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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Give it the latest time. What's when I was Snap?

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Speaker 3: We got what twelve percent of the state relies on

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Speaker 3: the SNAP benefits to put food on the table. So

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Speaker 3: you had kids, you got veterans, you got working families

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Speaker 3: that feeling the pain of this political dysfunction. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: about that here in a moment. I did ask the question,

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Speaker 3: if we dish the time change, would you prefer permanent

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Speaker 3: daylight saving which would was later nights, or permanent standard

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Speaker 3: time it's earlier mornings.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Chris, love the show, You're always entertaining. My vote

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Speaker 4: would be for permanent daylight savings time.

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Speaker 2: I love that extra.

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Speaker 4: Light at night, although I'm not very hopeful considering the

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Speaker 4: government has been, you know, talking about this now for

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Speaker 4: what seems like decades to get rid of it, and

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Speaker 4: they just can't functionally seem to do it. They just

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Speaker 4: they don't know what to do or how to do it.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, that's my vote.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're gonna keep it in the public

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Speaker 3: because the lobbyists like to throw money at him.

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Speaker 2: We talked about that in the last segment.

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Speaker 3: There are different lobbying groups that want it one way

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Speaker 3: or another, and so if they just keep throwing money,

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Speaker 3: then they'll keep bringing you back up.

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Speaker 5: Chris in spyty your politics. I am always happy to

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Speaker 5: hear your voice.

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Speaker 6: I like you in large s GISs, oh, thank you,

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Speaker 6: despite your politics.

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Speaker 2: I just hate them all. That's what you gotta understand. Hey, Chris,

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Speaker 2: we should keep data saving time. Okay, well, but another

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Speaker 2: question is what is a I think we should do? Oh,

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Speaker 2: I haven't bothered asking it. That's a big question. Can't

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Speaker 2: wait to listen to your show Tuesday night and no

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Speaker 2: one's fifty, he.

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Speaker 3: Says, No one fifty. Okay, very good. All right, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna ask chat GPT should we keep daylight saving time

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Speaker 3: or make standard time permit. Let's see what chat GPT says.

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Speaker 3: That's a good question. Short version. Experts are leaning toward

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Speaker 3: permanent standard time. It's the healthier, safer option. Polls, however,

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Speaker 3: show that you prefer permanent daylight saving time because of

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Speaker 3: the appeal of longer evenings. So once again we're rejecting science. Unbelievable. Wow, yeah,

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Speaker 3: there you go. Now you know there it is.

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Speaker 2: It's the latest.

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Speaker 3: We'll get more of your calls on that in just

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Speaker 3: a few moments. If you are on the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 3: to sit that talk back button and let us know.

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Speaker 3: I have to dispel with some rumors that are floating around.

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Speaker 3: Last week, there was talk because we know that the

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Speaker 3: government shut down. Obviously, Snap benefits ran out because we didn't,

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Speaker 3: you know, fund the government by midnight on Friday. So

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Speaker 3: Snap benefits are run out and then cards are not

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Speaker 3: being refilled starting yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Aready wear that story? I'm sure you're a very stute person.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Last week there were a bunch of tiktoks that were

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Speaker 3: going around of people that were claiming that they are

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Speaker 3: not going without their food and they're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 3: take that food. So then they started the same TikTokers

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Speaker 3: were saying that Walmart was telling them they were gonna

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Speaker 3: lock their doors and that they were gonna shut down

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Speaker 2: Uh. The online eyre.

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Speaker 3: Has been fueled by unverified claims that those losing Snap

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Speaker 3: benefits planned.

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Speaker 2: To loot Walmart stores.

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Speaker 3: Two TikTok videos for a combined one point seven million

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Speaker 3: all Walmart stores were gonna close doors. Locked, the shoppers

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Speaker 3: only allowed to place online orders for parking lot pick up.

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Speaker 2: One TikTok video with over a.

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Speaker 3: Million views posted the claims that Walmart's decision came after

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Speaker 3: y'all keep acting a fool and saying what y'all gonna

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Speaker 3: do when y'all don't get your snap benefits?

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Speaker 2: There you go. Another one claims.

