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7-15: CNBC Says These Are The Worst Sates - So That's Where You Want To Live! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Midweek in America, A little lighthearted farder for today's show,
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  Speaker 1: because I think the news is about to get really
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  Speaker 1: really serious from here around with what Trump has been
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  Speaker 1: teasing for his address to the nation tomorrow night. But
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  Speaker 1: before that happens. You can call it filler if you want.
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  Speaker 1: But I just absolutely, completely totally am in love with
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  Speaker 1: this story. Any chance I get to make fun of
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  Speaker 1: CNBC or a completely fraudulent, bogust response list that they
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  Speaker 1: come out with, is that's golden to me. And here's
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  Speaker 1: what it is. We'll start. We'll start with the latest. First,
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  Speaker 1: CNBC has come out with a list of the worst
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  Speaker 1: states to live in. Your first question should be this,
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  Speaker 1: and I know it is because I know what you're thinking.
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  Speaker 1: The hell do they know? What are they rating this one?
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  Speaker 1: You can just imagine. But you got to get to
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  Speaker 1: what caused this kind of response from CNBC to come
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  Speaker 1: out with a worst states list. Here's the big takeaway,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what it's all about. We should all
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  Speaker 1: be thankful. You can guess without even hearing what the
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  Speaker 1: list is. What they call the worst states? Right? They're
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  Speaker 1: all leaning conservative. There are all the states that people
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  Speaker 1: are flocking to and business is flocking to. And of
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  Speaker 1: course there's always a political swampy story to this too.
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  Speaker 1: They have to counter these are all the states that
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  Speaker 1: Trump won, so of course they have to call it
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  Speaker 1: the worst states. This is what we should be thankful for.
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  Speaker 1: We should all be thankful that they're calling these the
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  Speaker 1: worst states, because if you're in one of these states
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  Speaker 1: we're about to get to here at a second, you
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  Speaker 1: should say, yes, don't come here, don't do it. And
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you as an adopted Floridian or a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's adopted Florida as my home state. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: all calling for this the same thing. It's awesome here,
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  Speaker 1: so we want everybody else to hate it. We're full.
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  Speaker 1: We want to sign put up at the Florida Georgia
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  Speaker 1: border saying no more, We're done. We're full, no more,
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  Speaker 1: and tell everybody in the media and everybody else that
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  Speaker 1: has gone lefty looney, don't come here, don't vote here,
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  Speaker 1: don't escape the blue states. Come here state like mine
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  Speaker 1: and many others, and ruin this one too, because we
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  Speaker 1: love it. Anyway, we'll get to it. It's all coming
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  Speaker 1: from C ANDBC. Thanks for finding me in the Wicked
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  Speaker 1: those Let's get it now. The best breakdown from this
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  Speaker 1: came from Laura Ingram. I'm not the biggest Laura Ingram fan,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, but she did a great
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  Speaker 1: job in breaking this down in a couple of different parts.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what kicked this whole thing off. There was
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  Speaker 1: an independent survey because these kinds of things are important,
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  Speaker 1: so they surveyed I believe it was six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty CEOs, major companies, the movers and the shakers, the
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  Speaker 1: people that provide jobs, the people that invest in communities,
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  Speaker 1: and they do even if your anti business, you have
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  Speaker 1: to admit you want these businesses in your community. And
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  Speaker 1: they ask them what are the best states? What are
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  Speaker 1: the best states for business? Right? Where money's going, where
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  Speaker 1: people are going, where opportunities are, where jobs are. And
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  Speaker 1: let's get something straight. We've always been a country. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you've got people who have lived and your family's
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  Speaker 1: been in one particular state for generations, We've always been
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  Speaker 1: a country of people moving to where the opportunity is
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  Speaker 1: that's just part of it's part of the American grit
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  Speaker 1: and spirit. I mean, look at how we developed the West.
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  Speaker 1: People just kept on going until they found land right
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  Speaker 1: or or found some opportunity. So let's go to this,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the first part of our little tale here.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what CNBC had to counter because they said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: here's lower ingram breaking down what the CEOs said and
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  Speaker 1: what's the best place to do business.
