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TV Antenna's Are Back, Apple's Big Push and Dating After 50 · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 2: Some of the big stories we're looking at.
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  Speaker 3: It's Tuesday, October 13th, and that means that we have
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  Speaker 3: Rich DeMuro with us, Rich with our tech segment. Rich
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  Speaker 3: is for Saturdays here on KFI, 11 a.m. to p.m.,
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  Speaker 3: His Instagram account is at Rich on Tech.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich, good morning. We haven't talked in a while.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning to you, Bill. Welcome back. Can I
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  Speaker 4: ask you a question? No.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: So someone wrote into my show and said that you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned you were going to use Starlink for doing like
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  Speaker 4: your podcast or something. Did that happen?
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  Speaker 2: I know it hasn't. We're going to try it.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to go overseas at Christmastime between Christmas
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  Speaker 3: and New Year's.
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  Speaker 2: And I already bought the Starlink set. I already have
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  Speaker 2: the whole setup.
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  Speaker 3: And I was going to try to transmit from Italy,
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  Speaker 3: where I'm going, to the U.S. and see if I
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  Speaker 3: could transmit a segment using Starlink here to the station.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm hoping I can because, of course, that means
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  Speaker 3: that if I'm overseas and I want to do a
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  Speaker 3: segment or part of a show, I don't need to
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  Speaker 3: use the Internet or connect or have a dedicated line ISP,
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  Speaker 3: none of that.
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  Speaker 2: I just move it up on the Starlink satellite equipment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not beholden to Wi-Fi or whatever, wherever you are,
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  Speaker 4: if you happen to be at, you know, I'm assuming
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  Speaker 4: you'll be somewhere like drinking wine in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: some sort of, you know, field somewhere like no.
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  Speaker 3: No no i'll be at a strip club uh and
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  Speaker 3: i'll be set up and i'll be you know louis
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  Speaker 3: lips will be my guest and uh kayla cleavage cleavage
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  Speaker 3: will uh be broadcasting with me okay uh now i
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  Speaker 3: know what can i tell you i don't and it's
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  Speaker 3: just throwing your hands up in the air and saying
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  Speaker 3: what the hell you're saying all right a couple things
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  Speaker 3: i want to cover uh and this one really intrigued
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  Speaker 3: me And that is free TV with a $ 15 antenna.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, we all like free. So let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about this. A TV antenna?
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen one or heard of one and know
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  Speaker 3: that they exist in the last 10, 15, 20 years.
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  Speaker 3: So what's that about?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So imagine my surprise. This is how this all happened.
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  Speaker 4: So I got another email from a listener of the
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  Speaker 4: radio show. Saturdays on KFI 11 a.m. And they said, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you should interview this guy from YouTube. All he does
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  Speaker 4: is talk about TV antennas. And I said, OK, let
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  Speaker 4: me see. So I have him on the show. Great guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's like a young kid. He talks all about these antennas.
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  Speaker 4: I get so many emails about that radio segment. I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: let's do a KTLA segment. So I take that segment.
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  Speaker 4: I turn it into a TV segment. I order a
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  Speaker 4: couple of the antennas that he mentioned. I test them
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  Speaker 4: out at home. We do a TV segment. That has
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  Speaker 4: become like my most popular TV segment of the past
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  Speaker 4: couple of years, which I can't believe. And now it's
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  Speaker 4: going viral on Instagram at Rich on Tech if you
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  Speaker 4: want to watch it. And so I figured we'd talk
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  Speaker 4: about this because clearly people are fed up with paying
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  Speaker 4: all of these fees for streaming services that just continue
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  Speaker 4: to go up. And it's kind of easy to forget
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  Speaker 4: that a simple $ 15 antenna can still get you all
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  Speaker 4: of the local channels. and a whole bunch of sports,
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  Speaker 4: plus a whole bunch of other programming, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 4: 80 channels you may not watch, but you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: something for everyone. And so the bottom line is, check
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  Speaker 4: out the story on Instagram. But the one that I
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  Speaker 4: tested out that I couldn't believe was so good. It's
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  Speaker 4: this $ 15 Phillips rabbit ears antenna. I put it up
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  Speaker 4: against this $ 35 channel master flat tenna. And they both
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  Speaker 4: picked up like almost 100 channels, but the rabbit ears,
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  Speaker 4: I got consistent reception. They kind of look fun. It's retro.
