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Speaker 1: let's begin with this. We had some very unexpected news
Speaker 1: in the streaming wars developed Monday morning. It was announced
Speaker 1: that Disney's Hulu plus Live TV and Fubo TV are
Speaker 1: merging their operations.
Speaker 2: They're gonna call it hullo.
Speaker 1: This is I don't want to get into the weeds
Speaker 1: on this. We give a little background here. Fubo TV
Speaker 1: is a very sports centric streaming service, all right. They
Speaker 1: are also the company that successfully petitioned for an injunction
Speaker 1: that blocked Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers from launching Venue,
Speaker 1: their merged sports app that they were going to put
Speaker 1: out because Fubuo argued in this anti trust lawsuit brought
Speaker 1: that that would destroy competition and inflate prices for consumers
Speaker 1: and effectively put them out of business. The judge agreed
Speaker 1: put an injunction and that prevented those companies from launching Venue. Well,
Speaker 1: they still want to launch Venue What to do?
Speaker 2: What to do? Well?
Speaker 1: Merge as sure Fubo and it's operators that they will
Speaker 1: continue to be able to operate, and they'll also have
Speaker 1: the keys to the car. By merging Disney's Hulu plus
Speaker 1: Live TV and Fubo as a new venture, it says here,
Speaker 1: both will still act as standalone services, so you'll still
Speaker 1: have your choice if you know you want to subscribe
Speaker 1: to one or the other. Bottom line is the folks
Speaker 1: at Fubo have now agreed to drop the lawsuit in
Speaker 1: Disney and Warner and Fox all hope that will greenlight
Speaker 1: their Venue Sports moving forward.
Speaker 3: Exactly because I remember you reporting on the actually in
Speaker 3: this segment when that all that stuff happened before and
Speaker 3: it was blocked.
Speaker 1: So Fubo now loses fear of being put out of
Speaker 1: business by Venue because well, now they're owned by the competitor.
Speaker 4: Because then fubo if Fubu, what is it, fubo fubo
Speaker 4: if they because then they'd be fu bar if they're
Speaker 4: business correct, taco bar, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Big.
Speaker 1: Facebook news this week change in policy, Mark Zuckerberg announcing
Speaker 1: that third party fact checkers have been eliminated from the platform.
Speaker 1: Facebook has moved to more of a community notes model.
Speaker 1: Zucker says that. Zuckerberg says more speech will be allowed
Speaker 1: by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of
Speaker 1: mainstream discourse these days. The company will now be focusing
Speaker 1: on enforcement of illegal and high severity violations rather than
Speaker 1: nitpicking things that well, up until now some people deemed okay,
Speaker 1: others had a problem with, and it was selective enforcement.
Speaker 1: So they're just taking a step back here, getting these
Speaker 1: third party fact checkers out of there, and well preparing
Speaker 1: for the new incoming administration, let's be honest. And if
Speaker 1: you don't believe that, look no further than Dana White
Speaker 1: being announced as one of the new board of director
Speaker 1: members for Meta Slash Facebook.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, you know, as soon as I saw the announcement
Speaker 3: yesterday or whatever day it was, it was the it's
Speaker 3: immediately right to politics.
Speaker 1: I well, well, there's no denying it. It's definitely a
Speaker 1: lot on there. But so you know you're gonna think
Speaker 1: what you think about that. So the Supreme Court now
Speaker 1: will have the ultimate say on what happens with TikTok
Speaker 1: here in the United States, owned by Byte Dance, you know,
Speaker 1: the Chinese company.
Speaker 2: They are set to.
Speaker 1: Take up arguments on whether or not that is ultimately
Speaker 1: going to be banned here in the US on Friday
Speaker 1: ahead of that. This is kind of an exercise in futility.
Speaker 1: If you ask me, Lemon eight is gaining traction as
Speaker 1: perhaps an alternative if the Supreme Court decides TikTok a
Speaker 1: is a no go anymore. The problem is Lemon eight,
Speaker 1: which is another TikTok like Apple.
Speaker 2: Me guess it's also on by China.
Speaker 1: By Byte Dance, Yes, the exact same. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: run into the same problem here, if you know, if
Speaker 1: you're buying into oh, I'll just you know, I'll wean
Speaker 1: myself off of TikTok because it may be going away
Speaker 1: and I'll get things going over on Lemon eight. Just
Speaker 1: know that things could go the same direction there with
Speaker 1: that Ultimately.
Speaker 3: I am so glad that's not one of my concerns.
Speaker 3: I got to wean myself off a TikTok pack.
Speaker 1: It's a big issue with a lot of concerns because
Speaker 1: there's millions and millions of folks who you know, live
Speaker 1: and die by that.
Speaker 2: And it's billions of dollars of a world. I'm aware.
Speaker 1: Net neutrality looks like it has been dealta final defeats.
