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Speaker 2: But Roner, you asked, I will deliver.

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Speaker 3: In the last segment, we talked about some mountain bikers

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Speaker 3: they did, according to the authorities, the right thing.

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Speaker 2: They faced the mountain lion.

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Speaker 3: They made themselves large, they didn't turn their backs, right,

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Speaker 3: like the guy starts screaming and then he's like, bad kitty.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what what was that? What?

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Speaker 1: Kitty go away, Kitty, go away, kitty?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what did you say, Mark? If only Cartman

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Speaker 2: were there.

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Speaker 3: You can't it's pretty close.

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Speaker 2: Perfect, it's pretty close.

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Speaker 4: Go away.

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Speaker 2: Get hey, no mo pop Pye cat.

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Speaker 1: You can't it.

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Speaker 5: So what you're saying is you put that on your

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Speaker 5: phone and you whip it out if you see a

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Speaker 5: mountain lion and you're safe anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: I remember I saw that episode when it first came out.

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Speaker 3: You realize, I think South Park's been on the air

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Speaker 3: for almost thirty years.

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Speaker 2: Now, I know.

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Speaker 5: I remember passing around that first short Christmas card, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: everybody thought it was hilarious and now here we are

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Speaker 5: ho ho we meet again Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It was a Santa Claus Versus Jesus holiday. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: We passed that around on VHS. Jesus wor old.

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Speaker 3: I remember that was one of the first email like

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Speaker 3: up when I first went to college and then came through. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Finally I had a computer in my in my room.

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Speaker 3: I got one, uh, and then we were we had

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Speaker 3: and I plugged it in. I and I downloaded an

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Speaker 2: I was way ahead of the time. God, am I old.

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Speaker 5: I bet you used Jeeves back then, before you had

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Speaker 5: access the hell out of Jeeves?

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Speaker 2: Are d.

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Speaker 3: Alta Vistacos web crawler? Yeah, Oliver, Yeah, In fact, I

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Speaker 3: still use an email handle today that I had on Lecos.

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Speaker 3: So while we have all of our tech straight, one

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Speaker 3: area where the technology is not keeping up with the

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Speaker 3: government shutdown are the airports, and now the administration is

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Speaker 6: If you have flights planned or know someone who does,

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Speaker 6: this will impact you. The FAA planning to produce flights

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Speaker 6: by ten percent at forty major airports at forty.

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Speaker 2: So is that like forty.

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Speaker 7: When we see pressures building in these forty markets, we

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Speaker 7: just can't ignore it, you know, And we're not going

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Speaker 7: when the early indicators are telling us we can take

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Speaker 7: action today to prevent you know, things from deteriorating.

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Speaker 2: That is reality. Start turned.

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Speaker 3: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

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Speaker 2: Yep, this is our reality.

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Speaker 5: Don't you find it being the cast member on the

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Speaker 3: Remember when people were complaining that Pete boodag Edge was

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Speaker 6: The decision could cut thousands of flights per day. They're

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Speaker 6: restrictions will go into effect Friday morning.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 6: Right now, we don't know which airports will be affected,

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Speaker 2: Lies.

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Speaker 3: We do know we've got breaking news. Break I don't

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Speaker 3: It is there is ready, we have breaking news.

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Speaker 5: It's pretty good, right, sounds like we're gonna hear a

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Speaker 3: That's pretty Come on, that was pretty good. That's pretty

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Speaker 3: good stuff. Okay, all right. Uh list of US airports impacted,

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Speaker 3: exclusively obtained by ABC News. Uh, you'll gonna go through

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Speaker 3: the whole list, like forty airports. You're gonna go through

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Speaker 2: Do the ones that you fly out of? Oh, okay,

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Speaker 3: Well, l a X obviously that's on the list. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: so Lax is on the Basically, it's took anything that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, both Chicago's are on the list. So when I fly,

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Speaker 3: Like you said, Richie, you got New York, LaGuardia, New

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know that we realize the impact

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Speaker 3: Oh, Dallas and Reagan National, both of them on there,

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Speaker 2: God just host. I don't. I don't think that we

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Speaker 3: You may be thinking to yourself, while I'm not planning

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Speaker 2: The holidays coming.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know about you, but I to my

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Speaker 3: Christmas shopping already, and I'm paying for Amazon Prime, and

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Speaker 2: I think it already has.

