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Last Call for Bud Light: The Fall and Future of America’s Favorite Beer. · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: And now as you think there's a way to bring
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  Speaker 1: this back to life, and I get into this in
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  Speaker 1: my book Last Call for Blood Light what you mentioned about.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think one of the fundamental problems is
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  Speaker 1: is that this company, Annhezer Busch, it's no longer American owned.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually purchased by a European company called InBev
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  Speaker 1: about fifteen years ago, and then lots of mistakes were
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  Speaker 1: made over that time period. The InBev company moved the
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  Speaker 1: corporate headquarters from kind of Saint Louis to New York City,
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  Speaker 1: brought in a lot of foreign executives that really didn't
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  Speaker 1: understand the US consumer. They adopted a lot of device
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  Speaker 1: apology of policies of ESG and DEI. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of those problems happen. I think a lot of those
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  Speaker 1: go away if they actually sell Annhezer bush here in
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  Speaker 1: the US back to US citizens. I mean, sell it
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  Speaker 1: to Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, sell it to a
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  Speaker 1: consortium of firms like a Blackstone and Steve Schwartzman's group,
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  Speaker 1: sell it to one of those. I think the first
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  Speaker 1: thing they can do, which I think would be good
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  Speaker 1: for this European business that hasn't been able to really
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  Speaker 1: understand the US, and it'd be good for the business
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  Speaker 1: here