The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte - - 12 - 6 - 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wr.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now ther Saturday Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty. Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show,
there's been over five hundred lawsuits filed against the Trump administration,
which already set a record by a lot. We're gonna
ask Sarah Isker, who covers the courts for ABC, what
is going on Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame
by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee is this weekend. We're

(00:31):
gonna ask ABC News Washington bureau chief and a huge
Yankees fan if this is finally Dave Mattingley's year Ready
to save money on tech for Christmas. Rich DeMuro from
rich on Tech has a cheat sheet and the car
doctor Ronananian says cars from the eighties are now hot again.

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But let's start with ABC News contributor Sarah Isker in Washington.
Good morning, Sarah, how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Good morning?

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Listen. I want to start with something that was said
at the cabinet meeting yesterday, the cabinet meetings that are
now open to the press. It came from Pam Bondy,
and I was kind of shocked at it, and I
want to see I want to get your reaction.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
We have been sued five hundred and seventy five times,
five hundred and seventy five times more than every administration
going back to Reagan combined. Most recently, yesterday, I was
sued by an immigration judge who we fired. One of
the reasons she said she was a woman. Last I checked,
I was a woman as well.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Five hundred and seventy five lawsuits against the Trump administration.
What do we read into that? Is this now a
new political weapon or has the administration just been that egregious?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Why can't it be both? So we have started to
govern by lawsuit, there's no question about that. You know,
as Congress has done less and less, presidents have started
running the country by executive order. Well, guess what that's
really right? For lawsuits among other things. And so you've seen,
you know, red state governors sue when it's a Democrat

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in the White House. Blue state governors sue when it's
a Republican in the white House. There's been entire cottage
industries pop up. We now have state solicitor generals whose
main job, it seems like, is to sue administrations from
the opposing party. It gets you headlined, it's good for fundraising.
The president wins because now he has an enemy that

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he gets to you know, battle with, and the opposing
side looks like they're you know, quote doing something rather
than what we used to do, which is actually compromise,
log role work through Congress, have stable pieces of legislation
that would be the product of you know, that messy
process that was taking place in Congress.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, and you kept saying that one side it would
do the other. It's pretty common. They have done this,
they've been but you just heard Pam Bondi. It's five
hundred and seventy five lawsuits now and that's more than
the last three administrations combined. So what you were talking
about is going into hyperdrive under Donald Trump. And that's
why the question is that now a new strategy to

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have the Democrats found a new strategy or are they
just using an old one and making it.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Hyper So under each president it's basically increased.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
So in a Barack Obama, if you remember, he said,
you know, I have a pen and a phone. I'll
rally the American people if Congress doesn't do what I
want them to do. That was sort of the starting
gun for a lot of this, and so you had
plenty of lawsuits against the Obama administration. In the first
Trump administration. It increased even more in the Biden administration.
The student loan debt, forgiveness, eviction, moratorium, vaccine mandate, all

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of those were major lawsuits, but there were plenty, plenty
more than that that the Biden administration, for instance. One
here we have the Trump administration and the dial gets
turned up once again, and so yeah, this continues to
increase again, I think because we don't have the normal
political valve of Congress where people were supposed to go.

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And you see what's happening is that the courts are
getting pulled into these political fights and so then they
get viewed as more partisan. And it's not a sustainable.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Model, y know, I understand that, but that portends bad
things for the future. You're saying that this isn't going
to stop anytime soon unless they fix the system. This
will continue. By the way, it is exactly why those
confirmation hearings, if people are wondering why they're so important,
because it's usually just some federal court judge, but they

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become hyper important now because.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Of this, right, that's exactly right. Our confirmation hearings get
more contentious. By the way, one of the only things
that Congress still does other than put out Instagram reels,
as best I can tell, And again, it's putting stress
on our institutions that they cannot bear because judges are
not politically accountable. They're not supposed to be the one
refereeing our most bitter political disputes. That's supposed to happen

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in Congress. Now, what's interesting about this Supreme Court term
is that they have two cases that hopefully are going
to police some of those separation of powers boundaries force
Congress to do its job by saying that presidents can't
rule by executive order, for example, the tariff's case, and
that presidents actually have to be politically accountable for their

