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‘Tech Tuesday’ with Rich DeMuro | Popcorn in Movie Theaters · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're list seeds KFI AM six forty The bill handles
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty Bill Handle Here.
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  Speaker 3: It is a Tuesday Morning Taco Tuesday, February twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the big stories that we're covering. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: tonight six o'clock it's the President State of the Union speech.
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  Speaker 3: What a difference it's going to make tonight versus a
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  Speaker 3: year ago, And of course I'll talk about that tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 3: It's been four years now since Russia invaded Ukraine and
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  Speaker 3: just isn't getting any better. All Right, It's time for
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  Speaker 3: Rich tomorrow and the Tech segment. You can hear Rich
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  Speaker 3: live every Saturday here on KFI eleven am, the two
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  Speaker 3: pm following Handle on the Law. He's on KTLA every morning,
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  Speaker 3: Instagram at Rich on tech website, richontech dot TV.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Rich, Good morning to you Bill there. You know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're not glitchy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we had a lot of glitch this morning,
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  Speaker 3: and it's I was having a hard time keeping focused.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, I always have a hard time keeping focused.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if anybody knew the difference between
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  Speaker 3: today and every day.
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  Speaker 2: Rich I seem to ask this question.
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  Speaker 3: It seems every other week Samsung unveiling its new Galaxy phone.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like they're constantly doing that. And is Galaxy
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  Speaker 3: making any inroads into the sales of the iPhones?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean, look in the US, the iPhone is
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  Speaker 4: still pretty tops when it comes to sales, but neck
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  Speaker 4: and neck in the In the larger world, Samsung is huge,
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  Speaker 4: and it cannot be ignored the fact that this is
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  Speaker 4: a behemoth of a company and they their direct competitor
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  Speaker 4: is Apple in the US, but in the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the world they compete with the Huaweis of the world
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  Speaker 4: and some other companies that you give them a run
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  Speaker 4: for their money. So I will say I think Samsung's
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  Speaker 4: biggest issue in Apple's as well right now is the innovation.
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  Speaker 4: They're not giving people a reason to want to upgrade
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  Speaker 4: their phones because think about it, the phone in your pocket.
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  Speaker 4: People are keeping them for thirty nine months now on average.
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  Speaker 4: There's no need to upgrade. It does everything you need,
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  Speaker 4: it takes good pictures, the battery lasts a decent amount
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  Speaker 4: of time, the software is fined, there's not a killer feature,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what Samsung needs to do. This week is
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  Speaker 4: they need to show people, hey, this is our new phone.
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  Speaker 4: This is why you need to upgrade, and that one
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  Speaker 4: feature bill that they think might do it is this
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  Speaker 4: privacy screen they've been teasing. And the idea is that
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  Speaker 4: when your screen is looked at from the angles like
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  Speaker 4: the sides, people on the bus, people on the train,
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  Speaker 4: people anywhere on the plane, cannot see what's on your screen,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what they're going to be promoting heavily.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it doesn't seem like a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: I would not go out and buy a new phone
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  Speaker 3: for that feature.
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  Speaker 2: So your thought on this, you think it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, look, I don't know if it's enough for
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  Speaker 4: people to upgrade their phone. I think it shows that
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  Speaker 4: Samsung is still innovating. But what people really want right now,
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  Speaker 4: I think is cheaper phones. Number one. They don't want
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  Speaker 4: a phone that's thirteen hundred dollars. They want a phone
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  Speaker 4: that's five hundred dollars or less that's also incredible. They
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  Speaker 4: also want a camera that takes effortlessly amazing pictures, and
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  Speaker 4: they want battery life that lasts a couple of days,
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  Speaker 4: not just throughout the day. And those are really the
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  Speaker 4: things that people are looking for. All this AI stuff.
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  Speaker 4: To be quite honest, I love it. I think it's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I think we're seeing a lot of innovation there. The
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  Speaker 4: average consumer is not saying, oh my gosh, all this AI,
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  Speaker 4: I need this on my phone. I need my phone
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  Speaker 4: to look through all my texts and put the information
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  Speaker 4: in front of me. I think that that is something
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  Speaker 4: that's a little bit more nuanced. People who want that
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  Speaker 4: kind of thing know how to get it with a chat,
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  Speaker 4: GBT app or a Gemini app, And so I think that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, these phones have gotten where people are just
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  Speaker 4: happy with what's in their pocket, and it's getting tougher
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  Speaker 4: and tougher for these companies to sell them the way
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  Speaker 4: they used to.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody I know has an iPhone except for my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: She literally is the only person I know who does
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  Speaker 3: not have an iPhone. And I've never understood why I
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  Speaker 3: have an iPhone, and I'm basically never going to switch
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  Speaker 3: because I don't want to relearn how to use a phone.
