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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: Armstrong and Gatty, and He Armstrong and Gatty.

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Speaker 3: The indoor water park chain Great Wolf Lodge this week

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Speaker 3: will offer a limited edition milkshake that blends vanilla ice

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Speaker 3: cream and ranch dressing. And after one of those, you

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Speaker 3: become the water slide.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I understood the punchline, but the

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Speaker 2: setup was interesting.

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Speaker 4: I believe he, thanks to your digestive system, will be

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Speaker 4: troubled for a while.

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Speaker 1: I took the kids to Wendy's last night. They got

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of new products they didn't have the

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Speaker 1: last time as a Wendy's. When did this happen? They

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Speaker 1: get IM unhappy by that?

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Speaker 2: Well, clouds, yeah, I think they just a I knew it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I walked in and all of a sudden they got

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Speaker 1: burritos and wait, wait what Yeah, they got Mexican food

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Speaker 1: and a fish sandwich and just all kinds of stuff

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Speaker 1: they've never had before.

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Speaker 2: Wendy. I thought, I knew you. I know, eight dollars

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Speaker 2: for a single with cheese.

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Speaker 1: By the way, eight dollars first singing that little redheaded

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Speaker 1: girl up on a stripper pole or.

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Speaker 2: Something selling burritos very similar. Wow, shocking stuff.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Trump's had it with Christy Nome and

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Speaker 1: might be looking to get somebody else.

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Speaker 4: We can talk more about that later. Mmmm yeah, Ice

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Speaker 4: Barbie soon to be gone. I mean you saw that

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Speaker 4: one coming.

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Speaker 2: Ah. So I guess our theme this segment is.

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Speaker 4: The absolutely astonishing changes in what is big media and

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Speaker 4: how quaint a lot of old media is in comparison. Now,

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Speaker 4: that's not to say there isn't great content.

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Speaker 1: And I think how ought to touch all of us

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Speaker 1: over a certain age, whether we want to be or not,

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Speaker 1: we just still have in our heads that certain alphabet

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Speaker 1: networks and newspapers are a big deal.

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Speaker 2: They aren't. They just aren't. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now, I want to make it clear that I don't

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Speaker 4: think the lowest common denominator is something to be sought

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Speaker 4: after unless you're just looking to make a ton of money.

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Speaker 4: But if you're making if you're looking to make a

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Speaker 4: ton of money, then the market is not nearly what

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Speaker 4: you think it is. If you're past certain age to

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Speaker 4: wit in the last month, And yes, Jack, I am

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Speaker 4: rebringing up the question of funk music p h O

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Speaker 4: NK fong, Yes, sir, and yes I do enjoy saying

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Speaker 4: it just a little funk.

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Speaker 2: Clearly, where's the melody anyway? That is it started?

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Speaker 4: I think in I can't remember one of your southern cities.

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Speaker 4: But in last month, the music artist with the largest

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Speaker 4: audience across all YouTube platforms wasn't add Bunny or Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 4: It was Slaughter spelled slx ught e r. Because apparently

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Speaker 4: in fonk you have to change one of the letters

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Speaker 4: in your name to a different letter or a number

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Speaker 4: or something like every single person they mentioned does that.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have known how to pronounce it. Well you

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Speaker 2: see it.

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Speaker 4: In print, unless he calls it slickster, but I doubt it.

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Speaker 4: The term probably doesn't sound familiar fonk, but anyone who

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Speaker 4: spent any time on social media in the past few

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Speaker 4: years has almost certainly listened to it. Maybe it's better

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Speaker 4: to say heard it because the overwhelming majority of people

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Speaker 4: who consume funk don't recognize it as a genre, let alone.

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Speaker 2: Actively choose it.

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Speaker 4: But it's constantly playing in the background during YouTube shorts,

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Speaker 4: TikTok or Instagram reels. It can sound like electronic dance music,

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Speaker 4: also hip hop, trap, funk, or mix of all those things,

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Speaker 4: like I know what those subgenres are. It can accompany

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Speaker 4: dance clips, gaming, montages, fan edits workout content, sports highlights,

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Speaker 4: motivational clips, and anything aiming to convey high energy vibes.

