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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we

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Speaker 2: are taking you into the weekend. We have got a

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Speaker 2: ton to discuss with all of you. Most importantly that

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Speaker 2: the economic information and indicators that are out there.

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Speaker 1: Continue to be quite strong.

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Speaker 2: Friday a morning, just about two hours ago, the latest

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Speaker 2: inflation read for January came in at two point four

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Speaker 2: percent inflation. That is the lowest core inflation number that

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Speaker 2: has existed since March I believe, of twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: That is the very beginning of the Joe Biden administration,

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Speaker 2: before the disastrous rise to nine point one percent in

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Speaker 2: inflation began, which I believe peaked in around June of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. If I remember off the top of

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Speaker 2: my head, some of you out there might be saying, Okay, well,

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Speaker 2: what does that mean In a real terms? It means

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Speaker 2: that the Fed's target inflation rate of two percent is

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Speaker 2: easily within targeted. It means that all of the histrionics

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Speaker 2: surrounding Trump's decision to implement tariffs have not led to

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Speaker 2: soaring inflation, and it means that overall the economy is

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Speaker 2: moving in a very very good direction.

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Speaker 1: And as we.

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Speaker 2: Sit here midway through February, Buck, what jumps out to

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Speaker 2: me is the most recent GDP rating that we got,

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Speaker 2: the most recent reading that we got on the GDP

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Speaker 2: was four point four percent growth. Wages have now begun

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Speaker 2: to outpace the growth of inflation in a fairly substantial way.

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Speaker 2: What you're seeing as all of this kind of works

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Speaker 2: together is the secured southern border is helping to result

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Speaker 2: in significant declines in rent And I know many of

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Speaker 2: you may be starting to see this as your rent

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Speaker 2: bills come up, as your leases come up, and you're

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Speaker 2: looking around, and whereas in the past the landlords have

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Speaker 2: been able to just jack rates up at a really

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Speaker 2: rapid pace, that is no longer occurring. In fact, rents

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Speaker 2: have begun to come down. That is the basic law

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Speaker 2: of supply and demand.

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Speaker 1: Buck.

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Speaker 2: What happens when two million plus illegals leave the country

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Speaker 2: is the overall demand for rental properties in general begins

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Speaker 2: to decline. So if you pair two point four percent

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Speaker 2: inflation again the lowest since March of twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 2: at the core number, and you pair it with a

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Speaker 2: four point four percent GDP growth rate, and you add

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Speaker 2: in that we're at the lowest murder rates since nineteen hundred,

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Speaker 2: that we have the most secure border in any of

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Speaker 2: our lives, and that the stock market is at record highs.

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Speaker 2: Starting to think that things are pretty great now again.

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Speaker 2: I understand it might take a little while for all

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Speaker 2: of this to start to pull in a direction and

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Speaker 2: everybody feels it across the nation.

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Speaker 1: But the metrics, they are really really good. It's looking fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Some people are saying the greatest economy of all economies,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's only going to.

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Speaker 1: Get better from here. Quite honestly.

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Speaker 2: One of the really important data points here one of

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Speaker 2: the indicators that you're not going to hear enough about

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Speaker 2: because it's not only good for the economy, but it

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Speaker 2: very much goes to the ideological differences between Democrat and

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Speaker 2: Republican governance, and that has to do with job creation,

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Speaker 2: that is, actual jobs in the economy versus just creating

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Speaker 2: more slots for bureaucrats in the government. And that's something

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Speaker 2: that democrats. Democrats did this and there was a huge

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Speaker 2: surge of this during COVID these what I call low

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Speaker 2: show jobs, where you don't really do anything. You've just

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Speaker 2: got to be there, but you don't do anything. There's

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Speaker 2: no show jobs, which those are generally illegal, or you

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Speaker 2: know those are if you're in the government, those are illegal.

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Speaker 2: There's low show jobs, though, where you have no actual productivity,

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Speaker 2: no real metrics, and you're just a drain on the

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Speaker 2: actual productive economy. It's got bess In spoke about this

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Speaker 2: not just creating jobs in general. These are private sector

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Speaker 2: jobs while government jobs are going down.

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Speaker 1: Play two.

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Speaker 3: What was even more impressive about the numbers is the

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Speaker 3: private sector numbers were more than one hundred and seventy thousand,

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Speaker 3: More than thirty thirty thousand of that was federal jobs.

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Speaker 3: We're at the lowest ratio of government jobs to total

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Speaker 3: President's Trump's plan to reprivatize our economy. And I think,

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Speaker 3: as I've said many times, twenty twenty five is about

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Speaker 3: a banquet for the American people. The economy is taking off.

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Speaker 1: Clay.

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Speaker 2: This is so critical. This is the midterm election. Really,

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Speaker 2: this is run up the scoreboard. So it's clear if

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Speaker 2: you want a strong economy, forget about every Trump tweet

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Speaker 2: that you were told with so mean or whatever. You

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Speaker 2: want a strong US economy, you got to keep the

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Speaker 2: Republicans in charge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, and I'm building on what Secretary of Treasury Scott

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Speaker 2: Bessen said there, and I think we mentioned this earlier

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Speaker 2: in the week, but I want to hammer it home again.

