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"Crackers 'n Cheese" (Friday August 22, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Say bye body to the Barrel on Cracker Barrel iconic logo.
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Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First Thing Today on the Talk
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Media Network by Joe Thomas, Jewort.
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Speaker 3: Said, steal me. Why did we not lead with this
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at least for work? When the sun comes up, drops
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a pet of the school. Joe is everything a jam?
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Speaker 4: Do all the.
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Speaker 5: Joses out of needs?
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Speaker 6: No one that Joe's all smiled.
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Speaker 7: He only as please.
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Speaker 8: Joe here hold these truths. Joe oh on, behalf of
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crackers everywhere. I want to say to the folks at
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Cracker Barrel, you're about five years too late. I mean,
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if you're trying to get your woke street cred, you're
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about five years too late.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 8: We'll get into that. We've got folks on the phone
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You are on the air first thing this morning with
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Joe Thomas. Is this Clark? This is Clark, as you know,
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and Clark is famous in our flagship area as being
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one half of the radio duo Crackers and Cheese. I
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believe you are the Cracker in the segment Crackers and
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Cheese and your cousins was the cheese part. So on
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behalf of somebody who used to be a radio performer
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going under the name Cracker. How do you feel about
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Cracker Barrel changing its logo and taking the Cracker off
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of it?
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Speaker 10: I guess this Cracker's out of the barrel.
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Speaker 8: Now, Joe, Oh, you've been out it, have you? By
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the way, just for just for the sake of reality,
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the barrel is where the name cracker barrel comes from,
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not the guy leaning against it, although I understand that
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that is one of the reasons they took the card,
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the drawing the graphic off of their logo is that
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people on the board felt like that the guy leaning
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against the barrel was the cracker, when really the whole
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the barrel itself was the cracker barrel. It's a I guess,
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an early twentieth century kind of you know, general store
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thing where you know you'd have barrels of soda crackers,
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as I understand the story, much like you know, schools
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like b College changing their name because well Beaver even
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though it was the name of the governor of the
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. But anyway, so your thoughts, doctor Clark.
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Speaker 10: Let's see miss Julie Fie Messino.
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Speaker 8: I reach.
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Speaker 11: She has a BA in marketing from Miami of Ohio.
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Speaker 10: Now, Joe, I'm.
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Speaker 11: Fascinated that you can get that much indoctrination into just
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a BA. I would think an MBA would be necessary
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to get that indoctrinated, So I'm interested in that. I've
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got to wonder, how do decisions, these public, very public
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decisions that destroy the company that you're the CEO of,
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affect the ability to attract people to your business school.
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Speaker 10: I don't know. I don't think it could be a
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good thing.
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Speaker 11: If I had a business school, I would probably have
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the Julie Fife Messino Alyssa Henterschet course on.
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Speaker 10: How to pay attention to who your base is or something.
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Speaker 8: Now, you think that would be a big part of
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running a business right, find out who your customers are.
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Speaker 11: I think I saw where bud Light has not been
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using Dylan mulvaney lately. Is he going to be the
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new Cracker Barrel spokesman Joe? Is that where they're going with?
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Speaker 8: Why that might be? That's a that is, by the way,
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for those who don't know the name, that that is
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the CEO of Cracker Barrel and the one who oversaw
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the rejiggering of the what don't use that phrase, that's
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Speaker 5: Radio It's ond say bye bye to the barrel on
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Cracker Barrel iconic logo.
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Speaker 16: Why did we not lead with this?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, one half of the radio duo Former You know,
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it was like Bob and Ray Howard and Robin you know,
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all these you know, famous radio duos Crackers and Cheese
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had its day and one half of that is on
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the phone with us from Alabama, Doctor Clark. So you
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had a question about this whole cracker barrel brou haha.
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I didn't hear part of.
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Speaker 10: That anybody else. Sec investigation into this.
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Speaker 8: Securities and Exchange Commission interesting.
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Speaker 11: Business of George Sorow's level stock manipulation stuff.
