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Wicked Radio 8-27: Swifties Talking Marriage Now, Chicago Crime Crackdown, & Cracker Barrel Caves! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, guys, I don't know. I can't. No,
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Speaker 1: I can't. I don't think I can do the podcast today.
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Speaker 1: I can't concentrate Taylor's getting married. Oh my god. Did
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Speaker 1: you see similar reaction from this yesterday? This went exactly
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Speaker 1: as all Taylor Swift news goes. You have the immediate
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Speaker 1: Swifty meltdown, you know, which is a powerful consumer force
0:26
Speaker 1: if you want to look at it that way, you can.
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Speaker 1: And then you had the rest of the people who
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Speaker 1: were just angry at it, you know, this wave of
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Speaker 1: anger at the Taylor Swift engagement news yesterday. Who cares
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Speaker 1: if you follow this? You're not a man who cares
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Speaker 1: about this. I could care. Look, I'm not good at
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Speaker 1: making predictions, but I'm really good at reading social trends
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Speaker 1: because they're easier current social trends than things going on.
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Speaker 1: And this probably just going by the trends of what's trending,
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Speaker 1: and people who normally weren't getting married talking about marriage now,
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Speaker 1: not just bailers, but their own This may have a
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Speaker 1: major impact on your life, whether you want it to
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Speaker 1: or not. It won't spend that much time on it.
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Speaker 1: But some of the ridiculous reaction as well, in news,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the crime crackdown, not just Washington DC.
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Speaker 1: Get ready, Chicago, because it's coming to you because now
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Speaker 1: the White House knows they have the vote and the
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Speaker 1: support of the people, not these phony crime statistics and
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Speaker 1: not what the politicians are saying, what the people are
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Speaker 1: saying about welcoming a crime crackdown in their city. Because
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Speaker 1: it's coming. Chicago's next member. I was telling you, it's
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Speaker 1: gonna spread throughout the nation because they have the support
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Speaker 1: now that they heard from Washington DC residents and they're
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Speaker 1: actually happy about it. Oh yeah, Chicago's next on the list,
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Speaker 1: and then it'll spread throughout the country because people want it.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of what the people want, it happened they heard
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Speaker 1: your voices. Cracker Barrel has caved, going back to the
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Speaker 1: old logo. I don't know about the inside and the design,
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Speaker 1: but the takeaway here is your voices are always heard,
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Speaker 1: especially as consumers. I don't know if they're smart enough
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Speaker 1: to take advantage of this, but they are gaving. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that as well, But thanks for being here.
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Speaker 1: Some business first, thanks for finding the Wicked Radio live
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Speaker 1: coming or the current episodes. I should say, let's get
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Speaker 1: right to it. Oh my god. The news that broke
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Speaker 1: the news and she launched it on Instagram a big thing. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many retweets and reposts this was,
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Speaker 1: but it broke a record on social media for Taylor
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Speaker 1: Swift announcing that she and Travis Kelsey are getting engaged.
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Speaker 1: And they had the wedding photo and this was a
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Speaker 1: little bit suspicious, by the way, a complete floral arrangement,
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Speaker 1: all set up with a camera ready to go as
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Speaker 1: he's on one knee and proposing, and then the rings
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Speaker 1: that maybe they were already engaged. I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: All I know is this two distinct reactions. You know
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Speaker 1: how the swifties is going to react, and you know
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Speaker 1: how the people who are sick of hearing about this
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Speaker 1: are going to react. Here's the takeaway. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: how you feel about this. It is a massive cultural
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Speaker 1: thing in society. She is a consumer force you have
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Speaker 1: to look at it that way. And if you want
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Speaker 1: to seem like you're old, if you want to seem
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Speaker 1: like you're out of touch, give your younger people who
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Speaker 1: happen to be Swifties in angry reaction to this, because
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Speaker 1: they will just shut you out. But Swifties are everywhere,
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Speaker 1: as I've learned. I've told you this, My daughters are well,
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Speaker 1: one in particular. So this was massive news. And this
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Speaker 1: is a White House official, White House Network correspondent. You
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Speaker 1: probably saw or her the video already. This is her reaction,
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Speaker 1: but this just as well could have been every Swiftie
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Speaker 1: in the world getting this, getting this news yesterday. Here
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Speaker 1: she is right after she did her live shot in
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Speaker 1: front of the White House, but they still have the
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Speaker 1: mic in the camera on I could have played you
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Speaker 1: my daughter's reaction, But here she is a CBS correspondent
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Speaker 1: when she got the big Taylor Swift news. Taylor Swift
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Speaker 1: is engaged. Taylor Swift is engaged. Taylor Swift is engaged.
