Speaker 1: Bud Light recently came under fire for partnering with transgender
Speaker 1: influencer Dylan mulvaney. The company lost billions in backlash with
Speaker 1: you know, even country stars speaking out, people like Travis Tritt,
Speaker 1: Kid Rock Bradley Gilbert did a concert recently where he
Speaker 1: took bud Light to task. But you might ask yourself,
Speaker 1: why would bud Light do this? Does anyone honestly believe
Speaker 1: that Dylan Mulvaney, this transgender influencer, sits around and drinks
Speaker 1: bud Light? Does anyone honestly believe that bud Light's customer
Speaker 1: base likes someone like Dylan mulvaney. How does this happen
Speaker 1: where a company like bud Light would choose someone to
Speaker 1: partner with, which is essentially giving their customer base the
Speaker 1: middle finger. Well, talk to Will hild who's the executive
Speaker 1: director of Consumers Research. He deals with this stuff on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. Consumers Research also launched something called Woke
Speaker 1: Alert where people can sign up and find out which
Speaker 1: companies are engaging and this kind of woke left wing nonsense.
Speaker 1: I've also previously launched television ads taking companies like American
Speaker 1: Airlines in Coca Cola to task for their policies and
Speaker 1: going woke. But we're going to talk to him about
Speaker 1: this bud Light controversy. Also, when did companies start getting
Speaker 1: so woke and why do they continue to ignore us
Speaker 1: as a customer based conservatives? Stay tuned for Will hild Well,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on the show. It's the
Speaker 1: first time. This is an important topic. Obviously, Anheuser Busch
Speaker 1: has come under fire for partnering with a transgender influencer,
Speaker 1: Dylan mulvany. The company's lost billions of dollars in the backlash.
Speaker 1: Why do you think this one was different in terms
Speaker 1: of the company taking a financial hit when when sometimes
Speaker 1: that doesn't always happen.
Speaker 2: Well, I think there are a couple of factors that
Speaker 2: played a key role. One, I think the egregiousness of
Speaker 2: what they were doing. I mean, it's in soulid If
Speaker 2: you just even watched the video of what Mulvainy did,
Speaker 2: it was insulting to bud Light customers. Most people don't
Speaker 2: want to be portrayed as bud Light drinkers, you know,
Speaker 2: pretending to be a woman, sending in a bathtub, pretending
Speaker 2: to be a woman like that. From the average Bludlight customer.
Speaker 2: It's like the opposite of how they think of themselves
Speaker 2: as some weirdo in a bathtub pretending to be a woman.
Speaker 2: And so I think that that played a huge role,
Speaker 2: just the egregiousness, how in your face it was what
Speaker 2: they were trying to do. The second thing is that
Speaker 2: it's a it's a very much a retail product, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is.
Speaker 2: Something that people go and they buy at gas stations
Speaker 2: and grocery stores day to day. So it's very easy
Speaker 2: and very quick they can make a purchasing decision. It's
Speaker 2: not a little bit different than you know, you know,
Speaker 2: stopping flying an airline or something. You make those kind
Speaker 2: of plans, you know, weeks or months out. So I
Speaker 2: think that that played a role. And then sometimes there's
Speaker 2: just a magic ingredient of why things go viral.
Speaker 3: And you know, once the ball.
Speaker 2: Gets rolling, it that it becomes a snowball, and I
Speaker 2: think that that, you know, turns into an avalanche. I
Speaker 2: think that played a role here too.
Speaker 1: I Mean I think a lot of people are wondering,
Speaker 1: you know, how would a company like bud Light come
Speaker 1: to this conclusion of yes, let's partner with Dylan mulvany
Speaker 1: and put our you know, finger in the eye of
Speaker 1: every know of our customer base, right, like basically just
Speaker 1: giving a middle finger to the customer base. So clearly
Speaker 1: they had to have known that. So like, how would
Speaker 1: that be approved? You know, how did this even happen?
Speaker 1: It doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: It's a great question, and I think you know, the
Speaker 2: average person has been scratching their head increasingly over the
Speaker 2: last decade is more and more companies have taken positions
Speaker 2: and done things like this, where you're going, are you
Speaker 2: just going out of your way to insult your customer base?