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Speaker 8: You know, we have a group of folks at the
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Free Enterprise Project that that go in there on these
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boards and they've caught link Ford and you know, Apple
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and Intel and all these companies that have had, uh,
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these woke agendas. Maybe we need to get them. Somebody
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give me the folks at the Free Enterprise Project, they're
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part of the National Center. Get them, you know, to
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find out about this because you raise a great point.
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You know, are you failing your shareholders by you know,
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telling telling everyone stop to come to stop coming into
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cracker barrel?
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Speaker 11: Well, did somebody sell a ton of stocker or cracker
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barrel stock very recently.
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Speaker 10: Back in once the price is talk tanked?
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Speaker 8: M That would be an interesting investigation as well. Call
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Martha Stewart see if she knows anything about it, But
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that would be that would be the first place to
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look if you're looking for corruption. Is you know that
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what do they call it? Insider trading?
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Speaker 10: Well, I just I don't know, Joe.
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Speaker 11: It's hard to believe that something this stupid gets done
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on accident.
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Speaker 8: No, no, no, this is this is kind of stupidity
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takes planning.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, you can't mess something out this bad.
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Speaker 11: No, people would be upset if we just completely alienated
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the people that came in eight here.
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Speaker 8: It's just I you know, and I understand conceptually if
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if you feel like, you know, you're not getting enough customers,
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but are you? Are you not getting enough customers because
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people think only white people are allowed to come in there?
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I mean, did you do demographics and saying, you know,
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black families aren't coming in because they don't like the imagery?
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If so, why did you keep the name? Why didn't
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you just call it, you know, food barrel or something
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out Because if you kept the word cracker, then you've
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failed at changing the imagery. Well, I mean KFC did it?
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We know they became KFC because they were told that
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fried was a bad word and It also gives them
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the opportunity to play fast and loose as to how
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much of the chicken is actually in there as well.
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It's KFC. We didn't say it was Kentucky fried chicken anymore.
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So who knows that all bets are off?
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Speaker 11: If we're going to get on the fried chicken for
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a minute, well, let's talk about if we're going to
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have racial stereotypes, could we at least have something that
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made sense. Show a hands, everybody in the listening audience.
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You don't like fried chicken, raise your hand. Okay, there's
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one guy way in the back with his hand up.
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I want to know what's wrong with him. When we
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get done talking. Everybody likes fried chicken, Joe, and you
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add some herbs and spices, and it's even better. So
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this whole thing of one particular race really likes fried chicken.
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Speaker 10: That don't make no sense to me.
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Speaker 8: No, it doesn't. Everybody like en it does. It's just oh,
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definitely going. But yeah, they see that's the thing, and
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you know, and and next thing you know, you're gonna
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Speaker 21: Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 10: If we're gonna have stereotypes, I'll at least make some sense.
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Speaker 8: Thank you, doctor Clark. Take care and with special bathroom
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for the people who like Kentucky fried chicken or fried
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chicken in general, or another bathroom for the non fried
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chicken eaters, maybe that's what we need, since that seems
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to be the premise of the bathroom debate up in Arlington. Anyway,
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we'll get back into that as well. With you at
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four three four eight eight two four two one seven,
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James luck is on the phone with us. Whether or
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not you buy stock and cracker barrel, you should certainly
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should have a bunch of gold in your investment portfolio
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and silver. James, how are you doing this morning, sir.
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Speaker 22: I'm doing well, Joe, And that's something you don't have
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to worry about with gold and silver as a rebrand,
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that's for sure.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. We don't like the name gold anymore.
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We're gonna rebrand it shiny yellow, you know, metallic flake
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yellow or whatever it might be. School bus school bus chrome.
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Isn't that what they call those school buses?
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Speaker 23: Uh?
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Speaker 8: Anyway, how are they trading today?
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Speaker 15: They are down just lightly.
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Speaker 22: Gold is at three thousand, three and thirty dollars, down
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a quarter of a percent so far today. Gold really
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has been steady for a little bit over a week
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now right at this three hundred and thirty dollars level.