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Speaker 2: We added one hundred and thirty thousand private sector jobs.

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Speaker 2: That's after we take away the fact that we declined

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Speaker 2: government jobs substantially. In fact, Buck, the number of government

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Speaker 2: We have eliminated roughly three hundred and fifty thousand jobs

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Speaker 2: from people who are funded by taxpayers. So it's not

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Speaker 2: I think this is really important because people look at

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Speaker 2: the overall jobs and the growth for everybody out there

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Speaker 2: that's paying taxes that we have eliminated ten percent of

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Speaker 2: the federal government's dole. And ideally what appears to be

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Speaker 2: happening is those people are actually going into the private

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Speaker 2: sector and getting jobs that don't require the federal government

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Speaker 2: to be paying their salaries. So this is a huge

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Speaker 2: net positive for everyone out there. And again, I know

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Speaker 2: it takes a little while for all of the larger macro,

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Speaker 2: big picture economic issues to translate all the way through

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Speaker 2: the entire economy. One thing I would say that a

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Speaker 2: rent are actually declining, which is a pretty transformative change.

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Speaker 2: And one other thing we should mention is a lot

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Speaker 2: of times January inflation comes in hot. It comes in

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Speaker 2: higher than people expected because during the holidays, expending is

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Speaker 2: sometimes tough to measure. In January, it sometimes comes in hot.

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Speaker 2: We're actually set up for as we move into the spring.

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Speaker 2: I think inflation to be back down to two percent,

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Speaker 2: which is the Fed's target. And when that happens, then

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get more interest rate cuts, which means your mortgages,

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Speaker 2: your credit cards. In theory, everything is going to get

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Speaker 2: cheaper because the economy is starting to fire on all

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Speaker 2: which has been essentially frozen because so many people got

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Speaker 2: that point, Clay, because there's the numbers and then there's

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Speaker 2: what people feel. Yeah, and in politics you got to

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Speaker 2: make them both lines up. There's the good data, which

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Speaker 2: we were just talking about the jobs, but then it's

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Speaker 2: how expensive does gas feel? How's your rent? How are

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Speaker 2: the things that matter to you day today? The paycheck,

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Speaker 2: American politics and always will be because this is something

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Speaker 2: the TV tells them, their reality is their reality. Scott

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Speaker 2: Besson's pointing out that we saw real wage growth last year,

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Speaker 2: but it could be great and this will really go

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Speaker 2: to this point. If you get really substantial wage growth

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Speaker 3: Two ways to fix affordability. There is bringing down prices

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Speaker 3: and things like energy. Energy is coming down. Energy is

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Speaker 3: but on the other side, it's real income increases and

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Speaker 3: we've seen real we saw real way age growth in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. I think it could be very strong

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Speaker 2: There we go Clay, yeah, look, and again, I think

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Speaker 2: the big challenge of twenty twenty six is going to

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Speaker 2: be is and are the average voters going to recognize

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Speaker 2: that the trajectory of the economy is very positive or

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Speaker 2: is it still going to feel bad because of the

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Speaker 2: Biden hangover. I think that is the number one question

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Speaker 2: while for Reagan's economic bonafides to start to hit. Nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty four We've talked about it was an all time landslide.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty two wasn't great. And so the beneficiary, ironically,

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Speaker 2: of the policies that Trump has put in place because

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Speaker 2: Trump can't run again, is not going to be Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be jd. Vance or whomever.

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Speaker 2: The presumptive Republican candidate is going to be because I

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Speaker 2: think it's going to be impossible to argue by twenty

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Speaker 2: he doesn't get to run on that. And we talked

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Speaker 2: doesn't exist, then Trump wins I think a very comfortable

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Speaker 2: I don't know who would be in office right now,

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Speaker 2: and I think our economy would be in a much

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Speaker 2: better place. Obviously, now Trump is having to rebuild the

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Speaker 2: and then somebody else is going to be benefiting going forward.

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Speaker 2: Take your calls, take your talkbacks, get into all of it.

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Speaker 2: But I got to say, another good week in the

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Speaker 2: book for this Trump administration, and staying the course right

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Speaker 2: now with a lot of these policies is the smart move,

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Speaker 2: and it is amazing. We'll start to go back twelve

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Speaker 2: year ago by the so called financial intelligentsia reporters and

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Speaker 2: you know, the CNBC commentariat. The economists quote economists like

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Speaker 2: only ones that find their way into most major newspapers

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Speaker 2: and all the rest. They said that this was going

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Speaker 2: to crash out the economy, and the economy is kicking ass.

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Speaker 1: That's the truth. Now.

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Speaker 2: I understand that doesn't mean that it's perfect, that doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean that there aren't still high prices or you know,

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Speaker 2: this is we have to level set expectations here. But

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Speaker 2: I think you're going to see more and more really

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Speaker 2: strong indicators and things are going to start to align

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Speaker 2: even more this year. And so the Democrats, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: maybe they'll have to like fake another you know, mass

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Speaker 2: pandemic or something. They'll they'll they'll do something. They'll come

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Speaker 2: up with some way to explain why things aren't as

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 5: Good financial numbers, very low inflation. We've broadcasts way down

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Speaker 2: numbers are what they are, and they're all trending in

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Speaker 2: the positive direction. Yeah, here's what. Here's what I tweeted

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Speaker 2: out a little bit ago in the wake of the

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Speaker 2: inflation that Trump just hit. Sometimes I think it is

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Speaker 2: hard because there's such a daily drum beat of insanity

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Speaker 2: that's happening in the country. It's sometimes hard to think

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Speaker 2: big picture and you get kind of bogged down in

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Speaker 2: the details.

