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"Well, the good news is that I've got all of those services and that's why I don't have any money left at the end of the month. It doesn't matter. It's a leak in the bank account, a big hole in the back. So I think Netflix might still go ahead with this, but it's good that they had such a strong reaction to it that they had to say, oh, no. That was Chile. That was customary. But in the meantime, they're cutting back on their production. They're less original series coming out. I mean, I was watching a video podcast about this podcast yesterday about how Netflix is really trying to go on the cheap and they're not going to be investing as much great content if they had in the past. I mean, they just learning the really hard way that quality content costs lots and lots and lots of lots of money. And it's cheaper to make reality. And that's why cable went so heavily reality. And why Netflix was so refreshing, refreshing, because of all the premium content. And of course, it's now nosedived in the wrong direction. But it seems like that's just sort of one of a number of tech companies this week that are all just having an absolute nightmare with money, right? Well, look at the discovery Time Warner, whatever the hell I can't keep track of it. But the owners of HBO have basically moved stuff off of HBO, selling it to free TV and two B it's Pluto TV. Pluto, yeah. So, but the ads like every three minutes of the ten minute advertisements. It's horrible. I mean, how much they inundate you. They add them some of those channels. So you can guarantee that you can guarantee that that YouTube 60 bucks a month is going to be going up with a football because YouTube is down what 8% this quarter and the Google earnings. So you're still going to get just to be clear. Don't mean to scare people. Next season, when it starts in August, you will still get your local football games. Those will be broadcast on broadcast television. But the DirecTV had this NFL Sunday ticket package where you can see all the games on a Sunday. And they were paying a billion and a half dollars a year for it. It really was a money loser. The whole idea with DirecTV is, oh, we'll get all these new subscribers and that'll make up the cost of this and they just, it just didn't pencil out. It was also a terrible experience. That Sunday ticket, the way that they framed everything was just awful to watch. Really? How do you know? Yeah. Are you getting American Hulu again?
Bloomberg Radio New York
"time warner" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"2000, the Time Warner AOL deal goes through. You set up a family office and from that, you really start to expand into a lot of different public service and philanthropy. You mentioned the national advisory council on innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as president Obama's council on jobs and competitiveness, tell us a little bit about when you go from a nimble startup to a big merger to the government, what's the tradeoff? How difficult is it to move the ball down the field? Well, I think it's difficult for sure, which is why I do it only on the side. It's my moonlighting. My side hustle, my main event is focused on investing companies through revolution, but I do think it's important to make sure that I do at least everything I can to make sure America remains the most innovative entrepreneur nation. I do think it's important to try to as we discussed around rise of us, create a more inclusive innovation economy to bring along more people and more places. And while most of that, most of my time has been on working with those entrepreneurs as an investor and mentor, I do think it's important to make sure we have the right policy framework in place that creates as much opportunity as possible for many entrepreneurs as possible as many places in America as possible. So that led to the work around the national advisory council on innovation entrepreneurship more than a decade ago, actually a current secretary of commerce Gina raimondo restarted it recently asked me to co chair it again, so I agreed to do that and we're focused particularly on identifying some of the industry of the future where America really needs to lead and supporting this effort around regional hubs, including some of the legislation that passed recently to fund more regional innovation around the country. So it is less Silicon Valley. What's the big change in the decade that has ensued from the last time you were involved with this policy or this panel? So today? Well, some of the initial focus was on this access to capital side, which led to things like the job tag. Now it's I think a little more focused on access to opportunity with ties in with the work we're doing around rise of the rest. How do you create a level of the playing fields everybody everywhere has a shot? The American Dream. That's really what it's all about and trying to create more of that investment. It's also it's striking to me because I've been doing this now for a while. It lets you think about that early days of the Internet. We talked about AOL being in Northern Virginia outside of Washington, D.C., actually a number of the companies that were pivotal in that first wave were all across the country. It was not so much about Silicon Valley. For example, IBM's PC operations were in Boca Raton, Florida. Major online service time was in Columbus, Ohio. Hayes, the communications modem company was in Atlanta, Georgia, Brent, and other communications company was in Kansas City. Dell was in Austin. Microsoft actually started an Albuquerque before moving to Seattle. So that first wave of innovation in the Internet was regionally distributed. It was only the second way when it became about software that Silicon Valley rose to prominence. I think in the third way we can redistribute it again and have innovation in different parts of the country. And that's part of the focus of the policy. So I just do what I can to bring that entrepreneurial lens at investor lens to policy makers do it a very bipartisan way working with Republicans and Democrats trying to figure out what is the right kind of policy going forward. It's easier to do based on your question. This challenging to deal with these things sometimes it does feel like you're trying to move a mountain, but doing it occasionally on the side, it works for me. I have great respect for the people who are willing to jump in and do it full time. I think that's not my thing. It's tough. You mentioned the subcommittee on entrepreneurship, tell us a little bit about their work and what have they accomplished. Well, I think pivotal in terms of creating the framework and also the momentum around things like the jobs act. And the way we did that is we actually asked an outside consulting firm. It was a McKinsey to look at all of the ideas that have been put on table legislation that have been introducing Congress. Think tanks and others that would create a more entrepreneurial ecosystem all across the country. And the number of things were identified and we just kind of whacked away working on identifying what policy would have the biggest impact and I think we did make progress in lots of different areas. One area we did recommend that we spend more time on that we didn't make progress on, but hopefully still will be immigration reform. How do we make sure we remain a magnet for people around the world who want to come here and start companies here and create jobs here and how do we make it easier for people to come and people who come for universities, education, how easy for them to stay. So we can continue to lead the lead to charge. And continue to be that what's now a global battle for talent. So that one area that was a strong recommendation of that jobs council a decade ago that has not yet happened, but hopefully we'll in the future. In the U.S. there's a labor shortage at just about every level of the employment spectrum, entry level, work, farm work, all the way up to very senior technology people, what can we do to bring in the best and the brightest from the rest of the world? We've got to pass the legislation. Again, came close to this summer. There's some legislation called the startup Visa that essentially would make it easier for entrepreneurs who are going to did that go anywhere? To not get done. It was part of some broader legislation, but ultimately did not get that done. And I recognize that immigration is complicated and really emotional and become very political because there are various facets of immigration and securing the border, things like that. But on the specific issue of how do we get people from all around the world who have ideas and want to start companies, how to make sure those companies are started here and the jobs therefore are created here as opposed to created elsewhere. And we have seen in the last couple of decades, a globalization of innovation and globalization adventure capital. 25, 30 years ago, over 90% of global venture capital was invested in the United States. Now it's under 50%. So other countries have figured out that sort of the secret sauce that's sort of powered the American story is entrepreneurship and venture capital is part of that. And I even in this new book on the rise of rest talk about the need to focus on immigration reform focused on backing founders from all over the world and starting those companies in the United States, but obviously the key message is they don't have to be in Silicon Valley or New York or Boston. They could be in many other cities around the country, and that's what we're trying to promote. Let's talk a little bit about some of your philanthropic work. You join the giving pledge in 2010, tell us what that experience was like. I've heard some pretty amusing stories about working with Bill Gates and that process. Well, obviously I've known Bill Gates for decades. We were vigorous competitors in the late 90s and I was running AOL, but it was great to become partners around things around philanthropy, including the giving pledge. And on the gates and also Warren Buffett, known for quite some time. And so when they approached my wife Jean and I, when they were getting this started, it was over
Bloomberg Radio New York
"time warner" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"2000, the Time Warner AOL deal goes through, you set up a family office. And from that, you really start to expand into a lot of different public service and philanthropy. You mentioned the national advisory council on innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as president Obama's council on jobs and competitiveness, tell us a little bit about when you go from a nimble startup to a big merger to the government, what's the tradeoff? How difficult is it to move the ball down the field? Well, I think it's difficult for sure, which is why I do it only on the side. It's my moonlighting. My side hustle, my main event is focused on investing companies through revolution, but I do think it's important to make sure that I do, at least everything I can to make sure America remains the most innovative entrepreneur nation. I do think it's important to try to discuss around rise of rest, create a more inclusive innovation economy to bring along more people and more places. And while most of that, most of my time has been on working with those entrepreneurs as an investor and mentor, I do think it's important to make sure we have the right policy framework in place that creates as much opportunity as possible for as many entrepreneurs as possible as many places in America as possible. So that led to the work around the national advisory council on innovation, entrepreneurship, more than a decade ago, actually a current secretary of commerce Gina raimondo restarted it. They recently asked me to co chair it again, so I agreed to do that and we're focused particularly on identifying some of the industries of the future where America really needs to lead and supporting this effort around regional hubs, including some of the legislation that passed recently to fund more regional innovation around the country. So it is less Silicon Valley. What's the big change in the decade that has ensued from the last time you were involved with this policy or this panel? So today? Well, some of the initial focus was on this access to capital side, which led to things like the job tag now. I think a little more focused on access to opportunity with ties in with the work we're doing around rise of the rest, how do you create a level of playing fields, everybody, everywhere has a shot. The American Dream. That's really what it's all about. And trying to create more of that investment. It's also it's striking to me because I've been doing this now for a while. It lets you think about that early days of the Internet. We talked about AOL being in Northern Virginia outside of Washington, D.C., actually a number of the companies that were pivotal in that first wave were all across the country. It was not so much about Silicon Valley. For example, IBM's PC operations were in Boca Raton, Florida, CompuServe major online service time was in Columbus, Ohio. Hayes, the communications modem company was in Atlanta, Georgia, and other communications company was in Kansas City. Dell was in Austin. Microsoft actually started an Albuquerque before moving to Seattle. So that first wave of innovation in the Internet was regionally distributed. It was only the second way when it became about software that Silicon Valley rose to prominence. I think in the third way we can redistribute it again and have innovation in different parts of the country. And that's part of the focus of the policy. So I just do what I can to bring that entrepreneurial lens at investor lens to policymakers do it in a very kind of bipartisan kind of way working with Republicans and Democrats trying to figure out what is the right kind of policy going forward. It's easier to do based on your question. It was challenging to deal with these things. Sometimes it does feel like you're trying to move a mountain. But doing it occasionally on the side, it works for me. I'm great respect for the people who are willing to jump in and do it full time. I think that's not my thing. It's tough. You mentioned this subcommittee on entrepreneurship. Tell us a little bit about their work and what have they accomplished? Well, I think pivotal in terms of creating the framework and also the momentum around things like the jobs act. And the way we did that is we actually asked an outside consulting firm. It was a McKinsey to look at all of the ideas that have been put on table legislation that have been introduced in Congress. I think tanks and others that would create a more entrepreneurial ecosystem all across the country. And the number of things were identified and we just kind of whacked away working on identifying what policy would have the biggest impact and I think we did make progress in lots of different areas. One area we did recommend that we spend more time on that we didn't make progress on, but hopefully still will be immigration reform. How do we make sure we remain a magnet for people around the world who want to come here and start companies here and create jobs here and how do we make it easier for people to come and people who come for universities, education, how easy for them to stay. So we can continue to lead the lead to charge. And continue to be that what's now a global battle for talent. So that one area that was a strong recommendation of that jobs council a decade ago that has not yet happened, but hopefully will in the future. In the U.S. there's a labor shortage at just about every level of the employment spectrum, entry level, work, farm work, all the way up to very senior technology people, what can we do to bring in the best and the brightest from the rest of the world? We've got to pass legislation. Everyone came close to this summer. There's some legislation called the startup Visa that essentially would make it easier for entrepreneurs who are going to did that go anyway? To not get done. It was part of some broader legislation, but ultimately did not get that done. And I recognize that immigration is complicated and really emotional and become very political because there are various facets of immigration and securing the border or things like that. But on the specific issue of how do we get people from all around the world who have ideas and want to start companies, how to make sure those companies are started here and the jobs therefore are created here as opposed to elsewhere. And we have seen in the last couple of decades, a globalization of innovation and globalization of venture capital. 25, 30 years ago, over 90% of global venture capital was invested in the United States. Now it's under 50%. So other countries have figured out that sort of the secret sauce that's sort of powered the American story is entrepreneurship and venture capital is part of that. And I even in this new book on the rise of rest, talk about the need to focus on immigration reform focused on backing founders from all over the world and starting those companies. And the United States, but obviously the key message is they don't have to be in Silicon Valley or New York or Boston, they could be in many other cities around the country, and that's what we're trying to promote. Let's talk a little bit about some of your philanthropic work. You join the giving pledge in 2010, tell us what that experience was like. I've heard some pretty amusing stories about working with Bill Gates and that process. Well, obviously I've known Bill Gates for decades. We were vigorous competitors in the late 90s and I was running AOL, but it was great to become partners around things around philanthropy, including the giving pledge. And also Warren Buffett had known for quite some time. And so
Bloomberg Radio New York
