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Wicked Radio 8-14: Trump Honors KISS!, Crime Crackdown Is Popular, & Taylor Swift Broke The Internet · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Are you going to be mad at me today? Some
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  Speaker 1: of you?
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  Speaker 2: Because I always get the comments if I talk about
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  Speaker 2: straight news all the time that happens to come across
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  Speaker 2: my desk.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, I don't want to hear about the
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  Speaker 1: news too much.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm talking about entertainment stuff, Oh it's too fluffy.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to this? Listen, listen, chill out.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just lay this out one more time, because
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  Speaker 2: what I do actually is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not all politics. I'm not all fluff and entertainment
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  Speaker 1: or feel goodie news. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I just talk about what society and what the news
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  Speaker 2: brings us and give you the mindset and not a
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  Speaker 2: deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: It's all I do.
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  Speaker 2: So with that said, two of the biggest stories that
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  Speaker 2: came out yesterday were Trump talking about kiss Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 2: had a massive, massive new album release, and just to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that you don't think this is all fluff,
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  Speaker 2: we'll give you a crime update as well.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a nice balance? Will that work?
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  Speaker 2: I don't make the rules side what the news is.
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  Speaker 2: We just we just talk about it. Thanks for finding me.
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  Speaker 1: All of that stuff whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I just think you if it be in here, all right,
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  Speaker 2: just so you think it's not all fluff, Let's start it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start it off with the news story that won't
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  Speaker 2: go away, because this really, truly is one of those
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  Speaker 2: big societal changing kind of things. And I have to
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  Speaker 2: say with the crime crackdown in DC starting in DC,
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  Speaker 2: and that's relevant to the story, I think I gotta say,
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  Speaker 2: if you didn't think this was coming, I'm sorry you
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  Speaker 2: haven't been paying attention because law and order here it is.
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  Speaker 1: Again. It was what I'd put it top three.
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  Speaker 2: One of the campaign promises from Trump because what they
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  Speaker 2: do is they just read the pulse of the nation.
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  Speaker 2: And let's admit it, Trump is very good at this,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a massive thing. It was a massive
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  Speaker 2: voting issue. Was for me, for anybody that has to
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  Speaker 2: deal with a big city. It's not just in the cities,
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  Speaker 2: but that's where you start, and you start in Washington,
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  Speaker 2: DC because symbolically, like he said with his dirty restaurant
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  Speaker 2: door example, is analogy. You start there because it's symbolic
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the country. Right, it's a big
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  Speaker 2: issue for me. I have a daughter that goes to
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  Speaker 2: school in New York. You think I'm not concerned about
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  Speaker 2: about crime and crime statistics, despite how they try to
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  Speaker 2: play it off, and they try to, you know, weasel around.
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  Speaker 2: You can listen with statistics, you can you can present
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  Speaker 2: it any way you want to make it, make your argument.
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  Speaker 2: But in the real world and how this works, if
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  Speaker 2: you see this stuff, if you're affected by it, if
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  Speaker 2: you actually know what's happening in society and big cities,
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  Speaker 2: it's out of control. Anybody can tell you that. So
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  Speaker 2: with that said, the talking heads all week long, as
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  Speaker 2: we talked about yesterday, I've been saying it's an authoritarian dictatorship,
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  Speaker 2: it's a takeover. Well, most people have realized by now,
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  Speaker 2: most common sense people like you who have realized it's
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  Speaker 2: not a takeover. They're offering federal assistance to the police
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  Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. And the updates so far I
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  Speaker 2: have it at this so I update this morning, just
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  Speaker 2: a couple of hours ago. Actually, they're over one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty arrests so far from the assistance from the FEDS.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good.
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  Speaker 2: And sure enough, you're starting to hear from DC residents,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the people that you never hear from. They
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  Speaker 2: finally got through the talking heads and they talked to
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  Speaker 2: people that were actually affected by all this stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like real working class people. What do you think the
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  Speaker 2: reaction has been so far from real people, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not the political operatives, not the talking heads and mainstream media,
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  Speaker 2: real people that live in that city.
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  Speaker 1: What's their reaction?
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  Speaker 2: Overwhelmingly positive because you're making their streets safer. Of course
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  Speaker 2: they are, of course it is, despite how they try
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  Speaker 2: to spin it.
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  Speaker 1: But here's where we've gone from right now. Now, as I.