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Speaker 1: But just think about this. We're a little bit over

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Speaker 1: a year.

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Speaker 2: Into Trump two point zero okay, h four point four

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Speaker 2: percent GDP at the end of the year. That's the

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Speaker 2: latest GDP numbers we have. That's extraordinary four point four percent.

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Speaker 2: And there's rumors bucks as we have discussed on this program,

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Speaker 2: that GDP might be five percent or better in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six, which is unheard of. People say, you know,

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Speaker 2: typically you want two or three percent. If you got

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Speaker 2: five percent, to get four point four percent is extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Two point four percent inflation. That's the number that just

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Speaker 2: came out this morning. Record high stock market, lowest murder

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Speaker 2: rate since nineteen hundred, most secure border in history, and

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Speaker 2: a ten percent decline in government employees.

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Speaker 1: That's honestly pretty extraordinary for year one.

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Speaker 2: Now I understand, and trust me, I'm sure the Trump

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Speaker 2: administration understands.

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Speaker 1: There's more work to be done.

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Speaker 2: But if I had told you that we were going

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Speaker 2: to end twenty twenty five at four point four percent GDP,

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Speaker 2: two point four percent inflation, record high stock market, lowest

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Speaker 2: murder rate since nineteen hundred, most secure border in history,

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Speaker 2: and a ten percent decline in government employees, I don't

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Speaker 2: think that most of you would have believed that was possible.

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Speaker 2: I don't, And by the way, I was asking the

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Speaker 2: question because I do think there is a little bit

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Speaker 2: of a historical echo. Nineteen ninety two versus twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 2: Democrats gained twenty six seats in Reagan nineteen eighty two,

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Speaker 2: the midterm of Reagan and the Senate basically didn't change

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Speaker 2: at all. And then in nineteen eighty four we had

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Speaker 2: the landslide Reagan election victory over Mondale. What did I

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Speaker 2: jot down? But Democrats won the national popular vote in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two by eleven So if you how we're

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Speaker 2: doing eighty six I think eighty six would be a

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Speaker 2: better analogy to where we are now because we're in

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Speaker 2: the second term of Trump.

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Speaker 1: We just had a huge Trump win.

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Speaker 2: The challenge I think, Buck is you got double Reagan terms,

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Speaker 2: so I almost think we got two to one term trumpers, right.

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Speaker 2: So to me, the analogy Trump won bigger in twenty

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Speaker 2: four than he did in sixteen. So to me, yeah,

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Speaker 2: your eighty six and analogy is not a bad one.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that Ronald Reagan lost seats in the House

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Speaker 2: and the Senate because I believe, and this is off

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Speaker 2: the top of my head, I think in the modern era,

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Speaker 2: only in nineteen ninety eight and two thousand and two

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Speaker 2: did the party in power gain seats in mid term elections.

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Speaker 2: Usually the party in power loses seats and is on

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Speaker 2: its back foot again. I think that's one of the

494
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Speaker 2: challenges here. Twenty eighteen was a rough one for Trump's

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Speaker 2: first term. Unfortunately in the House, as we recall, and

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Speaker 2: also unfortunately we've lost a number three should have won

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Speaker 2: Senate seats in Georgia alone. We gave up three Senate

498
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Speaker 2: seats in one state that when you go back and

499
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Speaker 2: look at what happened there, it was total own goals

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Speaker 2: by the Republicans in every sense, in every one of those.

501
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Speaker 2: But let's get back to Trump here. What he's saying

502
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Speaker 2: because some some questions about national security here about potential

503
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Speaker 2: strikes on Colombia, Venezuela and even Mexico against the cartels.

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Speaker 1: This is twenty five. Let's hear what he said, you cot,

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Speaker 1: you call Colombia minute, what about it?

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Speaker 5: Right? You don't worry about it.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. It's a very Trump answer. He

508
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 2: goes more here, though, Clay, this is twenty six. He

509
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Speaker 2: says he's gonna have to go to Venezuela himself. That

510
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Speaker 2: will be really interesting play twenty six.

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Speaker 5: Thirty. I'm gonna make a visit to Venezuela. Wait, wait,

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Speaker 5: I m are you presented? Were We just had a

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Speaker 5: good meeting with you.

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Speaker 2: Then we had a good meeting with Colombia Venezuela. Still

515
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Speaker 2: very much it remains to be seen how successful the

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Speaker 2: aftermath of the Majuro arrest. The it's really a military operation,

517
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Speaker 2: but they have arrested him. He's in federal court now,

518
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 2: sitting in federal prison. So we'll see where that ends

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00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 2: up going, Clay. But that's something that I think the

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00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 2: President is going to have to focus in on and

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Speaker 2: drive some of that policy himself. Not only that, Buck,

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Speaker 2: You're you're down in South Florida. I'm up on the Panhandle.