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee you anyone that comes over to your house
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  Speaker 4: is going to make fun of you at first, but
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  Speaker 4: then say, wait, how much did that cost? And how
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  Speaker 4: do those still work? And, you know, you're going to
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  Speaker 4: have a blast with it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I remember the antennas.
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  Speaker 3: When I was a kid, we'd go up on the
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  Speaker 3: roof on the chimney, and we would attach that antenna,
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  Speaker 3: the arrow-looking thing, and move it around until we got
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  Speaker 3: good reception. And then before that, or even after that,
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  Speaker 3: we had a TV with rabbit ears on the TV.
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  Speaker 3: So with this antenna, 15 bucks, and it's retro, is
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  Speaker 3: there a cord running from it to the TV?
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming there is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like the old school days of coax. And
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  Speaker 4: so your TV, most TVs have a tuner in them.
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  Speaker 4: And so you can do that. And most TVs, I'll actually,
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  Speaker 4: in my testing, realized it's got a lot more high
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  Speaker 4: tech than you might think. Like the tuner connects to
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  Speaker 4: the internet usually, or the TV connects to the internet,
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  Speaker 4: the smart TV. And it will integrate those channels both
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  Speaker 4: into your smart TV hub and also the programming information. It, like,
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  Speaker 4: downloads it from the Internet. And so now you can't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily record stuff unless you get an add-on. And there's
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  Speaker 4: some other add-ons. Of course, this has become a big conversation.
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  Speaker 4: There's something called the Zapper Box. There's something called HD
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  Speaker 4: Home Run. There's something called Tableau, which will all record stuff.
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  Speaker 4: the shows if you want to watch them later. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, look, there's just, if you like news, if
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  Speaker 4: you like sports, it's all there for free. And by
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  Speaker 4: the way, a lot of people argue that the picture
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  Speaker 4: quality is better than what you might get from cable
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  Speaker 4: or streaming because it's not as compressed. And so that's
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  Speaker 4: another angle of all this, but you know, you can
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  Speaker 4: get all the local stuff for free and it's 15 bucks.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, Oh, the website that you want
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  Speaker 4: to look at to check to see what you can
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  Speaker 4: get and where to aim your antenna is is called rabbit-ears.info.
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  Speaker 4: And so you pop in your address, and it'll actually
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  Speaker 4: tell you where to aim the antenna and which channels
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  Speaker 4: you can expect to get. And I'll take it a
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  Speaker 4: step further, Bill. You open up the Compass app on
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  Speaker 4: your iPhone. And it'll tell you, you know, you aim
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  Speaker 4: that and you just match it up with the website.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I did at my house. And I aim
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  Speaker 4: the antenna in the exact place. And even a foot
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  Speaker 4: or two makes a difference. So try it in different areas.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you got a second room, a den, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantastic. Once again, rabbit ears.
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  Speaker 4: Rabbit ears dot info.
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  Speaker 3: Info okay and uh because i'm gonna definitely try that
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  Speaker 3: because i pay i mean i watch the news obviously
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  Speaker 3: and uh so local news national news uh al jazeera
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  Speaker 3: and all that bbc and i pay for youtube tv
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  Speaker 3: about 80 a month for the privilege of doing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah just for that i mean you're not going to
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  Speaker 4: get all those channels but yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well the important ones are uh local and uh and
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  Speaker 3: national i get the networks i'm assuming and all the
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  Speaker 3: local stations.
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  Speaker 4: Right Yeah, you've told me you exclusively watch KABC, right?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: KABC?
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  Speaker 4: Channel 7.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Channel 7. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You have to tell me what that's about so I
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  Speaker 3: can read it and talk about that next time out.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Rich, don't go away because we've got yet
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  Speaker 3: more to talk about when we come back.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 3: Three weeks today before the election. And some of the
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough one.
