The Tom Hanks Effect
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🗓️ 20 July 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Sears pops after striking a deal to sell Kenmore-branded appliances on Amazon.com. Bill Barker from Motley Fool Funds analyzes the deal and explains how news involving Amazon relates to the classic Tom Hanks film “Big.” Plus, we dig into the latest results from T-Mobile, United Rentals and Polaris Industries. (Tangents include the moon landing, going over your mobile data plan, college rivalries and the wrong place to get a lobster roll.)
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Slack for supporting this episode of Market Flory. |
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| 0:16.1 | It's Thursday, July 20th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for Motley Fool Funds, Bill Barker. Happy Moon Landing |
| 0:20.8 | anniversary. |
| 0:22.8 | Really? |
| 0:23.8 | Yeah, it is. |
| 0:24.8 | Yeah, July 20th. How are you celebrating? |
| 0:27.1 | This year. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm celebrating the anniversary of the Moon Landing the way I do every year, which is just sort of marveling the bravery of the people |
| 0:36.4 | who went and the brains of the people who got them there. |
| 0:40.5 | Because if you've ever seen the amazing movie Apollo 13, which actually didn't result, that |
| 0:46.4 | mission did not result in landing on the moon, but just sort of the brains of the people who got |
| 0:51.9 | them there is jaw dropping to me. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes. |
| 0:56.0 | So that's how major kids watch it? |
| 0:58.0 | Oh yeah, yeah, no that's a must watch movie. |
| 1:00.0 | It's like no sit down, sit on, you have to watch this because that's how good this movie is. |
| 1:05.2 | We're going to get into some earnings news, but I think we've got to start with the retail news of |
| 1:09.8 | the day, and that is the fact that Sears is going to sell Kenmore branded appliances on a little |
| 1:16.6 | startup website called Amazon.com. They will be integrated with the Amazon Echo platform which will enable customers to |
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