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Speaker 1: This come back to me. She just posted it. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, oh my god. Oh it's huge.
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Speaker 2: The ring is joenormous.
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Speaker 1: This is so exactly she went from being a semi serious.
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Speaker 1: White House Professional Network corresponded to a swift ye. In
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Speaker 1: the matter of seconds, all it took was one Instagram
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Speaker 1: notification and there she is, and then she's freaking out.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, she goes from and the President
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Speaker 1: in front of the White House and now back to
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Speaker 1: you in the studio, and she's sitting around getting alert
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Speaker 1: in the phone to go, oh my god, that's it,
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Speaker 1: and then insisting come back to me. I need to
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Speaker 1: break the news. She goes on to say, I feel
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Speaker 1: like Paul Revere. Right now, one more ridiculous reaction before
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Speaker 1: we get the other side of this thing, because obviously,
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Speaker 1: whenever some piece of news, especially from celebrity culture, is
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Speaker 1: so big, there's always a pushback on it. Right well,
5:08
Speaker 1: let me play this for you. This is a University
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Speaker 1: of ten This video just got released this morning. By
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Speaker 1: the way, this is a University of Tennessee professor. I
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Speaker 1: think it's biochem. So it's a real serious thing on
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Speaker 1: the day when a midterm was supposed to happen. This
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Speaker 1: is Matt Pittman. You know what this guy did. He
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Speaker 1: canceled class when he got the news. Now listen to
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Speaker 1: the reaction of his a biocam midterm today. But Taylor
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Speaker 1: and Travis just got engaged due to this information. I
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Speaker 1: can't focus you up, can't focus classes, cancel, get out
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Speaker 1: of here. We got information. I need to process this information. Now.
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Speaker 1: It kind of sounds like a couple of different things.
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Speaker 1: He just wanted to, like not work that day. So
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Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm a parent paying for this class,
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Speaker 1: I'd get my money back for the class. That's just me.
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Speaker 1: That's just how I work as a consumer. But listen
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Speaker 1: to the kids, now, this is interesting. How in the
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Speaker 1: world did he break the news to them before they
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Speaker 1: knew it as it was happening. There's only one plausible explanation.
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Speaker 1: This must be a class where you can't take your
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Speaker 1: phones in. I mean, that's got to be otherwise they
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Speaker 1: would have known, right. And the other side is, you know,
6:15
Speaker 1: for people attacking the guy, He's probably right. They would
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Speaker 1: have heard about it one way or another and they
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to do it. Are that now?
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Speaker 1: Are all the kids that happy in the class because
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Speaker 1: they're swifties or just because they wanted to get out
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Speaker 1: of the biochem exam? Could have gone either way? I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Speaking of either way, Okay, listen, I get it.
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Speaker 1: The reaction is this, This is so predictable at this point.
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Speaker 1: Anything that happens with Taylor Swift news get You get
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Speaker 1: the immediate buzz and the internet reaction, and like I said,
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Speaker 1: the Swifties go crazy and things like that from the
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Speaker 1: University of Tennessee. Now the other side of it, this
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Speaker 1: takes a little bit longer. Most people are going, I
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Speaker 1: don't care. I am so sick of hearing this. I
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Speaker 1: don't who the hell cares about this? And then the
6:55
Speaker 1: you know, and then it gets a little extreme. If
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Speaker 1: you're a guy, If you're a guy that cares about this,
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Speaker 1: you're not a real guy if you and I understand
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Speaker 1: all this. I get all of it. But I've learned
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Speaker 1: the semi hard way. Having a Swifty in the house
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Speaker 1: has taught me you just kind of have to accept it.
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Speaker 1: I've seen this develop. I've seen swifty Mania developed from
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Speaker 1: the beginning. Actually, honest to god, I've interviewed her like
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Speaker 1: three or four times back in radio days. I think
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Speaker 1: it's four. I've handwritten thank you notes from her. I've
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Speaker 1: seen it all develop, the phenomenon that is Taylor Swift.
