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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Monday edition. Clay and Buck kicks off right now. Everybody,

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Speaker 2: thank you for being here with us. We missed you

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Speaker 2: over the weekend. We trust you are ready for action today.

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Speaker 2: Relaxed after a couple of days away from the show.

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot to discuss with all of you.

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Speaker 2: Bud Light continues to tank, and we keep saying, I mean,

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Speaker 2: they just really need to apologize and spend some money

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Speaker 2: on conservative shows and maybe things will turn.

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Speaker 1: Around for them. But they won't do it. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into a little bit more of that.

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Speaker 3: You have.

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Speaker 2: The New York City mayor is calling for migrants to

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Speaker 2: be sent to every US city across the country. This

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Speaker 2: is always fascinating Democrats say migrants are and where they

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Speaker 2: say migrants. Just to be very clear, they're not talking

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Speaker 2: about immigrants who come here legally. Illegal aliens was the

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Speaker 2: term we were using until about five minutes ago. Illegal

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Speaker 2: aliens build this country, make us all richer, and make

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Speaker 2: everything better. But somehow they're a huge financial drain on

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Speaker 2: New York City such that New York City needs to

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Speaker 2: send them to other places because they can't afford them.

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Speaker 1: That's an interesting situation, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: Also Eric Adams, as you notice, I've got a lot

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Speaker 2: of New York on my mind these days. Eric Adams

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Speaker 2: has a new planet combat retail theft, which is a massive, massive,

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Speaker 2: millions and millions of dollars problem in New York City.

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Speaker 2: An update on the Epstein Jeffrey Epstein situation involving Bill

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: We haven't spoken much, Clay, and I haven't talked you

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Speaker 2: a lot about Epstein's case and how there is still

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Speaker 2: a lot that is unresolved there. There's a lot that

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Speaker 2: we are told to accept that many of us say

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Speaker 2: that is unacceptable, meaning we don't have proper answers, we

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Speaker 2: don't have what we need.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get into that. A shooting in Memphis, Tennessee

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Speaker 1: that had a lot of people particularly fired up over

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Speaker 1: the weekend because the homeowner defending himself, his home, and

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Speaker 1: his family from incoming fire was arrested and is facing

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Speaker 1: charges from the Soros BACKDA in Memphis, Tennessee. So returning

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Speaker 1: fire now can get you locked up. We'll explain that

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Speaker 1: one later on.

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Speaker 2: Oh, one more thing the NAACP is telling is telling

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Speaker 2: people don't go to Florida. They're saying, don't go to Florida,

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Speaker 2: the state where the biggest problem. Here you go, if

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Speaker 2: you travel to Florida, be where your life is not valuable.

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Speaker 2: Play that audio for you later. But the state where

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Speaker 2: the biggest problem is no one is able to afford

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Speaker 2: houses in the biggest cities because of supply and demand,

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Speaker 2: because everyone is moving to Florida.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, oh, don't go, your life is not valued.

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Speaker 1: But let's start with this. Clay's like to focus in

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Speaker 1: on politics. The primary feels like the primary is underway now,

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Speaker 1: you know. It feels like we're really starting to enter

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Speaker 1: that phase where this is going to be a dominant theme,

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Speaker 1: a dominant situation day to day in American politics. Tim Scott,

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Speaker 1: the Senator, a senator from South Carolina, just formally announced

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Speaker 1: he is in this fight. Here is just from a

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Speaker 1: few moments ago, the Senator from South Carolina. Play it.

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Speaker 4: They're replacing education within doctrination. They spent COVID locking kids

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Speaker 4: out of the classroom, and in Biden's America, crime is

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Speaker 4: on the rise and law enforcement is in retreat. The

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Speaker 4: far left is ending cash bails, They're demonizing, demoralizing, and

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Speaker 4: defunding the police. Joe Biden and the radical left are

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Speaker 4: attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb.

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Speaker 4: And that's why I'm announcing today that I'm running for

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Speaker 4: president out of the United States America.

