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Speaker 1: All right, if you have if you subscribed any flavor
Speaker 1: of Direct TV Beat the satellite version, Direct TV Stream
Speaker 1: or AT and tu Verse, you know that you've lost
Speaker 1: access to the Disney affiliated channels, which includes all of
Speaker 1: the ESPN networks over one of these contract disputes that
Speaker 1: pop up from time to time. It's always convey It
Speaker 1: seems to happen as you're getting ready for NFL season, right,
Speaker 1: So the first game that would be affected would be
Speaker 1: Monday night Football. So a lot of people are like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: it'll be a you know, an eleventh hour agreements and
Speaker 1: they'll sort that and know it's not gonna doesn't look
Speaker 1: like it's going to be, at least if you believe
Speaker 1: the CEO of Direct TV, who was tweeting NonStop yesterday
Speaker 1: that they are in this for the long haul. They
Speaker 1: are not going to sign some deal that they're strong
Speaker 1: armed into which will cause them to have to raise
Speaker 1: rates even more on a customer base that continues to dwindle.
Speaker 1: At one point, DirecTV had twenty two million subscribers. They've
Speaker 1: lost about half of those subscribers in the last five years.
Speaker 1: Same with cable exactly. My parents, my parents in their eighties,
Speaker 1: actually started using YouTube TV last week. The whole argument
Speaker 1: that Direct TV and other TV provider or you know
Speaker 1: outlets argue is they are sick and tired of having
Speaker 1: to be forced into taking these huge blocks of channels
Speaker 1: that very few of their customers ask for, want, or
Speaker 1: even watch, and then still have to pay for those.
Speaker 1: And you can also say the reverse is true, where
Speaker 1: you've got customers who have no interest in sports whatsoever
Speaker 1: being having to pay for sports related channels. The ESPN
Speaker 1: packaging channels is the most cost per customer there is
Speaker 1: of any other channels out there right now. So this
Speaker 1: looks like it may be an extended negotiation, perhaps going
Speaker 1: for weeks or maybe even months. If you are a
Speaker 1: Direct TV subscriber, they are offering twenty dollars kickbacks to
Speaker 1: you there. You've got to reach out and ask for it, though,
Speaker 1: So you reach out to their customer service. And I
Speaker 1: know it's not gonna bring the channels back any quicker,
Speaker 1: but at least you know lessen your bill a.
Speaker 3: Little bit this month. Okay, I'll ask you later. Which
Speaker 3: if it's affecting me or not, it's not okay, it's
Speaker 3: not good. I didn't think so.
Speaker 1: But you don't have direct TV.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to affect Take the listener's time.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be okay, good, don't be Boeing in NASA
Speaker 1: preparing to bring the troubled Starliner capsule back to Earth.
Speaker 1: If all goes as planned, six h four tomorrow evening
Speaker 1: Eastern time, it will be undocking from the space station,
Speaker 1: and approximately six hours later, again, if all goes as planned,
Speaker 1: we'll land at New Mexico's White Sands Space Harbor with
Speaker 1: no astronauts inside. Those two astronauts, as we've documented here
Speaker 1: on this show and has been in the news non stop,
Speaker 1: which Wilmore and Sunny Williams will still be on the
Speaker 1: International Space Station awaiting a ride back from the competing SpaceX,
Speaker 1: which will be going up there in February. Less two
Speaker 1: astronauts than originally planned to make room for those two
Speaker 1: to come back on the return trip.
Speaker 3: Work together. I like how they're working together.
Speaker 2: It's it's two human beings, you know, get them back safe.
Speaker 1: X has been banned nationwide in Brazil. Why, they say,
Speaker 1: because of the prolifered proliferation of disinformation. Why X is
Speaker 1: being targeted because you could argue that there's disinformation on
Speaker 1: just about every platform online these days. You can jump
Speaker 1: in and take sides if you want, but as for
Speaker 1: right now, you can't access X, the platform formerly known
Speaker 1: as Twitter in Brazil. It's kind of a scary precedent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything you see online, you've got to you gotta think,
Speaker 1: is that? Is that right? Is that? You know?
Speaker 3: Use your noggin, run it through a filter, use your nogin.
Speaker 1: Toyota and BMW have announced a joint venture to push
Speaker 1: forward with hydrogen fuel powered car technology. This is in
Speaker 1: its infancy, This technology does exist. In fact, there's a
Speaker 1: couple zero emission vehicles that operate on hydrogen fuel cells,
Speaker 1: which you know is the most abundant element in the universe,
Speaker 1: and if they could get this technology where it needs
Speaker 1: to be, it gets all of the goals of zero
Speaker 1: emissions mets and the only thing that's being put out
Speaker 1: is water vapor as a you know, from these vehicles.
Speaker 3: That's the exhaust.
Speaker 1: I think the thinking here is all right. You know,
Speaker 1: the push is on electric right now, but there's some
Speaker 1: headwinds with that. We've talked about that on this show,
Speaker 1: and the potential long term issues with evs and the
Speaker 1: batteries that go along with them and the cost of that.