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Speaker 3: The Broke's made a threat to Walmart that they would

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Speaker 3: go straight to Walmart for everything they need. Brokis is

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Speaker 3: slaying for people with no money or aka me. So

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Speaker 3: Walmart had to respond and they said, no, we're not

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna We're not gonna do that. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: keep selling food. Yeah, and they have, but that didn't

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Speaker 3: stop different police jurisdictions from having to respond, including in Barstow.

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Speaker 2: According to ABC.

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Speaker 7: Seven, one So Cal Police department says it will be

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Speaker 7: stepping up patrols at grocery stores as millions are expected

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Speaker 7: to miss out on next month's food stamps because of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're stepping up patrols because people are gonna

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Speaker 3: steal food. I don't think they're gonna steal food until

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Speaker 3: they actually get to the point of starving.

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Speaker 2: And then they might that's possibility.

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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, two judges said, no, look, you gotta fund it.

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Speaker 3: You're funding everything else you're gonna You're finding ways to

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Speaker 3: pay military paychecks. Good by the way, you're finding ways

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Speaker 3: to make sure that Social Security checks go out, good,

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Speaker 3: by the way. You have to fund food.

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Speaker 8: Angelino's lined up at food distribution sites today worried about

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Speaker 8: an end to their federal benefits.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how worse is gonna this is gonna be,

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Speaker 1: but you know it is bad.

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Speaker 2: It is terrible.

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Speaker 8: At midnight tonight, more than forty million Americans will lose

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Speaker 8: SNAP benefits used to pay for groceries.

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Speaker 9: This government shutdown has put our families and fellow Angelinos

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Speaker 9: on the front lines of political games.

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Speaker 6: That they never asked to be a part of.

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Speaker 8: State and local leaders visiting Project angel Food in Hollywood

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Speaker 8: today taking steps to protect recipients, and now two federal

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Speaker 8: judges rule to force the Trump administration to keep funding

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Speaker 8: the program.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh.

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Speaker 8: US District Judge in Dera Talwani's dating Congress put money

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Speaker 8: in an emergency fund, and it is hard for me

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Speaker 8: to understand how this is not an emergency.

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Speaker 3: Now the judges have said, you have until Monday to

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Speaker 3: tell us what you're doing. So they still didn't say

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Speaker 3: you have to put money in the account right now.

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Speaker 3: Well one of them did, but then said get back

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Speaker 3: to me on Monday and let me know if you

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Speaker 3: did it. The other one said, uh, let me know

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Speaker 3: what your plan is by Monday. The President says, nah,

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Speaker 3: he's going to find a way to fund it.

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Speaker 10: It is the nation's primary anti hunger program for low

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Speaker 10: income Americans, now in the crosshairs of the federal government

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Speaker 10: shut down starting tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: CalFresh is Friday.

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Speaker 10: Obviously, the California version of the federal SNAP program runs

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Speaker 10: out of money from Washington. This despite a five and

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Speaker 10: a half billion dollar emergency fund the administration has decided

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Speaker 10: not to use us age.

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Speaker 3: By the way, the five and a half billion dollar

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Speaker 3: emergency fund will will fund the SNAP benefits for about

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Speaker 3: two weeks, so it's not like, oh, okay, well now

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Speaker 3: Snap's not gonna run out. No, this this allows Congress

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Speaker 10: For Culture Secretary Brooke Robbins says that contingency fund has

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Speaker 10: restrictions and can only be used for natural disasters, which.

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Speaker 11: Event like a hurricane, but it is a contingency fund

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Speaker 11: that can only flow if the underlying appropriation is approved.

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Speaker 2: The usc has never done this in the past.

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Speaker 10: But Governor Gavin Newsom, in an interview with NBC News,

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Speaker 10: says that the emergency fund was used during the government

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Speaker 10: shutdown in mister Trump's first term.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so now you get the ins and outs. But

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Speaker 3: let let's face it. The politicians they love to look.

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Speaker 3: They go, look, oh, no, this is snap benefits, cal

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Speaker 3: fresh No, this is this is for the pores, and

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Speaker 3: we can use them as pawns. What politicians using using

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Speaker 3: people without money as pawns. That's never in the history

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Speaker 3: need a pawn, it's always someone who's either foreign or poor,

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Speaker 3: or even better both. Would they consider cutting defense spending No.