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Speaker 2: So I'll be in the Panhandle for the weekend, up

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Speaker 2: in North Florida, which I love it here. But Cuba,

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Speaker 2: we have not talked a great deal about Cuba as

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Speaker 2: a major reverberation of the operation that took place in Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you read this, Buck, but there

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Speaker 2: is so little fuel now in Cuba because Venezuela used

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Speaker 2: to be providing a lot of the oil and gas

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Speaker 2: to allow Cuba to exist. Trump has put pressure on

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Speaker 2: Mexico and Fine Bomb shinebamb. Fine Bam is a friend

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Speaker 2: of mine. Shinebaum who's the president of Mexicano. Not to

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00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 2: be confused with Fine Bomb, very very different. Shinebaumb and

534
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Speaker 2: Fine Bomb two different people. One talks about Southeastern Conference football,

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Speaker 2: is a friend of mine. The other is the president

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Speaker 2: of Mexico, Claudia Shinbaum. He has basically put pressure on

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Speaker 2: Mexico not to continue to give oil and gas to

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Speaker 2: Cuba either, such that the places that fly into Cuba

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Speaker 2: and Evidently there's a lot of Russian tourism and a

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Speaker 2: lot of Spanish tourism. People still go to Cuba from Europe.

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Speaker 2: They don't have enough gas to be able to fly

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Speaker 2: in and refuel at Cuban airports, so they're basically having

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Speaker 2: to fly and refuel in other countries and start to

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Speaker 2: pull their tourists out.

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Speaker 1: In other words, what do you bring what do I

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Speaker 1: bring this up?

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Speaker 2: Cuba is within weeks of a complete economic collapse, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know that a lot of people have focused

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Speaker 2: on this, but one of the primary impacts of what

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Speaker 2: happened in Venezuela has actually been what's taking place in Cuba.

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Speaker 2: And it is possible, I say possible, that after what

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Speaker 2: is it, seventy nine years basically sixty nine years, whatever

553
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 2: the math is, since Fidel Castro came into power, it's

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Speaker 2: possible that Cuba could be really truly collapsing and freedom

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Speaker 2: could be returning to Cuba.

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Speaker 1: On some level. I think it's actually been under the radar.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people focused on Venezuela, and there's the

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Speaker 2: oil story there and everything else, but maybe the more

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Speaker 2: immediate outcome might well be the collapse of the Cuban

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Speaker 2: government and some forms of market based economy returning to

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Speaker 2: Cuba after generations where that was not allowed and in

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Speaker 2: South Florida. I bet this is a major topic of conversation.

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Speaker 2: But Cuba could be an salute jewel of the global

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Speaker 2: economy if they would just embrace capitalism.

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful country.

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Speaker 2: It is surrounded by thriving Caribbean countries that particularly have

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Speaker 2: taken advantage of sort of economic resource allocations, meaning the

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Speaker 2: Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands and some of

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Speaker 2: these countries that have allowed businesses to be based there

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Speaker 2: with low tax rates. I think Cuba would explode, and

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Speaker 2: there is an argument that it could be utterly transformative

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Speaker 2: to South Florida in many ways for the economic conditions there,

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Speaker 2: because Cuba is in any way embracing capitalism would take off.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been on a cruise You ever been

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Speaker 1: on a cruise ship? I have not. I am not

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Speaker 1: a cruise guy.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't surprise me, but I did a The last cruise

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Speaker 2: I went on was the Disney Cruise with my kids.

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Speaker 1: They loved it.

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Speaker 2: Five people in one tiny little cruise cabin not ideal.

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Speaker 2: We were all five in the same place. We went

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Speaker 2: right by Cuba so close Buck that you could see

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Speaker 2: all of the spires and all of the buildings of

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Speaker 2: Havana as we were passing. If you go look at

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Speaker 2: the cruise industry in general, Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Cruise Line,

586
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Speaker 2: whatever you want to point to, the entire cruise industry,

587
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 2: by and large, at least based in the South in Florida,

588
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Speaker 2: they just circle Cuba.

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Speaker 1: It's all they do.

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Speaker 2: They just go to all of the beautiful islands around Cuba.

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Speaker 2: I don't think people understand how transformative a free Cuba

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Speaker 2: would be.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people have forgotten. You know, Cuba was

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Havana was where people would hop on fast boats that

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Speaker 2: had on Part two.

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Speaker 1: That was the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I think that we are potentially seeing with Cuba Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens with Iran again, the echo of

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Speaker 2: the Reagan eraro with Trump. I don't think most people

601
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Speaker 2: are realizing how quick the capitulation and collapse of Cuba

602
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Speaker 2: could really be. We're on the precipice of that happening

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00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 2: right now. There will be something really full circle about

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Speaker 2: that moment when the incredible gleaming tower of Trump International

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Speaker 2: Caracas goes up and Trump International Havana goes up, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and not impossible. I would even say I give it

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Speaker 2: fifty to fifty that at some point it happens in

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Speaker 2: both of those places.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's crazy at all.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, because I know Venezuelan's are

611
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 2: already having these conversations. How many people go back, America

612
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Speaker 2: is an awesome place, right the idea has been you know,

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Speaker 2: the Cubans toast and they say next year in Havana,

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Speaker 2: all these things.

