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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Jetty.

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Speaker 3: The President getting ready to announce tariffs on at least,

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Speaker 3: as he puts it, basically every country on Earth, every

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Speaker 3: country that has import duties on US goods that starts Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Then on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: In addition to the existing tariffs on aluminium steel, President

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Speaker 3: Trump will impose a whopping twenty five percent tariff on

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Speaker 3: all foreign made cars and auto parts right.

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Speaker 4: Which, as we mentioned, polls show people expect prices to

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Speaker 4: go up short term in about half the country things

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Speaker 4: they're going to stay up long term. But here's someone

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Speaker 4: on Trump's site explaining why this is a good long

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Speaker 4: term plan.

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Speaker 5: The President has a high threshold for pain because these

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Speaker 5: tear people.

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Speaker 2: Well, but also for his own political pay.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's taking a long term approach, which is

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Speaker 5: actually kind of refreshing in American politics now. Whether he's

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Speaker 5: right or wrong, but he's doing two things that are

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Speaker 5: really really unusual in Washington. He's taking a long term view,

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Speaker 5: and he's not listening to the critics.

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Speaker 4: And now here's Stephen Miller, who would get more traction

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Speaker 4: with more people if he didn't look like an evil villain.

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Speaker 4: Since he's portrayed as an evil villain by the Left,

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Speaker 4: he just happens to look like one from a movie.

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Speaker 6: President Trump is resetting the entire global market by saying,

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Speaker 6: number one, you can't steal our jobs. Number two, if

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Speaker 6: you want to get preferential treatment, you have to put

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Speaker 6: your factory inside the United States. You want to sell

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Speaker 6: it to Americans on a preferential basis.

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Speaker 2: Then you have to make it here.

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Speaker 6: And if you do, you'll get low taxes, low regulations,

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Speaker 6: and cheap energy. But if you sell it to us

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Speaker 6: from overseas, then yes, you will pay a tariff.

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Speaker 4: So the not even pushback, but question that a lot

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Speaker 4: one of us have, I think, is so, how is

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Speaker 4: so is General Motors going to build more plants in

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Speaker 4: the night? How long does it take to build a

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Speaker 4: car plant? They're going to build a plant in the

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Speaker 4: next three years, even though the next president might do

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Speaker 4: away with these, so you could keep.

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Speaker 2: Building them in Mexico or wherever.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, there's a reasonable likelihood of that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it would be bad, but yeah, I was going to

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Speaker 1: bring up the fact that the Trump administration has done

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Speaker 1: fabulous things so far that have been cruelly under reported

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Speaker 1: at deregulation, reducing the regulatory weight on American businesses and

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Speaker 1: make it easier to build factories and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: But it's still enormous undertaking.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it takes years, months and many months, if

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Speaker 1: not several years of planning before you break ground.

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Speaker 4: Well, and but you'd also have the reality of So

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Speaker 4: I'm General Motors and I said, Okay, this is the

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Speaker 4: new world we live in. We're going to build a

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Speaker 4: plant in Indiana, and we're going to make our our

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Speaker 4: Chevy trucks one hundred percent here to avoid the tariffs.

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Speaker 2: And you're editor, say, Ford.

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Speaker 4: Sticks it out somehow, and then next administration, when the

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Speaker 4: tariffs go away, your competitor can make the truck so

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Speaker 4: much cheaper right wherever they're making them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, build their profit.

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Speaker 1: And loss projections on both plans, and figure out, all right,

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Speaker 1: how do we lose the least money.

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Speaker 2: Ride it out.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get kicked in the butt for the next

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Speaker 1: three and a half years, We're gonna pay tariffs, gonna

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Speaker 1: hurt our sales. But if we conform, and then the

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Speaker 1: laws change again, we would lose you know, ginormous amounts

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Speaker 1: or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Long, And that's the interesting thing about Trump, and it

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Speaker 1: bothers me, although I'm waiting to see how this all

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Speaker 1: shakes out, because often, you know, Trump throws so many

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Speaker 1: headfakes out there you don't know where he's actually going,

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Speaker 1: which is like completely unprecedented because presidents don't.