"time warner" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Valuation, things like that. We're definitely going to talk about the jobs act and some of the public service you've done. But I want to stick with AOL as the first Internet company to go public, subsequently runs up 11,616%, not too shabby. Tell us what your experience was like being at the helm of a company as it as it went public. Well, the early days were still a little slow, but then finally in 95, 96, 97, things really took off and our growth dramatically accelerated went from a couple 100,000 customers to tens of millions of customers that market cap I mentioned when we went public of 70 million at the peak. It was 8 years later, a $160 billion. So it really was quite a ride. And we went from having less than 200 employees when we went public to 8 years later having 10,000 employees. And then we merged with Time Warner, so there was 90,000 employees. So it was quite a rocket ship. You mentioned the AOL Time Warner merger at the time, it was the largest merger in history, and somehow you guys AOL shareholders ended up with a majority of the stock, even though Time Warner was arguably much larger, more established company. What was that process like of negotiations? Did you approach them that they come to you? Tell us how that came about. Well, it came about because AOL had been growing rapidly and was the leader in what was then called the dial up era, the narrow band era where you were connecting your computers to phone lines. But we needed a path to broadband and the best path with cable system. Chad high-speed access. And so strategically there was a real value in merging with Time Warner and we also believe as the Internet evolved and you had higher speed. You'd have more multimedia content and having some of the brands that the Warner Brothers studios and Warner music and CNN and HBO and so forth, all part of this company would advantage us. And similarly, Time Warner was a great company, had been built through acquisitions over more than half a century. But they didn't really have a viable path to digital. So I did approach Jerry Levin as the was the CEO of Time Warner at the time and basically said strategic, I think it makes a lot of sense if we put these companies together, we have an opportunity to really kind of lead in the future and a lot of different ways streaming and so forth. And within the first minute or two of my little pitch, I said, I'd be willing to step aside as CEO to allow you to be CEO of the combined company because I believe in this and this idea. That's what happened. Coming up, we continue our conversation with
Bloomberg Radio New York
"time warner" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Dream. So let's circle back to 2000, the Time Warner AOL deal goes through. You set up a family office. And from that, you really start to expand into a lot of different public service and philanthropy. You mentioned the national advisory council on innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as president Obama's council on jobs and competitiveness, tell us a little bit about when you go from a nimble startup to a big merger to the government, what's the tradeoff? How difficult is it to move the ball down the field? Well, I think it's difficult for sure, which is why I do it only on the side. Instead of my moonlighting, my side hustle, my main event is focused on investing companies through revolution. But I do think it's important to make sure that I do at least everything I can to make sure America remains the most innovative entrepreneur nation. I do think it's important to try to, as we discussed around rise of routes, create a more inclusive innovation economy that brings along more people and more places. And while most of that, most of my time is spent on working with those entrepreneurs as an investor and mentor, I do think it's important to make sure we have the right policy framework in place that creates as much opportunity as possible for as many entrepreneurs as possible as many places in America as possible. So that led to the work around the national advisory council on innovation entrepreneurship more than a decade ago, actually a current secretary of commerce Gina raimondo restarted it recently asked me to co chair it again, so I agreed to do that and we're focused particularly on identifying some of the industry of the future where America really needs to lead and supporting this effort around regional hubs, including some of the legislation that passed recently to fund more regional innovation around the country. So it is less Silicon Valley. What's the big change in the decade that has ensued from the last time you were involved with this policy or this panel? So today? Well, some of the initial focus was on this access to capital side, which led to things like the job tag now. I think a little more of focused on access to opportunity with ties in with the work we're doing around rise of the rest, how do you create a level of the playing fields, everybody, everywhere, has a shot, the American Dream. That's really what it's all about. And trying to create more of that investment. It's also striking to me because I've been doing this now for a while. It lets you think about that early days of the Internet. We talked about AOL being in Northern Virginia outside of Washington, D.C., actually a number of the companies that were pivotal in that first wave were all across the country. It was not so much about Silicon Valley. For example, IBM's PC operations were in Boca Raton, Florida. Major online service time was in Columbus, Ohio. Hayes, the communications modem company was in Atlanta, Georgia, and other communications company was in Kansas City. Dell was in Austin. Microsoft actually started an Albuquerque before moving to Seattle. So that first wave of innovation in the Internet was regionally distributed. It was only the second way when it became about software that Silicon Valley rose to prominence. I think in the third way we can redistribute it again and have innovation in different parts of the country. And that's part of the focus of the policy. So I just do what I can to bring that entrepreneurial lens that investor lens to policymakers do it in a very bipartisan way working with Republicans and Democrats trying to figure out what is the right kind of policy going forward. It's easier to do based on your question. This challenging to deal with these things sometimes it does feel like you're trying to move a mountain. But doing it occasionally on the side, it works for me. I have great respect for the people who are willing to jump in and do it full-time. I think that's not my thing. It's tough. You mentioned this up committee on entrepreneurship. Tell us a little bit about their work and what have they accomplished? Well, I think pivotal in terms of creating the framework and also the momentum around things like the jobs act. And the way we did that is we actually asked an outside consulting firm. It was a McKinsey to look at all of the ideas that have been put on table legislation that have been introduced in Congress. I think tanks and others that would create a more entrepreneurial ecosystem all across the country. And the number of things were identified and we just kind of whacked away working on identifying what policy would have the biggest impact and I think we did make progress in lots of different areas. One area we did recommend that we spend more time on that we didn't make progress on, but hopefully still will be immigration reform. How do we make sure we remain a magnet for people around the world who want to come here and start companies here and create jobs here and how do we make it easier for people to come and people who come for universities, education, how easy for them to stay. So we can continue to lead the charge. And continue to be that what's now a global battle for talent. So that one area that was a strong recommendation of that jobs council a decade ago that has not yet happened, but hopefully will in the future. In the U.S. there's a labor shortage at just about every level of the employment spectrum, entry level, work, farm work, all the way up to very senior technology people, what can we do to bring in the best and the brightest from the rest of the world? We've got to pass the legislation. Again, came close to this summer. There's some legislation called the startup Visa that essentially would make it easier for entrepreneurs who are going to did that go anywhere? To not get done. It was part of some broader legislation, but ultimately did not get that done. And I recognize that immigration is complicated and really emotional and become very political because there are various facets of immigration and securing the border, things like that. But on the specific issue of how do we get people from all around the world who have ideas and want to start companies how to make sure those companies are started here and the jobs therefore are created here as opposed to created elsewhere. And we have seen in the last couple of decades, a globalization of innovation and globalization adventure capital. 25, 30 years ago, over 90% of global venture capital was invested in the United States. Now it's under 50%. So other countries have figured out that sort of the secret sauce that's sort of powered the American story is entrepreneurship and venture capital is part of that. And even in this new book on rise of the rest, talk about the need to focus on immigration reform focused on backing founders from all over the world and starting those companies. United States, but obviously the key message is they don't have to be in Silicon Valley or New York or Boston. They could be in many other cities around the country, and that's what we're trying to promote. Let's talk a little bit about some of your philanthropic work. You join the giving pledge in 2010, tell us what that experience was like. I've heard some pretty amusing stories about working with Bill Gates and that process. Well, obviously I've known Bill Gates for decades. We were vigorous competitors in the late 90s. And I was running AOL, but it was great to become partners around things around philanthropy, including the giving pledge. And when the gates and also Warren Buffett had known for quite some time. And so when they approached my wife Jean and I, when they were getting us started, it was over a decade ago. We were initially a little reluctant. To be that public about what
Bloomberg Radio New York
"time warner" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Still a little slow, but then finally in 95, 96, 97, things really took off. And our growth dramatically accelerated went from a couple 100,000 customers to tens of millions of customers, that market cap I mentioned when we went public of 70 million at a peak. It was 8 years later, a $160 billion. So it really was quite a ride, and we went from having less than 200 employees when we went public to 8 years later having 10,000 employees. And then we merged with Time Warner, so there was 90,000 employees. So it was quite a rocket ship. You mentioned the AOL Time Warner merger at the time, it was the largest merger in history, and somehow you guys, AOL shareholders ended up with a majority of the stock, even though Time Warner was arguably a much larger, more established company. What was that process like of negotiations? Did you approach them? Did they come to you? Tell us how that came about. Well, it came about because AOL had been growing rapidly and was the leader in what was then called the dial up era, the narrow band era where you were connecting your computers to phone lines. But we needed a path to broadband and the best path was cable system. Chad high-speed access. And so strategically, there was a real value in merging with Time Warner and we also believed as the Internet evolved and you had higher speed. You'd have more multimedia content and having some of the brands that the Warner Brothers studios and Warner music and CNN and HBO and so forth, all part of this company would advantage us. And similarly, Time Warner was a great company, had been built through acquisitions over more than half a century. But they didn't really have a viable path to digital. So I did approach Jerry Levin as the CEO of Time Warner at the time and basically said, strategically, I think it makes a lot of sense if we put these companies together. We have an opportunity to really kind of lead in the future and a lot of different ways streaming and so forth. And within the first minute or two of my little pitch, I said, I'd be willing to step aside as CEO to allow you to be CEO of the combined company because I believe in this idea. And that's what happened. Coming up, we continue our conversation with Steve case, chair, and CEO of revolution and cofounder of AOL, discussing his new firm
WGN Radio
"time warner" Discussed on WGN Radio
"You know I do this all the time. I come back from the break so I'm like answering an email or looking for something and I'm listening to a song and I'm singing along with it badly and then I realized, oh God I'm on the radio. All right, Arctic label that was Jimmy bishop's label in Philadelphia and Barbara mason was the artist obviously. She turned 75 this week, wrote, yes, I'm ready your biggest hit and okay. All right, so yeah, I love to know how it hurts then. Obviously, as you can tell, all right, Fran and Austin, welcome back to WGN radio. Hey, Raleigh. Did it again? What's that? What happened? Well, I did it again. I had no idea I was on the radio. I'm just listening to all of it. I'm thinking, wait a minute. Oh, yeah. Not only. I can see how that could happen. That would be probably be happening to me all the time. So I just get into listening to something and Gary will talk to me or something like that. And I'm just in the zone. When I get to listening to something, I really like, I just get in this zone where I don't pay attention to anything else. This is why I was such a lousy disc jockey and I've mentioned this many times. I was the worst disc jockey to ever grace radio. And part of it is severe attention deficit disorder. But you know, I'd start the record and invariably be a record I didn't like because these were hit radio stations. They played hit records. So I would, you know, during the record, I was like reading a book or whatever. And then the record went in and I think gee, the jock ought to change the record, and all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, hell, I'm the jock. I can't tell you at WRC in Indianapolis. That happened like 7 times a night. And these people must have thought I was passing out. But the reality was I just couldn't keep my attention span there. You know, how many times can you hear Chris Rea? Well, yeah, it sounds so easy when you're sitting here on this end, listening and you think, okay, where did they go? But I can so easily see that happening to me. Yeah. I can just very easily see that happening. But then right now I'm mad at Time Warner cable because they're not working. So I don't have Internet. Let's just do it. But wait a minute, you're in Austin, don't you have the ability to get Google fiber or something? I don't know if it's in this neighborhood or not. Well, it depends on whether the building I'm in okays it for one thing. And they probably won't because they're cheap. Well, I know when they were doing the outreach and now Google kind of walked away from that whole project. But when they were doing the outreach that we're making it pretty damn easy, as long as enough people agreed in the block or the neighborhood or the building. But it's worth checking out. So I would sure love to have it. But I think that we're going to get it here and I haven't heard anything else about it, and that was about two years ago. They might have, you know, I'm telling you they're pretty much abandoned that project, but it's a real shame. And I assume you don't have the possibility for ATT U verse. So with Time Warner, what are you getting on your upload speed? Not download. I have no idea. I don't know anything about that. I'm not that I know how to use it, but I'm not that I don't know, there are notorious. There are notoriously stingy with upload. Yeah, all I know is, I'm tired of them breaking down. You know, you're probably on the unlucky node, and this is the problem with cable broadband, is it's not created equal like, you can have two people on the same system and one of them is talking about, this is just the best and someone else is saying it goes down every Thursday, no matter what. Well, it has to do with the individual node. Now part of it is also how many people are on simultaneously. Of course, but apart from the fact that it's a shared resources resource, the nodes are not created equal. And in my location here, I have the misfortune of having had broad behavioral broadband in four different locations. And one of them, the node was so bad, it was literally every other day it was out. Now, thank God where the studio is I'm talking to you from it's rock solid. And what's so funny is this is the hood by every definition that has ever been known, but really, you know, I mean, it's just unbelievable. But it's got a rock solid node. And I said to John, I'm never leaving. This is my node. That's right. Exactly. Actually, it doesn't go out as much as I'm making it sound like because right now I'm mad because it's out. So I go down all the time, but really it's been a couple of months since it's gone out. But it just went out just when I was so I'm on my cell phone, which I usually don't like to call on. But anyway, that wasn't I have I had a dream that had you in it. I was talking on your show. Uh huh. And I unfortunately let the word flip that I didn't want to let flip. And so I was starting to go, and I know better than this, but I was starting to go, oh, I'm so sorry. And just when I started to say, oh, you said carry on. I just thought that might immediate you. But that's hilarious. Oh, real. I woke up the next day and I thought I had really done it. But the good news is that there's someone to master control at WGN who's in charge of watching for that because I do know that, and I also know that if you do something like that, you know, I mean, I've been a performer I've been on other radio shows. I know that if you do something like that, the best thing to do is just keep talking, don't call attention to it. And don't apologize. But the thing that got me about the dream was that I know better than to do that, yet I am so sorry, Raleigh. Oh my God, I didn't mean to do that. Well, it's so funny because years ago when I was at KOA in Denver I got off the air in a producer said, that was so cool. I couldn't believe you let those words slip all in a row and then you just kept talking and I said, what did I say? I had no idea. And so now I always say, you know, don't worry about the callers, worry about me. And because I will not necessarily know it. And I've tried
Origins with James Andrew Miller
"time warner" Discussed on Origins with James Andrew Miller