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Speaker 5: I tried ordering some coffee last night and instead of tomorrow,

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Speaker 5: it's like two weeks.

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Speaker 2: You why are you ordering coffee? Are you rich from Amazon?

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Speaker 2: Have you seen how much coffee is now? So what

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Speaker 2: the tariffs have done to coffee? And you're ordering coffee?

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Speaker 5: Well, you must have coffee. What do you hate America?

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Speaker 5: You don't drink coffee?

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Speaker 2: Brazillian coffee okay, all right, now I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: I get my coffee from Amazon too, I get the

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Speaker 3: I get the cake cups, and god, I've watched that

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Speaker 3: But am I gonna stop? No, I'm like you. In fact, Mark,

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Speaker 3: red meat, I'd figure it out. They tell me I gotta,

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Speaker 2: Out a gravestone. Yeah, I get it. Uh.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Speaking of the coffee, more and more Americans are

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Speaker 3: just sticker shock. It's starting to become a bit of

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Speaker 3: a political verdict. Most Americans say they know exactly who

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Speaker 3: is behind the rising grocery prices. It's a beautiful word.

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Speaker 3: It's an old word. It's beautiful. Nobody was using.

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Speaker 2: It before me.

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Speaker 3: See if you agree with what the rest of America says. Next,

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Speaker 3: I'm Chris Merrild.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A on demand.

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Speaker 3: Washington Post, ABC News, and IPSUS ran A pole and

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Speaker 3: survey says Americans know who they blame for the current

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Speaker 3: rate of inflation. Obviously gotta be Joe Biden, right, No,

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Speaker 3: it is not. In fact, most voters blame Trump. Nearly

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Speaker 3: sixty percent of US voters blame President Trump for inflation

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Speaker 3: and rising grocery prices.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful word nobody uses He did it?

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Speaker 3: Did you see he did another interview with Brett Bear.

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Speaker 3: I think it was today where Bear was asking about

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Speaker 3: prices and he said, is groceries but a great word?

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Speaker 2: It's an old word. Why is he so.

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Speaker 3: Fixated on the word groceries? What a weird thing to

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Speaker 3: be fixated on. So the most of Americans say Trump

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Speaker 3: is to blame. However, it does split down party lines.

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Speaker 3: Ninety two percent of Democrats say all Trump's fault. Only

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Speaker 3: twenty percent of Republicans think that it is President Trump's

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Speaker 3: fault uh, and sixty six percent of independence. That's key,

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Speaker 3: that's super key, because you expect the Democrats are not

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Speaker 3: It's those independents in the middle that are a problem,

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Speaker 3: And we were seeing that elsewhere too. Affordability was the

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Speaker 2: Right? So which one? Which one is the real? Will

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Speaker 3: Nearly half of respondents in a recent Axios Vibe survey

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Speaker 5: Come on, you got something against people standing in food lines?

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Speaker 3: Look, Americans are talking more than they ever did before.

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Speaker 3: But now they're standing in food lines, They're getting to

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Speaker 3: Joe Baden did not bring America together. I did. Right,

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Speaker 3: you're bracing for holiday shopping. The toy aisle is not

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Speaker 2: Find out next. I'm Chris Merril kfi AM six forty.

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Speaker 3: Chris merrild kfi AM six forty. More stimulating talk. We'll

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Speaker 3: Because if you thought that Walmart and Aldie had the

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Speaker 2: That is coming up here ten fifteen minutes whenever we

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Speaker 3: In the meantime, the holidays are coming, Tariffs are starting

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Speaker 3: America as usual, we are still spending, but not equally.

