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The Clark Howard Podcast

1.31.19 Amazon robot delivery; An episode of The Office helps save a woman; Recession on the way?

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Amazon is testing delivery via robots; A car mechanic saved a woman thanks to his extensive knowledge of the television show The Office; The claims that a potential recession is imminent are growing. Clark tells you how to prepare your personal finances for this possibility.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.4

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0:30.4

Glad you're here with us on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and your wallet.

0:38.6

I want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you make.

0:43.4

Coming up in a few minutes, we're going to have a reverse Clark rage about how we can come

0:50.8

to help other people when we least expect that we're the ones that are going to make a difference.

0:58.4

And yet later, we're going to have a recession this year. I got some info for you. You're going

1:05.1

to need to know for your wallet. So all this talk three years ago, two years ago, about delivery

1:15.5

drones. That was going to be the thing we're going to have all these drones flying around

1:20.1

delivering things to us instead of having UPS and FedEx, have drivers drive trucks up and

1:27.2

walk things through our door and all that. Well, so far, except for some limited trials in England,

1:35.1

packages are not being delivered by drones. But guess how they are starting to be delivered?

1:42.0

By little cute robots. True story. So first, last week, it was announced by George Mason University,

1:54.4

which is in suburban Northern Virginia near Washington, DC, that a European startup is now offering

2:06.2

delivery robots that run around the campus delivering two students. So students that are on

2:14.2

meal plan at George Mason can order on the school app. And they can have the robots deliver

2:23.3

pizza from Blaze Pizza, Duncan Donuts, Starbucks, and to have things delivered. Well, they're already

2:33.2

on meal plan. So they have to pay a dollar ninety nine to have the robot bring the food and beverages

2:40.3

to them instead of them walking across campus to pick up their item. The robots are really

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