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own branches. And so these so called independent agencies that
Congress created where they shield, you know, executive branch employees
from presidential direction, that that can't happen either. And so
you make the presidents that head of the executive branch
make him a better president and a worse legislator, if
you will.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, the Trump is case, you're talking about Trump versus Slaughter.
That's the case you're talking about yes. Yes, So we're
going to get oral arguments on that on Monday, and
everybody's going to be listening because we'll figure out exactly
where the Court is leaning on this. Do you have
any guesses or assumptions.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh, I think at this point any court watcher will
tell you that it's very likely that the Court will
hold some version that these independent agencies have to be
politically accountable to the president. I think there's a you know,
a wider win and a narrower win for the administration.
But I don't think there's much question that these you know,
alphabet agencies aren't going to exist in their current form,

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where you know, we say that these are the most
important elections of our lifetime whenever there's a presidential election,
but the president doesn't actually have control over wide swaths
of the American economy. And if you don't like what
the National Labor Relations Board did or what the Securities
in Exchange Commission did, there's nothing for you to do
about that. Voting for a different president doesn't help, Voting

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out your member of Congress doesn't help. There's no political
accountability right now, and I think what you'll see a
majority of the Court say is that that doesn't work
under our constitution, there is no such thing as an
independent agency.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Then what do they do. They don't rule on a remedy, right,
will they just say you have to fix this.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
What they'll say is the president is allowed to remove
any member of the executive branch at his discretion. If
they won't follow his policy direction, he can fire them,
and that will basically end these independent agencies because they
will be politically accountable to the president. Now, the problem
has been at Congress because they were shielded from removal
from presidents gave these agencies huge amounts of very vague

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broad power.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, that's fascinating. Yeah, it's an extremely important case, But
it doesn't sound like that fixes the problem either. Sarah Isker,
ABC News contributor in Washington, d C. Do you have
a car from the eighties. It may be one of
the new hot cars. We'll talk with car doctor Ron
Andanian about it. Next.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Back now to the WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minty.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Welcome back. Now, when you think of classic cars, you
probably think of fifties fins or seventies muscle. Now you
can add Caddies and El Dorado's from the eighties to
that list, the car doctor, Ron and Naney. It is
here to explain. Hey, Ron, hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
We did, Larry, the same to you.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
When people think about classic cars, they think about like
the cars they saw in the movie Dazed and Confused.
They're from the fifties, sixties, the muscle cars from the seventies.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
America graffiti.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, exactly why are the eighties models now involved?

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Well, you know, they've officially become classic. They've aged into it.
They're like you and me, Larry, they're old.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Hey, speak to yourself.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
Cars from the eighties or thirty five to forty years
old now right, and we all have memories, you know, Natalie,
although I don't think this hope for Natalie Saturn. We
were talking before the interview today. You know, she wants
to know for Saturday that we're going to become a classic.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
In nineteen ninety two red and silver two tone Coop,
it was adorable.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Yeah, I'm sure you looking to sell it?

Speaker 1 (09:07):
What was that all about it?

Speaker 4 (09:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
It's way gone.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
I was wondering if I held onto it it would
have been worth any money one day.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
That wouldn't have been running by. Now do you.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Know if I got out of that car by the way.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Like, do you know, for example, what's a really hot car?
Probably the number one hot car from the eighties, Larry,
that people are looking for to buy a no, no,
what do you remember the eighty one aries K car? No,
Leiah Coca. If you can find a better car, buy it.
When Chrysler was making their big comeback when they went
bankrupt in the late seventies, and Leiah Coca used to say,

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the aries K car was a great car. That car
is so hot right now you can't find any.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well why is that because there was less production of it?

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Or well it's forty years ago and they all rusted
away and now all of a sudden we want them.
We didn't, you know, we didn't. We didn't think any
of this stuff was going to be valuable. I've gotten called.
I got a call last week on the show. Somebody
wants to go buy eighty one Cadillac Fleetwood Brome with
the forty one hundred. The HT forty one hundred engine.
Nobody remembers this, but that was the engine that General

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Motors suffered so much abuse from because if the engine
lasted thirty thousand miles. It was extraordinary. The engines just
did not last. And you know, his case is concerned
was what I do if the engine fails. And here's
the beauty of an eighties car. The engine baser so big.
You can slide a modern day powertrain into that if
the engine failed and have the look of the eighties

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with the reliability of a present day automobile. Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Hold on the look of the eighties?

Speaker 2 (10:36):
That is?