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Speaker 3: it's a tail of two cities. It's wallets. Lower in consumers.

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Speaker 3: Lower income consumers are falling behind. They're spending grew just

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Speaker 3: Wage gains are lagging inflation, so inflation is rising faster

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Speaker 3: Visa's holiday forecast is echoing an uneven picture as well.

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Speaker 8: The National Retail Federation says that typical American consumer will

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Speaker 8: But that might not be the end of it. There's

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Speaker 8: cause about a forty billion dollar increase in holiday costs. Now,

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Speaker 8: In a sense that might make the President the grinch

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Speaker 3: Normally I would be telling you about how you should

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Speaker 3: This is the time that we all come together, goodwill,

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Speaker 8: And it's equally pivotal for the people who they employ

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Speaker 9: The holidays are right around the corner, and there's a

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Speaker 6: Tariffs.

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Speaker 9: It's your money and higher prices are coming this holiday season.

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Speaker 9: A new analysis from lending Tree shows that if tariffs

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Speaker 9: had been in place last year, it would have cost

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Speaker 9: American families an extra one hundred and thirty two dollars

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Speaker 9: each during the holiday shopping season. Yeah, researchers calculated, what

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Speaker 9: would have You're gonna get.

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Speaker 2: Host this year?

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Speaker 9: It happened, all right.

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Speaker 2: He's basically saying the same thing as Sir r KTLA guy,

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Speaker 2: But it is there is one there is one caveat.

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Speaker 3: I need to add to this because while you do

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Speaker 3: have the President's tariffs that are hitting especially toy companies

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Speaker 3: that are importing from Jina, both matel Well and Hasbro

452
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Speaker 3: think it's going to be a good a good holiday season.

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Speaker 2: Mattel's recent earnings call.

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Speaker 3: This quarter, our US business was again challenged by industry

455
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Speaker 3: wide shifts in retailer ordering patterns. What that's just made

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Speaker 3: up words. Consumer demand for our products grew in every region,

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Speaker 3: including in the US. During the most recent quarter, which

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Speaker 3: ended in September, Mattel said, sales slipped six percent globally,

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Speaker 3: led by a twelve percent decline here in North America.

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Speaker 3: That's US, that's we're North America. And so sales declined.

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Speaker 3: Why because things went up and they got so expensive.

462
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Speaker 3: But uh, Barbie uh and Fisher Price. Actually those products

463
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Speaker 3: dropped in sales. But they did have great success with

464
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Speaker 3: hot Wheels and Jurassic World action figures, as well as

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Speaker 3: Minecraft and WWE franchise action figures. So I guess it's

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Speaker 3: all about what the what the leading sales forecasts are.

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Speaker 2: Has Bro.

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Speaker 3: Revenue is up eight percent thanks to Peppa Pig, Marvel

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Speaker 3: and Wizards of the Coast.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. Oh, it's a it's

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Speaker 2: a game. Oh yeah, it's a game company out of

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Speaker 2: the Pacific Northwest. They make Lake what is it? The

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Speaker 2: Travelers of Catan or whatever that is? What is that game?

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Speaker 2: That's not my bag? Man?

475
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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: This is the Magic the Gathering? Oh yeah, yeah, Oh,

477
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Speaker 2: Now here's what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was going to be a flash in

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Speaker 3: the pan when I was in high school, had a

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Speaker 3: few guys that played that.

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Speaker 2: We just mocked them mercilessly. But it's still around. No,

482
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Speaker 2: and now they own everything. Yeah that's crazy. So was

483
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Speaker 2: I the mean? Was I the dumb one in high school?

484
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Speaker 3: Should I have been sitting around playing Magic the Gathering

485
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Speaker 3: and getting weggies?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: You went on to enjoy sex? Yeah, too bad? She doesn't.