"Course of action? Apple came at a dinner, Tim Cook and etiquette. And suggest it will, we were trying to do this Apple TV thing. We've been talking around of which broadcast networks, which sports leagues would be in there. And we've thought that maybe the answer is the Turner networks. With HBO. And so we explored with them for several months in the fall of 2015. That Apple would put out a package of the Turner networks plus HBO for like 20 bucks. Didn't end up getting across the goal. They were focusing and quite successfully on what they were doing with the Disney brand. Disney we didn't do. Right. Which is the other one. And Disney ended up with Fox. I think they could have ended up with us. And that would have been a very good, I think, combination. Because they could have spun off the Turner networks and ESPN together, right? Yeah, and they are concerned, understandable. And again, we weren't talking. I mean, I used to talk to bob Iger regularly. We were a long time business colleagues. Competitors and allies in various things. We were co licensing together the NBA, for example. Which was a big, I don't know, $15 billion, I think we committed to that. And what they were concerned about, we all were in this business, was the basic cable channels. They didn't want more of them. They already had a pretty unique position at ESPN. That was their biggest basic cable channel in the bundle that had quite a number of channels there. And they didn't want the exposure to the Turner networks. No disrespect to Disney, but I would have taken Disney and Time Warner over Disney and Fox. That matchup of franchise's loan would have been unparalleled, don't you think? The strength of that would have been you'd had HBO plus the entire Disney IP family kids library and film operation plus Harry Potter plus D.C. plus marble plus learning towns plus Cartoon Network on a global basis with HBO as the platform. Obviously, you couldn't say publicly how disappointed you were that a Disney deal didn't work out. And I'm sure you would have liked to have been more vocal if you could about the motivations behind the AT&T cell. And here's another thing that annoys me about it. To have it said, which I haven't been in the press, countering this. That we didn't want to change anything that, you know, they had to go do whatever they did here. Because we were all stuck with our heads in the sand, not making changes, is absolutely not true. It's reductive. It is a false oversimplification. We were pivoting quite nicely at HBO. Did we have to speed it up? Yes, to digital. Did we have to go into more conflict with the cable distribution channels we were using? Yes, we did. That's why we wanted a big company like AT&T to absorb the blows that would come from it. And then our shareholders would know that we were going to see it through to the end, which we couldn't convince anybody of when we were just Time Warner. We weren't big enough. That was what should have happened. And they didn't do it. And it's a huge disappointment. I think it was malpractice. I think it was stupid. It's unfair to our people, and itself harm for the ATT Time Warner corporation, which ended them up where they are now in having to reverse course in exit. If you knew then what you know now, well, that's a good question. Would we not make the sale? What we would then do in a tough situation. No, no, we'd have to do something. So then what we'd have had to do with no overall corporate solution is we'd have to spend Turner, let it find a solution with some other set of basic cable channels, Warner HBO would be separate independent. Then you just watch your watch until somebody shows up with an offer that nobody can refuse for that. Of course, all that is built on the premise that if you knew then what you know now, you would have said no then to AT&T. You know, you're hitting me, it's a surprise. I have thought about it. I think maybe yes, in order to find a better home, I don't know how that would have fared the shareholders. They might have ended up behind in terms versus what we got. But it might have been better for the ongoing capabilities and the people at HBO and warners. Not necessarily the brand. And the brand. I had two groups of people I'm trying to protect. One is the shareholders got screwed every ten years at Time Warner. Let's not do it again. And the other is our employees who got screwed every time we did a bad deal. And I didn't want the employees to suffer, and I was trying to find a home for them. It would save and let them go on unmolested. And the saddest thing about this ATT deal, which did not have to go this way, is that it disrupted the operations programming and otherwise inside Turner and HBO in a way that was not optimal and not necessary. When we come back, Richard plepler will explain his two ends of Pennsylvania avenue theory. And mucus and plepler will look into HBO's future. Richard, was it difficult to run HBO when so much change was being contemplated at the corporate level? Well, remember the opportunity to say yes to what we as a team wanted to say yes to. Was just up against the reality of being a division of apparent company that had its own demands and requirements about our earnings and what we needed to deliver. So that was just an honorable tension between, as I would always say, you know, what in Pennsylvania avenue? Are you sitting on? Jeff's end to Pennsylvania avenue he has, earnings that he has to deliver to the street. He has a multiple which he has to be able to justify. He's thinking about different permutations of the company. If you're on my independence avenue, you know, look, you'd like to be able to charge a little bit less to your distribution partners because you know that that's going to result in more subscribers and you'd like all the resources for marketing that you could possibly get both for the show as themselves and for the brand. We didn't have that much money. Relative to what Netflix was spending and what others were spending. We had very little money. So we had to figure out creative ways to break through the noise of popular culture through free media, through events, through social eventually, and I think our guys did a very brilliant job in that. So would have liked my marketing money. We would have liked more programming money. And we would have liked, of course, the ability to adjust the price because the number one complaint of our partners are distributors was not that HBO isn't great. But it's expensive, right? So if we could have taken the price down a little bit, had more money for marketing, more money, that would have been terrific. But perfect wasn't on the menu. We had to deliver what we had to deliver. And.
Origins with James Andrew Miller
HBO Chairman Jeff Bewkes Saved Richard Plepler's Career
"In 1995, after then, HBO chairman Michael fuchs was unceremoniously fired. His replacement, Jeff mucus, was strongly urged by Time Warner heavyweights, Jerry Levin, bob Daley, and dick Parsons to fire fuchs right hand PR operative, Richard plepler. Actually, strongly urge may be an understatement. And that's because plepler was seen as being too tied to fuchs. Fostering serious doubts about whether he could be loyal to the company. In the wake of fuchs firing departure. But mucus showing some rather big balls to his bosses, refused to take plepler out, deciding instead to make plepler promise to dedicate his loyalty to the company, not to one of its past honchos. Plue kept his word, left pukes behind, and emerged as what might be called the chief storyteller of the HBO brand, both inside and outside the company. Plepler became CEO and chairman of HBO in 2013, presiding over historic growth and launching HBO now. The company's stand-alone streaming service, which eventually morphed into HBO Max.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"time warner" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm challenged wouldn't see that great chance of having a good success and things could as I said of the road could change And the judge could take that into account Guidelines are not meant to be God court outlining on treat a situation They are often designed but they cited So be seen how it would remain persuasive Then I'll judge we often followed by our automation where they judges set of guidelines but evidence for some might have been the old say something different Granted drug deals in the past did clear in fact I think Time Warner would like 18th probably Kind of a would be worse Similar patients They're less scrutiny for the other decades ago drawn giants Microsoft and hear about sued by the since it was in two decades department And I doubt it It hasn't been the fuck about or hasn't been taught as much as much of a focal and Facebook account for antitrust systems much as contacted by as you pointed out in Google amp got in a lot of Microsoft's troubled years Remember that court battle actually long that they sent long went through over many years out here to Scrooge And they had to that because they weren't even though they operated under ultimately weren't for constraints broken up scent agreement they answered to continue to behave in agree were operate certain ways being under that which basically plant agreement for prevented to have many years from engaging so in the kind of conduct Find a anti competitor now with you Some of these engaging in So other platforms and have kept them out that caught up the spotlight They really had to make Progressive snapshot can save you money based on how you drive and how much you drive So they say for you drive the more money you could save Now if you didn't hear that because you were looking at your phone while driving let me say it again Seriously put down your phone That is so unsafe If you didn't do stuff like use your phone while driving you could save money with progressive snapshot but saving or not just put it down.
AP News Radio
'Shang-Chi' Tops Box Office Again With $35.8 Million
"The latest Marvel movie continues a winning streak at the box office that brings our family after what was a surprisingly strong Labor Day opening for movies during the pandemic Shanxi in the legend of the ten rings the first Marvel movie to star in Asian superhero stayed on top in its second weekend in theaters collecting another thirty five point eight million dollars in ticket sales it's the second best weekend gross of any film during the pandemic edging out Black Widow on Friday Disney announced that all its remaining twenty twenty one releases including the internals will open exclusively in theaters and not on Disney plus at the same time Warner brothers horror thriller malignant with the stock debut of five point six million was also released on H. B. O. Max for subscribers disease Ryan Reynolds action comedy free guy also did well during its fifth week of release it's made two hundred and seventy six million dollars worldwide I'm Jennifer king
We Study Billionaires - The Investors Podcast
"time warner" Discussed on We Study Billionaires - The Investors Podcast
"As opposed to maybe a different philosophy. That deflects or is there. Is there any difference in. Approach there that you see. That's a great question man. And that's where i was heading at. You know what you could see was that there was definitely a difference in philosophy and culture So to your point you know you said. Hbo spending a decca million into gema franz and they're known for high quality content. And i think it was. Maybe in the thousand fifteen timeframe buster minus a year where netflix chief content officer ted. Sorrento's made his comment in an interview. Where he said that netflix his goal was to become. Hbo faster than hbo could become back. Flirts thousand really interesting comment right because our bet was. hbo methods may be up right. That's what we're betting on. Time warner and it was entirely driven by kind sort of this. Gary nominal view of like a difference in valuation methods. Oh so expensive. And i'm wondering speeding. At i wanna save every fifteen times earnings or something like that right around plus or minus but but what we saw what we got involved and they were paying attention closely to media. Space was that the management at time warner was still stuck. This idea of shareholders lawn. Is you know they wind. Current capital returns right. They want return cap on. This is a big theme from two thousand ten two thousand sixteen seventeen where large companies and adding says you know activism in the early two thousand. Ten's that drove them to be very much oriented towards return returning capital shareholders under investing in their own businesses. But on the other handy sauce started cultures like flexes where it wasn't a startup anymore. But it's still had that culture of innovation and looking to add to the customer and in a more dynamic agile culture behind focusing on the customer experience and deliver customer what would be valuable and enjoyable for them and then incrementally working to improve that over time and you're kind of building the mode ends up being at the end of the day. Delighting the customer by a term that any apple introduced sure. People have learned this from apple that delighting customers have very lucrative business body. Right at that is. Your focus is very lucrative on the other hand traditional media companies. Like time warner and we saw this with other media as well you know they were behold into this legacy see business model that was tied to cash flows coming out of the cable tv business now the time you looked at cable tv. I mean you had two hundred channels even watch. You paid eighty two hundred bucks a month for access to that video. And the average american i think this is were watches for five hours of television dead. But what will you saw. Netflix says that their customer engagement subscribers subscribers were spending two hours a day watching netflix there were highly engaged and yet they're only paying like boba for twelve bucks a month creating two hours of high quality engagement as a customer. When you also most customers also had cable television there were paying eighty two hundred bucks a month or and we're watching incremental. Two hours on that as the value proposition was vastly different. Right like a couple of that. Was this idea that people wanted access to video content quality professional your content anytime anywhere. He wanted i ipad iphone. The legacy media companies are all about limiting access to content. So you came to watch on a certain channel with show. You're watching once a week. It'd be binge as we'd like you had to watch a wedding day but Cable television to be that a certain time to watch as opposed to watch whenever. You're free whenever you wants. You had to you know watch under cable. Tv box either. Your cable television box As opposed to watching it anywhere now. Some of the media providers cbs. I think was one magazine. Little boy Allow that had acts on your tablet. They just started to happen yesterday. Implement you Anywhere kind of a thing to watch it anywhere. By the end of the day the experience was it was it was a lot of freshmen. It it was all about control controlling the contact is. They're so afraid of people. Stealing content or sharing. It with friends and netflix was not so. These are all part of your question about what about management and inherent culture the company. It was all about the viewpoint of for the media. Companies it was very much about profit. Maximization i to control my contact because then i want to control the economics around now that crew more cash book my customers for myself. Netflix model is more like we want to deliver a greatest fish their customer. So we'll start with that and then we'll worry about the other arts later and in the process there's a bunch of learnings that they had start one that to me was fascinated. Which is you know this. This idea of controlling your content right so going back to master back in the early two thousand when the music industry basically sued consumers for downloading music for free using napster it was about the media industries learned from that that they needed ways to control their context that it could be stolen by customers. And that's good. Of course right. You don't want that. But on the other hand with net flex their model is more around winning new new customer. We want people to walk. We want people to have access to content. We wanted to want it and then eventually they'll pay for. It was kind of the belief. And so i like to think that you know when you shared your necklace pass for friends and family. What really ended up being was a viral marketing strategy. Really annapolis so it had been in the news for a little bit analysts. Certainly on under calls would ask about. When would netflix clamp down on on password share access. This lost revenue sources by clamping. Down and netflix has always been danced around that topic not released so like like a direct answer to Address when address it and from our perspective that was just company realizing it's been honestly wanting to state it is that you know when i share my password with by my dad or my sister. My friend bills keep watch. Networks confidence for netflix incremental. Cost them watching it. But of course it could be mental revenue. Bear losing our when you look at netflix plans. Their standard plan allows you to have two simultaneous content. Streams visit third person that tries to access. It you'll a notification they won't be able to get access to it will happen. That is maybe you'll upgrade to their high tier four. Us streams so instead controlling monetization by the number of users net flicks was controlling monetization the number of streams and from a customer perspective if your content herreid comes to you and says you are stealing content from us by sharing your password right. That's wrong you know you're being a criminal. It's a very different experience than saying. Oh use that all your quota of extremes. Would you like to upgrade to add more. Imagine that looks like very easy to started. Asta upgrade or With my friend or whatever. Saturday come back to the flywheel. You're touching on the mode a lot. Which is something. I really am curious about admittedly. I'm a customer of netflix. I watch it probably right before bed almost every night. My wife and and i find it to be a resource for very bite-size type content. And i have so many questions around this will be the first one was if you know anything about the strategy with comedy because netflix leaned in really hard early on with with live comedy specials and it kind of makes sense economically in my mind. Right where it's it's probably cheap to produce relatively speaking you get a lot of value for for little and you and there's a lot of it out there that you could produce pretty quickly but it's.
