Future. We begin with your tv, or not. How are you watching this program right now . On cable, the internet . Did you dvr it or use your slim box . Or maybe you have apple tv. Viewers have an overwhelming number of choices. Thats todays cover story. Changing channels. The evolution of television. I feel like we just use netflix more than we do actual like live tv. A friend of mine has the amazon tv. Yeah, so i was checking that out. The spectrum is killing me, as a matter of fact. I was thinking about getting, what is it, a fire stick . Lots of people are cutting the cable cord in the last quarter. More than half a Million People canceled their subscriptions. Another 750,000 in the three months prior to that. Im he old school so ill probably stay with what i have. Ive gotten rid of my cable and gone to roku. Streaming services are growing. In the last 12 months amazon prime reportedly has doubled its subscribers to more than 80 million accounts. Netflix has 50 million. Compare that to the 48 million paid Television Subscribers in the u. S. Im not a tv addict, but theres certain things that i do like to see. Hes up watching games of thrones. I cant get rid of it. Content is key. Apple plans to invest a billion dollars to buy and produce original programming over the next year. In 2016 hbo spent 2 billion on content and netflix is expected to spend 6 billion in 2017. The amount of money invested could make your head spin. Is it getting just too expensive and complicated . Joining me now is ed lee, managing editor for recode, a site. Wh looking at the cost comparisons, at first making a choice like netflix, apple pd seems to be a no brainer if youre not watching a lot of Cable Television, but if youre getting all the services, it does add up. It adds up. It feels like its another cord in a way. If you have netflix, hulu, theres amazon prime also delivers video. Maybe youre already paying for that. If you add it up, it sometimes could be the equivalent of a cable bill. At the same time, it gives you more choice. Doesnt mean you have to get them all at once either. Why are so many people still paying a premium for that cord to be connected to cable . Its just its a legacy service. A lot of us like to have it in the home. They like the idea that its always there in case. People who do choose to cut the cord, theyre making a very conscious effort to do so. Cable bills can get really high. Apple is plunking down a billion dollars. A billion dollars. To create content for people to go to apple tv. Netflix, hbo, theyre all in the content creation business. Is there too much out there . There is a lot out there. In fact, theres so much tv, you know, for all the good tv thats being produced, youre not watching most of it. Thats probably fine. We used to live in an age where four networks, five networks, you watched everything that was primetime. Now with netflix, hulu, amazon, all these other players, apple coming into the frey, youre not going to watch it all. Theres lots of different ways you access these streaming offerings. Is it too complicated for the average viewer . Yeah, it definitely is. It tends to be complicated. If you have a smart tv chances are your smart tv has these apps. You can get it through the smart tv, roku box, connect the computer to the tv as well. Were in this sort of age right now where theres almost too much choice in terms of how the connectivity works. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, but over time i think what youre going to see is a unification of how theyre supposed to operate. Whats the future for cable . Weve seen some cable offerings change to offer skinny bundles where youre not paying for every channel out there. What is the future . The complaint the consumers have had with Cable Television for decades is why do i have to have 100 channels just to start . Im only watching 10 or 12 of them. The thing is that the programmers sell them to the Cable Operators in bundle so Cable Operators sell them in bundles to consumers. With the internet and with the skinny bundles its a chance for more choice. I think Going Forward youre going to see the 20, 30, 40 package that hopefully gives you most of what you want. One last thing. Lets go back to broadcast tv. Im old enough to remember changing the tv by hand. Walk up to the tv. Move the rabbit ears. Free tv over the air waves. How about that. Its funny that they didnt realize there is free tv. Im a big fan of broadcast. Its something that, you know, whether its millennials or the rest of us, you have to realize there is free tv out there. Theres a potential revitalization of that type of content. Thank you for joining us where everyone can watch you. Now heres a look at whats making news as we head into a new week on the money. Stocks had their best day since april this week, but the rally didnt hold. The dow climbed almost 200 points on tuesday, mostly moving on concerns about whether the debt ceiling will be raised and the possibility of a government shutdown. The nasdaq and s p 500 going along for the ride as well. Stocks closed the week mixed. Existing home sales fell unexpectedly in july down 1. 