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Wicked Radio 11-25: Make Travel Great Again!, Comey Victory?, & Black Friday Protest Is Planned · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Planes, trains, automobiles. The Thanksgiving holiday rush is on the
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Speaker 1: travel rush. You did the thing on this last week.
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Speaker 1: You might remember where he's pointing out when they started
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Speaker 1: to predict Triple A's prediction about what holiday travel was
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Speaker 1: going to be like this week. And I made a
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Speaker 1: point at the time where he said, wait, hold on
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Speaker 1: a minute. Over the summer, I was told that no
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Speaker 1: one was going to be able to fly or drive
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Speaker 1: or go anywhere. It's too expensive to do anything. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: here's the final number. Now this is coming from not
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Speaker 1: Triple A, but the Transportation Department. They're expecting a one
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Speaker 1: point six million person increase over last year. People traveling
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Speaker 1: somehow someway. And I know it's annoying. I know the
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Speaker 1: airports are crazy. I know that you know, the interstates
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Speaker 1: even side roads are going to be packed. You gotta
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Speaker 1: take this as a good sign, though, you really do,
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Speaker 1: because people believe, not only now, that whatever tough times
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Speaker 1: you're going through, whatever the economy is doing to you,
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Speaker 1: you have faith that things are going to get better.
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Speaker 1: That's the takeaway. That's what this means. And nothing's going
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Speaker 1: to say from enjoying your holiday, which is what it
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Speaker 1: should be all about so I take that as good news.
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Speaker 1: But I tell you I was collecting some clips here
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Speaker 1: from the Transportation secretary, who moments ago as we go
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Speaker 1: live in the live stream. Doesn't matter if you're listening
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Speaker 1: later did an entire press conference talking about the air
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Speaker 1: travel but making it a better experience. I have never
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Speaker 1: talked about a transportation secretary so much on any podcast,
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Speaker 1: live stream, live show, anything in my life. But I
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Speaker 1: love what this guy is doing. We'll get to Sean
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Speaker 1: Duffy here in a second. A little bit of swampy
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Speaker 1: stuff to talk about today, but it shouldn't concern you
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Speaker 1: too much. So former FBI director James Comy doing a
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Speaker 1: little victory dance apparently got a big legal win, but
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Speaker 1: the White House says, oh, slow the hell down, call me.
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Speaker 1: We're coming after you with full guns now. And to
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Speaker 1: wrap this up today. You may have seen this, maybe not.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe you're a TikTok person that's been
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Speaker 1: on Instagram too, or just maybe your kids are aware
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Speaker 1: of it. I don't know. There's apparently a Black Friday
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Speaker 1: shopping protest on that starts today. That's right, that's right.
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Speaker 1: The usual suspects aren't going to be clogging up the
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Speaker 1: lines at retail stores and they refuse to buy things
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Speaker 1: for Black Friday in whatever the hell they're protesting. Now,
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Speaker 1: let me ask you, is this such a bad thing?
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Speaker 1: Should you even worry about it?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: I say no, probably not. But anyway, happy Thanksgiving week.
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Speaker 1: It's such a strange week. I love this week. It's
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Speaker 1: a great, like little look into how we're doing as
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Speaker 1: a country, right the air travel, how people are doing,
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Speaker 1: you know, different entertainment events happening. It's such a weird
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Speaker 1: work week, and everybody's schedule is all messed up, but
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Speaker 1: in a great wonderful way. But thanks for finding me regardless,
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Speaker 1: appreciate you. The Wicked Radio live stream later on, replay
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Speaker 1: all the usual channels, all the usual suspects, and also
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Speaker 1: the audio podcasts later on whenever you want to listen
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Speaker 1: to that. Let's get right to it. This just happened.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get to the Sean Duffy Transportation Secretary
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Speaker 1: press conference. I have like three clips from him today.
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Speaker 1: It's insane. But here is the expect the expected travel numbers.
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Speaker 1: Fox News was talking about this just this morning a
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Speaker 1: couple of hours ago, about how busy it's going to
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Speaker 1: be starting today. Really they say it starts today. I
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Speaker 1: think it actually started this past weekend.
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Speaker 3: But in Lipirtation, Secretary Duffy will hold a briefing alongside
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Speaker 3: FAA administrators on the state of air travel as a
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Speaker 3: record number of Americans get ready to travel for Thanksgiving
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Speaker 3: this week.
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Speaker 4: Fox Business host Cheryl so Causoni is here with more.