The Remarkable Leadership Podcast
"time warner" Discussed on The Remarkable Leadership Podcast
"I kinda hate that phrase now more than ever because it's sort of like unprecedented lisa. Everyone's saying it all the time warner more than ever we've been saying so it's kind of become a throwaway line and yet it's true and that is that the reality is that we need to be leading from our values and so we're clear about our values checking something here okay. When we're leading from our values then we have a chance to be consistent. We had the chance to be leading with an example that will be valuable for our team. So that's a little of what i wanted to leave you with today. I believe that there'll be lots of things that will happen today. I mean the beautiful thing about live lisa. Is we don't know exactly what's going to happen today. Today is the first time that we will have guessed that someone that i not met either for real or virtually and so i'm excited for that but of the folks that even the folks that i know and have interacted with before we. I don't know what's going to happen. It's lives and so. But i'll bet i'd be willing to bet that things will come up today. That will relate to this idea of leading by example and I would say that the biggest compliment that. I feel that i can get as a leader is when someone says. He's doing what he says he's what he says others ought to do like you know. I'm in this position of teaching leadership and helping other things that people do that in the best best compliment. I can get this win. Saying doesn't just talk about it. He's doing it so we're all leading by example. Every day the question is are we setting the one that we want people to follow..
Slate's Culture Gabfest
"time warner" Discussed on Slate's Culture Gabfest
"Now we could have a long conversation about what his reasons for thinking that were and also maybe what the assumptions of the culture that time warner and honestly continue to be. It's not like victims are believed across the board still but your point is well taken which is like you know what probably should have been a criminal. Charge became a civil suit and then strangely became criminal again. Then to in these situations. I think The other part of it. That's really uncomfortable. Because a long strategy or longtime strategy of the cosby legal team was to try to discredit content as someone who's like extorting him some Who seeking a money. They would defame her and her mother for that and so part of the discomfort comes from the fact that this is about a financial settlement and agreement about what is fair in terms of damages from something like sexual assault and so the legal system frames money as perhaps the closest or next best thing to justice but the reason why we have that is because the other part of legal system doesn't take seriously so it becomes like monster the self-fulfilling prophecy of like where do women go in these types of situations. Yeah you're exactly right. I mean it would be. I suppose easy to Constand as a you know. I don't know monday gripping extortionist if money had been which hidden Been after but it wasn't. She specifically wanted justice she wanted to have him criminally charged and then the prosecutor said no. I'm not gonna do that here. Is you know my idea for what could happen next. So you as as we've seen with so many of these cases including a so many of weinstein's victims..
Citations Needed
"time warner" Discussed on Citations Needed
"Well because i think this is something we could actually be prescriptive about right if you are in control. Let's say that there was. I don't know five criteria of three criteria or whatever and you for whatever reason time warner. at and t. Put you in charge of that list. I don't know why they would do it. Let's say let's say that they were being held hostage by some citations needed fan. What would be the three criteria five criteria whichever you wish to answer what you would use when measuring the health or the viability of a city. Oh yeah that's a perfect question. First of all i don't know if i would be god. I think i just need to be a billionaire but close enough close enough. I would say one that. There's literally zero homelessness. There are no homeless people in the city and if anybody ever becomes displaced there are shelters crisis shelters so like how many crisis shelters are there. How many units of social housing available for working poor people if are even poor people at all so number one zero homelessness. I think number two. We would have a you know fully funded highly funded public education for every child school age child in the city every single person. I think have a literacy rate at one hundred percent number three. We would have a vast robust public transportation system that is free to the individual collectively paid for and a comprehensive healthcare system that includes comprehensive mental health care services.
Reset
The Internet, From Space
"The internet. It's how we work. How go to school how we see friends and family but not everyone has a good connection. And that's where a few companies come in with a sort of modest proposal. What have we got our internet from outer space. Adam clark estes deputy editor at recode wrote about this and is here to talk about it. Hey adam so surprising thing in your story that a lot of people probably don't already is that a lot of listeners. Already get through internet via satellite. That's how we get wi fi on planes for instance. So why hasn't this taken off more. Broadly satellite internet has historically been just a little bit subpar. When you compare it to terrestrial wi fi you're down on planet earth. We have fiber optic cables which basically have limited bandwidth and to do satellite internet. You're basically beaming connection from the address. Drill network up to a satellite and back down and technology just hasn't been good enough To to get bandwidth to enough people so that it compares to terrestrial broadband internet you get from verizon or time warner but that's starting to change with a new satellite technology and what are called constellations of satellites and has the pandemic at all sort of raised the stakes for this work and made it more. Urgent less-urgent tell me about that. Dependent is absolutely accelerated development and especially investment in this technology just after the pandemic starting to became incredibly clear. That a lot of people don't have internet access and they're being left behind young students who are able to get online for classes people who aren't able to to to work remotely so once. It became so clear that solving this problem of internet access was urgent a lot. More investment went into xilai broadband initiatives The number of launches went up quite a bit. And i think we're gonna see that. Investment continue and more these networks go online in the near future.
WSJ What's News
FTC Challenges Illumina’s Proposed Acquisition of Cancer Detection Test Maker Grail
"Federal trade commission has filed a lawsuit seeking to block gene sequencing company alumina from acquiring grail the developer of a blood test that promises to detect cancer early. The ftc says the plan seven point one billion dollar deal would diminish innovation because test developers have no choice but to use aluminum instruments the commission alleges that the company could raise the prices at charges to growls competitors and impede their research and development efforts. The case sets up a major test for us antitrust enforcement because the proposed deal is a vertical merger of companies. That don't compete head to head. The only other litigated challenge to a vertical merger in the past forty years was the justice. Department's twenty seventeen case against at and t.'s. Acquisition of time warner which the government
Biz Talk Radio
"time warner" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"To the business anywhere. So I found this one with the song. Keep running because this is kind of how we deal tonight. So, um, anyway Well, if you want to send us questions, you have any comments you like to make Um, about what? We talked about her like this, and it's a story. We always love stories. And like here, people you consent make it a good hate. You could send them to actually business people show dot com Or you can go to our website business. Beware show dot com and see some A bunch of stuff. I'm not even going to list. Not even close things up. Yeah, we live in a world of flub ups. Exactly. Well, you know, Speaking of love ups That's my B one s O. This is a former Marine that was fired from a job for lowering the flag on Memorial Day. So basically, he went to both the American flying half staff Morale today. A Memorial day. Alan born well, 29 was thinking about his best friend, a former Marine who had said he killed himself two years ago when he returned from the U. S. And so Basically he put the flag down. I believe you work for Time Warner Cable company, All right. Yes, yeah, and anyway, but they Ended up firing him. Over that. It's just I really don't even know that I really have word for that. I mean and honestly, like I read this, and I think. Oh, my gosh, This is crazy. Well, then you're telling me that this is the first time it's happened and I'm going. Why? Why is it? Why? Why does this keep happening? You know You know, and You don't get me started on this. You know, we live in a country where you can burn the flag.
Biz Talk Radio
"time warner" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Off to you, buddy. I'm gonna tell you right now. You know, he gave his job for that. Shame on you. For doing that to him. I mean, come on. It's exception to the rule. You're gonna I can't even go there. Well, I'm reading the comments on here, and it's kind of entertaining, so we probably can't read some of the Time Warner is not a Patriot company. And I mean most of their pretty negative towards you know, they should. They should apologize. I mean, because it's just it's just one of those things where, you know I don't care who you are. You can't do something like it. You know, Tom, but Tom about flags, there's no story. You love you heard about the firefighters that put the flag on the back of the truck. Well, they had a They had a, uh I think it was central country Fire District. Don't know exactly what it was. It doesn't say it on this what I've got, but the They were having they were having a meeting and one of the commissioners, whoever it was compared the practice of flying American flags on trucks to Isis. Flying it. It's black flag while riding around in Iraq. You know, you've seen all the pictures on YouTube. Everything got the flags, everything. Listen, That's what he says. They look like a bunch of yahoos. Galinsky said at a board meeting. Like in the paper like Isis and see you're going to take over a city. I don't think they need a big flag. He said that big flag. He didn't say. I don't think they need American player, he said. I don't think they need a big flag on the back of the truck. That's not American to me. Well, you know what you're I can't say what you are. Those are a bunch of terrorist. That's what he said. Hey, said. Those are a bunch of tears, So I'm going to ask you to take the flag off that truck. Later. Grusinsky apologize for the comment, claiming he chose his words poorly. That's only that Z boy,.
Biz Talk Radio
"time warner" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Welcome back to the business anywhere. So I found this one with the song. Keep running because this is kind of how we build and I am so Yeah. Um, anyway. Well, if you want to send us questions, you have any comments you like to make, Um about what? We talked about her like this since the story. We always love stories. And like here, people Um, you can send make it a good hate. You could send them to actually business Beware show dot com Or you can go to our website business. Beware show that come and see some A bunch of stuff. I'm not even going to list Not even close to slip up. Yeah, we live in a world of flub ups. Exactly. Well, you know, Speaking of love ups I think this might be one s O. This is a former Marine that was fired from a job for lowering the flag on Memorial Day. So basically, he went to both the American flying half staff Morale today. A Memorial day. Alan born well, 29 was thinking about his best friend, a former Marine who had said he killed himself two years ago when he returned from the U. S. And so Basically he put the flag down. I believe you work for Time Warner Cable company. It's all right. Yes, yeah, and anyway, but they Ended up firing him over that. It's just I really don't even know that I really have words for that. I mean and honestly, like I read this, and I think. Oh, my gosh, This is crazy. Well, then you're telling me that this is the first time it's happened and I'm going. Why? Why is it? Why? Why does it keep happening? You know You know, and, um You don't get me started on this. You.