Speaker 2: I think what you really have to do to understand
Speaker 2: this is to look at the ecosystem of a corporation
Speaker 2: and the ecosystem that they they're within. By that, I mean,
Speaker 2: the corporation doesn't make decisions right. People within the company
Speaker 2: make these decisions, and increasingly there are different portions of
Speaker 2: these companies that have different interests. By that, I mean,
Speaker 2: for example, a lot of companies have adopted what they
Speaker 2: call a DEDI department, a diversity, equity and inclusion department.
Speaker 2: And you know, this was kind of build is like
Speaker 2: the next evolution in human resources and just you know,
Speaker 2: supposed to be more conscientious of racial disparities. What it is,
Speaker 2: in effect, and I mean this both in the pejorative
Speaker 2: in the technical sense, is a cancer on the corporation.
Speaker 2: These departments exist solely to soak up as much resources
Speaker 2: and control over the company as they can.
Speaker 3: They don't care about the company's customers.
Speaker 2: In fact, they often resent and dislike them, and they
Speaker 2: see their purpose as utilizing their position within the company
Speaker 2: to push an ideology inside and out of the company.
Speaker 3: And so that's part of it.
Speaker 2: And nothing's been confirmed, but there are rumors swirling on
Speaker 2: Twitter that this had been approved inside. Sources had said
Speaker 2: that this was approved by a lower level marketing employee
Speaker 2: who didn't get top level provement. Whether that's true or not,
Speaker 2: I think the entire incident speaks to the powers that
Speaker 2: some of these DEI and woke portions of the corporations
Speaker 2: have gotten. They're aided by another portion of that system,
Speaker 2: and that is a lot of times coming from above.
Speaker 2: These large asset managers like black Rock, State Street, Vanguard,
Speaker 2: they have been using their assets under management, meaning the
Speaker 2: shares they own on behalf of their clients, to push
Speaker 2: wokeness in a lot of these companies. So even though
Speaker 2: it's not their money. You know, Blackrock has about ten
Speaker 2: trillion dollars under management, but none of it technically belongs
Speaker 2: to them. It's there, it's in their custody as a fiduciary,
Speaker 2: but they use it to pursue political objectives.
Speaker 3: And they go to these companies and they.
Speaker 2: Push you know, uh, racial quotas, far left social issues,
Speaker 2: the LGBQQ stuff, pro abortion stuff, and they are effectively
Speaker 2: the owners of those shares until their customers retrieve them
Speaker 2: from the company stuff you know, fire black Rock or
Speaker 2: State Street, Vanguard, and so for right now, you know,
Speaker 2: they they control large portions of these companies, and so
Speaker 2: you see that being pushed on them from above, addition
Speaker 2: to these d I departments pushing it from within.
Speaker 1: But it does seem to be more interface. Now when
Speaker 1: we saw this with Disney as well, you know, again
Speaker 1: a company pushing values that are the antithesis of their
Speaker 1: customer base, you know, with them trying to push the
Speaker 1: LGBTQ agenda. So when did it become so interface? And
Speaker 1: I guess when did this all start happening?
Speaker 2: Well, as there was an increasing push to enlarge these
Speaker 2: d I departments, They became larger and larger portions of
Speaker 2: the corporation and a lot of decision making now runs
Speaker 2: through those portions of the company, which is surprising because
Speaker 2: they don't generate.
Speaker 3: Any revenue for the company.
Speaker 2: Right, It's like it's not like the d I department
Speaker 2: increases sales or creates new products. But there was this
Speaker 2: huge push up over the last you know, five to
Speaker 2: seven years to really start having all decision making at
Speaker 2: the company run through these departments. So whether it's hiring
Speaker 2: and trying to increase you know, minority representation at the companies,
Speaker 2: or making sure that their marketing was in align with
Speaker 2: whatever the social trend of you know, political issue of
Speaker 2: the day is.
Speaker 3: You know, they've they've gotten a lot of.
Speaker 2: Power over the last ten years that they didn't have,
Speaker 2: and so you're seeing them flex it more and more,
Speaker 2: even though you would think is you know, instance after
Speaker 2: instance of it backfiring on the companies, But it takes
Speaker 2: a long time once these kind of people are entrenched.
Speaker 2: We've seen this in academia as well, right, how many
Speaker 2: universities have had disgraceful incidences because of these same types
Speaker 2: of individuals. But it takes a long time to get
Speaker 2: Once they're entrenched, it takes a long time to get
Speaker 2: them out.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and it obviously seems like they're not
Speaker 1: concerned about, you know, diversity, They're they're more concerned about
Speaker 1: pushing an ideology.
