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Jerome Hudson Fox News & Disney · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Five minutes after the hour. It is the third and final hour at least
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  for today. On the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show four thousand, nine
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  hundred and sixty nine, the five thousand show scheduled for the Tuesday after Labor
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  Day. Grant Allen over there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio
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  one B joining me Rob Strano of what is it called Golf Kingdom or Kingdom
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  Golf? Like? I can't remember? The TV show is the Golf Kingdom?
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  Golf Kingdom? That's the TV show, Jerome Show. Jerome Hudson joins
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  us, Jerome, is that on your radar? His TV show The Golf
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  Kingdom? No, I have not heard of, So you're not You're not
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  covering golf on social media? Huh? The Dylan Gwyn Meat Break Brand News
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  sports editor. I'm sure it's all over it though. You know I came
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  into this segment, I got I got nothing in front of me. So
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  Jerome, go ahead and talk. That's usually the best way for us to
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  do it. Now, you know what I want to I need you to
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  give insight to me on this. Fox News is cratering, it's it is
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  losing audience. Hand over fist. Here's my question for you. Is this
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  in the grand scheme of things good? Well, I can say it's good
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  for Breakfront News. Um, because after being pursued by Fox News fairly heavily
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  a couple of years ago, I realize why I felt so good about where
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  I am currently employed. UM. It's it's a massive me a company.
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  And that is not necessarily a bad thing. Fox News is. UM.
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  But I think oftentimes when a company grows so large, H And I guess
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  I don't have to tell you this preston having you know, worked for massic
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  conglomerate, UM, you sort of lose the message, you know. UM,
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  it sort of becomes a telephone game the culture that the company started with.
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  And I think that's very true for Fox News. UM. You know,
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  sadly, it could probably date back to the passage of its founder,
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  Roger Ailes. UM. I just explained it this way, and I did
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  it yesterday a standing date that I have with an older gentleman from my church
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  here in Jacksonville. You know, at bright part News, we don't cheat
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  our audience. We don't talk to them like there's stupid. We do the
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  opposite, try to report as much of the facts about a story as possibly
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  can. We of course don't get everything right, and I think our alreadience
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  appreciates that, and you know that the numbers don't lie, and it continues
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  to grow as big as it is and engaged as as I already exist.
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  I don't think Fox News does that all the time. I mean, they're
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  certainly not as bad as MSNBC or NBC or ABC or the rest of the
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  establishment left wing media, but they've become a corporate culture. People like Paul
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  Ryan being on the Fox News board eventually has an effect on how they report
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  on immigration and how they report on the poisoning of Americans on our southern border,
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  the way that they report on presidential or political candidates, real issues,
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  um, and so it is. I think Fox News is important. They
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  do a lot of good work. I know a lot of good people there,
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  but they're certainly in the middle. I mean, you see their Nate
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  late night lineup shifting. It's basically the same, but it's different. Um,
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  the way they handled the ouster of Tucker Carlson, probably the most important
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  man and cable news probably all the news media. Um. You know,
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  I think it'll all work itself. Out. Um, you know it's a
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  little bit sad. Is a better Fox News? I feel like made for
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  a better Bright Button News, you know what I mean? Like the better
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  Fox News was at reporting. Um, I could see it in my own
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  news room. It's sort of raised the stakes for everybody. Um, but
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  I don't and I don't know what's going to happen to Fox News. I
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  am there. I am good. Example, Glenn Is on nine to noon,
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  I am Stronger every day on WFLA eleven minutes after the hour, Jerome
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  Hudson with me from Bright Bart Fifty Things books, Fifty things they don't want
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  you to know, Fifty things they don't want you to know about Trump was
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  book two and a soon third coming book. Jerome, Let's let's talk some
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  more about Fox. What was a bigger deal Rupert stepping down from really actively
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  being involved or Lachlan stepping up, Lachlan stepping up. I think Lupert Murdoch,
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  I mean, I honestly believe Luper Murdoch at the end of the day
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  has a good sense of the news medium medium in several different countries and really
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  just wants to make a lot of money. Um. You know, he's
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  not an American citizen, and so that always gives me a little pause,
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  and it makes me a little suspect about you know, his his his appreciation
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  for how a maxive medium dues in the information like Fox News can have on
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  the country long term. But nevertheless, you know, if he's he's Rubert
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  Murdock is good at the news thing, uh, Lakeland more of a wildcard
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  a bit. You know, never really see him at the highest levels running
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  the show. And you know, to be honest with you, I just
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  not knowing that much about him about what he deeply believes in terms of the
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  most actual issues facing this country as it relates to you know, the largest
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  center right uh news organs um gives me a lot of pause. And you
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  know, again like you know, people like Paul Ryan having massive amounts of
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  sway over the news and the opinions that are disseminated a Fox News is disincerting
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  soum hey day boy, They're really and it's well, yeah, I mean
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  we talked earlier in the program. They've gone from a primetime share of fifty
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  one percent to thirty eight percent since Tucker's left, and it's not going to
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  get any better with their new lineup, they might stabilize the free fall,
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  but Jerome to me, it's more fundamental than well. It's displayed in fundamental
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  things like when they're writing on transgender issues, insisting on using the proper pronouns
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  versus the accurate pronouns. Those two me are tip offs. Yeah, I
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  guess I'll let the audience in on a little secret here. The majority of
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  the people who work at the New York Posts, the Believe, the oldest
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  newspaper in the country and is often viewed as a center right newspaper. The
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  majority of the people who work there, the majority of the people who run
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  the show, that is, the executives, the executive editors, they're Democrats,
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  and they're like long time Democrats, big check writing democrats. And the
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  same can be said for Fox News. You know, I don't think the
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  majority of the people who work there probably don't align with their audience, certainly
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  not on everything, but on most issues political and cultural. But I think
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  people would be surprised to know that people running the show of Fox News don't
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  exactly share the politics of the majority of the Fox nejoritlests. And I think
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  that is starting to become clear for people particularly people who are in the know.