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Speaker 1: A fiery announcement. Sorry I stepped on it for a

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Speaker 2: Tell me, Clay, what is your first reaction to I mean,

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Speaker 2: my sense is Senator Scott is very widely liked in

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Speaker 2: GOP circles. Everyone is like, I like Senator Scott. He's

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Speaker 2: a good man. What does it mean for the political race?

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Speaker 2: So I love the way he announced there.

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Speaker 1: It's like he was a macho man Randy Savage or

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Speaker 1: there are about five people that most people would recognize

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Speaker 1: whether Mike Pence is going to enter. There's been a

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Speaker 1: I am curious most with Tim Scott entering whether he's

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Speaker 1: really running for president or is he running for vice president,

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Speaker 1: because if he were running for president, then he would

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Speaker 1: immediately attack Donald Trump, who is the leader. And I

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Speaker 1: far that characterizes this race, Buck, is almost everybody has

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Speaker 1: gone after Ron DeSantis, the guy who's presumed to be

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Speaker 1: as opposed to going after Trump. And the reason why

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Speaker 1: I would point this out is what was the number

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Speaker 1: one story of twenty sixteen, Buck, When you go look

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Speaker 1: I just need to get it down to me versus Trump,

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Speaker 1: And then what happened? They got it down to me

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Speaker 1: as opposed to Trump, what it means to me, Buck

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Speaker 1: is everybody's actually angling to try to be vice president,

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Speaker 1: than they want to be president. Now, Tim Scott has

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Speaker 1: a compelling story. I agree with much of what he says.

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Speaker 1: He is really selling the idea of the Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: is a redemptive, incredibly successful country where any kid that's

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Speaker 1: ultimate message is. Whether you get into the nitty gritty

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Speaker 1: And my life story is evidence of the American dream

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Speaker 1: very compelling. The question I have, and I'm curious what

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Speaker 1: think he's running for vice president. Yeah, And I don't

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Speaker 1: the idea that we don't know because we don't, Okay,

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Speaker 1: no one really knows where this prime area is going

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Speaker 1: to go and if but running for vice president for

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Speaker 1: a strategist for him, makes a lot of sense, right,

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Speaker 1: especially if it's for Trump, because you know you're on

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Speaker 1: the launch pad. My friend, your four years if Trump wins,

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Speaker 1: Within two years of Trump's second term, tim Scott would

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Speaker 1: a very different vice presidential slot now with a term

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Speaker 1: you're running, you know, if you're running to be someone's

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Speaker 1: VP for possibly eight years, like Joe Biden was for

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama, that's a long time now. I know Biden

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Speaker 1: was a once in a century pandemic and some crazy

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Speaker 1: things happened. So the Tim Scott running for VP to me,

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Speaker 1: makes that that's the long term play makes a lot

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Speaker 1: degree that I'm not sure. He's again very a very

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Speaker 1: likable guy who has loves America, you know, tells us

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have so much connection with him from even

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Speaker 1: Trump voters in the primary, DeSantis voters in the primary.

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Speaker 1: The only place though, if you're going to see him,

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Speaker 1: I think get some my understanding. I should check on

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Speaker 1: the immigration thing. I think he's not great on immigration

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Speaker 1: my point of view. And also on the criminal justice

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Speaker 1: reform issue. If you remember, after George Floyd, he was

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Speaker 1: shouting in June and twenty twenty about this isn't about

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Speaker 1: police reform. There are people rioting in the streets. They

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Speaker 1: don't care about police reform. This is something else, This

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Speaker 2: Sure that's a place where I could see him getting

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Speaker 2: I've got a lot of South Carolinians who it's fun

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Speaker 2: to say Carolinian, a lot of South Carolinians who listened

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Speaker 2: But we've also got in addition to the Tim Scott announcement,

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Speaker 2: And can I just throw this into the mix. I

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Speaker 2: want ever to listen very closely. This was over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: So when Ron is talking Governor Florida talking about COVID,

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Speaker 2: what he says about say the vaccines and warp speed

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Speaker 2: and the language he uses play clip one.