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  Speaker 2: It's that simple.
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  Speaker 3: Do you get more dollar for value on a Galaxy?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I would actually argue the opposite, because here's
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  Speaker 4: the deal with Apple phones is that they hold their
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  Speaker 4: value more than any other type of phone in the
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  Speaker 4: entire world, and so that is why people like them.
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  Speaker 4: They like when it comes time to trade them in,
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  Speaker 4: they're getting more money for the trade in. So I
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  Speaker 4: think that initially if you look at and this is
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  Speaker 4: the biggest area of growth for Samsung, bill the phones
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  Speaker 4: that are really two to three hundred dollars, and we're
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  Speaker 4: talking emerging markets like India and also basic budget phones
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  Speaker 4: here in the US, but that is their biggest growth area.
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  Speaker 4: They sell two types of phones, the really cheap ones
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  Speaker 4: and then the Galaxy Ultra, which is their top of
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  Speaker 4: the line, which you know sells for north of twelve
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  Speaker 4: hundred dollars. So it's in that middle area where they'd
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  Speaker 4: love to sell more phones. But the problem is people
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  Speaker 4: aren't convinced they need to spend eight hundred dollars when
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  Speaker 4: they can find a two hundred dollars phone that does
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  Speaker 4: pretty much what they need. And you're talking the Samsung.
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  Speaker 4: That's like their a line of phones which they sell
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  Speaker 4: a lot of and that's their biggest growth area.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one quick one before we take a break, and
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  Speaker 3: that is the latest update to my iPhone collapsed its
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  Speaker 3: battery life and I noticed that it just changed everything.
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  Speaker 3: I would go for days and now this thing just
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  Speaker 3: goes right down throughout the day.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed that.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's funny you say that. You know, I sit
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  Speaker 4: here and do my emails from viewers and listeners every
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  Speaker 4: day of the radio show, Bill, and I'm sure you
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  Speaker 4: sit at your computer and reply to everyone as well.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, I'm getting a lot of emails about the
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  Speaker 4: latest update and battery drain. Here's the deal. Anytime you
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  Speaker 4: do an update on the iPhone, over the next couple
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  Speaker 4: of days, battery is going to be less as the
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  Speaker 4: phone is doing a lot of stuff in the background
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  Speaker 4: to finalize that update. So that's number one. Number two,
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  Speaker 4: most iPhones are now doing what's called optimized charging, especially
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  Speaker 4: with the updates. The only charge up to about eighty
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  Speaker 4: percent left unchecked, so you can go in and change
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  Speaker 4: that to one hundred percent. The main thing to know,
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  Speaker 4: Bill is there is a way to check your battery
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  Speaker 4: health and the settings. If that maximum percentage is not
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  Speaker 4: like ninety five percent, then you may have a problem.
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  Speaker 4: If it's down past you know, eighty percent or something,
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  Speaker 4: that's when your battery has an issue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way, you know me very very well, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm sitting here answering my email as it comes in.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing in front of me, rich is a sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: I do not have have an I have a monitor
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  Speaker 3: in front of me, but I certainly I don't have
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  Speaker 3: a keyboard. Yeah, answering my emails. Yeah, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: the last time I answered.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna get there one day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, do you know when the last time I actually
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  Speaker 3: answered email?
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  Speaker 2: You have any idea? How about never? Does never worked
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  Speaker 2: for you? Because never certainly works for me? Okay, this
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  Speaker 2: one I love.
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  Speaker 3: There is a new weather app that will alert you
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  Speaker 3: to the best rainbows and sunsets. Ah, that's so sweet.
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  Speaker 3: That's vomitous, you know that. Yeah, I'm about to puke
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 4: I was hoping, I hope you puke rainbows. I was
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  Speaker 4: hoping that you would pick this one because I love it.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the deal. Before you poop poo this, let's
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  Speaker 4: just put it this way. The people that created this app,
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  Speaker 4: it's called acmewhether. It's now on iOS. You know for
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  Speaker 4: the iPhone. The last app that they created it was
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  Speaker 4: called dark Sky. Everyone loved that app, and guess who
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  Speaker 4: bought it? Apple. So these people are already doing okay,
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  Speaker 4: and they sold their last app to Apple, and now
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  Speaker 4: they said, okay, let's let's reinvent weather once again. So
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  Speaker 4: people love Dark Sky because it was I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you've ever gotten one of those notifications on your
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  Speaker 4: iPhone when it says rain is beginning in one minute
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  Speaker 4: at your location. That's what these people came up with,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what Apple purchased and they built it into
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  Speaker 4: their weather app. But this new app, the.