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Speaker 1: How many people? I know there'd be a lot across

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Speaker 1: the Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Very few people don't like to necessarily admit that until

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00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 2: they have to make that decision. But America's America pretty

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Speaker 2: awesome here, you know. Yeah, South Florida is really nice, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's yeah. Venezuela could get better, but Caracas is a

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Speaker 2: long way from being South Beach, my friends, and that's

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Speaker 2: not going to change any times.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: Havanah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they basically can't keep the power on in

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Speaker 2: Havana right now at all. But if you don't have

627
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Speaker 2: if you're an illegal and you're here, guess what be

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Speaker 2: a good time to go back.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, I'd like to invest.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to put a lot if we could turn

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Speaker 2: Cuba into an actual capitalistic country. The amount of beautiful

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Speaker 2: countryside beaches. It's one of the most beautiful countries I

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00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 2: think in the world. I mean, Cuba would be if

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00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 2: you really kind of put resources behind it. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of Cuban money. I'm curious how much of that

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00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 2: money would eventually go back. You know, the remittances is

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Speaker 2: basically the only reason Cuba has an economy at all

638
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: right now is people giving money back to their family

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00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: members who still live in Cuba.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I just want you to put a pin

641
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: in that story.

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00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: I know some of you who are Cuba and South

643
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: hear Indians are paying more attention to it. The biggest

644
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 2: impact of what we did to Maduro in Venezuela may

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00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 2: actually be occurring in Cuba in the short terms, and

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00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 2: we'll continue to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: I know we have a huge listenership in South Florida.

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00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 2: Buck and I like to have fun with eighties and

649
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: nineties throwback, lots of memories. Guess what recorded back in

650
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 2: the day on old school Camquarders and lots of us

651
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 2: from that generation, VHS tapes, old photo albums, priceless memories.

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Speaker 1: Heck, just about how about you've thought.

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00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 2: How cool it would be to share some of your

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Speaker 2: old high school photos with some of your friends from

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00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: high school. These were pre digital photos that are out

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00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 2: there floating around. They aren't easy to be distributed. That's

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Speaker 1: It is Friday to thirteenth.

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Speaker 2: Do not walk under any ladders, make sure you dodge

680
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 2: any black cats in your path. Do not say candy man,

681
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,640
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682
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683
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Speaker 1: Clay?

684
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Speaker 2: What are the other rules for superstition? The occult and

685
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Speaker 2: Friday the thirteenth. For those of us who grew up

686
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Speaker 2: in a certain region, I don't think it was well known.

687
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Speaker 2: We were told, don't screw around with the bell Witch.

688
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Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of the bell Witch legend?

689
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Speaker 1: B E L L.

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Speaker 2: They kind of based you remember the movie, the handheld

691
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Speaker 2: movie back in the day, I mean Blair Real talk

692
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Speaker 2: here for a second, real talk here, Clay, we're friends.

693
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Speaker 1: Did you have a banjo growing up? Like I feel

694
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Speaker 1: like I did.

695
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Speaker 2: They made the They based the Blair Witch project to

696
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Speaker 2: a certain extent, on some of the legacy of the Belwich.

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Speaker 2: But back in the day when the Belwich was the

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Speaker 2: one that we focused on, the most and actually the Belwich.

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Speaker 1: The story of the Belwich, I don't know any tell.

700
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 2: Me Bellwich is very famous. In fact, Andrew Jackson back

701
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Speaker 2: in the day went to the home where the Bellwitch

702
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 2: was supposedly haunting, and there's a Belwich cave which you

703
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 2: can still tour. I think it's kind of had a

704
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 2: new life on YouTube because there's a lot of these kids,

705
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 2: you know this, that go to the most haunted places

706
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: and just take their own personal YouTube paraphernalia film it.

707
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 2: It's super popular, you know. I know they've done television

708
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Speaker 2: shows about this, but it's there's a certain genre of

709
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 2: it on YouTube that my teenage boys have ended up

710
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Speaker 2: following that has gotten a lot of attention. And so

711
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 2: there's been part of the term a resurrection of some

712
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,919
Speaker 2: of these old, you know, sort of ghost stories back

713
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 2: in the day that have found a new life on

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Speaker 2: social media the Internet.

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Speaker 1: I think well written.

716
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Speaker 2: So I'm not a horror genre guy in general, but

717
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 2: I and I saw a lot of it too. First

718
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 2: of all, the older I get, actually, the less I'm

719
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 2: okay with like really extreme violence in movies and things.

720
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Speaker 2: I just I don't want that negativity, like entering my

721
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 2: consciousness in my sphere, So I I anything that I

722
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: don't like. The slasher genre is what I'm saying, the

723
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 2: more a cult.

724
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Speaker 1: It's eerie.

725
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: The writing that stuff I think can be can be

726
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 2: very well done, and I think as far more effective

727
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 2: as actual horror than the like you know.

728
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Speaker 1: Guy with like the Fright of the classics.