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  Speaker 3: and decisions that he has to make. But back we
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  Speaker 3: go to our tech segment with Rich DeMuro. 11 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: To 2 p.m. right here on KFI. Following Handle on
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  Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro. Smartphone prices.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if you had told me when the first phone
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  Speaker 3: came around that I would be gladly, or not so gladly,
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  Speaker 3: but spending $ 2, 000 for a cell phone, I would have
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  Speaker 3: said you were completely out of your mind. Is there
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  Speaker 3: a limit to what they're going to charge for these things?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we've got the new iPhone Duo coming out. Well,
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  Speaker 4: Friday's pre-orders, and then it's coming out, let's see, is
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  Speaker 4: it next Friday? The 23rd, yeah. So, yes, people will
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  Speaker 4: gladly pay $ 2, 000 for this new phone. But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 4: There's a bunch of reasons why. Number one, it's Apple.
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  Speaker 4: Number two, they're paying a premium for something that's new
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  Speaker 4: and different and unique. Number three, it does a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things. So it's not just a phone. It's also
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  Speaker 4: a tablet. So some people are going to do the
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  Speaker 4: math in their head and say, well, if I bought
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  Speaker 4: an iPad and an iPhone, it'd be about the same price.
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  Speaker 4: But this all comes as smartphone sales hit their lowest
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  Speaker 4: level in 14 years. So not since 2012 have we
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  Speaker 4: seen smartphone sales drop this much, 20% down compared to
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  Speaker 4: last year. And at the same time, prices have gone
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  Speaker 4: up about 20%. And we know this is all because
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  Speaker 4: of the AI boom. It's putting a shortage on memory
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  Speaker 4: chips because all the big companies are buying them up.
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  Speaker 4: Samsung still number one globally. with a 23% market share,
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  Speaker 4: but Apple is close behind at 22%, and they've been
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  Speaker 4: really nipping at Samsung's heels because they've come out with
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  Speaker 4: more phones, a variety of phones, and now they've got
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  Speaker 4: their first foldable, which traditionally in the U.S. market, Samsung
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  Speaker 4: was the only game in town, really, except for a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of Motorola.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I started... Go ahead. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's it. People are just not upgrading as often.
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  Speaker 3: I've started paying attention to movies, TV, etc. And I'm noticing,
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  Speaker 3: and I should have always noticed, but particularly that every
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  Speaker 3: single computer that's in... those that are on TV or
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  Speaker 3: those films is an Apple computer.
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  Speaker 2: Every one.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And then when someone goes onto a cell phone, every
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  Speaker 3: single one is an iPhone. I have yet to see
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  Speaker 3: an Android phone in any one of these movies or
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  Speaker 3: TV shows.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a little... Go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you a little hint. Well, a couple of reasons.
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  Speaker 4: Number one, I met the person who does the product
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  Speaker 4: placement for Apple in L.A. And they told me that–
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  Speaker 4: or one of the people, I should say. And they
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  Speaker 4: just said they have a warehouse just stacked with this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And the companies come to them. They want the iPhones
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  Speaker 4: in their productions. And if you watch anything on Apple TV, Bill,
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  Speaker 4: it's all iPhone. It's really– it's kind of annoying. It's
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  Speaker 4: like an Apple ad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Like everything.
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  Speaker 4: They're wearing the headphones, you know, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But you would think– Go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You would think that Samsung would have a warehouse right
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  Speaker 3: next to the Apple warehouse.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they probably do, but I'll give you a little
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  Speaker 4: secret that if you notice on a lot of these shows,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't know, there's been rumors that Apple requires this,
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  Speaker 4: but on a lot of these shows, the bad person
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  Speaker 4: is using Samsung or some sort of random Android phone,
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  Speaker 4: like unmarked, unnamed phone, whereas Apple, The good people, the
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  Speaker 4: regular people are all using Apple stuff. Now, that's been
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  Speaker 4: going on for a long time. It used to be
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  Speaker 4: like spoiler alert. If you saw someone in your favorite
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  Speaker 4: TV show using a Samsung, they were the bad guy,
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  Speaker 4: which I don't know if that's completely true this time around,
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  Speaker 4: but it seems to be the case still. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Apple just kind of rules when it comes to product placement.
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  Speaker 4: And it's probably because, you know, this is Hollywood. And
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  Speaker 4: what are most of the creatives using? They're all using iPhones.
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  Speaker 4: They're all using Apple stuff. So they want to put
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  Speaker 4: that level of realism in their shows, not reflecting, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the world. But Apple continues to grow
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  Speaker 4: market share. So, you know, it is pretty popular worldwide.