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  Speaker 2: Coming in one minute to my location.
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  Speaker 4: I you know, I look, is it always right? No?
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  Speaker 4: But I mean sometimes it is. I think they just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't know what their magic sauce was there,
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  Speaker 4: but they, you know, took a bunch of different things
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  Speaker 4: and mixed it all together and that's what they got.
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  Speaker 4: And this one kind of builds upon that. So what
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  Speaker 4: they're doing is they're their big idea here is they're
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  Speaker 4: basically admitting that weather reports are not very good from
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  Speaker 4: the big apps. And so what they're saying is, look,
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  Speaker 4: we can't show you just one finalized forecast. What we're
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  Speaker 4: going to do is we're going to show you this
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  Speaker 4: graph that shows you almost a trend of where things
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  Speaker 4: could go. So when you see a straight line or
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  Speaker 4: a line that just goes up in one direction, that's fine,
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  Speaker 4: and that's probably what the weather's going to be. But
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  Speaker 4: if we are uncertain about exactly what the weather's going
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  Speaker 4: to be, we're going to show you multiple lines up
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  Speaker 4: and down and so you can see kind of that
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  Speaker 4: you know, a range of weather where it might be.
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  Speaker 4: So it's almost like multiple alternative alternative predictions. So that's
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  Speaker 4: number one. Now when I mentioned the other thing about
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  Speaker 4: the rainbow sightings, so these are fun things. They're doing
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  Speaker 4: more notifications, so rainbow sightings in your area and also
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  Speaker 4: the best sunsets, so when you might have the best sunset.
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  Speaker 4: So I think this is pretty cool. It's iPhone only
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  Speaker 4: Android soon. But here's the thing. It is twenty five
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  Speaker 4: dollars a year and it doesn't look like there's a
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  Speaker 4: way to get around that.
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  Speaker 3: How much did General if you have the information and
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  Speaker 3: how much said that the rain is coming? In one minute?
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  Speaker 3: The app for when Applebotic any idea.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, let's see if I can find the rumor. Now, no,
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  Speaker 4: there wasn't even a rumored number because it was a
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  Speaker 4: private company, so nothing was publicly disclosed. But that was
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  Speaker 4: back in twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty, all right, so it couldn't be a fortunate although
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  Speaker 3: when you look at Instagram was bought by if I'm
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  Speaker 3: a mistake in Zuckerberg, do I have that right?
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  Speaker 2: Bought Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a deal for him, that's for sure. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 3: incredible deal. Oh yeah, probably the best deal that you
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  Speaker 3: can get out there, all right. Using Google Gemini to
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  Speaker 3: create music, that's another one that I don't jump on,
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  Speaker 3: but let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we live in Los Angeles. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people that make a living making music, and this is
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  Speaker 4: not designed to replace them, although I think it's important
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  Speaker 4: that people understand where this technology is going. And AI
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  Speaker 4: has gotten really good at things like editing photos, better
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  Speaker 4: at generating video, and it's getting better at creating music.
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  Speaker 4: And so now if you go to Gemini, which is
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  Speaker 4: Google's AI, you can tap create music, type in a
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  Speaker 4: prompt whatever you want, a mood, genre, instruments, your memory,
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  Speaker 4: a dream you had, and it will make music based
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  Speaker 4: on that. It will even have lyrics, it will sing it.
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  Speaker 4: I did send you one bill. I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 4: you guys loaded that into the system, but I made
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  Speaker 4: one for your show and you know it was okay,
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  Speaker 4: but you know that's yeah found.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, we tried. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just saying people need to I know people
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  Speaker 4: are scared of AI and they're worried about it taking
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  Speaker 4: their jobs. And people yell at me and they email
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  Speaker 4: me and they say, Rich, you know, why are you
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  Speaker 4: saying this stuff. I'm just trying to tell people what's
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  Speaker 4: out there. And the bottom line is, in the next
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  Speaker 4: couple of years, you know, companies and little production houses
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  Speaker 4: will probably be using AI to create jingles and soundtracks.
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  Speaker 2: I can that are Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Lastly, we only have a minute whisper Flow launching on Android.