710 WOR
"time warner" Discussed on 710 WOR
"And something. Disappeared. There's no energy We had a store in the Time Warner Center and I walked in there literally. There was nothing I could buy. And I knew this company was in trouble. To make a long story short. And why am I talking about pink right now? Because I'm talking about color and pink for a long time was my favorite color, reading in the paper that the closing up the business and selling off what's left really disturbed me. I want to serve me Even Maura's another company, using cove it to hide behind. Thomas. Pinkel started going down long before Cove it I can't point my finger at. I don't know who was there, or what was there? I only know I saw the change. It grieves me. Have spent that time in the company having so much respect for the brand. To see it going down. But tonight we're talking the color of money. Think seems to have lost some money. I'll be back in a moment. Always in fashion thistles, Mark Weber. This is always in fashion. 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He has to do with fashion. I don't believe And standing out. I'll allow my personality to stand out. I believe my clothes should complement May And there is nothing More versatile in this world. That you pretty much can wear wherever you want to go except black tie. In khaki. Jackie's comfortable it's casual. It could be dressed up, it could be dressed down. But you can blend in. There's a comfort level in khaki khaki began. Where did it come from? In the 18? Hundreds military people started wearing khaki. In fact, it was the British who started it. To khakis always been warned by the military. They get it. The idea is look sharp. Look. Press look good. Glendon. Do you realize we would all be speaking with a British accent? If the British understood khaki and 17 76, you gotta explain that one to may just think about that. Hold. The British army was wearing red coats. We could see them for Mom Mile away. The Patriots, the settlers People who became the founders of this country was shooting them picking them off. It was easy. They were walking around and red coats where our guys were dressed and rugged outdoor where Blended in with the trees in the Bush. British war in red. If they even figured this out of a few years earlier, we'd all have British accents. You're saying that the color red is the reason where the United States of America right now I do believe that, Yes, it even said it. I've seen articles about it. But the point is khaki is a great great color. It's always been one of my favorites. I got lost in it a while. You know, candy cane, you queer two things. Your traditional with a mattress pledge shirt always looks great with cashmere sweaters, Penny loafers. I love bass region penny loafers. They look great, and that's the way of traditional people do it. Put a Navy blue blazer on in there, Boom. They could go anywhere. Trusted up dresses that I, for one am a modern guy. When I wear my khakis, I'll tell you what I do. If this went to time when we're in a black turtleneck sweater summertime, I'll either wear a black shirt or I'll wear a black sweater v neck with a white shirt underneath it. When I want to dress it up a bit. I wear a denim shirt with a black place. The black makes the khaki stand out. I'm always wearing black suede shoes. But if I was gonna go out for a night, and I wanted to wear Kecks, I'd probably wear a black turtleneck, khaki pants, black suede shoes and a black top coat looks sensational. I love the color Khaki. I think you all should think about it. I think you ladies know how to deal with neutral colors, and they always look great. And you want to talk about making money. You put khaki pants in your store. They never go out of style. You never have to mark them down there there forever. The right khaki shirt is always a staple in Ralph Lauren. I like it. And this whole thing about the military is just learned the lesson. Think about camouflage. It's not red. It's not Royal Blue. It's the color of the Sander. It's the color of the trees. I love it. I want to take a little variance. Somebody sent me something in the mail that I can't help but I guess act out. So I was thinking about money. And after tonight, of course, and I was thinking about where is the world going? I've talked about. I always was concerned for the future of mankind after I saw the Terminator I've been worried about robots, then I've been worried about clones, but I realized artificial intelligence It's starting to really make us nervous. They know too much about everything. You know, we're giving our lives away to our phones or I pits of computers. They're controlling everything. And where is all our money going? We're encouraging it. Talk about color tonight. You don't think technology cares about color liquid metal. Look at the color they used in that movie and the Terminator. Look at your iPhone. It comes to six or eight colors now. Everything is about color. Somebody sent me this and I thought it was worthy of a call out Salmon home. I am pretty much house under house arrest. I'm here. The only thing missing is electronic ankle. But I needed to order Some food and I came across this from someone which I thought was very apropos. This is what it's like. What are your pizza now? Hey, is.
The Chalene Show
Start Something Stupid with Richie Norton
"Do you do the economy's changed. Jobs are not as prevalent as they. Once were in many people report. Their businesses are down as much as seventy five percent. Is this the right time to start something new or is that just a stupid idea. Well let's hope it's a stupid idea because today that's what we're talking about how powerful it is to start something stupid with the author of the book the power of starting something stupid. My friend marketing impact academy alumni. Richie norton well richie. Thank you so much for joining me today. I'm really excited to do this. You just the finest person in the world. Oh man you're the best an honor. I've been waiting my whole life for this very moment right now. I know for real though. I love you so much. I know you're asking me questions yet. But i've done mia. i've been there. I've followed you've taught me everything i know. Everything i say is straight from you just coming through my mouth. I dunno honestly so grateful for you. And what what you do for the world. Oh my gosh check is in the mail amazing because like literally this week. I have a hard copy of your book but for some reason. I bought a kindle this week and i'm just like oh my gosh this is so inspirational. There's so much of that. I need the world to hear right now because now more than ever i think people are really starting to realize nothing is certain d- i have to be in control of my own destiny and there's so little that i can count on that. Maybe now is the time that i considered like doing my own thing. It's sort of and you're just really motivate people to do that. Yeah you always had that kind of spirit you know. I don't know even as a kid my mom would encourage me and but also encourage my own willingness to try and help other people like the kid that no one else likes. You know i'd go and hang with that guy you know what i mean. I guess that's in my nature but as far as it into things that serve people enter. Entrepreneurial i mean i grew up with that by dow is entrepreneur. My grandpa was an entrepreneur. So he kind of taught me to think in different ways you know and so. I don't know if it's innate or learned but i've definitely been doing it for a while let's are the people who struggle with it right because we both work with those types of individuals now and i mean in the intro. People got to hear about how vast your experiences like. You're one of those guys who knows something about freaking every word making it up as a but there's i find that there's two different types of people those people who are like the really down to experiment to fail and it's like it's just not a big deal. They don't even think twice about it. They just leave. They jump to go for it. The hardest people for me. I feel like to reach in the ones that. Keep me up late at night. I suspect this is probably true for you to are those people who are so paralyzed by perfection. The ones who worry endlessly about is the right thing. Is this the right time warner people are gonna think what if i'm doing this wrong and i just i don't have that gene and i know you don't either but tell me about those people who you've worked with that maybe when you first working with them like how did you help them to break through that mentality. 'cause i know there's people listening right now that's that's me my hands are up to. How do you break through that. Okay this is my head spinning always examples but let me back up real quick lake. There's the voices that are outside that we hear there's the voice in her head that we hear and we tend to actually the had a lot. We also start to filter the voices of others almost in a way to say what we want them to hear. Even if it's negative someone might say like you're saying goes out of business and they here. Yeah but that's not for me. No no that's not what she leans set that it is for you. I remember i was sixteen years old. I wanted to make some money. I told my dad. I wanna make some money in the summer. We'll get like a minimum wage job. Picking up trash at like the local carnival. Or whatever i was going to do. He said worst add ever. He says you don't want to. Who says that he said no. I'm from san diego. He's he's a go to el centro and ask the watermelon farmers if you can either irregular sized watermelons from them that they couldn't sell to the stores because they're oddly shaped and i'm like okay. He gave me a little bit of seed money so to speak and filled up our family. The antic out the seats with these water mounts me and my brother. I was sixteen. Fourteen came back. Call up all my friends. parents said. Hey guys watermelons. It's almost the fourth of july. Do you want to buy them. They said yes. Probably its climate kid and whatever. I'll tell you what i learned from this process. I made more money in one day on the fourth of july. Then i would made the entire summer. Working minimum wage is what entrepreneurship learnable skill. It's just that sometimes we're not getting the right voices. We're not listening to the right people or filtering those voices in a way. That doesn't serve us about that. Filtering process like so. Do people know that they're filtering. How do you change the filter right. So we're filtering. It's like cognitive bias. Like we all. Let's yeah yeah. no it's true. Let's play with that for a second like you mentioned people who procrastinate and a lot of people associate the whole chapter my book on procrastination i've studied a procrastinator myself and people associate procrastination laziness when in reality the trait most associated. You can google stuff. People don't believe me the trait most associated with procrastination is immediacy. And you have to always do something right now.
The Tech Guy
Google antitrust case is opening salvo in war with Big Tech
"What is the latest? You might ask what is the newest Mr Mr Tech Guy if that's what your name is, what is the latest news? about the IPHONE, right? We don't have to talk about that Ad Nauseam. You either get under you're not if you're getting you're getting excited and if you're not then you don't care. You're happy with whatever you have. there is some question of course about whether the iphones camera. Will. Best the? The camera of the. I guess the current leader, which is the Pixel Five. I don't include Samsung in that bunch. I know a lot of you do mike beat our chases my my Samsung as twenty as a best camera ever. But I think most camera nuts photography nuts will have to ask Chris, martyr foget. But most of most of the camera shots I know, say they too much processing in the Samsung both Google and? I phone to a more. Natural Look. And yet, both are using the state of the art and computational photography get more detail to get better low light performance. Number of people. Including Marquez Brownlee, the Youtube Star. Are Now weighing in saying you know. Even the old pixel. Even, the Pixel four four, a has a better camera than the new iphone. Isn't that's shocking. I think they're both I have to say I, think they're both so good at this point. That it's really now even the Samsung it's really now matter of personal taste. The opinion. Not, so much. The actual quality of the images which you like better. All of them do some significant processing it's just whether you like more or less than. How well they do in low light I'm looking for we haven't seen the iphone Pro Max, which is going to be the best of the new iphone twelve. Bunch because it's got the biggest sensors got It's actually kind of a cool technology. Optical image stabilization and it does it by when you jiggle the phone you know because you're his hand held, it jiggles the sensor, the chip. To, match your jiggles to to to smooth it out. And that's something really I don't think we've ever seen a phone before we've seen in high end cameras but have a phone. That's pretty good. Pretty good and the iphone you know is when just out of the box I think gives you a great images so we'll see. We'll. See What else? What else is going on? facebook and twitter CEOS are going back to court tested dot court Congress to testify a little bit more. This was the week that the Department of Justice decided to go after Google for. Being a monopoly for. Antitrust. Interesting. It's going to be interesting. We've been waiting for this. For a while everyone knew that the justice, department is going to file this suit and there's some merit I have to say there's some merit in the suit. because Google is Jain. ORMUZ and it does use its advantage in search. About eighty percent market share and search to help it I think in other areas it's for instance in advertising at both makes the market. Sells the advertising and places the advertising. Functions that could all three of them be separate? But Google does it all and that kind of might tilt the plainfield a little bit in their favor? But Google is quick to say well, but there's other places you can go to buy ads come on we're not the only one. So it'll be interesting to see the. Of course you remember the last big. Antitrust lawsuit against. which was who almost a little more than thirty years ago with the Department of Justice going after Microsoft, they don't go after many. Tech companies after many companies at all, there's only been one big antitrust action in the last twenty some years. And that went that went out with a fizzle that was the time Warner. CNN. Merger. with what was it at and T. Half I can't even remember anymore. That was really kind of a little bit politically motivated. I have to say and it went by the wayside pretty quick. Could say there are those who do this is politically motivated as well. If that's the case while I wonder. what will happen I don't know. We'll see. but I as I said I, think there's some merit in The case I don't think anybody would end the e probably gonNA pursue their own action. In this regard I don't think anybody would disagree with that and yet what do you do you? You can't break Google up. To. Make Google Sell Youtube in the shopping and just stick to search maybe sell advertising. I don't know if that's a good solution.
