Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about tech.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk a little bit about tam MoU
Speaker 3: and more with Marshall Collier, who joins me in studio
Speaker 3: as she normally.
Speaker 2: Does on a Thursday. Could even me, Marshall Callier.
Speaker 4: I am, We've got my favorite topic.
Speaker 2: Didn't we talk about this?
Speaker 3: I mean we kind of like previews, We were like
Speaker 3: a psychic or something clairvoyant.
Speaker 2: We mentioned both Shine. I guess that's how they pronounced it.
Speaker 4: Shine.
Speaker 2: Yes, Shine, Shane ran it through a shine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I ran it through a thing ye okay, Shine
Speaker 4: and Timmy.
Speaker 3: We talked about them being questionable last week sketchy, and
Speaker 3: yesterday two leaders of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission
Speaker 3: are calling for the agency to investigate both Shine and
Speaker 3: tim after quote unquote deadly baby and toddler products were
Speaker 3: sold on both websites. We knew that they were questionable, shady, sketchy,
Speaker 3: but now we're not the only ones saying that they're questionable,
Speaker 3: shady and sketchy.
Speaker 4: Well, I wanted to add a little something that isn't
Speaker 4: in the news that we know about and it goes on.
Speaker 4: You know, they said that they sold cushions for cribs
Speaker 4: right now, don't you know that the companies who had
Speaker 4: these cushions for cribs sold them off somewhere. Obviously the
Speaker 4: Chinese manufacturer kept making them, but before the rule is passed,
Speaker 4: they're often them off to dollar stares. Where do you
Speaker 4: think some of that merchandise comes from?
Speaker 3: Also, that's how they can sell products for ninety nine
Speaker 3: cents or a dollar wink.
Speaker 4: Wink, Well no, not even wink wink. You know, and
Speaker 4: it's a pretty good deal. But when you look at
Speaker 4: some of the dangerous products. And we're talking about Shine
Speaker 4: and Timmu, which let's take it for granted. Let's talk
Speaker 4: about Amazon for a second. I love shopping Amazon. I
Speaker 4: love unique fashion. That's why I've never downloaded Shane's Shine
Speaker 4: Shane Shane. Yeah, I've come back, Shane. I've never downloaded
Speaker 4: their app. But my husband can tell you that I
Speaker 4: have bought what looked like good fashion. I'd open up
Speaker 4: the plastic bag and a stench of chemicals would seriously,
Speaker 4: I meanlie so bad. I'd have to close it back
Speaker 4: up and I'd try to right back to Amazon Fresh,
Speaker 4: and you know, of course they didn't care. But the
Speaker 4: point is when the merchandise gets to Amazon. Let's say
Speaker 4: you're an Amazon FBA seller. An FBA seller is somebody
Speaker 4: who buys a bulk of merchandise, they ship it to Amazon.
Speaker 4: Amazon charges them rent for the storage square footage, and
Speaker 4: then they'll ship the items for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, not bad. It sounds sounds like a good deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I except they keep raising the rent for
Speaker 4: the square footage, so it's a really bad deal. But
Speaker 4: so a lot of these people look for real bargains
Speaker 4: so that they can make a big profit on Amazon.
Speaker 4: Now I'm not saying that anybody is selling deadly baby,
Speaker 4: baby and toddler products, but in the entire world of
Speaker 4: dangerous products, somehow I might think, where does it all go?
Speaker 4: Does it just vaporize? Somebody buys it. That's called liquidation.
Speaker 4: There'll be a liquidation sale and somebody will say, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm buying it for recycling quote unquote right, and turn
Speaker 4: around and sell it, maybe on Amazon. Because Amazon does
Speaker 4: not inspect everything that walks through the door.
Speaker 2: No, that's why they just guarantee right the product. But
Speaker 2: they're not going to expect.
Speaker 4: It right, and the seller will get in trouble if
Speaker 4: they have too many complaints against them. And you notice
Speaker 4: that because the sellers will off and write something. If
Speaker 4: you have a problem, come to us directly, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: So just know.
Speaker 4: China for a while, I would say about five years ago,
Speaker 4: was on the road to making really good products. They
Speaker 4: had good electronics, they had good things. But because of
Speaker 4: relations between our country and China, there was an embargo.
