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Wicked Radio 5-21: Naked Nancy Mace, Home Depot's Smart Plan, & No Tax On Tips! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Have we actually found an issue that the whole country
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Speaker 1: can unite behind that we're all in favor of, and
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Speaker 1: one that got one hundred percent support in Congress, both houses,
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Speaker 1: both parties. Yes, yes we have. And apparently it's no
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Speaker 1: tax on tips. Love it all? Right, Well we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about that for sure. What it's at all mean, I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you what it means. The takeaway is going to be, uh,
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Speaker 1: your voice is heard, Our voices are heard. It just
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Speaker 1: takes a lot of work and a lot of grounds
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Speaker 1: will and effort. Because I've never seen any segment of
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Speaker 1: the population of anybody or anything that is united behind
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Speaker 1: this than the service workers. It was incredible to see.
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Speaker 1: It was awesomes Another question to ask, why is Nancy
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Speaker 1: Mace getting naked on the floor of the of Congress
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Speaker 1: and Capitol Hill. Well, actually she wasn't getting naked, and
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Speaker 1: she was showing pictures of her because she was the
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Speaker 1: victim of a crime. And actually she made a really
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Speaker 1: good point. And actually, even me, who sees all these
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Speaker 1: news stories all the time, bought the initial hype to
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Speaker 1: try to shoot this thing down. And when I looked
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Speaker 1: into it a little further, I realized, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I think she's right about this. I actually support her
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Speaker 1: cause and I think I might have done the same thing.
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Speaker 1: Perfect example of a news story that wasn't all it
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Speaker 1: seems at first. But we'll get into that as well.
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Speaker 1: And who are you gonna support a big box store
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Speaker 1: that says, yeap, these tariffs are bad, we're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to raise prices on you, or the one that says, now,
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Speaker 1: we already have a lot of our products made in
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Speaker 1: the USA, so we're gonna be pretty good. Which would
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Speaker 1: you support? I know which one I'm gonna support. So
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Speaker 1: we'll see how it all breaks down. A lot to cover.
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Speaker 1: And thanks for being here though Wicked Wednesday. Here we
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Speaker 1: are right in the middle of it. News happens. What's
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Speaker 1: it mean to us? Let's break it all down and
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Speaker 1: take it further? All right, Uh, first of all, let's
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Speaker 1: get some business out of the way. Thanks for finding
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Speaker 1: the Wicked Wisdom social media platforms. Basically, if you look
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Speaker 1: for that me, you're gonna find me. That's where the
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Speaker 1: Wicked Radio livestream lives as a replay and the audio
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Speaker 1: podcast as well all your favorite platforms. But here's the
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Speaker 1: amazing thing. And I was so psyched to see this,
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Speaker 1: and we all first saw and heard the whole concept
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Speaker 1: of no tax on tips during the campaign, right, full confession,
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Speaker 1: full disclosure. I was one of those people that said, ah,
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Speaker 1: good idea. I don't ever see this happening. I mean,
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Speaker 1: how could it right? How could Trump actually get this done?
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Speaker 1: But there wasn't a campaign. Let's go back just a
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Speaker 1: few It wasn't that long ago we first heard this
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Speaker 1: concept and it was one of the late ideas in
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Speaker 1: the campaign of twenty four. Remember that came out maybe
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Speaker 1: October twenty four, maybe around there, I don't know, but
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Speaker 1: here it was no tax. Yes, yes, yeah, I'm telling
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Speaker 1: you like I said a couple of minutes ago there
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Speaker 1: in the introduction. I've never ever completely organic, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I've never seen a segment of the population come out
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Speaker 1: so much in support of any concept whoever in that
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Speaker 1: not even unionized, just people, just hard working Americans. And
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Speaker 1: this is why it was such a brilliant idea for
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Speaker 1: him to come out with this, so many people coming
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Speaker 1: out organically to support this, and that was the service
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Speaker 1: industry workers so smart because of anybody was hit during
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Speaker 1: first of all the pandemic obviously, but also recovering from
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Speaker 1: that in the Biden policies, and you know, people trying
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Speaker 1: to get back to normal habits and go in too
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Speaker 1: restaurants or whatever. The service industry was hit the hardest.
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Speaker 1: So they got a hold of this idea completely organically, honestly.
