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Tech Tuesday with Rich DeMuro | Live Nation Settles Antitrust Case · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 4: Morning Rich, Good morning to you. Bill.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we are big fans of Mac here at
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  Speaker 2: our house, and we have a new MacBook coming out.
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  Speaker 2: It goes on sale tomorrow. And tell us a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about us about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is this is going to be a big one.
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  Speaker 5: This is called the MacBook Neo.
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  Speaker 4: I believe.
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  Speaker 5: Actually we weren't on last week because I was in
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  Speaker 5: New York for this event, but this the MacBook Neo,
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  Speaker 5: and basically it is going to be a game changer
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  Speaker 5: when it comes to Mac computers because it is very inexpensive.
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  Speaker 5: It is five hundred and ninety nine dollars and four
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  Speaker 5: hundred ninety nine dollars if you're a student or education pricing,
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  Speaker 5: so that's a majority of the people that's going to
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  Speaker 5: buy this. And the thing is this has everything you
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  Speaker 5: need for the average person. So it's not a MacBook Air,
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  Speaker 5: it's not a MacBook Pro. It's just a basic computer.
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  Speaker 5: So you've got a screen, you've got a keyboard. The
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  Speaker 5: processor inside is actually the processor that used to run
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  Speaker 5: the iPhone sixteen Pro, so that's really interesting. This is
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  Speaker 5: the first time that Apple has used one of their
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  Speaker 5: iPhone chips inside one of their laptops. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: it comes with modest specs. You get like eight gigabytes
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  Speaker 5: of RAM, two hundred and fifty sixty gigs of storage,
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  Speaker 5: a webcam, two USBC ports, sixteen hours of battery life,
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  Speaker 5: which is incredible. And this is perfectly fine for everyday use.
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  Speaker 5: So we're talking web browsing, email, streaming, schoolwork. If you're
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  Speaker 5: editing like major videos, or you know, making a living
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  Speaker 5: on this computer, this is not the one for you,
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  Speaker 5: but for every other person in America that just needs
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  Speaker 5: a simple laptop to get work done. This is going
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  Speaker 5: to be incredible comest tomorrow, by the way, And what
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  Speaker 5: is the equivalent of this now? And how much does
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  Speaker 5: it cost on at Apple?
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  Speaker 2: Well, so what can you get the way you describe
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  Speaker 2: what's available on the Neo?
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  Speaker 3: What was available on the next step up?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean you're talking a MacBook Air, which is
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  Speaker 5: around one thousand dollars, And of course you know, and
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  Speaker 5: that's what I use on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 4: So here's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: Like, if I am using a MacBook Air as my
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  Speaker 5: main computer, and I am creating content on a daily basis, right,
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  Speaker 5: I'm editing my podcast, I'm editing video, I'm editing social media,
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  Speaker 5: I'm writing, I'm creating, editing photos.
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  Speaker 4: So that is what I'm using.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine the step up from that, which is the MacBook Pro,
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  Speaker 5: which is more expensive.
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  Speaker 4: So that's for someone that's really serious.
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  Speaker 5: You're talking really fine editing a photos like on Photoshop
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  Speaker 5: or eight K video, you know, you're making documentaries things
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  Speaker 5: like that. So this computer below, the one that I'm using,
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  Speaker 5: is going to be for every single person that just
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  Speaker 5: says when they call my radio show and they say, Rich,
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  Speaker 5: I just need a computer, Well what do you want
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  Speaker 5: to do on it? You know, just computer stuff like
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  Speaker 5: pay my bills, surf the web. This computer is going
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  Speaker 5: to be for everyone, especially students.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be great.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Bill, I think the other thing is really who's
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  Speaker 5: this up against when it comes to Windows computers and
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  Speaker 5: also chromebooks. So chromebooks have historically been the cheap quote
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  Speaker 5: unquote computer and a lot of schools use them, but
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  Speaker 5: they're underpowered, they're boring, they're not that exciting. This is
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  Speaker 5: going to be way better. It's going to blow chromebook
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  Speaker 5: out of the water. And then when it comes to
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  Speaker 5: cheap Windows computers, those you get what you pay for.
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  Speaker 5: They feel cheap, they look cheap, they act cheap, and
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  Speaker 5: at this price point, people are going to realize, oh
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  Speaker 5: my gosh, I love my iPhone. Now I actually love
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  Speaker 5: my inexpensive computer that Apple makes as well.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't the chrome in the Windows computers at around three
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean chromebooks can be anywhere from one hundred
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  Speaker 5: to like four hundred, you know, I mean you could
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  Speaker 5: maybe two hundred to four hundred dollars. But again, those
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  Speaker 5: don't allow you to install any any application on them.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean those are mostly running on the web browser,
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  Speaker 5: and which is great because they don't get viruses, you
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  Speaker 5: don't really the software updates automatically. They serve a purpose
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  Speaker 5: for sure. Believe me, I'm not knocking the Chromebook. I
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  Speaker 5: think that it's you know, I love the Google side
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  Speaker 5: of things, and I think they're doing a good job there.
