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Wicked Radio 12-26: From Christmas To 'Returnuary', Beyonce Bowl, & TV Drug Ads · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing how quickly Christmas comes now as
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Speaker 1: an adult. It's totally different when you're a kid. But
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Speaker 1: then it goes just as fast. We're past Christmas already,
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Speaker 1: which means it's time to move from the holiday season
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Speaker 1: to return Youary, I was reading all about this last
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Speaker 1: night of this morning. You would not believe the numbers
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Speaker 1: the retail industry is talking about with returns this year.
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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. I thought it was a mistake. Apparently we
0:32
Speaker 1: all buy stuff to just return it later on. But
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Speaker 1: that's okay because it opens up things and reasons for
0:39
Speaker 1: you to be able to explain this to people that
0:41
Speaker 1: bought you something nice. Anyway, we'll get into that. We'll
0:43
Speaker 1: talk about that as well. We've got to talk about
0:45
Speaker 1: NFL on Netflix, not because maybe you're an NFL fan
0:49
Speaker 1: or not, but where it's going in the future, sports
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Speaker 1: programming and halftime programming. Did you see the Beyonce Bowl?
0:56
Speaker 1: Don't know what I think about that. Very little to
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Speaker 1: talk about in news, thankfully, but RFK Junior made some headlines. Well,
1:02
Speaker 1: I should actually say the headlines made news about him
1:05
Speaker 1: with his concept of banning pharmaceutical ads on television what
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Speaker 1: would that world look like. I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 1: think he's gonna be able to get it done. I
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Speaker 1: think we all think it would be amazing. Too much
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Speaker 1: money involved, But if he ever did get that done,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't that be incredible? And I didn't see this personally,
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Speaker 1: but people told me about it, and it actually was
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Speaker 1: a thing. You can't shorten. It's a wonderful life. No,
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Speaker 1: it's a three and a half. It might be four
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Speaker 1: hour commitment. I don't know what it is, but you
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Speaker 1: have to watch that thing start to finish and you
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Speaker 1: can't cut anything out of it. But Amazon Prime managed
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Speaker 1: to an actual contention, like an old style Reader's Digest
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Speaker 1: version of if it's a wonderful life, just don't show it.
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Speaker 1: Then that's all I'm saying. That's all all right. I
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Speaker 1: love that term return you wary, because that's actually what
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Speaker 1: it is. Listen to this. The retail industry is saying,
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Speaker 1: this is all published now that they're expecting this year
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Speaker 1: for whatever. I think, mostly because most of our shopping
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Speaker 1: is done online now right, we've passed that point. Seventeen
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Speaker 1: percent higher returns expected this year. And I saw that
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Speaker 1: and they said, okay, well that makes sense, you know,
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Speaker 1: a little bit higher than last year. Buying's up, spending
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Speaker 1: is up, so that naturally would lead to returns being up.
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Speaker 1: That all makes sense. And then they did a survey,
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Speaker 1: a couple of them actually, and they all turned out
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Speaker 1: to be pretty consistent. Forty percent of us. And this
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Speaker 1: is one of those national phone surveys, so they do
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Speaker 1: actually pull a lot of people. Forty percent of us
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Speaker 1: plan to return at least one item we got for
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Speaker 1: Christmas this year. You can include Honwik in this, and
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Speaker 1: by the way, happy Hanik everybody that's underway. Forty percent,
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Speaker 1: Well that's a lot and I started thinking what that
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Speaker 1: adds up to. Woyo, what is that as far as
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Speaker 1: for as total money into because that's a huge reinsertion
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Speaker 1: into the economy, right, things that were bought but return
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Speaker 1: to kind of screws things up. Here's the number, eight
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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety billion dollars accounted for returns, retail returns
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Speaker 1: from now until well, I guess the rest of January
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Speaker 1: going into going into next month. I guess eight hundred
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Speaker 1: and ninety billion dollars. And I saw that and I
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Speaker 1: said that can't be right. There's no possible way sure enough.
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Speaker 1: The original news source did the story for this year,
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Speaker 1: and the updated it is Nbcnewyork dot com, NBCNYS, NBCNY
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Speaker 1: dot com, and they're the ones that coined the term return.