Speaker 4: What a conservatives do about it?
Speaker 1: I mean, part of the challenge too is even if
Speaker 1: you look at the response to bud Light and this
Speaker 1: campaign that they did with Dylan mulvaney, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a split among Republicans as well. You know, some Republicans said, hey,
Speaker 1: they give us money, leave them alone, and then others said, oh,
Speaker 1: let's put the screws to them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: So, I guess, how do we fight back when it
Speaker 1: seems like not everyone has the stomach for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question, and you're right. I think
Speaker 2: it kind of shows that there's even division within the
Speaker 2: Conservatives on how to push back. I would argue I'm
Speaker 2: in the put the screws to them camp, and not
Speaker 2: just purely out of spite, but there needs to be
Speaker 2: measurable changes.
Speaker 3: Made at the company that are articulable.
Speaker 2: Right, tell me, CEO of Van Howerer Busch, how have
Speaker 2: you made sure that this will never happen again. If
Speaker 2: you read his apology letter, but it was completely milk toast.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even really an apology. It just kind of
Speaker 2: was like, I'm sorry that this caused such a such
Speaker 2: a kerfuffle. That's not going to you know, I want
Speaker 2: to know. You know, we've we've revamped our marketing department,
Speaker 2: We've gotten rid of our DEI department. So and so
Speaker 2: has been fired. Those are the kinds of things that
Speaker 2: the left has. That's how the left got to where
Speaker 2: they're at in terms of the power that they have
Speaker 2: within corporate America. They asked for definable changes in either
Speaker 2: power structure, or staffing or policy. And that's basically the
Speaker 2: right should not be satiated until we see, you know,
Speaker 2: articulable moves to our side on these things. The other
Speaker 2: thing we can do is start, and we're working on
Speaker 2: this at Consumers Research. We're pushing this in about twenty
Speaker 2: to twenty five states, is start taking away those big
Speaker 2: cools of capital, namely the state pension funds from these
Speaker 2: big asset managers. So you know, companies like black Rock
Speaker 2: again and State Tree and Vanguard, they should not be
Speaker 2: managing red state pension funds.
Speaker 3: They have policies on the books to push all.
Speaker 2: This progressive left policies with their entire asset portfolio. So
Speaker 2: states like South Carolina and Florida that have money with
Speaker 2: these companies, those assets are being used to push these
Speaker 2: progressive left positions. And so we need to start working
Speaker 2: those and move those two asset managers that that will
Speaker 2: respect their fiduciary duty to these states and stop, you know,
Speaker 2: using them to simply push Democratic Party platform agenda items.
Speaker 1: The only place I would disagree with you is I
Speaker 1: would also want to do it out of spite, So
Speaker 1: that would be the.
Speaker 4: I would be pro spite.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a nice fringe benefit.
Speaker 4: I would be pro spite.
Speaker 1: I often say the only reason I wouldn't drive an
Speaker 1: electric vehicle is just because people are trying to push
Speaker 1: me to do it. So but you know, so you
Speaker 1: talked about the state pension funds, so that would obviously
Speaker 1: take you know, the governor, and take the state being
Speaker 1: interested in doing that as well.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, And you've seen a ton of states start
Speaker 2: to take action on that.
Speaker 3: Florida in particular, has moved West Virginia.
Speaker 2: Texas has passed a law that says if you have
Speaker 2: as a company policy you're going to try and discriminate
Speaker 2: against the particular industry, in their case, fossil fuels. With
Speaker 2: all these net zero targets, then the state is no
Speaker 2: longer going to do business with you. You're not going
Speaker 2: to do our bond issuances, you're not going to manage
Speaker 2: our state's pension funds. You know, your persona on Granta
Speaker 2: to us as a vendor. And you're seeing that start
Speaker 2: to spread throughout. Like I said, there's about twenty to
Speaker 2: twenty five states this legislative session this year that are
Speaker 2: considering similar legislation on that issue. And that's what it's
Speaker 2: going to take to turn the market, because other states
Speaker 2: like California and Illinois and New York and New Jersey
Speaker 2: for years started saying that if you wanted to if
Speaker 2: you wanted to be a customer of CalPERS, for example,
Speaker 2: the California pension system, then you had to agree to
Speaker 2: use all of your assets under management to push net zero.