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Speaker 5: The way they weaponized these COVID vacxas was a massive

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Speaker 5: incursion into our freedoms. They wanted to deny people the

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Speaker 5: right to put food on their table if they didn't

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Speaker 5: bend the knee and get a COVID shot that they

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Speaker 5: may not have wanted and that many of them did

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Speaker 5: not need. We can never allow warp speed to trump

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Speaker 1: That line, Clay, we can never allow warp speed to

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Speaker 2: We all understand what he's doing here. He's calling out

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Speaker 2: warp speed because this is one This is I can't

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Speaker 2: still think warp speed was amazing and saved you know,

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Speaker 2: one hundred million lives line, and I think Ron's going

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where Trump is caught between the reality of

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Speaker 1: the results of the COVID shot. It's basically worthless. Let's

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Speaker 1: now all over the world basically, and every school and

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Speaker 1: be boosted, they're quietly removing the COVID shot from their

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Speaker 6: Well? I just had a few things said by Senator Scott.

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Speaker 2: What what kind of a wild, insightful and fun ride.

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Speaker 2: Are you taking us on to the next the next hour,

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Speaker 2: Third hour of Plan Buck kicks off right now everybody

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Speaker 2: and New York City's Mayor Eric Adams has some problems

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Speaker 2: And then also we have the migrant crisis, which we'll

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Speaker 1: What changed? We all know BLM two point zero and

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Speaker 1: it's ourfaul, that's what we're told. Well, let's just let's

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Speaker 1: look at the shoplifting plan that New York City's put

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Speaker 1: I think Target alone said they lost five hundred million

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Speaker 1: stealing a yeah, candy bar or something. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: like sort of orders of magnitude, professional thievery that is

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Speaker 1: taking a huge portion of their profits.

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Speaker 2: They call it organized retail theft. Now, that's the term

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Speaker 2: that law enforcement uses for this. It's happening in New

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Speaker 2: York City all the time. I've been in stores in

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Speaker 2: New York where people have been stealing stuff and the

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Speaker 2: clerks just sit there, and you know, it's demeaning for

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Speaker 2: the clerks. It's demeaning for the other people in the store.

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Speaker 1: It's uh, it's unsettling because you're also you're watching someone

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Speaker 1: break the law. You understand that if someone does confront

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Speaker 1: this person, there could be a physical confrontation, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just the whole thing as you're watching a crime

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Speaker 1: take place. So here's how Mayor Adams is going to

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Speaker 1: deal with the mat ever and agree it's not a

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Speaker 1: massive problem. For years, they lied, Oh, it's just COVID.

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Speaker 1: Remember when the crime win was COVID Clay. Yes, everyone's

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Speaker 1: staying at home watching Netflix. Crime is going up though

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Speaker 1: it's because of COVID. It never made But they were lying.

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Speaker 1: They were just but they're buying time for Biden in

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Speaker 1: the election. Here, that was the whole point. Okay, here's

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Speaker 1: the plan. Give first time offenders intervention programs instead of prosecution,

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Speaker 1: de escalation training for retail employees, establish neighborhood watch groups,

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Speaker 1: and install kiosks in stores to connect would be thieves

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Speaker 1: with social services programs. The Mayor of New York City saying,

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Speaker 1: let's take fewer juveniles into the justice system where they

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Speaker 1: will face any consequences whatsoever. Let's have retail employees learn

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Speaker 1: to do even less than they're doing. And we're going

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Speaker 1: to spend more money on public services that won't.

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Speaker 2: Do a damn thing to change any of this. That's

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Speaker 2: the plan to deal with shoplifting. Wow, I wonder why

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Speaker 2: it doesn't get any.