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Speaker 1: You have to look at it. This way, you just
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Speaker 1: have to for a thing. We just talk about things,
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Speaker 1: you know, things that are going in society, in the world,
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Speaker 1: and how you react to it and how you can
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Speaker 1: manage you. Right, she is an undeniable force for this
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Speaker 1: entire generation. If you have any interest whatsoever, and you
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Speaker 1: may not in connecting with younger people, you don't have
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Speaker 1: to be as Swifty and be a fan, but you
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Speaker 1: kind of have to acknowledge how big she is as
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Speaker 1: a as an entertainment force, as a consumer force, rights
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Speaker 1: as a producer of content, because she just is. It's
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Speaker 1: just a fact. It just is a thing, and it's
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Speaker 1: always going to be there. Okay, And think about the
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Speaker 1: age demographic of most of these people we call swifties.
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Speaker 1: They're in their teens and twenties and now early thirties.
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Speaker 1: They're going to be around this. If you hate all
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Speaker 1: this news that you're gonna hate this, you've got fifty
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Speaker 1: years to go of this. This is this is their
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Speaker 1: entertainment force. This is their guiding light of not only
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Speaker 1: social media, not only in influence and entertainment, this is
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Speaker 1: their guiding light of inspiration of the swifties, specifically for
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Speaker 1: decades to come. Because all of them are young, including her.
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Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, but if you're looking for a positive,
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Speaker 1: if you just hate this stuff, if you just hate
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Speaker 1: the Swifty News, but you're concerned about the way the
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Speaker 1: country's going, I do have good news for you. Let
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Speaker 1: me just let me re frame this for you and
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Speaker 1: you look at it this way. So it is a
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Speaker 1: fact talk about social trends. It's just the fact that
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Speaker 1: marriage rates among this age demographic are just plummeting. They
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Speaker 1: just are. It's just a factual thing. Young people by
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Speaker 1: and large in that age group just aren't getting married.
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Speaker 1: They're just not. And I think we can all agree
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Speaker 1: this is just factual that for a stronger society, you know,
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Speaker 1: having pretty strong marriage rates and having that as a
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Speaker 1: thing in stable families, that's better overall for all of us. Right,
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Speaker 1: it's already happened. This should be your takeaway for all
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Speaker 1: of us to look at this. Trust me on this.
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Speaker 1: You've never heard, especially young girls in twenties and thirties
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Speaker 1: talk about marriage because of this Taylor Swift News so
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Speaker 1: much as they have yesterday and going forward. I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna make a full prediction. I'm just pointing out how
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Speaker 1: the trends are going. Marriage rates are increasing already because
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Speaker 1: of this. Engagement rates would I would? I guess I
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Speaker 1: am making a prediction. You're gonna see marriage rates increase
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Speaker 1: because of this. I will. I can see it already.
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Speaker 1: It's more of a trend because they're talking about it already.
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Speaker 1: The discussion of marriage and and traditional engagement the way
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Speaker 1: she did it are increasing. So if you hate all
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Speaker 1: of the tailor stuff, maybe that's your one guiding guiding moment.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's your one light through the clouds on this. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be dealing with it for decades, but this
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Speaker 1: may have an actual net positive result. I think, who
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Speaker 1: the heck knows. Like I said, I shouldn't be making predictions.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get out of that fluff and let's
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Speaker 1: talk about some news. Remember I was telling you last
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Speaker 1: week might have been the week before this crime crackdown
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Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Isn't what you're being told. It's
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Speaker 1: not the media reports and they played with all the
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Speaker 1: crime statistics in Washington, DC. And the news came out
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Speaker 1: yesterday from Stephen Miller or the White House, White House Advisory.
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Speaker 1: You know what they're doing with the crime statistics in DC.
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Speaker 1: They were calling murders accidents. That's why these so called
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Speaker 1: crime stats were going down. No, they weren't. And you
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Speaker 1: know who told you that, not me, the Washington d
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Speaker 1: C Residence. For about eight nine days now you've seen
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Speaker 1: video after video of Washington d C. Residence thankful that
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Speaker 1: there's a crime crackdown. There's still since this started, not
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Speaker 1: one homicide in the streets of DC. Now you're starting
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Speaker 1: to see Washington, DC residents come out saying I can
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Speaker 1: walk again, I can walk at night, I can walk
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Speaker 1: home from work, I can get to my car and
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Speaker 1: not have to you know, keep checking behind my back.