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  Speaker 3: So if you see an Apple production that shows an
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  Speaker 3: iPhone and another phone that has brand X literally being
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  Speaker 3: labeled on it, you know that that's Apple.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else going on? Yeah. Talking about Apple, the smart
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  Speaker 2: home push. We only have a minute. Let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so Apple came out with a whole
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  Speaker 4: bunch of new products today. The main one is called
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  Speaker 4: this Home View. So it's $ 300. It's a seven inch
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  Speaker 4: smart display. So you put it on your table or
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  Speaker 4: on your wall, and it basically lets you control your
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  Speaker 4: smart home stuff. but also ask Siri questions, get your calendar.
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  Speaker 4: You can do FaceTime calls on it. You can play music.
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  Speaker 4: It is basically Apple's entree into the smart home. They've
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  Speaker 4: had smart home speakers before. They've never had a device
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  Speaker 4: that is a visual smart home controller. And that's really
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  Speaker 4: where Amazon has been with the Echo Show. It's where
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  Speaker 4: Google has been with the Google Home for many, many
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  Speaker 4: years now. But Apple coming into the market is a
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  Speaker 4: huge deal because there's a lot of people with iPhones
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  Speaker 4: out there that wanted something like this. They're probably going
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  Speaker 4: to sell a ton of them, even though, of course,
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  Speaker 4: in typical Apple manner, you are paying a premium for
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  Speaker 4: this thing.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, next week, I'm going to have time now, but
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  Speaker 3: next week I want to share with you why I
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  Speaker 3: got rid of my Alexa and see if I'm alone
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  Speaker 3: in that. Rich, we'll catch you this Saturday, 11 to
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  Speaker 3: 2 p.m. right here on KFI, Instagram at Rich on Tech.
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  Speaker 2: You have a good day.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Bill.
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  Speaker 3: OK, coming up, retirement. Now, most of us at this
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  Speaker 3: point are thinking about a retirement. Anybody over 50, anybody
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  Speaker 3: over 45 should be thinking about retirement. And I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to tell you a couple of things about your retirement
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  Speaker 3: that you are not doing that doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: That's coming up.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit about retirement.
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  Speaker 3: One of those things that I've been thinking about, and
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  Speaker 3: if you are smart, if we are smart, and I've
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  Speaker 3: been smart, I've been sort of planning my retirement.
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  Speaker 2: Since my mid-30s. Should have started sooner, but since my mid-30s.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things that's happening, and it happens
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  Speaker 3: to me, is I put away money for my retirement,
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  Speaker 3: and the entire point of the money put away is.
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  Speaker 2: For you to live comfortably after you stop working. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: fair enough. Guess what people are doing?
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  Speaker 3: Is they're putting away the money, but they're not taking
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  Speaker 3: the money out. They keep it in the retirement funds.
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  Speaker 3: And I think of it the same way. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think of my retirement funds as money that is going
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  Speaker 3: to generate money.
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  Speaker 2: I think of them as just savings. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to screw with my savings. But wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Your retirement is The finances, the financials involving your retirement,
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  Speaker 3: you put the money aside to use.
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  Speaker 6: Are you trying to live off the interest or something?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my philosophy is living off the interest. But
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  Speaker 3: in order to live just off the interest, do you
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  Speaker 3: know how much money at 5%, for example, to make
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  Speaker 3: $ 50, 000 a year off of 5%, that's a million dollars
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  Speaker 3: in assets throwing 50% out or 5% off.
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  Speaker 4: So let's say.
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  Speaker 3: You now have a $ 70, 000 income.
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  Speaker 2: Or $ 75, 000.
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  Speaker 3: You have social security and let's say you want to
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  Speaker 3: match the $ 75, 000 when you.
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  Speaker 2: Retire, which is always a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: You have to have a million dollars in the bank
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  Speaker 3: throwing off $ 50, 000 a year to make up for that.
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  Speaker 3: If you counsel security, hopefully pensions. And so what people
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  Speaker 3: do is they keep the money there. And when money
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  Speaker 3: is not being spent, If they're not spending it for
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  Speaker 3: vacations or cars or clothes or restaurants, the economy is
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  Speaker 3: in turbo because we're a consumer society.
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  Speaker 2: We need to spend that much money. So the thinking
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend.
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  Speaker 3: Of mine who happens to be a financial guy and
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  Speaker 3: I was throwing my circumstances at him.
