i played the weir part in all of the stuff that i do but there was bob weir doing the weir part so i was forced to take the jerry part, playing a cool gibson guitar. >> you didn't bring us a picture? >> you know, i didn't think about it. >> we had a picture from harwood with black eyed peas. >> i just want everybody to see how much cooler everybody is than they think. >> here is news that wasn't revealed. i talked about selling his songs to commercials and he said he was not opposed to it. what do you think would be the one product that might approach bob weir? >> he's got some good hair. >> it's not hair. relative to a song. a fairly popular song for the dead in the '70s. >> sing it. >> i don't like any of the popular songs. >> okay. anyway. this was miracle whip approached bob weir. >> miracle whip? >> to use the song "i need a miracle." true story. right from the guy's mouth u we'll try to bring you this. because of the olympics also we'll bring you this stuff next week but his thoughts about wall street, joe, and making money and all of that stuff. i know we got to break. >> we d

. >> bob weir with the preview. >> joe, bob weir wants to improve the quality of what you ingest musicallywhen "squawk box" comes back. comes back. >>> netflix will be integrated into tivo on three of the smaller cable operators. grande communications and rcn sell couple services are the first in the united states to bring netflix as an app to a cable set top box. this is like putting fluoride in the water. this is like some kind of communist plot. the arrangements make it easier to access tphret flicks movies. we work for comcast. it's fine. i love tom rogers. do what you've got to do. you can now get it on your television sets because you don't have to switch to an apple tv or a roku box. shares with netflix have been moving on different things this week. down about $4 a share. we have xfinity on comcast. >> apple was supposed to be doing a deal. >> bite your tongue. >> okay. go slow now. how does this -- for cnbc. >> with a cnbc app you can get on these systems. >> the content will be worth more? >> the content will come over the top. all the content creators will have a bountiful harve

apparently, they didn't play very well. >>> stories, we got a chance to ask bob weir. about remembering jerry on his birthday. i asked him for a single fond memory. here's what he said. >> we were just chugging away. nobody was taking a lead. nobody was soloing. nothing. and so i sort of edged my way over to jer i. this is nice. he wasn't going anywhere. he was just, man, i could just live here forever is what he told me. i remember that fondly. >> the fiddle of it, he had a conversation with garcia. i asked him another question, i said, are you surprised the music has endured so long? it's 24/7 on sirius. bob weir does a weekly -- here's why i think he said the music is endearing. >> it doesn't surprise me. there's a lot to this stuff. it wasn't written for the purpose of selling a million records or, you know, appealing to the current trends in popular music and we had no talent for that. so we abandoned that early on. >> so don't try to be trendy. this is the latest thing they're doing here, andrew. warren haines and the almond brothers are working with the san fran

i've going to be playing with bob weir soon and the benefit, can we announced that now?ect out in san francisco, we're going to play at bob weir's sweetwater club. isn't it cool? >> great. >> and sammy haga will show up because he lives down the road, and some other folks. >> sammy hagar ever play with bob weir? >> they do "loose lucy" together and a bunch of other songs. everything is sort of a meeting of minds, i just got the two-minute warning here in my head. >> oh, my god. >> do i have a time-out? >> rick, do you have anything? >> i want to do something quick on inflation, bring up the charts fast. lot of mixed signals whether or not the market is seeing inflation from the new round of quantitative easing. here are the numbers there, guys, oil, since the jackson hole meeting i picked two points, you can argue with the points, event studies are always flawed for this reason. i took the day before bernanke's jackson hole speech and the day before the fed announcement which was on the 12th, there's gold up, commodities up, guys go quickly to the next screen and we'll s

i know that's what you're hearing. >> i like the fact you found every opportunity to bring up bob weirter rue tomorrow. christine romer would be a very experienced person. one of the prerequisites, you've spent some time in the white house and she's spent her time. that's one idea that's floated out. >> that's interesting. >> also mentioned austin. >> has austin been mentioned as well? >> let me get -- rick, do have you a suggestion? if you had your brutte druthersn or christine romer? >> which devil do you put in charge of foreign relations? i don't know. take your choice. >> you know, you never send me a check for teeing things up for you. you do appreciate it, though, right? >> appreciate what, joe? >> that i tee -- i get the great -- i don't know. i think i can effectively, you know, when you're ready to just talk about libor, i get good stuff out of you. what else are you watching? i'm a pretty simple guy. i like to watch the markets. all of the other issues, consumer protection, whatnot, you know, if the population really needs to have every metric yard of flattulence regulated,