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Speaker 2: Want to do that.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to spook the markets, they don't want

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Speaker 1: that he's this cavalier about causing you know, shock in

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Speaker 1: horror and or pearl clutching. If it just ends up

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Speaker 1: with being a reordering of the post WW two trade

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Speaker 1: because we're in economic colossus. We won't charge you because

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Speaker 1: you got to get back on your feet. We understand

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Speaker 1: that completely. If that's going to go away through this,

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Speaker 2: So here is a question rather than a statement.

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Speaker 4: I have said this before, but I've never read this anywhere,

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Speaker 4: of the things you regularly hear people say is, well,

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Speaker 4: what's an American car company even mean anymore? Because I

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Speaker 4: bought a Toyota truck that's built in Indiana. But and

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Speaker 4: this is my question, Now, maybe there's something I'm missing here.

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Speaker 4: If Ford gets in trouble, GM gets in trouble, Chrysler

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Speaker 4: gets in trouble, it becomes a national crisis. The federal

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Speaker 4: government steps in bails them out because we can't have

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Speaker 4: these giant companies fail. That's never happened with Toyota or Volkswagen,

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Speaker 4: these foreign companies. So obviously we're not It's not our

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Speaker 4: is our job as a nation to make sure.

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Speaker 2: GM stays in business.

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Speaker 4: So then what sense is a Toyota made Indiana good

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Speaker 2: I don't get that.

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Speaker 1: If I mean, the jobs at that plant are nice,

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Speaker 1: but it's still a foreign company.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they pay all.

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Speaker 1: Sorts of taxes, and you know, it generates a tremendous

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Speaker 1: amount of revenue for the US. But yeah, the profits

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Speaker 1: end up in a foreign bank unless they keep it

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Speaker 2: So what does that even mean?

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Speaker 1: Well, we obviously I've never heard anybody care if Toyota

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Speaker 1: is struggling right in the United States, But we do

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Speaker 2: Right you know.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a complicated question and I'm not really

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Speaker 2: It has to do it. I just want to make

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Speaker 2: this email or text.

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Speaker 1: Why it seems to me to put a lie to

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Speaker 1: the what's what's an American car?

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Speaker 2: Anyway? This Toyota's made Indiana? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Well, like I just said, nobody cares if Toyota does

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Speaker 1: well or not as a company right right, and their

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Speaker 2: For instance.

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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking if I mean, if you have thousands

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Speaker 1: during the Obama administration, we had to bail out GM

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Speaker 1: to the tune of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: It was a big deal, and it was like a

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Speaker 1: have this, We've got to have them American car companies succeed.

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Speaker 2: How does that fit in with the whole thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Toyota, and so I've never understood it, and I never

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's seek out a guest who's who's really

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Speaker 1: good at that sort of thing. Oh, what was the

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Speaker 1: other thing I was going to bring up? Was kind

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Speaker 1: back in eventually. I love that question. It's really interesting.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I was going to bring up the US Steel thing,

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Speaker 1: which is was so silly because if US Steel was

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Speaker 4: I honestly believe this. Most people, like ninety percent of people,

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Speaker 4: when they hear US Steel, I think it's the United

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Speaker 4: as opposed to that's the name of the company. It

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Speaker 4: could be Bob Steele, like you just said, it's just

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Speaker 4: US Steel. Yeah, huh So they're willing to do anything

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Speaker 1: I think let me tip my cap very briefly to

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Speaker 1: how annoying Jake Tapper was in that clip we played

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Speaker 1: coming back. Donald Trump is willing to endure some pain

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Speaker 1: other people's pain, right, Jake, you're just your're That's not

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Speaker 1: fair because Trump is really laying it on the line

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Speaker 1: He's spending all his political capital on this because if

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Speaker 1: ginormous failure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And he's spending the capital with the Senate and the

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Speaker 4: And he didn't have to because he's riding high on

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Speaker 2: So I do not think this is a safe play

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would agree. Coming up in moments, the

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Speaker 1: walk Isn't Dead, and you get, oh no, Jack, you

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Speaker 1: you got everything turns to that's a good point.

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Speaker 2: You gotta shout it like that too.