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Speaker 3: Would they consider cutting VA benefits No. Would they consider

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Speaker 3: cutting Medicare Medicaid No, although actually part of the shutdown

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Speaker 3: is about that, but it's about additional money for the

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Speaker 3: Affordable Care Act. Would they consider not sending out Social

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Speaker 12: No?

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Speaker 3: Those are large voting blocks, and so politicians go, well,

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Speaker 3: you know, in national security, do we have to give

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Speaker 3: the Pentagon money? That's not discretionary spending. All Social security,

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Speaker 3: that's the retirement people paying into that, that's theirs.

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Speaker 2: A Medicare that's health security.

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Speaker 3: You have to have that. That's that's security. But cal fresh, oh,

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Speaker 3: that's welfare, that's for the poors. Why don't they get

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Speaker 3: off their asses and do something that's that's the message

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Speaker 3: that's being sent out. That's the mindset. Even my son

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Speaker 3: came to me today and he says, why should I

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Speaker 3: have to pay for somebody who's got seven kids and

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Speaker 3: that's their fault? And I said, yeah, I said, the

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Speaker 3: question is it's a question of humanity, And the question

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Speaker 3: is do you punish those seven kids by letting them starve?

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Speaker 3: That's really the question. But it also told me that

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Speaker 3: the algorithms are reinforcing the stereotype. Because I know he's

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Speaker 3: getting the algorithms of the far right, the Nick foyentation

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Speaker 3: and all that crap. It's an ongoing battle in my

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Speaker 3: these algorithms that are reinforcing this nineteen eighties Ronald Reagan

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Speaker 2: I know that's happening.

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Speaker 3: And so the mindset is anyone that's getting food stamps.

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Speaker 3: Must be lazy, not must be a disabled veteran. It's

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Speaker 3: not must be someone who's elderly. It's not, Oh, this

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Speaker 3: must be someone who's got many kids and is working

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Speaker 3: two jobs, which is funny because he's only one general

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Speaker 3: remove from that, his grandmother worked two jobs to take

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Speaker 3: in a rather comfortable, middle class.

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Speaker 2: Home, he doesn't see the struggle that.

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Speaker 3: Other people go through, and it's really easy to target

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Speaker 3: the pores from a political standpoint. Speaking of being poor,

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Speaker 3: we're all going to be this Thanksgiving. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you've seen the prices of the groceries, but you're

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Speaker 3: about to. You're about to maybe cut back on that

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Speaker 3: menu this Thanksgiving. Just how far are you going to

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Speaker 3: cut back? It depends on what you find out next.

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Speaker 3: I'm Chris Merrill.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 3: If we ditch the time changing, would you prefer a

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Speaker 3: permanent daylight saving or which would give us later nights,

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Speaker 3: or a permanent standard time which would give us earlier mornings.

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Speaker 11: Hello Chris Merrill? Oh hie to respond to your question

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Speaker 11: about the daylight savings time. I think we should stop

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Speaker 11: switching back and forth. Isn't that what we voted for

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Speaker 11: a little while ago, And instead of worrying about which

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Speaker 11: way to go with it, why don't we just split

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Speaker 11: the difference and put it halfway in between, keeping it

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Speaker 11: the same all year round. Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we would do like a half hour thing there.

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Speaker 3: There are a few places, by the way, they just

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Speaker 3: do half hour time changes, which I gotta believe is

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Speaker 3: really confusing.

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Speaker 2: It must work for them though, because they've been doing

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Speaker 2: it for a long.

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Speaker 6: Time, Chris.

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Speaker 5: This is Joanne's starting in Oregon. I guess moved from life.

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Speaker 5: So anyways, it's definitely day night savings time.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 5: It helps with depression, if you ask me, because it's

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Speaker 9: Turkey prices they will not be from business is something

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Speaker 2: You're about to find out why we're so dumb? That's next,

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand now.

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Speaker 3: Question if we ditched daylight saving time? Would you prefer

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Speaker 2: It Ah love Saint Louis.