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Speaker 5: What can we expect, Cheryl, Well, it's going to be busy,
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Speaker 5: you can expect that. And I've got some new details
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Speaker 5: from the Transportation Apartment on that press. I'll get to
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Speaker 5: that in a second. But the shutdown, look, it's over.
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Speaker 5: The rush begins. The expectation. We're going to see one
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Speaker 5: point six million more Americans traveling this year. That's going
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Speaker 5: to be a new record. Here's Triplea's forecast. Seventy three
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Speaker 5: point two eight million by car, more than six million flying,
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Speaker 5: almost two and a half using other means like trains
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Speaker 5: or buses. One point eight million people at least going
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Speaker 5: to travel fifty miles maybe further from home Tuesday, November
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Speaker 5: twenty fifth through next Monday.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of it's funny because I always laugh. It's
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Speaker 1: like whenever they have this thing, so that I grabbed
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Speaker 1: that from Fox News because they had their business person on.
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Speaker 1: What they do is they were waiting for the Transation
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Speaker 1: secretary news conference, which has already happened in our real time.
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Speaker 1: But she's like, they bring her on as a filler
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Speaker 1: just to throw some numbers out there. But that doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean the numbers aren't important, just to give you a
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Speaker 1: sense of what's going on here. So that's an increase
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Speaker 1: of one point six million people hitting the roads, hitting
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Speaker 1: the skies, traveling going somewhere this week compared to last year.
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Speaker 1: It's over seventy three million by car, over six million
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Speaker 1: by air. I'll say it again, and I said it
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Speaker 1: in the intro. It's annoying as hell, everything is packed.
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Speaker 1: I get it. But it's a good sign. You should
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Speaker 1: take this as a good sign that people aren't afraid.
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Speaker 1: The economy is still hitting people hard, right. If there's
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Speaker 1: any one big, big criticism, and if you look at
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Speaker 1: poll numbers, the thing that they're criticizing the Trump administration
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Speaker 1: on mostly so far is do something about affordability. People
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Speaker 1: are hurting still. We all are, we're all facing and
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Speaker 1: we just went through the government shut down. If you're
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Speaker 1: a federal employee. That affected you too, But it's not
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Speaker 1: stopping people from enjoying their family time and their holiday time.
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Speaker 1: And somehow, some way, this is a sign that they
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Speaker 1: believe that things are going to get better. It's a
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Speaker 1: great thing. So much of this economic stuff is psychological,
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Speaker 1: you know, consumer confidence. You believe it's going to happen,
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Speaker 1: and you believe that things are going to get better.
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Speaker 1: And I honestly truly believe after COVID and shutdowns and
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Speaker 1: all that crap we went through, people aren't going to
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Speaker 1: be stopped enjoying their family time or fun time no
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Speaker 1: matter what's going on in the economy. It's like, all right,
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Speaker 1: put it on credit card, we'll deal with it later.
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Speaker 1: Which can be dangerous, but it's also I think, a
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Speaker 1: much healthier way to live as far as attitude. I
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Speaker 1: really do. All right, let's get to that Transportation secretary
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Speaker 1: news conference which happened. There's a reason I looked at
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Speaker 1: this clip already getting ready for this. There's a reason
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Speaker 1: why I'm even bothering to play it. I absolutely love this.
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Speaker 1: What's the most important thing you want a transportation secretary
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Speaker 1: to do? Safety? Right, Safety on the roads. That includes
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Speaker 1: infrastructure safety and air travel. Try to clean up the grid,
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Speaker 1: make sure the air traffic controllers are all taken care of,
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Speaker 1: and we have enough of them. That's a given. More
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Speaker 1: important than all that, what's needed than ever, if you've
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Speaker 1: traveled at all in the past five years, ten years, anything, God,
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Speaker 1: try to make just decency and common sense and travel
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Speaker 1: a thing again, honest to God. I love that he
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Speaker 1: talked about all this, and he talked about a lot
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Speaker 1: of stuff. Here's Sean Duffy not too long ago, in real.
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Speaker 4: Time, ourselves, not just our families, but we think about
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Speaker 4: those who are around us, and we call our better angels.
