker 3: which is virtually everything when it comes to food. Neil
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  Speaker 3: of course heard Saturday afternoon two to five with the
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  Speaker 3: Fork Report. And so Neil, you and I talked about
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  Speaker 3: this during the break a little bit, and I want
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  Speaker 3: to have you jump into this. Inflation has hit us
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  Speaker 3: very hard, but if you're talking about fast food, it
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  Speaker 3: has blown so past inflation the cost of fast food.
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  Speaker 3: And the study just came out by Finance Buzz looking
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  Speaker 3: at it from for twenty fourteen and inflation from national
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  Speaker 3: inflation rate there about thirty one percent.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: McDonald's has doubled in price twenty fourteen average increase one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent. That one dollar McChicken is now three dollars
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  Speaker 3: for the same sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's a lot of money. So what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: This is across the board Popeye's Chicken, We're talking about
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  Speaker 3: Taco Bell, Chipotle, I mean all of the big ones.
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  Speaker 2: Neil can't hear you. You don't have a micun.
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  Speaker 4: Taco Bell has been the king forever when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to inexpensive food, and to their credit, they were at
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  Speaker 4: the forefront of getting rid of you know, fillers and
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  Speaker 4: colors and stuff like that, long before it became popular.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone is hit now.
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  Speaker 4: These numbers that we're looking at are actually from a
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  Speaker 4: national perspective, So you're looking at you know, fries at
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  Speaker 4: McDonald's have jumped as well, but they're not alone. You've
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  Speaker 4: got Popeyes, Louisiana Chicken. They've climbed an average of eighty
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  Speaker 4: six percent since the mark of twenty fourteen, which is
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  Speaker 4: what this study is. And you compare that to the
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  Speaker 4: thirty one percent as national inflation, you can see that's
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  Speaker 4: a huge jump prices that we used to see, Like
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  Speaker 4: the BV five layer burrito at Taco Bell was a
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  Speaker 4: buck fifty nine now it's three sixty nine. That's one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and thirty two percent increase. The thing that is
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  Speaker 4: like with California and gas, when it raises even nationally
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  Speaker 4: here in California, it's even more than that. So these
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  Speaker 4: numbers that we're talking about are the national numbers. You
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  Speaker 4: add on top of it California with the with the
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  Speaker 4: national not the national, but the California state rays of
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  Speaker 4: the increase in minimum wage. Ours is even more expensive
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  Speaker 4: on top of the national average. So even these incredible
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  Speaker 4: numbers have more on top of them here because the
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  Speaker 4: laws in California, just like the gas and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the biggest bargains I found is In
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  Speaker 3: and out Burger. I happen to have an in and
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  Speaker 3: out Burger just up the street, so it's the closest
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  Speaker 3: fast food establishment to my home. Yeah, so I go
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  Speaker 3: up there and I'm they're quite a bit and they've
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  Speaker 3: raised their price probably I don't know, maybe fifty cents,
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  Speaker 3: eighty cents.
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  Speaker 2: And it used to be.
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  Speaker 3: Out the door it's you got a medium drink with fries,
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  Speaker 3: and a double double was ten dollars.
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  Speaker 2: And thirty eight cents.
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  Speaker 3: That's all inclusive including tax I think now it's eleven
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  Speaker 3: and change.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'd wager to bet that they're probably on
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  Speaker 4: the lower end.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they have to be sure, Oh yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: have to.
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  Speaker 3: One of the greatest bargains out there, and their burgers, well,
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  Speaker 3: of course, it's a it's a cult burger where I'm
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: assuming because it's regional, it's not listed on any nationals,
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  Speaker 3: so they I assume they don't look at it.
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  Speaker 4: They have only moved into a couple other states. The
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  Speaker 4: whole their whole reasoning, if I remember correctly, was they
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  Speaker 4: wanted to still be able to control the quality of
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  Speaker 4: the beef and the ingredients. And they can control it
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  Speaker 4: in California. It's much harder to control it other places.