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  Speaker 5: I just think that for the average person who wants
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  Speaker 5: an inexpensive computer laptop, the Neo is going to be
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  Speaker 5: far better than a Chromebook because you can install any application,
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  Speaker 5: it works with your iPhone, and it's just the processor,
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  Speaker 5: the power, everything's just going to be better on that. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the Windows computers around that four hundred five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 5: price point, yes, you can get a decent Windows computer,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, the experience on that is not always
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  Speaker 5: the best.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So as you we started the segment and
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  Speaker 2: I asked you about the new MacBook. You said, this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a big one, and we had
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  Speaker 2: talked many times before that the advances have been incremental
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Is this one of those that are really big?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's actually quite the opposite of that. Bill.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny you say that, because this is how Apple's
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  Speaker 5: able to make this thing so cheap.
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  Speaker 4: There is no advancement here.
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  Speaker 5: It is all last year's technology, three years ago technology,
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  Speaker 5: four years ago technology. That's what's happening here. But here's
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  Speaker 5: the thing about it. Apple makes stuff that's so powerful
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  Speaker 5: and so proven that they can put that in this
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  Speaker 5: laptop and it's still good today in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 5: even though the processor that's in it was developed, you know,
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  Speaker 5: two years ago, let's say, or three years ago. Per se.
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  Speaker 5: The RAM that they're giving you is not the highest
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  Speaker 5: amount of RAM, The storage is not the highest, the
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  Speaker 5: webcam is not the best, the USB sports are not
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  Speaker 5: the most modern. But it doesn't matter because when you
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  Speaker 5: put this stuff all together, it is a very proven package.
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  Speaker 4: And the way I see it, Bill.
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  Speaker 5: Is that people are already doing all this stuff on
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  Speaker 5: the iPhone, video editing, surfing, using their phone as a computer.
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  Speaker 5: Now you just have a much bigger canvas to do
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  Speaker 5: that on with the same sort of specs.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, the new iPhone seventy launches tomorrow, seventeen E.
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  Speaker 3: I have a sixteen E.
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  Speaker 2: How much better is the seventeen and should I go
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  Speaker 2: out and get one?
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  Speaker 4: You probably don't need.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's a couple of new features on it, So
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  Speaker 5: seventeen E comes out tomorrow. This is Apple's basically Apple's
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  Speaker 5: budget phone, right, So you've got the iPhone seventeen, you
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  Speaker 5: got the seventeen pro. Seventeen E kind of sits in that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, more everyday essential device. So what's new this year?
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  Speaker 5: Number one, They doubled the base storage and I have
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  Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty six gigabytes versus last year which
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  Speaker 5: was one twenty eight, So that's nice for all those
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  Speaker 5: pictures and videos.
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  Speaker 4: Got a new chip, so that's it'll be faster there.
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  Speaker 5: The camera is pretty much the same, except they improve
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  Speaker 5: this portrait feature, which I don't really use, but you
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  Speaker 5: know a lot of people do like it. Basically, if
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  Speaker 5: you're taking a picture of a person or your dog
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  Speaker 5: or your cat, it will automatically capture spatial information so
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  Speaker 5: you can change the focus point later. I know that
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  Speaker 5: sounds really nerdy and I don't think a lot of
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  Speaker 5: people do that, but that's one of the new features. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I can't imagine you do that.
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  Speaker 4: I have a question. N magstape on the back, that's
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  Speaker 4: the big one.
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  Speaker 3: I have a question to ask.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a little cynical, but I think is legitimate
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to Apple. Is they actually have all
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  Speaker 2: of this technology in their back pocket and they release
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  Speaker 2: it bit by bit every year just to make the
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  Speaker 2: next phone a little bit better? Am I being too cynical?
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I've been covering these things for
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  Speaker 5: you know since well two thousand and seven was the
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  Speaker 5: first iPhone. So and everyone you're in, you're out has
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  Speaker 5: always said, Apple, why don't you give us this? Apple,
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  Speaker 5: why don't you give us this? Give us that we
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  Speaker 5: know you have this technology. Here's the thing you have
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  Speaker 5: to understand. Apple is a huge company, right. You have
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  Speaker 5: millions upon millions upon if not billions, of people using
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  Speaker 5: an Apple product, and of course hundreds of millions using
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  Speaker 5: an iPhone, and so you can't just sit there and
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  Speaker 5: change it drastically. You're in year out right, there's many
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  Speaker 5: reasons for this. In fact, I actually give Apple some
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  Speaker 5: credit for this. They don't want to drastically change the
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  Speaker 5: way these phones are every single time because accessories work differently,
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  Speaker 5: you're set up in your car, works differently, so they
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  Speaker 5: want to slowly change these things. I think that the
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  Speaker 5: changes that they make, yes, could they be more dramatic.