Reset
The Internet, From Space
"The Internet, it's how we work how go to school, how we see friends and family. But not everyone has a good connection and that's where a few tech companies come in with a sort of modest proposal. What have we got our Internet from Outerspace Adam Clark estes deputy editor at recode wrote about this, and is here to talk about Adam. Surprising thing in your story that a lot of people probably don't already know is that a lot of listeners already get through Internet via satellite. That's how we get wi fi on planes for instance. So why hasn't this taken off more broadly satellite Internet has historically been and? Just. A little bit sub par When you compare it to terrestrial Wifi, you're down on planet earth. We have fiber optic cables which basically have limited bandwidth and to do satellite Internet. You're basically beaming connection from address Joe Network up to satellite and back down and technology just hasn't been good enough to to get with to enough people so that it compares to terrestrial broadband. Internet. You might get from a variety inner time Warner A, but that's starting to change with new satellite technology and would call constellations of satellites and has pandemic at all sort of raise the stakes for this work and made it. More, urgent less-urgent. Tell me about that depend epic is. Really accelerated development, and especially investment in the technology. Just after the pandemic started, it became incredibly clear that a lot of people don't have Internet access and they're being left behind young students who aren't able to get online for classes, people who aren't able to to to work remotely. So once it became so clear that solving this problem of Internet access was urgent a lot more investment went into Xilai. Broadband initiatives the number of launches went up quite a bit and I. Think, we're GONNA see that investment continue and more these networks go online in the near future Gotcha. So who exactly is trying to do this? What are the different companies that see a future in? Internet for space, the two companies being talked about both right now our space x and Amazon both of them are launching what are called low earth orbit constellations into space this year, and in addition to them, there are companies that have had satellites These are the companies that. You. Probably. Use to get a connection on a plane or a train and via sat and Hughes two big players in that space and part of the idea is tabby satellites be sort of a low orbit, right? So there are two main types of satellite broadband setups. One is geosynchronous satellites geosynchronous satellite. Okay. So A geosynchronous satellites as above one place on earth and spins with the earth so that it can be connected down to to anywhere on the surface at any given time. The second kind and this is sort of the the newer more exciting type according to some. This is what spacex, Amazon or doing. These are called low earth orbit satellites. Geosynchronous satellites are thousands of miles above the earth surface low orbit satellites. However, as the name implies are much closer, they might be as little as three hundred miles above earth surface. I think it SPACEX, they're going to be about three, hundred and. Forty miles above the surface, and that means that the distance that the signal has to travel is much less, which means you get lower latency that means you won't get a lag on a connection and because there are a lot of different satellites, Elon Musk, and spacex say that you'll have a bandwidth that will be able to compete with terrestrial broadband and even fiber optic networks, Gotcha and SPACEX and Amazon are doing this. I assume just because there's money to be made right I. Mean I got think. There's a bounty at the end Elon. Musk has said that he just wants to get into the business and he wants to disrupt the telecom business and he believes that he can make enough money doing. So to help fund his mission to colonize Mars. Amazon hasn't said that much about why they're doing it It might also be just to get into the telecom business in compete in an industry that is is fairly monopolized. Others have hypothesized at Amazon wants to get into the satellite broadband business because then they could be their own first customer, Amazon web services, of course, offers a lot of cloud computing technology and the ability. To be connected to the Internet anywhere on Earth, could do a number of different great things, aws. Got It. So the answer is a mix of just straight up capitalism money to be made if we don't make it someone else will, and then another incentive is that this could be pretty synergistic with the main business and I'd add a third thing and and everybody mentions this. Bridging the digital divide is not only good for business. It's sort of good for mankind connecting more people to the Internet stands to have great unforeseen benefits space experts didn't says. The connecting people that previously could not get Internet access in parts of the rural United States and southern Canada. Like the Pacific Northwest Region is where they've had Beta, testers and I think that a lot of different companies have really pursued the dream of satellite broadband because it can reach people in areas that no one else can these are areas that aren't served by big telecom companies where there aren't fiber optic cables and in fact, would be expensive to build that infrastructure that no one has ever going to do it.
Planet Money
Small America Vs. Big Internet
"When we met grant goings a few months ago he was holding a copy of the local newspaper and he was so proud of the story on the front page. It was about this new kind of municipal uber system in his town. So for like a Buck Fifty. You can call come pick you up. Take you to where you're going. We're super excited. Grandpa is a total wonderful civics nerd and for the past fifteen years. He's been the city manager of Wilson North Carolina. The city of Wilson has a population of about fifty thousand people. It's downtown is full of these giant old brick warehouses that used to be filled with tobacco. But now there's a microbrewery barbecue restaurants. This city has managed to transform itself into a manufacturing town they attracted bridgestone tyres and Merck pharmaceuticals but they were starting to worry about keeping those businesses because by the time grant got to Wilson in the mid two thousands. The city had a problem. It's Internet. They're hearing from businesses that the Internet not so great and maybe worse they were also hearing from the little league parents facilities would go down frequently and so someone will be halfway through registry the kid there would be some type of breaking service. They'd have to start. All over again. Crashed Little League registration in two thousand and five. I mean come on in other parts of the country. People were discovering nickelback online. Wire with no problem. The Internet could be so much better so grand goings called a meeting with the local Internet provider. Time Warner Cable and the local telephone company and then we sat down and we basically had a few Ask so number one was. We asked them to heavily. Invest in upgrading. The system we. We'd sort of felt like we knew that answer no interest. Yeah the answer was no time Warner cable. Now Charter didn't agree to an interview for this story but you can understand their answer. They're like. Why would the existing company invest a ton of money? Just to wind up with the same customers. They already have. It's a questionable business decision at best. But that's okay no problem. Gran had prepared option number to partner with us. What if Wilson pays to build the top of the line Internet infrastructure fiber optic cables? Then Time Warner could offer their service over these super fast lines town had built. The answer to that question was where the second largest cable provider in the country. Why would we partner with you? Which only left option number three? The city would do it alone. Grant told Time Warner fine. We'RE GOING TO BUILD. And run our own fiber optic network and that's when the laughing started and they very quickly exited after that they literally laughed at you in your office absolutely. Yes and have admitted that did that like light. A fire for you did for me. That's the day that you said it's on it's hello and welcome to planet money. Kenny Malone and I'm Wilson Fair no relation to the city of Wilson and not only would time Warner cable laugh in the city of Wilson's face. They would actively fight to stop the city from building. Faster Internet it is a fight that has now spread to dozens of other states. We started reporting the story before the pandemic. But it's more relevant than ever because this is a big part of the reason that it's very hard to move to little towns around the country and make a living working remotely
Squawk Pod
AT&T CEO John Stankey on the launch of the HBO Max streaming service
"Joe Kernan. Kicking things off with John. Thank you this morning on Squawk box. John Thanks for coming on today. It's great great to have you with us you me on. I know you have high hopes for. Hbo We all know HBO. Obviously it's synonymous with some of the greatest things ever on video. Obviously game of Thrones Sopranos etc. You WanNa take on Netflix. And I understand. I think that's interesting because I don't know whether it's true or not. But supposedly someone said maybe we should have some kind of alliance with Netflix's someone suggested that you and you said we want to crush Netflix's Adams John you want to replace net flicks or at least be a very potent competitor refrains US Navy. Some on what I would call not accurate reporting on the New York Times Are hellacious is going to multiple streaming services knowing forward in pretty consistent. I think if you look back over the last year of domain around my conversation that our goal frankly is not to be. Netflix's our goal is to be something different and there are other senior services are starting to show up on the market that clearly different ease for the customer. Hbo Mass is going to have a unique focus in a unique position with the customer in play our game. Our goal is at crush flights. Our goal is to make sure that we meet customer needs engaged every day household. Find something worthwhile in time with us. And that's what we're GONNA see foes I guess they didn't so that was in the New York Times but that was that was not accurate according to so that. That's not a quote from you that that's interesting Anyway but I I guess the reason I led with that John is that I think about net flicks and everything. That's there and from documentaries to movies to programming that they generate themselves. That is a big universe of things that they have how will HBO? Max and I just said you're not going to strive to be everything to all people but you probably do need to add some things to the offering to make it so attractive that people have it in addition to the other streaming services absolutely a clearly customer Nanna. What's current as from kind of traditional media through the pay TV bundle and general entertainment content coming into the streaming world has credible number of choices of what to do with their time and then he going all dynamics in the digital environment about France capabilities to good use generating content? Like there's no question. There's more choice after today than there ever has been in paradise choices. Feel Max Niece resolve needs on the customers. Says you know I'm looking for something? That is this particular need of where I stand right now at my mood or my family situation that it's the first thing you think about that. I can go and no one wanted to find something. That's curious down. Who in meaningful selection of high-quality is Gonna? Hit the mark for me in the consistency. That happening time and time again clearly. The a hallmark more for the bran and for the service. And that's what we believe where you will focus on a more carried. Orderly got such a talented team. It warned me be do dat curate in that fashion just doing it for the demo outstanding the entire family. And you point out that that it's it's not much difference in price from what people are paying for now with with. Hbo So you have done some surveys. And what you saw one out of five people might decide not not to go with with Max. But it's not not much of a difference between just converting what they have now into HBO. Max Oh you don't you. Don't see any churn in that respect a difference were selling at that price day with just the HBO product which is a product that has half as much content is what HBO. Max New Offering Margaret. So you twice content same price and I think if we're seeing all of us everybody who's in the streaming business utility matter fact increasing during these unfortunate moments going through right now at this pandemic that's increasing dramatically so the performance of house value arrive actually increasing as a result. So you know our job is to make sure. The customer finds the equation to be done that for over thirty million customers with a long period of time in our goal is to extend that out beyond the family. I think we've got a really strong probability Andrew John. It's great to see you this morning. And congratulations and good luck on the on. This launched the question. I have two questions. The biggest I think is a distribution question. Which is and. Maybe you can explain what's happened with the likes of comcast parent company of this network. Amazon and Roku which a stoically with been strong distribution partners for the HBO product but are not on board at least from what I understand at the moment with HBO. Max and what that does to your reach a Bra List and distributors who are working with us the traditional and the market is the pay TV. Marcus actually signed on going to carry four. They're going to be successful years with. Hp Amax just like they were HBO along the providers doing that. Frankly you mentioned your parent company I'm optimistic still opportunity for something to be on there. I suspect that there's an opportunity that need other pay. Tv providers are given the vast majority. The ECO system is a likely become interview just useful. Come her moving forward. I think the interesting dynamic you're alluding to is Roma who Amazon at this point elected mocked distributors. I got and I didn't expect first of all have distribution across the entire race. I think must be doing something rightist. Somebody believes now to be more in conflict with your business so I don't necessarily take a bad sign but I do find it a bit ironic when I think banning litigation heard prior to the Time Warner eighteen transaction closing the concern was about withholding content from traditional distributors. And what we have now. We actually have dynamic where we have. New Technology viewers individual H. Who are likely not student and I think that dynamic is an important one understanding shows fast. The market's moving how we got to respond to those changes. I just to follow up with one other question which relates to this which is speak to the marketing challenge which. I think there may be one in terms of getting people to download the APP because some of these cable operators aren't going to necessarily be carrying it as an on demand on the box if you will so so what has to happen given that you do have these multiple brands and getting people to understand that they need to actually go get this. Get this particular product. It's a good question this
2 Docs Talk
Melanoma Medicine