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Speaker 4: In a busy time, and again, the airports are gonna
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Speaker 4: be packed tsa lines, maybe a little longer, and as
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Speaker 4: you're you might not be able to find a seat
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Speaker 4: as you're buy your gate because of the number of
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Speaker 4: flights that are going out or coming in. But I
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Speaker 4: think we have to think about how do we do
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Speaker 4: a better job, how do we maintain maybe some of
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Speaker 4: that frustration we have as we travel this Thanksgiving the season,
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Speaker 4: Maybe we should say please and thank you to our
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Speaker 4: pilots and to our to our flight attendants. I think
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Speaker 4: again I call this just maybe dressing with some respect,
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Speaker 4: you know, whether it's a pair of jeans and a
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Speaker 4: decent shirt. I would encourage people to maybe dress a
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Speaker 4: little better, which encourage us, encourages us to maybe behave
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Speaker 4: all a little better.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you that he actually even
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Speaker 1: mentioned that. I've never heard of transportation secretary actually say that.
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Speaker 1: I've heard them say, you know, be courteous to your
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Speaker 1: flight attendants and other people, and you know, be they
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Speaker 1: always tell you to pack your patients and you know
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Speaker 1: what a busy tray air travel time like that. I've
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Speaker 1: never heard a transportation secretary say out loud what needs
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Speaker 1: to be said as a reminder to all of us,
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Speaker 1: for gods sakes, stop dressing up in pajamas. Let me
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Speaker 1: ask you, have you ever been on an airplane and
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Speaker 1: you see anywhere near you and I hope to God,
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Speaker 1: wasn't somebody next to you literally take off their shoes
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Speaker 1: on an airplane. I swear to you that should be
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Speaker 1: immediately punished, shable by jail. Is there anything more ignorant
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Speaker 1: than taking off your shoes and socks on an airplane
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Speaker 1: or putting your feet up on the on the seatback
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Speaker 1: in front of you. It's like the kind of stuff
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Speaker 1: you never saw before. I think part of that is
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Speaker 1: the way airlines treat customers. Probably, I would imagine you
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Speaker 1: get you crammed in like farm animals, you know, tighter
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Speaker 1: than you ever have before. It's never been more expensive.
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Speaker 1: There's there's short staffed. We've got a lot of flights
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Speaker 1: that are just canceled now because there's there's less routes
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Speaker 1: because of what's going on with the airline industry. So
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Speaker 1: I think part of that, honestly is people are like, well,
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Speaker 1: the hell with it, I'm gonna act ho wherever I want,
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Speaker 1: you know, not giving a damn about your fellow air traveler.
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Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. But the part of
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Speaker 1: it too is as much as people like to complain
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Speaker 1: about the high cost of air travel, seems to be
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Speaker 1: more of the just you know, unwashed masses traveling these
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Speaker 1: days too as well. You know, they're willing to like
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Speaker 1: pay whatever the hell they want to pay just to
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Speaker 1: get on there and behave that way. So it's with
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Speaker 1: that and a guy like that to actually make that statement, honestly,
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Speaker 1: to say, maybe we can use some please and thank you,
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Speaker 1: maybe some common decency and courtesy, maybe some common sense
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Speaker 1: would really help out with air travel, not just this week,
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Speaker 1: but year round. Maybe not dressing up in pajamas, Maybe
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Speaker 1: not wearing crocs and no socks on an airplane would help.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not taking off your shoes on an airplane, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe that And listen, as you can probably tell, I'm
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Speaker 1: no fashion maven myself. You know, I'm a jeans and
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Speaker 1: T shirt kind of guy. Okay, but I've never worn
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Speaker 1: pajamas on a freaking airplane. For God's sakes. You can't
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Speaker 1: institute that in a rule. You can't make a law.
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Speaker 1: But I think what you can probably do is that
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Speaker 1: the rest of us normal people can kind of frown
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Speaker 1: on that. Right, Is that so bad? You can frown
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Speaker 1: on that kind of behavior. You know, we've all seen it.
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Speaker 1: You're rolling onto a airplane with flip flops and pajamas
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Speaker 1: and a tank top. Come on, guss it up a
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Speaker 1: little bit, just a little bit, that's all we're asking.
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Speaker 1: So that's where it starts, as a guy like that,
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Speaker 1: the transportation secretary saying it out loud, and now everybody
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Speaker 1: else can too, all right, But he also talked about
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Speaker 1: and again, I've never played so many clips from a
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Speaker 1: transportation secretary in my life, which tells me the guy's
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Speaker 1: doing a good job. Anyway, here's what he said in
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Speaker 1: an interview yesterday in advance of the big press conference,
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Speaker 1: talking about some of the what they were asking about
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Speaker 1: were some of the violent incidents that happened in air
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Speaker 1: travel too, which no one will ever convince me didn't
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Speaker 1: increase during the whole COVID insanity era with the masks.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, this was Jean Duffy again.