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  Speaker 5: Could they triple the battery life overnight?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe?
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  Speaker 5: But I think for most people, what they're trying to
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  Speaker 5: do is, you know, come up with something that's a
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  Speaker 5: little bit better. And for instance, with the iPhone seventeen
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  Speaker 5: e they're not targeting people that bought this phone last year.
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  Speaker 5: They're actually targeting people that have the iPhone eleven, which
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  Speaker 5: you know is going on five years old or something
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  Speaker 5: like that. So you know, they have a system, they
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  Speaker 5: have a rhyme and a reason for all this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just telling you what's new. But most of the
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  Speaker 5: people that are that are that have a phone today
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  Speaker 5: are keeping it for a good thirty nine months. That's
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  Speaker 5: you know, three almost four years, and so when they're
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  Speaker 5: coming to a new phone like this, it is it's
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  Speaker 5: gonna feel really new.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: One last topic, and that is switching to wireless home
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  Speaker 2: internet pros cons who should use it, and we can
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  Speaker 2: do that about two three minutes hopefully.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean this is a big question I get on
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  Speaker 5: my radio show because I don't know if you've seen
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  Speaker 5: the ads build er every ten seconds on TV. But
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  Speaker 5: the wireless internet from someone like T Mobile or Verizon
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  Speaker 5: is just way cheaper than what you'd get with your
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  Speaker 5: wired home internet. So from someone like a Spectrum or
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  Speaker 5: an AT and T so, a lot of people say, Rich,
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  Speaker 5: what's the catch? What am I not getting here? And
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  Speaker 5: my general advice is if you are doing just basic
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  Speaker 5: things like streaming on Netflix, surfing the web, watching YouTube,
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  Speaker 5: doing your email, you know you don't have a ton
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  Speaker 5: of things that are taking up a lot of bandwidth
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  Speaker 5: in your home, then definitely check out these wireless providers.
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  Speaker 5: TEA Mobile and Verizon are the two big ones. There's
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  Speaker 5: also AT and t Air to a lesser extent. They've
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  Speaker 5: got a smaller footprint where they're available, but plans are
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  Speaker 5: you know, anywhere from thirty to fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 4: A month, and they ship this thing right to your house.
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  Speaker 5: So all you do is you plug it in, you
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  Speaker 5: turn it on and boom it emits a Wi Fi signal.
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  Speaker 5: It's actually getting the signal from the cellular tower, so
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  Speaker 5: that's how it's getting it. So it may not be
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  Speaker 5: as fast as your wired internet. And the main thing
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  Speaker 5: I advise people on is make sure you have a
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  Speaker 5: strong signal at your home. So if you're going with
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  Speaker 5: T Mobile, get a friend to come to your house
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  Speaker 5: and do a T Mobile speed test. If you're going
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  Speaker 5: with Verizon, do the same thing on AT and T.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing is the best of all worlds on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Fiber optics, Oh yeah, that's what I have.
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  Speaker 5: It is the best because you get symmetrical speeds up
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  Speaker 5: and down, which means if AT and T, which is
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  Speaker 5: a big fiber optic provider, if they advertise a thousand,
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  Speaker 5: you're getting one thousand up and down, which means your
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  Speaker 5: upload speed is going to be really fast and you're
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  Speaker 5: download The problem is, bill most people don't need that.
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  Speaker 5: Unless you're uploading giant files like video files, or you
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  Speaker 5: know you're working in entertainment industry, you don't really need that.
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  Speaker 5: Most people are just streaming Netflix, which requires, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: almost no speed whatsoever. So two resources, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: First is the FCC National Broadband Map. You put your
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  Speaker 5: address in there. It will tell you every single provider
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  Speaker 5: that services your address, along with the expected speeds. That's
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  Speaker 5: really handy. The other one is from speed test dot net.
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  Speaker 5: They have a thing called the performance i sp finder.
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  Speaker 5: You type in your zip code there, it'll give you
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  Speaker 5: a list of all of the providers at your house
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  Speaker 5: as well as expected pricing. So just shop around. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: there's really it's a good time right now because these
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  Speaker 5: these wireless providers are really trying to get people to
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  Speaker 5: switch to them, and so the deals are very good there.