Speaker 2: So they basically allow to hijacked all of the Red
Speaker 2: state pension funds by doing that, because the Red state
Speaker 2: pension funds didn't subject until now, so putting it into
Speaker 2: that bifurcating the market, saying you can't serve two masters.
Speaker 2: You can't you can't use our money to do California's
Speaker 2: bidding and New York's bidding. That's gonna that's going to
Speaker 2: hugely dampen the ability of Black Rock.
Speaker 3: And other big asset managers to push push this kind
Speaker 3: of nonsense.
Speaker 1: I do think I don't think people always realized how
Speaker 1: smart Governor DeSantis is here I live in Florida, in
Speaker 1: the way that he uses government to fight back and
Speaker 1: against you know, some of these you know, the woe
Speaker 1: right and trying to defeat them. But it does seem
Speaker 1: like more and more Republicans are finally coming to the
Speaker 1: conclusion that, you know, playing nice like we used to
Speaker 1: is not going to get the job done when the
Speaker 1: Left is capturing every institution in America.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely true, and as a fellow Floridian Sarasotan myself,
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more. I think what Governor DeSantis has
Speaker 2: done has been fantastic and it should be a model
Speaker 2: for all other Republican governors who care about defending freedom
Speaker 2: and liberty in the country. One of the pushbacks we
Speaker 2: sometimes get in our efforts is that this is somehow
Speaker 2: anti free market. You know, you've got the government coming
Speaker 2: in and saying, you know what companies can and cannot do,
Speaker 2: or they'll stop doing business with them. But that's already
Speaker 2: what's happening. California and New York and New Jersey are
Speaker 2: telling the market, the asset managers that if they want
Speaker 2: to do business, if they want to get these huge
Speaker 2: amount of billions of dollars that their pension funds have,
Speaker 2: that they have to sell out the interests of these
Speaker 2: other states. There's only one way to solve that. If
Speaker 2: you had a lawyer that was giving away, you know,
Speaker 2: private information of yours to another client of theirs in
Speaker 2: return for money, you would fire that lawyer. Well, that's
Speaker 2: what's happening. These big asset managers and big banks are
Speaker 2: selling out the interests of red states on behalf of
Speaker 2: their blue state paymasters. And so there's only one way
Speaker 2: to solve that.
Speaker 3: You have to fire them.
Speaker 1: I see, I look at it as survival. You know,
Speaker 1: what hope do we have if we have no power,
Speaker 1: you know, moving forward? So you know, I think the
Speaker 1: battle lines look different than they used to when you
Speaker 1: know we've got you know, every institution working against us
Speaker 1: and trying to punish us just for simply being conservatives.
Speaker 1: Quick commercial break more with will Hild. What else would
Speaker 1: you like to see from governors or see from Republicans
Speaker 1: to try to push back on some of this nonsense, Like,
Speaker 1: what else could they be doing effectively?
Speaker 2: Well, I think they basically need to look at enforcing
Speaker 2: a lot of existing law around fiduciary duty. The other
Speaker 2: thing that I think really raised question this is an
Speaker 2: anti trust violation. Many of these asset managers are members
Speaker 2: of groups like something called Climate Action one hundred and
Speaker 2: another one called the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
Speaker 2: I know that's a mouthful. Sometimes it's usually just referred
Speaker 2: to as g fans. But in order to join these organizations,
Speaker 2: what you promised to do is to pursue net zero
Speaker 2: targets coordinating with all the other members in this organization.
Speaker 3: Well, what effectively that means?
Speaker 2: That's like if you got together all the owners of
Speaker 2: all the oil companies in the world and said, hey,
Speaker 2: we're all going to agree we're going to decrease production
Speaker 2: by ten fifteen percent. Well, if you put it that way,
Speaker 2: everyone would recognize that's obviously an anti trust conspiracy.
Speaker 3: That's textbook. They've effectively done that. They just call it
Speaker 3: net zero, but it's the same thing.
Speaker 2: And I think increasingly states looking at that looking at
Speaker 2: that avenue. The Sherman Anti Trust Acts allows states the
Speaker 2: right to the right of action against these companies, and
Speaker 2: I think if you start seeing a bunch of lawsuits
Speaker 2: against Black Rock in State Street and Vanguard and even
Speaker 2: the big banks that have also signed onto this stuff,
Speaker 2: like City and Vathan Morgan, Chase and Boa and Wells Cargo,
Speaker 2: I think it will it will end very quickly. The
Speaker 2: good news for us is on this front is a
Speaker 2: lot of this will capitalism stuff is.