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Speaker 1: Better and Buck, this has real tangible impact because I

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Speaker 1: got some numbers here on population that was in the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal editorial. I read this and I was like,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. We know that a lot of

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Speaker 1: people move because of COVID, but now quality of life,

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Speaker 1: I think has also become a major factor. Did you

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Speaker 1: see these numbers? According to the latest census data, New

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Speaker 1: York City lost four hundred and sixty eight thousand people

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Speaker 1: between April of twenty twenty and July of twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: That's five point three percent of its population. And it's

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Speaker 1: not just New York City. That's more people buck than

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Speaker 1: live in the entire city of Miami. That many people

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Speaker 1: left New York City. This is according to Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 1: Other big city losers Chicago lost eighty one thousand people,

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Speaker 1: LA lost seventy six thousand, and San Francisco lost sixty

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Speaker 1: five thousand and Buck that population for San Francisco seven

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Speaker 1: point five percent of the overall population of San Francisco

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Speaker 1: left in the last two years. Think about that, and Buck,

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Speaker 1: it's not just the people that are leaving. I would

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Speaker 1: bet if you dove into the data, it's the wealthiest,

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Speaker 1: it's the highest educated, it's the people with the most

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Speaker 1: opportunity to go elsewhere. So it's even more debilitating to

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Speaker 1: those cities than just the raw numbers. April of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three versus April of twenty twenty two, the state

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Speaker 1: of New York was down forty percent in revenue. So

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Speaker 1: you may only lose five percent of your population, but

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Speaker 1: look at just basic income tax data. Yep, one percent

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Speaker 1: of earner's nationwide, and this is true in the cities

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Speaker 1: as well. Are paying Oh gosh, wait, hold on, and

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Speaker 1: I want to get this number right in the top

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Speaker 1: sj ordinary note it's incredibly high amount. I think it's

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Speaker 1: over twenty percent. You look that up, because I'll give

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Speaker 1: you this part. Less than over half of people. We

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Speaker 1: just had tax day last month. Over half of Americans

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Speaker 1: don't pay a single dollar in federal income tax. Because

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Speaker 1: you that's a staggering number, I think to a lot

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Speaker 1: of you out there listening again, let me repeat that

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Speaker 1: over half of Americans do not pay a single dollar

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Speaker 1: in federal income tax.

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Speaker 2: I keep getting this. I underestimate how crazy it is.

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Speaker 2: The top one percent of earners are paying over forty

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Speaker 2: percent of the income taxes, getting closer that's unbelievable to

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Speaker 2: fifty percent. So if you lose the five percent that

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Speaker 2: you're talking about a New York City, and of that

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Speaker 2: five percent you have a lot of people who are

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Speaker 2: in the one percent in terms of earnings, your city's

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Speaker 2: financials structure is destroyed. And I think that's what. I

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Speaker 2: think San Francisco is heading for this. I think New

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Speaker 2: York City is heading for this. I think they'll be

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Speaker 2: I think Chicago is heading for this. And the answer

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Speaker 2: that the left has the answer to these left wing democrat,

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Speaker 2: community activist lunatic party the answer they have for you

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Speaker 2: is more public services and raise taxes. Yeah, the exact

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Speaker 2: this is staring at a house fire and saying, let's

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Speaker 2: throw some Molotov cocktails in there.

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Speaker 1: No, you're right, And this is where I come back to.

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Speaker 1: One of the stories I keep telling is the virtue

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Speaker 1: as circle. I use Google as an example. Every Google

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Speaker 1: search makes the Google machine better. All of these cities.