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Speaker 15: So, you know, pretty stable so far.
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Speaker 22: Silver is down about a half percent, just dip below
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thirty eight dollars.
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Speaker 15: It's at thirty seven dollars in ninety six.
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Speaker 22: Then, you know, that's the thing with gold and silver
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is it's always a stacking strategy.
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Speaker 15: You know, you just buy over time.
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with gold and silver every week, every month, and you
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just accumulate gold and silver over time. You store it personally,
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and it's something that you have in case you need it.
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Speaker 15: You don't no one controls it.
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Speaker 22: You don't worry about a rebrand, you don't worry about
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needing electricity.
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Speaker 15: It is a store value that fights inflation if you
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need it. Over time. And that's the great thing.
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Speaker 8: About it's the ultimate weapon against inflation. As you've said,
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You have a great weekend, James.
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Speaker 15: Thanks Joe, you too.
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Speaker 8: Four three four eight eight two four to two one seven.
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This email on the Cracker Barrel, he said, it's amazing
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the minutia that gets into the craw of the modern
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American radio listener. Well, I understand that, but you know,
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first off, it's kind of funny that, you know, Cracker
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Barrel just realized all the other companies were going woke. Really,
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you're a little late to the party, pal, And of
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course the party was wrong anyway regardless, But goodness gracious,
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I mean, I thought we were done with stories of
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companies that were rebranding themselves for woke, but then under
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the subject of medical fixes for your psychological issues, as
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we discussed transgender bathrooms, boys playing girls' sports, and that
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kind of thing, email titled body loathing coming into JT
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in the Morning Radio at gmail dot com. Charles writes
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underlying issues following right along still have to be dealt with. Sure,
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that's a great point. Four three four eight A two
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you spotted them nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings.
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both legs in Vietnam. My victory was proving that the
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disability is not a limitation.
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Speaker 4: I'm Julius. I'm a veteran. My victory was going from
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Speaker 19: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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Speaker 26: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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Speaker 28: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
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Speaker 19: Freedom to petition the government. Only the United States has
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Speaker 6: No word in the English language is less convincing than.
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Speaker 7: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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first date?
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Speaker 20: Sure?
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Speaker 17: We'll probably stay together.
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Speaker 6: Probably. It's been twenty three minutes since I ate I
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can probably swim.
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Speaker 10: You should wait thirty minutes.
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Speaker 8: Okay, I'll tell me what to do. Can it ball?
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Speaker 14: Cramp?
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Speaker 8: Oh, I have a cramp, totally ready to go.
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Speaker 29: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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Speaker 20: Yeah?
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Speaker 12: I'm pretty sober.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm probably okay. Probably okay.
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Speaker 6: Isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking and driving.
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Speaker 28: And me.
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Speaker 4: Question on your to do list?
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Speaker 2: Putting the radio on is the first thing today?
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Speaker 18: Hi?
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Speaker 15: Jos Wait what June?
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Speaker 8: I thank you for letting us be of service to
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More reaction to the comparison between trans bathroom and segregated
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bathrooms of the forties, and Terry writes in from Youngstown
29:07
where she's listening, said that is the most ridiculous thing
29:12
I've ever heard. I can't believe somebody on the left
29:14
went there, You can't, Terry. I mean, when I saw
29:18
the sign, I'm like, oh, that's right out of central casting.
29:22
Because that's the issue, the original sin of this country,
29:27
and it's still to this day, what the equity jockey's ride,
29:36
this idea that well, this happened, so therefore this is
29:42
the same because we were determining that black people shouldn't
29:46
be married to white people, therefore saying that only men
29:53
and women can get married in an official state sanctioned
29:59
wedding is, or get a license or insurance protections and
30:03
all the things that go. It's these moral equivalencies, terry,
30:08
that they like to draw upon, rather than having an
30:11
intellectual argument over whether a boy can get into a
30:17
boxing ring and start hitting a girl because he says
30:22
he's a girl, or if a boy can go into
30:25
a girl's bathroom in a busy school and realize, maybe
30:30
I don't feel so much like a girl today. That's
30:39
the issue that we're having, is that they're taking these
30:43
moral equivalencies and it's designed, as I said earlier, to
30:48
drag you into the Overton window to discuss it so
30:52
much that it starts to become well as the overtu
30:58
It goes to radical to ridiculous, to commonly discussed to commonplace.