Speaker 3: Pushed by conspiracies that are illegal.
Speaker 2: They're violations of you know, long existing fiduciary duties and
Speaker 2: long existing federal statutes against anti trust.
Speaker 3: But we haven't to.
Speaker 2: Your point, we haven't had the political will to simply
Speaker 2: enforce the law, and that has to change.
Speaker 1: I'm looking now and I think where is it. There
Speaker 1: are twenty two Republican trifectas in the country right now,
Speaker 1: seventeen Democrat trifectas, eleven divided governments, So there is absolutely
Speaker 1: no excuse for twenty two of those Republican States to
Speaker 1: be doing everything they can under their power to push
Speaker 1: back against the stuff and tomate companies, you know, punished
Speaker 1: companies that are pushing a woke agenda and pushing an
Speaker 1: agenda that's actually you know, hurting Americans as well with
Speaker 1: what we see with the you know, some of these
Speaker 1: environmental stuff that they're doing. You know, I don't you
Speaker 1: guys just launched recently, you know, woke Alerts. Talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about what that does in some of the
Speaker 1: specific things that you guys are doing at Consumers Research
Speaker 1: to push back against this stuff absolutely well.
Speaker 2: On in twenty twenty one, we want something called the
Speaker 2: Consumers First Initiative. It's an ongoing multimillion dollar ad campaign
Speaker 2: to name and shame companies that go woke in order
Speaker 2: to distract from their misdeeds in the market or their
Speaker 2: mistreatment of their customers. We spend millions and millions of
Speaker 2: dollars blasting the brands of companies like American Airlines, Nike,
Speaker 2: Coca Cola, Blackrock, obviously, ticket Master MLB and the next
Speaker 2: phase in that. One of the things that that when
Speaker 2: we launched, these people kept coming to us like where
Speaker 2: can I find out what companies are woken up?
Speaker 3: When when how can.
Speaker 2: I can you guys tell me, you know, who should
Speaker 2: I be shopping with? And so we came up with
Speaker 2: this idea of woke alerts, meaning it's a text message
Speaker 2: based system. You can sign up on our website at
Speaker 2: consumers Research dot org and we will text you when
Speaker 2: there is a a company that goes woke. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: a big story like the bud Light. Sometimes it's a
Speaker 2: company that's flying under the radar. They're going woke and
Speaker 2: they hope no one finds out about it, and we're
Speaker 2: going to put it into that So it allows consumers
Speaker 2: who care about when corporations are undermining their their values
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 3: About it and to be able to do something about it.
Speaker 2: So, like I said, people who would like to sign
Speaker 2: up can visit our website at consumers Research dot org.
Speaker 1: And you've also previously launched ads against companies like Coca Cola,
Speaker 1: American Airlines. You know, talk a little bit about some
Speaker 1: of that work in terms of trying to you know,
Speaker 1: target them and ads on cable stations as well as
Speaker 1: local markets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, we've spent millions of dollars tarnishing these companies' brands,
Speaker 2: because what we realized was the companies that were the
Speaker 2: wokest and most likely to go woke, they often had
Speaker 2: some of the worst skeletons in their closet, and it
Speaker 2: became very clear that what they were really trying to
Speaker 2: do the real game here was they wanted to distract
Speaker 2: from those issues. They would cozy up to woke activists
Speaker 2: and woke politicians. They get really glowing coverage in the
Speaker 2: New York Times the Washington Post for signing onto a
Speaker 2: letter condemning Georgia election integrity legislation or Texas election integrity
Speaker 2: legislation or whatever the key issue was. But in reality
Speaker 2: they were some of the worst defenders. Like take Nike
Speaker 2: for example. Obviously they're famous for having Colin Kaepernick. You know,
Speaker 2: you know, call America white supremacist nation, and compare the
Speaker 2: NFL combined to the slave trade.
Speaker 3: Nike has had decades of issues with.
Speaker 2: Sweatshop labor, and right now they have a huge problem
Speaker 2: with slave labor in China being used to make their shoes.