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Speaker 5: Yes, something I didn't know in twenty nineteen four percent
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Speaker 5: increase of in flight outbursts by passengers. Twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 5: one in five flight attendants faced physical incidents.
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Speaker 1: You want to change that?
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Speaker 6: Yes, So Donald Trump talks about the golden age of transportation,
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Speaker 6: the golden age of America. But the golden age in
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Speaker 6: transportation truly begins with.
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Speaker 2: You, the traveler.
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Speaker 6: And so if you think you just want social media,
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Speaker 6: you have brawls at the baggage claim. You have passengers
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Speaker 6: berating gate agents. We have unruly passengers on airplane. People
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Speaker 6: dress up like they're going to bed when they fly.
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Speaker 1: See telling you there's an effect there. He said it again,
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Speaker 1: and that was yesterday. People dress up like that going
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Speaker 1: to bed when they're gonna fly. Now, I get it,
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Speaker 1: and I totally understand this, and I've done whole like
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Speaker 1: you know, rants on this before too. It's how the
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Speaker 1: airline industry treats the customer, which is like crap. We
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Speaker 1: get that, and the airlines are run like garbage. We
11:24
Speaker 1: get that. And they've gotten bailed out by the federal government.
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Speaker 1: I believe it's twice, but it was to the tune
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Speaker 1: of billions. I understand all of that, I totally do.
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Speaker 1: But we can blame that form making people behave like
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Speaker 1: that for only so long. It comes down to you
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Speaker 1: and me and everybody else, which is again why I'm
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Speaker 1: glad he's saying it out loud. You know, it's like
11:42
Speaker 1: you mentioned Trump's golden age of air travel. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: a Matt gut make air travel great again. I'd be
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Speaker 1: totally down for that. It's too important not to honestly
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Speaker 1: all of it. And it's not just that. It's on
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Speaker 1: the roads too. You've noticed the difference how people drive
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Speaker 1: in a holiday situation like that and crowded roadways all
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Speaker 1: of us. So it's a good sign. Take it as
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Speaker 1: a good sign, even though it's going to be more
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Speaker 1: crowded than ever in travel this week. The word is
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Speaker 1: getting out there that we got to be better at that.
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Speaker 1: All right, so good, So be safe on the road.
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Speaker 1: As if you're traveling a little bit of swampy stuff
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Speaker 1: to talk about. This may be bothering you greatly, but
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Speaker 1: don't be Here's the takeaway. This big pushback, and I
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Speaker 1: think they honestly kind of expected this. James call me
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Speaker 1: the Dirtiest hell, former FBI director, did a little victory
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Speaker 1: lap yesterday. Now the victory lap for call Me. He
12:29
Speaker 1: always does these bizarro videos where he puts his phone
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Speaker 1: right in front of him and it looks like he's
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Speaker 1: in a closet. It looks like a hostage video. He's
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Speaker 1: done a lot of these all the time. Well, yesterday's
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Speaker 1: video is about a legal victory lap. He scored yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Here's call Me again.
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Speaker 2: I'ngrateful that the court ended the case against me, which
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Speaker 2: was a prosecution based on malevolence and in confidence and
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Speaker 2: a reflection of what the Department of Justice has become
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Speaker 2: under Donald Trump, which is heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: Right now, He's this is what they always do. They
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Speaker 1: turn it around and say this is a weaponization of
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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, which is exactly what he did.
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Speaker 1: So what you do is you turn it around, you
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Speaker 1: flip it around, and you accuse the other side of
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Speaker 1: exactly what you're doing. Blah blah blah. Apparently the original
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Speaker 1: case was dismissed because of the special prosecutor in DC.
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Speaker 1: This judge said that the special prosecutor was appointed improperly
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Speaker 1: by the Trump administration. Blah blah blah blah blah. If
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Speaker 1: they kind of bump you out yesterday, and maybe it doesn't,
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Speaker 1: and I hope you're not paying too much attention to that.
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Speaker 1: Here's the response to the White House. I don't think
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Speaker 1: they're going to stop going after Comy. Caroline Levitt yesterday?
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Speaker 1: What's White House response to that?
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Speaker 6: And what can we expect will happen next?
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Speaker 7: Caroline, Well, what I will say is that everybody knows
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Speaker 7: that James Comy lied to Congress. It's as clear as day.