Speaker 6 (10:37):
I mean, it's not like the cars in the fifties
that are so wild to look at.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Andy, they're beautiful and they're elegant. I don't know, the
eighties kind of were boxy and wus you grow into
these things. I mean, were they really that beautiful back then?
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Think about how big those cars were. Think about think
about how sexy a two door El Dorado invertible nineteen
eighty two was. Wire wheels. I can see. I can
see the one my mother in law had, yellow with
the brown boot, black top. You go driving around. It
was just it was just a gorgeous, sexy car. And
those cars are making a comeback, they really are.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
In the seventies, my dad bought one of those Cadillac Fleetwoods.
It was red convertible and at the time it was
the longest car ever made.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Yep, you couldn't get it into a garage breaking difficult. Well,
the last three feet would stick out of the garage.
I know people that owned them because as right, yeah
it was, it was, and you'd cover it with a
raincoat because you didn't know what to do when you
don't want your car to get wet, and you were
just goofy about it. But these cars are making a comeback.

(11:45):
El Dorado's, Riviera's Lincoln town Car. Who didn't rent a
Lincoln Town Cart to go on vacation in the eighties? Right,
big four door tank, the Mustang, the Fox body Mustangs,
irack Z Camaros. Ringing any bells for those kids that
were in high school in the eighties, early Toyota Supers
and the Aris K car the number one classic you
know car and demand and the reason is they're still affordable.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Well why did Yeah, let's talk about that. What are
the prices as compared to some of the other classic cars.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
Well, you know, a nineteen seventy Chevelle Big Block, anywhere
from seventy five to hundred thousand dollars still, Oh my god,
the guy was going to buy this eighty one Cadillac
with the forty one hundred engine forty nine hundred bucks.
You know, how can you go wrong? If the body's
in good shape and the rest of the drive train
is there and the engine fails, stick another engine in it.

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You've got a car for under fifteen grand. It's a classic,
it looks cool and you can kind of hang out.
They're taking them to car shows, Larry. That's the sign
that they're being accepted.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Have you seen this yourself? That demand for these What
are people coming to you and asking for these cars?
Or where they can buy in there?

Speaker 5 (12:54):
They want to know can I still work on them?
Can I get parts? And that's the other thing. It's easier.
There's still a lot of parts out there for eighties cars,
certain models. There's still a lot of parts available because
that's a problem with a collectible. Look, somebody wants to
restore a fifty five Chevrolet. Okay, you can buy a
fifty five Chevrolet brand new. There are companies out there

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reproducing it from the frame on up. Wow, But an
eighty one Cadillac, Yeah, not so much. Because the demand
isn't there yet. But there's still a lot of oe
original parts from GM in warehouses and back alleys and
basements that people never used, so it's still relatively affordable
and still relatively easy to get parts for cars that

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aren't so easy to find part.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Now, you're saying all that as if they're not going
to be affordable soon. So you see the price on
these going up?

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Yeah, I do. Any once something hits a collectible, it's
kind of like the housing boom in New Jersey. As
soon as everybody wants one, nobody can get it. You know.
It's all tied to that, Larry, So you're looking.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
At early demand. You like reading a stock market, looking
at early demand on these things and realizing that they're
a great investment right now.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah, I think so. Well, I don't know if a
car is an investment per se if I do it
over the stock market. But yeah, there are a couple
of cars I take a gamble on. I think everybody's
gonna want. I think everybody's gonna want an eighty eight
Lincoln town Car. Listen. I purchased an O two Ford
Thunderbird Little Ahead, right, Yeah, I purchased an O two

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Ford Thunderbird two years ago. Now paid a couple grand
for it. The car goes up in value every day.
It's going to be the next classic if it isn't already.
There are just some cars out there that catch you.
Ride it. You know we're going to go in the
right direction.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
I love the idea of investing in cars because you
can drive around on it, keep it nice, and then
you can resell it. And if you get something that's
going to be a classic. I mean, how much could
they go up in value?

Speaker 5 (14:51):
You can see some cars go anywhere from six to
eight percent. You can see some cars double I purchased
a seventy two Monty Carlo and twenty six team. I'll
tell you right here, I paid eight grant for the car.
That car today is selling all day long for between
twenty six and thirty grand.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Man. That's great advice, Ron and Naney, and we'll be
back with us in two weeks at nine thirty five
with more investment help. It's investing with Ron and Nanian.
Thanks all right, Thanks Rod. Still ahead on Saturday morning,
ABC News Washington Bureau chief Rick Cline has an executive
role with the news interview show. This Week on ABC,

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but on Sunday when the show is on, he'll also
be thinking about Sunday's Hall of Fame voting. He makes
a case for two players still ahead. Rich DeMuro from
rich On Tech has some tips for tech shopping for
Christmas that's coming up on Saturday Morning.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Here's Larry Minti with more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Welcome back, ABC News. Washington Bureau Chief Rickcline is helping
together tomorrow's This Week show on ABC, but he's also
going to be paying close attention to the Baseball Hall
of Fame voting by the Contemporary Era Voting Committee, and
he's pulling for a legendary Yankee. Rick. Is it Don

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Mattingley's year?