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Speaker 5: Well, at least one of you is, I mean, assuming

489
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Speaker 5: there's more than one of you. Here's here's the deal.

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Speaker 5: Here's what's gonna happen. I grew up with my grandparents

491
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Speaker 5: and they were depression people, and so they would give

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Speaker 5: me things for Christmas, like an orange or pencils, and

493
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Speaker 5: because that's what they got, when they use them and

494
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Speaker 5: like make make.

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Speaker 3: Dried orange dolls using like pencils as a body and

496
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Speaker 3: then put the orange on top of the head.

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Speaker 2: I just sat in the corner and cried.

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Speaker 5: But this is where where we're heading, because people aren't

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Speaker 5: gonna be able to afford stuff anymore.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how many more years? To I have until I retire.

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Speaker 3: I was telling somebody at my day job the other day,

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Speaker 3: I go, you know, I feel uh, I feel bad

503
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Speaker 3: for you, like a why ago? Because I'm twenty years

504
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Speaker 3: ahead when it comes to retirement and I still have

505
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Speaker 3: twenty years to go.

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Speaker 2: Well, look on the bright side, you could have a stroke.

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Speaker 3: Oh was that in reference to my sex life?

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Speaker 2: Again? I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you're told the holidays are about family, but this

510
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Speaker 3: year might be about math.

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Speaker 2: Two retail giants.

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Speaker 3: They're daring you to believe that you can feed the

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Speaker 3: table for less than the cost of a tank of gas.

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Speaker 3: So are you getting a bargain or is it just

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Speaker 3: a smaller bird? You're gonna find out next. I'm Chris Merril.

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

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Speaker 2: I'm Chris Merril. Pleasure being with you.

518
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Speaker 3: I've spoke about this before and hopefully you heard about

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Speaker 3: it that Walmart and Aldi are coming out with their

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Speaker 3: forty dollars Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: Meal deals.

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Speaker 3: And for Walmart, it's a thirteen to fifteen pound butterball turkey.

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Speaker 3: For Ald it's a fourteen pound turkey, so roughly the

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Speaker 3: same thing. Sides from Walmart stuffing, mac and cheese, taters, veggies, rolls, pie,

525
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Speaker 3: crust in pumpkin.

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Speaker 2: All the basically same thing.

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Speaker 3: Stuffing, mash toto, cast role, mac and cheese, green bean, castle, rolls, cranberry,

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Speaker 3: and pumpkin pies, basically the same thing. Okay, so that's

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Speaker 3: forty bucks. Forty bucks, and they're all very excited. They

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Speaker 3: said that will feed ten people, So breaks down to

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Speaker 3: four dollars a person, according to both Walmart and Aldy. Okay,

532
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Speaker 3: we're all try to save money. It doesn't sound terrible,

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Speaker 3: all right, four dollars a person. This seems pretty doable.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Not to be outdone, Target and Amazon have come out

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Speaker 3: with their own Thanksgiving I don't know if you want

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Speaker 3: to call them baskets.

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Speaker 2: Or meal deals or whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: This is a Fox talking about amazons.

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Speaker 10: Amazon customers have something to be thankful for this holiday season, and.

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Speaker 2: You're going to lower the price of prime. No.

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Speaker 10: Amazon says it's rolling out a five person Thanksgiving meal

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Speaker 10: four twenty five dollars. It includes an eight pound frozen

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Speaker 10: butter ball, turkey, crescent rolls, prebate slides, along with a

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Speaker 10: choice of a holiday pie which is either pecan pumpkin

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Speaker 10: or sweet potato. The deal is available starting next Wednesday

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Speaker 10: through Thanksgiving Day.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's exciting.

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Speaker 3: Target says we're gonna do even better than that. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna have an under twenty dollars Thanksgiving dinner deal under

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Speaker 3: twenty dollars. But they also say it only serves four people. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so it's all the same thing.