Speaker 4: And when the embargo happened, they no longer had the
Speaker 4: market for the higher line goods. So there they go
Speaker 4: back to their roots of making cheaper China goods which
Speaker 4: they used to make. I mean, there was a book written,
Speaker 4: no Longer Cheaper China as they were doing their rise,
Speaker 4: and I was there then and it was they were
Speaker 4: making great products, but no Shanghai incredible stuff, but we
Speaker 4: blocked it. Other countries blocked it. So now they went
Speaker 4: back to their roots. Do you know there's a city
Speaker 4: in China. I've been there. I love art. It's a
Speaker 4: little city of painters and they have stalls one after
Speaker 4: the other. And one stall is a guy who paints
Speaker 4: Van Go, and there's Van Go's sunflowers. There's another guy
Speaker 4: who does Picasso's whatever, and they each specialize in a
Speaker 4: couple of different paintings, and you can go there and
Speaker 4: these guys will paint you. I have one too at
Speaker 4: my house tomorrow. Lumpika copies that are beautiful, and that's
Speaker 4: what they did. China has always been entrepreneurial, but because
Speaker 4: there is no regulation, they can put out crap and
Speaker 4: get away with it.
Speaker 3: So that's why when I go down to let's say,
Speaker 3: the garment district, and I can get Louis Vitan, but
Speaker 3: it's not exactly Louis Vutan.
Speaker 4: Well, I do have to tell you something. This is terrible,
Speaker 4: but thank goodness, and I miss you, Barbara. Sorry, I'm
Speaker 4: going to tell you the story. So Barbara Walters and
Speaker 4: I grew up in the same area. She's much more
Speaker 4: mature than I was. And I was on the Today
Speaker 4: Show with her and she had one of those air
Speaker 4: Mais purses, one of those sixty thousand dollars jobs, and
Speaker 4: I sat there and she said, oh, here, take it,
Speaker 4: look at it, you know, And I'm playing with her
Speaker 4: purse and the whole thing, and she turns to me
Speaker 4: and she taps my shoulder and says, really it's a
Speaker 4: waste of money. Go get a good copy in China.
Speaker 4: And that's the truth. And I've seen actually the counterfeits
Speaker 4: in China come in different grades. It's a whole thing.
Speaker 2: There is.
Speaker 4: I think it's the night crew from the purse manufacturing company.
Speaker 2: Just sorry to jumping in it. But it's not just China.
Speaker 3: Well, I was just in Insann out of Mexico and
Speaker 3: you can find counterfeit passable, not high quality, the passable
Speaker 3: counterfeit versions of just about every bag from Coach chanell
Speaker 3: on down. Don't ask me why I know that. But
Speaker 3: I'm saying it's not just China. It's a cottage industry.
Speaker 4: Oh it's But like you say, there's there's different qualities
Speaker 4: and some of the quality that I have seen because
Speaker 4: I know the different things to look because I've been
Speaker 4: an eBay seller and I you know, looking for bargains
Speaker 4: and things like that. I wouldn't sell them. But yeah,
Speaker 4: there are really good qualities. And I have a couple
Speaker 4: of fake bags and now I can't tell the difference
Speaker 4: between the royal ones and the I can.
Speaker 2: It's called the price, the forty dollars, that's the difference.
Speaker 4: It's when they're sitting in the closet for a while.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't know.
Speaker 4: But the whole thing is I wonder what genius it
Speaker 4: was that figured out that toddler hoodies with a string
Speaker 4: to tie around the net would be a strangulation issue.
Speaker 4: What genius was that? Why did we have to pick
Speaker 4: on China for that. I've seen little babies running around
Speaker 4: those things.
Speaker 2: On they are kind of popular.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And why is that the part of the core
Speaker 4: of the Consumer Product Safety Commission? I mean, my goodness,
Speaker 4: why aren't they protecting us from those things in the US?
Speaker 3: I suspect that you have an answer for that, and
Speaker 3: you're going to tell us on the other side of
Speaker 3: the break, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Marshall Collier joins me in studio on this Tech Thursday,
Speaker 3: and we were talking about the questions sketchiness of Temu
Speaker 3: and Shine. They're very popular sites in this online marketplace
Speaker 3: and people sometimes from what I hear, you can get
Speaker 3: some tremendous deals. There are questions about the quality and
Speaker 3: obviously safety of some of the products which are being
Speaker 3: sold and Marshall Callier, I bow to you on this
Speaker 3: because you have far more experience in this than I do. Well.