Speaker 2: And that's according to Congressional Congressional report. In fact, at
Speaker 2: the same time that they were attacking the Georgia election
Speaker 2: integrity legislation. They were quietly lobbying against a federal law
Speaker 2: that would have barred products made using slave labor in
Speaker 2: China from entering US markets. They wanted an exception so
Speaker 2: that their shoes could continue to create the hypocrisy. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm not one for pointing out hypocrisy because it doesn't
Speaker 2: really do much. These people are pretty pretty blatant sociopath
Speaker 2: But I do think the average consumer needs to understand
Speaker 2: that when they see a company go woke, what that
Speaker 2: usually means is they it's projection. They're doing something probably
Speaker 2: worse than what they're accusing the other side of and
Speaker 2: and we we were simply going to call that out.
Speaker 3: It's not going to work. Our idea is simply to you.
Speaker 2: Know, there's no reason to go woke now because if
Speaker 2: you're if you're trying to distract from those issues, We're
Speaker 2: going to put a spotlight on those issues. Coca Cola
Speaker 2: also had issues with the same thing, and American Airlines
Speaker 2: is one of the worst run airlines in America. The
Speaker 2: same you know, the same year that their CEO got
Speaker 2: a ten million plus pay package, they had to go to.
Speaker 3: Congress for a four point five billion dollar bailout.
Speaker 2: So and that's a that's a company that goes out
Speaker 2: and starts, you know, preaching to Texas about how their
Speaker 2: elections should we run. So you know, we're we're always
Speaker 2: out there. We're going to be continuing the You're going
Speaker 2: to see more and more campaigns come from us. And
Speaker 2: to any of anyone in the C suites listening, you're
Speaker 2: you're on notice. If you go woke, we will and can,
Speaker 2: can and will come for you.
Speaker 1: I also think it's you know, easier to target these
Speaker 1: companies like Nhuser, Bush or Disney where you know they
Speaker 1: need us more as a customer base. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Nike's breakdown looks like in terms of consumers.
Speaker 4: I did stop wearing Nikes.
Speaker 1: I will say that I worry datas now, although they
Speaker 1: probably are just as bad.
Speaker 4: Just the sad thing and a lot of this.
Speaker 1: But after the Kaepernicks, I said, all right, enough with this,
Speaker 1: is there anything else you'd like to leave us with
Speaker 1: before we go?
Speaker 2: I would just say that you know, ESG that's driving
Speaker 2: a lot of this and the and the woke capitalism stuff.
Speaker 2: This is something that your elected representatives can do a
Speaker 2: lot about.
Speaker 3: But it's not.
Speaker 2: It's not often the sexiest issue. It's not the easiest
Speaker 2: thing to talk about. I would just ask for people
Speaker 2: that are interested and listening. Call your elected representatives, no
Speaker 2: matter where you are in the country. Let them know,
Speaker 2: Let your governor know, let your attorney general know, Let
Speaker 2: your treasurer know. You care about these issues and you
Speaker 2: want to see them do something about it, and you
Speaker 2: support them doing something about it. That makes a huge difference.
Speaker 2: Never underestimate the importance of phone calls from to your
Speaker 2: elected representatives.
Speaker 3: They don't always get as.
Speaker 2: Much feedback as you think they might have, and just
Speaker 2: hearing from you that you care about this and you
Speaker 2: want them to end this wokeness in corporate America makes
Speaker 2: a huge difference.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, I know they pay attention.
Speaker 1: You know. I used to be a staff assistant on
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill way way back in the day, and I
Speaker 1: know that, you know, the member I worked for would
Speaker 1: ask me, you know, where the calls lined up on
Speaker 1: certain issues sometimes, so they do pay attention. Also, the
Speaker 1: culture war stuff is more important than anything in my opinion,
Speaker 1: because if we cease to be a free country, nothing
Speaker 1: else matters, you know, So that's kind of you know
Speaker 1: the most important thing. Will Hild, Executive director of Consumers Research.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time to join us. And
Speaker 1: then where can people I know you had mentioned the website,
Speaker 1: just mentioned it one more time.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's Consumers Research RG. And people can follow me
Speaker 2: on Twitter at at will Hild that's w I L
Speaker 2: L Hild cool.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks so much. I appreciate you taking time to
Speaker 4: join the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: So that was Will Hill that with Consumer's Research. Appreciate
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