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Speaker 1: What is your problem for I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: problems with your people. You think we have a problem.

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Speaker 2: What's your problem?

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Speaker 1: I've got ninety nine problems on ninety three double TWYPC.

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Speaker 3: It is done for a little group therapy when we

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Speaker 3: ask what's your problem? I think today you and I

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Speaker 3: are sharing the same problem. Would you like to go first?

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Speaker 1: I would because there's a USA Today story that's posted

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Speaker 1: on their website right now that talks about symptoms of

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Speaker 1: the quote cicada COVID variant detected in twenty five states.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I did it, okay,

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Speaker 1: six years ago. You shut the world down, You put

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Speaker 1: people out of work. We had a social distance. You

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Speaker 1: forced us to wear masks. You forced us to get

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Speaker 1: a vaccine that many of us didn't want, but we

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Speaker 1: had the threat of losing our jobs over our heads.

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Speaker 1: We already went through. I remember the omicron variant of COVID. Anything,

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Speaker 1: I'm done with it. I don't care if this version

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Speaker 1: of COVID is ten times worse than what we saw

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Speaker 1: the first time around. I'm not changing my life for

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Speaker 1: anything COVID anymore. I'm just going to go about my

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Speaker 1: business and pretend like this doesn't exist.

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Speaker 3: It's called cicada because it emerged long ago and then

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Speaker 3: rose quietly before spreading more recently. But I'm with you,

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Speaker 3: this isn't a repeat of twenty twenty. It's more like

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Speaker 3: COVID is background noise. This is white machine. To me,

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Speaker 3: I don't pay any attention to what you're saying. USA today.

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Speaker 3: You are wasting space with this article. The fact that

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Speaker 3: the CDC and the World Health Organization are tracking this.

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Speaker 1: They want you to think it's newsworthy.

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Speaker 3: It's not the symptoms running nose sore, throat fatigue.

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Speaker 1: You know what that sounds like to me? A call? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just look. I I'll admit this over it. COVID

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Speaker 1: is a trigger word for me. It brings up a

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Speaker 1: ton of bad memories how our rights were completely trampled

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Speaker 1: over and nobody seemed to care. So I don't care

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Speaker 1: if there's a new cicada very of the COVID virus,

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Speaker 1: and can we quit naming them? You've got a problem

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Speaker 1: with that. I've got to just stop already. This is

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Speaker 1: the teddy bear variant of the COVID virus, the ice

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Speaker 1: cream popsicle variant of the COVID virus doesn't matter. This

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Speaker 1: is the fear mongering variant. That's exactly what it is.

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Speaker 1: I'm not wearing a mask. Don't care how bad this is.

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Speaker 1: I'm not social distancing. I'm not getting another vaccine, I'm

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Speaker 1: not getting boosters. I'm done. This is my problem today.

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Speaker 1: Don't care about the new COVID variant.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was a victory and this one coming from

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Speaker 3: the Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Junior, and

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Speaker 3: he says that today all hospital executives will be mandated

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Speaker 3: to post their prices.

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Speaker 2: This week we pass new regulations that are gonna require

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Speaker 2: hospitals to post their pricing. So we're gonna price transparency

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Speaker 2: and the insurance companies, so we're gonna have price transpart.

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Speaker 2: If you go to a restaurant, you can see what

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Speaker 2: the price is before you order a meal. If you

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Speaker 2: go to a car dealer and he tells you you

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Speaker 2: can buy this car, but I'm not in bed tell

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Speaker 2: you what the price is till after you bought it,

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Speaker 2: you would not buy that car. And that's how every

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Speaker 2: hospital in this country works.

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Speaker 3: Yep, sounds reasonable to me. He went on to say

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Speaker 3: that if hospital's mislead patients are failed to disclose actual prices,

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Speaker 3: we will hold them accountable. That's where the question remains,

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Speaker 3: how are you going to hold them accountable?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I look, I'm glad that RFK Junior is doing this.