Speaker 4: I've written since nineteen ninety eight on e commerce. I
Speaker 4: wrote the first eBay for Dummies book and the tenth edition.
Speaker 4: So this has been my research for years and years
Speaker 4: and years, and I do know there's a markup in everything.
Speaker 4: And like I said, when markets lose a product, they
Speaker 4: have to sell it to someone. It gets liquidated to someone.
Speaker 4: And now we have the little street vendor places who
Speaker 4: are selling it. You know, everybody says, no, it's all stolen.
Speaker 4: It's not all stolen merchandise. It's all merchandise that has
Speaker 4: been liquidated to the penny. Or they've bought a palette
Speaker 4: of let's say, broken vacuum cleaners, and they know how
Speaker 4: to fix the vacuum cleaners. They fix them and they
Speaker 4: sell them. I mean, this has all been going on.
Speaker 4: And just because you know, somehow we crack down on
Speaker 4: china for little hoodies for toddlers because it has a
Speaker 4: string around it. And how many of those of you
Speaker 4: seen since this is forever since forever, right, but you
Speaker 4: know it's it's bad. We shouldn't allow it in this country.
Speaker 4: But let's use another country, and I'm not even saying China.
Speaker 4: Let's use a competing marketplace to make the bad guy,
Speaker 4: and kind of that's what we're doing now.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you a lot of the merchandise from
Speaker 4: China is really cheap garbage. But the dress you can
Speaker 4: buy on Shine for ten bucks, you can go to
Speaker 4: Amazon and buy for thirty bucks because you you have
Speaker 4: a couple of steps. Now you see somebody has imported it,
Speaker 4: you know, bought them by the dozen. Then they sell
Speaker 4: them on Amazon and it's a whole new product. You
Speaker 4: ever noticed those weird product brand names?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do. From where do you think they come from?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Right? But I kind of maybe it's just me, But
Speaker 3: I don't have high expectations on certain types of products
Speaker 3: that I'm buying. If I can get it off Amazon. Like,
Speaker 3: for example, I bought this tripod for to hold my
Speaker 3: phone ten dollars. It's going to arrive at my house tomorrow,
Speaker 3: I don't have high expectations. If it can do what
Speaker 3: I needed to do, then fine, But I don't expect
Speaker 3: it to be of high quality. If I wanted super
Speaker 3: high quality, I would have gone to a legitimate retailer
Speaker 3: locally and physically put hands on it and then made
Speaker 3: that purchase.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean I have bought you know, the
Speaker 4: circle lights, Yes, five those ring lights, right, I have
Speaker 4: those at home. I have the desk one. So whenever
Speaker 4: I do a video, I have the right lighting.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: And then I go do a professional interview with somebody
Speaker 4: and they have the square led lights and I said,
Speaker 4: they the crazy cubes and everything. The heck, let's make
Speaker 4: the person look really bad.
Speaker 2: Folks.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you, if you're doing your own video
Speaker 4: at home, you need the circle light.
Speaker 2: You really do.
Speaker 4: But another thing our government came up with about China
Speaker 4: which made me laugh so hard. This is part of
Speaker 4: the big drum that they're beating. The reason they can
Speaker 4: sell ten dollars dresses to the United States is because
Speaker 4: of the deminimous Duty program. Explain that, please, right, and
Speaker 4: what is that. I'll give you a real easy way.
Speaker 4: You've ever been out.
Speaker 2: Of the country, Yeah, just got back last.
Speaker 4: Week, you know, and you fill out that little form
Speaker 4: I have bought, you know, to declare yeah, declaire right,
Speaker 4: And there's a number eight hundred dollars that if you
Speaker 4: buy more than eight hundred dollars, or you declare more
Speaker 4: than eight hundred dollars that you have to pay something
Speaker 4: like a three percent tax up up to one thousand,
Speaker 4: and then it goes. That's all it is. This eight
Speaker 4: hundred dollars magic number is nothing new again, which all
Speaker 4: of a sudden we are jumping on. People have been
Speaker 4: using that eight hundred dollars for years. Twenty years ago
Speaker 4: in my eBay business, I used to order from a
Speaker 4: manufacturer in China some photography equipment we were talking about,
Speaker 4: and I would sell it online and I'd order a
Speaker 4: palette and I'd be darn sure that my order was
Speaker 4: under eight hundred dollars. Everybody's known this, it's been no
Speaker 4: secret for years.