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Speaker 7: And this judge took an unprecedented action to throw these
13:47
Speaker 7: cases out to shield James Comy and Letitia James from
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Speaker 7: accountability based on a technical ruling, and the administration disagrees
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Speaker 7: with that technical ruling. We believe the attorney in this
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Speaker 7: case Lindsay Halligan is not not only extremely qualified for
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Speaker 7: this position, but she was in fact legally appointed. And
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Speaker 7: I know the Department of Justice will be appealing this
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Speaker 7: in very short order.
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Speaker 1: Again, this is this is the lives these people lead
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Speaker 1: in the swamp into the sewer in Washington. It's like
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Speaker 1: this and that judges and get to the right judge,
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Speaker 1: and none of this is going to get cleared up
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Speaker 1: until you get rid of some of these crooked judges. Honestly,
14:21
Speaker 1: that has to happen. But the big takeaway is white
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Speaker 1: House is appealing. That would go on and on. So
14:26
Speaker 1: if you're bummed out that Komi walked away Scott Free,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry about it because they're gonna They're gonna
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Speaker 1: stay on him. Let's get out of that, because I'm
14:32
Speaker 1: sick of politics too. But let's talk about something else
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Speaker 1: going on in society. It's probably a there's a better
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Speaker 1: than average chance you don't even know that this is happening.
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Speaker 1: And I'll give you the ending in this. I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's even going to have a bit of an impact.
14:44
Speaker 1: But you may have seen it if you're on Instagram,
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Speaker 1: if you're on TikTok or wherever the you know, the
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Speaker 1: nosering blue Hairs live, they're organizing a Black Friday blackout
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Speaker 1: protest to protest. I just pick an issue, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: They're just angry at the world. They're angry everything. But
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Speaker 1: this is the organization. I cherry picked one of these
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Speaker 1: videos there will. Let me say this, At least in
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Speaker 1: TikTok world, there are a lot of these, so the
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Speaker 1: word is getting out there by whoever's organizing it. I
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Speaker 1: don't know who. Classic example, all the same points they're
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Speaker 1: all bringing up starting today through Friday. Apparently they're going
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Speaker 1: to not put any money into the economy to protest
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Speaker 1: what they're not happy about. I will ask you a
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Speaker 1: question before you even hear this, winner is this such
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Speaker 1: a bad time by block out?
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Speaker 8: Which means pulling all your money out from the system,
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Speaker 8: not giving corporations any money from the twenty fifth to
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Speaker 8: the second, that is the week of Black Friday. I
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Speaker 8: know it sounds crazy, and I know it sounds like
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Speaker 8: you don't want to do it, and I know it
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Speaker 8: sounds inconvenient, But that's the whole point. Because these companies,
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Speaker 8: they stock up on things, they spend extra money before
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Speaker 8: the holiday seasons, book, specifically before Black Friday, because they
15:53
Speaker 8: expect to make a lot of revenue, because Black Friday
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Speaker 8: is hyped up to be this big thing where you'll
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Speaker 8: save all this money.
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Speaker 4: They really don't.
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Speaker 8: It's a scam and we all know it. There will
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Speaker 8: be a sign outside that says eighty percent off you
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Speaker 8: walk in. The only thing that's eighty percent off is
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Speaker 8: some bullshit that no one wants. So just save yourself
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Speaker 8: the time, save yourself the effort. I don't even know.
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Speaker 1: I can't even listen to anymore. But I don't even
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Speaker 1: know exactly what the exact cause is. She and the
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Speaker 1: other heap whatever are protesting whatever. It could be anything,
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Speaker 1: cherry picktt. They're just angry at the world. That person
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Speaker 1: would be a lot of fun at parties. Huh. Here's
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Speaker 1: the takeaway. Look, my first thought when I saw all
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Speaker 1: these pop up is it's not gonna happen. I don't
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Speaker 1: think there's gonna be any dent in the economy whatsoever
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Speaker 1: at all. And here's my reasoning. All of these paying
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Speaker 1: attention to a lot of these so called protesters that's
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Speaker 1: supposed to be organic anything anything, no kings, this thing,
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Speaker 1: any other walk out, any other protest whatever. When it
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Speaker 1: involves any kind of retail situation or anything involving the economy,
16:55
Speaker 1: it never works. And here's why I think why they're
16:58
Speaker 1: too materialistic to stay away from deals, honest to god,
17:02
Speaker 1: because I would bet you there's a lot of she
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Speaker 1: probably I think she got tens of thousands of likes
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Speaker 1: and follows for that video alone. That person and the
17:10
Speaker 1: other people are supposedly doing a walkout or a blackout
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Speaker 1: for Black Friday or whatever. Fine, I'm beg you, no
17:17
Speaker 1: one's gonna pay attention to it for people who like that,
17:20
Speaker 1: because as much as they like to say that they're
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Speaker 1: against corporate America and society and we're not gonna support
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Speaker 1: these corporations and we're gonna take our money away and
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna know. This is the most materialistic generation
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Speaker 1: of people I've ever seen in my entire life. Like
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Speaker 1: these so called leftist protesters. They never stop going to Starbucks, right,
17:42
Speaker 1: which is what ten to twelve bucks a shot for
17:45
Speaker 1: a coffee.