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Speaker 1: Certainly a step in the right direction. On the surface,

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Speaker 1: it sounds good. I want to see what it looks

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Speaker 1: like in practice, though.

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Speaker 3: You want to walk in the front door of a

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Speaker 3: hospital and see a big price list.

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Speaker 1: I want it to be like McDonald's McDonald's, where you

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Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of video screens up there that

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Speaker 1: tell me all the services and gives me the price

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Speaker 1: right there next to it. And he says he's going

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Speaker 1: to do it for insurance companies too, And again, that's great,

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Speaker 1: it's wonderful. I hope it turns out the way he

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Speaker 1: thinks it's going to turn out. I am just a

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Speaker 1: little skeptical about all of this. And let's also keep

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Speaker 1: in mind too, transparency's great. Transparency is important, but it's

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Speaker 1: not like transparency is going to fix the current problems

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Speaker 1: that we have with healthcare and healthcare insurance in this country.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of health now, this doesn't fall in that category,

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Speaker 3: but it is getting a little better reces changing back

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Speaker 3: to their classic recipe. This is because people notice that

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Speaker 3: they were using a less chocolatey coating and they were

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Speaker 3: using substitutes instead of traditional chocolate. Consumers noticed it, and

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Speaker 3: the grandson of Hershey, mister Hershey, said, Okay, we're going

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Speaker 3: it anymore. They're going to transition to natural colors in suites,

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Speaker 3: they're going to make kit chocolate creamier, and all of

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Speaker 3: this because consumer said, ah, we're not putting up with

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Speaker 3: your fake food. Go back to the real deal.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of this was driven by the fact

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Speaker 1: that cocoa prices have gone up so significantly, and obviously

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Speaker 1: Chalco they were trying to cut corners. They were trying

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Speaker 1: to cut corners. But hey, look look good for them

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Speaker 1: for realizing a mistake and making the change on this thing.

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Speaker 1: And I think that when it comes to when it

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Speaker 1: comes to my candy bar selection, yeah, Grecea's has always

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Speaker 1: been near the top of the list. Yeah, it's always

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Speaker 1: I mean that is like a classic. I mean they

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Speaker 1: invented the peanut, butter and chocolate together. We remember the

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Speaker 1: classic greasy peanut butter cup commercials from the days you

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Speaker 1: got my chocolate in my peanut but you got your

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Speaker 1: peanut butter and my chocolate, and then we ate it

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Speaker 1: and it was delicious and wonderful, and it sounds like

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Speaker 1: it'll be delicious again. This is right up Trump's alley.

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Speaker 1: Make Rese's delicious again. I don't know how that fits

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Speaker 1: on a hat or how you say it as an acronym,

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Speaker 1: but make Resy cups delicious again.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people were saying that the new chocolate

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Speaker 3: was like waxy and wasn't worth buying. But when you

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Speaker 3: mess with your identity like that, even if you're trying

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Speaker 3: to cut costs, you're gonna really risk losing the customer trust.

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Speaker 3: And you know it's it's hard to gain quick to

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Speaker 3: lose trust, and it takes a lot of effort to

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Speaker 1: What is your number one candy bar selection, top choice?

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Speaker 1: Don't think about it too much. What do your your

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Speaker 1: favorite candy bar.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to go with Snickers probably.

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Speaker 1: I go with Snickers too. I just does a lot.

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Speaker 3: That's a working candy bar.

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Speaker 1: It's the workhourse of the industry, right. It's pretty much

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Speaker 1: what everybody It's the go to everybody else's second after Snickers.

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Speaker 1: I agree, although Reese's peanut buttercups are Yeah, are pretty easy.

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Speaker 3: They're pretty delicious.

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Speaker 1: Top five easy. Talk about what's going on with KitKat two. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we want to do that now, we gotta come back

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Speaker 1: and do that, I think.

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Speaker 3: So let's get updated on the news and we'll talk

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Speaker 3: about the KitKat.

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Speaker 1: Tracker, coring up, breaking candy bar news today.

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