Speaker 2: But you could do that in perpetuity. Just make sure
Speaker 2: each order is under eight hundred dollars and you're good
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine how much stuff TAMU you'd have to buy.
Speaker 2: To get an eight hundred You can start your own store.
Speaker 4: Right exactly, you know, and you're talking. You talked about
Speaker 4: getting that camera holder. We have honestly switched to brand
Speaker 4: names again, not Bill and Howell, because I don't know
Speaker 4: what the heck happened with that company. If you're seeing
Speaker 4: their ads on.
Speaker 2: TV, I'm not having.
Speaker 4: I know, somebody bought the name and here's the bill
Speaker 4: and hole thermometer. Now it's what I thought it was
Speaker 4: a camera, but no, it's really really interesting. You're gonna
Speaker 4: have to start believing in brand names again because too
Speaker 4: many times that you're burned on cheap purchases. You're finally
Speaker 4: gonna say, I'm gonna buy from Zappo's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but see, I don't spend me.
Speaker 3: I don't spend large quantities of money on non brand names.
Speaker 3: Like if I'm gonna buy that phone, I'm gonna buy
Speaker 3: it from the legitimate Google, you know, distributor. Or if
Speaker 3: I'm going to buy a laptop, it's going to be
Speaker 3: a think Pad or something like that. You know, these
Speaker 3: are brands that I can trust.
Speaker 4: I agree one hundred percent. Well, you know, And it's funny.
Speaker 4: I was listening to talk radio this weekend and somebody
Speaker 4: went on this long rant about how they bought an
Speaker 4: iPhone off eBay and it wasn't what it was and
Speaker 4: though they were ripped off and oh how horrible, and
Speaker 4: this is why you shouldn't shop on eBay.
Speaker 2: Hello, I would never buy an iPhone on eBay.
Speaker 4: You're safe because eBay has a one hundred percent money
Speaker 4: back guarantee. All you have to do the minute you
Speaker 4: do it is you go to the transaction on eBay,
Speaker 4: you click a link, it takes you to a thing,
Speaker 4: you upload a picture, and bingo, I get money.
Speaker 3: I'm with you. I'm saying I know that I'm safe
Speaker 3: on eBay. I'm saying I'm not going to make a
Speaker 3: seven eight hundred dollars purchase.
Speaker 4: Okay, on eBay, I have I sold a four thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about.
Speaker 2: Ooh, we got to do that one next week.
Speaker 4: Then my eBay history is hysterical. But hey, so much
Speaker 4: to talk about when it comes to ecut this kind
Speaker 4: of stuff. But just remember this eight hundred dollars has
Speaker 4: been around forever. Now we're using it as a target
Speaker 4: against whoever it is. I think they need to come
Speaker 4: up with some better stuff.
Speaker 3: So the I guess the takeaway is stay away from shine,
Speaker 3: stay away from Exhambo.
Speaker 4: Don't even put it on your phone.
Speaker 3: Folks, really, but if you are going to use them,
Speaker 3: know what you're getting and where it probably came from.
Speaker 2: And it's probably of lesser quality and.
Speaker 4: Know you're paying with your data when that app is
Speaker 4: on your phone.
Speaker 2: Marshall call, You're always great to see you.
Speaker 4: I love talking to you.
Speaker 5: MO.
Speaker 2: We should do this again next week.
Speaker 3: Let's do.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3: And if you're a sports fan like me, you know
Speaker 3: you know college football has started. Professional football started tonight.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, Kansas City and Baltimore they're
Speaker 3: playing right now on Thursday Night football. And if you
Speaker 3: have direct TV, and if you're living in Chicago, New York, Philly,
Speaker 3: San Francisco, or here in LA, you probably are struggling
Speaker 3: to see these games. I say struggling because there are
Speaker 3: other options, but you're not going to watch it via
Speaker 3: direct TV. You might have heard of this story, but
Speaker 3: I want to give you the latest. Let me just
Speaker 3: start off, though, with the basics surrounding it. DirecTV and
Speaker 3: Disney they're struggling to negotiate a new contract following direct TV,
Speaker 3: satellite and streaming services which includes AT and t's U
Speaker 3: Verse and others to broadcast ESPN, the Disney Channel FX
Speaker 3: and other Disney owned networks which include ESPN two, ESPN Deports, ESPNU,
Speaker 3: ESPN News, ACC Network, SCC Network, Disney Junior, and National Geographic.