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  Speaker 3: I'm assuming this does not have to do with you
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  Speaker 3: quietly hemorrhaging out right.
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  Speaker 4: Oh thank god, although you know that's always a possibility.
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  Speaker 4: But here's the deal. If you have an Android phone,
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  Speaker 4: do yourself a favor and download an app called whisper
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  Speaker 4: Flow wisp r flow. I've been using this on iPhone
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  Speaker 4: for it must be a year now, and it just
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  Speaker 4: came to Android. It's even better on Android. Basically, it's
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  Speaker 4: an AI voice to text app and anything you say
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  Speaker 4: it will transcribe perfectly. So I'm talking you can write emails,
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  Speaker 4: you can search, you can do texts whatever you want,
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  Speaker 4: and it's so good you will not believe how bad
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  Speaker 4: dictation has been up until now. And it's yes, this
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  Speaker 4: app costs money. I think they end up charging you know,
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  Speaker 4: twelve or fifteen dollars a month, depending on how you pay,
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  Speaker 4: But right now on Android it's free and unlimited, so
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  Speaker 4: yourself a favor. At least try it out. It will
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  Speaker 4: change the way you use your phone. And it's even
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  Speaker 4: better on Android than it is on iPhone. So check
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  Speaker 4: it out, and can.
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  Speaker 3: You and can you go to it just by saying hey,
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  Speaker 3: whisper phone or whisper phone and then go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: text or do you have to go to the app?
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  Speaker 4: No? And that's the best part. The app floats on
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  Speaker 4: your screen. As soon as you tap into a box
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  Speaker 4: to type something, the app pops up because it's Android.
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  Speaker 4: Apple doesn't allow that kind of stuff, but Android does,
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  Speaker 4: and so it is. Bill. It's incredible. It really truly
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  Speaker 4: will change the way people. I can respond to emails
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  Speaker 4: on my phone ten an hour or ten a minute
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  Speaker 4: versus ten an hour before.
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  Speaker 3: Far enough, All right, Rich, we'll catch you this Saturday
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  Speaker 3: eleven o'clock right here on KFI. And of course next Tuesday,
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  Speaker 3: as we do Tech Tuesday every week.
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  Speaker 2: You have a good day. Enjoy emailing everybody.
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  Speaker 3: All right, here's a bit of handle history I want
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  Speaker 3: to share with you, and this is fun stuff.
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  Speaker 2: How popcorn took over movie theaters.
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  Speaker 3: It was during the Great Depression that popcorn really got
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  Speaker 3: involved in movie theaters. Why is that because they weren't
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  Speaker 3: making any money. Popcorns are seventy percent profit margin, and
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  Speaker 3: when talkies came in, it really they really took off.
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  Speaker 3: So the concessions largely popcorn are keeping a theater solvent.
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  Speaker 3: For example, AMC there's a last quarterly revenue statement thirty
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  Speaker 3: six percent of their revenue of their entitled entire revenue
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  Speaker 3: was popcorn. And so the industry has to be innovating,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll explain why collectible buckets sustainable options. So, first
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  Speaker 3: of all, popcorn before it became popular in American theaters,
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  Speaker 3: because that's really where it took off. Indigenous peoples in
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  Speaker 3: South America have been popping corn for millennia, but it
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  Speaker 3: didn't reach the United States until the mid eighteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 3: Whalers returning from South America came with this grain, and
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  Speaker 3: by around eighteen fifty popping varieties came into New England
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  Speaker 3: and quote popcorn entered the vernacular. It's around eighteen fifty
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  Speaker 3: in New England where we got the word popcorn.
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  Speaker 2: And why movies? Why was it? Why was the appeal
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  Speaker 2: so big? It was cheap, it was fast, it was theatrical.
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  Speaker 3: So let's finish up a handle history segment, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the history of popcorn and movie theaters. How they have
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  Speaker 3: become inextricably connected. And I just told you about how
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  Speaker 3: it was. Indigenous peoples in South America they started it
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  Speaker 3: all poppingcorn for millennia, thousands of years.
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  Speaker 2: In the eighteen hundreds it reached the US.
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  Speaker 3: Whalers returning from South America brought popcorn. Okay, why is
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  Speaker 3: popcorn so so appealing? Well, it's cheap, it's fast, it's theatrical.
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  Speaker 3: Families could pop it over wood stoves, peddlers sold it
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  Speaker 3: in paper cones, at circuses, carnivals, promenades all over. And
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  Speaker 3: why is it so theatrical? Well, the smell of popcorn, man,
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  Speaker 3: it just wafts through even outside.