31:05
I mean, there's a process that you get and it's
31:10
not whether or not it's lampooned or not. It's not
31:14
if you're normalizing this is part of that active measures.
31:20
You're normalizing it by discussing it in any way, shape
31:23
or form other than through logic. If you hate your body,
31:32
that is a psychological problem, because it's your body. So
31:39
let's work on that. But we've gone so far down
31:42
the anti victim shaming alleyway. We can't say somebody has
31:50
a problem. People don't want to think about them having
31:54
a problem because they're afraid that the problem is going
31:57
to take the authoritarians into the interrogation room with them.
32:03
And then when you tell your doctor, i'm feeling kind
32:06
of weird little voices inside my head, whatever it might
32:11
be that you're confessing, you're going to wind up in
32:16
bigger trouble than you think you deserve to be in.
32:23
There's socially, people can choose who you hang out with
32:29
for whatever reason, But there's nothing that says a male
32:32
can't wear a skirt. I'm Scottish. I should be the
32:35
first one to point that out. Our hilaldic costume is
32:39
men in skirts. But the the grander issue is ignorance
32:56
of the of the actual problems. You can't tell me
33:00
I have a problem. The that's the trap we've fallen into.
33:06
You can't tell me I have a problem. And it's
33:16
ignorance of real issues that people are facing, rather than saying, hey,
33:23
can somebody help? You hate yourself? And if a child
33:27
is saying I hate my body, okay, that's a that's
33:30
a call for help, not a tool to make you
33:36
popular at the book club, which unfortunately this has also become.
33:43
This has become the new Munchausen syndrome. I mean to
33:49
be fair, it's only slightly, but it is slightly better
33:54
than making your child grievously ill to get you attention.
34:03
And all of it ignores the real underlying issues. We've
34:08
become such a superficial, made for TV society. What does
34:13
it look like? I don't care what it does. I
34:16
want to know what it looks like. What are the
34:17
optics of this? And that's where we sell our soul.
34:25
We sell our soul for the optics. I want to
34:30
see a crowd of people cheering me on Thursday when
34:33
we make this big announcement Phil. So we have to
34:45
be the voice of logic. I had a discussion with
34:49
a friend of mine. We're both Star Trek fans, and
34:55
he asked me the question. He said, Joe, what if
34:58
we're the Vulcans? I said, what do you mean? He said, Well,
35:01
the Vulcans talk about how they had this really dark,
35:05
combative battle of you know, bloodshed, a lot of violence
35:08
and a lot of self indulgence, and that's how they
35:12
won their way through logic. Do you ever think that
35:14
maybe we are the ones that are going through, that
35:17
we're going through such an insane period of illogic that
35:26
maybe maybe we do become that four three four eight
35:38
eight two four two one seven. The issue of the
35:45
truck drivers is another one that we've allowed to happen. Well,
35:48
they have to earn a living. Why why do they
35:50
have to earn a living if they're not citizens? Because
35:54
we've allowed people, through the Overton window to normalize the
35:58
idea of people for versus citizens. So we have people's
36:05
rights and they gaslight you into agreeing to it. By saying, well,
36:13
don't you believe God gives all these people unalienable rights?
36:16
You can serve old wackos, and yes we do, but
36:22
only the US citizens are protected by the Bill of
36:25
Rights to supposedly have those protected, and your heart breaks
36:33
for anyone who is drawn the short straw, been born
36:40
into a country where they don't have that. It's why
36:48
we set up our immigration systems so that people who
36:51
didn't have access to a government that would protect their
36:56
God given rights they could go get one. But this
37:06
idea of peoplehood versus citizen hood is how you wind
37:12
up with non citizen truck drivers not knowing the rules
37:17
of the road killing a family of three. So don't
37:23
shrug this off and say, oh, it's just a policy issue.