Speaker 3: All of those channels are blacked out right now. That
Speaker 3: is if you have direct TV. There are ways that
Speaker 3: you work around it, but not through DirecTV. Now, what
Speaker 3: can you do to get your Thursday Night football or
Speaker 3: Monday Night football, or if you want to see the
Speaker 3: games on ABC on Saturday or Sunday, the college football games,
Speaker 3: pro football games on Monday Night football.
Speaker 2: Here's what you need to do first.
Speaker 3: You just got to keep listening to the later with
Speaker 3: Mo Kelly because we talk about this stuff.
Speaker 2: All the time all the time.
Speaker 3: You can get a direct a digital antenna and those
Speaker 3: are like maybe seven or eight dollars. You can plug
Speaker 3: that into your TV stick it near a window, and
Speaker 3: you can get all your local channels for free.
Speaker 2: Well, Mo, what local channels are you talking about? I'm
Speaker 2: talking about some seventy local channels.
Speaker 3: It's probably more than that, where you'll have your customary two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen,
Speaker 3: but you also have these substation channels where they show
Speaker 3: old movies, classic movies. It'll be like four dot one,
Speaker 3: four dot two right after NBC which is four channel four,
Speaker 3: and you can watch local programming in that way.
Speaker 2: That will give you your ABC channel.
Speaker 3: Or if you want to stream, you can obviously get
Speaker 3: ESPN Plus. You can just get a short time subscription
Speaker 3: there and by the time that, let's say you have
Speaker 3: a seven day trial subscription, you can try that and
Speaker 3: hopefully the next week DirecTV will have come to some
Speaker 3: sort of deal. Or you could do it like me
Speaker 3: and just move your whole life to a streaming service
Speaker 3: because I left direct TV many years ago. I got
Speaker 3: tired of dealing with DirecTV and everything that they did.
Speaker 3: So I have Sling TV and I absolutely love it.
Speaker 3: And I went to Sling because I wanted Lives sports
Speaker 3: and they have some great sport packages and you can
Speaker 3: get all of these channels.
Speaker 2: I think it's an add on.
Speaker 3: I think it's maybe ten or fifteen dollars, So you
Speaker 3: could probably have Sling and this add on for like
Speaker 3: thirty five dollars at most if you want to keep
Speaker 3: it for the whole month, and then you can watch
Speaker 3: all of the channels that I just told you.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're Mark Ronner, you don't give a damn
Speaker 2: about any of this.
Speaker 3: But if you're a sports officionado a true fan I know,
Speaker 3: which is short for fanatic like me. Then you have
Speaker 3: to be able to watch your Thursday night football, which
Speaker 3: is going on right now, your Monday night football. You
Speaker 3: got to watch your SEC football on Saturdays. You got
Speaker 3: to watch USC football Big ten. You have to watch
Speaker 3: all of your sports and we get that's not even
Speaker 3: talking about like the Major League Baseball Game of the week,
Speaker 3: which may be on. This is how you have to
Speaker 3: work your way around it. Direct TV is not the
Speaker 3: way to go. And Stephan, are you still with cable
Speaker 3: or have you completely left?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: No, I have had a saying like you. I haven't
Speaker 6: had DirecTV in probably four maybe five years.
Speaker 2: Yeah. All streaming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been streaming I want to say for about
Speaker 3: twelve thirteen years. And in terms of entertainment choices, is
Speaker 3: the best decision I've ever made.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say there was a time where I
Speaker 6: was had a little bit extra money. I thought, you
Speaker 6: know what, let's see and my dad still has it.
Speaker 6: But I'm going through it and I'm like, I think
Speaker 6: about how I am at home. I can choose exactly
Speaker 6: what I want to watch when I want to watch it,
Speaker 6: versus waiting for them, whether it's a rerun or not.
Speaker 6: I just wait, Oh it's premiere tomorrow, okay, And I
Speaker 6: watch it late night, early morning, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 6: this doesn't It's not worth it. The Direct TV model
Speaker 6: is not It is just nonsensical.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: What I mean by that is, I don't know if
Speaker 3: they still charge for it, but I know, up until
Speaker 3: very recently, I know they did where they would charge
Speaker 3: you for HD. You can get a digital antenna and
Speaker 3: get HD right now for free, for free. And the
Speaker 3: fact that the people pay for it, it's just mind boggling.