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  Speaker 4: So moving into I don't know, maybe it's Arizona and
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: some other places, was they had to find the exact
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  Speaker 4: same ingredients in the exact same quality, which is why
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: they haven't like just blown up all over the place.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Now I'm going to share with you something that is heartbreaking,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I mean devastating, gut wrenching costco seven nine for a
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: dozen bagels, two six packs, best deal going out there.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I went a couple of days ago to buy my
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: bagels as a backup in my freezer because if I
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: run out of bagels to bagelstore, I always have those.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Still seven ninety nine for eight instead of twelve? What
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: exactly what has happened? The humidity of it? Also, there
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: are chia bottle rolls, which are fantastic, are now about
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: twenty five percent smaller than they used to be.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: That bugs me keep them the same size if you're
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: used to it raising price.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I know, so it used to be.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's all horrific, all of it. Life has
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: gone to hell in a handbasket.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that right now. Yeah, the humanity of it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, let me tell you what's kind
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: of exciting.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: It's going on at USC among the students. There is
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: a satellite called Maverick, which is testing the next generation
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: space technologies, advancing research into autonomous spacecraft and AI.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: How AI can be used in the world of spacecraft.
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  Speaker 3: And this was designed and built entirely by USC students.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: How about that it's going to go on the SpaceX
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Falcon nine that's going to launch in July. It's a
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: shoebox size satellite, which kind of neat because now Starlink,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: for example, are these shoebox size satellites instead of these big, massive,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: huge satellites. So what Elon must did, And again, the
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: guy is a visionary. As crazy as he is, you
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: can't argue with his thinking of what the future is
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: going to be. And making the future today, and one
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: of them is Starlink setting up these communications satellites, tens
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: of thousands of them around the world, and so you
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: have a satellite reception, satellite broadcasting which is flawless.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And so this Maverick.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Is a shoebox size satellite and it has a next
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: generation space technologies in it. And then I don't want
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to get into the minutia here because then we're talking
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: about a whole lot of scientific terms and concepts that
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I'm not aware of or I don't know very much about. Now,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: much of the mission is focusing on imaging methods that
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: will inform on orbit servicing. There's an emerging field in
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: which spacecraft goes up and they inspect and repair, maintain,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: refuel other spacecraft, and AI is going to be use
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: that because to send a manned spacecraft up is a
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: very big deal. Where if you just send up a
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: satellite that just as a satellite and does what it does,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: so even the repairs, for example, I think right now
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: the ISS, there's a couple of astronauts that are doing
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: a space wall to repair something on the ISS. Well
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: that's going to change because with this new technology developed
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: by sc students. That is the way of the future
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: and incorporating AI. Of course, it's the laboratories from Marina
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: del Rey, that's the heart of Silicon Valley in southern California.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: It's the US Space Engineering Research Center, and it brings
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: what the se students do is produce and design their
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: spacecraft and then bring in partners from major aerospace companies.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: It's really fascinating stuff. I mean, I think it's I
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: love this stuff I do and the USC Space Engineering
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Research Center. Students at every level are involved, even high school.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Summer researchers are part of High school students are part
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: of designing spacecraft that actually go up. It's not a
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: student project. That's a student project. It's a student project
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: that you're going to see in space come July. Okay, guys,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: we are done. Day is done gone the Sun.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know where that comes from. I really don't
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: stroke stroke. Maybe it comes from a stroke.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's your taps. Actually, isn't it? Day
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: is done gone the Sun? We have won?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: No?
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, thank you for that. I appreciate it. Something
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I didn't know. Amy who is back again tomorrow again
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: coming in and filling the gaps in whatever we're talking about.
• 23:46
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• 23:51
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• 23:52
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• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Quit pointing to.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yourself, Kno, I know you're there for God's sake.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Leave me alone.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: You forget You can see the top of his hat.
• 24:04
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• 24:09
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