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  Speaker 2: And saying, hey, here's what I have. He goes, Bill,
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  Speaker 2: you're nuts.
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  Speaker 3: The whole point of you putting money away for your
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  Speaker 3: pension is to spend it, not to keep it in
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  Speaker 3: the bank, not as this safeguard, just in case, just
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  Speaker 3: in case is when you retire.
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  Speaker 2: That's the point.
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  Speaker 3: There was a 2018 study by the Employment Benefit Research Institute.
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  Speaker 3: The median individual was savings of $ 500, 000. 20 years into
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  Speaker 3: retirement spent just 12% of that $ 500, 000, just 12%, basically
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: $ 450, 000 worth. People making at least $ 100, 000 showed 28% were
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: comfortable watching their savings taper off. And he kept on
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: telling me, this was a conversation I had yesterday, incidental
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: to this, is that the trick is to plan how
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  Speaker 3: much you're going to pull off because you're different if
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: you're 65 and just starting to retire. You still have, theoretically,
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  Speaker 3: your continent, which I won't be because I'm already well
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: into my incontinence. You are going to hopefully have your wherewithal,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: which is questionable. But into my 70s, into my 80s,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: it's a different lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need as much.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Now, granted, the cost of diapers is going to go
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: up astronomically, and hopefully my income grows beyond that. But
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: the point is you're at a different place, and you
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: need to spend less money, and you do.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the trick is to spend.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Your last dime the day you die, and very few
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: people actually have the wherewithal to do that. It's hard
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: to plan. But it's something that Americans are doing, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: we shouldn't. And I am caught up in that. Because
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: all I think about is the retirement money throwing off money.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: For example, my house. I don't think of that as
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: an income. I don't think of that as an investment.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: To me, investment is what is thrown off. What comes
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: out of that? The dividends that come off of it.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: That is money to me. Not counting what's underneath all
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: that money. Real assets that you can sell. One of
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: the things that happens if you have to dip into savings,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: for example.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Let's say there's an emergency.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: And you've had the wherewithal to put enough money away
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: to cover emergencies. And you dip into that. What's the
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: first thing that comes to mind? We got to pay
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: it back. That's the first thing. I got to pay
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: back that money into the savings account. There's no way
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: it has to be replaced. That's how we think. We
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: have to change that thinking for sure. By the way,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: why do retirees refuse to spend their retirement savings? Number
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: one reason, fear. They worry they live too long. They're
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: going to run out of money. And that is a
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: legitimate fear. But there is fear of running out of
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: money and doing a little bit of planning or keeping
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: every dime in and never doing your bucket list. Never
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: going out to that restaurant you want to go to. Okay,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: we're done with that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, talk about retiring.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: There's a fun story came out of the New York
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Times about dating after you're 50 years old. And it's about, well,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: there's a new HBO series called Youth. And it talks
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: about a woman dating after 50. And it sort of
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: explores that.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at it. It makes a lot of sense.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: It makes a lot of sense for those of us
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: that are older than 50 and are thinking of dating.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: For me, it's easy because everybody says no, always has
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: said no. So I don't even ask anymore. I'll come up.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: We'll finish it with that. Let's check in. You just
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: jump right to marriage, right? Yeah, of course.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Forget the dating.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Just go right to marriage. Go straight to marriage. You
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: know what?