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Speaker 4: Who cares, you're saying to yourself, Well, the people who

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Speaker 4: crank this stuff out, who are desperate for their track

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Speaker 4: aforementioned you know, genres of videos are making. For instance,

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Speaker 4: this one guy who I've never heard of in my

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Speaker 4: life and whose name I've forgotten already has gotten five

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Speaker 4: here's this other uh oh yeah, oh, I'm sorry, here's

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Speaker 4: scroll past it. Somebody Henson, who goes with some wacky

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Speaker 4: moniker earned h He won't say how much he earned

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Speaker 4: from Sahara, which was the hot track at one point,

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Speaker 4: but he says, I have some guys that have made

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Speaker 4: over five million dollars from their music. Here's a company

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Speaker 4: that represents these people. They've paid out over one hundred

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Speaker 4: over the past five years, who make this background music

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Speaker 4: for videos because everybody.

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Speaker 2: Gets paid, don't ye don't get brays.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like to play that again, Michael Karol Basket

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Speaker 1: that is her husband to Tigers say.

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Speaker 2: What's happening, Teryl Basket. Yeah, it really does, it really does. Uh.

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Speaker 4: So you got that going on, and then this, I

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Speaker 4: think is every bit as significant in the Wall Street

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Speaker 4: Journal Journal the power brokers behind the two hundred and

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Speaker 4: fifty billion dollar influencer economy, two hundred.

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Speaker 2: And fifty billion dollars. I was talking about this the

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Speaker 2: other day.

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Speaker 1: We were at Target and we were in the like

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Speaker 1: shampoo section and they had a typical kind of Target ad.

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Speaker 1: There just a picture at the the end cap with

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Speaker 1: a couple of people in shim, shampagne, oh, shampoo, And

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Speaker 1: I thought, well, it's probably just you know, random people,

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Speaker 1: good looking people holding the shampoo bottle. And my son

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Speaker 1: was like, Oh my god, I can't believe DJ so

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Speaker 1: and so is blah blah blah is some YouTube people

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Speaker 1: that are a big enough deal to put on the

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Speaker 1: end cap ad at the Target to sell the shampoo

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Speaker 1: I'd never even heard of. They don't have a TV

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Speaker 4: They wouldn't waste their time doing that a movie, right right,

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Speaker 4: I can't take the cut and pay.

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Speaker 2: They would say. So.

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Speaker 4: This article, the big picture at the beginning of it

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Speaker 4: is some attractive thirty five ish gal sitting at a desk,

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Speaker 2: It's just so.

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Speaker 4: On the nose is a bleach flond pixie sunglass wearing

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Speaker 4: fivey twenty something influencer girl, because of course you'd be

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Speaker 4: sitting on a milk crate on your agent's desk, something

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Speaker 4: I can promise you I've never done in my long career.

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 4: It's Ali Berman, who's the cohead of United Talent Agencies

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Speaker 4: Creator's division, with podcaster and entrepreneur Emma Chamberlain, a UTA client.

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Speaker 4: They actually start the article with Kate Bartlett, a twenty

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Speaker 4: four year old influencer who has one point six million

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Speaker 4: TikTok followers, and they're having a big meeting in Hollywood

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Speaker 4: pitching business ideas for the year ahead, which you'd be

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Speaker 4: interested in getting a teaching certificate so she could lead

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Speaker 4: a course on influencing. What about landing an editorial director

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Speaker 4: position at a magazine, or launching an accessories line, or

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Speaker 4: taking a defunct fashion TV show, buying the name of

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Speaker 4: it and reviving it, and blah blah blah. But they

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Speaker 4: mentioned there is practically no limit to what influencers can

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Speaker 4: starring in Netflix series, launching pop careers, running brands that

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Speaker 4: rake in nine figures a year Folks, nine figures is

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Speaker 4: one hundred million dollars or more. Those at the top