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  Speaker 2: The top ten, including Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: a Republican. They're run by Republicans except Virginia, which is
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  Speaker 2: at number ten in North Carolina kind of a purple
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  Speaker 2: state at number five. So money and people resources are
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  Speaker 2: pouring into red states.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the Virginia was a little weird there, but
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  Speaker 1: I think that's because because the taxes are ridiculous, that
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  Speaker 1: the restrictions and the regulation is ridiculous. I think the
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  Speaker 1: CEOs said Virginia is great for business because of possibly
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  Speaker 1: military contract. I don't know, you know, maybe that's the
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  Speaker 1: reason for it. But regardless, the main takeaway is all
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  Speaker 1: of those states are great for business according to America's CEOs,
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  Speaker 1: and not a lot of them when you survey six
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty of them, those are the great places
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  Speaker 1: to go. That's where opportunity is, is what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: So CNBC and basically, yes, there is a political element
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  Speaker 1: here because this is all about the midterms. The Democrats said,
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  Speaker 1: uh oh, this is out there because this business survey,
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  Speaker 1: even before CNBC's response, was getting a lot of traction.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people are looking at this saying, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it's getting a lot of attention because what did it
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  Speaker 1: tell you. It tells you that the population of the
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  Speaker 1: country is changing. I wish they were doing the census
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  Speaker 1: now because it would be completely different. And yes, I
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  Speaker 1: know everybody blames things on COVID that had a big
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  Speaker 1: part to do with this whole thing. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: seen the big survey, the real important one about the
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  Speaker 1: U haul trucks. They're hard to find in states like California, Michigan, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey because they're all going to
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  Speaker 1: states where you can find you all trucks where people
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  Speaker 1: are moving to. Many of those states lower Ingram just
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  Speaker 1: mentioned right there, the same exact states. Isn't that funny
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  Speaker 1: that the nation CEOs said are the best places for business. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if they're good for business, they're good for opportunity and
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  Speaker 1: people and families and different values. This whole country is changing.
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  Speaker 1: And guess who knows that. The political power players. So
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  Speaker 1: what they did was they, let's face it, they're running
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  Speaker 1: these networks. So they said, we got to counter this somehow.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to our let's see this is a business story. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we do. We go to CNBC and
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  Speaker 1: we make them come up with a survey and a
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  Speaker 1: story about the worst states to live in. Well, isn't
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  Speaker 1: it funny? Take one guess which these states are. Most
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  Speaker 1: of them are the ones that were just listed as
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  Speaker 1: the best states for business. Not funny. Here's what she said.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the let's go to now CNBC's counter
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  Speaker 1: to this. We can't have people believing that these states,
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  Speaker 1: these states that are gaining power right ahead of the midterms,
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  Speaker 1: we can't have them believe in that. So here was
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  Speaker 1: the response from CNBC. Report just comes out.
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  Speaker 2: They listed the ten worst states to live in for
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  Speaker 2: twenties twenty six. All the states on this list, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Trump won every state except Georgia in twenty twenty and
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  Speaker 2: the list included four of the top ten states for business.
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  Speaker 1: How does that make any sense?
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  Speaker 2: They have kind of a weird calculus there, But this
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  Speaker 2: is obviously a blatant effort to dismiss and denigrate more
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  Speaker 2: conservative state.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's right, but I think it's more than
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  Speaker 1: that with all these states that they put on for
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  Speaker 1: the worst States list to get to get people out
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  Speaker 1: of there, as if they think they have that kind
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  Speaker 1: of power. But they have to counter that narrative somehow, right,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just these states the best for business they
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  Speaker 1: have to counter these are the states where people are
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  Speaker 1: going to hear what I'm saying, you're picking up what
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  Speaker 1: I'm thrown down. They're leaving population wise, people are leaving
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  Speaker 1: those deep blue states and they're going to what you
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  Speaker 1: would cant and cited red or purple ones. That means
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  Speaker 1: those states have more power. That means those states, when
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  Speaker 1: they do count the population, if they do it correctly,
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  Speaker 1: are going to have more representation in Congress. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to have more house seats. That's why they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep people out of there. So again, what are the
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  Speaker 1: worst states? Where are they? Well, the worst states again,
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  Speaker 1: you saw the list there, but according to CNBC Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Georgia, Utah, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: and Arkansas. All the people in this state, all of
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  Speaker 1: these states would say, good, tell the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: country that we're a terrible place to live. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want you come in here anymore. We're full. But the
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  Speaker 1: fact of the matter is you can't stop people from
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  Speaker 1: coming there. I am shocked that CNBC actually, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: upset about this. They actually missed a big one. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, Florida. I can't believe they didn't put Florida
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  Speaker 1: and one of the worst states to live in because
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  Speaker 1: Florida is gaining in power and popularity and infrastructure and
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  Speaker 1: everything and everything else. But again, we're full, so don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about that. Now, let's get to the methodology. How
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  Speaker 1: do you possibly justify this? How does CNBC come out
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  Speaker 1: and justify exactly what this is all about, the methodology
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  Speaker 1: and put things in. Here's their scoring exactly what you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine. Was it based on you know, crime data, infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: job now, none of that stuff. It was based on
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  Speaker 1: CNBC Democrat type stuff. That's what it was. Quality of
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  Speaker 1: life scoring. According to them. Here you go ready, inclusiveness,
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  Speaker 1: reproductive rights, voting rights framing, not just voting rights, but
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  Speaker 1: voting rights framing. And then interesting, okay, and the numbers
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  Speaker 1: tell a different story. Obviously, what's the reproductive right? So
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  Speaker 1: it's not about you know, the best date to live in,
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  Speaker 1: isn't your housing price, if you can afford a house,
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  Speaker 1: if you can build a family, if you can build
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  Speaker 1: a business, you can create things. Now, it's about reproductive rights,
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  Speaker 1: which are important, but that's what they based all this on.
