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Speaker 1: This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Moore, thanks for tuning in on this Friday morning.

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Speaker 2: Well ATN is now back on its familiar surroundings. But

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, leaving that gay Lord opry Land

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Speaker 2: Resort and Convention Center area was really tough to do.

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Speaker 2: You know. They always say it's great to be back home,

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Speaker 2: but honestly, I could have spent a few more days there.

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Speaker 2: Our room overlooking the atrium, and that atrium is about

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Speaker 2: the size of a football field or more, and it's

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Speaker 2: in an oval shape and you look across and you

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Speaker 2: can see the other rooms with their balconies overlooking the

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Speaker 2: area down below. You saw all these plants, waterfalls, ponds,

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Speaker 2: bridges over the different water features and everything. As many

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Speaker 2: plants as you can imagine. It was like being in

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Speaker 2: a junk well basically an arboretum more or less conservatory

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Speaker 2: if you will, some of these spectacular conservatories that are

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Speaker 2: around in different cities.

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Speaker 1: And just the whole atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: With it being around Christmas, with the lights and the

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Speaker 2: music that they were playing and listening, you know, opening

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Speaker 2: the doors to the balcony and listening to all the

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Speaker 2: people having fun everything that you can imagine, I mean

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Speaker 2: all the different shops and this was just our atrium.

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Speaker 2: There are two other atriums that are just as large.

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Speaker 2: And this complex down there was just absolutely massive, and

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Speaker 2: from one area to the other, just walking around, the

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Speaker 2: beauty of the whole thing was just incredible.

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Speaker 1: But again, you know, they say it's good to get home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is good to get home, But like I said,

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Speaker 2: I could have hung out there a couple more days.

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Speaker 2: We got to use weekly jobless claims fall as seasonally

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Speaker 2: volatility persists. The number of Americans filing new applications for

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Speaker 2: unemployment benefits fell last week, reversing the prior week's surge

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Speaker 2: and suggesting the labor market conditions remained stable in December,

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Speaker 2: which is what we were been saying all along, and

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Speaker 2: especially with the numbers spiking last week, and we mentioned that, okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, it's spiked last week, but went down dramatically

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Speaker 2: the previous week, and then when you look at the

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Speaker 2: moving average that it only changed like by two thousand jobs.

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Speaker 2: So you know, it's not like there's I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: kind of like a seesaw, but not anything's you know,

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Speaker 2: major variations over the four week period of time. Week

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Speaker 2: to week, it jumped a little bit, went down considerably.

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Speaker 2: The week before, initial claims for stated unemployment benefits dropped

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Speaker 2: thirteen thousand to them seasonally adjusted two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: four thousand for the weekend in December thirteenth, the Labor

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Speaker 2: Department set on Thursday. Economists polled by RUTTERS had forecast

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Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty five thousand claims for the week,

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Speaker 2: so pretty much, you know, just one thousand off, economists

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Speaker 2: say President Donald trump sweeping tariffs have caused an unexpected

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Speaker 2: shock for businesses who have responded by pulling back on

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Speaker 2: increasing headcounts.

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Speaker 1: I get this, all right.

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Speaker 2: A survey of five hundred and forty eight chief financial

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Speaker 2: officers spanning firms with one to more than one thousand employees,

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Speaker 2: conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and Atlanta

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Speaker 2: in conjunction with Duke Universities Fuqua School of Business showed

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday they continue to cite tariffs as a top concern.

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Speaker 2: All right, evidence my question? What evidence are they seeing?

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Speaker 2: What can they specifically point to in terms of what

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Speaker 2: the tariffs are doing in terms of them holding back

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Speaker 2: on their head count Other than maybe they're not so

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Speaker 2: The claims data covered the period during which the government

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Speaker 2: surveyed businesses and nonfarm payroll components of December employment report.

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Speaker 2: Nonfarm payrolls increased by sixty four thousand in November. Bureau

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Speaker 2: be released on schedule in January. Now what's interesting here

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Speaker 2: Because we keep hearing no fire, no hire, no fire policy.