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Speaker 4: of their game are now up against actors and athletes

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Speaker 4: for the biggest endorsement deals. They've appeared in Super Bowl commercials,

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Speaker 4: staked out lucrative investment opportunities, scored ambasketorships for some of

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Speaker 4: the biggest companies in the world. In twenty fifteen, influencer

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Speaker 4: marketing was one point seven billion dollars globally one point

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Speaker 4: seven Last year it was thirty two billion. When Goldman

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Speaker 4: Sachs Global Investment Research last sized up the creator economy

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Speaker 4: as a whole in twenty twenty three, it put it

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Speaker 1: So what I always think about this as somebody that's

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Speaker 2: How are there enough people watching?

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many different things to look at

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Speaker 1: when you split up all the people. It's amazing to

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Speaker 1: me that they still get enough views and everything like

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Speaker 1: that during that kind of money. But I guess that's

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Speaker 1: where you get to the stat of the average young

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Speaker 2: TikTok or whatever.

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Speaker 1: If you spend that much time on there, I suppose

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Speaker 1: you see all this content.

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Speaker 4: And they're spitting it. They're splitting up a smallish percentage

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Speaker 4: of everybody on the effing earth who is watching this stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, think about when we were young, and

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Speaker 1: which is you know, might as well be it. Five

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Speaker 1: forty years ago in terms of how much things have changed.

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Speaker 2: But God, I took in on the big nights.

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Speaker 1: I'd taken an hour because we'd watched two thirty minute

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Speaker 1: sitcoms at night when I was a kid arrest of

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Speaker 1: and hours. So people consume so much more media now

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Speaker 4: it's everybody on effing earth. This gal who runs that

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Speaker 4: she's the big sw and Richard at that company.

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Speaker 2: Now it ain't movie stars, it's.

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Speaker 4: Influencers on the tickety doc on the Instagram, partly because

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Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty show is incredibly effective. I mean efficient,

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Speaker 4: You get more than your money's worth. And if you're

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Speaker 4: not advertising with us, you're a fool. But if we

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Speaker 4: did a show that was one hundred percent about what

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Speaker 4: are the coolest auto accessories these days? If you're an

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Speaker 4: an auto parts person or a customization person, that's where

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Speaker 4: you got to advertise. So it's kind of micro directed advertising.

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Speaker 4: And the truth is, and young people are so cynical

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Speaker 4: these days and should be. It would bother me knowing that,

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Speaker 4: all right, the person who's gushing to me about these

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Speaker 4: they're obviously getting paid.

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Speaker 1: Those seem to be the people that have the most followers,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, pretty well, because they say I do not

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Speaker 1: I do not get paid by anybody. They're let me

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Speaker 1: use this guitar or motorcycle or whatever it is. I

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Speaker 1: got to send it back. But they get more followers

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Speaker 1: that way because more people believe them. But then the

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Speaker 1: product people have more reason to let them use the

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Speaker 1: it kind of works both ways.

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Speaker 4: You know you're right, but at the same time, you're

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Speaker 4: a senile old fool. And here's why. I'm sorry. That

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Speaker 4: was unnecessarily hard. Now, the young people don't have that standard.

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Speaker 4: From what I've read. They see Kylie Jenner saying, oh

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Speaker 4: my god, look at this. It's so amazing. Oh I

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Speaker 4: love this stuff. Look how I look, and they think, bingo, gringo,

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Speaker 4: I'm buying it. But like I said, they don't expect neutrality.

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Speaker 1: Again, I can't believe there's a big enough audience for

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Speaker 1: all this, but there clearly is. So I'm looking at

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Speaker 6: Our southern border should be like our front porch. There

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Speaker 4: In case you did more self hating, George Floyd woke apocalypse,

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Speaker 4: And he's also you know, he's bright and good on

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Speaker 1: been debunked over and over again that study. So it's

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Speaker 1: good news for Republicans though, right, because this guy's not

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Speaker 1: gonna win a Senate scene. No, no, he got to

442
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Speaker 1: get beaten like a drum and the Senate's going to

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Speaker 1: be really really close, and that would be a disaster

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Speaker 1: if the Republicans lost the House and the Senate and

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Speaker 1: the White House in two years.