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  Speaker 2: Told you this was coming a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 2: this is the start. You start in Washington, DC, because
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  Speaker 2: it's in your neighborhood, right if you're the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 2: this is where you start, and then it heads to
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  Speaker 2: other cities. And you got to know that the other
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  Speaker 2: city mayors know about this, They know it's coming, and
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  Speaker 2: they are in a panic because all of their incompetence
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  Speaker 2: and all of their fraud and all of these local
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  Speaker 2: yogal das that have given criminals and criminal gangs and
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  Speaker 2: young violent offenders, slap on the wrist and no cash
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  Speaker 2: bail and all this other stuff. Oh, they know the
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  Speaker 2: crackdown is coming because it's got a massive popular appeal
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  Speaker 2: among the nation. Like I said, top three for some people.
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  Speaker 2: Who is the top voting issue going into this past election.
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  Speaker 2: They want help.
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  Speaker 1: Well, big city mayors know this, and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: they're in a panic. You want proof.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go yesterday too. I think it was Jake Tapper
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  Speaker 2: talking to this lady. She's the mayor of Oakland, California.
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  Speaker 2: You've been to Oakland recently. You know what that place
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  Speaker 2: looks like. Looks like bad dad. Well, here's what she says.
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  Speaker 2: This might be the biggest self own in media. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to her reasoning.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just say also, it's not lost on anyone
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  Speaker 3: that the cities that he is calling out, first of
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  Speaker 3: all have large numbers of black and brown people. Secondly,
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  Speaker 3: the crime rate is going down in all of these cities. Thirdly,
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  Speaker 3: they're all headed by black mayors. Now what does that say?
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  Speaker 3: What does that picture paint?
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  Speaker 1: It paints the picture not that you're aware of.
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  Speaker 2: That's a massive self owned because it's got nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with the fact that you're a black mayor. It's
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  Speaker 2: got nothing to do with the fact that you've got
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  Speaker 2: black residents primarily, you know, in the majority in your city.
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  Speaker 2: It's got everything to do with your incompetence. That's what
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  Speaker 2: it says. But of course, what do they do when
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  Speaker 2: they actually want to crack down on crime and then
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  Speaker 2: they look at the polls and they say, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: people in our city actually like this, Like working poor
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  Speaker 2: people who never have a voice, they're in favor of this.
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  Speaker 1: What do we do? What are we gonna do? You
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  Speaker 1: know the answer? What do they do?
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  Speaker 2: Like she just did, Oh, it's a racism thing. Oh
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  Speaker 2: that's right, Okay, Wow, what are they admitting? So cracking
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  Speaker 2: down on crime is racist? He actually got, whether he
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  Speaker 2: wanted it to or not, Trump actually got these corrupt,
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  Speaker 2: incompetent local Yokal mayors to say that law and order
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  Speaker 2: is racist.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I affects you and me. If this was
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  Speaker 2: a major issue for you, was for me? I told
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  Speaker 2: you that is one of my top I'd put it
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  Speaker 2: at my second most important voting issue for me personally,
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  Speaker 2: it just was, like I said, vested interest in this
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  Speaker 2: travel a lot to cities.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in there.
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  Speaker 2: I got a daughter going to school in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: scared to death every single day of this crime.
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  Speaker 1: Do I want law and order? Do I want to
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  Speaker 1: crack down? Yes? I do.
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  Speaker 2: So they know it's coming. It's not gonna stop at Washington, DC,
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  Speaker 2: and they are in a panic. The reason why you're
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  Speaker 2: hearing the panic right now, don't buy it. It's because
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  Speaker 2: they know that they're completely incompetent. So that's coming, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Are you satisfied? Is that the serious news?
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  Speaker 2: So now I can talk about the fluffy stuff. This
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  Speaker 2: was one of my favorite things of the year yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and I actually happened to see this leg You probably
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  Speaker 2: saw the clip of it. You know, I'm a big
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  Speaker 2: rock fan and I've as a kid of the seventies
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  Speaker 2: and eighties.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up with Kiss. I've always been a big fan.
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  Speaker 2: A massively and I happened to catch this live for
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  Speaker 2: whatever reason, I was doing some work online. I pop
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  Speaker 2: on my phone and said, oh, what's Trump talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Let me go to this life risk conference now? And
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  Speaker 2: I hear him say this, and I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: a fake video.