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Speaker 3: You know, anytime I drive across the country, I always

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Speaker 2: Did you know that, Kayla? I did not know that

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Speaker 3: When I lived outside of Kansas City, my wife and

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Speaker 6: You've lived such a life, Christopher, No, I.

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Speaker 6: You guys are wild.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're crazy.

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Speaker 14: In between all the gunshots. I really like when the

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Speaker 14: And I love listening to you.

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Speaker 6: So I hope you're on more.

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Speaker 14: Even know you said working three days a week is

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Speaker 2: She doesn't sound like she's over forty, does she.

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Speaker 6: No, she's sounds super young.

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Speaker 2: I like that. I like that you play along when

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Speaker 2: What is it.

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Speaker 7: It's not just about the time, it's about the way

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Speaker 3: The idea that that if we didn't change the clocks,

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Speaker 3: where it's it's what the individual thinks is right.

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Speaker 2: This genuinely is the village has to act as one.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that what we did or didn't

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Speaker 3: do in the last pandemic was right or wrong. But

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Speaker 3: for those of you that are saying, you know, you know,

448
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Speaker 3: well the government was totally wrong on this. Okay, Well

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Speaker 3: were they right on something else? The government was wrong

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Speaker 3: with their mask recommendations. Yeah, study show you're probably right. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the masks probably didn't do a whole lot. Yeah you're right,

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Speaker 3: But were you right on the vaccines? Did they cause

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Speaker 3: five G effects?

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Speaker 2: See what I mean?

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Speaker 3: So it's like we're gonna have to do a very

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Speaker 3: thorough job of weighing what is in the.

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Speaker 2: Best interest of all of us. Was closing the schools

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Speaker 2: the best idea.

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Speaker 3: Probably not. And I'll be the first to tell you

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Speaker 3: I was wrong on that. It was way wrong on that.

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Speaker 3: I said, we got to protect the kids, we got

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Speaker 3: to protect the teachers. No study show we probably shouldn't

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Speaker 3: have done that. Now we set our kids back. So

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Speaker 3: I was dead wrong.

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Speaker 2: But you know what I learned, and I know next time.

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Speaker 2: Did the country learn? No?

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Speaker 3: All right, you think your holiday is locked in, and

468
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Speaker 3: then you take a look at the price tag or

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Speaker 3: the stock on the shelves. That changes everything. Turkey price

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Speaker 3: is up forty percent. These prices are way up, So

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have to decide now or you're gonna be scrambling.

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Speaker 3: Come Thanksgivings.

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Speaker 2: A couple of big.

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Speaker 3: National retailers that say that they have the fix for

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Speaker 3: your Thanksgiving and it's on the cheap. But as always,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna get what you pay for. Find out if

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Speaker 3: it's good enough for your big gathering. That's next, Chris Merrill.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 3: We are just well, we're one newscast away from there's

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Speaker 3: no business.

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Speaker 2: Like tell business lash. She is paying attention. I like that.

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Speaker 2: It was quick, It was very good, very good.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: I asked the question if we dish daylight saving, excuse me,

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Speaker 3: if we ditch the time change that we do, would

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Speaker 3: you prefer permanent daylight saving, which is later nights are

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Speaker 3: permanent standard time, which is earlier mornings.

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Speaker 15: Hey, Chris, really appreciate your show. Thanks the algorithm reinforcing

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Speaker 15: the stereotype. I'm just tired of hearing it and these

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Speaker 15: Snap benefits and being used as upon.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I was telling you about the algorithm who's

492
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Speaker 3: sending my son messages about people on Snap benefits are

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Speaker 3: all welfare queens with the seven kids that decided not

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Speaker 3: to work.

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Speaker 15: I spent twenty five years in the corporate world and

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Speaker 15: human resources and was laid off a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 15: I am a single father, genuinely single father, with two kids,

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Speaker 15: and you work my ASTs off a looking for a job,

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Speaker 15: which is so hard right now. I drive for Lift,

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Speaker 15: I referee a lot of soccer games, more than my

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Speaker 15: body can handle it my age, and I'm trying, but

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Speaker 15: all those benefits, I'm sorry, I.