3 for the month and well below expectations. They hit their lowest levels of the year mostly due to a lack of properties for sale. If you want to order from amazon, can you ask alexa. If you want to order from walmart, youll be able to ask your google device. The retailing giant is entering the voice department. Googles Android Devices will offer hundreds of thousands of walmart items on the voice controlled platform starting in late september. Up next, were on the money. Before they open a restaurant many chefs are taking their recipes on the road. Meet the food truck entrepreneurs who are making more than a few dollars along the way. And later, nfl quarterbacks learned more than football from their dads. A new book explores life lessons from fathers. And now a look at how the stock market ended the w whether its connecting one of the worlds most innovative campuses. Or bringing wifi to 65,000 fans. Businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. Its a performance machine. Engineering. With this degree of intelligence. Its a supercomputer. With this grade of protection. Its a fortress. And with this standard of luxury. Its an oasis. The 2017 eclass. Its everything you need it to be. And more. Lease the e300 for 569 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Whether its connecting one of or bringing wifi to 65,000 fans. Campuses. Businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. The road to riches could begin in the food truck. Over the past five years more than 4,000 drivable mobile eateries have launched across the country. For many, its the first step toward a brick and mortar restaurant. Kate rogers hit the streets and found Success Stories with food truck millionaires. Reporter when ben van blew inand his partner made their artisan ice cream in 2008, they had no idea what a hit it would become. There you go. Reporter with just 50,000, they hit the streets of new york city looking for the perfect location. We drove to the corner of green and prince and by the time we had opened the window there was a line of 30 people. This is the Peanut Butter chip. Reporter and the crowds kept coming. Today the company has six food trucks and nine store fronts in both new york and los angeles. Their ice creme, featuring unique flavors retails in whole foods in the northeast and california and the business is on track to do 20 million in revenue next year. Food trucks like this have been growing at a faster rate than traditional restaurants over the past decade, but the growth is expected to slow in years to come due to regulatory hurdles. Its very challenging to make them work financially in new york city. In other markets its much better. In los angeles its very truck friendly. Reporter in austin, texas, former attorney eric silver steen launched his food truck the peached tortilla after he couldnt raise the money for a brick and mortar shop. The biggest challenge is to stay mentally strong if youre not taking a paycheck. If youre doing it, you have to be ready for an all out war on the street. Reporter he won the war opening a restaurant featuring his asian and southern influence tacos. He still takes his two trucks out for lunch and catering and expects to do more than 3 million in revenue this year. You are all set with your heart attack. Reporter Marty Lieberman went the brick and mortar route after her truck became a hit in 2013. It was only within the first two months of being on the truck that our first catering jobs came in, which is an aspect of the business we didnt realize would be so lucrative. Reporter she and her sister ended up opening up a store front. The truck is booked up through 2018 and her business is set to do about 1. 5 million in sales in 2017. People come from new york. People come from los angeles. People come from england. We get requests from brazil. Its just super rewarding to hear how many people love our product. You have a wonderful day. Reporter one thing is for sure, no matter where these food trucks are located, one thing that they have in common are the local regulatory hurdles. Van lewen mentioned to us they might consider shutting down their new york truck and consider more on friendly markets. I am so hungry after seeing your story. Kate, the thing is that because theyre exploding coast to coast, is there any concern on the part of these entrepreneurs that this is a trend that could see a down side . Reporter yeah, absolutely. One of the people who watch this space, the analysts in the food truck arena, say that those regulatory hurdles could slow this down in the future. For example, in new york city to get the license that you need to operate the food truck, the people who work inside, scoop the ice cream, it takes several months to get that. Thats typically a job someone might work for one season. To put in three months to work two months might not be a worth while payoff. Thats one of the barriers they to go through. Great story. Thank you so much for bringing it to us. Reporter thank you. From food to football. The new season kicks off in less than two weeks. Each nfl team is counting on their quarterback, but how do those quarterbacks get into that leadership role . For most it started in the backyard with their dad. Thats what author gary myers explores in his new book my first coach. Gary, so nice to talk to you. Thank you for having me. Youve covered the nfl for decades. Is there a unique dynamic between especially the quarterbacks and their fathers . I really think so. Quarterback is a leadership position. I think the fathers are extremely important in setting the tone with their sons in football. One of the most probably famous fathers in football is archie manning. Right. Of course, he has two super bowl winning quarterbacks, peyton and eli manning. Tell me a little bit about their relationship with their dad and his style of parenting. Yeah. You would think any of these fathers i wrote about would be over bearing because they have the experience, it would be archie. Hes completely the opposite. He never pushed his kids into playing football. Really the only thing he said to them was i want you to be good to each other and i want you to have fun when you play sports. He never really coached them at any level. He let the coaches coach and he sat back. If the kids had questions, he was there to answer them. Phil sims father might be on the other side. Its interesting that i have known him since 1979. Know him as well as any player ive ever covered in this league and when i sat down to talk to him for my book it was really to talk to him about how he is with his own kids, chris and matt, who both played in the nfl. Starting off the