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  Speaker 1: This is panic. This is a panic response from a
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  Speaker 1: panicked media and a panicked network and why they come
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  Speaker 1: up with something like this. And again, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at a if you look at a compiled list of
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  Speaker 1: states that somebody like c NBC comes up with, and
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  Speaker 1: they come up with the worst states list, that's where
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  Speaker 1: you want to be. That you know, that's where you
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  Speaker 1: want to move to. And people are moving in droves.
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  Speaker 1: The complete population of this country is changing. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. It's a good thing in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different ways. Now, there's a lot of people that
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  Speaker 1: will tell you that we're becoming so polarized, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be we're becoming more more divided, you know, Blue
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  Speaker 1: states and red states and all this other. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that that actually is true. It's not the first time
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  Speaker 1: that's happened in this country, and it's not like in
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  Speaker 1: these are big generalities, you know, in these are generalizations.
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  Speaker 1: You know, can you build a business? Can you can
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  Speaker 1: you thrive? Can you can you prosper in a blue
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  Speaker 1: state and a blue city in New York's that? Course
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  Speaker 1: you can in New York and New Jersey and Michigan
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  Speaker 1: and California. Course you can. But it's a lot tougher
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people are realizing that and they're
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  Speaker 1: getting the hell out of there. And that's okay. That's
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  Speaker 1: the great thing about our country is you have these
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  Speaker 1: kinds of choices. You're not locked in. Not the easiest
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  Speaker 1: thing in the world is to pick up sticks and
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  Speaker 1: move a family or a business or anything and go
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  Speaker 1: to a different state. But a lot of us have
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  Speaker 1: done it, that's for sure. You have that opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: do it. It's one of the great things about the
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  Speaker 1: United States and how we work at If you want
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  Speaker 1: to go to the mountains, you can move to a
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  Speaker 1: mountain state, or you want to build a business somewhere
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  Speaker 1: where the laws are a lot better. Where you can
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  Speaker 1: do that. Sure you can, you have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: do so that's what the great thing is. But here's
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  Speaker 1: something even better. That's what people are doing. A restrictive state,
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  Speaker 1: a crazy state. The crime is horrific. Listen to the CEOs.
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  Speaker 1: They know, go to where the money is. It's the
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  Speaker 1: long it's the oldest saying in the world. Follow the money,
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  Speaker 1: not just in following up a crime and finding out
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  Speaker 1: who's guilty, follow the money where opportunity is. Because if
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  Speaker 1: CEOs are telling you these states are where the opportunities are,
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  Speaker 1: and these the best states to start a business. And
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  Speaker 1: then see and then CNN encounters that was saying, but
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  Speaker 1: those are the worre states to live in. You know
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  Speaker 1: who to believe ridiculous? All right, thanks for hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with me short one today, but I think it was
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  Speaker 1: nice little midweek fodder or something to laugh at as this.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this survey is getting mocked by every
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  Speaker 1: other media outlet in the world because CNN at CNBC, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and CNN. It is just so ridiculous. Thanks for finding me.
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  Speaker 1: Big one coming up tomorrow, there's there's a little preview
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  Speaker 1: of what's happening, and that's what we're gonna do. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna preview what the heck it is that President Trump
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  Speaker 1: is teasing about this big address to the nation tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 1: that would be Thursday night. It's about twenty twenty, and
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  Speaker 1: it's about him coming out and saying you'll let you
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  Speaker 1: was stolen. So what preview what we think is going
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  Speaker 1: to be in that one that's coming up tomorrow. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for hanging out with me in the meantime making a
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  Speaker 1: wicked awesome Wednesday. I'll talk to you, Rob