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  Speaker 2: Rich as always, thanks for the information. Saturday eleven am
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  Speaker 2: to two pm here on KFI KTLA, everyday, Instagram at
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  Speaker 2: rich on tech website, richontech dot tv.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy yourself today or not whatever, We'll talk to you, Jill.
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  Speaker 4: I'll try it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go next week. Okay, Now I want to
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  Speaker 2: talk to you about Live Nation. Live Nation owns Ticketmaster,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to throw a stat at you that
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  Speaker 2: when I read this, I went, WHOA wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Do you give you an idea of how Live Nation is,
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  Speaker 2: how big Live Nation is? Last year it put on well,
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  Speaker 2: let me let's guess, okay, Neil, how many events do
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  Speaker 2: you think Live Nation put on last year? I don't
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  Speaker 2: know fifty, okay, And how many Live Nation events you
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  Speaker 2: think happened like last year?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going one thousand. Yeah, try fifty five thousand. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Live Nation events last year around them?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Worldwide?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, six hundred and forty six million tickets. It owns
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  Speaker 2: your controls four hundred and sixty venues, manages more than
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  Speaker 2: three hundred artists, and last year had revenues of over
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  Speaker 2: twenty five billion dollars. So they're just apartment five. The
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, which includes Ticketmaster,
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  Speaker 2: of course, and it's a week end of the trial
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  Speaker 2: and a settlement has been reached.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Live Nation agrees to change how it makes ticketing deals
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  Speaker 2: with venues, allowing these venues to use multiple vendors to
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  Speaker 2: sell tickes. It's the fans why because before that, if
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  Speaker 2: Live Nation has a venue, then that venue can only
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  Speaker 2: work with Ticketmaster. That is antitrust. The government says it
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  Speaker 2: would also allow the company that the venues that it
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  Speaker 2: controls allow touring artists to use other performers when performing.
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  Speaker 3: It's in amphitheaters.
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  Speaker 2: Because now you want to perform an our amphitheater, you
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  Speaker 2: have to use Ticketmaster and nobody else we have the exclusivity. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it certainly sounds a lot like a monopoly, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Justice Department said that Live Nation was
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  Speaker 2: an illegal monopoly reaching into every aspect of the multi
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar concert business. The one area that it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: control stadiums. You can buy tickets from stadiums, yeah, using Ticketmaster,
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  Speaker 2: but that's.
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  Speaker 3: Not exclusive everybody else. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So here is what the Justice Department wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: Break up Live Nation, sell off ticket Master, and Live
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  Speaker 2: Nation well denied the accusations, of course, says there is
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  Speaker 2: a robust competitive market for its services, including ticketing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, hang on a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You go to a concert, Live Nation controls the venue,
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  Speaker 2: you can only buy a ticket through ticket Master, and that,
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  Speaker 2: in their view, is a robust competitive market. Even though
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  Speaker 2: we're the only ones you can buy a ticket from.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of interesting. And so now they settled. They settled.
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  Speaker 2: Now Live Nation can keep ticket Master, But as I said,
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  Speaker 2: it opens itself up to other groups that can sell tickets.
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  Speaker 2: You've got artists that can go into their venues and
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  Speaker 2: not be their artists otherwise you you can't perform here.
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  Speaker 3: All of that is gone.
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  Speaker 2: And in addition, two hundred and eighty five million dollars
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  Speaker 2: have among thirty nine states will be paid.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: New York's Attorney General, Letitia James said, Nope, We're not
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  Speaker 2: part of that. We're going to continue our legal action.
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  Speaker 2: And what I want to do is quote to you,
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  Speaker 2: and I love this. This is corporate corporate speak, right
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  Speaker 2: pr speak. And I want to quote after the settlement
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  Speaker 2: that Live Nation had to give up its exclusivity, that
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  Speaker 2: its venues had to offer space to other artists other
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  Speaker 2: than Live Nation artists.
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  Speaker 3: Here is the quote from Live Nation. Live Nation is
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  Speaker 3: proud to lead the.
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  Speaker 2: Way enhancing this experience with our amphitheaters, which will be
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  Speaker 2: open to all promoters, allowing these promoters to decide how
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: best to distribute up to fifty percent of the tickets
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: and capping ticketing services at fifteen percent. By getting artists
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: greater flexibility and choosing their promotional partners and ticketing strategy,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: while also keeping the cost of the concert more affordable
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: for fans, we are putting more power where it should
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: be with artists and fans. So you have to thank
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Ticketmaster and Live Nation for going out of their way
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  Speaker 2: now to help you, because they're good guys. Just read
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: their statement. What about the lawsuit? Well I ignore that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: What about the settlement that you signed on to? Just
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: ignore that. Be Just know that Live Nation we're leading
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the way to helping concert going and artists.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough.
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