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Speaker 1: heard from inside of the campaign, they are already thinking

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Speaker 1: the Corona virus began closing the economy. So you hear that,

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Speaker 1: just the unemployment numbers. And it's it's tough. I mean,

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Speaker 1: break through. It really is. I mean, and I say that,

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Speaker 1: a lot more pressing issues than to deal with the

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Speaker 1: typical Republican Democrat back and forth banter. That is, that

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Speaker 1: is true. I think the one thing that I think

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Speaker 1: He is being socially distant. There are restrictions in states

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Speaker 1: where he can't I mean legally cannot go travel to

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Speaker 1: being in the White House. That being said, what you've

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Speaker 1: we're still early. It's not even juniet. We've got six

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Speaker 1: months little lessan six months ago for Biden to make

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Speaker 1: We've never you know, campaigns for president been a pandemic

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Speaker 1: it's going to be like anything we've ever seen before.

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Speaker 1: Adam Hodge, when you were at the Treasury Department. You've

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Speaker 1: worked at Treasury, you know what they're dealing I mean,

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Speaker 1: you don't know what they're dealing with in terms of

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, but you know how the inner workings of

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Speaker 1: the Treasury Department are. And night and we've got ninety

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Speaker 1: seconds left. But what would a what would a Biden

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Speaker 1: Treasury Department have to do? Uh? If if Biden becomes president,

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Speaker 1: what would be what would they do first? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know you're not right. I one of the first

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Speaker 1: thing that they probably will look at doing, it's just

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Speaker 1: increasing transparency in sunlight into the different programs the Treasury

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Speaker 1: If you look at Biden's record as Vice President when

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Speaker 1: a huge oversighting accountability aspect of that, where they showed

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Speaker 1: the American people where every dollar was spent. And so

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Speaker 1: I think part of the mandate for the next Secretary

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Speaker 1: people some some comfort that there's no corrupt intent with

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Speaker 1: any of the funds that are being used and then

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Speaker 1: look for uh, really robust and unprecedented economic recovery package

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Speaker 1: because I think as the case, you still keep going up.

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Speaker 1: We know that death is still still increasing. Um, We've

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Speaker 1: got a long way to go on this crisis, and

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Speaker 1: it's going to require a response that meets the moment.

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Speaker 1: You still in d C. Yeah, because you know I'm

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Speaker 1: getting a hog after the break. Where's the best place

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Speaker 1: to get a HOGI and d C out of Mangia

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Speaker 1: Lardos on Capitol Hill on Pemplvania Avenue is fantastic. Get

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Speaker 1: them all right? All right? Thanks? Adam Hodge, Senior Vice

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Speaker 1: President and Aerial Investments. I'm Kevin Sireli, Chief HOGI shopper

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Speaker 1: eater in chief. You're listening to Bloomberg. You're listening to Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Sound On with Kevin Sirel on Bloomberg and one Old

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Speaker 1: five point seven F M H D two. I'm Kevin Sireli,

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Speaker 1: Chief Washington correspondent from Bloomberg Forward, Bloomberg Television and for

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. Finally the weather cleared. Who I mean, come on,

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Speaker 1: we gotta keep the weather. It's a little bit nice, busy,

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Speaker 1: busy week for news Tomorrow, we have House Financial Services

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Speaker 1: Committee Chairwoman Vaccine Waters. We're gonna have Maxine Waters, Democrat

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Speaker 1: in California. Lots to talk about with her. I want

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Speaker 1: to get her take on housing because you know the

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Speaker 1: whole housing issue with the mortgage a mortgage finance, and

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Speaker 1: you know every thing that Mark Collabora is doing. I

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Speaker 1: want to know what what what she thinks about that,

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Speaker 1: both for low income earners and for high income earners.

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Speaker 1: And we're also gonna have Mauricio Umansky on the show

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Speaker 1: of the Agency r E. He is one of the

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Speaker 1: top real estate one of the top real estate firms

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Speaker 1: in the country. We're thrilled to have Mauricio call in.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna focus on some housing tomorrow and yes,

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Speaker 1: sports as well. Joining us on the line, I believe

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Speaker 1: is Adam Goodman. Adam arey there here, You're here. Adam

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Speaker 1: thilled to have him back. He's a Republican media strategist,

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Speaker 1: columnist and partner at Ballard Partners in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: You wrote this incredible, incredible. I mean I mentioned this

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Speaker 1: on um a meeting, a show meeting that we had

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Speaker 1: earlier this week. I was like, if we switch to

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Speaker 1: mail in voting, could we be back in Florida with

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Speaker 1: hanging Chad's And you wrote this column called the two

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Speaker 1: thousand recount only worse and it's on real clear politics.