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Speaker 1: They formed Facebook groups, they gathered on mass they were
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Speaker 1: I saw a certain restaurant chain had all of their
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Speaker 1: workers kind of like gathered together and call their individual
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Speaker 1: senators and congressmen to get this thing passed. Push the idea.
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Speaker 1: And it was a while ago now, I mean we're
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Speaker 1: talking to the campaign late in twenty four when that
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Speaker 1: whole idea was brought forth. Sure a lot of them
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Speaker 1: voted for Trump, but it's got to be beyond that.
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Speaker 1: You got to do something with it, right, You got
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Speaker 1: to get it into legislation, which we'll get to here
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Speaker 1: in a second. And they kept up the pressure and
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Speaker 1: they kept talking about it. They kept who knew one
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Speaker 1: of the strongest forces in the country was big waitress
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Speaker 1: or big bartender, because they are, and they got it done.
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Speaker 1: And I congratulate them for that, because this was amazing
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Speaker 1: the end result. How often do you see this and
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Speaker 1: how sad is it that were actually shocked that you
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Speaker 1: see something passed, a good idea passed one hundred to
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Speaker 1: nothing in the Senate. And I'll go on here in
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Speaker 1: different forms, but there's almost one hundred percent chance of
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Speaker 1: this becoming the law of the land. Ted Cruz, Senator
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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz of Texas, he's back. He got to announce
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Speaker 1: it yesterday because he was the one that apparently worked
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Speaker 1: the room and talked to everybody and said, you support this,
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Speaker 1: you support this, and he said, nobody objected to it.
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Speaker 1: This is his announcement. What we just saw is the
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Speaker 1: Senate passing no tax on tips one hundred to nothing.
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Speaker 1: And what he said was went around the room. Everybody
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Speaker 1: he talked to was in favor of it, which is great.
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Speaker 1: It's so sad that were shocked that something would be
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Speaker 1: unifying like that, right, But it doesn't matter. It is
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Speaker 1: and it's great news for everybody. You know what this
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Speaker 1: also means. This means that everybody that voted for it
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Speaker 1: is going to claim credit for it. That means Republicans
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Speaker 1: who had nothing to do with the Trump campaign. That
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Speaker 1: means Democrats who probably opposed it during the Trump campaign
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Speaker 1: for the second term, they'll take credit for this too.
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Speaker 1: They'll be they'll go back to their home districts and
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Speaker 1: they'll be saying, you know, it's me. They cut all
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Speaker 1: your taxes, taken away on tips and made it the
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Speaker 1: law of the land. Politicians are going to politic who
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Speaker 1: the hell cares. Here's the takeaway, and here's what matters.
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Speaker 1: A great idea was put forth, and it's true, it
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Speaker 1: was put forth by Trump, whether you like him or not,
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Speaker 1: made it into you know, the public consciousness. Most important
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Speaker 1: part being that the public kept this up. The service
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Speaker 1: industry workers that it badly no tax on tips and
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Speaker 1: they shouldn't be tax on tips, kept up, the pressure,
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Speaker 1: kept up, the support, and they got it done. And
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Speaker 1: the next step it's going to be the law of
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Speaker 1: the land officially. That's amazing. That's how this is supposed
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Speaker 1: to work. Here's the real takeaway, the most important part.
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Speaker 1: Every time, and I do it too, every time you
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Speaker 1: think your voice isn't heard, you know, it's like, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, great, you know, as soon as they get elected,
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Speaker 1: they move on and they just fund raise again, and
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Speaker 1: all these great ideas just kind of die on the
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Speaker 1: steps of Congress. Right, not always if there's big enough
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Speaker 1: momentum and the public consciousness wants it bad enough, like
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Speaker 1: no tax on tips. It's amazing. It's amazing what happened here.
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Speaker 1: It really is, and I think it proved to a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. You can get it done if you're
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Speaker 1: passionate enough about it. I really do. It's a great thing.
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Speaker 1: First of all, the concept of no tax on tips,
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Speaker 1: but the fact that that many people again i'll say
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Speaker 1: it organically got together mostly from that industry, the service workers, bartenders, waiters, valets,
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Speaker 1: anybody that really depends on cash, tips, any kind of tip,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. Why should they be taxed on That
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Speaker 1: got it done because they pushed for it. This is
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Speaker 1: what I don't know that the Patriot and me feel
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Speaker 1: so proud of this, that this actually got done. I
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Speaker 1: love it. I love that this happened so good. And
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Speaker 1: when they try to take credit for it, people that
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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with it, just just let it
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Speaker 1: go by, because you know they're going to say that anyway.