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Speaker 2: So, uh, that would be a disaster.

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Speaker 1: Democrats are going to take the House, and there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be plenty of that flows out of that. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: impeach Trump, They're gonna bring Trump and Malaney up there

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Speaker 1: to ask about Epstein.

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Speaker 2: There's gonna be all kinds of stuff happens.

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Speaker 1: But I at least if the Republicans control the Senate

453
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Speaker 1: can kind of keep a lid on things.

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Speaker 2: So a couple of things.

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Speaker 4: Number One, the Harvard Harris Pole just came out. It's

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Speaker 4: super interesting. Maybe we can spend some time on that

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Speaker 4: next hour tomorrow. But one of the more intriguing results

458
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Speaker 4: was that the eric ballot you'd vote for a Republican

459
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Speaker 4: or a Democrat is fifty to fifty right now, which

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Speaker 4: is surprisingly weak given.

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Speaker 2: The history of the president and blah blah blah men terms.

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Speaker 4: The second thing is Trump's got an interesting decision because

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Speaker 4: I referenced John Cornyn and Ken Paxton right running against

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Speaker 4: each other.

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Speaker 2: Paxton is a real character.

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Speaker 4: He's been invited over and over accused of all sorts

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Speaker 4: of stuff. He's a bomb chuck in Ultramaga like modern politics.

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Speaker 2: Guy Jasmine the same Jasmine Crockett.

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Speaker 4: School of politics, and he's super super trumpy. But anybody

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Speaker 4: with any sense knows if there's a Republican who can lose,

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Speaker 4: it's that guy John Cornan, who's a little more milk

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Speaker 4: toasty Reagan, Republican, reasonable, crosses the aisle, likable, he can

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Speaker 4: win hands down. He's the two term incumbent. And so

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Speaker 4: Trump said, I'm about to make an endorsement, and he's

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Speaker 4: probably going to endorse Cornin.

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Speaker 1: You think remember in Georgia, Georgia should have had two

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Speaker 1: Republican senators ended up with two Democratic senators because of

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Speaker 1: Trump making such bad choices in the candidates.

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Speaker 4: I think, God forbid, he may have learned something from that,

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Speaker 4: I hope. So if he doesn't endorse Cornan will know

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Speaker 4: he hasn't.

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Speaker 1: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you mentioned a poll.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get to this poll that came out just

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Speaker 1: yesterday on people's attitudes currently toward a legal immigration. You

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Speaker 1: haven't heard this much in the media for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 1: Once you hear it, So we'll have that coming up

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Speaker 1: Another wacky thing that teller Eco said that we didn't mention.

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Speaker 1: He said, prison is violence. It's hard to imagine a

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Speaker 1: world without prisons. Just because it's hard to imagine doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean you shouldn't. Many years ago it was hard to

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Speaker 1: imagine a world without smartphones or laptops. We could live

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Speaker 1: in a world without prisons. He's one of those people.

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Speaker 1: You don't need jails. I mean, how crazy an ideology

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Speaker 1: is that you're an idiot. You are such an idiot

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Speaker 1: or or or you've got an IQ of like eight.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of cute that you believe that that,

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Speaker 1: you know, you could craft a world where everybody's going

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Speaker 1: to be nice to each other. This all gets you know,

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Speaker 1: your kid kind of learns this from various Sesame Street

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Speaker 1: type shows, and then they go to kindergarten and realize

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Speaker 1: why this isn't anything like I was told on.

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Speaker 2: Every single kids show I ever watched.

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Speaker 4: My own life, so you're saying he has a sub

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Speaker 4: kindergartener understanding of human nature.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes, to try to imagine a world's without prisons.

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Speaker 2: We don't need jails. Are you nuts? How did he

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Speaker 2: get this far? No kidding, good question? Said, he is smooth.