Speaker 3: And I know they still charge for their DVD or
Speaker 3: you know, their digital DVD. I don't know if they
Speaker 3: have a physical or or excuse me, digital recorder. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: a digital recorder. You I have mine for free with
Speaker 3: Sling TV.
Speaker 2: I you know, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know why people, the people that I heard
Speaker 3: from that are so angry about I can't believe that
Speaker 3: I can't watch the USC game or I can't watch
Speaker 3: Thursday night football because of this thing going on with
Speaker 3: Direct TV.
Speaker 2: It's like, sorry, you're a sucker.
Speaker 3: There are too many options to work around this, where
Speaker 3: you could have been watching this game, which is on
Speaker 3: ABC right now. Just get a digital antenna, or you
Speaker 3: can sign up for ESPN plus the trial, or you
Speaker 3: can sign up for Sling TV for a week. You know,
Speaker 3: there are too many ways to get around it, and
Speaker 3: I would encourage you to do that, and then you
Speaker 3: can see what you've been missing. As far as just
Speaker 3: ease of watching your programs. I meant to say DVR,
Speaker 3: not DVD, where you can record your programs and you
Speaker 3: can have your programs anywhere.
Speaker 2: I was when I was.
Speaker 3: Getting ready for the show tonight, what was I doing?
Speaker 3: I was watching the freakin' football game on my laptop.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Slaying TV, I didn't have to worry about
Speaker 3: direct TV and these you know, contract disputes. There are
Speaker 3: too many ways around it if you at least learn
Speaker 3: how this television thing has evolved. Now, if you're like
Speaker 3: Mark Roner, you don't care. You just have movies.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 5: Well, not about sports, but there's so much to watch.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know people who don't really watch their
Speaker 5: checking account, don't care what they spend, and they'll just
Speaker 5: get the whole package of everything and not use nine
Speaker 5: tenths of it. That's insanely wasteful to me. Now, what
Speaker 5: services do you have? I know you told me, I
Speaker 5: just can't remember. Well, I have kind of a patchwork
Speaker 5: because we share a house with our landlady, and we
Speaker 5: also use you know, like a couple friends accounts for
Speaker 5: different things.
Speaker 2: And I think less I say about that though.
Speaker 3: The more I have is a loaded term use obtained,
Speaker 3: have access to How about that procure. See back in
Speaker 3: the day, we used to just steal people's cable. We'd
Speaker 3: splice the signals, those splitters. Yeah, I've got that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've done that. I've done it too. I mean the
Speaker 3: statue of limitations is long gone on that. Yes, but
Speaker 3: you can get anything you need one way or the other.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you have to, you can rent stuff.
Speaker 3: But stuff pops up on YouTube. I mean, for God's sake,
Speaker 3: And my two B watch list alone is like two
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy seven items. So I could dine and
Speaker 3: still and I get to the end of all the
Speaker 3: stuff that I've already got lined up. We're at a
Speaker 3: point now where it is literally a lie to say
Speaker 3: there's nothing on to watch. If you can't find something
Speaker 3: that you want to watch, it's you there's something wrong.
Speaker 3: With you because there's too many services, there are too
Speaker 3: many ways. Look, there's not a TV show that I've
Speaker 3: wanted to watch that I couldn't find at a moment's notice,
Speaker 3: old or new. It could be a classic television show,
Speaker 3: it'll be on one of the streaming platforms that I have.
Speaker 3: It could be a new television show. You can find
Speaker 3: the most recent episodes on Hulu or Peacock. There's no
Speaker 3: excuse if you know what you want or the type
Speaker 3: of entertainment you want.
Speaker 2: There's never been a night that I can think of, well,
Speaker 2: there's just nothing on.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: That means I'm indecisive and I don't know what I
Speaker 3: want to see well, And.
Speaker 5: It can be hard to keep track of as well,
Speaker 5: because we have these conversations like, Hey, I just canceled Peacock,
Speaker 5: but we still have Paramount Plus.
Speaker 2: Am I paying for that? No?
Speaker 5: I'm paying for that. Oh I didn't realize you were
Speaker 5: Slow Horses has just started season four. I have to
Speaker 5: see that. I cannot miss that. Oh yeah, the landlady
Speaker 5: has Apple TV Plus so we can watch.
Speaker 2: That, all right? Does she listen to this by chance?
Speaker 2: I hope not? Real quick too.