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Speaker 1: Don't don't worry about that. Don't let them bother you.
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Speaker 1: All right, here's something else that happened on Capitol Hill yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Why is Nancy Mace getting naked on the floor of
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Speaker 1: Congress in a hearing room that's what I thought at
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Speaker 1: first too, because I maybe you did too, And even I,
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Speaker 1: who see I see news stories every single day, even
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Speaker 1: I got conned by this. Good lesson for me, for
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Speaker 1: old wicked willy here, don't take an initial comment about
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Speaker 1: a news story at face value. Look into it a
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Speaker 1: little bit deeper. It was a good reminder from me,
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Speaker 1: So I took that to heart yesterday. So I said,
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Speaker 1: you know what, why is she Why is she doing this?
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Speaker 1: Because it got I had a lot of headlines, and
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Speaker 1: I thought, full disclosure here, full admission. I thought, oh, boy,
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Speaker 1: she because she's done some pretty outrageous stuff before. I
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Speaker 1: think she's just trying to grab some headlines. She's got
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Speaker 1: a fundraise off this. And she says something about showing
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Speaker 1: her naked body on the floor, and I'm like, oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: And then I forgot about it for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and I said, then it bothered me. And then I
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Speaker 1: looked at it again. I said, oh, what really is
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Speaker 1: this about? And I said, oh, okay, hold on. When
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Speaker 1: I got the details, and this is why I'm born
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Speaker 1: to look into the story beyond the headlines. And I
8:24
Speaker 1: got the details, I said, she's got a pretty good
8:27
Speaker 1: reason here. Oh, oh, those are the Oh that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: Oh man. And then I thought about it again, and
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Speaker 1: I said, if I had this platform that she does,
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Speaker 1: I would do the exact same damn thing, not showing
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Speaker 1: any pictures of me naked. You don't want to see that,
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Speaker 1: but making a big deal of it once I found
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Speaker 1: the details. So here she is as she was about
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Speaker 1: to go into her hearing in Congress talking about what
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Speaker 1: her plan was. And she didn't really show herself naked.
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Speaker 1: It was it was a picture of a still shot
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Speaker 1: of her or she was videotaped without her consent, and
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Speaker 1: she apparently wasn't the only one by this guy. And
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Speaker 1: then she talked about some of the details. But this
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Speaker 1: is her as she was about to go in and
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Speaker 1: talk about it.
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Speaker 2: Today in my hearing, I'm going to dissect what that
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Speaker 2: guy did two dozens of women hidden on a hidden
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Speaker 2: camera and other devices as he recorded them with impunity,
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Speaker 2: without their knowledge, without their permission, and without their consent.
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Speaker 2: Patrick Bryant, I hope you're ready. I'm also going to
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Speaker 2: be sharing some of the imagery that Patrick Bryant, that
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Speaker 2: guy right there took of myself and other women without
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Speaker 2: our knowledge, without our permission and without our consent.
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Speaker 1: Here's some of the details and she shared right there.
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Speaker 1: So this is Patrick Bryant guy she measured a couple
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Speaker 1: of times in the video. This was next fiance. Here's
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Speaker 1: what this dirt bag did. Check this out. So he,
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Speaker 1: I guess, along with some others like co conspirator. I
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Speaker 1: don't know whatever it is they were into taking unsolicited,
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Speaker 1: uh without permission, still shots and videos of women and
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Speaker 1: I guess girlfriends, fianza, whatever it was. But Nancy Mace
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Speaker 1: was involved and posting them on is the part that
10:12
Speaker 1: got me posting them online to a specific website. I
10:16
Speaker 1: guess they had collections lots of it, of lots of
10:19
Speaker 1: people and just lots of imagery of this and collecting
10:23
Speaker 1: in files and god knows shared what else but beyond
10:25
Speaker 1: that website. Once I heard that, and this is where
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Speaker 1: the dad and me came out. Everyone's way. And you've
10:31
Speaker 1: got if you're a parent of any kind, you know
10:33
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about here. There's just some it's like
10:36
Speaker 1: your self defense mechanism goes up, especially if you're like
10:38
Speaker 1: me and you have daughters. And I thought, wow, well,
10:41
Speaker 1: this is a different story than what I was originally told.