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Speaker 1: Youary eight hundred and ninety billion dollars getting flushed back
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Speaker 1: into the retail industry. That's a lot of money, that's
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Speaker 1: a lot of people. So I think this whole thing,
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Speaker 1: if if this is all right, and I think it
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Speaker 1: actually is, believe it or not, you don't have to
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Speaker 1: worry about any more. If it's forty percent of us
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Speaker 1: returning stuff that you got for Christmas, or maybe if
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Speaker 1: you got like a Honika gifting, return this later on,
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Speaker 1: any kind of gift, I think we've reached culturally a
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Speaker 1: different point in time. You don't have to worry about
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Speaker 1: explain something to somebody. If ten people are in the
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Speaker 1: room and four of them return something, it's kind of commonplace.
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Speaker 1: So remember that whole thing, Like if you had a conscience,
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Speaker 1: you always worry about they got me that gift, but
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Speaker 1: I don't want to let them know about it. How
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Speaker 1: do I explain that? How do I explain that I
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Speaker 1: didn't like it, or I didn't fit or something I
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Speaker 1: think it's gone. I really do. If forty percent of
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Speaker 1: America is returning stuff from today on all the way
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Speaker 1: through next month, I don't think you have to feel
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Speaker 1: bad about returning things anymore because you're not the only
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Speaker 1: one of the pool anymore. It's like so commonplace. So
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Speaker 1: why I'm just saying, I'm just suggesting, you know, it
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Speaker 1: always fits and there's always the right color money gift cards.
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Speaker 1: That's just my that's just I'm just adding that in there. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it used to be. That's another thing that changed as well,
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Speaker 1: by the way they changed with Cyber Monday. You can't
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Speaker 1: get a gift card. It's so impersonal. The hell with that.
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Speaker 1: It's convenient and awesome. That's another thing that change. You
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Speaker 1: don't have to return that. It's good for everything. Love
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Speaker 1: it all right. This happened on NFL Sunday, which is
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Speaker 1: Christmas Day. Now did you happen to see this? And
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Speaker 1: this isn't really about being an NFL fan or a
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Speaker 1: football fan or whatever. I think it's really just where
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Speaker 1: television programming is going. So live sports is the last
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Speaker 1: real live thing that you probably if you're into it,
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Speaker 1: need to see why it's happening. Right, But it's all
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Speaker 1: becoming like a la carte you know, used to be
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Speaker 1: back in the old days. You look it up and
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Speaker 1: see when your team is playing, and if it's on
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Speaker 1: the CBS National Game or if it's on Fox or
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, and kind of arrange from there. Well,
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Speaker 1: then the NFL package came along, and that was a
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Speaker 1: different kind of thing. If you're out of market and
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Speaker 1: you want to watch your team like I do, and
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Speaker 1: you got to, you know, you'd pay for the NFL package,
5:47
Speaker 1: and YouTube got a hold of that. Then Amazon started
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Speaker 1: showing some games, and now we've got Netflix showing games.
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Speaker 1: So the first thing is really sports are becoming like
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Speaker 1: everything else, even though that would still be live, it's
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Speaker 1: like a la carte, right, So no matter what, whoever
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Speaker 1: winds up in five years, ten years from now having
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Speaker 1: live sports, maybe that's just maybe that's Amazon, maybe it's Netflix,
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's some other thing coming down the road. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it's just all on X, maybe Elon gets the contracts.
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Speaker 1: Whatever it is, it's all gonna be a la carte.
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Speaker 1: So it won't be one schedule of games. You'll just
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Speaker 1: order that game, you'll order that event, you'll order that
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Speaker 1: thing whatever. Some of the testing on that is already happening.
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Speaker 1: So Netflix had an NFL Christmas Day and it didn't
6:31
Speaker 1: well what this part wasn't their fault. They got stuck
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Speaker 1: with a couple of really bad blowout games, not if
6:38
Speaker 1: you're a fan of Kansas City or Baltimore, because the
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Speaker 1: first game was Kansas City destroying Pittsburgh twenty nine to ten.
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Speaker 1: Second game in the afternoon, again both on Christmas, was
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Speaker 1: Baltimore over Houston thirty one to three. It would have
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Speaker 1: benefited Netflix if they got more competitive games, obviously, right,
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Speaker 1: but they can't really control that. They get what they get,
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Speaker 1: and it is what it is. It's kind of funky
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Speaker 1: to find in the first place, because just out of curiosity,
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Speaker 1: just wanted to see while we're getting ready for Christmas
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Speaker 1: and having people over, I wanted to venture over to
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Speaker 1: Netflix and see how that's going to me. It was
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Speaker 1: really clunky, and maybe that was just my Internet connection.
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Speaker 1: It was really clunky. I thought the sound was kind
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Speaker 1: of weird and kind of bad, and that was one
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Speaker 1: thing I'm like, ah, okay, whatever, it should be easier
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Speaker 1: to find anyway you go over Netflix or you do
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Speaker 1: the arcument ooop Netflix, and it comes up and the
7:24
Speaker 1: game should be right there, had to search a little
7:25
Speaker 1: bit more than I expected. That wasn't good, But I'm
7:27
Speaker 1: sure that they can iron that out right. And again,
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Speaker 1: they can't control what games they get a couple of
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Speaker 1: different blowout games, but I'm sure their ratings were huge,
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Speaker 1: just built into the fact that you've got fans of
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Speaker 1: these four teams Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Houston. Automatically, you
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Speaker 1: know they're gotta be watching that on Christmas most likely
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Speaker 1: as people don't have to work in their home and
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Speaker 1: they're getting ready for their for their Christmas event. So
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Speaker 1: Netflix used this as an opportunity. It might have heard
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Speaker 1: about this already for their big halftime show because they
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Speaker 1: want to present it to the league to show that
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Speaker 1: they can do a huge, massive event in case Netflix
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Speaker 1: gets a Super Bowl someday. The second game with Baltimore
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Speaker 1: and Houston featured the Beyonce Bowl. Well, right there, that's
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Speaker 1: kind of pretentious, isn't it. I mean, it's a it's
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Speaker 1: week what sixteen seventeen in the NFL, and you're calling
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Speaker 1: it a Bowl already. Halftime. So this was halftime in Houston,
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Speaker 1: where she's from her hometown and Beyonce does her performance
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Speaker 1: it well, okay, here's here's a little bit of that
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Speaker 1: Davin that they rattle, that sign old damn old white
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Speaker 1: lose money. I'm done with that. That's not my cup
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Speaker 1: of tea, but it might be yours. And the Beyonce
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Speaker 1: is huge, obviously, so there are plenty of people, millions
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Speaker 1: of people who absolutely loved it, millions of people hated
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Speaker 1: it wasn't really their thing. And there she is. She's
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Speaker 1: on a white horse and it's a bunch of cowboy hats.
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Speaker 1: I guess because it's Houston. And I think she was
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Speaker 1: the one that ventured into the pop artist, the latest
8:59
Speaker 1: one that ventured in country music and kind of cop that.
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Speaker 1: And she did her version of Joelene. If I was
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Speaker 1: a real country artist or fan, I would be I'd
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Speaker 1: be so pissed, I really would. That they're just because
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Speaker 1: country is so big now that just all the pop
9:11
Speaker 1: otters are trying to glomb onto it. But that's been
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Speaker 1: the case for like decades, so that there's nothing new there.
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Speaker 1: I can't help but think though that I think our
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Speaker 1: hope now after yesterday, if anybody ever wanted to see
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Speaker 1: rock again, or even just anything mainstream kind of anything
9:28
Speaker 1: that's not that, I guess is what I'm trying to say.
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Speaker 1: That's like guitar bassed, maybe drum like any rock band,
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Speaker 1: any classic band back. No, I don't think it's gonna
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Speaker 1: happen after that. I think that was the final nail
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Speaker 1: in the coffin for all of those hopes we've a
9:43
Speaker 1: lot of us has said, you know what, there are
9:44
Speaker 1: still some great rock bands we could have for a
9:46
Speaker 1: super Bowl halftime show. They're still out there, albut Metallica.