17:46
Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: They buy and consume entertainment stuff like it's going out
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Speaker 1: of style all the time, so they never take their
17:55
Speaker 1: money back on that. A lot of these same ones
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Speaker 1: have spent and have racked up, as we know, college
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Speaker 1: loans into the tunes of tens of thousands of dollars.
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Speaker 1: They're spenders in that area. I don't think she. I
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Speaker 1: think she or others like her have the ability to
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Speaker 1: not spend. I really don't. Now compare these protesters that
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Speaker 1: the protesters of like the late sixties, early seventies, like
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Speaker 1: classic liberal hippies right now. Those people were serious. They
18:22
Speaker 1: wouldn't put any money into the economy. They would live
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Speaker 1: on like mushroom water and LSD for like months, and
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Speaker 1: they could seriously like they could like really do it,
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Speaker 1: and they could. They would take money out of the economy,
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Speaker 1: and that was like a real concern for advertising agencies
18:36
Speaker 1: and corporations back in the day. These folks, like let's
18:39
Speaker 1: take that example of like Starbucks for a second. Do
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Speaker 1: you think Starbucks worries and iota about any kind of
18:44
Speaker 1: a Black Friday blackout? They are the same people the
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Speaker 1: clip I just played for you there that go bananas
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Speaker 1: when Starbucks introduces a holiday cup. I don't think that's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen. But if it did, let's just pretend for
18:56
Speaker 1: a second that this was a very successful Black Friday
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Speaker 1: corporate protest, blackout thing whatever, and I don't think it will.
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Speaker 1: Would it be the worst thing in the world if
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Speaker 1: there were less lines at the check at the checkout
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Speaker 1: thing at a retail store. Would it be so bad
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Speaker 1: for you and me and everybody else. I don't think
19:16
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen, but I don't think it really would be.
19:18
Speaker 1: All right, here's the main takeaway. Travel, despite what we
19:22
Speaker 1: were told over the summer, is gangbusters. It's there will
19:25
Speaker 1: be more people traveling I think, all this week than
19:29
Speaker 1: ever before in American history. It's annoying, it's tough, Like
19:33
Speaker 1: the Transportations Secretary said, you gotta you gotta pack your
19:35
Speaker 1: patients and please dress up a little bit at the airport.
19:38
Speaker 1: But look at it as a good sign for the
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Speaker 1: economy because people believe things are going to get better
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Speaker 1: and nobody's letting the economy or cost or whatever stop
19:47
Speaker 1: their enjoyment. I think that's a good thing. So we'll
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Speaker 1: take it from there. Otherwise, one more day before Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do tomorrow. I'm off
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Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, because nobody should be doing or listening
19:57
Speaker 1: or watching podcasts at this time. You should be watching
20:00
Speaker 1: football and watching your drunk uncles at the table. But anyway, tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: one more day before Thanksgiving, enjoy it. If you're on
20:06
Speaker 1: the road, be safe please, and thanks as always for
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Speaker 1: following me. That's the takeaway. Enjoy it. And I wouldn't
20:12
Speaker 1: worry about any kind of Black Friday protest. Don't worry
20:14
Speaker 1: about that at all. With all that said, I forgot
20:17
Speaker 1: about the audio podcast whatever platform you like to listen to,
20:19
Speaker 1: because that thing is growing if you want to look
20:21
Speaker 1: at numbers more than any other format. So people still
20:24
Speaker 1: love audio. It never ceases to amaze me. Wherever you
20:26
Speaker 1: like to get your podcasts. Also the replay on x
20:28
Speaker 1: and on YouTube and on Facebook. And I appreciate you
20:30
Speaker 1: as always. Be safe out there, especially if you're traveling,
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Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Mayke it a wick
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Speaker 1: it awesome. Tuesday