. >> sammy hagar works with bob weir?fferent kinds of music but they live down the road from each other. they're going to play "loose lucy." he wants to do a dylan song, a freddy king and a buddy holly song, so my band has been working on backing up sammy and we'll do a bunch of stuff with weir as well and stuff on our own, all for a good cause. we're going to have a camera there and this will give joe hours of time to make fun of me on television. it's all about giving joe material. that's the way i look at what i do. >> helping the vets, i'm not going to make fun of -- >> me playing music. >> inthat might be. >> "loose lucy" is sammy's song he does with bobby. >> you'll share video monday? >> monday i'm out monday, i'm going to enjoy a little bit of rest. >> you'll be detoxing. >> no, joe, i'll be perfectly sober. >> bob weir and the dead guys? >> joe i may have one drink before i go on with that guy. there's too much to remember. >> i'm not talking about drinks. >> whatever you're talking about, joe, i'm going to remai

you want to talk about bob weir some more or -- >> let's go. thanks, rick.'s with us for the rest of the hour. i was going to talk to carl and becky and just say, it was nice watching corker and warner. i mean, i got -- >> why can't we all get along? >> bob, both those guys are new. is that what we need to take away from that, term limits or something? both those guys are new. they're talking, they're nice, they make sense. i mean, these guys, they've been there too long, 30, 40 years, leave! >> warner's point about the guest list at today's meeting being the same people who have been fighting about this for a year now, maybe you need some new blood. that was a good point. we haven't heard that. >> they're both new. you couldn't even tell one was a republican and one was a democrat. >> you said you liked steny hoyer, too, who's been there a while. >> i want to call him speaker -- no, i can't say it. he's leader hoyer. he would have laughed. >> guys, you know the white house health care summit is kicking off later this morning. our next guest is inviting insu

you, bob weir. >> you offered you offered.ot quite almost a zoom call >> steve, thank you. good luck this weekend we'll be watching. >> all right >> for all of those things great to see you, steve. >>> let's get to this morning to the big market stories dom chu is watching the markets. seeing which charts are on the rise and which ones are falling. dom, what do you have for us >> becky, when he said save a million bass, i thought liesman was referring to the small and large bass take a look for over the last week the biggest theme i guess out there right now is that the value kind of blue chip index still continues to outperform. over the last week, the dow industrials are up 2%. s&p 500 up 1/2 of 1% the nasdaq is stuck out at 2.5%. technology stocks, media, technology, telecommunications maybe not doing as well in the week's trade a look from a sector basis, that's playing out as well the two underperformers of note over the last week have been the technology sector and the communication services sector. the energy sector con

john mayer and bob weir is a cool thing to listen to. >> it is. >> you heard about it?, but i googled john mayer current squeeze and his 554,000 google results. i don't think that's -- i don't think that covers -- >> you think it's light? >> the algorithm's wrong. >> steve, thank you. >> my pleasure. my pleasure. here we go. >>> when we come back this morning, we welcome our guest host, samzell, and jay leno is stopping by. the legendary comedian has a new show on cnbc that premiers tonight. first, though, he'll share a laugh with us. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. >>> markets alert, earnings season, and sam zell is our guest host here to speak his mind on the u.s. economy, politics, and the health of the housing market. >> a selloff in the shares of kfc and taco bell parent company yum brands. a dismal picture of economies recovering in china. details ahead. >>> jay leno is opening his car collection on cnbc on "jay le leno's garage," and c

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and the thing -- the thing that is so awesome about my friend bob weir, he's a great ceo, he gets all's playing with this horn section, and at 75, he's still cranking it. you and i would be well to do half as well as he -- >> he says he likes it he doesn't care. the only other thing, we had an argument with two senators, blumenthal and one from tennessee, marsha blackburn about musicians. >> jerry or bob? >> nobody from connecticut and john mayer is now in my eyes, he's grown immensely from finding out that he's now -- does he play -- >> they were one of the largest -- speaking of the business side of our job here, they were one of the largest grossing touring bands in the past several years >> brought it back to our -- >> see that? and you know why, joe? the economics of rock 'n' roll are such that you make them money playing live the recording, because you're getting -- you're getting .0001 for a stream on spotify the way people are making money now is live music the economics of it. >> used to play for silver, now they play for live they said that. >> exactly >> thanks, steve >>> o

a tweet check it out guy name the bob weir. picture unfortunately, it's not him.i mean, my heart leapt, but, anyway, go ahead. are we restrictive, steve? >> joe, i really love the conversation you were having with rick. here's my take on things. i think the fed right now and for the last several months has been caught between the theory and the reality of what's going on in the economy. okay. theoretically the fed is way restricted. and where do you start? start by looking up what they're long-run rate is. 2.5%. the long run, essentially the neutral rate that doesn't slow down or speed up the economy. where are they now? 5 3/8. restrictive, the theory. look how the economy is working. rick can't get reservations at restaurants. i can, because the maitre'ds seem to be very kind to me. thank you all you maitre'ds out there and i bet rick doesn't have much trouble, too, actually. at any point, consumers are doing well, reasonably. economy reasonably well. jobless views not huge. the big story, unifying theory of all this could be the productivity numbers. nice piece