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I have never been more nervous about an election in
my life. I covered them my whole career. I think
it is time for Don Mattingley and Dale Murphy, and
both of them near and dear to my heart. I
was a Yankee fan growing up and love Mattingly and Murphy.
I was a contrarian kid. I couldn't root for the
Mets because I was on Long Islands and all my
friends are Mets fans, and the Mets were very good.

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So I found on TBS Dale Murphy, that All American superstar,
and he became my guy. So this could be a
dream scenario, could be a night day or scenario for
a little ricline. But I am going to be watching
this with more than a little bit at stake in
the outcome. And I think, I really think it's there's
a very strong chance for Murphy and Mattingly, for Dale
and Donnie, which would be just an incredible homage to

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the nineteen eighties and to the kind of like sliver
of the people that loved that light bolth, the Braves
and the Yankees in the nineteen eighties.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, I will tell you this. The Dale Murphy things
never I've never understood it because I guess they say
that he just had a couple of great years and
then he didn't His career didn't fill out. The rest
of his career wasn't that bad. It's just that he
was exceptional for a couple of years and won back
to back MVPs on thousand percent.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Look in nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety, that eleven year period,
nobody hit more home runs in Major League Baseball. Only
Adny Murray had more RBIs when he correct hires, he's
got three hundred ninety eight homers. Twenty four to the
twenty six ahead of him are Hall of famers now
because of the ped era and all that, he is
sixty second on the all time list. So I think
we forget what people like Murphy and Madge. You know,
Murphy was leaving the league with thirty six and thirty

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seven homers in the eighties. Guys said that at the
All Star break. Now, but if you were hitting thirty
six or thirty seven home runs and no one else was,
guess what, you were the best home run hitter in baseball.
And I think our memories are short and the memories fade,
But I think it time to just remember how great,
how great he was in the eighties, how dominant he was.
And yeah, I did his career take a take a

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nose dive as we broke down for injury. Yes, it
did same thing with Don Mattingley. Actually, we have to
move on and take away with how great they were.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
We have to move on to less important stuff. But
one last question about this, do you believe they both
will get in?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I have trouble seeing it out loud, just because I
don't want to jinx anything. I think, you know, Mattingly
was second in the voting last time, and Murphy was
was fourth in the voting, and guy there was number
three in the voting was Shilling, and he was not
on the ballot this time, So the runner up and
number three, two or three guys could get in. I
feel very optimistic going into Sunday, But you know, it's

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all in the hands of the voters now, as.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
They say, all right, now, let's get on to some
other stuff. And I do think this one's less important,
but I know that everybody's talking about it, And are
you going to be talking about it this Sunday? President
Trump's vitality issues.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
I don't know how much it'll come up or we'll
come up this Sunday. I mean, I think, you know,
you could watch that cabinet, you know, I think if
he had not talked about how healthy he was, maybe
there'd be less attention on the fact that he was
clearly fighting sleep. But you know, I haven't given much
credence into the storyline overall, just because you know, he's
still a very active guy, seeing a lot of consequential things,
and so you know, you know, if he falls asleep

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in a cabinet meeting. I just don't know what that says.
I think it's notable. We should we should know that,
we should point that out. Obviously, he's a t attacked
Joe Biden for being a sleepy Joe for all those years.
But I just I don't know how much it ultimately matters,
to be perfectly honest.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, but seriously, there's no comparison. I think that's why
people are rolling their eyes at this story, especially in
the conservative side, because Joe Biden you wouldn't see for days,
and he would wander off, and he'd and on the
stage and in the field. There were obvious problems. And
then we all saw it come to light during the debate.
Donald Trump gets tired at a meeting and all of
a sudden, it's like, oh my god, he's Joe Biden