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Speaker 2: It's a meal kit.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of Target stuff, potato stuff and cranberry,

555
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Speaker 3: gravy bread. Amazon's again mashed potatoes, green beans, cast or whatever.

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Speaker 3: So that's twenty five dollars. So there's some options if

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Speaker 3: you're trying to put things together. Four dollars a person's

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Speaker 3: pretty good. Both Amazon and Target. There's breaks down to

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Speaker 3: five dollars a person. Still pretty good when I'm getting

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Speaker 3: ready to get to plan my Thanksgiving out here. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, the turkey prices, they say in November,

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Speaker 3: because of supply issues, this is all bird flu related,

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Speaker 3: turkey prices are projected to be over two dollars a pound. However,

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Speaker 3: Target is they're pricing their turkeys at seventy nine cents

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Speaker 3: a pound, Walmart is at ninety seven cents a pound,

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Speaker 3: and then the others.

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Speaker 2: Obviously a lost leader as well.

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Speaker 3: But if you just buy turkey straight up two bucks

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Speaker 3: a pound because of the bird flu. When I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to get ready for these big meals, I always think,

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Speaker 3: what's the what's what's my value? What's my price point?

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Speaker 3: So the betimes my wife and I get home from

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Speaker 3: work and we don't want to cook. I mean that's

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Speaker 3: basically every night. But some nights we just say, forget it,

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Speaker 3: We're just not going to cook. We're gonna go figure

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Speaker 3: something out. We'll go get something somewhere. And so I'm

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Speaker 3: always trying to figure out where it's gonna be the best.

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Speaker 3: And we've got to the point where a McDonald's meal

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Speaker 3: is outrageous. I mean a McDonald's meal right now, you

580
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Speaker 3: could easily spend twenty bucks a person at fast food.

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Speaker 3: And I know you're gonna go, oh, not a normal person. Well,

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Speaker 3: I'm a fat ass. So I can easily spend twenty

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Speaker 3: bucks on my food at McDonald's, okay. Or what are

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Speaker 3: the other places I also like to get sides? I

585
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Speaker 3: go to Arby's. I always get a little cheese sticks.

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Speaker 3: Oh so good. So we have done this before. Where

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Speaker 3: we go that's it. We're not going to fast food anymore.

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Speaker 3: It's just gotten to be too expensive. And what we

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Speaker 3: have found, and I know you guys feel free to

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Speaker 3: weigh in on this, what I found is when it

591
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Speaker 3: comes to how much food am I how many meals

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Speaker 3: am I going to.

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Speaker 2: Get per dollar? Pizza always wins.

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Speaker 3: And then I go shopping for the best price on

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Speaker 3: the pizza too, and you know, you get like the

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Speaker 3: mom and pop pizza shops, they're a little more expensive

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Speaker 3: than if you go to the chains. Sometimes I want

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Speaker 3: to support the mom and pops, and sometimes I don't

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Speaker 3: mind it paint a little bit more, especially when I

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Speaker 3: start doing the math on it and I go, Okay,

601
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Speaker 3: I can get the large at Pizza Hut for ten

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Speaker 3: twelve dollars whatever it is. Or I could go over

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Speaker 3: to this other pizza joint, pretty solid place, been around

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Speaker 3: for a while.

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Speaker 2: They've got a great pizza. But it's sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Dollars, and you go, oh, you know, I could say

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Speaker 3: five dollars on that pizza, and I could get it

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Speaker 3: from one of the chains. But god, when you break

609
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Speaker 3: it down, I'm gonna get two or three meals out

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Speaker 3: of that pizza anyway.

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Speaker 2: So look it's still cheaper than going to fast food.

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Speaker 2: You guys fight, do you do this where.

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Speaker 3: You you kind of when you're trying to figure out

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Speaker 3: what you're gonna get for dinner because you don't feel

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Speaker 3: like cooking.

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Speaker 5: Oh constantly. And also I think you can get a

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Speaker 5: whole large pizza for something like ten bucks at Costco. Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 5: you're right. I mean the pizza's not great, No, it's yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's tolerable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the same thing like Little Caesars always says

621
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Speaker 3: really good pizza deals too. But I you know, I

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Speaker 3: shouldn't bag on it because it's a Michigan company, it's

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Speaker 3: my home state.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, quality is not. I mean, it's a cheap

625
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Speaker 5: pizza for a reason. Pizza's got a low overhead. It's

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Speaker 5: cheap to make. I mean, if you're just an individual

627
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Speaker 5: accumulating all the agreements ingredients, that can run up the cost.

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Speaker 5: But pizza places have a zero overhead. I mean that's

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Speaker 5: why it's like people I know in the service industry

630
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Speaker 5: who work at pizza places, they can never get trade

631
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Speaker 5: outs with places that sell meat on the menu because

632
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Speaker 5: pizza is so cheap.

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Speaker 3: It is, it's so cheap, But god, when I'm just

634
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Speaker 3: trying to fill my belly for a dinner.

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Speaker 2: That's that's my go to.

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Speaker 3: That's a whole lot better than going to any other

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Speaker 3: fast food places out there.

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Speaker 5: Also, nobody ever gets sick of eating pizza. Ever, You're

639
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Speaker 5: one hundred percent true, Tony's shaking his head. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 5: we all agree. Yeah, there's no Does anybody ever get

641
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Speaker 5: sick of pizza.

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Speaker 2: Even if it's is there really bad pizza? No? You know, yeah,

643
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Speaker 2: no there is.

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Speaker 3: I've had fine, Yeah, I mean it's you still eat

645
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Speaker 3: it exactly. I hear what you're saying, Tony, like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: this is Little Caesar's and it sat out all night,

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Speaker 3: I'm still gonna eat it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys. My in laws did this, and I

649
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Speaker 2: thought they were I thought it was kind of trashy.

650
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Speaker 2: They put their.

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Speaker 3: Pizza in like gallon size ziplock freezer bags, and I thought,

652
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Speaker 3: who does that?

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Speaker 2: You know they're leftovers? What to save it for the

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Speaker 2: zombie apocalypse?

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Speaker 3: Well that's what I thought too, And they just throw

656
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Speaker 3: it in the fridge because I always thought, no pizza

657
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 3: you have to leave in the box, and you put

658
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Speaker 3: that in there orderly, but then it dries out and

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Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, the ziplock bag is

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Speaker 3: the way to go. Or I've got I've got fancy

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Speaker 3: little like tupperware pizza containers that you stack them in,

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Speaker 3: But got gotta keep those things fresh.

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Speaker 2: How long is everybody keeping this stuff around? Hey, I

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Speaker 2: went on a.

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Speaker 3: Little vacation left a piece of pizza in my fridge

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Speaker 3: in the ziplock bag. I came back. I thought my

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Speaker 3: son for sure would have eaten it. He's kind of

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Speaker 3: like Tony, he'll eat anything. And it was still there

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Speaker 3: and he says, oh, yeah, I didn't get to it.

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Speaker 3: And I go, I'm eating this and it was still good.

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Speaker 3: Got a ziplock it, man, lock that freshness in.

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Speaker 5: So you're treating pizza like a legacy to pass down

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Speaker 5: to your airs, just to eat the stuff while it's fresh.

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Speaker 2: But I don't have to, is what I'm telling you. Mark.

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Speaker 5: You're saying I'm not the boss of you. No, go

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Speaker 5: back to your designer coffee weirdo. I'm not going to

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Speaker 5: argue with a complete pro like you. A couple of

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Speaker 5: complete pros workings an app. There is one dodger who

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Speaker 5: says I'm dead wrong. You'll find out why next. I'm

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Speaker 5: Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We live everywhere in

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