conversation i said, i dont really know much about your background. Tell me about what it was like growing up in louisville. He was telling me he had Seven Brothers and sisters, lived in a small house and his father was an alcoholic. I had no idea about. Nobody had ever written about. His father wasnt one of those pat on the back guys who was always praising his son. In fact, he was so tough on him and he felt like whatever he did his father made him feel like he failed. Was that a driving factor for him though . Was it sort of a in reverse motivating him to do better . Yeah, i think that in a way he was so motivated to try to please his father that it probably made him more competitive. Why did you write this book . I wrote it because i was inspied by my own relationship with my son who is now 22 years old. He recently graduated from michigan. From the age of 4, 5 when he started playing tee ball before he was playing high school ball, i coached him in baseball every spring. Thats something i enjoyed doing. We bonded over baseball. And were very close, and this book was actually his idea. He suggested to me, why dont you find eight or ten quarterbacks and just explore their relationships with their fathers and it will be great for middle school and High School Boys and girls. Thank you for sharing a little bit of insight about the special relationship here between dads and sons. Thank you. Up next, were on the money. Divide and conquer. How to divide the Emotional Task of cleaning up, clearing out all that clutter. A woman who love cats made a kitty theme her inspiration. She turned her desert home shawn evans its 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. And at our factory in boston, 1,200 workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. Today were bringing you americas number one shave at lower prices every day. Putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. As one of those workers, im proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. Gillette the best a man can get. Fancy china that youve never used, books youve never read, photos in boxes you havent looked at in decades. Sound familiar . 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Start take one room, one space, get yourself some colored stickers and just start identifying sort through it, i want to keep this, i want to donate this, i want to potentially sell this. Or i need to just trash it. Is there anything that you can provide that a whole family just showing up for a weekend cant. I think trying to do that in 40 hours is simply not realistic. Its really important when youre transitioning with an older adult to downsize to move to a new environment that will better support their quality of life. That you treat the older a dulled and their possessions with the dignity they deserve. I know when people start going by their stuff, wow, i dont want this anymore. This is going to be perfect for my daughter. All of a sudden the daughter gets overwhelmed with fancy china, books that havent been read and pictures, too. I think it depends on the cognitive abilities of the older adult. If youre talking with your parents who are just now starting on the down side of the process, i think its fair to say, wow, thank you for all of this. I hope that youll understand that if there are things that we cant use, we will pass them on. Jennifer picket, thank you for the insight and advice, we appreciate it. My pleasure. Up next on the money a look at the news in the week ahead. Maybe you should look away if youre a dog person. A w wall to wall shrine for all things cats. You have not seen anything like this, i guarantee it shawn evans its 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. And at our factory in boston, 1,200 workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. Today were bringing you americas number one shave at lower prices every day. Putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. 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On friday august Sales Numbers are out for august and well see how many jobs were gained and lost when the employment was lost. Follow 20 acres in the scenic southwest. Theres one catch. You must really like kittens, cats, and all things feline. Jane wells goes to concho, arizona, to explain. So this is it. Th reporter oh, my gosh. Its the most unusual home in america. Theres more . Theres more. Reporter this 2200 square foot home is covered wall to wall. Oh, my god. Floor to ceiling. Oh, my god. W cats. So this was her master bedroom, which is all cats. Reporter realtor liz keller has listed the home for 240,000. This is by far the most unusual listing ive ever had, seen, heard about. Reporter keller says she is a shy woman who did not want to be interviewed. She built it with her husband and when he became terminally ill the house became her termin pe passion for felines. Its been a ten plus year project. As you can see in the bathroom, she even has a tank handle on the toilet that is a cat. Since going on the market, the listing has gone viral with millions of hits online. However, we are the first news crew to actually show up for a look. Every square inch of the ceiling up here is puzzles that shes put together of cats on the ceiling. How do you feel standing there . Overwhelmed. The amazing thing is the woman only has two cats. Wait, no, heres whats really amazing. I thought this place was going to smell. It doesnt. Not at all. No. I do have to say she had a room designated just for her cat box and that was the room that we probably laughed about. Its been shown and theres interest from cat rescue groups. Keller says its only half of what used to be here. You can say, hey, why would you list that . It must smell like cats. I feel sorry for the realtor. To me, i think its great. For the right buyer its purrfect. For on the money, jane wells. 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