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Speaker 1: Later this year, a mayor Amerricans, you write, may face

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Speaker 1: a nightmare scenario from which there will be no escape

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Speaker 1: or recourse. And this has nothing to do with any virus.

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Speaker 1: It has to do with how elections are conducted in

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Speaker 1: the United States. Tell us what your concern is. Go well,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you, Kevin, as a veteran of the

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Speaker 1: two thousand recount, having been there for the thirty odd

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Speaker 1: days where we are trying to figure out who actually

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Speaker 1: did win Florida, we still don't know. I mean to

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Speaker 1: be truthful. The final count was popular and thirty seven votes.

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Speaker 1: It was a very good shot at what we think happened.

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Speaker 1: But with I think it was like seventeen million or

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Speaker 1: sixty million votes that were cast. That was the best

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Speaker 1: educated guests we had. But that was frankly, Kevin, that

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Speaker 1: was a like a practice run compared to what we're

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Speaker 1: about to see I think in the fall election, especially

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Speaker 1: if it's close, because uh in Florida The problem was

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Speaker 1: you had sixty seven different election supervio. There's sixty seven

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Speaker 1: different systems trying to figure out who won with butterfly

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Speaker 1: ballots and hanging Chad's leading, everyone hanging in the balants.

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Speaker 1: But if you have across the country, and especially in

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Speaker 1: critical swing states, if you have massive voting by mail,

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Speaker 1: which looks like it's very probable, uh, and this will

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Speaker 1: be done for the first time in many of these states.

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Speaker 1: At that level, you're gonna have all sorts of mistakes,

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Speaker 1: all sorts of problems. And if it's closed, you know

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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Uh. The side that's trailing is gonna

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Speaker 1: screen bloody murder. The side that the head will be

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Speaker 1: trying to say it's over and trying to declare victory.

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Speaker 1: But the ones that are gonna be gonna be more

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Speaker 1: important than ever. And we saw this a little bit

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Speaker 1: in Florida that the cases you know, ended up in

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Speaker 1: the U. S. Supreme Court, it's gonna be state supreme

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Speaker 1: courts in places like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Who could hold the balance of power and who wins

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Speaker 1: and who doesn't. And there are a lot of politics,

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Speaker 1: as you can appreciate in all those courts. This is

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Speaker 1: just fascinating to me because Adam Gidman's on the line.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the nation's best known media consultants for political,

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Speaker 1: corporate and advocacy campaigns, and we're thrilled and very grateful

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Speaker 1: to have him on our program because of his deep expertise.

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Speaker 1: But this is just fascinating to me because when I

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Speaker 1: are talking about this through the political prism and you're not,

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Speaker 1: which I appreciate, especially for a show like this, because

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Speaker 1: is the United States Postal Service even prepared to handle this?

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Speaker 1: That's a question I have another time, right, I mean, well,

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Speaker 1: help me, I mean, but another question to have and

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Speaker 1: then just go after I asked these. Another question I

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Speaker 1: have is, I mean, why are we in two thousand

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Speaker 1: have artificial intelligence? You know, they're talking about apps that

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Speaker 1: contract the virus. Why are we doing mail and voting?

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Speaker 1: Why aren't we doing something a little more tech savvy? Adam,

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Speaker 1: I just just oh my god, It's like, where do

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Speaker 1: you begin? So that's how I feel, And if if

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Speaker 1: keep it focused. It's been a critique, but I try

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Speaker 1: to keep my questions focused. But yeah, it's this doesn't

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Speaker 1: feel rational to me. Go ahead, Okay, here's here's what

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Speaker 1: I have for you tonight. It could change, of course

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Speaker 1: in a week. Uh, let's talk about the the U. S.