Speaker 1: Could the hydrogen fuel cell be the ultimate answer? So
Speaker 1: Toyo at MBMW we're gonna join forces to try to
Speaker 1: zero in on that project.
Speaker 3: It'll be called BMOTA. There's no truth to that that
Speaker 3: I'm aware of, not at all. But if it was
Speaker 3: on the Internet, I hope you'd run it through a filter.
Speaker 1: Yes, use your noggin. A few years ago, Verizon FiOS,
Speaker 1: which was one of the pioneers and fiber optic internets,
Speaker 1: they were one of the first to really offer that
Speaker 1: service and it was mainly in the Northeast, but has
Speaker 1: since expanded to other parts of the country, then they
Speaker 1: pulled back. Verizon did on the home fiber stuff and FiOS,
Speaker 1: even selling off portions of their footprint to Frontier Communications. Well,
Speaker 1: now things have come full circle as Verizon looks to
Speaker 1: expand FiOS once again and resume, you know, installing that
Speaker 1: by purchasing Frontier where they had just sold off large
Speaker 1: swaths of their territory too years ago. It's a twenty
Speaker 1: billion dollar deal that's in the works. Amazon delivery drones
Speaker 1: have been in place in being used in several cities,
Speaker 1: including College Station, Texas. Now, as Amazon looks to expand
Speaker 1: on that technology, they're running into some issues with the
Speaker 1: large private neighborhood that is near their Prime Air drone
Speaker 1: station in College Station, Texas. Noise from the drones and
Speaker 1: the constant buzz of these taking off and returning to
Speaker 1: the launching point.
Speaker 2: I agree one hundred percent. Have you noticed the humming
Speaker 2: when you're watching golf now?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, A lot of sports events so annoying
Speaker 1: to hear this constant Would you rather hear that or
Speaker 1: the plane that used to that one tournament where that
Speaker 1: was I mean, that became to the point where I
Speaker 1: can't even watch this demute it could you imagine though
Speaker 1: you're living, you move into a neighborhood, there's no drones
Speaker 1: flying overhead. Now you've got hundreds of them coming and
Speaker 1: going all day long, and Amazon wanting to expand that
Speaker 1: even further. UH officials want to work with Amazon, obviously
Speaker 1: they love the jobs and commerce it's brought to College Station.
Speaker 1: It looks like the long term solution here is Amazon's
Speaker 1: going to have to foot the bilt to move that
Speaker 1: drone port away from the residential area to they don't
Speaker 1: have to constantly be bombarded with the incoming and outgoing
Speaker 1: meet in the middle package delivery a set I mentioned
Speaker 1: this last week. It is happening on Monday the Apple events.
Speaker 1: If you're eager to know everything about the new iPhone
Speaker 1: sixteen UH, Monday one o'clock all will be revealed. Expect
Speaker 1: to see a new iPhone sixteen and sixteen Pro models,
Speaker 1: as well as updates to the Apple Watch AirPods and
Speaker 1: perhaps even new Max although that was maybe maybe maybe category.
Speaker 2: You know how they still how they keep going back
Speaker 2: to retro stuff like the fold phones, the flip phones
Speaker 2: and all that. Great, if they just went back for
Speaker 2: the sixteen and they said it's a basically a BlackBerry.
Speaker 1: Apple BlackBerry flip phone.
Speaker 3: In next town, remember those things?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was reading this is kind of interesting
Speaker 1: and it makes sense if you think, have you ever
Speaker 1: heard of phrygenomics, frygenomics?
Speaker 3: Mmm.
Speaker 1: This guy named Tassos Staspolos, He's a founder and managing
Speaker 1: partner of Trinetra. It's a London based investment firm.
Speaker 3: Is it the economics refrigerators for refrigeration.
Speaker 1: His way of looking and identifying trends and an investing
Speaker 1: in them is to take trips to developing parts of
Speaker 1: the world, get to know some locals and literally look
Speaker 1: inside their refrigerators. You can see where they are in
Speaker 1: the socioeconomic scale based on contents of the refrigerators. And
Speaker 1: if he's going in to say, a society that really
Speaker 1: hasn't had access to dairy products per se, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he's seeing milk and cheese and ice
Speaker 1: cream in these people's freezers. Like, hmm, things are improving
Speaker 1: around here. May want to invest in those type of
Speaker 1: technologies in this part of the world. Wow, And there's
Speaker 1: it's a proven track record of it has this whole
Speaker 1: This is a really long involved article. It's on Wired
Speaker 1: dot com if you want to check it out, But
Speaker 1: it's if you're an investor, you know you want every
Speaker 1: little edge you can have.
Speaker 2: Once you go to that village and you see they
Speaker 2: have check Cola, you're like, huh, that's it.
Speaker 3: I'm investing in yetties. You're gonna need to keep them cold.
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