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Speaker 1: Let's do that. Let's bring out a bunch of a
9:51
Speaker 1: great you know whoever's left classic rock bands to do
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Speaker 1: a halftime show. Guys, I think that dream's over. I
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Speaker 1: don't think the NFL is ever gonna have that because
10:01
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the I don't think that's the reach.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's the audience they're looking for. I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna happen. I don't know. We'll see,
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Speaker 1: we'll see what the ratings work. That's what's going to
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Speaker 1: determine that. But there's quite a production. I mean, there
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Speaker 1: are hundreds and hundreds of dancers on the thing. I
10:19
Speaker 1: guess I'm not the right person to ask because it's
10:20
Speaker 1: not my style of music, but for a wide appeal,
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Speaker 1: And the NFL will always claim who runs the networks.
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Speaker 1: They will always claim that they're trying to reach the
10:29
Speaker 1: broadest base of an audience, right, which I get as
10:33
Speaker 1: they should, because like if you talk about a super
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Speaker 1: Bowl performance or even this thing, this halftime of this
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Speaker 1: Netflix Christmas game, they're trying to reach the widest audience possible.
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Speaker 1: My only question is is that really Beyonce? You know?
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Speaker 1: Is that really what we just played there? Is that
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Speaker 1: really the widest audience? Is it? Like? Why do we
10:52
Speaker 1: automatically assume that is? Everybody I talk to? You know again,
10:56
Speaker 1: you know, I've got my certain group of friends, I've
10:58
Speaker 1: got my certain group of even even like listeners, I've
11:00
Speaker 1: got my family whatever. Everybody I've talked to for years
11:04
Speaker 1: now wants some sort of rock element, some sort of
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Speaker 1: rock and roll, even like country, a classic huge country artist,
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Speaker 1: not Beyonce's country, like real country, like a George Stray country,
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Speaker 1: like somebody like or a Garth. How has Garth Brooks
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Speaker 1: never played a super Bowl? I'm sure he would. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they've asked him, like, why is it automatically
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Speaker 1: always like the urban style style pop or hip hop.
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Speaker 1: They tell us that's the widest audience appeal. Okay, I
11:32
Speaker 1: get it. I'm just saying my feeling is after yesterday,
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Speaker 1: I think the dream of a rock and roll super
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Speaker 1: Bowl is going away after that experiment. Just saying just
11:42
Speaker 1: my two cents, that's all I can give you. There
11:44
Speaker 1: was something awesome on this though, So even though it
11:47
Speaker 1: was on Netflix, and again this isn't all sports oriented.
11:49
Speaker 1: It's just interesting how the media is operating these days
11:51
Speaker 1: and where live sports is going. So even though Netflix
11:54
Speaker 1: had these NFL games on Christmas Day, they still had
11:57
Speaker 1: the regular broadcast teams doing it. So the guys over
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Speaker 1: from CBS were doing the uh I think it was
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Speaker 1: the first game, whatever it is. Iron Eagle is one
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Speaker 1: of them. He's a CBS guy. He had a great
12:08
Speaker 1: line about people tuning in not used to seeing NFL
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Speaker 1: games or live sporting events on Netflix. Here he is.
12:15
Speaker 1: This was hilarious. Eagle, JJ Watt Nave Perlison. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if somebody's like tuning into Netflix right now and
12:21
Speaker 1: thinking the kids from Stranger Things got really old time,
12:26
Speaker 1: because it's just great. That's just a great broadcaster calling
12:31
Speaker 1: the moment for a weird kind of you know scene,
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Speaker 1: because Stranger Things was always on Netflix, that's what That's
12:36
Speaker 1: what put them over the top. So I loved it.