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Speaker 1: Postal Service. You you saw this. I think it was

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Speaker 1: this week, right, even that they just appointed a new

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Speaker 1: Postmaster General. Um that person. That person is the most

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Speaker 1: important person on Earth, I think in this election potentially

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Speaker 1: because a lot of things that are gonna happen with

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Speaker 1: Postmaster General be are be very good on his feet

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna be front and square and all of

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Speaker 1: this in terms of why we're doing mail versus something

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Speaker 1: more tech savvy. The problem with the tech savvy, which

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Speaker 1: really feels right, and at some point I hope not

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Speaker 1: too long from now it will be right, is it's

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Speaker 1: too open for threats to cybersecurity. Right. They're making sure

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Speaker 1: That's something that I think we haven't quite fully debugged

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Speaker 1: enough to give us confidence that that will work. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And so that's we're not ready to go there. But

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Speaker 1: the one thing, if it's helpful at all as a perspective, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: what it is. The most important thing that I and

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Speaker 1: everybody else that was involved in the process legitimately wanted

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Speaker 1: was something that the American public could believe in. And

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Speaker 1: that we lose confidence in the in the power of

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Speaker 1: the vote, the integrity of the vote, Kevin, we lose that,

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Speaker 1: everything else kind of comes crumbling down. So there was

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Speaker 1: a bigger calling that I thought a lot of it

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Speaker 1: had in that recount process, which was, even if the

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Speaker 1: wanted the American public trust and confidence to to prevail overall.

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Speaker 1: So that's awesome. And Adam, I really appreciate you coming

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Speaker 1: on because you are such an insider and on on

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Speaker 1: this issue, uh and and on so many other ones.

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Speaker 1: And I just have to ask you, and it's totally

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Speaker 1: off topic, but are we going to get sports in

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Speaker 1: the fall. It's not off topic because we desperately needed Kevin. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do. The Eagles are playing the Redskins in Week one,

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Speaker 1: and I just want to make sure that I'm there

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Speaker 1: for the game. Go ahead, Well, it's a Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: as a Tampa Bay Bucks band. With Brady coming south,

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Speaker 1: you better believe that we have a new appreciation for football. Look,

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Speaker 1: we may it's not the real estate down there. They

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Speaker 1: all want to know where he's gonna live. Go ahead, Oh,

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Speaker 1: he already is kind of well, of course he's staying

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Speaker 1: at Jeter's house, which is about twenty five thousand square

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Speaker 1: feet of splendor. But we're gonna have sports. The question

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Speaker 1: is are we gonna have fans with and they're able

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Speaker 1: to attend the sports? Don't know, But I think a

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Speaker 1: season without professional sports, or college sports or any kind

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Speaker 1: of sports is a season you kind of want to

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Speaker 1: sleep through. And I think we've done enough sleeping or

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Speaker 1: ready to get back on the horse and start riding again.

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Speaker 1: I would agree, and and and I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's been it's really interesting to see how all the

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Speaker 1: different leagues have been have been handling this. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I think people really just want to are craving something.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've been obsessed with the Michael Jordan's documentary

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Speaker 1: on Yes, it's just been that's been riveting and I'm

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Speaker 1: interested to see what they do next because they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to make that some type of series. Uh, Adam,

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Speaker 1: I really really appreciate you coming on and let me

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Speaker 1: ask you just one final thing. Speaking with sports just

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Speaker 1: for a second, do you think that they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: allowed to have fans in the stands or I mean,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to pull anything out of you

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Speaker 1: that you don't want to say, but they have to

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Speaker 1: be weighing different types of options. I would imagine they are,

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Speaker 1: but but none of them fit the conventional mode. When

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Speaker 1: when you think about, say football, you're a cat about

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Speaker 1: a stadium with sixty seventy fans. Do you know that's

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen, not gonna happen. Uh? Could you have

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Speaker 1: five thousand fans or fifteen thousand fans? And if so,

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Speaker 1: what do you do? Is there like a rotating system

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Speaker 1: where season ticket holders get every other game or every

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Speaker 1: third game where they can actually attend. Uh, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to figure all this out on the fly, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, for all those who are looking at

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Speaker 1: the response that this country has had to COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: uh uh. We prayed it's all gonna end end soon

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Speaker 1: and end well. But we have to give credit to

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Speaker 1: what we've all been able to accomplish as Americans on

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Speaker 1: the fly. We're doing this on the fly. I agree

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Speaker 1: outa given thank you. I'm so incredibly appreciative. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to soon. That's Adam given up. Kevin's really does it

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Speaker 1: for me. You're listening to bloomberg sass fished