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Speaker 1: Boycotts, do they work or are they backfiring? Specifically, when

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Speaker 1: One of the top items are obviously things for children

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Speaker 1: end of the boycott of bud Light where people would say, fine,

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Speaker 1: It's a big weekend, and hey, it's on sale virtually everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Why do we know this and how do I know it?

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Speaker 1: Bud Light sponsors the Cincinnati Pride Parade. Yes a sales

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Speaker 1: plummet with the boycott, they are still working. Anheuser Busch

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Speaker 1: Posts also reported the latest sales figures. And this is

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Speaker 1: what matters when it comes to our guys giving in

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Speaker 1: the majority of people that buy beer are men. There's

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Speaker 1: May the thirteenth, the latest numbers we have bud Light

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Speaker 1: seventh through the thirteenth. In other words, the company sold

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Speaker 1: owned by Anheuser Busch. We also are being told now

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Speaker 1: Dude went on to show off a customized bud like

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Speaker 1: So the question is is the boycott working. The answer yes, Now,

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Speaker 1: This is absolutely a mom versus dad boycott. The majority

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Speaker 2: This year, though, they didn't just go for Pride.

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Speaker 1: They went for total indoctor nation and brainwashing and targeting

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Speaker 1: how Target got there. Target's vice president for brand marketing.

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Speaker 1: It's an important position. Carlos Savedra. He moonlights as a

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Speaker 1: bud Light's Alyssa. Remember her, She's the one who said

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Speaker 1: trying to rebrand it around advocacy. Targets managers collectively created

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Speaker 1: The mobilization is happening because many people feel increasingly alarmed

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Speaker 1: guess what's happened. Gay Pride and the LGBTQIA and Gay

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Speaker 2: So it's working right. You get this job and you

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Speaker 1: Explode these ideological viewpoints to you advantage. And guess where

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Speaker 1: Now he chairs that group as well as its umbrella organization,

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Speaker 2: Quote.

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Speaker 1: We think about what's right for our team of employees

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Speaker 1: Look at the share prices of Target today, they've lost

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Speaker 1: Make sure you share this podcast so that other people

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