37:27
Oh it's just democrats versus Republicans. Kids are dying, families
37:33
are being killed, and it gives me no great shadenfreudi
37:44
old glee to a report that it's all because of
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woke and that we warned you about it all along,
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Speaker 31: Growing up on a farm in Tennessee, I've been fascinated
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with animals. I'm not only in all of their beauty
41:06
and kindness, but also their tireless work ethic. Just look
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at the birds who gather supplies to build nests, or
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Swiss foxes who work hard to provide for their young,
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or penguins who travel up to five hundred miles to
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secure food for their families, or bush babies whose impressive
41:20
jump allows them to navigate the trees and the wild
41:23
in search of fruit. This remarkable work ethic is shared
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by our best friends, the canines. We know dogs are
41:29
wonderful pets at home, but because of their acute senses,
41:32
they also perform life saving work every day.
41:35
Speaker 4: Dogs keep us safe at airports.
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Speaker 26: Oh bruh, that's buzzed.
42:01
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
42:05
Speaker 29: And now a speech.
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Speaker 20: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
42:10
heart and brain.
42:12
Speaker 8: Who's with me?
42:13
Speaker 20: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
42:16
brain is saying when it's time to go home.
42:18
Speaker 15: Somebody call me a ride.
42:20
Speaker 26: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 7: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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it's time to go home.
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Speaker 12: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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Speaker 29: I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what
44:30
I learned, and what I know it will take to
44:33
move forward. Sometimes the fight takes a while, but I
44:38
remain full of hope and I remain clear eyed. I
44:43
will never stop fighting.
44:44
Speaker 34: Everyone thinks you've been kicking back, drinking Margarita's on the beach,
44:49
but really you've been hard at work, writing a book,
44:53
meeting with leaders, thinking about the future, of our country.
44:57
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, you know. I So every time I
45:00
think Kamala Harris can't redefine cringe, she does this video
45:05
where she's I guess she's supposed to be talking to
45:10
herself about drinking more. I'm clear eyed. I mean, what
45:15
are these calls for help? She is saying, they're feeding
45:19
me liquor. I'm clear eyed. They think you're on the
45:24
beach drinking. Marguerite is, gee, why do we think that,
45:28
CAMMI one hundred and seven days. That's the book she's hawking.
45:34
And just when you define cringe in the modern dictionary,
45:41
there's a picture of Kamala Harris. It used to be
45:43
Hillary Clinton hots us in my bag and Kamala said,
45:51
here hold my beer and took the title from Hillary.
45:57
In three straight set blowouts, I'm clear eyed looking to
46:05
the future and going forward and what I saw and
46:09
what I learned. What did you see? Did you see
46:13
how you would weaponize the Department of Justice against American citizens?
46:17
Did you see that you didn't stop it? What did
46:20
you see that you didn't stop? This is just very
46:28
very funny rebranding that she's trying to go through. And
46:34
she's trying to you know, basically mansplain her term as
46:44
vice president and as the president's presidential nominee. At the
46:53
very end of this what was supposed to be a
46:58
confirmation of American it was. It was everything they warned
47:02
you that it would be a confirmation of American values.
47:11
It was everything that, but not in the way they
47:15
wanted it to be. But it was, without question, everything
47:22
that they said that the Biden administration was going to be. Now,
47:28
So while Kamala Harris is re branding, now we've got
47:32
Sarah Moore, this is the Cracker Barrel communications director.
47:38
Speaker 23: Over the past year, we have been very transparent about
47:41
our transformation platform.
47:43
Speaker 8: And they're transitioning. That's it. They're trying to get on.
47:47
The transitional aug.
47:49
Speaker 23: Is really centered on that physical guest experience, and we've
47:52
spent the last year testing and concepting various levels of remodels.