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Speaker 4: He does a good job of presenting himself as a

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Speaker 4: moderate when he needs to.

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Speaker 2: He's slick.

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Speaker 1: In short, you could come in and be very smooth

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Speaker 1: and good looking and have a drink in your hand,

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Speaker 1: twinkle in your eye and say we don't need prisons.

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Speaker 1: And I still think you're freaking moron.

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Speaker 2: Because you know what you're talking about. All right, we

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Speaker 2: got more on the waist there to recall.

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Speaker 1: Expanding to include more Trader Joe's frozen products now including

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Speaker 1: more frozen meals with fried rice.

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Speaker 2: I've made concerned they may be contaminated with glass. That's bad.

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Speaker 2: You don't want your fried rice to be have glass

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Speaker 2: in it. How picky are you?

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Speaker 1: I had the Trader Joe's just because it was the

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Speaker 1: closest grocery store to me. I'm not a regular for

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Speaker 1: a variety of reasons. Because they don't have like the

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Speaker 1: lame old products I like. They got all fancy stuff

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Speaker 1: Manner's a lot of hippies in there, young college hippies

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Speaker 1: and old hippies. Lots of bear feet in there, lots

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Speaker 1: of birkenstocks. Yeah, my son's a bit of a hippie

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Speaker 1: and he orcs at a Trader Joe. Yeah, that place,

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Speaker 1: that's the place to be if you're a hippie. So

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Speaker 1: why are you making that face, Katie? Because I worked

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Speaker 1: at Trader Jobs for like seven years?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Did were their hippies in there when you worked there?

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Speaker 1: A couple, which is fine, but it's just not my vibe.

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Speaker 1: Usually a couple. But they take care of their employees,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And the plays are good, very very good. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just always so busy.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, my boy tells me it's it's a super

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Speaker 4: great place to work.

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Speaker 2: I believe that.

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Speaker 1: I don't doubt that this poll came out yesterday. You

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Speaker 1: did not hear much about it latest Harvard Harris Pole.

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Speaker 1: People's attitudes toward illegal immigration and this is not the

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Speaker 1: ice grabbing people out of their homes and all that,

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Speaker 1: this is just in general, asked respondence whether they favored

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Speaker 1: or not Trump's vow to deport all immigrants who are

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Speaker 1: here illegally. That's a very straightforward question. You four or

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Speaker 1: against deporting all immigrants who are here illegally. Fifty seven

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Speaker 1: percent yes, including thirty five percent of Democrat and fifty

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Speaker 1: six percent of Independence.

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Speaker 2: It's still very popular.

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Speaker 1: The idea of get the illegals out of the country

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Speaker 1: is still very popular. Give him a third of Democrats

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Speaker 1: say yeah, you got to get the illegals out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would suggest Christy Nome, Stephen Miller. The only

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Speaker 4: way you can screw that up is if you just

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Speaker 4: get too a little too enthusiastic and over your skis.

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Speaker 4: Just be reasonably smart about managing the deportations, and you

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Speaker 4: will keep the American people on your side.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. This is an easy win.

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Speaker 2: You got sixty percent of the country.

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Speaker 4: Just don't do crazy s right just to eliminate that

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Speaker 4: ten percent of craziest, ugliest stuff, and you've got the

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Speaker 4: people with you, including the Hispanic people. But heyyay, well

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Speaker 4: we've all seen it unfold. I found this interesting from

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Speaker 4: the Harris Harvard harrispol the right Track, wrong Track thing

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Speaker 4: back in June. It was oh can you scroll over that?

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Speaker 4: It was, oh, this is so hard to read it

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Speaker 4: was like seventy one percent wrong track and twenty three

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Speaker 4: percent right track. Now it's fifty two thirty eight. I

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Speaker 4: mean it's still upside down. But as we always point out,

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Speaker 4: you know, the wrong track fifty two percent. Half of

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Speaker 4: those think we're too conservative. Half we think we're not

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Speaker 4: conservative enough. Right, it's always a great salt.

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Speaker 1: So, uh, is this for the whole country right track

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Speaker 1: or wrong tuck or the economy whole country?

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Speaker 4: Whole country right now? I've got separate economy numbers if

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Speaker 4: you want them. They're actually very very similar. I don't

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Speaker 4: know how to answer that question.

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Speaker 2: Here's your revealing stat I think I've.

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Speaker 1: Been wrong track for a long time. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: I was really going to sit there and think about it,

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Speaker 1: I think we're on the wrong tronomy. I think we're

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Speaker 1: no no the country. I think we're on the decline,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think there's anything going to be done

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Speaker 1: to turn it around. So, so, who says the country's

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Speaker 1: on the right track as of right now? Seventy three

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Speaker 1: percent of Republicans say we are, sixteen percent of Democrats.

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Speaker 2: So there's a bit of a partisan divide there, seventy

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Speaker 2: three to.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen exact opposite of when Biden was in. That's just

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Speaker 1: purely am I in favor of the current president? That's

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Speaker 1: that crowd.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, independence is twenty four percent, say right track the economy,

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Speaker 4: As I said, the numbers are actually fairly similar.

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Speaker 2: They're almost exactly the same.

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Speaker 4: Seventy three to sixteen Republicans the Democrats and twenty four percent.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it depends on if you're looking at it through

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Speaker 1: the lens of the daily politics or whatever.

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Speaker 2: I'd probably be right track.

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Speaker 1: I mean i'd be you know, I prefer this track

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Speaker 1: to the Kamala harristrac for instance, if you're looking at

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Speaker 1: it through the lens of the White House. But I

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Speaker 1: don't look at things through the lens of the White

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Speaker 1: House like everybody does with every thing.

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Speaker 2: Now, if I'm just looking at.

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Speaker 1: It, our schools are lack of civic engagement, the fact

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Speaker 1: that people don't pay attention to real news sources and

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Speaker 1: never will.

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Speaker 2: I think that's all wrong track.

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Speaker 4: We're indoctrinating our children and our schools to hate their

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Speaker 4: own country.

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Speaker 1: We got a thirties at their race, we got a

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Speaker 1: thirty five trillion dollar debt, and then individually more people

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Speaker 1: are taking money out of their four toh one k's

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Speaker 1: to pay off credit cards than they ever have before.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's all wrong track stuff unless you're own

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Speaker 1: a credit card company. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So would you say that your personal financial situation is

651
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Speaker 4: improving or getting worse? I thought this was interesting. Improving

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Speaker 4: currently thirty six percent, which has been kind of inching.

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Speaker 2: Upward for a year or so.

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Speaker 4: Getting worse is forty percent, which is a higher number

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Speaker 4: than getting better, but it's been inching downward. Let's see

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Speaker 4: just as well off has been as you might expect,

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Speaker 4: fairly steady at twenty four percent now for some time, Jack,

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Speaker 4: this is for you.

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Speaker 2: No opinion.

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Speaker 4: I can track it up till November twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 4: but they removed no opinion as a response in November

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Speaker 4: of twenty one because anybody with no opinion is so

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Speaker 4: stupid they shouldn't get pulled. Are your finances? Your personal

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Speaker 4: finance is getting better, worse or staying the same?

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Speaker 2: No open.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, dude, seriously, better or worse or the same?

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Speaker 2: No opinion, no no, no. Staying the same is one

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Speaker 2: of the choices. So like it's not better and it's

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Speaker 2: not worse, you get a choice. Just say it's about

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Speaker 2: the same. Ummmmm, not sure. I don't know, no opinion.

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Speaker 2: Do you have more money now or less money than

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Speaker 2: last year? I understatement.

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Speaker 4: Trump's approval rating is steady at forty six percent in

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Speaker 4: the Harvard Harris Pole.

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Speaker 1: Can I click? Not applicable. Surely you have some sort

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Speaker 1: of income, right? Maybe I ain't telling you.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, we do another hour, good lord.

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