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Speaker 2: We are seeing weekly unemployment claims basically within the range

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Speaker 2: two hundred and ten thousand per week up to two

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Speaker 2: this number came up. And they're saying that although the

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Speaker 2: unemployment rate was four point six percent in November, all right,

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Speaker 2: four point six percent three months ago was four point

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Speaker 1: Based on what what evidence? Where are they seeing? And

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Speaker 1: quite honestly, where are they getting their numbers? Now? Get this?

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Speaker 1: Although the unemployment.

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Speaker 2: Rate was four point six percent in November, the highest

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Speaker 2: which caused the BLS not to publish the jobs rate

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Speaker 2: jobless rate for October, the longest shutdown in history, prevented

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Speaker 2: the collection of data from households needed to calculate October's

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Speaker 2: unemployment rate. Well, if you don't have the data, if

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Speaker 2: you don't have the accurate information, why publish it and

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Speaker 2: why put it out there? Back during the previous Trump administration,

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Speaker 2: we discovered how many people embedded in government dislike Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: how many of them dislike Republicans in particular, dislike Republicans

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump in particular, and how they did their best

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Speaker 2: to undermine his presidency. And I got to ask the

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Speaker 2: right people in there?

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Speaker 1: Because if they don't have the data.

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Speaker 2: If they say they didn't collect enough data and the

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Speaker 2: numbers are not necessarily accurate, why the hell would you

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Speaker 2: publish it? Because you know, the spoon fed regurgitators in

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Speaker 2: the mainstream media are going to glom on to any

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Speaker 2: negative information and push that narrative out there. And I

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Speaker 2: got to tell you, America's truck and network has been

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Speaker 2: way ahead of the curve on this. I have been

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Speaker 2: But the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream meet us

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Speaker 2: his economic policies and so on. No wonder there is

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Speaker 1: As far as the economy.

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Speaker 2: We had four years of out of control inflation nine

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Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, people are concerned about affordability.

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Speaker 2: trying to manufacture a recession because of their lousy journalistic instincts.

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Speaker 2: And so when they publish a number like this, and

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Speaker 2: you know, the people in the government, again, I'm not

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Speaker 1: Are really in faith.

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Speaker 2: And if you're and if you're trying to downgrade the economy,

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Speaker 2: that's bad, then people are going to suffer. Policymakers at

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Speaker 2: and down a little bit. So this weekly job was claimed,

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Speaker 2: it fell, and it's been falling. It's been within a

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Speaker 2: relative range. But I wonder where in the hell they're

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Speaker 2: coming up with this four point six number. And I

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Speaker 2: guarantee you, guarantee you, I'm going to go out on

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Speaker 2: land here. I'm going to predict the next one comes

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Speaker 2: one coming up, we're going to be talking with Mitch.

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Speaker 2: Play the interview I had with Mitch Davison. He is

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Speaker 2: the head of all of Rush Truck Center's collision centers

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Speaker 2: throughout the country. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's truck in Network

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Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: Seven hundred and WLW.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon as America's struck in Network. I have

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Speaker 2: a pleasure of speaking with Mitch Davison. He is the

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Speaker 2: director of collision centers for all of truck enterprises. He

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Speaker 2: is located out of the New Bronzefelle's location down in Texas,

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Speaker 2: and as part of the trade show itself, there was

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Speaker 2: a collision competition at one of the local the Nashville

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Speaker 2: Body Shop, and so tell us a little bit about that.

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Speaker 2: And of course this being now here in Nashville as

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Speaker 1: Correct.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so typically this competition takes place in San Antonio

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Speaker 3: every year. The original competition was kicked off in Nashville

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Speaker 3: we returned here for our twentieth anniversary this year. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: have it's split into two categories. We have a body

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Speaker 3: repair section and a paint competition as well. Five of

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Speaker 3: guys all come to compete, and those guys test for

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Speaker 3: full day Saturday or I'm sorry, full day kick. We

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Speaker 3: kicked the competition off Sunday morning. They test for a

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Speaker 3: a little early on our side because customer uptime is

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Speaker 3: take care of that competition over at the body shop because,

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Speaker 3: like you said, no, we don't have a hard to

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Speaker 4: Some paint in the middle of a convention center.

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Speaker 3: So we shuttle those guys over to the body shop

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Speaker 3: and the five of them compete for paint and the

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Speaker 4: Three M puts on the body repair competition.