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  Speaker 4: And finally we'll be honoring one of the greatest rock
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  Speaker 4: bands of all time. Kiss So Kiss was formed in
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  Speaker 4: nineteen seventy three in New York City by founding band
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  Speaker 4: members and incredible people by the way, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons,
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  Speaker 4: Ace Frehley, and Peter Chris. Kiss became a global phenomenon,
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  Speaker 4: sold more than one hundred million records worldwide and produce
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  Speaker 4: thirty gold albums and lots of other things they produced.
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  Speaker 1: They made a fortune. What a world we've got Trump
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  Speaker 1: talking about Kiss.
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  Speaker 2: This is all part, of course, the Kennedy Center honors,
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  Speaker 2: and not only Kiss going in there December eighth. It's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be George Strait, who's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: By the way.
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  Speaker 2: George Strait is great country artist. Not very exciting on stage,
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  Speaker 2: That's okay, He's awesome. Michael Crawford sliced the loan and
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  Speaker 2: Gloria Gainer going on there too.
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  Speaker 1: But this was I thought this was so cool. I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely loved it. With all that.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those other controversial things, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I think he fired the board of the Kennedy Center,
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  Speaker 2: these left wing lunatics and all this other stuff. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this brings him back into the fold, doesn't it. This
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  Speaker 2: was amazing but I will tell you. I gotta tell
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  Speaker 2: you I had some fear going into this because as
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  Speaker 2: a Kiss fan, I know that they've been battling internally
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  Speaker 2: for years and years and years. That's just been going
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  Speaker 2: on and on and on, and there's also this, well,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to accept the honor right, Please tell me
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  Speaker 2: they won't do something stupid, because I don't think especially
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  Speaker 2: Jean and Paul are probably the biggest Trump fans. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, So I did have my concerns, and it
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  Speaker 2: was concerned about this too, And maybe you're aware of
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  Speaker 2: this issue. During COVID, Paul Stanley and Jean Simmons had
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  Speaker 2: said some really stupid things about vaccinations and masks.
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  Speaker 1: They did like really stupid things.
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  Speaker 2: So I was a little bit worried about that, and
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  Speaker 2: it pissed off all out of the fan base as well.
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  Speaker 2: But sure enough, I think it was a couple of
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  Speaker 2: hours after the Kennedy Center announcement to allay everybody's fears,
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  Speaker 2: these statements from the band came out and it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll get to the takeaway and what this means
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  Speaker 2: and how you handle things professionally here in just a second.
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  Speaker 2: Gene of course, talking to TMZ, says, kisses the embody
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  Speaker 2: in American dream. We're deeply honored to receive the Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: Center honor. Oh that's a good sign. Well, what's Paul
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  Speaker 2: Stanley say? From our earliest days, Kiss is embodied the
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  Speaker 2: American ideal that all things are possible and that hard
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  Speaker 2: work pays off. The prestige of the Kennedy Center honor
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  Speaker 2: can't be overstated.
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. He's honored, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Stanley talks a lot ace freely call the honor
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  Speaker 2: a dream come true I never thought would materialize. And
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  Speaker 2: Peter Chris, I feel so blessed. This is the greatest
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  Speaker 2: honor of our career. Now as a celebrity, that's how
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  Speaker 2: you handle it, fantastic outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: Put your political differences aside.
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  Speaker 2: It's always that example we always talk about if going
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  Speaker 2: back to Joe Biden or Clinton or Obama or anybody
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  Speaker 2: politically you disagree with, if you got an invite to
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  Speaker 2: the White House, let's say, of course you go for
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  Speaker 2: the honor despite your political opinions. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: whether the guys and Kiss actually like Trump or not,
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  Speaker 2: who the hell knows, but it didn't matter, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why that was handled so beautifully. I love that response.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what we should do. They're going for the honor.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, it's going to be on December eighth.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Would all celebrities do that, handle it
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  Speaker 1: that way. Not in this day and age.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: We have football players who win the Super Bowl refused
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  Speaker 2: to go to the White House for political reasons, all
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  Speaker 2: that crap, all that nonsense. Put that aside, and receive
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  Speaker 2: the honor for your fans, for yourself, and for your country.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's I thought this was so cool, just
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  Speaker 2: the fact that Trump was talking about Kiss.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what world are we living in? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I love it. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm stealing a line. My good
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  Speaker 2: buddy Mark, also a big rock fan. We were texting
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  Speaker 2: back and forth last night about this, and he said
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  Speaker 2: the greatest line that I'm gonna steal. He said, if
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  Speaker 2: Trump can bring Jean, Paul, Ace and Peter together, he
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  Speaker 2: can do anything. I get say any better than that,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: And he's right.