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Speaker 1: That's starting to happen. That was the true story, not
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Speaker 1: these politicians playing with the crime rates, not the talking
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Speaker 1: heads on TV, not a biased and disgusting news media
11:43
Speaker 1: who just hate everything Trump does just because they politically
11:46
Speaker 1: they hate him. So this was obvious that they have
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Speaker 1: the support of the people and the White House. This
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Speaker 1: administration more than any other, really tunes into that. They'll
11:55
Speaker 1: send out little test balloons and little ideas of things
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Speaker 1: that they want to do, and if they get positive feedback,
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Speaker 1: if they get the voice of the people, then they'll
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Speaker 1: start to act on it. We all knew. It was
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Speaker 1: obvious as hell to see that this crime crackdown was
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Speaker 1: going to go to a different city. So but the
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Speaker 1: question was what's next. Chicago is next? Uh, I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you about their mayor here in just a second. But
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Speaker 1: let's start to hear from some of their residents now
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Speaker 1: that they've seen what's going on in Washington, d c.
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Speaker 1: And they want it coming to their city. Let's go
12:26
Speaker 1: to this guy first, not.
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Speaker 2: Walk around the community without feed of being heard or
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Speaker 2: kidnapped or having a drive by.
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Speaker 1: So it's what these numbers that they're expressing. We don't
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Speaker 1: feel it in our quality of life. We don't feel
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Speaker 1: those numbers. He knows, he knows, it's a bunch of crap.
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Speaker 1: Or let's go to this lady. And this was important
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Speaker 1: because it's on CNN, and CNN hates doing this. I'm
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Speaker 1: amazed they even do live on the street interviews anymore
12:51
Speaker 1: because when they actually talk to people, it completely up
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Speaker 1: ends any narrative they're trying to push. Here's another Chicago
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Speaker 1: resident talking about, well, would you welcome and do you
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Speaker 1: believe the crime statistics because crime has gone down. First
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Speaker 1: reaction was this is a good thing.
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Speaker 2: I think that the governor as well as the mayor
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Speaker 2: should be on board with it, just so we can
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Speaker 2: get a bit more of security in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: The way do we need the crime has So some
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Speaker 1: CNN producer is hearing that lady talk about it going
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Speaker 1: cut cut the feed. No, that doesn't support the narrative.
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Speaker 1: We're trying to push get ready to Chicago because it's coming.
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Speaker 1: And here's the problem. This is what's really scary. So
13:30
Speaker 1: they didn't really have a choice. In Washington, DC, because
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Speaker 1: the administration is right there and the Feds are right there,
13:34
Speaker 1: it is a lot easier to you know, kind of
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Speaker 1: enact the crime crackdown. Chicago's gonna be a little bit
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Speaker 1: different because you have a lunatic, idiot mayor who is
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Speaker 1: completely in favor and has no problem at all in
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Speaker 1: telling the residents there to whip them all up into
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Speaker 1: a frenzy and to push back and to get them
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Speaker 1: into trouble. He'll be fine, he doesn't care about that,
13:54
Speaker 1: but he's pushing a narrative, so he'll put his residence
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Speaker 1: in trouble. This is Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago. No,
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Speaker 1: I kind of sand back this. I held on this
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Speaker 1: held on to this for a few days. This is
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Speaker 1: actually from this past weekend in a report. Listen to
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Speaker 1: this idiot because he knows well much better than anybody
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Speaker 1: else that the crime crackdown, the federal crackdown is coming
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Speaker 1: to his city because he's so incompetent. Listen to his
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Speaker 1: words and how dangerous this is.
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Speaker 2: See and so you know, Look, We're going to remain firm,
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Speaker 2: will take legal action. But the people of this city
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Speaker 2: are accustomed to rising up against tyranny, and if that's necessary,
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Speaker 2: I believe that the people of Chicago will stand firm
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Speaker 2: alongside of me as I work every single day to
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Speaker 2: protect the people of this city.
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Speaker 1: Residents of Chaga will stand up, stand firm, push back,
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Speaker 1: resist all the buzzwords, right, all the things that will
14:44
Speaker 1: get residents in trouble if they happen to listen to him,
14:49
Speaker 1: and he'll be safe and fine and won't even suffer
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Speaker 1: any cost whatsoever. Dangerous, incompetent, disruptive, destructive, that's the problem
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Speaker 1: right there. I'm at the point now where you hear
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Speaker 1: so many residents DC, Chicago, LA, New York, Boston, Philly,
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Speaker 1: same thing you hear from so many residents that want
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Speaker 1: law and order. I'm amazed. I have a lot of
15:14
Speaker 1: doubt about how these people got elected in the first place.
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Speaker 1: I really do. It's like him with New York, the
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Speaker 1: socialist mayor that's going to be mayor. This is Zondani guy.