729
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Speaker 2: They don't really make those movies anymore, but the Slash

730
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Speaker 2: thirteen slasher films Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Michael Myers. Although

731
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 2: that was a huge genre for a while because dollars in,

732
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 2: dollars out, it may still be the case. I know

733
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 2: it was the case that horror movies were the most

734
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Speaker 2: profitable genre of film to be involve all things.

735
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: Think about it. What are your costs like fake blood?

736
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: You know, a hockey mask? People?

737
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bloom I think it's Jason Bloomhouse has made

738
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: a It might be Blumhouse. I've read all about it.

739
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 2: You're still right the horror universe is the most profitable.

740
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Speaker 2: Let me give you a couple of things here. The

741
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 2: Conjuring movies are incredible. Have you watched the Conjuring movies?

742
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: And I've not seen those? Have not seen them?

743
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 2: I think you would like them because they're basically it's

744
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 2: about a husband and a wife. They are so well done,

745
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 2: and it's really about their marriage as much, but they

746
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 2: are they're basically exorcists. They're investigating on behalf of religion,

747
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 2: the idea of evil in the world. And I'm sure

748
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 2: they're hollywooded up, but they're based in reality on this

749
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: husband and wife couple that this is what they did.

750
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 2: They went and they investigated evil of a of a

751
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: vile nature from a religious perspective. And the movies are

752
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 2: supremely that actually sounds like it's pretty good, Like sounds

753
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: like they are really well done. I don't know what

754
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 2: percentage of this audience would have watched them. They're scary.

755
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 2: Was there ever a movie that you watched when you

756
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Speaker 2: were younger as a kid that was so scary that

757
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Speaker 2: you had to turn it off? Or like you're like,

758
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 2: I can't, I can't sit, I can't do this. Oh

759
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 2: it's Friday the thirteenth. I mean sorry, no, sorry, Nightmare

760
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 2: on Elm Street when I was a little kid, because

761
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 2: Freddy came to you while you were sleeping.

762
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Speaker 1: So if you were a kid.

763
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Speaker 2: And you got in bed and you had a wild

764
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Speaker 2: imagination like I did, and you would be trying to

765
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Speaker 2: go to sleep and you would think. I mean, that

766
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Speaker 2: was what made I think the Nightmarre on elm Street

767
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 2: movie so particularly well done. Was they were going to

768
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Speaker 2: get you when you went to sleep, so that you

769
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Speaker 2: weren't even safe once you fell asleep. Was that was

770
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Speaker 2: the danger? Let me give you the conjuring are really good.

771
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Speaker 2: Since it's Friday the thirteenth. Scream movies, I still really

772
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Speaker 2: like the scream movies. I think those are more crime

773
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Speaker 2: thriller than they are horror. There's nothing supernat It's really

774
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 2: just a serial killer. Yeah, I mean there's it's typically stabbing,

775
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,240
Speaker 2: so I mean it's kind of nasty in the sense

776
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 2: that you're getting stabbed with a knife.

777
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 1: Yes I'm stabbing.

778
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 2: Is say, they're they're not supremely gory to your point.

779
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 2: I so they're they're coming out with a new scream,

780
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 2: Scream seven. This is the seventh version of it. So

781
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 2: I would say, to a large extent, you're right, like

782
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Speaker 2: the Night would you make a.

783
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: Cameo, mister Thespian and Scream seven is I see people

784
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: are coming after me.

785
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 2: For people think that acting is awesome, that's what I thought.

786
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 2: I was like, man, there's nothing cooler than being in

787
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 2: a movie. It's really boring. You sit in a can,

788
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 2: you sit in like your little uh you know, on set,

789
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 2: you go out, you do the same thing forty different

790
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 2: times from eighty different angles. It's and I was like,

791
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: this is not it's not as fast paced as I thought.

792
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 2: My mom is gonna is gonna chuckle right now. But

793
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 2: uh before she had to just do the mom thing

794
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 2: full time. When she was early on married to my dad.

795
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 2: She she was on a soap opera, Doctors, which I

796
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:05,919
Speaker 2: told you about.

797
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: For a season.

798
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 2: She was a she was a cast regular for a season.

799
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Speaker 2: She was the starring role in a Hallmark movie Summer

800
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 2: of My German Soldier. She was in a I mean

801
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 2: these were real like probably you know kind of Uh So.

802
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,959
Speaker 1: Was she the one who dated the German soldier? Yeah? Yeah,

803
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: she was the love interest for the German soldier. Yeah.

804
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 1: And and so she was in a number of these things.

805
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: So she did.

806
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 2: She was a working actress, like a person that was

807
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 2: making a living acting. She says, his work it's a

808
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 2: brutal it's a brutal profession because it's so fickle and

809
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 2: it was work. It's not all the stuff that people

810
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 2: think about, the like red carpet and everything else. That's

811
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: the very end process. That's that's signing the books at

812
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: Barnes and Noble. My very limited yeah, that's yeah, my

813
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 2: very limited time as involved in doing acting. And again

814
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 2: I've only done it in the context of being an adult.

815
00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 2: Talking about you doing acting, You played yourself, Come on, but.

816
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: I've played myself.

817
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 2: But I have to say I did an incredible job

818
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Speaker 2: playing the role Travis.