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Speaker 1: Say we haven't touched on the whole arrushed in illegals

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Speaker 1: The battle is far from over all. Right that, let

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Speaker 1: me try that again. Welcome to woke watch. The battle

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Speaker 2: Everything woke turns to ship. You know what woke means.

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Speaker 7: It means you're a loser.

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Speaker 1: Now it means you're a postmodernist Neil Marxist. Actually, a

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Speaker 1: two California bills to protect women's sports that are gonna

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Speaker 2: A committee here tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: And we have sources within the Capitol who are going

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Speaker 1: in cal Unicornia is unlikely to support the bills, despite

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Speaker 1: Governor Newsom's recent comments tempe Charlie Kirk is tepit his

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Speaker 1: hell comments. The chair of the hearing is also the

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Speaker 1: head of the LGBTQ plus minus over the power of

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's gonna go nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Dudes will still beat the hell out of girls on

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Speaker 1: the sports fields in California.

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Speaker 2: How is this?

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Speaker 1: I don't understand the politics of this. Its ideological insanity.

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Speaker 1: It's blended them to everything and perhaps even worse. Although

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Speaker 1: this already exists in California, Colorado is ramming through take

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Speaker 1: ConTroll of a child, bullying parents.

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Speaker 4: My kid, My eight year old kid comes to me

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Speaker 4: For lack of a better word, You're you're gonna take

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Speaker 1: Concerns have been raised that celebration of Shakespeare enables white

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Speaker 1: Perverts governance. This is a story from Georgia. The state's

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Speaker 1: John is a California native. He's a longtime radio personality

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Speaker 1: on the mighty seven to ninety KABC in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: our belived affiliate, and starting today on a ten KSFO

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Speaker 2: Among other things, John always a pleasure. How are you?

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Speaker 7: I'm great? And by the way, I can't wait to

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Speaker 7: hear the Kid Rock segment because I don't know if

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Speaker 7: you've seen how he's been dressing lately. Yeah, but it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's quite the outfit to wear to the

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Speaker 1: really amazing. So John, to the operative question here, why

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Speaker 2: We got to change course.

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Speaker 7: Well, as an angel fan, I feel like i have

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Speaker 7: an authority on this subject because I'm familiar with this

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Speaker 7: And that's exactly what the Democrats have been doing here

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Speaker 7: whether it's crime or homelessness, or the budget or insurance

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Speaker 7: And what you've seen in the last election is you

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Speaker 4: Well, we've been on in San Francisco for twenty two years.

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Speaker 7: Sure, And it's not just San Francisco. Look across the

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Speaker 1: How it got there, but arnold side, is there any right,

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Speaker 7: And how well, if you pay attention to the universities,

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Speaker 1: Explain that if little Wan comes back and says he's

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Speaker 1: now Janita, you have to accept it, or we're taking

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Speaker 1: your son away from you.

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Speaker 2: Good lord.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean those subjects are very offensive to a

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Speaker 7: lot of people. And also don't discount the damage that

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Speaker 7: the COVID nineteen shutdowns did to a lot of these people.

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Speaker 2: Because if you have a kid.

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Speaker 7: In school and all of a sudden they went from

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Speaker 7: going to school five days a week to being stuck

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Speaker 7: inside their bedroom playing video games twenty four to seven,

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Speaker 7: that's like a crash course in how to become an

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Speaker 7: active shooter. Those parents are furious. If you own a

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Speaker 7: small business and your small business was shut down, well,

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Speaker 7: Seth Bezos was allowed to operate, you're furious at what

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Speaker 7: Sacramento did, and they have long memories.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. John Phillips is on the line. John, I always

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Speaker 2: point out.

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Speaker 1: That the public employee unions have enormous power and enormous numbers,

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Speaker 1: especially when they're joined by the nurses and a couple

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Speaker 1: of their notable private sector unions. That's always going to

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Speaker 1: be a force to be reckoned with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 7: But right now, what you're seeing when you have a

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Speaker 7: budget crisis, which is what California has, is choices have

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Speaker 7: to be made. Are you going to stick with the

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Speaker 7: bullet train or are you going to stick with public

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Speaker 7: employees in some other sector? And right now there are

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Speaker 7: a finite amount of resources and they're all battling for it.

