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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend

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Speaker 1: Gary Trend Ross, what is it? Coffees for Closers, and

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Speaker 1: ABC Always be closing, Um, always be Trending. I am

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Speaker 1: Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined by super producer

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Speaker 1: Justin Connor. Hio. I don't know why I turned into

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Speaker 1: like a morning zooga. I guess that's the vibe. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I've never seen Hio in my life. You

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Speaker 1: always say Hio, don't Yeah, Hio. That's what we all

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Speaker 1: say in Chicago in the season Hio, you say, Hio,

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Speaker 1: you got the Jay Man. That's usually how you greet people.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why you're pretending otherwise. It's Jay, It's

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Speaker 1: Jay Rock. It's it's the Jay Rock. It's the Jay Rock.

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Speaker 1: That's right. How are you doing doing? All right? I'm

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Speaker 1: actually enjoying this rainy la weather. It makes me feel

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Speaker 1: like we have seasons for a few hours. So that's

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Speaker 1: always nice. As you were saying before we start recording,

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Speaker 1: Jay Rock loves to get wet. Because what you were

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Speaker 1: saying as you were passing, you were passing me that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know you'd like to give wet Jay right, Um,

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Speaker 1: all right, well, these are some of the things that

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Speaker 1: are trending. Um. People do come here for our trenchant

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Speaker 1: market analysis and who do we have it for you today?

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Speaker 1: Because Silicon Valley Bank just cratered or got had to

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Speaker 1: be taken over by the regulators. We know that's never

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Speaker 1: good because regulators are the devil. But the FDIC took

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Speaker 1: them over because of major problems that they're having. You

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Speaker 1: know what, I would just realize, Jack, a music business

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Speaker 1: degree really prepares you to talk about this kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I am I'm fully immersed

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Speaker 1: in that. I'm kidding. I don't know what the fuck

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Speaker 1: is going on. I guess this is bad. And you're

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Speaker 1: gonna need to explain this to me because I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a bank. Well that makes two of us.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna need me to explain this to them. Uh

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Speaker 1: some things. I know. It's one of the biggest bank

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Speaker 1: collapses of all time. UM. I can understand that US history,

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Speaker 1: so that it seems not good. UM. Jim Kramer, I'm

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Speaker 1: like worried for his yes because he, like we saw

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Speaker 1: how hard he took it when Facebook was like kradering

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Speaker 1: and he had just told everybody to buy Facebook stock,

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Speaker 1: and like he started crying on air. Well, unfortunately for

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Speaker 1: Jim Kramer, Um, he is in an industry where he's

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Speaker 1: just like it's a pre meteorologist time and he's just

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Speaker 1: predicting the weather very confidently and at the top of

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Speaker 1: his lungs on TV, like he just there. It's complete

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Speaker 1: randomness and he goes on there and it's like, you

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Speaker 1: gotta buy this stuff. So apparently a month ago, Kramer

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Speaker 1: urged viewers to buy Silicon Valley Bank stock and yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is all nonsense, that's all a fiction that has

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Speaker 1: been concocted too. Didn't you go all in on crypto too?

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Speaker 1: Like he was a super against it and then he

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Speaker 1: was like really into it. Yeah, this isn't the first

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Speaker 1: l that this guy has taken. Why does he Oh no,

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Speaker 1: why why? Why is he revered in the financial world

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Speaker 1: or is? I don't think he is. Okay, I think

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Speaker 1: he's just like he's the stephen A. Smith of the

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Speaker 1: financial world. He just like kind of screams a lot

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Speaker 1: and takes really strong opinions. Failed comedian essentially, and he's

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Speaker 1: just out here yelling opinions at people. Observations. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: I compete with that. He actually went to Carnegie Mellen

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Speaker 1: for drama acting. Um, that's very rare. I like that. No,

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Speaker 1: that's the yeah that the financial world. Yeah, anyways, regulators

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Speaker 1: had to shut down Silicon Valley Bank in the biggest

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Speaker 1: collapse since two thousand and eight financial crisis. The tire

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Speaker 1: stock market has not completely crashed yet, so that's good news.

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Speaker 1: But I do think we're just generally seeing the US

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Speaker 1: economy and the myth that like the market fixes everything,

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Speaker 1: it is randomness and also like predatory and just is

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Speaker 1: trying to make money off of people in any way possible.

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Speaker 1: There's no real logic to it. But if you're if

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Speaker 1: you turn it into this kind of weather system that

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Speaker 1: you you think you can predict, like a meteorologist, then

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Speaker 1: people feel at least safer. But nobody knows anything, especially

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Speaker 1: Jenu Ortega might star and beetle just beetle just is

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Speaker 1: that how it's pronounced. You got it? Beetle juice too,

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Speaker 1: rumors that Jenna Ortega will start in the movie as

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Speaker 1: I need some time for things to flesh out a

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Speaker 1: little bit. So I'm here for this. This seems to

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Speaker 1: many sequels, and there's you know, all this original you know,

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Speaker 1: and that's it's bad. I haven't seen it yet though,

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Speaker 1: had consistent dreams about Beetlejuice growing up. Okay, so, uh

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Speaker 1: sounds like a real Burton head. Um. My main concern

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Speaker 1: him in everything. They ruined each other. That is the

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Speaker 1: perfect example of a toxic relationship right there. Like, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Oscars are this weekend. This year's show. They were

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Speaker 1: apparently really like thrown off by last year's show and

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Speaker 1: but this time they were like, let's spend even more

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Speaker 1: can hide the SWAT teams. In my god, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: they're gonna overreact so hard. If anyone twitches, like God forbid,

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Speaker 1: So the things that they're changing, in addition to presumably

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Speaker 1: What the fuck? Yeah? But I don't know. I like.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I like about the oscars is

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Speaker 1: and those are my favorite things about the Academy Awards.

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Speaker 1: But I think I'm weird. Like a lot of people

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Speaker 1: But I don't know. Man, it's not my thing. But hey,

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Speaker 1: Right now, they're doing all these boring little changes that

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Speaker 1: trust behind the Oscars, So they started doing a marketing

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Speaker 1: campaign on letterboxed like, which is a you know, movie

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