10:43
Speaker 1: And then and they said, if anybody had done this
10:47
Speaker 1: to one of my daughters, well, I'm not gonna tell
10:49
Speaker 1: you the first part what I would do to them,
10:51
Speaker 1: but the second part is more importantly, if I had
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Speaker 1: a platform like Nancy Mace, Uh, yeah, I would do that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm down. I'm down with that. I don't blame her
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Speaker 1: at all. And apparently she talked about pushing for you know,
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Speaker 1: regulations about this kind of stuff, going after those kind
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Speaker 1: of predators and doing it and God, it's an ex
11:11
Speaker 1: fiance of hers or whatever, but yeah, I would, I
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Speaker 1: would do it. And apparently she showed the still shots
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Speaker 1: that were blurred out. It wasn't exactly as it was
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Speaker 1: hyped up, but sometimes that hype works. Though, even though
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Speaker 1: it's misunderstood by me at first that Nancy Mace is
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Speaker 1: going to be naked on the floor of Congress or
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Speaker 1: showing her naked pictures of that got attention and that
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Speaker 1: God is talking about it, so I understand why she
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Speaker 1: did it. But again the lesson for me was look
11:35
Speaker 1: into it a little bit more. You gotta you gotta
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Speaker 1: look beyond the headlines to understand what's going on here.
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Speaker 1: And lo and behold at the end of that story,
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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I would do the same thing if
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Speaker 1: I was or absolutely stop the stopped the can you
11:45
Speaker 1: think of anything? By the way, and this goes to
11:48
Speaker 1: my fellow guys out there, my fellow dads too, can
11:50
Speaker 1: you think of anything more gutless? Then then taking a
11:56
Speaker 1: creepy sneak shot of a woman and then posting it
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Speaker 1: online for the people to see that you have You're
12:02
Speaker 1: not a dude, You're not a man. If you do that,
12:04
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you just not. Oh got to hate that.
12:06
Speaker 1: I really do so good for her, and I hope
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Speaker 1: it does have an effect. Well, our here's our other
12:13
Speaker 1: big story of the day, And this goes to your
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Speaker 1: pucket book. Well, I guess no tax on tips does too.
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Speaker 1: But who would you rather give your money to? A
12:21
Speaker 1: big box chainsaw? And this is good because we can
12:24
Speaker 1: compare apples and to apples here a big box store
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Speaker 1: that says tariffs are tough, We're gonna have to raise
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Speaker 1: prices on you, okay, Or a big box store that says,
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Speaker 1: m these tariffs are tough. But most of our stuff
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Speaker 1: is from America, so I don't think it's gonna affect us.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not be able to lower prices, but we're not
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Speaker 1: gonna raise them. How about that, Which would you choose
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Speaker 1: before you know the players involved here, because I know
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Speaker 1: which one I would choose. So this is home Depot's response,
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Speaker 1: and I think a very very smart response after Walmart
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Speaker 1: had said Walmart was the culport saying yeah, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to raise prices. And by the way, didn't they
13:04
Speaker 1: say that pretty early? Like I don't know whether they're
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Speaker 1: trying to get ahead of the story or they're just
13:09
Speaker 1: trying to take advantage of the story. But boy, they
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Speaker 1: seemed gung hold as to say this. And it wasn't
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Speaker 1: in an apologetic tone, by the way. I heard the
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Speaker 1: CEO and it was like, tariffs are tough, Yep, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna have to pay more. Screw you, Walmart. And I
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Speaker 1: know that a lot of you, us, all of us together,
13:25
Speaker 1: a massive section of this country shops at Walmart lower prices.
13:28
Speaker 1: I get it, right, But how about this concept, Walmart.
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Speaker 1: How howbout if you imported in you but less Chinese crap?
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Speaker 1: Because if you ever go through a Walmart section and
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Speaker 1: you actually do a little project and you look at
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Speaker 1: how much of the stuff is made in the US.
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Speaker 1: Not a lot, not a lot in every department too.
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Speaker 1: I love to go there for like bass fishing gear.
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Speaker 1: You would think you would think a lot of that
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Speaker 1: stuff would be made in the South, you know, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida. No,
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Speaker 1: a lot of it's from China too, And of course
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Speaker 1: the clothing and of course even a lot of the
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Speaker 1: food manufacturing stuff. They've done that for years, cheap Chinese
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Speaker 1: goods that breaks a lot, you know, not all of it,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of it. And how they were supposed
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Speaker 1: to pass those cheaper prices onto you. Oh, except when
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Speaker 1: the world changes and now we got now we're in
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Speaker 1: a tariff war to try to make more things made
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Speaker 1: in America, and all of a sudden, right out of
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Speaker 1: the gun, Walmart one of the first major huge retailers
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Speaker 1: saying yeah, we're gonna have to raise prices. Sorry, Okay,
14:26
Speaker 1: well we'll see how that goes. Compare that to this
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Speaker 1: home depot comes out there, CEO. It was a written statement.