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Speaker 7: You're going to have winners and you're going to have losers,

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Speaker 7: but not everyone is going to win. And if you're

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Speaker 7: the team that's in charge, which in this one party state,

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Speaker 7: the Democrats are, you're going to have to upset a

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Speaker 7: lot of your friends. And when you start to upset

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Speaker 7: them over and over and over again, they're going to

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Speaker 7: start looking elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: John Phillips is an Orange County Register columnist also on

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Speaker 1: mighty KBC in LA and KSFO from noon to three Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to talk to John. Good luck with

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Speaker 1: the new show, and let's stay in touch, all right,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on our pleasure.

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Speaker 2: That was interesting.

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Speaker 4: I never heard anybody make that point about the Cold

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Speaker 4: War ending and the bases shutting down, and then you

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Speaker 4: know the tech business being big. It's also interesting that

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Speaker 4: the tech world as lefty as it is with Google

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Speaker 4: and Apple and everything. The biggest dog of all is

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Speaker 4: Elon Musk and he is the poster child for being

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Speaker 4: a Trump Nazi. Yeah yeah, and it's interesting. Demographics are

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Speaker 4: so incredibly important.

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Speaker 1: I remember when because because you have policy shifting, meanwhile

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Speaker 1: you have demographic groups shifting in their ideology and the

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Speaker 1: parties shifting as well. So you we have a fairly reasonable,

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Speaker 1: fairly purple Democratic Party in the nineties, for instance, become

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Speaker 1: the anti George Bush kind of fever pitch because the

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Speaker 1: Iraq War hurt the Republican brand in California pretty badly.

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Speaker 1: But then you have the Democrats moving toward crime is fine,

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Speaker 1: the whole postmodern woke thing, you know, white supremacy, which

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Speaker 1: includes Hispanic people unless they're down with again juan coming

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Speaker 1: home as Juanita. And you're seeing a transition. But it

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Speaker 1: takes a long damn time, especially when there are trillions

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Speaker 1: of dollars at stake, and the people controlling them are

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Speaker 1: not honest dealers friends. They are hedging their bets every

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Speaker 1: way they can. The Iraq War started in March of three,

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Speaker 1: which is when we started in San Francisco, So it

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Speaker 1: has been twenty two years ago. As of last month, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mentioned that Kid Rock broke he to deal between

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Speaker 1: and Bill Maher. Trump said he is reluctantly agreeing to this,

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Speaker 1: but because he respects Kid Rock, he'll do it.

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Speaker 2: And he said it might be fun or it might not.

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Speaker 1: That could be quite the news making conversation between mar

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Speaker 1: and Trump. Yeah, I'm trying to imagine how it would go,

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Speaker 1: and it's just it's gonna be wild.

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Speaker 2: I think so.

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Speaker 4: But why was Kid Rock in the Oval office? Pretty interesting?

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Speaker 4: And this is not politics? Really, if you ever go

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Speaker 4: to concerts or games, you care about this among other

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Speaker 4: things on the ways, stay here.

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Speaker 2: I forgot about this. Oh was so good.

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Speaker 1: I was about to say, if we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about Kid Rock, who was in the Oval office just

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Speaker 1: to dressed like he's the.

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Speaker 2: MC of a circus.

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Speaker 1: If you Kid Rock really hit the national scene at

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Speaker 1: was it Woodstock Too or Lollapo one of those big

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Speaker 1: outdoor concerts.

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Speaker 2: He came out and just killed it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you ever watch that YouTube video of that,

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's the energy.

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Speaker 2: Coming off of that when he does my name is Kid,

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Speaker 2: the midget comes out and the crowd just goes.

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Speaker 1: Berzerk I'm sorry, my headphones are weird, did you say,

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Speaker 1: and the midget comes out yes. But anyway, he had

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Speaker 1: a dwarf hype man there for a cup of coffee.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I should say for a forty that

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Speaker 1: was something.

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Speaker 4: But uh, if you if you watch that, or you

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Speaker 4: were watching it at the time, you wouldn't have thought.