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Speaker 1: I saw these numbers over the weekend, Buck, and my

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Speaker 1: jaw drop. Seven and a half percent of San Francisco's population,

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Speaker 1: left five percent of New York City. And that's that

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Speaker 1: you gave. I bet, in conjunction with the one I gave,

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Speaker 1: has staggered a lot of people. Over half of Americans

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Speaker 1: don't pay a dollar in federal income tax and you

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Speaker 1: just said, Buck, the top one percent pays forty percent

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Speaker 1: of all federal income taxes. That is unbelievable. And what

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Speaker 1: is also happening now is if you're super wealthy, why

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Speaker 1: in the world, if your city is deteriorating, and if

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Speaker 1: your quality of life is collapsing in Chicago or New

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Speaker 1: York City or San Francisco or LA why would you

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Speaker 1: pay fifteen percent sometimes of your income for the privilege

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Speaker 1: of being able to live there. To the state and

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Speaker 1: local government, you would say, look, if you're making think

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Speaker 1: about this. Some of these big private equity guys they

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Speaker 1: make ten million a year, right, you make ten million

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Speaker 1: a year. You can put an extra one point three

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Speaker 1: million dollars in your pocket by living in Texas, by

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Speaker 1: living in Tennessee, by living in Florida. I think Nevada

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Speaker 1: has no state income tax. Why would you ever live

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Speaker 1: in a state that's taking that much more of your

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Speaker 1: hard earned cash when, frankly, you can live in a

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Speaker 1: better run state with people in government that you trust more.

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Speaker 1: This is this is a light bulb moment Covid was

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Speaker 1: I think Buck and I don't think this is going

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Speaker 1: to change. I think these big cities are going to

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Speaker 1: keep losing the highest earners and they're going to be

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Speaker 1: moving to these red states and they're going to be

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Speaker 1: funding their growth.

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Speaker 2: Think about it this way. Democrats outnumber Republicans. I mean

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Speaker 2: New York City went almost ninety percent roughly, we'll say

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Speaker 2: ninety percent for Biden the last election. It's eight to

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Speaker 2: one Democrat to Republican pretty consistently. San Francisco even more

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Speaker 2: than that. DC is getting close to ten to one. Now,

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Speaker 2: DC is a little different because of the federal federal

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Speaker 2: status of it, But you look at these other cities,

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Speaker 2: they have these icebergs of lunacy are going to take

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Speaker 2: a really long time to melt because they're one party

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Speaker 2: states now. So you're not even going to get the

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Speaker 2: chance to see a Republican coming into these places and

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Speaker 2: saying we're going to clean things up. We're going to

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Speaker 2: punish people who refuse to allow us to live in

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Speaker 2: an orderly and save society. We're going to clean up

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Speaker 2: the streets. We're going to cut back the massive welfare programs.

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Speaker 2: We're going to cut back on all the special status

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Speaker 2: and special money given to illegal immigrants in these places.

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Speaker 2: We're going to change the way we do business here.

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Speaker 2: And the problem that I see is before you get

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Speaker 2: to that, these cities are going to be hollowed out,

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're going to lose more and more people.

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Speaker 2: This trend is not going to stop. So this is

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Speaker 2: why I've been saying. I think that one part of

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Speaker 2: this that I underestimated was how much pain from bad

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Speaker 2: policies Democrats who control the politics and these cities are

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Speaker 2: are willing to live there. Look at the look at

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Speaker 2: the situation right now with you know, with the Jordan,

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Speaker 2: the Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny, right, Daniel Penny's facing

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Speaker 2: fifteen years for manslaughter charges. A city that takes someone

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Speaker 2: like Daniel Penny and says that we're going to lock

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Speaker 2: you up, possibly for anywhere from three to fifteen years

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Speaker 2: for doing something that eyewitness to say felt like it

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Speaker 2: was heroic at the time. That's not a place where

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Speaker 2: a lot of people are going to want to say,

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Speaker 2: I want to raise a family and I want but

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Speaker 2: AOC and the rest of the Democrat left lunatics, they

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Speaker 2: think it's great. They're all about it. So make your

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Speaker 2: decisions about this, folks, you see what's going on. Believe

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Speaker 2: the left when they tell you, when they show you

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Speaker 2: what they're all about and what they plan to do.