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Speaker 1: I to have the CNBC audio for you, and they say, well,
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Speaker 1: we looked at this. We took a month and a
14:39
Speaker 1: half to examine this, how it's going to affect us.
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Speaker 1: And I think we should be good because we determined
14:43
Speaker 1: that a lot of our products are American sourced. Anyway,
14:46
Speaker 1: this is a little long, but you got to hear
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Speaker 1: the exact wording on it. This is the statement from
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Speaker 1: Home Depot itself. The CEO read by and CNBC was
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Speaker 1: talking about it. It was a huge story yesterday.
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Speaker 3: When it comes to tariffs. It's pretty important to give
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Speaker 3: context that for Home d more than fifty percent of
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Speaker 3: our purchases are sourced in the United State. He says.
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Speaker 3: The vast number of suppliers have diversified sourcing, and he
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Speaker 3: said this twelve months from now, no single country outside
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Speaker 3: of the United States will represent more than ten percent
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Speaker 3: of Home Depot's purchases. He says because of our scale,
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Speaker 3: great partnerships with our partners and our suppliers, and productivity,
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Speaker 3: we continue to drive our business. He said, we intend
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Speaker 3: to generally maintain our current pricing levels across our portfolio.
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Speaker 1: And that's okay what they're saying there. Long statement. I
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Speaker 1: get it because she had to read it, but it
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Speaker 1: means prices are pretty much going to stay low, maybe
15:35
Speaker 1: not lower ring, but they got to stay low because
15:37
Speaker 1: the most there's stuff is sourced. I imagine. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I would imagine Lows is the same because I think
15:42
Speaker 1: when I think of Home Depot and Lows, I think
15:44
Speaker 1: of a lot of lumber. Yeah, a lot of tools,
15:46
Speaker 1: but a lot of those American companies. I'm sure they
15:48
Speaker 1: have some stuff that's form made, but a lot of
15:50
Speaker 1: it's sourced in the US. But Home Depot happened to
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Speaker 1: make a concerted effort to tell you and me and
15:55
Speaker 1: everybody else that they got to keep their prices low.
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Speaker 1: Good good for them, smart move, And it reminded me
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Speaker 1: of McDonald's at the tail end of the pandemic. McDonald's
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Speaker 1: made a concerted effort to actually lower prices. They actually
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Speaker 1: did it. Somebody somewhere in their corporate chain convinced them
16:15
Speaker 1: to do that. Because that's tough in corporate America to
16:17
Speaker 1: tell your board, Hey, you know what, profit's going to
16:20
Speaker 1: be a little bit down. What we're going to lower
16:22
Speaker 1: prices this quarter? What for the long term? It's a
16:26
Speaker 1: tough sell. But somebody had the balls to do it
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Speaker 1: in McDonald's and it worked. So a little bit of
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Speaker 1: short term pain for long term loyalty because consumers are
16:33
Speaker 1: smarter now, good for McDonald's. And I think the same
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Speaker 1: thing's going to happen at home depot. That builds loyalty
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Speaker 1: with the American consumer. It does with me, does it
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Speaker 1: with you? You're more likely to go there now, I am, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I am because they made that statement. They did it
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Speaker 1: the right way, and they're smart. Now here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: This is where these tariffs can be good. They can
16:55
Speaker 1: bill you're on crack. They're not good. There are what
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Like I said before when this was announced,
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Speaker 1: it's short term pain for long term gain because if
17:03
Speaker 1: we get back to manufacturing things in this country. I
17:07
Speaker 1: don't know when we lost it. I think we gave
17:09
Speaker 1: up when I was a kid in the eighties. It
17:11
Speaker 1: was a big deal, Like it was a big thing
17:14
Speaker 1: everybody like I think they were made in the USA commercials.
17:18
Speaker 1: If you're around my age, middle aged dude, maybe you
17:21
Speaker 1: remember that too from TV in the eighties. I remember
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Speaker 1: that specifically, look for the maid in the USA label.