47:58
All of these have been all of these various levels
48:01
have been rooted in our brand DNA, They've been rooted
48:04
in guest feedback, and it's all about evolution.
48:07
Speaker 8: With I'm sorry, I can't, I can only take so much,
48:11
so much bovine excrement, media marketing crap. Oh the customers
48:20
so First off, if you're going to rebrand and take
48:23
the word, you know, the the imagery of crackers and
48:26
barrels off your logo, the blonde white girl selling your brand,
48:32
is maybe it could we not find some dazzling young
48:38
urbanite to tell the story of the rebranding of cracker
48:42
barrel And sure, you say we want to be a
48:50
different kind of restaurant. I went through this at Burger
48:52
King when I was running my Burger Kings. They said, hey,
48:56
we're going to become a salad restaurant, and they poured
49:03
millions of dollars per restaurant to carve out places for
49:08
their salad bar in the burger restaurant because people said
49:14
they like salad. So it was the early eighties. Rather
49:21
than doing what McDonald's was doing, which was selling breakfast
49:26
burgers because I like burgers for lunch, I might like
49:32
burgers for breakfast too. Burger Kings said, no, No, our
49:41
focus group, our customer engagement portfolio says we need to
49:46
be a salad restaurant. Is that? I mean? This is
49:51
the synergistic corporate clap trap that you hear in every
49:56
marketing meeting. Oh, it's about synergy, it's creating, you know,
50:00
dining relationships and oh my gosh, you know in this
50:06
mysticism surrounding it serve food people like to eat. Figure
50:13
out what that is. Kamala Harris has the same problem.
50:21
Kamala Harris might as well be the cracker barrel of
50:23
presidential candidates. And again I'm speaking having never ever eaten
50:29
in a cracker barrel. But I understand home style cooking.
50:35
We have restaurants that do home style cooking here in
50:39
my hometown and I've been into them. You know, fried
50:43
chicken and beans and mashed potatoes. I get it. I
50:48
get what the fair means. And like Esop's dog with
50:59
the bone, I think that they've realized. They said, we
51:03
don't like that customer base anymore. We want that customer
51:07
base over there, and they're going to wind up with neither.
51:11
And that's going to be the problem. And we'll be
51:12
back here in a year or two. Cracker Prowls bringing
51:16
back It's just like New Coke was, Oh, look at
51:21
what we've brought back the original recipe, Coca Cola. It's
51:27
like KFC has not unbranded itself KFC, but they've brought
51:32
them the Colonel back the colonel and his secret recipe.
51:37
And oh, pay no attention to the fact that we
51:40
don't say the word fried anymore. We've rebranded for a
51:46
better customer relationship experience, just like Kamala Harris has rebranded
51:51
for a better customer experience. Figure out what people like
52:01
to eat, figure out what citizens want their lives to
52:05
be like, and deliver that. That's why commonly, you lost
52:08
by seven million votes to Donald Trump. Those same seven
52:14
million votes that we can't account for anywhere, so we
52:17
don't know where they went. Now, it's not our fault
52:22
that you're just not worthy of voter fraud rebranding. I'm
52:31
not rebranding. I'm no but for four three four eight
52:34
eight two four two one seven. Pay no attention to
52:38
what I say. Pay attention to our new brand that
52:40
we have. Have you seen the new logo that will
52:46
fix everything, Well, we'll get a new logo, get rid
52:49
of the donkey.
52:51
Speaker 27: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
52:54
leg to a roadside bomb.
52:55
Speaker 2: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
52:58
weightlifting champion.
53:00
Speaker 20: I'm Sam, I'm a veteran.
53:02
Speaker 18: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
53:04
of and supporting my families.
53:06
Speaker 25: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
53:09
of their lives.
53:10
Speaker 4: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to all.
53:14
Speaker 25: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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the benefits they've earned.
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Speaker 18: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
53:23
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Speaker 27: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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Speaker 6: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
53:36
Speaker 25: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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they face and conquer their challenges.
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Speaker 20: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
53:44
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