"Just to be clear there are lots of different kinds of skin cancer knowing them as just one of many chewed chewed happens to be the kind of cancer that comes from land sites which are the cells in our skin that make pigment and it's the third most common type of skin cancer right right behind squamous cell and Basal the Cell Carcinoma. And I would say it's also the scariest meaning people rarely die from squamous or Basal cell cancers but definitely can with melanomas right but let's not feed people out the five year survival for all. MELANOMAS is greater than ninety percent so that's good true. The thing to know is that survival rates are dependent on the size of the melanoma. Ah really the depth of the melanoma so if the melanoma just involves the top layer of skin. That's good treatment is almost always curious. Yeah but if the melanoma extends down into deeper layers of the skin or even metastases to different parts of the body then the five year. Survival rates dropped precipitously so for stage four disease which is the worst. The five year survival rate is pretty crappy. I think around twenty five percent. Yes so for obvious reasons. There has been a big emphasis on prevention and early detection. The idea being if you can find these things before they grew too big or too deep in prognosis will be better right so the first thing with respect to prevention is who is at risk because the risk of developing a melanoma is not the same for everyone. Yeah so people who are fair complected have blonde hair especially red hair and blue or green. Eyes are at an increased risk from Elena's. Yeah I think it's like twenty times more common in white people than black people. Yeah all white people I guess. Yeah Yeah and also if you spend a lot of time in the sun or -taining booth that's not good. Yeah we're talking to you. Donald trump does he couldn't attaining booth. I thought that was just a Tan from the spray on. It might be anyway if if you've got sunburn when you were a kid or teenager that's also not good. You know every time I right now. I'm just like checking every box I just cringe. I mean growing growing up. We spent so much time at the local pool. My mom would just drop us off at ten. For Time. Warner cod same. The lifeguard lifeguard was our babysitter but anyway that wasn't good. It was fun but not good. Yeah also win. The lifeguard wasn't there we douse ourselves with ketchup. And then fall at the diving boards like we'd been shot. I still feel really guilty about that. But it was also not good in a little disturbing. No good for the soul. But we digress. There are also some heritable disorders orders and genetic mutations that ran families that's put some people at risk and Radiation therapy in childhood also. So that's not good and people who just have a lot moles that increases the risk of developing melanoma. Okay so that brings up a question. If you're somebody that has a lot of moles. How can we tell them? Melanoma from Benign Neva or a normal old mole. What is melanoma look like? Well there are some characteristics that can help us tell good from bad but before we get into those we should probably say see. That doctors aren't really very good at predicting good from bad. I mean we're better than a crap. Shoot you mean better than fifty fifty right but even dermatologists the folks that look at these things all the time. I'm only get it right about seventy percent of the time so means that means if you're a good dermatologists you're still be removing normals. Pretty often right so anyway. There are a couple of tricks they teach you in Moscow to help you get it right one being the ABCD rule. Okay let's see if we can remember that far back as stands for a symmetry if the mole is asymmetric metric. That's not a good time right and be is borders. The borders are irregular. Also not good for color so lots of different colors red white blue also black and gray not good a mole should be just one homogeneous color right not a variety just read is okay just blues okay but not various colors then. D is diameter if the mole is six millimetres wide greater gus worrisome and finally which stands for evolve if you've had them all for years and then suddenly it starts to changing color shape size. Whatever north boy no moles should not evolve? Yeah they should remain uninvolved evolved. Yes also let's not forget. The Ugly Duckling will or one of these things is not like the other rule exactly so if someone has a lot of moles and they all look alike except for one. Maybe that one isn't just a mole and the ones that do look like just them all could also pretend that the potential is there that they could be something. It's very rare but you know we're not saying we're not diagnosing every normal here if it doesn't meet these criteria are not hard and fast. Yes that's true okay. So now everybody out there. Listening has stripped down birthday suit in his examining themselves with magnifying glass. Thanks for the mental energy me my pleasure but the thing is dermatologists are really working to improve public awareness of skin cancers I including melanomas true for good reason over the past twenty to thirty years a number of cases of melanoma has just skyrocketed in fact the number of invasive melanoma Mama cases has doubled from nineteen eighty to two thousand eleven which is scary because these are later stage melanomas the ones with a bad prognosis. Yeah but here's the deal. Most people think this is due to increased diagnosis from screening not a true increase in the number of cases. Well then we have a problem. I mean if the number of cases week diagnosed has doubled old because we're doing a better job screaming than we should see a corresponding decrease in mortality. Exactly but that's not what's happening. Mortality has decreased only a very little bit certainly not close. Goes to what you would expect with such a huge jump in diagnoses. And here's the other thing. The United States Preventative Services Task Force the USPS T.F. The the folks at review the body of research on a topic to see what the scientists telling us. These folks don't recommend screening. Let me repeat that they don't recommend screening. There's just not enough evidence evidence to say it really works so we're diagnosing more and more melanomas but it's not really affecting mortality. People are dying almost as much as before right and this is something. We're starting to see fairly early regularly and medicine. These days across many specialties We want to believe it. Screening the general population for cancers works. But this may not always be the case. Yes yes so the risks of not screening. We get you'll miss a cancer if it's early enough to do something about it but the risks of screening or not as well known or appreciated right and we've talked about this on previous podcast screen and can lead to false positives unnecessary procedures increased cost to patients inside in general anxiety pain suffering. All those things get so maybe we need to not necessarily screen more people but screen the right people right screen people who have a higher risk of the disease than the general population. Okay but it's not all doom and gloom in fact there's some really good news out there about MELANOMAS. There is for one. The number of melanomas diagnosed in young people is going down. We're seeing it less and less and young folks not exactly sure why this is happening. Maybe it's due to increased emphasis on prevention. I mean I was out there with baby oil on my kids. Were not out there with baby. Yeah so there's there's a big difference right there yeah. Meeting more people stayed out of the sun or covered up. More people wearing sunscreen. That kind of thing. Yeah I slathered sunscreen on my kids way more than my parents ever did for me. I was religious about a real then still there were a few cents sunburns in their same. Because we're so pale but well. I'm wondering if you've been getting questions from friends and family lately about the safety of Sunscreen because of that study the FDA publish this yeah right so this is a study that showed chemicals in sunscreens are absorbed systemically Klay levels at the FDA would normally require choir phase one through three testing before approving exactly. So here's the thing we have no idea what these chemicals are up to. And our body wants to gibbs or maybe they're up to nothing they're totally harmless more. Maybe not we just don't know but we do know that using sunscreen prevents skin cancer sir. That's not in doubt so we need more studies. That what I hear you saying. We need more studies to figure out what's going on. But until then dermatologists are recommending. Continued it to use sunscreen because the benefits are so great. Yeah and the risks are basically unknown. If you're really freaked out about it you can use zinc oxide based or titanium oxide Bay sunscreens trains. Those aren't absorbed. They just sit on the top of the skin right there barriers. But don't stop protecting yourself from the Sun. We knew the benefits to some protection. So keep up the good work mom and
The Small Business Radio Show
Predict the Future with these Megatrends from Rohit Bhargava
"This is the time of year that I make my predictions for small a business having a good run for about five years in a row. I've been way off these last few years. My next guest. The person that's always knows what the next trend is reheat. bhargava is the founder of the Non Obvious Company and as an entertaining original and non boring keynoter on Innovation Trust. He previously spend and fifteen years in leadership roles at two renowned AD agencies. Lebron Ogilvy Rohe's Wall Street Journal bestselling author of six books and book by deliver rickie notes in thirty two countries around the world. He's a popular adjunct professor of storytelling at Georgetown University. His new book out this year is called. Non Obvious Mega trends real heat. Welcome back to the show thank you. It's always awesome to talk to you. It's been three and a half years. I looked it up. I know I can't believe leave it. I miss a lot of trends so every year you publish a book with the last nine years you published book on non obvious trends but this year you say this is not MBA mega trends and visited last one. Why are you stopping after it selling so much? Well I think one reason is because I wanted to WHO Head out on top style like one of the big reasons so It was it was kind of time. You know it's been a decade. I've been working on this project for After ten years and every year I do neutra and predictions and it felt like twenty twenty was kind of a significant moment in all of our lives right. If we're doing things differently we're thinking about the world differently. Were kind of projecting forward. It was sort of a perfect time for me to think about how to write this a little bit differently. I'd say twenty twenty and last thing I turned around it was like the year. Two thousand is just crazy the on line that said Twenty twenty was twenty years ago but nineteen eighty was twenty years ago. Exactly exactly so I want to call it a couple of your mega trends. The one you talk about his `gendering you say that traditional gender divisions are replaced with more fluid understanding of gender identity forcing a reevaluation. How we see one another I think for those who are of my generation which is really you know the boomers? We have a hard time with this thing called engendering. Why isn't important in business? Gender used to be this pretty simple Sort of answer to a question right. It was either this or that. It was the second question or the question we asked on a form And and it straightforward and now it's become kind of a statement for a lot of people This is how I wanted to be seen in the world and so you know we we get hung up a lot on this idea of gender and I don't understand understand it and it seems kinda strange and thinking about it but if if we put it in terms of identity as in we all just want to be understood and addressed in the way that we see ourselves you know that makes sense wants to people like I get that you know and so I think for small business owners and for any of us one of the things that we need to think about is are we unintentionally driving people away by just assuming that they fit into the boxers that we put them in so is it another F- for small businesses. We think of as a another way to define persona a buyer's persona and now gender becomes a flower our or a non gender and becomes a factor. Yeah I mean that is that is one piece of it you know. It's the customer personas but the other is just these kind of Unintentional things we might do drive someone away right. I mean. How important is it really for you to ask that sort of question for example In an interaction right. I mean depending on what you're selling you may not necessarily need to know that like if somebody's interested in what you have to sell and you have a great product or you have a great service and you're trying to get in front of somebody buddy like don't lose their attention because you're unintentionally offending them. I thought it was really interesting when I think this with your lift or Uber where you go on and you can set your preferred pronouns so again that is more personalized service and the driver doesn't insult someone unintentionally. Yeah this basic sailed right. I mean anybody who's he's gone through. Sales trading is like oh address customer by name like asking their name and and use their name because everyone loves hearing their name and I think this is a reflection of that too like people want to be addressed with correct Pronoun and yeah. I've been getting emails from people who in their email signature says my preferred pronoun is and they tell you right and I know a lot of a lot of people say yeah well I just don't get it. I'm thinking to myself. It's not for you to get. It's the way they want to be identified and And I think that that that is a great is a great point right. I mean I I think we do kind of get hung up on this. I don't get it I don't understand it You don't have to necessarily understand if someone says my name is so and so you. You don't always know how to pronounce it right. So you ask you do your best and you move on right absolutely well. megatrend number three talk about instant knowledge as as we consume bite-size is knowledge on demand we benefit Hillary more quickly but risk for getting the value of mastery and wisdom. This scenario that I'm really concerned about that. People want instant knowledge but no one's is willing to go deep. has that really affect us. I think there's a couple of ways I mean it's A. It's a great example of a mega trend that it isn't inherently positive or negative. I mean look if I can go onto youtube and I can learn how to fix a leak in my toilet myself like that's awesome. I mean that's great. That's good for everybody What's bad is if all we have is that type type of knowledge and no one ever believes that? It's worth spending that extra time to become a master to become an expert. So how does it affect us in business as we're trying to attract customs that's one of the biggest things one of the biggest tenants of content marketing. You know which I know you talk about. Is We want to educate our customers. Because we're the ones providing the Education Gatien. We're building trust and building credibility and I think this fits perfectly into that because when people want instant knowledge like who do they get it from right. And if you've got for example a financial advisory refer and you're trying to educate your client what they should do with retirement and they're going online to watching videos from someone else. Educating them you know what are they gonNA think right. They're gonNA start thinking well. Why isn't the financial advisor? Educating me why do I feel dumb when I walk into that meeting with my adviser and I don't feel dumb after these videos. Maybe I should make a change. Do you think there's still a place to help people with mastering wisdom because there are some people in Emily that always want to go deeper. Of course yeah I mean I think that that the nice thing about instant knowledge. It's it can be a gateway to mastery and wisdom. Look I can go online and I can watch An acting class with Henry Winkler you know or I can learn how to play the Banjo. Which Steve Martin and those was a great man I'm GonNa but am? I going to be a professional banjo player. Maybe not but that's okay because I can start with that and if I do find something that I love something that I'm passionate about then I'll spend the time because because the thing with mastery and wisdom is for a lot of people we become masters and experts in the things we love it and that's not going to change because that's a human desire in centers in me. Because when I I used to own one thousand nine hundred ninety three Ford Falcon. It didn't have any seat belts in it because they weren't required at the Time Warner and drive it. I need to have seat belt so I go online. I'm thinking how am I going to solve these seatbelts. I wonder if anybody's nobody's ever done it. And of course there was probably six places where you could watch videos of install belt nine hundred sixty three or four falcon. It's like who would've known Yup because the thing about Expertise is and when we learn about things from people like that. They've become an expert because they're passionate about it and one of the things they WANNA do. They WANNA share that expertise Jason. That's really cool that we have instant access to that. I love your megatrend number four. You call revivalism overwhelmed by technology. Complexity people seek out a simpler experienced. I often established and remember more trustworthy. Time that's kind of like a complex statement. I think some people are looking for a place that is simpler but wasn't really more trustworthy the time or just only a couple of sources who were trusted. I think maybe a little of both And I think maybe we remember the past a little more romantically than and we should. But I think that revival isn't was a really interesting one because what it meant to me. And the implication for any small business was sometimes this thing that we consider to be bad this word that we consider it to be bad which has downgraded actually might be good because a lot of times what we think about when we think about downgrade is that it's less optimal but a downgraded experience for example is something that maybe is more humid. I mean there was a great story that I wrote about a grocery brand in the UK the created. Are
The Personal Computer Radio Show
U.S. companies force workers to train foreign replacements