17:27
Speaker 1: I think it was like it might've been a PSA
17:29
Speaker 1: or something. I have no idea, but that was a
17:31
Speaker 1: big deal. And then we kind of went by the
17:32
Speaker 1: wayside because we all gave up and we said, oh,
17:34
Speaker 1: it's all made in China or Taiwan, even Vietnam. Now
17:38
Speaker 1: it was a big deal. That's becoming valuable again. That
17:41
Speaker 1: made in the USA brand is becoming valuable again. It
17:44
Speaker 1: always used to mean higher quality. Maybe now it means
17:47
Speaker 1: higher quality and lower prices. Maybe that's the long term
17:52
Speaker 1: part of these tariffs. That's what that's gonna mean for us.
17:54
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing that's good about this happening, Neyber.
17:57
Speaker 1: When Amazon came out and it shook a lot of
17:59
Speaker 1: these box stores to the core case all of a sudden,
18:01
Speaker 1: you didn't need a lot of them. It's just business.
18:04
Speaker 1: It's just brutal. It just is. You're gonna get eaten
18:06
Speaker 1: by your competition. Somebody that does it smarter, better and
18:09
Speaker 1: cheaper and more convenient for the consumer. That's what's gonna win.
18:12
Speaker 1: That's what happened. I think the same thing's gonna happen
18:15
Speaker 1: here to big retailers with the tariff deal. You've got
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Speaker 1: somebody like Walmart. They're not going out of business, trust me,
18:21
Speaker 1: but they might get hurt by saying that I'll get
18:24
Speaker 1: to raise prices against the smart companies like home depot.
18:27
Speaker 1: Here's what it's doing to you and me, here's the takeaway.
18:29
Speaker 1: Here's what it means. It means you and I have
18:32
Speaker 1: a great chance to get smarter about where we buy,
18:35
Speaker 1: where you spend your money. And it all happened. We're
18:37
Speaker 1: all get well. We had lazy in good times, right,
18:40
Speaker 1: But like economy is booming. It's like, I don't care
18:42
Speaker 1: how much gas. I don't care how much gas prices.
18:44
Speaker 1: The hell cares. I've gotta get gased. Anyway, We're all
18:46
Speaker 1: buy it. That'll splurge a little bit more of it.
18:49
Speaker 1: When times get tight. We all become better consumers, right,
18:53
Speaker 1: we all start to well, we start to price compare
18:57
Speaker 1: go to buyers clubs, you know, Costco and BJ and
19:00
Speaker 1: Sam's Club. But whatever, we all get smarter and that's good,
19:03
Speaker 1: and it's good. We should maintain that mindset and that
19:07
Speaker 1: approach as consumers all the time. And this is just
19:09
Speaker 1: a good reminder of that whole thing. So these tariffs,
19:11
Speaker 1: the big box stores or retailers that actually are going
19:14
Speaker 1: to raise prices on you, it's a good time to
19:17
Speaker 1: question whether I really need them. You know, I mentioned
19:20
Speaker 1: before that I like to go to Walmart for fishing stuff.
19:23
Speaker 1: I bet you can find a lot of that online.
19:26
Speaker 1: Do I need them. No, So it's good. It's a
19:29
Speaker 1: good thing. So that's the takeaway. But the most important
19:32
Speaker 1: takeaway today out of all of it, I think, honestly,
19:36
Speaker 1: going back to no tax on tips, our voices actually
19:39
Speaker 1: are heard. They really are. This no tax on tips
19:42
Speaker 1: thing is it's going to become the law of the
19:43
Speaker 1: land eventually, whether it's in the big beautiful spending bill
19:46
Speaker 1: or not, or standalone on its own one hundred to
19:49
Speaker 1: zero in the Senate, which means it's going to have
19:53
Speaker 1: that kind of support in the House, whatever form this takes, obviously,
19:56
Speaker 1: because the people demanded it completely organically. Americans stood up, yes,
20:01
Speaker 1: mostly service workers, and they said, yeah, get this done,
20:03
Speaker 1: and we're going to vote you out. We want this badly.
20:06
Speaker 1: It actually can work. That's like the most patriotic thing
20:08
Speaker 1: I think I've ever talked about. I love that that
20:12
Speaker 1: and read beyond the headlines with the Nancy May story,
20:16
Speaker 1: because I think I would have done the same thing.
20:18
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20:39
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20:43
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