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Speaker 3: They create the written test that these guys qualify on

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Speaker 3: in the middle of the year and then bring in

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Speaker 3: body repair competition. And then on the paint side, we

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Speaker 3: have our paint manufacturer Exalta. Those guys do the same

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Speaker 3: with a written test that the paint guys qualify on

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Speaker 3: and come in once again with a handful of judges,

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Speaker 3: one judge per competitor over there, because they're watching a

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Speaker 3: lot of process procedures, how they're using the products or

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Speaker 3: it's a it's a sight to see. I'm glad you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a blast on Sunday being able to

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Speaker 2: get over there to see that, because again it's well

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Speaker 2: my first time and i've i'm not been aware of that,

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Speaker 2: but to watch these technicians work through that and to

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Speaker 2: see how the competition develops. The competition this year was well,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, Gar are the days that you can

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Speaker 2: For God's sake, I got into this business way too late.

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Speaker 4: Now you're going to travel the country and talk to

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Speaker 1: All the time, well, which is a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, but uh yeah, the industry has evolved considerably,

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Speaker 1: Sure, and we'll talk about that coming up.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon America struck In Network seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon, America, struck In Network, seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: Continue our conversation with Mitch Davison. He is director of

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Speaker 1: Their relationship with Rush Enterprises.

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Speaker 2: The fact that they pay for the event, the event

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Speaker 2: Talk about you a little bit here because a couple

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Speaker 4: I finally was able to make the jump to the company.

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Speaker 2: I mean, whatever somebody wants to make out of it,

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Speaker 1: This isn't necessarily for me, I'm going to go on

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Speaker 1: to something else.

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Speaker 3: And we would much rather find that out in the beginning.

446
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Speaker 3: It's not going to work out for either one of

447
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Speaker 3: us if you don't want to be here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think a lot of people the older

449
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Speaker 2: they get or they get you know, because in the

450
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Speaker 2: past there used to be kind of like a, oh,

451
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Speaker 2: I don't you have your parents and they have their

452
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Speaker 2: jobs or job and you're surrounding friend their friends and

453
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Speaker 2: so you know about that. And we talked to somebody

454
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Speaker 2: before and they said, well, you know, I always heard

455
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Speaker 2: about doctors, lawyers, that kind of thing. And then whoever,

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Speaker 2: I think in terms of uh, collision repair, that's not

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Speaker 2: something that's normally on people's radars exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But to have this whole world open to you and

460
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Speaker 2: at a young age try to figure out what you

461
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Speaker 2: like and get into that and thrive.

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Speaker 3: So many options nowadays with the internet and social media,

463
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Speaker 3: you know, you have your view is open to anything

464
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Speaker 3: you can imagine at this point, like you said, you're

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Speaker 3: not kind of confined to you know, what your your

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Speaker 3: parents or your family may have done. So but back

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Speaker 3: to the younger generation, what I would tell them, keep

468
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Speaker 3: your mind open, don't let somebody force you to go

469
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Speaker 3: to college, don't let somebody force you to go straight

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Speaker 3: to the industry.

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Speaker 4: There's options both ways.

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Speaker 3: That can that can one hundred percent work out for

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Speaker 3: you in a successful career.

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Speaker 2: And as we mentioned before, the women, uh, now you

475
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Speaker 2: have a you know at least one of the competitors

476
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Speaker 2: was female.

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Speaker 3: Correct, We do have a female competitor on our paint side.

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Speaker 3: She has been here for the last four years, if

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Speaker 3: I remember correctly, pretty much all four years that she's

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Speaker 3: been with the company actually, and I'd mentioned social media

481
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Speaker 3: a little while ago. She likes to use social media

482
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Speaker 3: to show what she does working in the paint department

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Speaker 3: and in the collision center.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's.

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Speaker 3: Tons of tons of options out there that that may

486
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Speaker 3: not have been the direction somebody would have wanted to

487
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Speaker 3: go in fifteen twenty three years.

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Speaker 2: And again, the people that are that are involved in

489
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Speaker 2: the trades that are now thinking or people that weren't

490
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Speaker 2: involved before are thinking in terms of that saying, yes,

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Speaker 2: this is something that I could do.

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Speaker 1: The career path is good.

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Speaker 2: I can make money at it, which is I guess,

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Speaker 2: well not, I guess it is. It is very It

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Speaker 2: is you know the name of the game, and something

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Speaker 2: that you enjoy exactly.

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Speaker 3: Some of these guys you talk to them, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I love coming to work every now.

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Speaker 4: I love working on stuff. I always like being in

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Speaker 4: the shop.

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Speaker 3: The main reason the instant gratification when I fix something.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's just hey, I did that, and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, I always loved that feeling, so just lots

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Speaker 3: of But.

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Speaker 2: I got to thank you for your hospitality the other

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Speaker 2: day of being able to come over and watch everything.

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Speaker 4: And see it in person.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people's return.

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Speaker 3: Sure, a lot of people have their ideas of what's

510
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 3: going on over there, and we try to showcase it

511
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 3: here once again since we can't be here just due

512
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Speaker 3: to the logistics of needing a paint booth and and

513
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 3: lots of fiberglass mondo dust.

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Speaker 4: Flying everywhere and and all of that.

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Speaker 3: So it's a very eye opening experience when you can

516
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Speaker 3: see it, and it's awesome to watch those paints come

517
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 3: to life and the body repair whatever they're working on

518
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Speaker 3: come back to one full piece.

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Speaker 2: There's definitely an art to it, and they are their artists. Again,

520
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 2: seeing that final piece that that guy put together and

521
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 2: stopped by the booth and showed me, I was blown away,

522
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Speaker 2: especially in the confined time frame that he had basically

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Speaker 2: one day, just amazing. Well, I can't thank you enough

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Speaker 2: for stopping by. I certainly appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 2: We'll throughout the year, maybe check in and for sure

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Speaker 2: we'll talk a little bit about what's going on in

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Speaker 2: the industries, talk about what's going on as far as

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Speaker 2: you are concerned, it sounds great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll keep in touch and we'll get you some

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Speaker 3: updates throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic you.

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Speaker 2: Mitch Davison, Director of Collision Centers for Rush Truck Centers.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network, seven hundred W l W.

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00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 2: This is America's Trucking Network, seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kevin Gordon.

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Speaker 2: We got the numbers yesterday or earlier, well, yesterday morning,

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Speaker 2: i should say, the consumer price Index, which had been

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Speaker 2: delayed the previous month.

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Speaker 1: And they released that.

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Speaker 2: And again, this is one of those situations where I

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Speaker 2: read the headlines, I look at the story. The story

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Speaker 2: sometimes doesn't match what the headlines are saying. And I'm

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Speaker 2: questioning a lot of the stuff that's being said about

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Speaker 2: this consumer price index. Last night, let me see it

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Speaker 2: was it would have been what would it have been Wednesday?

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night?

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Speaker 2: They were well, well, before I went on the air,

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Speaker 2: we talked about they were talking about consumer price index

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Speaker 2: being at three percent and that this is higher than

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Speaker 2: what it had been in the previous month, and and

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Speaker 2: it kind of showed that inflation was elevated, and I said,

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Speaker 2: where was that, because it's not supposed to be released

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Speaker 2: and I looked into that, and it's not supposed to

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Speaker 2: be released until Thursday morning. And so they were this

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Speaker 2: is what they were saying, the three percent number that

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Speaker 2: inflation had gone up. But that was their predictions, and

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Speaker 2: that was from these economists that we're talking about, this

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Speaker 2: not the actual data. And let Mery remind you the

560
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 2: saying about economists and economists is an expert who will

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Speaker 2: know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

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Speaker 2: And this is exactly the situation here. Consumer price index

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Speaker 2: rose at two point seven percent, not three percent, and

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Speaker 2: the headline says prices rose at two point seven percent

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Speaker 2: rate lower than expected. How many times have we heard

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Speaker 2: headlines since the beginning of the year retail sales higher

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Speaker 2: than expected, new car sales higher than expected, home prices

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Speaker 2: or home sales, new home sales higher than expected, unemployment

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Speaker 2: lower than expected. All along we've been hearing this, and

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Speaker 2: yet everybody wants to try to downplay and talk down

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Speaker 2: the economy. And I'm starting to hear a little bit

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Speaker 2: more and more about people saying that, you know what,

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Speaker 2: it seems like the spoonfl What they're saying is the

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Speaker 2: mainstream media isn't giving us the accurate detail.