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  Speaker 2: So if he can bring the original members of Kiss
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  Speaker 2: back together for an honor, and he says they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do something special. He probably actually will broker piece between
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine and Russia.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, you know, we'll see. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of fluff, are you ready for this? Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 2: broke the internet. There's a bigger story than this though.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just gonna like Swifty out and start talking
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  Speaker 2: about this stuff. But this was a massive, massive point
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  Speaker 2: of discussion at her last night with my wife and
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  Speaker 2: one of my daughters. We were there, We're at the restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking eighty percent of the dinner time about.
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  Speaker 1: The new Taylor Swift album. And I got all the details.
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  Speaker 1: I got that.
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  Speaker 2: I got the you know, all the different covers that
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  Speaker 2: were there. I got the details about what the songs are,
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  Speaker 2: the collaborations that are on it, how they did it.
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  Speaker 2: And I had already known this because this was a
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  Speaker 2: massive news story. Hey, like I said in the intro,
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  Speaker 2: we don't determine what the news is that comes to us.
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  Speaker 2: We just talk about how we're gonna deal with it,
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  Speaker 2: all right, and that what the takeaway is. And the
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  Speaker 2: takeaway on this is this has This is a shining, beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: big example that media now is completely different. First of all,
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: here's the announcement Taylor Swift on her boyfriend fiance.
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  Speaker 1: What are they? I don't know. I'll have to ask
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  Speaker 1: my daughter. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey and Jason Kelcey have that podcast called New Heights.
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  Speaker 1: Broke the Internet.
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  Speaker 2: At one point live there were one point three million
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  Speaker 2: people watching this announcement because they knew she was going
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  Speaker 2: to be on there. Mostly Swifties mostly of course, of course,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a big podcast anyway, as of today, as
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  Speaker 2: of this morning, and it's probably even millions more if
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: you're watching this or listening to this later on today,
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  Speaker 2: over eight million people watched the complete podcast on YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: over eight million in counting, so it's probably ten by now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But this was the announcement. This is
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  Speaker 1: what sent This is what broke the internet everybody. This
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  Speaker 1: is my brand new album.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, and the Swifties went crazy and it's
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  Speaker 2: huge in the What my God.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what's different, here's what matters.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, And maybe you don't like Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Swift whatever, I happen to admire her, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: not the music so much, but admire her as a
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  Speaker 2: personality because she is a monster Monster high performing individual.
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  Speaker 1: She just is.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what's different, and this is why you got to
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  Speaker 2: understand this. My takeaway is a little bit different. If
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  Speaker 2: this announcement had come out five years ago, no, three
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  Speaker 2: years ago, let's put it at three years ago, right,
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  Speaker 2: where would she have.
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  Speaker 1: Made this announcement?
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  Speaker 2: Some sort of deal with the Today Show or a
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  Speaker 2: big MTV release, right, maybe a pay per view thing,
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  Speaker 2: I you know, I don't know, CBS Morning Show, something
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  Speaker 2: like that, some sort of marketing deal.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm getting at is mainstream traditional media. Flash forward
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  Speaker 2: to the year of Our Lord twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Where does this go? You know what I'm going to say.
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  Speaker 1: Where did these announcement happen? What broke records? And it
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  Speaker 1: actually did?
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  Speaker 2: I think it overwhelmed in the streams at some point.
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  Speaker 1: New media a podcast with these two guys.
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  Speaker 2: Granted it's a big podcast already, but this is the takeaway,
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  Speaker 2: and this is what you should understand about this media
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  Speaker 2: is completely different. Who are most of the swifties, young
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  Speaker 2: girls up to like into the thirties, right, this is
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  Speaker 2: where they get their information now, this is what they're online.
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  Speaker 2: They're online, watching and listening to podcasts, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram
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  Speaker 2: and streams. The media is completely different now. And people
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  Speaker 2: who don't understand that, who still think the traditional mainstream
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  Speaker 2: networks are it or hate to say it, but even
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  Speaker 2: traditional radio you don't get that.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get that.
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  Speaker 2: It's all changed your food for these kids because they
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  Speaker 2: are way way past you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this was massive.
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  Speaker 2: One point three million people watching this live and I'll
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  Speaker 2: put it at what ten million plus watching the entire podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This is the media now.
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  Speaker 2: And this is why you have all these talking heads
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  Speaker 2: on traditional media freaking out because they have lost control.
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  Speaker 2: They've lost you know, Elon always says we are the
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  Speaker 2: media now. It's exactly right. He's exactly right. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it's exciting as hell.