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two point zero. I don't think there's any comparison. So
I like the fact that you have said, I you
don't see too much in this It's notable that he
did seem to fall asleep in the meeting, but but
that seems to be the exception.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, And it's just it just ultimately doesn't make that
much of a difference. If he's still doing active things
that are affecting people's lives, that's that's a lot more
important to me, at least.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Absolutely, So let's move on to things that are affecting
people's lives and lives that they took in the in
the Caribbean they said was a legal air strike. Uh.
Martha Radditz, by the way, has been doing incredible work
on this and and her sources are are incredible. I
think that she's been doing the best reporting by far
of anyone. What is the latest on what she's been reporting.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, she's been reporting that the the the initial orders
uh you know, carried out through the through the Secretary
of War, through Pete Hagsath, you know, involved a full,
a full operational strike. And it seems like, based on
the video that was viewed by members of Congress and
not the public yet yesterday, that there were a couple
of strikes that happened in close proximity and then a

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couple of strikes that happened is sort of clean up.
And it does appear that the video shows that there
were survivors. But what Martha has been reporting is that
the calculation was made in real time, that the survivors
still pose the threat that they could have been trying
to communicate to people that would rescue them that there
were potential places for them to put whatever drugs that

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were not destroyed back on another vote, and that's what
the calculation was based on. We know other strikes, there's
been other calculations. But I should also point out there's
so much we still don't know, and we haven't seen
the full video, and the President this week promised that
it would get released. I think that's important, as are
you know, the specific orders here because so much is
at stake, and Secretary of HEGSAT has been, you know,

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praising the admiral who gave the orders, but also by
naming him, has been distancing himself just a little bit
from the chain of responsibility.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
What do you have coming up this Sunday?

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, George will obviously be covering this story.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
George.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
George is going to be talked to Congress with Adam
Smith's the top Democrat in the Armed Services Committee, as
well as one of the Republicans who saw the video
and responding and reacting in real time. And I'm tay
Martha's got a really great place you know, December seventh,
in addition to being the day of the Baseball Hall
of Fame voting, is also Pearl Harvard Day, and she's
got just an incredible piece looking at the Pearl Harvard

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Museum there and getting through some of the history, you know,
with so few of those survivors left after all these years,
it's I think, an important little glimpse of history. Rick.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I'll be watching, but I'll be thinking of you and
also watching the Hall of Fame voting. I hope those
guys both get in. They deserve it. Thank you so much,
Rick Kline, ABC News Washington Bureau Chief. When Saturday Morning continues,
there are ways to save on tech items this Christmas.
Rich On TeX's Rich Demiro is here to explain. Next,

(22:52):
here again is Larry Minty with the wr Saturday Morning Show.
Do you have a techie on your Christmas list and
you're not sure where to go for the best deals.
We've got you covered, or I should say, w Alwar's
Rich de Murro from rich On Tech has your covered.
Good morning till you're rich, Thanks for being with us.
As always, so it sounds like the bigning go ho

(23:15):
ho the big news of the week. And just in
time for Christmas, comes from Samsung.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
Huh yeah. I mean, look, I think in the US
we haven't really warmed up to foldable phones yet. You
know the one that just folds in half. Now, Samsung
is doing a trifold. That's right, it's called the Samsung
Z trifold. You've got basically three screens side by side
that fold up like a Z but they unfold to

(23:41):
a ten inch display. We're talking. You know, that's a
mini iPad in your pocket.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Right.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
So this is already launching in South Korea next week
and then in the US it's gonna be the first
quarter of twenty twenty six. Price probably expecting around twenty
five hundred dollars. We'll see. This is probably gonna be
a very limited availability and a very limit audience that
actually wants something like this.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
And you sound skeptical, Well.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
I've tried foldable phones. I think they're great if you
are a traveler or a business person. I personally just
don't really have a need for it, but I think
that people who have them that I know, they absolutely
love them. So there is a market for it. It's
just very small and Apple has not done this yet
once they do it, that market will grow.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Talking about growing, it's amazing what Amazon has grown into.
Everybody who seems to be shopping on Amazon, and everybody's
looking for the best prices. You've been graded at telling
us some of the ways they can find the best prices.
If somebody is going down right now the shop for
Christmas on Amazon, what do you suggest walk us through it?

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (24:44):
Number one. Amazon has added a price history link near
most of the pricing on their website, so look for that.
Most people miss it. You tap that, it will bring
up a chart of the past thirty or ninety days
of the price of that product. That way you can
tell if the current price is lower than average, or
it's the same as average, or if it's a deal.