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Speaker 1: Most of the money for his campaign coming from outside
15:25
Speaker 1: of New York. Of course it is, of course it is, Well,
15:28
Speaker 1: what are the other things? How legit are those elections
15:31
Speaker 1: in those cities? If these people get elected but they
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Speaker 1: don't represent the will of the people, I don't know.
15:36
Speaker 1: I have my doubts. But get ready to Chicago. It's coming.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be probably a tougher fight because of people
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Speaker 1: like that than it was in DC. But listen to
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Speaker 1: the residents, not the talking heads on TV, not idiot
15:47
Speaker 1: politicians like that, and these twisted crime statistics, because we
15:51
Speaker 1: know that those are easy to fix. All right, let's
15:53
Speaker 1: get some good news. Let's wrap this up with good news,
15:55
Speaker 1: maybe the best news of all. Maybe you're upset about
15:59
Speaker 1: the Taylor Swift news. Okay, whatever, that's fine. This will
16:03
Speaker 1: make you happy. I told you your voice always always matters,
16:07
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to consumer issues, and you did it.
16:12
Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel has caved and is going back to their
16:16
Speaker 1: old logo. By the way, I didn't even know that
16:18
Speaker 1: the old guy by the barrel has a name. Uncle
16:22
Speaker 1: Herschel had no idea. But anyway, an official statement. Now,
16:26
Speaker 1: yesterday about this time, they made a statement where they said,
16:28
Speaker 1: we heard you, we made a mistake. Well that was
16:30
Speaker 1: you know, that was the first part and that would
16:32
Speaker 1: have probably would have been good enough for a lot
16:33
Speaker 1: of people. But then you have this ready, a full
16:37
Speaker 1: on reversal from Cracker Barrel. Here's the statement. I wouldn't
16:40
Speaker 1: read the whole thing. You don't have time for that.
16:42
Speaker 1: We thank our guests for sharing your voices. There's their
16:45
Speaker 1: voices thing again in love for Cracker Barrel. We said
16:49
Speaker 1: we would listen, and we have our new logo is
16:51
Speaker 1: going away and our old timer will remain. And then
16:55
Speaker 1: it goes into a bunch of marketing points and blah
16:56
Speaker 1: blah blah. Seventy set they have seventy thousand employees. By
17:00
Speaker 1: the way, that's a big employer, so it's a big deal. Now,
17:03
Speaker 1: let me get one thing out of the way. Last
17:06
Speaker 1: time I was in a Cracker Barrel, I don't know
17:07
Speaker 1: about you, was probably geez like three years ago, and
17:11
Speaker 1: that's part of the problem, and it was empty then
17:13
Speaker 1: a lot of this outrage. A lot of these people
17:16
Speaker 1: decrying the marketing change with Cracker Barrel haven't been going
17:20
Speaker 1: to the restaurant. It's been empty for a long time,
17:22
Speaker 1: So can we be honest about that. It's been struggling
17:25
Speaker 1: for a long time. I think most of the pushback
17:28
Speaker 1: has been on what they did to it, because people
17:31
Speaker 1: are tired of seeing legacy things, even in consumer products
17:35
Speaker 1: or retail stores or restaurants, going away. So they're tired
17:38
Speaker 1: of that. But the biggest takeaway of all is if
17:42
Speaker 1: enough people are outraged by it and they push back,
17:46
Speaker 1: it does make a difference. Look at how many things
17:48
Speaker 1: you've seen this with now, Look at how many products,
17:50
Speaker 1: how many brands, how many things. If you want to
17:53
Speaker 1: go back to the bud Light thing, that particular brand,
17:58
Speaker 1: just that one still has never recovered from that. Look
18:00
Speaker 1: at what happened with Target. Your voice always matters in everything.
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18:06
Speaker 1: buy it because it does matter. Now, is Cracker Barrel
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Speaker 1: smart enough to take advantage of all the buzz they have? Good?
18:14
Speaker 1: Let's face it, we've never ever talked about Cracker Barrel
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Speaker 1: as much as this past week. Ever, They've never had
18:23
Speaker 1: so much trending news, They've never had so much attention.
18:26
Speaker 1: Almost to the point where if this was all just
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Speaker 1: like a ruse and a hoax and a fake misdirection
18:32
Speaker 1: that they were going to just to get attention, that
18:34
Speaker 1: would have been brilliant. I don't think that's it. And
18:36
Speaker 1: also there's another factor in this. Even though they caved
18:40
Speaker 1: and they listened to you, and they're going back to
18:42
Speaker 1: the old logo. I don't know about the inside design,
18:44
Speaker 1: but the old logo anyway, and the brand they still have.