Speaker 6: On top of what you were saying, mo, if the algorithm,
Speaker 6: you know, it's like evil and kind of helpful, it'll
Speaker 6: catch what you watch and be like, hey, you might
Speaker 6: actually like this movie or this show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm basically trying to say, I have no
Speaker 3: sympathy for anyone who's upset about Direct TV and Disney
Speaker 3: getting into a tiff and you can't watch your favorite
Speaker 3: ABC shows or ESPN or FX shows because there are
Speaker 3: too many ways where you don't have to be tethered
Speaker 3: to Direct TV to find anything in everything that you want.
Speaker 2: Oh, let him fight it out.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm not rooting for Direct TV. I'm
Speaker 3: clearly on the side of Disney. I'm saying I want
Speaker 3: Direct TV to die a very slow, painful death because
Speaker 3: they overcharge me for many, many years, and I have
Speaker 3: no problem saying that they will never get another dime
Speaker 3: for me unforgivable direct TV at and T a THEATERO
Speaker 3: call like SBC back in the day, and then they
Speaker 3: merge or something like that. But yeah, they will never
Speaker 3: get any more of my money. Mark Ronner, He's not
Speaker 3: getting any more of my money.
Speaker 5: Oh no, you gotta use the jaws of life to
Speaker 5: try my wallet open.
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Speaker 3: The show A Different World It was a sequel to
Speaker 3: The Cosby Show, Excuse Me, a spin off to The
Speaker 3: Cosby Show in which Denise played by Lisa Bonet, went
Speaker 3: to college and that was the beginning of the show
Speaker 3: A Different World Now. As it turned out, she was
Speaker 3: only on the show for like a year, but the
Speaker 3: show still continued on without her. But it was in
Speaker 3: the late eighties early nineties, and it was a pretty
Speaker 3: good representation of college life at this fictitious college called
Speaker 3: Hillman and but it was one of the few shows,
Speaker 3: at least sitcoms that dealt with college life.
Speaker 2: But it was accurate.
Speaker 3: And if you've ever been to college, if you've ever
Speaker 3: seen a college door room over the year, at least
Speaker 3: years ago, it was about struggle. You were probably with
Speaker 3: a roommate, You probably didn't have a lot of money.
Speaker 3: It was not a lot of room. There wasn't that
Speaker 3: they had. My freshman dorm room was cinderblocks. You know,
Speaker 3: you couldn't really do anything on the walls. You couldn't
Speaker 3: paint it, you couldn't really hang anything from it. You
Speaker 3: could maybe tape up some posters, but that was about it.
Speaker 3: But part of the college experience back then, at least
Speaker 3: was not having a lot. I remember a lot of
Speaker 3: nights in which, outside of the meal plan, which was
Speaker 3: a blessing, you're kind of hungry.
Speaker 2: You didn't have money to do things.
Speaker 3: The really rich kids they had money, maybe they had
Speaker 3: a car, but for the most part we were struggling.
Speaker 3: We just didn't have money. Well, all that's changed, I
Speaker 3: guess now it's a thing. A wave of undergraduates, especially
Speaker 3: down south, these freshmen sophomores, they're hiring interior designers to
Speaker 3: completely make over their dorm rooms and they're spending.
Speaker 2: Upwards of ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: That's not tuition, has nothing to do with books, has
Speaker 3: nothing to do with the meal plan, that has nothing
Speaker 3: to do with just money to spend from day to day.
Speaker 3: Ten thousand dollars to decorate a dorm room, which is
Speaker 3: different from an apartment room. We're talking about a dorm
Speaker 3: that you probably share a room with someone else. It's
Speaker 3: just a room it's not like a full apartment. It's
Speaker 3: just a room, and you're spending ten thousand dollars. Let's
Speaker 3: say you've never been in a dorm room. It's about
Speaker 3: the size of a prison cell, a little bit larger,
Speaker 3: not much larger. Okay, you have room for two beds,
Speaker 3: maybe some shelves, a makeshift closet, but it's not that big.
Speaker 3: And if you're spending ten thousand dollars on a dorm room,
Speaker 3: there's something wrong with you and your family. I question
Speaker 3: your parents, I question the wisdom of anyone who's going
Speaker 3: to do that. Now, Mark, you have far more education
Speaker 3: than I do, yeah, but not far more money than
Speaker 3: anybody ever.