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Speaker 2: who's there for them or the famili's left behind? Who's

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Speaker 1: Make an appointment with the truth. Tune in every day

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Speaker 1: to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I shared

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Speaker 1: this link yesterday. I'd encourage you guys to go read it,

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Speaker 1: especially if you work in a business that is bon woke,

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Speaker 1: because there is a front page article in the Monday

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Speaker 1: edition of The Wall Street Journal that dives in great

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Speaker 1: detail into the collapse of bud Light in the wake

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Speaker 1: of their decision to put a trans influencer on a

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Speaker 1: beer can as a part of a March Madness promotion.

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Speaker 1: And initially when people said, hey, we're going to fight

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Speaker 1: back against this, there was ridicule. There was the belief

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Speaker 1: nothing would happen. And in the chart that is included

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Speaker 1: in the bud Light article in the Wall Street Journal, Buck,

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Speaker 1: you can see that in the first week of May,

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Speaker 1: bud light consumption in this country is down twenty eight percent,

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Speaker 1: and every week it keeps getting worse. And you remember

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Speaker 1: first weekend in May. This is when I did my experiment,

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Speaker 1: and you were here with me in the Nashville area.

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Speaker 1: We were at a musical event and no one would

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Speaker 1: take a bud light. And what I am seeing when

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Speaker 1: I am out and about when I am in a bar,

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Speaker 1: when I'm in a restaurant, I'll ask, I'll say, hey,

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Speaker 1: how's bud light selling, And by and large, the servers

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Speaker 1: will say, nobody's ordering it. Now, I live in the

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Speaker 1: Nashville area, red state of Tennessee, so I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that everything that I'm experiencing is representative. But when it's

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Speaker 1: down twenty eight percent nationwide, and now it's starting to

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Speaker 1: filter over to Mick Ultra and to Budweiser itself. And

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Speaker 1: Budweiser is deciding that they're going to have red, white,

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Speaker 1: and blue cans, and they're going to have a Harley

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Speaker 1: Davidson edition and they're going to have a camouflage edition.

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Speaker 1: They are desperately backpedaling over the fact that they insulted

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Speaker 1: the consumer base by and large of bud Light, not

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Speaker 1: just with that ad Buck, but also with their director

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00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: of marketing saying, yeah, we didn't really like the people

650
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: who were drinking bud Light. It was too frauty. There

651
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: was out of touch humor, and people are saying, well,

652
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: wait a minute. You know, relatively speaking, there's not that

653
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: much difference between bud Light, Coors Light, and let's say

654
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Speaker 1: Miller Lte And I understand some of our audience fervently

655
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: disagrees with me on this, Buck, but I will go

656
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: to the grave that if you were having nachos or

657
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: you're having a hot dog at a ball game, that

658
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: you just drinking out of a cup, cannot distinguish between

659
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 1: the taste of those three. And so this is now

660
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: the most success successful pushback we have ever seen on

661
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: any brand for going woke and directly undercutting their business.

662
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: And I believe we have audio it's important for you

663
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: to realize, and you mentioned this in the first hour

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Speaker 1: of the show. I think Buck, a lot of employee

665
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: employees out there are not in support of what bud

666
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: Light did, and a lot of distributors are not in

667
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: support because the way that Budweiser is distributed is with

668
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: different regional outposts all over the country and one of

669
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Speaker 1: the distributors down in Alabama he was fed up. Buck

670
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Speaker 1: listen to the ad that he took out directly to

671
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Speaker 1: attack what his company did.

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00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 7: Listen, There's been a lot of discussion, frustration, and even

673
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 7: anger across the country regarding just one single can made

674
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 7: a bud Light that was produced for a social media influencer.

675
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 7: We too at Bama Buddwaserup said about it and have

676
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 7: made our feelings known to the top leadership at anhusse Cours.

677
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 7: We do not and as I said before, did not

678
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 7: support this issue involving Dylan mulvaney. There was one single

679
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 7: can made, was not for sale and wasn't properly approved.

680
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 7: As a result, the bud Light brand has new leadership.