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I don't want to wait to be miserable. I don't
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: want any precursor. I want to jump right into it.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel. on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: My vacation I just came back from, we have a
• 19:58
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• 20:04
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• 20:08
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• 20:14
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• 20:19
  Speaker 3: and all of them are a video of me My
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: breakfast with my favorite giraffe, Eddie. And Eddie wakes me
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: up in the morning and Eddie does tricks. Let me
• 20:31
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• 20:33
  Speaker 3: to roll over and play dead. Not easy, but you
• 20:37
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• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I know, I just, social intercourse, Neil. I knew that
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: would get you going. By the way, I'm just, I'm
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: not tall enough, okay? I just want to let you know.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Even with a ladder, I'm not tall enough. Also, Eddie
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: is male. What do you think I am, a pervert?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, that answers that question. All right, let's finish it
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: up with women over 50 dating. This was a story
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: in the New York Times, and it's about a new
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: HBO series called Youth. And it talks about or involves
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: a 50-year-old divorcee starting to date. And in the show,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: she says, she's talking to her physician, I think I've
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: got like 10 years left as a sexual person. I
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: need someone to fall in love with me now. So
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: there's a bit of time left with me. But, you know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: this is me before old is me. And I'm here now.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: So here it is. Here's the difference.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: You've someone over 50 juggling a full time career, maybe
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: having a teenage son or daughter, perhaps an ailing mother.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: And the women over 50 have a host of complexities
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: they have to navigate. Changing bodies. They're just not as
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: sharp and firm and, you know, taught, if you will.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Familial obligations, restraints, very different dating norms. I mean, when
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I was like, I'm over 50 and it's clearly what
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I want. And today, today, dating is very different than
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: it was when I was in my 20s. Although, frankly,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I haven't changed. It's still exactly the same way.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I meet someone. Hey, baby, how about it? It didn't
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: work then. Yeah, I know.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: It's not working now. Also, I go into bars and, hi,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: my name is Bill. By the way, I'm an astronaut.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: No one would believe that when I was 300 pounds.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: And the other thing is when I left my then
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: girlfriend and I was in law school, I decided I
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: was going to move back home with my mom and dad. No, actually,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: I was done with law school and actually practicing and
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: being fairly successful. Thank goodness I was a pretty successful
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: lawyer right off the gate, right out of the gate.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: And I would go and meet people, say, hi, my
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: name is Bill. I'm a fairly successful lawyer and I
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: live with my mom and dad and I'm 36 years old.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I didn't do well that year either. Bottom line though,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: when you are over 50, it is a very different world.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Women and men just, well, they just converse differently. They
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: communicate differently. Obviously there was no internet at the time.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: So there was a study in 2017 surveyed 1,400 women, 52%
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: from 50 to 59, 32% from 60 to 69.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: And guess what?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: They still wanted to get laid and they weren't being
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: very successful at it. And that's because their physical drops
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: in libido, menopause related symptoms, and that limits women's ability.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Well, not necessarily. And here's the problem also with women
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: over 50.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Research has shown that men are attractive to youth and
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: tend to partner with younger women as they age. So
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: the older you tend to go, the younger the woman. And,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: you know, the midlife crisis is very real, which is
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: why when I was in my 40s. You could see
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: me driving around in a sports car with a bad toupee,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and I stopped doing that because once I hit 75
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: miles an hour, the toupee flew off, and it just
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: didn't work.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: It didn't work.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: You ever seen these guys that are driving around in
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: their Ferraris, and they have, quote, their nieces with them?
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, midlife crisis all over the place.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Why aren't you just attracted to someone your own age? Actually,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I am and I have been. Oh, I'm not talking
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: about you specifically.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: There's exceptions, but I'm just saying.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Because there's a societal expectation that men stay men and
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: they're breadwinners and women have a limited life of attractiveness.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Nobody thinks very much. I mean, you have an older
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: guy and a younger woman. I don't know when that happens,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: but it is far more acceptable for an older guy
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: and a younger woman than an older woman with a
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: younger guy.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: That is more jarring. uh, than the other way. It's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that simple. It's like the breadwinner. Uh, who was it
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: that I met on our, uh, our vacation? Lovely couple.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And, uh, he was, uh, she introduced him and go,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: this is, uh, you know, my husband and inevitably, what
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: do you do for a living?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: And she is a, uh, a pretty highly placed internet person. And, uh,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I said, and your husband, oh, he's a, uh, uh,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: he's a stay at home father.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Whoa.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Does she have a sister?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: No, she does very well. And the guy is smart.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, a marketing degree.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, no, he just decided or they decided that
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: he was going to be a stay-at-home dad.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: And 60 and even 70-year-old women don't look like they
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: used to. I mean, look at the comparison of J-Lo
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: at 60 or whatever versus somebody 60 in the 60s.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they all look like Mamie Eisenhower when they hit 60, 65.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: That's true. And they no longer do. Okay, guys, we're done.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Another show under our belt. Come back again tomorrow with
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: version number, what, it'll be.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Three for the week.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Mario is with us, our new board op. And we
• 26:28
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• 26:32
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• 26:36
  Speaker 3: And Ann, who is always here making the show work. Sometimes.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 26:42
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