819
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: Travis.

820
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Speaker 2: This is that's really very funny. I had never thought

821
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 2: that I've only played myself in film and movie. I

822
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 2: don't think I've ever played anybody else with this mustache,

823
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 2: There's no telling who I could play. But my point

824
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 2: on it is having done a limited amount of it,

825
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: the idea that we give credence to actors. I spent

826
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 2: one day in a trailer, you know, like everybody goes

827
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: and sits in their trailers or whatever. The first time

828
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 2: I ever did it, and I was like, why have

829
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 2: I ever cared what anybody who did this for their.

830
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: For a living.

831
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 2: I'm not saying, look, there's great, you know, art that

832
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 2: can be produced all those things, but the idea that

833
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 2: I would desperately care what somebody who sits around in

834
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 2: a trailer and says the same line from forty different

835
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 2: angles thinks about politics. I remember having that revelation where

836
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 2: I thought it was way more challenging and impressive of

837
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 2: a thing to do until I get it, Clay, this

838
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 2: is where I get to remind everybody, this is where

839
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 2: the history nerd comes out. Actors throughout history were like

840
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 2: a step above clowns and prostitutes. Yeah, and I'm not

841
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 2: even sure a step above the clowns. Like actors for

842
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 2: thousands of years, going back to ancient Greece were kind

843
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 2: of a disreputable bunch. And it was really only with

844
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 2: the rise of cinema in the twentieth century, and then

845
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 2: I would say, in our I think actors and music

846
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,760
Speaker 2: acts in our lifetime were elevated to their absolute pinnacle

847
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: of prestigean power. And I think in the last decade

848
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 2: we have seen a dramatic decline because there's also so

849
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: many other ways and so many other people who get

850
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: famous now because of the online world we live in,

851
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 2: so it has dispersed a lot. But I wanted to

852
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 2: go back to horror for a second, so you said

853
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 2: Friday thirteenth movies were scary? What is Nightmare on Elton

854
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 2: Street scary? That was the one that I couldn't sleep

855
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 2: after watching Friday thirteenth was fine, And Freddy Krueger was

856
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 2: the one that I was like, I'm terrified of I's

857
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 2: whenever one of these movies would come on, even if

858
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 2: it just flashed on for a second. If I was

859
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 2: my dad was around, he was always like, oh, I

860
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 2: would just take my double out book and I finished

861
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 2: this guy.

862
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: He was always like.

863
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 2: He was always like, Chase is not that scary? I

864
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 2: take my forty five. The guy would be toast. I'm like, yeah,

865
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 2: but that's like not really the point. But anyway, tell

866
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 2: me the scary for you, the scariest movie that you

867
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: have ever seen? Is that really hits the peak of

868
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: the sort of fear center in your brain when you're

869
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 2: watching that movie. For me, there is one my mom

870
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 2: read to be in the movie as the starring role.

871
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 2: By the way, oh wow, And I yeah, what was

872
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 2: the movie for you?

873
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: The Exorcist?

874
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 2: No question number one still by far the Exorcist. So

875
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 2: I watched Paranormal Activity and I was afraid to go

876
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: to sleep after watching it. This has probably been like

877
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 2: fifty years ago. I was a grown up. I mean

878
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 2: back in the day when I was a kid. It

879
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: was Freddy Krueger. But I watched I think it was

880
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 2: Paranormal Activity. And my wife and kids, and again this

881
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 2: was fifteen years ago, were out of the house and

882
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 2: I was sleeping in the house by myself. So I

883
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 2: went to go watch the movie by myself. My kids

884
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 2: were out of town, my wife was out of town.

885
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 2: And then I came back home and I turned on

886
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 2: every light in the house and I barricaded the bedroom

887
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 2: door before I went to sleep that night. And oh yeah,

888
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 2: I was probably Oh yeah, dude, I would have probably seriously.

889
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 2: I was probably probably thirty probably it was about fifteen

890
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 2: years ago. I know, Irearms La Lara's Lara's on the

891
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: ball with the fire armed train. I turned on every

892
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 2: light in the house, and uh, and I put something

893
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 2: in front of the bedroom door that that was the

894
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 2: already I watched the Paranormal Activity movie.

895
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: It was really really scary.

896
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 2: Got the most successful financial again not most, there's not

897
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 2: the most money that's like Avatar in these big movies,

898
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 2: but dollars in dollars out as a percentage of shopping

899
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 2: nothing to make and it was insanely profitable as a hit.

900
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 2: I always my story about the Blair Witch Project is

901
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 2: I was a junior counselor, so I think I was

902
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,800
Speaker 2: like sixteen at a camp in Vermont, and when it

903
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 2: would rain, it was all outdoor stuff. We get these

904
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 2: little when it would rain, what do we do. We

905
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: go into Burlington, we go into town and we'd go

906
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 2: to a movie. And the older counselor who was like

907
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 2: nineteen or twenty, who was like the main counselor. He

908
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 2: was a crazy guy from New Zealand who was definitely

909
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 2: like a little nuts and he was like, oh, let's.

910
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: Go, let's go take a case of play a witch project.

911
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: And I was like, they're like fourteen, dude, Like you

912
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 2: really were going to take all these fafteen year old

913
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 2: kids player who.