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Speaker 2: Just I just he got cut off. Yeh, go bed yeah.

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Speaker 3: God bless you for being that single dad who's willing

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Speaker 3: to do whatever it takes. Man, that's great running out

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Speaker 3: there playing soccer or refereeing soccer games. That's hard to do,

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Speaker 3: especially like you soccer games. Oh those kids are terrible.

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00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 3: Oh all they wanted their oranges at halftime and their

509
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Speaker 3: little participation trophies. It's terrible. I used to kick one

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Speaker 3: of them into the net. All right, uh hailer. We

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Speaker 3: have more on the saving.

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Speaker 14: Times the cost of things for Thanksgiving. Have you noticed

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Speaker 14: that paper towels, the role of paper towels.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we've gotten away from our daily saving

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Speaker 3: time question, Heaire kill. I always like having reaction to

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Speaker 3: the things we're doing.

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Speaker 14: The role of paper towels. They made the circumference of

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Speaker 14: the cardboard thing in the center larger, so the rules

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Speaker 14: can look bigger, but it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's really Can I pet your dog when we're here? Dogs?

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Speaker 2: Can I put your dog? That's what I want to do.

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Speaker 3: Well, there might be good news for Thanksgiving then, granted,

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Speaker 3: your paper towels are shrinking. But the Walmart CEO went

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Speaker 3: on Good Morning America and they were all like, come

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Speaker 3: on in Walmart Ceo, We'll let you say whatever you want.

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Speaker 16: And we're joined now by John Ferner president's CEO of

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Speaker 16: Walmart US. Nice for coming in this morning, mister Ferner,

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Speaker 16: appreciate your time. Let's talk about Thanksgiving. First, food prices

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Speaker 16: are up, especially Turkey, So what are you doing to

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Speaker 16: how customers keep the costs down?

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Speaker 3: Hard hitting question, George, Thank you for asking that. Boy,

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Speaker 3: this is gonna be tough to answer.

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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, George.

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Speaker 3: Did Walmart write that question for him? That sounds like

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Speaker 3: the kind of crap we get when we get pr

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Speaker 3: offers like here are some potential questions, Hey, what are

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Speaker 3: you doing to keep prices down for your consumers? And

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Speaker 3: what is Walmart going to say? Well, we're actually really

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Speaker 3: hosing our suppliers. We're telling them we're not going to

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Speaker 3: give them any more money, We're breaking their backs and

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Speaker 3: it's crushing small business in America.

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Speaker 2: But we're keeping those prices down. No, he's not going

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Speaker 2: to say that.

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Speaker 12: Urgie scret to see you. We are really excited about

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Speaker 12: what we have planned for this year at Thanksgiving, and

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Speaker 12: I can't believe it's already that time of year, but

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Speaker 12: this is a time of year when people are busy,

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Speaker 12: they don't want to sacrifice quality, and we want to

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Speaker 12: do all we can to help them celebrate the holiday

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Speaker 12: anyway they want, and we want to do it in

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Speaker 12: a way that's very affordable with a lot of value.

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Speaker 2: So I want what kind of crap is that? Good? Lord?

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Speaker 12: I want to talk about a couple things with the

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Speaker 12: Thanksgiving basket.

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Speaker 1: Now, First, we started.

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Speaker 12: Putting together this idea of having the entire basket easy

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Speaker 12: to purchase.

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Speaker 16: Season.

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Speaker 2: Come on, Bob, hey, it's only a three minute segment.

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Speaker 12: Do you assemble back in twenty twenty two, and this

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Speaker 12: year we will have the best prices on this basket

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Speaker 12: we've had since the program started. We're we're down about

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Speaker 12: twenty five percent from last year, down about fourteen dollars

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Speaker 12: for the basket.

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Speaker 3: Oh so you've been screwing us all along, is what

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Speaker 3: you're saying. So what's to make us think you're not

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Speaker 3: screwing us again? Yeah, we brought our prices down twenty

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Speaker 3: five percent. We're able to do that because we're Walmart.

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Speaker 3: We stuck it to the small businesses and our suppliers.