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Speaker 1: Well, no kidding. Did they give us the accurate information.

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00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 2: About COVID that not only COVID, but how it spread,

577
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Speaker 2: what it was all about, where it came from. Did

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Speaker 2: they tell us the truth about what was going on

579
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Speaker 2: as far as the election was concerned in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Did they tell us the information properly about the polls

581
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Speaker 2: about the twenty sixteen election? Did they tell us about

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden's mental capabilities and whether or not he was

583
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Speaker 2: competent to be in office?

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Speaker 1: Was that accurate?

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Speaker 2: Was the Russian hoax accurate or any of these other

586
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Speaker 2: hoaxes that are going on. As far as the Trump

587
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Speaker 2: administration and Donald Trump, have they been accurate? And yet

588
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Speaker 2: for some reason people still glom on to what the

589
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Speaker 2: hell those people are saying. I don't know why anybody

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Speaker 2: believes anything they've said, because again, everything they've talked about,

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Speaker 2: who are the predictions about tariffs are going to cause

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Speaker 2: a recession that's going to lead to out of control inflation,

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Speaker 2: going to lead to a lot of layoffs and yet

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Speaker 2: how much of that has come about?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Some of the headlines that were as a result of

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Speaker 2: this stock market Today.

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Speaker 1: This is from Yahoo Finance.

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Speaker 2: Stock Market Today Dow S and P and Nasdaq rise

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Speaker 2: as CPI inflation eases in November. The Wall Street journals

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Speaker 2: stock Market Today, Dow S and P five hundred jump

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Speaker 2: on soft inflation.

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Speaker 1: Readout. Then we get to CNN.

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Speaker 2: Inflation cooled in November to two point seven but economists

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Speaker 2: say to take it with the entire salt shaker, not

606
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Speaker 2: a grain of salt, but the entire assault shaker.

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Speaker 1: How accurate is that? So we'll see.

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Speaker 2: Consumer prices were rose less than expected in November, giving

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Speaker 2: investors hope that the inflationary pressures may be cooling enough

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Speaker 2: for US monetary policy to be eased more than a

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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street anticipates consumer Price Index

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Speaker 2: rose at two point seven percent annualized rate last month.

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Speaker 2: A delayed report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed

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Speaker 2: economists pulled by dal Jones, expected the CPI to have

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Speaker 2: risen three point one percent, so they blew it by

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Speaker 2: four tenths of a percentage point, which is basically something

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Speaker 2: like as like one eighth or one tenth of what

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Speaker 2: I missed U by over ten percent. But again, these

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Speaker 2: are the economists, remember those people that will tell you

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Speaker 2: tomorrow why things they predicted today yesterday didn't happen today.

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Speaker 2: It infuriates me because everything is just so. By the

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Speaker 2: core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy prices

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Speaker 2: also cooler than anticipated, increasing two point six percent over

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Speaker 2: twelve months. It was expected to have risen by three percent.

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Speaker 2: So again they were off by four tenths of a

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Speaker 2: percentage point. And that's we're talking big numbers there when

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Speaker 2: you're looking at that, and especially at the Federal Reserve,

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Speaker 2: wants to see inflation down around two percent. Well, when

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Speaker 2: the previous month was at two point seven two point

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Speaker 2: eight percent and we're now down to actually up to

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Speaker 2: right around two point nine percent, and we're down to

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Speaker 2: two point six percent, it is heading in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: And rather than these knuckleheads actually recognizing that and saying

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Speaker 2: that in their reports, they just say they just throw

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Speaker 2: the number out there. They say, well, it's lower than expected,

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Speaker 2: but they don't get in any context, any behind the

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00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 2: scenes and saying that, well, the previous month it was this,

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00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 2: and everybody was expecting it to go up this high,

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00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,439
Speaker 2: but apparently they're wrong. And of course, you know they're

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Speaker 2: not going to do it because journalism all the well,

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00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 2: i don't even call it journalism, spoon fed regurgislators and

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00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 2: mainstream media. They just pump out this information they get well,

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00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 2: first of all, they get pumped to them from the

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00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 2: liberal democratic talking points, and then they just regurgitated to

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Speaker 2: everybody else, and then you know, we're left to try