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Speaker 1: That was outstanding, all right. Not to jump into too
12:41
Speaker 1: much politics, because we're still I think I think drunk
12:44
Speaker 1: on eggnog, for God's sakes. But there was one news
12:47
Speaker 1: story that popped up over the past couple of days
12:49
Speaker 1: and it came from the New York Times. They posted
12:51
Speaker 1: a story about RFK Junior, which they're going to continue
12:56
Speaker 1: to do obviously, and this was probably set up to
12:58
Speaker 1: try to make him fail on this. They posted an
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Speaker 1: article in the possible implications they think about RFK Junior,
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Speaker 1: and this part's true. He would like very much to
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Speaker 1: ban As we're talking about television drug ads on TV,
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Speaker 1: you know they kind of talking about because you can't
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Speaker 1: avoid them now. Memory used to be if you were
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Speaker 1: just watching like news or classic television reruns or something
13:23
Speaker 1: like that, that's where you just mostly see the drug
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Speaker 1: ads because there are mostly people who are shut ins
13:28
Speaker 1: in the house watching that. But now pharmaceutical industry is
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Speaker 1: so powerful and has such a great reach. They're everywhere,
13:34
Speaker 1: so you can't afford the drug ads. You know what,
13:36
Speaker 1: the ones I'm talking about, Pick any one of them
13:38
Speaker 1: with the goofy names that come up with the thing.
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Speaker 1: And then the last thirty seconds of a sixty second
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Speaker 1: ad is the side effects that sound a lot worse
13:45
Speaker 1: than your original condition in the first place. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Side effects may include suicidal tendencies,
13:52
Speaker 1: dark thoughts, oily discharge, you know something gross, they're disgusting. Well,
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Speaker 1: his point is our Fka Junior makes the point that
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Speaker 1: these drug ads, these pharmaceutical ads, cause normal people to
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Speaker 1: go find less effective generic drugs because they can't afford
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Speaker 1: most of the drug ads that are on the commercial
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Speaker 1: for whatever condition they have, So they're sending people into
14:19
Speaker 1: a spending spree for something that's not going to work anyway.
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Speaker 1: Or what He's claimed for a long time that a
14:24
Speaker 1: lot of these pharmaceuticals are safe anyway, So that's his argument.
14:28
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us would agree, just because
14:30
Speaker 1: we're normal people and we're tired of seeing the drug
14:32
Speaker 1: ads with all of the side effect warnings, but which
14:35
Speaker 1: is just disgusting, right, it'd be nice to see in reality, though,
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Speaker 1: Do you really think they'd be able to pull this off.
14:43
Speaker 1: Of all the things that OURFKA Junior is going to
14:45
Speaker 1: have to do to make America healthy again, right, and
14:47
Speaker 1: we all want to see that happen. We all want
14:49
Speaker 1: to see the food supply cleaned up. This seems to
14:52
Speaker 1: be the biggest pipe dream for me. I don't know
14:53
Speaker 1: if he can get it done, simply because of the
14:56
Speaker 1: money that's spent on this Some of the money they
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Speaker 1: spend the pharmaceutical in street First of all, the money
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Speaker 1: they have is just astronomical, and what they spend on
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Speaker 1: this advertising is incredible. And we're just talking about Netflix
15:09
Speaker 1: and Network TV and Super Bowls and NFL Christmas and
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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Do you think the television networks are
15:17
Speaker 1: any media outlet can afford not to run these pharmaceutical ads,
15:22
Speaker 1: by the way, on every single network across the board.
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Speaker 1: It is now the biggest spender in advertising. How sad
15:28
Speaker 1: is that you talk about make America healthy again? How
15:31
Speaker 1: sad is it that the biggest spender of television, advertising, media, advertising,
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Speaker 1: everything online whatever, just advertising is the pharmaceutical industry. I
15:41
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think there's a lot of corporations
15:45
Speaker 1: that agree we should make America healthy again, when you
15:48
Speaker 1: start talking about their ad revenue, no matter who it is,
15:50
Speaker 1: whatever network you're talking about or online outlet, they're gonna
15:54
Speaker 1: put up a fight like you've never seen before. So
15:56
Speaker 1: it would be great to be able to see the
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Speaker 1: online ads, the pharmaceutical ads go away. I just don't
16:03
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna happen. I don't know. We'll see,
16:06
Speaker 1: all right, This all kind of ties in together with
16:08
Speaker 1: media and retail, which we talked about before. To open
16:10
Speaker 1: it all up, well, let's go over to Amazon Prime.