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Speaker 3: It's been really great. And the great news is too,

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Speaker 3: we've been sticking you to them all along, but over

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Speaker 3: the last few years we've really been hosing you. And

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Speaker 3: now we're gonna We're gonna dial it back a little bit,

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Speaker 3: but we're still gonna make a buttload of money and

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Speaker 3: then make you feel like you're you're getting a deal,

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Speaker 3: but you're not.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna make it a ton of money off of you.

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Speaker 12: It's great, which puts us in a position where this

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Speaker 12: basket is just under four dollars a person when serving

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Speaker 12: ten people. So we have a great basket that has

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Speaker 12: a mix of our great brands like Butterball turkeys. Our

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Speaker 12: turkey price is, George, are all the way back to

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Speaker 12: what they were in twenty nineteen at ninety seven cents

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Speaker 12: a pounds. So we're really excited about the progress. I

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Speaker 12: was really impressed when the team brought me this. It

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Speaker 12: was better than I expected. So we're looking forward to

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Speaker 12: a great holiday season and we want to help people

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Speaker 12: celebrate anyway they want and do it at a great

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Speaker 12: Walmart price.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that had a great Walmart price, all right, George

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Speaker 3: ask him a heart hitting follow up question, how about.

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Speaker 16: President Trump's tariffs?

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Speaker 2: They're contributing to higher costs across the board.

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Speaker 16: I know you're absorbing some of the cost, but and

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Speaker 16: some how much is going to be passed on to

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Speaker 16: consumers as they turn to holiday items.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. That was a decent question.

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Speaker 12: Well, George, we're, as you know, selling a really wide

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Speaker 12: variety of products, and about two thirds of what we

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Speaker 12: sell is either made, grown, or assembled here in the

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Speaker 12: United States, and so our merchants have done a really

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Speaker 12: nice job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, if it's assembled, that means that your assemblers are

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Speaker 3: still paying the tariffs.

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Speaker 2: But cool mixing things out.

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Speaker 12: This basket is a great example of where we're keeping.

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Speaker 3: Let's pivot right back to the basket with some of

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Speaker 3: the top name brands. Let me tell you, I'm looking

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Speaker 3: at the basket right now. One, it's not a basket. Okay,

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Speaker 3: here's your top name brands. They do have stovetop stuffing,

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Speaker 3: like is it stuffing or dressing depends on whether or

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Speaker 3: not you put it in the birds butt.

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Speaker 2: They got the Butterball turkeys. That's brand name.

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Speaker 3: Ocean Spray cranberries, so that can go right in the trash.

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Speaker 3: Campbell's soup for part of your mixing. It looks like

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Speaker 3: the onion soup mix or yeah, the onions whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: They're like dehydrated onions. These are all like pantry items. Now,

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Speaker 3: that's kinders that's brand name. Otherwise, all the other great

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Speaker 3: name brands are great value. It's Walmart brand, all right. Well,

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Speaker 3: that's how they keep the prices down. There you go

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Speaker 3: forty bucks. All of the by the way, says they're

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Speaker 3: doing the same thing. All They has a forty dollars

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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving meal for ten. That seems to be the big

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Speaker 3: price point forty bucks. But then you have to buy

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Speaker 3: everything else, So that's forty dollars for that stuff. I

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Speaker 3: don't know how you get it. Look, I'm gonna spend

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Speaker 3: more than forty dollars on myself, and I'm just gonna

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Speaker 3: eat alone in a dark room watching football in my underwear,

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Speaker 3: and I will not be showering. That's what I call

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Speaker 3: a holiday. That's a day off me gorging myself in

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Speaker 3: my underwear dark room, nobody to see me in my shame,

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Speaker 3: eating my feelings, and I will give thanks that I

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Speaker 3: have the opportunity to do. That must be nice because

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Speaker 3: some people don't have that opportunity, or two TVs to

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Speaker 3: have two football games on at the same time in

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Speaker 3: the same room without their wife yelling at them. Some

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Speaker 3: people don't have that luxury.

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 3: And also I have clean underwear to sit in in

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Speaker 3: the dark while I eat my feelings. Other people don't

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Speaker 3: have that, so I'm thankful. Check out news, and then

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Speaker 3: there's no business like show business.

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