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  Speaker 1: I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's great because the truth gets out there.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Things are completely different, and I love it. Here's something
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: else that's completely different. Yes, this ties into that young
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: generation as well, So it gives me a nice segue
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: a segua as we used to say in the dumb
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: radio days.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: The sober parade rolls on. Remember I was talking. This
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: is probably about a month and a half, maybe.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Two months ago. There was an update about gen Z.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: You know, younger than millennials that they don't drink. They
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: just don't. And this kind of sent the alcohol industry
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: into an end, bar industry into a panic because, let's
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: face it, as a business story, this really affects them,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: doesn't it. Well, now some follow up information has come
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: out because they did a study. Since then, they put
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: all the numbers together and they surveyed apparently according to Gallup.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I know Gallup polling has its flaws, but still it's
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: a massive polling industry, thousands thousands of gen zs.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: And millennials to ask them, and.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: The result is the number of Americans who drink has
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: hit an all time low. Now, alcohol industry, beer producers,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: bar owners, chains, restaurants, this is big news for them.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: So they found that fifty four percent of us, this
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: is everybody, all demographics sometimes have a drink or two.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Fifty four percent so that they'd call it moderate like
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: drinking or whatever, lowest since Gallup started tracking it in
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: nineteen thirty nine. That's right, And who's leading the sobriety parade?
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Just like we said, all the indicators were there, gen
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Z kids, they're not.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: The causes I don't know. Socially, it's a lot different.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I think my personal opinion, I think the whole COVID
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: thing and shutting kids in socially it changed everything. They
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: meet people online now, they don't go to bars and restaurants,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: they don't drink as much.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Will there always be a drug there?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: There'll be something for escapism, of course there will be,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: But apparently it's not alcohol. Now let's follow this up
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: now because it's a massive business story. So let's go
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: to Financial Times that pick this story up as well.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: The exact same numbers. Even gen Z is over it,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: over half of eighteen to thirty four's, that'd be what
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: they call gen Z don't drink at all. So people
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: up to thirty four years of age nothing completely totally
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: at least alcohol sober.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's moved on to pot.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's other things, I don't know, whatever whatever it is,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: but alcohol completely different.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Now, there are two takeaways on this.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, if you're somebody that really has wanted
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: to of any age, like if you're our age, has
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: really wanted to stop drinking, this is good news for
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: you because socially, you know, most people will tell you
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: the hardest thing about stopping drinking or cutting it out
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: or going sober or whatever.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Are there social.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Aspects because there actually is still peer pressure among our
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: age group.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: You know, middle aged dudes like means, oh, come on,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I have another beer? What my whole life?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I grew up in a drinking culture, So I totally
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: get it if you wanted to. This helps you because
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: sobriety is becoming it's happening, so in society it's becoming cool.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: It just is.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: And there's another takeaway on this. There's another thing that
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: may benefit you as a parent of one of these
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: gen zs of that age group. It just got a
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: lot easier for you to try to convince them to
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: stay away from alcohol if you wanted to completely. Because
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that's what's happening. This is a massive thing and it's
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: really not just above booze. Even though it's bad news
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: for the alcohol industry. This is one of those societal
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: changing things that has a massive impact going forward because
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: it doesn't just affect the alcohol companies like I said, yeah,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: affects bars, restaurants, clubs, sporting events. What happens to all
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: that TV advertising for all this stuff to they boosted
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: up again?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: What about all the alcohol?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: What about all the beer as you see at a
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: professional sports event or a concert.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: What happens to all that? Does all this change? Yep?
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to look like in the future.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Or I don't know what drug of choice or whatever
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: it is that they go to. But it ain't alcohol.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It's just not.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like what the Taylor Swift thing we
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: were talking about. All their information is different. You better
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: learn it now. All their fun is different too, Better
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: learn it now. You're gonna be lost in the woods.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be the dinosaurs in the corner reading a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: newspaper and smoking a cigarette. That's gonna be us compared
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to these kids. If you don't understand where they're going
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: right or wrong, we're gonna.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Look really old, really fast.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So get hip to it and where they get their
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: information and where they get their fun, because it's not
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: what we're used to.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And overall, maybe that's a great thing. Maybe I don't know.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, that was an interesting one.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, kiss and crime. I don't determine what the
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: news is. I just tell you how to handle it.
• 20:29
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• 20:31
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• 20:32
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• 20:56
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• 21:00
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• 21:02
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