16:14
Speaker 1: So Jeff Bezos says, A has a little site called
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Speaker 1: Amazon You might have heard of it in Amazon Prime, which,
16:21
Speaker 1: by the way, also carries NFL games on the Thursday
16:25
Speaker 1: night games, isn't it Mostly Well, they also apparently show
16:30
Speaker 1: classic movies. Now, I've never ventured over to Amazon Prime
16:34
Speaker 1: to watch a classic movie. I usually find it online
16:36
Speaker 1: somewhere else or go back to Netflix. There they have
16:41
Speaker 1: a version. And I first saw I believe it or not,
16:43
Speaker 1: heard from somebody in my personal life complaining about this first,
16:46
Speaker 1: and then I had to look it up online and
16:47
Speaker 1: then I saw something trending. So apparently a lot of
16:49
Speaker 1: people tried to see this. It's a Wonderful Life on
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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. Now I'll preface this by saying, I don't
16:58
Speaker 1: know why you would search for it one of on
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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. It's kind of like on a loop constantly
17:04
Speaker 1: this time of the year, like you can't avoid it,
17:07
Speaker 1: and you shouldn't avoid it. It's a great movie. I'll
17:08
Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. But Amazon Prime gets
17:11
Speaker 1: this has a condensed version of It's a Wonderful Life.
17:16
Speaker 1: You can't what you can't cut. That's one of the
17:19
Speaker 1: you can't know. The whole point of It's a Wonderful
17:22
Speaker 1: Life is you watch it from start to finish, as
17:24
Speaker 1: long as it is. It's as long as the Ten Commandments.
17:27
Speaker 1: But it's an awesome movie. You can't cut anything out
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Speaker 1: of it. Apparently it cuts out on I hope you've
17:35
Speaker 1: seen this so you know what I'm talking about. On
17:37
Speaker 1: the bridge scene where George is gonna end it all,
17:40
Speaker 1: he goes from that to Clarence telling him he's gonna
17:43
Speaker 1: have to clean up his life to it skips all
17:46
Speaker 1: of the nightmare scenes that he goes through, you know,
17:49
Speaker 1: like the lesson of his life to realize that he
17:51
Speaker 1: actually has it pretty good. It skips all of that,
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Speaker 1: so George Bailey in his deepest depression, and it jumps
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Speaker 1: right to He's back to My goodness. You can't do
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Speaker 1: that too. It's a wonderful life, Well, just don't show
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Speaker 1: it in the first place. I couldn't believe that that
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Speaker 1: was true. I thought that was another online hoax. No,
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Speaker 1: there's no way you could shorten it's a wonderful life.
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Speaker 1: They're not really doing that, are they. And I will
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Speaker 1: tell you something about It's a wonderful life. It's I know,
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Speaker 1: I know, probably besides The Wizard of Oz, the most
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Speaker 1: overplayed movie in American history, and it's worth it. I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you. The older you get, the more you appreciate
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Speaker 1: this movie. It's fantastic, all the little lines in there,
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Speaker 1: the acting job. It might be the perfect movie. I've
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Speaker 1: told you before. Godfather is my favorite movie of all time.
18:43
Speaker 1: But It's a Wonderful Life is amazing, and you realize,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. That movie gets me
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Speaker 1: every single time, and I do watch the whole thing
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Speaker 1: at least once a year. You can't avoid it on
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Speaker 1: the loop. It makes you realize what's important in life,
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Speaker 1: you really do. I absolutely it. Jimmy Stewart was fantastic.
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Speaker 1: That entire cast was fantastic. Cut out. It's a wonderful life.
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Speaker 1: Can't do that all right? Post Christmas has begun. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to return, you wary. I hope your Christmas was great,
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Speaker 1: by the way, and happy Honika to everybody celebrating because
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Speaker 1: that just kicked off last night as well. Still the
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Speaker 1: holiday season still rolling on strong. Tomorrow, God, what a
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Speaker 1: weird week. Tomorrow's Friday. We'll kick off the weekend the
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Speaker 1: right way with all kinds of stuff. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what's in the news, but we'll find out and we'll
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Speaker 1: have something to talk about it and figure out what
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Speaker 1: it all means. We'll still have the podcast up and
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Speaker 1: ready to go the audio podcast wherever you get those,
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Speaker 1: in about a half hour, and if you're watching this
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Speaker 1: later on the replay on x or Facebook or YouTube,
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Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out. I hope you had an awesome Christmas,
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Speaker 1: a wicked awesome Christmas, and we'll talk to you later.