. >> after being able to debate economics with you, being able to talk to bob weir is the second best>> i'm hearing a lot of sarcasm which is the domain of losers. >> no, no, i enjoy that every morning. >> loser >>> parade of quarterly earnings continue we'll hear from dozens of companies including big tech names, microsoft, intel, twitter according to wilf. tesla will report. joining us is sandy bragar, partner at esperian and phil orlando. head of client portfolio management at federated. i didn't know you added that. >> we added that >> we added that. >> i like that touch of class sandy, you're worried about this spread between growth and value, stretch. and almost aware you think it might be local territory but your favorite stocks, i think, are like apple, microsoft, it includes intel so it's like you're like this. you know, you still like -- you still like them -- >> good to see you. >> -- but you're still worried maybe it's time to switch the value. >> we definitely like value. it's got the short end of the shrift for a very long time. it's poised to come back we like value, u.

steve liesman, actually, has a relationship with bob weir they're all amazing. amazing.you're welcome. >> thanks so much. thanks, john and amy. >>> still to come on "squawk box" this morning, we have your market minute. plus waste management ceo jim fish on bringing workers back to the office "squawk box" will be right back. >>> now the answer to today's aflac trivia question. who composed and arranged the sound track for the 1987 film "wall street"? the answer, stewart copeland, best known as the drummer for the british rock band "the police." copeland has worked on over 60 film scores dating back to 1983. ♪♪ in boxing or any other business, one day, you're gonna take a hit you didn't see coming. do you stay down? or do you get up? [announcer] and this fight is a long way from over, leonard is coming back. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> welcome back to "squawk box. i'm dominic chu. here with your friday market minute the pull back in the nasdaq back below the 50 day average price brings the drop from record highs that we saw to here by down 7%. so keep an eye on that level there. the nasdaq

bob weir putting on a special tribute concert at the red rocks today.ncisco giants will commemorate garcia this thursday with a grateful dead tribute night at at&t park >>> when we come back, the latest on the white house shake-up anthony scaramucci out after just ten days on the job plus, the north korea threat and later the ceo of box is taking shopping to a whole new level. what if stores could predict when you will run out of toilet paper and already have it shipped to your house before you even realize it? or order it? the e-commerce site rolling out a new feature that does just that we'll talk about that plus much more right now as we head to a break, take a look. futures are still higher dow futures no longer up by triple digits. looks like the dow would open up 98 points after closing at yet another record level yesterday s&p 500 up by 5. the nasdaq up by 20. at blue apron, we're building a better food system. where instead of paying for middlemen, we work directly with family farms to deliver higher quality ingredients for less than you pay at

>> bob weir's band in the mid '70s. they did a lot of good stuff. you never heard of them?s listening to them. it was pretty good. >> he wrote a lot of his best music became some of the dead music inside the kingfish. >> all right. because i haven't seen you. -i have backup. i have questions. >> if you put them in e-mail format please and i will respond to each one as you know when you write me these little lines a write six page memos. >> don't do it on the air with all of our viewers going what the hell. that's an idea. that's one way of approaching it. thank you, steve. coming up the baby boomer effect. the biggest, richest and perhaps the most influential group of americans. you're not, are you? >> i'm a tail end- >> i think i'm like right in the middle. i am not turning 65 any time soon. americans are living longer, 10,000 people turn 65 every day and changing the health care landscape especially in the pharmaceutical industry. next the impact on medicine and research when the ceo of sanofi tells us how this company is keeping up with the boomer generation. "squawk box

>> you learn in the movie which is what i have encountered knowing bob weir over the years, doing whatthey do in the entire grateful dead family. what you find out in the movie is that they try to make a documentary of them in 1970. and the band dosed the entire film crew can lsd. [ laughter ] so what you see in there is you see the shots of these guys that had never taken lsd before essentially doing in and out of shots. >> you guys didn't get that treatment, did you? >> no. >> i don't think anybody drank the water around the film set is the idea. but i wanted to talk about something else, which is a business related part of this. you guys came along and you have marketed this and sold this a completely new way. this is not a film going out to the theaters but it's kind of in the theaters, it's on amazon and you're doing something on the 25th, explain that. >> i'll let alex explain the amazon distribution, but we started as a 90 minute movie which elongated into the four hour kind of whole play. and we saw making of a murder happen on netflix and "the jinx" on hbo and alex let us go t