18:49
Speaker 1: The people in charge supposedly who made the change still
18:54
Speaker 1: the DEI Hire marketing manager who now the reports are
18:57
Speaker 1: that they warned her a year ago not to do this.
18:59
Speaker 1: Apparently didn't listen. No, because you're a you're an IVY
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Speaker 1: League brandiac. You know better than the people, don't you. Right?
19:05
Speaker 1: Are they smart enough to clean house at that level?
19:09
Speaker 1: And here's the important thing, is Cracker Barrel as a
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Speaker 1: brand representing their seventy thousand employees, are they smart enough
19:16
Speaker 1: to take advantage of this? In other words, triple down
19:21
Speaker 1: produce commercials, spend as much money as you have to
19:24
Speaker 1: get the marketing advertising out of there and take advantage
19:27
Speaker 1: of this momentum. Are they smart enough to make commercials
19:29
Speaker 1: saying we're the restaurant that listens to people because they've
19:34
Speaker 1: never had a better marketing opportunity as this. Are they
19:38
Speaker 1: smart enough to take advantage of it? Yeah? I have
19:42
Speaker 1: my doubts. It would be amazing to see, though, it
19:44
Speaker 1: really would. And here's the other question. Are all these
19:47
Speaker 1: other major corporations smart enough to hire people marketing manage it?
19:54
Speaker 1: We see it in corporate America all the time, marketing
19:57
Speaker 1: managers that have no idea what the product is. Are
20:00
Speaker 1: they smart enough to start hiring people that actually understand
20:02
Speaker 1: what their product is and what their consumer base is.
20:05
Speaker 1: Some will, Some definitely will, some won't. We'll see. We'll
20:10
Speaker 1: see if they're smart enough to do it. I don't know.
20:13
Speaker 1: But the takeaway is your voice is always heard. That's
20:17
Speaker 1: a massive win actually for American culture and Americana. It
20:20
Speaker 1: just is, well, people start going to Cracker, but it's
20:22
Speaker 1: still going to be empty. It just didn't want Most
20:26
Speaker 1: people would to talk to them about this. They're like,
20:28
Speaker 1: I don't really want to go to Cracker Barrel. I
20:30
Speaker 1: just didn't want them changing. Okay, fair enough. So that's
20:35
Speaker 1: your takeaway there. Your voice is always heard. And the
20:37
Speaker 1: second thing is, look, if you're upset about the Tailor
20:40
Speaker 1: Swift thing, look reframe it and look at it a
20:42
Speaker 1: different way. She's a massive marketing consumer force. If you
20:48
Speaker 1: look at it that way, it's much easier to understand
20:52
Speaker 1: that phenomenon, much easier. And if this increases marriage rates,
20:57
Speaker 1: that's actually good for you and me and everybody else
20:59
Speaker 1: in the country. So look at it that way. And
21:01
Speaker 1: by the way, the biggest winner of the whole Taylor
21:03
Speaker 1: Swift engagement news, they frickin did it again. The biggest winner.
21:09
Speaker 1: Not the Swifties, not Taylor, not Travis kelce not the Chiefs,
21:13
Speaker 1: even the freaking NFL. They did it again. They only
21:17
Speaker 1: stand to benefit. It's amazing, It's absolutely amazing how this worked.
21:21
Speaker 1: Two weeks before the start of the regular season. They
21:24
Speaker 1: get this news to carry them in through the dead period,
21:27
Speaker 1: to get buzz in the NFL to go forward because
21:30
Speaker 1: she's married to or going to be married to, Travis Kelcey.
21:32
Speaker 1: Are the Chiefs? Unbelievable? The NFL can't lose. It's just incredible,
21:37
Speaker 1: so they're welcoming this with open arms. By the way,
21:39
Speaker 1: bad news for everybody that said this whole relationship with
21:42
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift was all just designed as
21:45
Speaker 1: a marketing ploy. I guess that turned out to be false,
21:48
Speaker 1: but anyway, look at it that way, you feel a
21:50
Speaker 1: lot better about things. Man. Thanks for finding Wicked Radio,
21:52
Speaker 1: livestream of the podcast. I appreciate you. Audio listeners, replay
21:56
Speaker 1: on x Wicked, WISOM with Bill Adams, and all the
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Speaker 1: social media channels. Thanks for the followers too. As always,
22:01
Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to the end of the week.
22:03
Speaker 1: What's going to be in the news tomorrow? What can
22:04
Speaker 1: we manage up on I don't know, but we'll find out.
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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you then,