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00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 2: to guess what's accurate and what's not. Just don't believe them,

647
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 2: Just pay attention to what the actual numbers are and

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00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 2: draw your own conclusions. The monthly increase, we're less than

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00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,240
Speaker 2: expected with both of all the items. The course CPI

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00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: gained it two point two percent compared to estimates of

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Speaker 2: point three percent, and that's just month over month, that's

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Speaker 2: two tenths of a percentage point. This is the first

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Speaker 2: report that encompasses the period during which the US government

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Speaker 2: was shut down. The stoppage disrupted the data collection process

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Speaker 2: in that time. It also led to a cancelation of

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Speaker 2: the October CPI release. The data was originally expected to

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Speaker 2: be released December the tenth, because the October CPI was canceled.

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Speaker 2: Thursday's report did not have all the usual data points,

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Speaker 2: and typically a CPI release, BLS was unable to retroactively

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Speaker 2: collect the October data, and which I wonder why that

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Speaker 2: information was out there it was available. Did you not

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Speaker 2: go to it, did you not take the effort to

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Speaker 2: go to it and look at it, or did you

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Speaker 2: just say, oh, you know, the numbers were compiled, but

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Speaker 2: they just went out into the ether somewhere. On a

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Speaker 2: twelve month basis, food prices rose two point six percent

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Speaker 2: and energy was up four point two which I've got

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Speaker 2: to and ask the question when I go to the

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Speaker 2: grocery store and I look at these prices reduced and

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Speaker 2: they show what the shelf label price was, and then

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Speaker 2: when you look at the reduced price, that reduced price

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Speaker 2: is somewhere around ten percent, five percent in some cases

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Speaker 2: fifteen percent of what it was before. And they advertised

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Speaker 2: new low prices, new low prices. So where the food

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Speaker 2: prices are going up that much?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And then when they're talking about as far as energy

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Speaker 2: prices are concerned, well, let's take a look at I mean,

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Speaker 2: just quickly take a look at energy prices. West Texas

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Speaker 2: intermediate crued is down twenty dollars and eighty three cents

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Speaker 2: just since the first of the year. That's twenty seven

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Speaker 2: percent down. Brent crude down twenty dollars and four cents

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Speaker 2: of barrel, that is down twenty five percent since the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the year. Now we've seen gas prices are

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Speaker 2: now nationwide average at two dollars and ninety cents a gallon,

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Speaker 2: when this time last year they were at three to

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Speaker 2: zero three, So they're down thirteen cents a gallon, almost

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Speaker 2: fourteen cents a gallon. So the energy prices, now, if

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Speaker 2: they're talking about energy and electric energy and energy rates,

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Speaker 2: those are controlled by the individual states and their regulatory

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Speaker 2: commission that allow some of these companies like Duke Energy

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Speaker 2: or whoever to raise their rates. So if they're not

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Speaker 2: controlling and if they have converted a lot of their

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Speaker 2: stuff to more green, new steel type of things in

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Speaker 2: terms of getting away from fossil fuels and the normal

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Speaker 2: production of energy, and if they're doing that because of

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Speaker 2: windmills and because of solar and that's not been effective

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Speaker 2: and those prices are actually higher and more expensive, then

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Speaker 2: that's where it's coming from. It's not from tariffs. It's

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Speaker 2: not from inflation, it's stupidity of the government and the

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Speaker 2: state governments that allow that to happen. When they talked

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Speaker 2: about that New Jersey governor's race, one of the things,

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Speaker 2: one of the big criteria things where energy prices and

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Speaker 2: electric prices were out of control, and so you have

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Speaker 2: the Democrats in charge, which are controlling those energy costs.

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Speaker 2: And so the brilliance of the people in New Jersey said, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're going to have the Democrats fix that.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to elect another Democratic governor.

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Speaker 2: These numbers and we'll probably talk a little bit more

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Speaker 2: about these on Tuesday. Some of the numbers are rolling

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Speaker 2: in in terms of where the numbers were up, where

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Speaker 2: the numbers were down.

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Speaker 1: Bottom line is just incredible.

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Speaker 2: But if you missed any of our previous segments or

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Speaker 2: missing any of our shows from this week, which from

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Speaker 2: down there in Nashville, hit up that iHeartRadio app Also

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