914
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: Still in a camp man.

915
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 2: He almost, I will tell you, he almost got fired

916
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 2: and like sent home over it, because I actually I

917
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 2: will not just say this now. I was like, I

918
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 2: think I'm not gonna say his name, but like I

919
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,399
Speaker 2: was like, I thing, dude, this is not a good idea,

920
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 2: and he's like, oh, he basically pulled rank on me.

921
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,399
Speaker 1: He's like, it's fun. These kids are posed, will be good.

922
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: Let's go. And I was like, I don't know, Clay.

923
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,879
Speaker 2: We had to go back to a dark, rainy campsite

924
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 2: that night, and the kids, the thirteen and fourteen year

925
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 2: old kids were.

926
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: Shaking like leaves after watching. Oh, I don't doubt that

927
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: at all.

928
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 2: That seems like by the way Brian and Florida is

929
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 2: with us, he's a former actor. I mean, if let

930
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 2: me put it this way, if you're a professional baseball

931
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 2: player or a basketball player, football player, it's awesome, right,

932
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 2: A profect. That job is really cool. He gets to

933
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 2: play games, golfer, whatever.

934
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: It is.

935
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 2: Like, I can see why people would aspire to it.

936
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 2: I've gotten to cover it. I've thought to myself, this

937
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 2: would be something really fun to do. I'm not kidding. Acting,

938
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,280
Speaker 2: I don't think would be a very funny, very fun job.

939
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,280
Speaker 1: Most actors are weirdos. But Brian, go ahead, Yes, First.

940
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 5: All you guys got to me cracking up there, and

941
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 5: you brought up Jason Bum. I actually did productions with

942
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,439
Speaker 5: Jason Blum. But Clay, I will say I chased both

943
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 5: of those dreams. I was a college athlete. I did

944
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 5: try to pursue playing Major League baseball. I fell short.

945
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 5: I was a little older. I came out and out

946
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 5: of high school to the military. But I was doing

947
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 5: like modeling down in Miami where Buck is before as

948
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 5: a teenager. Then got into business. And then when I

949
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 5: came home from the military, I was like, oh, let

950
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 5: me go. I you know, went to junior college in

951
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 5: LACC started playing ball, and then I was doing my

952
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 5: Hollywood stuff and and you're so right, like I was

953
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 5: just caught up in it, trying to chase the dream

954
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 5: really for my family. And then you learn like these

955
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 5: people are a bunch of communists, idiots and demonic and

956
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 5: they it was just, yeah, it's not fun. It's not

957
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 5: the like how they put on that perspective of oh

958
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 5: it's such a it's it's holly lit. No, it's man's brutal.

959
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 5: It's everything you guys were saying was wanted on the

960
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 5: money and low key. When I you know, oh, well,

961
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 5: let me tell you. I played on a baseball league

962
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 5: with James Vanderbeek. He was very kind, He's a very

963
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 5: humble man. He he actually never acted like he was

964
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 5: better than anybody. He was a short step on our team.

965
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 5: I was first base, but and so a lot like

966
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 5: you kind of talk to these guys a little, and

967
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 5: you like me. I was kind of open about being served.

968
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 5: I didn't care. Like my career ended pretty quick once

969
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 5: President Trump was coming down the escalators. I was a

970
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 5: avid voice and Hollywood's like, well, we can't have this

971
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 5: crazy maga guy in here. And then I ran when

972
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 5: I find out really the undercover is when I ran

973
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 5: for United States Congress during the chinavirus in twenty twenty,

974
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 5: and I was never wearing a mask. In California. I

975
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 5: would have a lot of these actors like send me

976
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 5: a message, bro, Like that's awesome. Man, Like I can't

977
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 5: really come out publicly and support you because my career

978
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 5: will be over, but like, go for it. But you

979
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 5: guys so right. You guys are cracking me up because

980
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 5: it is like who I wanted to be a baseball player.

981
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 5: That was my Like, like like you said, Clay, You're

982
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 5: you're out there playing ball. You're playing the game, doing

983
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 5: something you love to do. Acting. Yeah, it's fun being

984
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 5: different characters and different things like that. But like you said,

985
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 5: you're sitting sometimes on the set for hours, bro, Like yeah,

986
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 5: you're seeing you're seeing they like, they're oh, let's cut,

987
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 5: and then we gotta do it again, and then you

988
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 5: didn't even get to really get in there, and then

989
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 5: you gotta wait again for that scene. And sometimes the

990
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 5: actor could not even say this stupid line or two right.

991
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 5: Then they got to cut that, and then you're waiting

992
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 5: for them to redo the lighting, or even if you're outside,

993
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 5: then you gotta wait for the lighting even outside to

994
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 5: get it. I'm like, oh my.

995
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: Gosh, yeah, thank you, thank you for the call.

996
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 2: Look, if you could do a scene one time and

997
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,280
Speaker 2: be done with it, I would say, Okay, this is better.

998
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:54,279
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999
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,040
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1000
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:57,680
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1001
00:53:58,520 --> 00:53:59,920
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1002
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 2: Movies for people who dream of being an actor in

1003
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,000
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1004
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