"At and T.. Sticks it to American tech workers forcing them to train foreign replacements since at and T.'s reportedly laying thousands of American workers after forcing them to train the foreign replacements who have been imported through the H.. One Visa Program. At and T.. In Richardson Self on public spectrum and yet the Goal Nafta American workers by forcing them to train the H.. One be replacement this is unacceptable. The H. One B. Program is completely broken and must be changed disbanded as it is not addressing shing shortages in the job market. It is supplanting qualified Americans. It is particularly ironic that. At and T.. is engaging this blatant abuse of American workers while they are dependent on publicly on spectrum in order to build a five gene network if any company should be a good corporate citizen it it is a t and t the SEC. Should investigate whether at and T. is meeting their responsibilities under the recent at and T. Time Warner merger and should should be blocked from additional spectrum purchases based on the egregious abuse of immigration laws every year more than one hundred thousand farm workers of brought brought to the United States on the H. One B. Visa there are about six hundred and fifty thousand H. One B. Visa Foreign Workers in the United States at any given moment when Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train the foreign replacements more than eighty five thousand Americans annually potentially lose their jobs offs of Foreign Labor through the H. One B. Visa Program despite claims by the big business lobby American workers who have been replaced by H. One B. Follow workers say there is no shortage of talented and qualified citizens for high paying white collar jobs current and former. At and T.. Employee said that they they are being laid off after being forced to train the H. One B. Foreign replacements.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
HBO Max launches in May 2020 for $14.99 a month
"Another streaming service scheduled to debut next year eighteen to you says its war course streaming service H. B. O. Max will launch in may it'll cost fifteen dollars a month the same prices HBO now the company officials predict many users will switch to H. B. O. Max because there's more to watch like friends and Sesame Street the service plans to launch fifty original series in the first year part of a two billion dollar initial investment AT and T. which spent eighty one billion dollars to acquire Time Warner thinks HBO Max will be profitable in twenty twenty three Brian Clark ABC news
Ron St. Pierre
Red Sox president: Keeping Mookie, J.D. 'difficult'
"The red Sox say they're not ruling out keeping on fielder's Mookie Betts and JD Martinez team president Sam Kennedy says it's going to be difficult but there is a way for them to retain both stars and remain under the competitive balance tax threshold Boston have the highest payroll in the Major League Baseball the last couple of years and of course the owners John Henry and Time Warner last week said they want to get under that two hundred and eight million dollar cap good luck with
How I Built This
"So what are the guiding principles of creativity is that some of you very best ideas. Come out of sheer frustration products like honest tea or cliff bar olders dyson these all came about because their founders couldn't find the beverages or energy bars or shoes or or vacuum cleaners that they wanted so they invented them but in the case of Tristan Walker. I think it's safe to say that he didn't just start from a place of mild frustration. He actually started from a place of being fed up even angry because for most of his life he had felt completely league ignored totally overlooked whenever he walked into the shaving. I'll drugstore virtually all the big shaving brands were making products that worked well on men with relatively straight hair but tristen couldn't find a high quality razor that worked on his curly facial hair without leaving razor bumps olivarez neck Kajol line and he knew that like him many African American men were dealing with the exact same problem so he decided to design bevill a shaving system with a simple single blade razor that was easy on his face and he wanted everything about the product to look and feel great not like the dusty boxes of shaving products for African American men that we seem to be on the bottom shelves at the drugstore and his ambition to build a black owned and led consumer Marand as big as Johnson Johnson or proctor and gamble but of course when I tried to raise money from all those VC firms on sand hill road in Silicon Valley and he got a lot of knows but eventually he was able to launch his company with a razor some shaving cream but of oil and brush and over the past five years his brand has grown to include more than thirty specialized hair and beauty products for men and women which are now sold and lots of big retailers lers across the country a few weeks ago. Tristan sat down to tell me how he did it in front of a live audience at the Lincoln Theater in Washington. DC tristen Walker Central. I'll take it so let's start. Let's start at the beginning. Tell me about about out your childhood knew you grew up in Queens where I like to describe. It is a bit of the Rosa grew from concrete story. I grew up in Queens New York projects. It's Welfare Bouts of homelessness that sort of stuff right and I realized very early at one goal in life and as as wealthy as possible as quickly as possible Salaam. I realized three ways to do it. I was to be an actor athlete that didn't work second second was to work on Wall Street that didn't work in the last entrepreneurship and then thank goodness. I came to that realization. We were a little boy. A A your dad died. He was killed killed and you grew up with an older brother and your mom. What did your mom do yet for work so oh my mom worked three jobs mainly New York City Housing Authority Administrative Assistant? She spent some time working for Time Warner Cable and she did some retail all at the same time within seven days. I don't know how she did it. She did it. Thank goodness for her. It was not easy but she persevered and as a result of I think her perseverance good fortune beam I graduate college in my family and she she really in what what do you remember about like your neighborhood growing up as a kid I mean would did you do. Did you add in do much because I couldn't do much like my father was killed. When I was three years old? I don't remember too much about him other than the fact that he was killed when I was three years old which is a little bit telling to Kinda type of environment that I did grow up in so you know I lived probably the first six seven years of my life live in Jamaica Queens New York forty projects in the time I turned around seven years old. We moved to flushing Queens. Another project can development and it was much of the same right. My mother was like you're going to be the one you're not gonNa go through this stuff very disciplined. Stay home. Get Your studies and you're not going outside. When I snuck snuck outside? She caught me. I got in a lot of trouble but that was really kind of my life right. Get to school get home. Do you work repeat and you know that discipline actually Kinda got me to wearing them. Now school easy for you has a kid yeah. I was a good student because the discipline that was inspired me I always excelled right. I tended to be at least up until high school anyway at or near the top of my class you know and I kinda slow down when I say that stuff because by the time I got to high school. I realized I didn't even know what a verb was right. I wouldn't do this entire time. All the way up until my high school years doing really really well at the top of my class not even knowing what verb now and that sort of thing was as a teenager you ended up going to this really elite private boarding school hotchkiss in Connecticut the way I like to describe posh kisses is the first time I got to see how the other half lived. I went to school literally rockefellers Ford's right and I learned a couple of things first name mattered to being wealthy wasn't same as being rich and the last and probably the most important was I can compete with each and every one of them while while while I didn't know Oh what a verb was I learned and by the end of my four years they're you know on a roll like that. Sort of thing you know is then absolutely just wonderful experience for me but transformative in a little bit different from how I grew up was it was the transition for you when you got there because you were like fourteen years old. I've been living away from home since I was thirteen fourteen years old and were the first few months at hard for you. academically we get to the school and I realize I don't even have a computer and you know all of my other classmates had computers that sort of thing and I went to leave as the English professor who is my adviser at the time and I remember he took me to this basement. We're all used textbooks are and then he was old compaq like Presidio L. Computer that we had the like hall out and take it to my room so academically. It was very tough because I wasn't equipped with the tools to compete but over the years accelerating so you fish you go to Stony Brook University New York to study economics. Most most students don't necessarily know what they're gonNa do but did you have a sense of what you want to pursue their and what you thought you would do after I mean I was always thinking about the after I wanted to get wealthy yeah I was pretty singular in that help very singular in that hope and overtime that's kind of morphed and changed and the things that are important Ed Morrison changed but I knew I was very very very focused on how to get there and Wall Street was the next greatest option. All this silicon valley stuff at new idea about my world was New England so you're thinking do this degree and I'll go into finance plows e- economics is the closest degree we had at Stony Brook again to Wall Street Okay and in between my first and second year of university I got an internship and Lehman Brothers back office halfway through I I said I want to try some of this front office stuff so I left that enjoined trading desk at the time just observing so when you graduate so you you went actually went to work for Leman and then as a traitor and then everything and eventually JP Morgan in that time at that time time period. Did you still think this is what I should be doing. This is my sort of path to the worst years of my life. This is two thousand and five when I joined the company and as a traitor. Your job is to make money
Chris Plante
Trump says it's 'great news' activist investor involved with AT&T because CNN is 'bad for the USA'
"President trump has been very critical of CNN now he's praising news this morning trump is that there may be a buyout of C. N. N.'s parent company AT and T. there's an activist investor Elliott management's thinking about taking over AT and T. trump tweeted great news that an activist investor is now involved with A. T. and T. as the owner of very low rating CNN perhaps they will now put a stop to all of the fake news emanating from its non credible anchors of course CNN has been very critical of trump in their coverage Christine Romans with more on this. Ellie had management proposal for AT and T. and a letter to the board Eliot call Time Warner quote spectacular company then questioned eighteen tease a strategy here's a language eighteen T. has yet to articulate a clear strategic rationale for why eighteen T. needs own Time Warner well it's too soon to tell whether a TT can create value a Time Warner we remain cautious on the benefits of this
KCRW's Hollywood Breakdown
Will HBO Max work and will consumers pay?
"I'm Kim Masters and this is the Hollywood breakdown joining me as bounty of the Hollywood reporter and Matt. We've known that this industry is disrupted and Warner brothers and Warner media. Its parent are sort of the ultimate case study. You're right now of what is going on. Warner Brothers was the premier studio in this industry for so many years and being the chairman of Warner Brothers was the biggest deal imaginable and they have now announced that an Sarnoff who who comes from the B._B._C. America America and has really good experience and is very well regarded but is completely almost completely unknown in Hollywood is going to be the chairman of Warner brothers and at the same time the Warner media is announcing in the launch of this H._B._O.. Oh Max which is the streaming service that they have been building toward and they are pulling programming from all over the place to service this thing. This is a huge priority. So first of all your people were going to have to look at that they do. I need this will this H._B._O.. Max Idea Work and at the same time within the industry. There's a question of well gee. What does this mean for Warner Brothers? I mean is Warner. Brothers now going to be subservient to the streaming service and does being chairman of Warner Brothers really have any kind of clout and prestige or are you just going to be taking orders effectively from Bob Greene Blah who runs the streaming service as well as these other cable channels and H._B._O.. He reports to <hes> John Stanky the. Head of Warner media as does and Sarnoff but it's not so clear what it all means in terms of who has power this really does represent a sign of the Times entertainment because when A._T.. And T. bought the Time Warner assets it was very clear that the crown on jewel was not warner brothers. It was H._B._O.. Because they could leverage H._B._O.. To create a global streaming service that will hopefully in their words compete with net flix and that's what every conglomerate is trying to do right now. They're trying to leverage with their assets are create new stuff and go head to head with Netflix so you're seeing warner media pullback a lot of the content that was out there most notably friends which has been streaming on Netflix is now going. Going to switch over to this new H._B._O.. Max they're gonNA start doing with a bunch of other shows on the C._W.. On Turner on the Turner Networks Like T._N._T.. And T._B._S. Some C._N._N.. Content this is all going to be funneled into this H._B._O.. Bill mack streaming service will be pitched as an add on to H._B._O.. Or as its own thing a little bit more expensive than the traditional H._B._O.. Costs currently and that's where we're at right now because comcast is doing the same thing with the N._B._C.. Universal shows like the office just pulling it away from net flicks doing their own thing. Disney is launching their own thing. We're going to get into a very stratified ecosystem where the streaming services are tops and the contents suppliers are going to be the studios that they own and. Hopefully others they think I mean has made a Fortune Selling T._v.. Shows the T._v.. Division has been lead you know Big Bang theory two and a half men all of these shows in different networks very profitably and enjoying all of the reaping all of the rewards that followed followed and they just sold a huge project to Netflix Sandman so they're still looking to get that cash coming in the door obviously the I don't even know how you sort it out and I think more importantly people in the industry. I don't know how you sort it out if I'm making a T._v.. Show and Warner Brothers is making that show at what goes to H._B._O.. Max what goes somewhere else. What do I sell to C._B._S.? A._B._C. or or Hulu or whatever so I think it's it's almost like this dizzying situation within the industry of figuring. Bring out who is going to emerge victorious and how these things are going to be sorted and that's that's a potential big change for Warner Brothers which as you mentioned has been this people say there are the arms dealer of Hollywood in the sense that they have sold everybody but if you look at what Disney is doing Disney is very purposefully holding back a lot of their stuff and they are trying to create an ecosystem around this new Disney plus streaming service that will be the one stop shop for Disney. Now Disney has a very strong consumer rebrand and people know Disney and they want Disney oriented content. It's not quite the same for Warner Brothers. They don't have that brand name they just you wouldn't the average person on the street wouldn't even know that one brothers produced two and a half men yet. It's probably the biggest revenue generator that the company has so I just I think it'd be very interesting to see how warner's approaches this ecosystem and who they sell to and who they don't and from the consumer standpoint of course the question is how much does this cost they said it will.
This Week In Google
FCC, AT And DOJ discussed on This Week In Google
"Back to team mobile and sprint, you got the chairman of the FCC all hot and bothered. He's excited, you got the DOJ ready to sue. At basically people are saying it's a push fifty fifty we don't know what's going to happen. I'd like to see a merger us t mobile. I think sprint is pretty much useless in our area. Be nice. Nice to see a merge. Especially if they live up to that pledge to get ninety seven percent five G coverage in three years. That would be awesome. You don't think they'll do it? Well, even if they did do it, you know, there's no guarantee on pricing. There's no guarantee on the quality of the network. There's, there's a lot of things. It's one thing to say building something out. It's another thing to say building something else. It's good in coverage doesn't mean quality speeds coverage, just means you can get a bar possibly there. You remember AT and T and Time Warner the merger, and they told everybody that wants that merger happens. We are going to hire thousands of new employees. What happened? They fired fired was twenty seven thousand five hundred jobs. So it just shows you could promise regulators, whatever you want, and you can actually lie to the kids. See you cannot lie to the SEC. So I always find it interesting to look at what companies say, in their, you know, their ten ks their stock events with the FCC sorry SEC, because the FCC, they can just do whatever they want AT, and T promised seven thousand new jobs. Actually that wasn't the merger that was to get a tax break, I apologize. They cut twenty th that was for the big federal tax break. We did get. And you remember they, they gave the one thousand or three thousand dollar bonuses to people as part of the town.