Speaker 2: But you've been in a dorm room. Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: I only lived with somebody one semester, and we pranked
Speaker 5: each other so much that we just couldn't do it anymore.
Speaker 5: So I think I spent about a year total in
Speaker 5: dorm in the United States, and then a year in
Speaker 5: a dorm in Scotland, and again with the pranks. You know.
Speaker 5: But it seems to me like if you knew anybody
Speaker 5: who had a designer room makeover like that, you'd want
Speaker 5: nothing but to just haze them into oblivion.
Speaker 3: Quote, we're moving away from Ikia and getting the opposite
Speaker 3: of fast furniture. This is Jinger Curtis, the founder of
Speaker 3: Urbanology Designs, a high end Dallas based interior design space
Speaker 3: that works with students preparing to go to college. These
Speaker 3: are students seventeen eighteen years old. I started college was
Speaker 3: seventeen years old. She said she can help students on
Speaker 3: a budget. Listen to this mark, She said, she can
Speaker 3: help students. You know, if you don't have a lot
Speaker 3: of money, Let's say you only have budget for seven
Speaker 3: or eight grand pocket change, she can help you out
Speaker 3: to decorate a fricking dorm room that you don't own. Okay,
Speaker 3: whatever you do is coming down at the end of
Speaker 3: the semester of the year, because you may get a
Speaker 3: new roommate dorm mate at the semester.
Speaker 2: Happened to me, Oh yeah, you also might not even
Speaker 2: get the same room. Hello, I just don't get it.
Speaker 3: In other words, whatever you're spending is a wasted amount
Speaker 3: because you cannot keep any of that stuff there longer
Speaker 3: than the time that you are staying in that dorm room,
Speaker 3: which is at best is August to May.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't that make you even more want to say, empty
Speaker 5: out your pencil sharpener in their bed sheets, or get
Speaker 5: an ice cream bar from the cafeteria and leave it
Speaker 5: in their desk drawer, or you know, any any number
Speaker 5: of things.
Speaker 3: This is what I hate about this when I say
Speaker 3: this generation, this is not the young folks fault, generation
Speaker 3: of people in general not understanding the value of money.
Speaker 3: If you put that ten thousand dollars each year, let's
Speaker 3: say they're staying on campus each year, into some sort
Speaker 3: of trust or money market fund, they would be set
Speaker 3: by the time they came out of college. Not only
Speaker 3: would they not have any student debt, but they would
Speaker 3: have a launching pad for whatever they're trying to do.
Speaker 3: That's like paying for a wedding each year. Each year,
Speaker 3: that's some thirty to forty thousand dollars that you're spending
Speaker 3: on decorating a room that you don't even own, that
Speaker 3: you can't even stay in more than eight months at
Speaker 3: a time.
Speaker 5: But I've said this to you before, mo that the
Speaker 5: old quote from f. Scott Fitzgerald to Hemingway, it still
Speaker 5: holds true. The rich they're different from you and Imo.
Speaker 5: And you know Hemingway's response was, yeah, they got more money. Well,
Speaker 5: this Curtis woman.
Speaker 3: She charges about ten thousand dollars per room, which is
Speaker 3: five grand per student. For the full service, which requires
Speaker 3: her and her team to arrive on arrive on moving
Speaker 3: day and put together the rooms from scratch.
Speaker 5: She also charged ten thousand bucks. I want the full service.
Speaker 3: Well, that doesn't include the one hundred dollars charge for
Speaker 3: the initial consultation. There are different design packages, but her
Speaker 3: flat room prices range from five hundred and forty nine
Speaker 3: dollars to eighteen forty nine.
Speaker 2: That fee includes concepts.
Speaker 3: Three D renderings, custom floor plans, and a shopping list.
Speaker 5: Not one of those little models with the styrofoam reproductions
Speaker 5: of the buildings.
Speaker 3: And maybe maybe for that money, I should get that
Speaker 3: little trees. What amazes me more than anything is people
Speaker 3: are paying for this. This is a thriving business, mostly
Speaker 3: at the southern schools like University Ole Miss and other
Speaker 3: schools down south. This is a big thing there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: thank goodness, I couldn't afford that. No, let me just
Speaker 3: skim some money off of my Ramen budget for some
Speaker 3: of that. There were there were a number of nights
Speaker 3: where yes, I was happy to get Ramen happened if
Speaker 3: I had ten thousand dollars just to decorate my dorm room.
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