(25:04):
So that's number one. If you don't see that, They've
got this AI assistant called rufus, which is actually really
good about telling you information about Amazon products. So look
for that link and you can type in price history.
It will give you the price history, You can ask
questions about the product, and you can even set it
to auto purchase the product at a price that you want,

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or you can even have it alert you to a
price to a price drop so if you want something
for twenty dollars versus twenty five, you could set that
price drop. You have to do that in the mobile app.
The other two things I like Camelcamelcamel dot com I know,
silly name, but helpful website. You can paste an Amazon
link in there. It will give you the full price history.
And then if you want to see all the price

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history like way too much, I'm telling you, Larry, it's
called KIPA. You can install that on your browser and
on every Amazon page. It will show you, I'm not kidding,
more stuff than you need to know about pricing history.
It's all there on your page.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
So not worth the price, is what you're saying.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
No, it's free, but it's you know, it's just that's
for like real shopping nerds. Like we were shooting a
story yesterday about this product in my photographer goes, that's
for like real shopping nerds.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Tom.

Speaker 6 (26:13):
I'm like, yes, and that's what I am. That's why
I have it on.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
That Oh so so you like it. It's for you,
but you're saying it's not for everybody. I get it.
I will tell you this.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
You have to be prepared for what you're going to
see there's a lot.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
You've talked about camel Camel cambell before, and now I've
heard about camel Camel, Camel, Camel, cammell from three different
people who are not tech people. This is becoming extremely popular.

Speaker 6 (26:35):
Explain why, Well, the thing is it tells you. You know,
on Amazon, there's a lot of pressure because they are
the smartest retailer in the room right now, so they
know how to make us press by and they know.
I always joke to my wife, my paycheck should go
directly to Amazon and they give me the rest when
they're done with it, because that's what's happening at this point.
So Amazon knows how to get us to spend money.

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I think having that price history and that personffective on
the pricing kind of relieve some of that pressure to
buy now. And I get it. It's shopping. It's holiday season.
We're looking for those gifts, so we want to buy things.
But just know that if something is not a deal,
you can kind of push it off a little bit
until it does become a deal.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Can we trust the deals online in promo codes?

Speaker 6 (27:19):
I think so, And again I think it all comes
down to perspective and That's why I've got websites that
I like. So if you're looking for Apple products, I
know you like your Apple products, Larry two websites that
I really love. The first is called the mac Rumors
Buyer's Guide. This lists every single Apple product and tells
you if you should buy it now or if you
should wait because a new version might come out, or

(27:41):
if you're looking for a deal because it's new, you
may not want to get that. You might want to
get the older model because you can save a bunch
of money. Now, when it comes to actually buying those products,
there's a website called appleinsider dot com. They have price
guides any products that you want from Apple. You can
go to their and it looks at the prices across

(28:02):
the Apple Store, which does not discount them, but Amazon
BNH Best Buy. So right now, if you're buying the
one hundred and twenty eight gigabyte M three iPad air,
that's six hundred dollars at the Apple Store, five point
fifty at BNH five hundred at Amazon, you could save
yourself one hundred dollars just by doing a little research.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Let's get to your gadget of the week. What have
you got for Christmas.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Uh, I've got something fun. This is a magical telephone.
So this telephone is you connect it to Wi Fi
and it looks like a rotary phone and it's from
a company called mister Christmas dot Com And basically your
child picks up the phone and they are instantly connected
to the Big Man himself wow in a clause, and

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they can chat with Santa. My kids had a field
day with this after they figured out what a rotary
phone was that so parents will enjoy that. But the
Santa that you talk to is very, very incredible. It
can ask you about the gifts you want. It knows everything,
and it's all because of something called AI. It's helping

(29:08):
Santa become the magic that we know and love. So
that's one hundred dollars. It's sold everywhere now and it's
just a fun way to interact with Santa this year.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
That's a great idea. Real quick, let's talk about your
ultimate holiday shopping cheat sheet? Where can people find that?

Speaker 6 (29:24):
Yes, you can find it at rich on tech dot tv.
Sign up for my newsletter. It is all there. And
I got to tell you one more before we go. Sure,
my absolute favorite place to look for those coupon codes
you were talking about. I only check one website, simplycodes
dot com. I'm telling you if there is a code available,
a discount code of promo code for a website, this

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site has it. It's all linked up at my newsletter
rich on Tech dot tv.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Rich Demiro rich on Tech has heard Sunday nights from
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morning for this week. Thanks for listening, and thanks to
Natalie Vaka and Peter Airelano for putting the show together
every week. Have a great rest of your weekend. This

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has been a podcast from WOR.