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  The mask is slipping, if you will. Did they keep it in
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  check when Rupert was overseeing things more directly? I think so? And any
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  he's what extrajnarian however you say that word. It's just probably one of those
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  things where culturally he's he doesn't necessarily fit anymore and in a change you know
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  time, Uh, there's he probably doesn't want to have the con anymore,
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  if you will. At this point, he's getting up there. There is
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  that that that familial uh, you know, aspect of it is it's his
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  sons are running the show. Um, and they're younger, they have new
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  ideas. They probably think they could do it better. Uh And you know,
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  well, it's clear, Jerome stand by, it's clear that they're not
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  doing it better. And I'm wondering when shareholders are going to say enough.
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  Sixteen minutes after the hour more with Jerome Hudson on the Morning Show with Preston
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  Scott on your phone with the iHeart radio app and on hundreds of devices like
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  Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos, Yes and I Hearts Radio station
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  twenty one minutes after the hour, or on the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
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  he's an alumnus of this radio program. I don't know. I hope
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  he's a proud alumnus. Jerome Hudson with us. At least it makes him
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  laugh. The latter is true. I do oftentimes if I am forced to
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  give my origin story, give all due raise to you. Oh stop better
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  your early stewardship in tutelage in Mint mentoring me a wayward a wayward child of
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  God. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Jero Mudson with us from
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  Breitbart dot Com. Jerome how, how at what point does shareholder interest and
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  even the legal responsibility from a fudciary perspective start to make a dent in Disney
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  decision making because they seemed to be intent on alienating their entire audience. That's
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  Disney. Yeah no, what I say from one fledgling multimedia company in a
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  news corps MutS news to Disney, you do see pushed back from shareholders.
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  And you know, Bob Jpek was hired in the latter part of twenty twenty
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  one, and he made it just over a year in the job of CEO
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  at Disney because he actually managed to come in at CEO and and accelerate the
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  pace of the destruction of Disney, and so he was ousted as well as
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  several other executives, and Bob Iger was brought back as CEO, and he
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  hasn't actually fixed the problem. Disney stock is down over one hundred and twenty
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  five dollars in the last two years. I think that goes directly to your
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  point. There are a lot of people hold a lot of Disney stock,
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  and for a long time they did it for good reason, because it was
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  a company that basically printed money. And in the last half decade, Disney
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  has gone from that family first company to the equivalent of a multi multi national
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  sex offender. You can't leave your children around Disney programing a low that I'm
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  gonna borrow that one. That's good hum. It's just, you know,
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  riding around in a van, you can see the upper body before you don't
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  want to know what the lower body looks like. And you know, I
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  took umbridge a couple of months ago, as you know, you know,
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  I'm so blessed to be an editor at right Bart News. I worked with
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  very brilliant and diligent and just beautiful people, growing beautiful families. Sometimes I
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  feel in the brilliance that I'm surrounded around. But I was smart enough to
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  know a couple of months ago Preston that the headlines that came out after the
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  second quarter Disney's losses Disney Plus, this streaming version of Disney, the headlines
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  and the New York Times and Bloomberg and the Economic Times were that Disney's losses,
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  Preston had strength or shrunk and that was a good thing. And I
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  was like, what, So they went from losing a billion dollars plus on
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  Disney Plus to losing just less a billion dollars and that was good news.
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  And I've I've sly take it? Am I am I crazy? And I
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  wasn't crazy because it sounds like George W. Bush when he said a reduction
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  in the amount of the deficit, right like that that there's this there's this
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  principle at the the the wardens nothing with the school is the Harderst Business School.
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  I can't remember the actual name of it, but there's this principle called
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  negative elevation, where like bad news is all is also goodness. And I
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  get that. I understand how that can work in some ways, but that
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  doesn't make any sense. Disney Plus wasn't launched to lose less money than they
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  thought they would lose. I mean, they knew that the thing would take
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  time to become profitable, but Bob Eiger had a vision, He had a
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  goal at a specific date. He said, by twenty twenty four, Disney
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  Plus will be profitable. And I don't know if he was aware of the
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  fact that his company, Disney It's content production, was housed with executives Preston
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  who, because they have transgender kids, think that every parent wants their child
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  to be exposed to that sort of content. It's not working and it's never
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  going to work. As as we talked, Off learned, there are bedrock
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  principles that made this country great. There are shared values among many of us.
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  Even though he turned on the TV and doesn't feel like it's that every
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  day, but it's true. And Disney used to reflect that, and they
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  no longer do. They're pumping out poison and it's toxic and sadly it's it's
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  starting to lose a lot of people money. Jerome, as always, I
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  wish we had more time, but I appreciate the time you're able to wedge
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  out for us. Thank you, my friend. Be well, love you,
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  God bless you. Love you too. Joe Mudson with us this morning
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