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Speaker 4: You know, someday he'll be standing in the Oval Office

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Speaker 4: with the President of the United States. Anyway, he was yesterday,

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Speaker 4: and uh, this is part of what they were discussing.

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Speaker 2: I want the.

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Speaker 7: Fans have a fair ticket price to be able to go.

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Speaker 2: We can enjoy it more shows.

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Speaker 7: I know people that can only they decide on a

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Speaker 7: family vacation or going to their favorite concert once a year,

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Speaker 7: rather than you know, our parents to go see multiple

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Speaker 7: shows so you can afford them back in their day.

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Speaker 1: So Kid Rock goes on to say, and he just

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Speaker 1: said what a lot of musicians have said.

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Speaker 4: You know, I want to low well, I want to

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Speaker 4: lower my prices for certain people or whatever. But it

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Speaker 4: doesn't do any good if I lower my prices. The

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Speaker 4: third market people, stub hub and all those other companies,

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Speaker 4: they buy them and sell them and make the profit

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Speaker 4: and they get the money and I don't. So I

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Speaker 4: haven't accomplished anything. I didn't give my fans a break,

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Speaker 4: and I don't get the money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So.

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Speaker 1: The executive order aimed at cracking down a ticket price

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Speaker 1: gouging and other exploited practices by middlemen like ticket brokers,

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Speaker 1: although I actually know a ticket broker. And here's the

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Speaker 1: part he would emphasize. The order directs the Federal Trade

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Speaker 1: Commission to more rigorously enforce existing law governing the use

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Speaker 1: of bots that help scalper scoop up hot tickets, including

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Speaker 1: by issuing fines.

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Speaker 2: All of us have wondered this our whole lives.

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Speaker 4: Really if you were you know, back in the day,

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Speaker 4: long before the internet or whatever, but if some group

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Speaker 4: was coming to town, it's like, oh, I want to

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Speaker 4: be able to go to this concert, and you know

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Speaker 4: what time the tickets go on sale, and you got

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Speaker 4: your old rotary phone and you're ready to call it.

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Speaker 2: All the tickets are gone before you could gone. How

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Speaker 2: did that work? Right? Yeah? I know, And it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: It's multifascinating because I know, like the non bot use

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Speaker 1: it because that's already illegal. And my friend al Anonymous

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Speaker 1: said they already, don't enforce the bot laws on the books,

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Speaker 1: and he's fired all the horse catchers already, and then

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Speaker 1: he emailed the response from an association. But the way

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Speaker 1: it used to work, or was supposed to work, was

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Speaker 1: that a lot of the ticket brokers have contracts with

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Speaker 1: the big concert companies that it's essentially it's like buying corn.

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Speaker 2: Futures or cattle futures.

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Speaker 1: They say, I'll buy seventy five tickets to every single show,

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Speaker 1: and some of them will be in high demand and

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Speaker 1: I'll make a lot of money. Some of them will

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Speaker 1: not be and I will lose money, but I will

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Speaker 1: be your client and I will buy tickets to X

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Speaker 1: number shows. But the amateurs now because bots are so

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Speaker 1: easy to design. I could no more design a bot

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Speaker 1: than build a car with my own hands, but they're

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Speaker 1: so easy to design. Every Tom, Dick and Harry who

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Speaker 1: has any computer knowledge is now doing it on an

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Speaker 1: ad hoc basis, and so that's the real problem. And

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Speaker 1: then they put them on the resale market and it's

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Speaker 1: just everybody is snatching up tickets.

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Speaker 4: Well, if you're the music artist, though, even aside from

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Speaker 4: the bot thing, so is your only hope to just

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Speaker 4: charge as much as you think you can and make

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Speaker 4: the maximum profit. I mean, there's no point in trying

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Speaker 4: to keep your tickets at a price where like your

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Speaker 4: kid rock or a lot of people Taylor Swift, do

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Speaker 4: you want to make it sure an average family of

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Speaker 4: four can come to your concert?