681
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 7: Dylan mulvaney is not under contract with bud Light. The

682
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 7: videos you may have seen are Mulvaney's own social media

683
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 7: posts that went viral and meaning web based news outlets

684
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,760
Speaker 7: have distorted the story. You deserve to know the truth

685
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 7: and life is too short to let a couple of

686
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 7: individuals decide which you can eat or drink or spend

687
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Speaker 7: your hard earned money on.

688
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Speaker 2: So this guy has done a better job I think

689
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 2: of trying to deal with the situations obviously affecting him,

690
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 2: affecting his business. And as I was saying, I know

691
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Speaker 2: people who know so by you know, second order removed

692
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Speaker 2: from me, bud bud Light delivery guys, distributors, things like that,

693
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 2: and they're getting hurt by this. Your business is down

694
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Speaker 2: thirty percent. You got to think in terms of margins

695
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Speaker 2: and not just gross sales. If your business is down

696
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Speaker 2: thirty percent, you may be out of business in a

697
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: matter of time. It's not like you can sustain that.

698
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: And and so that's that's obviously something that hurts. But

699
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Speaker 2: I would just say this Anheuser Busch in bev, which

700
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 2: owns a bud Light brand, and the marketing people involved

701
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Speaker 2: with this, they didn't even after a couple of weeks,

702
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Speaker 2: they didn't say we're so sorry that we did this,

703
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 2: and we're never going to do this again, and we're

704
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 2: not gonna play this game. We just want to bring

705
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: you great beer. And this was crap. Did they even

706
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 2: fire anyone? I should notice, has it even been fired.

707
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 2: No one's been fired, No apology has been given, nothing

708
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 2: has been done.

709
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Speaker 1: They are hoping all of you just.

710
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 2: Forget and start drinking bud Light again. Now, part of

711
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 2: that I think could be just a delusion, because they're

712
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 2: in the you know, the fog of corporate war right now,

713
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: they're on what they're doing. But I also think like

714
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 2: at some level it's because even still these companies Anheuser

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Speaker 2: Busch in Bev, like the big umbrella corporation that own

716
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 2: spun Light, I think they're more worried, even at this stage,

717
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Speaker 2: about upsetting the LGBTQ I A plus activists than they

718
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:30,280
Speaker 2: are the people who drink their products. Yeah, and that's

719
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Speaker 2: why they're not willing to do the obviect. You and

720
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Speaker 2: I could sit down with the CEO of in Bev

721
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Speaker 2: and strategize this in ten minutes, and they would They

722
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 2: wouldn't make this cool problem go away overnight, but you

723
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 2: would see the curve start to go in the other direction.

724
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Speaker 2: People say all right, they'd come out with a statement,

725
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: and I think people would start to feel comfortable like

726
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 2: lesson learned. No one feels like lesson learned.

727
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: What's the lesson? Learned that they think that we.

728
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 2: Have short attention spans, that they think that, you know,

729
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 2: maybe this time they got caught. Next time they'll do

730
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 2: it again. So this this is why, you know, I

731
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 2: think pedal to the metal. The pressure has to stay on.

732
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Speaker 2: And then that brings me to Target. Now this is

733
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Speaker 2: a tough one. Carrie, my wife loves Target. It's gone

734
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 2: there for so many years. There's a Target very near us.

735
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Speaker 2: I will tell you that Carrie took me to a

736
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Speaker 2: Target for the first time. Clay, I had never been

737
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 2: You'd never been in a Target before.

738
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Speaker 1: Not until the last twelve months. That's really fine. I

739
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: had never been to a Target before. I'm an Amazon

740
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: dot com guy. But you know Target is selling these

741
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 1: bathing suits, yeah, that have like a a how do

742
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: we even like a top top? Don't a tuck pouch?