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  Speaker 2: It just smells so great. So I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 2: the breakthrough came through.
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  Speaker 3: At the eighteen ninety three Columbian Exposition the Chicago World's Fair,
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  Speaker 3: an inventor I named Charles Creeturs unveiled a steam powered
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  Speaker 3: wagon capable of popping corn consistently at volume, and his
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  Speaker 3: patent made commercial oil popping possible. And his great grandson,
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  Speaker 3: who is still a chief executive of C. Craters and Company,
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  Speaker 3: manufactures equipment for popping popcorn in those.
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  Speaker 2: Theaters all around the world.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you've seen the popcorn machine with a little
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  Speaker 3: with that handle. That is real popcorn. And so popcorn
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  Speaker 3: wagons became businesses that could support entire family. So Cretor
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  Speaker 3: says that adjusted for today's dollars, the popcorn man would
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  Speaker 3: be earning seventy thousand dollars a year and there were
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  Speaker 3: no taxes seventy thousand dollars disposable income selling popcorn effectively
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  Speaker 3: if you were then, and we adjusted. So movies arrive
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  Speaker 3: in the early twentieth century, and those big theaters wanted
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  Speaker 3: nothing to.
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  Speaker 2: Do with the noise, with the mess.
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  Speaker 3: They had modeled their movie houses after opera houses and temples.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Pantagious theater was originally a movie house,
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  Speaker 3: and it is extraordinary, and so.
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  Speaker 2: Popcorn was now too lowbrow.
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  Speaker 3: The theaters in want flying crumbs and the crunch that
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  Speaker 3: you have, and it was too messy. And so what
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  Speaker 3: happened after that the Great Depression hits audiences, thin revenue, slum,
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  Speaker 3: smaller theaters, even high end movie houses. They got onto popcorn.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that seventy percent margin? Insanely popular? And they said,
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  Speaker 3: tell you what, if you can't beat them, join them.
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  Speaker 3: And by the thirties, popping machines were becoming fixtures in
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  Speaker 3: the lobbies and it was the golden age of cinema
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  Speaker 3: and audience members. There's another issue which I and I
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: was involved in this. As a kid, we had double features,
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  Speaker 3: two films for the price of one. And if you
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: are anything older than fifty, I'm sure you remember that.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: And what do you do between films A and B? Right,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: you had about fifteen minutes half an hour. Well, you
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: went into the theater at the lobby and you bought popcorn. Also,
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  Speaker 3: during World War Two, sugar rationing crippled the candy production.
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  Speaker 3: Popcorn unrationed or unrationed, still cheap, filled the void and
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  Speaker 3: it became the thing to eat. Still one of the
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  Speaker 3: most profitable consumer products. Why is that, Neil will share
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  Speaker 3: that with you because you buy it, buy weight, you
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  Speaker 3: sell it, buy volume, and it is dirt cheap and
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  Speaker 3: it is insanely profitable. The other thing that's very profitable
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: is the drinks. Oh my god, you can do something
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: about the drinks. That's easy and what I tend to
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  Speaker 3: do because you know, coke is so expensive at the
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: movie theaters. When I used to go is I would
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: take a catheter bag, a new one, a new one,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: and fill it up with coke.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have the tube that goes out.
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  Speaker 3: I would run that under my clothes and out my
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  Speaker 3: collar so I could suck on.
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  Speaker 2: That tube with my soda.
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  Speaker 4: Gross.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it beat the price. Let me tell you
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: it's sure temperature. Well no, you've put ice cubes in it,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: and you know you could you had to drink at
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: the first part of the movie. All right, enough of that,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: enough of offending you. Coming up tomorrow, It's Wednesday. We
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: have a doctor Jim with us at a thirty. Gary
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: and Shannon up next the State of the Union speech tonight.
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  Speaker 3: We're carrying it here on KFI, of course, and I'll
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: be doing plenty of talking and commenting at commenting on
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: it tomorrow morning. This is oh quickly, I want to
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: remind you tomorrow. I have to do this because I
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: always do, because I want them to feel like they
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: actually have part of the show. Wake Up call tomorrow morning,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: five to six o'clock. Okay, and then Neil okay, I
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: come aboard at six because that's the exciting part. And
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: then Cono and Ad and make this all happen at
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: a ridiculously low salary.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Cono's nodding his head. Yep, yep. KFI am sixty.
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