Speaker 1: Remember the net neutrality rules that were debated and at
Speaker 1: one point being enforced, and then they were rescinded and
Speaker 1: they were put back in. Then they it looks like
Speaker 1: they're gonna go by by and not come back. After
Speaker 1: a ruling last week by US Appeals Court on Thursday
Speaker 1: stating that the FCC does not have legal authority to
Speaker 1: reinstate landmark net neutrality rules. That's basically the the thought
Speaker 1: that all Internet traffic should be created or not created,
Speaker 1: but treated equally. As far as you know, bandwidth it's given.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be slowed down or throttled or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, these most Internet service providers are offering
Speaker 1: more than enough bandwidth for your average user, and you're
Speaker 1: probably not really experiencing slowdowns on a regular basis, like
Speaker 1: you might have as little as five years ago. Now.
Speaker 1: The debate still remains, though, should there be some regulations
Speaker 1: like this in place. I'm not going to take a
Speaker 1: side on this again, it's another subject. You feel how
Speaker 1: you feel on this, and that's fine. Consumer electronics show
Speaker 1: going on this week in Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's big news.
Speaker 1: Some of the stranger items on display. Have you ever
Speaker 1: thought about going out to that?
Speaker 2: Yes? I know that you're big into electronics.
Speaker 1: Yes, but the problem is it runs literally like right
Speaker 1: after we come back from our annual holiday break, So
Speaker 1: I'd have to extend that to make it three weeks.
Speaker 2: You okay with that?
Speaker 3: Or we could or no, we're not doing three weeks.
Speaker 3: You never thought of it as but or we could
Speaker 3: maybe do the show from there.
Speaker 1: Once you work on that, let me know how that
Speaker 1: works out.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't really care that much about it.
Speaker 1: I know it's just a trip to Vegas for you.
Speaker 2: I get it, all right.
Speaker 1: How about a robot vacuum that picks up your dirty socks? Lazy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's like a room Bob but has an room bob,
Speaker 1: but it has an arm on top. That picks up
Speaker 1: stuff you toss on the floor. It's made by a
Speaker 1: company called roboock. Oh, so it does everything, not just
Speaker 1: dirty socks. It's yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 3: How does it decipher between dirty socks and dirty underway
Speaker 3: or a small dog?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a prototype. No word on pricing, but
Speaker 1: probably around one thousand bucks. You'll be able to pick
Speaker 1: up small items away less than eleven ounces. I'm with you, though,
Speaker 1: Just just pick your stuff up. Yeah, it's not really
Speaker 1: that difficult. How about electric roller blades? You wear the
Speaker 1: battery around your waist like a belt and control the
Speaker 1: speed with a remote top speed eighteen miles an hour.
Speaker 2: Roller blades are already dangerous enough.
Speaker 1: This would be eight hundred dollars if you want to
Speaker 1: relive your nineties glory days.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like an e bike, but it's
Speaker 2: e blades exactly.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: An electronic saltspoon. Now, we talked about this one last year,
Speaker 1: but it looks like it's gonna be available here in
Speaker 1: the as it went on sale in Japan last year.
Speaker 1: This specialized spoon delivers a weak current of electricity to
Speaker 1: your tongue and makes stuff taste saltier than it really
Speaker 1: is without you actually having to use salt. So if
Speaker 1: you crave salt but you know it's bad for here
Speaker 1: you have a you know, a blood pressure issue or whatever,
Speaker 1: you can still get that salty delightfulness for one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars with the electric salt spoon.
Speaker 2: Well shocking your tongue, no thanks.
Speaker 1: A table with working legs. It's called Memo and it
Speaker 1: walks around. The prototype looks like a small side table
Speaker 1: with the Pixar lamp on top. The idea that it's
Speaker 1: an AI robot you can talk to, but it also
Speaker 1: looks like furniture run Who needs this?
Speaker 2: What is it called Memo? Oh my god?
Speaker 1: A stringless guitar. It's like an adult version of those
Speaker 1: push button guitars the little kids get, you know, for
Speaker 1: five hundred bucks. You can feel like you're, you know,
Speaker 1: a real shredder there without actually playing a guitar.
Speaker 2: Or you could just play the game or just learn
Speaker 2: to play guitar. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And finally, a tiny robot that blows on your drink
Speaker 1: to cool it down for you. It's called Fufu. Looks
Speaker 1: like a little cat and it hangs on the side
Speaker 1: of your coffee mug or your souper bowl.
Speaker 2: This is the.
Speaker 1: Blows on your hot beverage or food.
Speaker 2: These are the biggest lazy people things I've ever heard
Speaker 2: A table that walks to you. We'run the bleeding edge
Speaker 2: this week, folks.
Speaker 3: Some ones wj R R Central Florida's attitude problem since
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety three,