743
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: I think it's called women's bathing suits ostensibly that allow

744
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: and quotation mark women to hide their penises. I mean,

745
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 1: I I just I can't even believe that this is real,

746
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,439
Speaker 1: that a place like Target that there would be First

747
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: of all, there can't be that much demand for this, right, Like,

748
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:03,760
Speaker 1: how many dudes with penises are really wearing women's bathing

749
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: suits on he like, what is the market cap? Like?

750
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 1: How much money can you possibly make selling women's bathing

751
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: suit with penis holes for them? So if Target is

752
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: selling is selling weiener Hider bathing suits, we hider like

753
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: a worst hot dog ever selling, They're selling hot dog hammocks.

754
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 1: I mean they're selling situations here that are not good

755
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: uh for you know, we see what's going on, and

756
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: I wonder, okay, so are people going to take you know,

757
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: is it just a bud light? I just can't stop.

758
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: I just can't stop thinking buck that somehow we've gone

759
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: from women buying their bathing suits and worrying does this

760
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: make me look fat? Is are my boobs showing too much?

761
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: Is my nipple gonna pop out too? Are you going

762
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: to be able to see my penis? Like? This is

763
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: what we're trying to say that women are thinking. Now

764
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: they've gone from do I look fat in this bathing suit?

765
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: To will my Uh I'm trying to use.

766
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 2: The words this is this is at some level, it's

767
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 2: a violation of the true ethos of transgenderism. Isn't that

768
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 2: you should have to hide the male penis. It's that

769
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 2: when you're transgender, the penis is actually a vagina, so

770
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 2: why hide it in.

771
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: The first place.

772
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 2: We're just supposed to believe this is a vagina because

773
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: it's a woman, and that's the way this goes. So

774
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 2: I feel like they're trying to have it both ways,

775
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 2: which I suppose is not surprising. You're talking about the

776
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 2: transgender situation, but are people going to take action against

777
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 2: target claus?

778
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: Should you should? I think look, people say, Okay, where

779
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: does this all lead? And I get it if you're frustrated,

780
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: You're like, man, I just want to have a beer.

781
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: I just want to go buy a bathing suit. I

782
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: don't want to have to make calculated political decisions every

783
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: time I want to get a hamburger or you want

784
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: to go, like I said, just to go get a beer.

785
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: I think that the reason why this bud light reaction

786
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: is important buck is I think right now, for the

787
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: first time ever, there are marketing meetings at every big

788
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: brand in America and they are saying, hey, let's make

789
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: sure that we don't get bud lighted, that we don't

790
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: destroy our brand because we're too woke. And they've never

791
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: had that discussion before in the history of pretty much

792
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: any brand in America. You know, I have a friend

793
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: who works at a high level corporate comms firm, and

794
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: I remember I spoke to him, you know, off the record,

795
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: or you know, without attribution whatever, with different things. Without

796
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: attribution is you can talk about what you said, but

797
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: you can't say who said it. Just two friends talking though.

798
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: We'll put it that way. About how shocked some of

799
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: the corporate comms shops were over the willingness to fight

800
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: with Disney from Ron de Santis. Yeah, and how that.

801
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 2: Was a little that was a warning shot. And now

802
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 2: with bud Light, this is the heavy artillery has come in.

803
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 2: It's a whole different level.

804
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned that Disney thing because Disney won't

805
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:06,280
Speaker 1: acknowledge it. But for much of this year, the last

806
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: calendar year, and certainly the last fiscal year, Disney's been

807
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: losing subscribers to Disney Plus. And I don't think a

808
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: lot of people have recognized it because remember, the corporate

809
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 1: press doesn't want to acknowledge when a quote unquote conservative

810
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: boycott works because they don't want to give conservatives power

811
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Speaker 1: in the marketplace. I think Disney is losing a lot

812
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,439
Speaker 1: right now in streaming. We'll talk about that a little

813
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: bit more as we close out hour too. Oh, don't worry,

814
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Speaker 1: the new Little Mermaid's gonna make billions of No, it's not, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not folks. We'll talk more.

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