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Speaker 2: Right, it's just impossible. Well, yeah, and it looks terrible.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of artists, singers, entertainers are really

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Speaker 1: sensitive to not looking like they're gouging their fans because

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Speaker 1: there's an emotional relationship there that a bot certainly doesn't

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Speaker 1: have with their fans.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't give a crap.

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Speaker 4: Well, I understand, uh, free market capitalism, supply demand, all

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Speaker 4: that sort of stuff, But is there any other is there?

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Speaker 4: Why doesn't this happen in other just because there's not

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Speaker 4: enough demand, it doesn't happen in any other segment of society.

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Speaker 2: That's a great question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the supply and demand curves are skewed, especially for

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Speaker 1: the really popular artists, because you can't you can only

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Speaker 1: play certain number of shows or it'd kill you as

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Speaker 1: a performer. And so you're playing two nights in Omaha period,

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Speaker 1: then moving on down the road.

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Speaker 2: Wow, so you've got to.

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Speaker 4: Keep your prices at a certain level so you don't

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Speaker 4: look like a jerk to your fans. But some third

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Speaker 4: party makes the money and there's nothing you can do

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Speaker 4: about it, right, Huh.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's obviously no good. I mean, that's that's just

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Speaker 1: it's it's unfair, and it's you.

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Speaker 4: Know, as a fan, if I'm gonna have to pay

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Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty bucks for a ticket, I would

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Speaker 4: rather the money goes to my musician that I really

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Speaker 4: like and care about their music than some ticket company.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So Interestingly, the National Association of Ticket Brokers put out

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Speaker 1: the following statement. We applaud President Trump for undertaking an

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Speaker 1: effort to enforce the Federal Bots Act and working to

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Speaker 1: root out bad players in the system, even though bots

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Speaker 1: are not the main reason why consumers experience frustration when

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Speaker 1: trying to buy tickets. Uh. When tickets do go on sale,

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Speaker 1: people should not be competing with ticket hoarding software to

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Speaker 1: make a purchase. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Is this going to make much different in reality for

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Speaker 4: ticket buyers. It'll make a difference for like some of

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Speaker 4: these companies, but is it gonna make any difference to me?

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure it is because again, the same problem

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Speaker 4: more or less seemed to exist before modern technology.

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Speaker 1: Right and and again according to my friend in the business,

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Speaker 1: that they're not they don't enforce the laws.

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Speaker 2: Now, it's like gun laws. Let's pass another gun law.

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Speaker 4: Kid Rock said, like he's he said, I'm friends with

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Speaker 4: the CEO of Ticketmaster and I'm meeting with him today

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Speaker 4: over this. So it's not like he's angry at them

655
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Speaker 4: or trying to screw them or whatever. Right, he actually said,

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Speaker 4: we're trying to come up with the way that everybody

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Speaker 4: makes money that's fair.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, and fair enough. And I'm completely agnostic on

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Speaker 1: this topic. By the way, I'm not defending anybody in particular.

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Speaker 1: It's just one of the aspects of DOGE that we

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Speaker 1: need to work through, and I'm willing to work through.

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Speaker 1: It is as my buddy put it, they've fired all

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Speaker 1: the horse catchers.

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Speaker 2: There's a funny way to put it.

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Speaker 1: And we'll have to see because a lot of the

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Speaker 1: legitimate law enforcement functions of the federal government take people

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Speaker 1: and lots of people consumer protection stuff, for instance, and

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out.

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Speaker 2: In the raw politics of it.

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Speaker 4: This is another example of Trump understanding real issues for

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Speaker 4: real people that they care about, and looking like he's

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Speaker 4: trying to do something for them.

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Speaker 1: And whether he will actually be effective in that or

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Speaker 1: just look like it. I don't know, but I do

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Speaker 1: want kid rock suit obviously tailored and if you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it, we'll post pictures in a video at Armstrong

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Speaker 1: and Giddy dot com. Obviously, I'll have to have it

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Speaker 1: tailored for me. I'm slightly more full figured than mister Rock.

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Speaker 2: You're the same age.

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Speaker 1: Is almost a qualifies for medicare Rock at this point

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Speaker 1: close he looks a little rough too.

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Speaker 2: I look far more youthful

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty