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Speaker 1: Mister New York Mormon war.

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Speaker 2: Well, the brilliant columnist Liz Peak, and of course you

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Speaker 2: see her all over television, but you know, besides the

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Speaker 1: I'm terrific. Thank you. Lots going on, Mark.

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Speaker 2: Hey, it's one year today. The inauguration of Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: was one year ago. First year today. What do you

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Speaker 2: think is that? Have you ever seen anything as busy

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Speaker 2: as this first year?

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Speaker 3: No, to say that the president has been a bold

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Speaker 3: and energetic leader, I think vastly understates the accomplishments that

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Speaker 3: he has rolled up in his first year. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's really pretty unbelievably remarkable. All the while, remember seeing

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Speaker 3: the press on a daily by handling phone, you know,

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Speaker 3: handling interviews and conversations with let's face it, mostly hostile press.

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Speaker 3: But I actually wrote a column about it today and

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Speaker 3: just here's just a sampling of what he's accomplished. So

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Speaker 3: we boosted the recruitment for our military, dismantled DEI, and

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Speaker 3: a lot of the climate agenda, pushed NATO to up

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Speaker 3: their spending for their own defense, tossed overboard a lot

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Speaker 3: of regulations that Joe Biden put in plays that really

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Speaker 3: slowed down our country's progress, challenged our woke universities in

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Speaker 3: a very constructive way, got rid of Nicola Maduro, the

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Speaker 3: head of Venezuela, defended women's sports, significantly derailed Auran's nuclear program,

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Speaker 3: oversaw a whole bunch of health initiatives from RFK Junior,

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Speaker 3: like getting rid of artificial food dies, shrunk the bureaucracy,

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Speaker 3: which I think is unbelieved important, the federal bureaucracy, and

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Speaker 3: pushed through a massive reconciliation bill that lowered taxes, and

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Speaker 3: that was basically, had it not passed, you were going

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Speaker 3: to have this major tax cliff at the end of

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Speaker 3: last year. So that's just some of it, by no

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Speaker 3: means an exhaustive list. But honestly, Mark, who has ever

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Speaker 3: accomplished all that much in the first year, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we triveled this earlier. For millions of years. They

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Speaker 2: always wanted to get some of the great CEOs in

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Speaker 2: the private sector, maybe you know, maybe they could be

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Speaker 2: a president, you know, Jack welcher LEI Koca. Well, we

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Speaker 2: finally got a CEO from the private sector, and unlike

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Speaker 2: a normal president, it does a couple of things a year.

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Speaker 2: As a committee of me. This guy goes a mile

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Speaker 2: in a minute, tries to get fifty things done a day

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Speaker 2: like most great CEOs. But is that a good mix

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Speaker 2: with government or will we ever do it again?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: I hope so, because, as you say, the default is

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Speaker 3: a career politician like Joe Biden, whose idea about tackling

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Speaker 3: a problem is to convene a lot of people and talk, talk, talk,

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Speaker 3: and then pass the buck to Congress, which convenes a

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Speaker 3: conference and a study group and talks, talks, talks, and

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Speaker 3: basically ends.

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Speaker 1: Up doing nothing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I actually think that's a fair indictment of

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Speaker 3: the way our system works. There's far too little accountability.

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Speaker 3: I am not happy with some of the things that

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Speaker 3: Trump has done recently, but you got to say the

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Speaker 3: guy is accountable. I mean, he's out there every day

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Speaker 3: confronting his critics. The stock market and other measures, polling

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Speaker 3: and stuff will weigh whether he's doing a good job

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Speaker 3: or a bad job.

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Speaker 1: But the reality is he's taking.

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Speaker 3: Risks, excuse me, and he's getting things done and he's

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Speaker 3: not finished.

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Speaker 2: No pat Now, Minnesota, you got videos showing these protesters

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Speaker 2: just the most awful behavior ever. On a while, you

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Speaker 2: see a video where the ICE maybe got the wrong guy.

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Speaker 2: But what do you think in the end this is

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Speaker 2: going to do for the midterms?

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Speaker 1: Well, I do want to see de escalation.

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Speaker 3: I mean the idea that Governor Walls is now calling

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Speaker 3: in the National Guard and the Trump is threatening to

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Speaker 3: call in troops. I mean, what are we gonna have

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Speaker 3: a war in Minneapolis with these elements fighting each other.

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Speaker 1: That's not tenable. It's not going to happen.

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Speaker 3: But somehow, Frankly, you know what, I think you should

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Speaker 3: just say to the people of Minnesota. Okay, you're governor

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Speaker 3: and you mayor fry of Minneapolis really don't want ICE

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Speaker 3: getting the violent criminals out of these communities, mostly Somali

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Speaker 3: criminals in those state, in that state. So we're just

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Speaker 3: going to leave you to it. We're going to have

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Speaker 3: a ring around your state. I'm serious. If you don't

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Speaker 3: want you got them, you got them. We're going to

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Speaker 3: make sure they don't got any place else because a

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Speaker 3: lot of them are just really horrible people, child molesters

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Speaker 3: and rapists and murderers.

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Speaker 1: But if you're.

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Speaker 3: Happy to have them here, we leave you to it

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Speaker 3: and see what happens. I think I don't think people

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Speaker 3: in Minnesota would be very excited about that, and I

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Speaker 3: think that might end up, you know, having local law

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Speaker 3: enforcement kind of do a pivot and say, well, wait

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Speaker 3: a minute, that's not what we had in mind, So

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Speaker 3: maybe it would work.

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Speaker 2: I like that President should announce Minnesota is now a

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Speaker 2: safe space. We ice will not enter Minnesota every illegal

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Speaker 2: just go there and you'll be safe. Let them all,

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Speaker 2: all of them go there. Perfect. Now. Hey, I'm listening

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Speaker 2: to this new governor in New Jersey and she's stuck

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Speaker 2: about the focus on Greenland when people are struggling to

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Speaker 2: pay for groceries and the prices of groceries are going

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Speaker 2: way up. Well, that's not true at all. The price

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Speaker 2: has been coming down all year, haven't they.

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Speaker 3: Well, inflation, the rate of inflation is certainly down from

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Speaker 3: the nine point one percent that it reached under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 3: But unfortunately, because of several years of Bidenomics and high inflation,

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Speaker 3: price is escalated and they don't easily come down. Some

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Speaker 3: things have come down, like gasoline, which is a very

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Speaker 3: big deal Americans, definitely cheaper than it was a year

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Speaker 3: ago or two years ago. Price of eggs, which was

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Speaker 3: a big crisis you know, early in the year, early

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Speaker 3: last year, has come down. But look, I mean, unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: it's very difficult to get prices to come down. But

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Speaker 3: mark what's more important than the price level of cereal.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, that's one of the big things

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Speaker 3: that going up in price right now is things like

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Speaker 3: those processed foods from the big companies. Is wages, Real

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Speaker 3: wages are going up under President Trump, and they didn't

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Speaker 3: under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: So you have American consumers better off.

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Speaker 3: I know that the polling shows people unhappy with the economy.

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Speaker 1: I think there are two elements there.

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Speaker 3: One, yeah, you go to the grocery store, you think,

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Speaker 3: holy crow, when did that become ten dollars? But then

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Speaker 3: the other thing I think is that there is this

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Speaker 3: underlying anxiety about AI and about what it means for

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Speaker 3: the jobs market. Anxieties, which I will hate to add

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Speaker 3: are always magnified by a hostile press, as are the.

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Speaker 1: Price concerns that people are voicing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, really, if you read the financial news, you

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Speaker 3: just have to take a step back every single day

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Speaker 3: and say, Okay, you know what, this is not a

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Speaker 3: fair representation. When did you see, by the way, as

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Speaker 3: an example, the media big headlines about the growth rates

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Speaker 3: that we've seen in the last couple of quarters.

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Speaker 1: You don't see that because that's.

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Speaker 3: Favorable to President Trump, so they're not going to talk

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Speaker 3: about that. When did you see about the big investment

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Speaker 3: boom or productivity and gains in our country? Those are

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Speaker 3: extremely important financial matrix, and yet the media simply ignores

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Speaker 3: them and would rather focus on.

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Speaker 1: Issues that are important for sure, like.

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Speaker 3: Affordability because that's a Democrat favorable issue.

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Speaker 1: Right now, let's talk about housing though.

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Speaker 3: If there's a number of indicies that measure housing affordable,

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Speaker 3: they are improving.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen that headline lately? No, you haven't.

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Speaker 3: Mortgages lately have come down significantly. The President clearly is

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Speaker 3: pushing for even more reduction. So some things are getting better.

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Speaker 3: But the combination of lower taxes, less regulation, high growth,

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Speaker 3: and incomes improving means that every time we have a

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Speaker 3: the holiday sales number, retail sales turns out haha, guess

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Speaker 3: what better than expected because the expectations constantly are so

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Speaker 3: beaten down by again a hostile press.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean to blame everything on the press.

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Speaker 3: I think the Republicans done an absolutely appalling job at

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Speaker 3: selling the big tax bill. Democrats are out there saying, oh,

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Speaker 3: it only favors the wealthy. That is just patently not true,

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Speaker 3: but Republicans never talked it up because I think they

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Speaker 3: were just scared. O. No, Honestly, I'm kind of pretty

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Speaker 3: worked up about the Republican's lame efforts on messaging and

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Speaker 3: a number of other fronts. But the answer is, it's

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Speaker 3: a pretty good bill, and I think people see their

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Speaker 3: tax refunds are up substantially and they begin to look

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Speaker 3: at their take home pay, they're going to be pretty

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Speaker 3: happy with it.

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Speaker 2: Well. Well, great points, Liz Peak. Thanks for being with us.

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