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Wicked Radio 5-22: Biggest Travel Day! Trump Hinting At Lower Gas Prices? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: The busiest travel day of the year. Once again, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a broken record. Every single year we say this,
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  Speaker 1: and every single year more and more Americans take to
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  Speaker 1: the skies or the.
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  Speaker 2: Roads like me to kick off Memorial Day weekend. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for finding Wicked Radio the live stream. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you enjoy the weekend, Memorial Day weekend. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those balancing acts, isn't it. You don't say Happy Memorial
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  Speaker 1: Day weekend because you have to respect the somberness of
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  Speaker 1: the holiday. Yet this is the official start of summer
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  Speaker 1: for most people, except if you live in Florida, which
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  Speaker 1: is summer all the time. But you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: So instead of Happy Memorial Day, just Memorial Day.
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  Speaker 2: But what about these gas prices?
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  Speaker 1: Talked about this was it four or five days ago,
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  Speaker 1: the China deal and what Trump said over in China.
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  Speaker 2: What that means with our gas prices.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got Memorial Day and what he said. And
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  Speaker 1: I've learned this over the years. There's a rule of
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  Speaker 1: three I've discovered and following Trump for all these years.
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  Speaker 1: When he says something three times and hits at it,
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  Speaker 1: something's up, something's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I think it means good news.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the problem. Not in time for this Memorial
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  Speaker 1: Day gas prices at a record high. You feel it too,
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  Speaker 1: everybody does, but it doesn't seem to be stopping anybody anyway.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into all this and at a little travel
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  Speaker 1: update from heading from PBI soon to be DJT to
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  Speaker 1: Laguardi Airport yesterday. I can tell you packed anyway, exit
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  Speaker 1: fighter the live stream Wicked Radio live Monday through Friday,
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  Speaker 1: eightm Eastern time on x YouTube, Facebook, and all that
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  Speaker 1: good stuff, but especially the audio podcast where we like
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  Speaker 1: to get those appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 1: Where are we right now with these gas prices and
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  Speaker 1: travel records, Well, let's get to both of them right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you for doing.
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  Speaker 1: This for decades now, this is I mean from this
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  Speaker 1: talk radio, the adult contemporary format, country radio format. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: breaking this down for audiences, I'm telling you it's like
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  Speaker 1: a broken record. It's this same exact story every single year.
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  Speaker 1: I could, except for the prices, I could tell you
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  Speaker 1: the exact same thing from last year. Once again, here
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  Speaker 1: it is Triple A is projecting a new Memorial Day
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  Speaker 1: record with forty five million Americans traveling fifty plus miles
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  Speaker 1: three hundred ninety thirty nine point one by car. That's
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven percent of travelers. There's your gas prices. Three
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  Speaker 1: point sixty six million flying. It's the same thing every
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  Speaker 1: single year.
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  Speaker 2: It goes up and up and up.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you where there is ever a dip
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  Speaker 1: in the number of travel so it's not affecting anybody.
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  Speaker 1: This is what this tells me. Consumer confidence is still
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  Speaker 1: at an all time high. This is what tells me
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not alone to what I said. Was it
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  Speaker 1: fort I think it was four days ago. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about this one. It's a gamble. People are gambling that
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to stop their vacation plans because of
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  Speaker 1: gas prices. They'll put it on a credit card. It's
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  Speaker 1: sad because so many million of me, millions of Americans
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  Speaker 1: are going into debt. I get that, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: stopping their plans. I think it's something else. I think
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  Speaker 1: people are gambling on these prices going down pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: There may be some hints on that, but there's also this.
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  Speaker 1: But first, let's get to what these prices are. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're feeling it. I am too. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: the national gas average, like California is going to be
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  Speaker 1: way higher this Iowa probably lower. But the national gas
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  Speaker 1: average as of this morning the Friday of Memorial Day
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  Speaker 1: weekend is four fifty six a gallon too high, highest
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Day prices in four years, up significantly from last year.
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  Speaker 1: We all know this, right, we all know, we're all
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  Speaker 1: feeling it, we're all pretty ticked off about it.
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  Speaker 2: But where's it going from here?
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, let's get to some let's get
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  Speaker 1: to some updates now, and what the what the story's
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  Speaker 1: all about as far as CNN is concerned. You know
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  Speaker 1: what that's going to be. You know exactly what it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be. It's blamed Trump all the time. Here's
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  Speaker 1: my question for you, when, and if I'm gambling, when
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  Speaker 1: these gas prices go down, what is CNN going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Byron Donald's congressman. Brought Byron Donalds, who, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, is probably going to be the next governor
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  Speaker 1: of the great State of Florida. He had a little
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  Speaker 1: kerfuffle on CNN yesterday talking about this very same thing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the yelling back and forth, it's you know, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to listen to, but he makes a good point.
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  Speaker 3: And here he is you're your conflating issues number one, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: you are.
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  Speaker 2: You can talk.
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  Speaker 3: Very clear. Well, let's be very clear about gas prices.
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  Speaker 3: The reason why oil prices are high on the world
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  Speaker 3: market is because the Iranian regime, once again a theocratic dictatorship,
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  Speaker 3: is wanting to force the straight close because they would
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  Speaker 3: rather foament terror and have nuclear weapons, and they want
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  Speaker 3: to put pressure on the West through oil prices. That's
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  Speaker 3: why gas prices are high. That's not because of economic
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  Speaker 3: policy in the United States. That's because of the Iranian
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  Speaker 3: regime's death grip on power.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very different situation than.
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  Speaker 1: The want to talk and that is you you just said,
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  Speaker 1: you just you just said what I just said. The
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  Speaker 1: Iranian Well, she made a good point though to Okay,
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  Speaker 1: sure you can. I mean, that's obviously you know where
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  Speaker 1: they're coming from with this. That's their whole Angele, It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna blame Trump all the time. When these cast prices
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  Speaker 1: go down again, I'm gambling on when what is the
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to talk about this at all. If
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  Speaker 1: you if again, I'll say win they go down to
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  Speaker 1: two bucks, ag Ellen, and under this story will be
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  Speaker 1: wiped off the front pages of every major publication media,
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  Speaker 1: digital publication that is, and CNL will spend zero airtime
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  Speaker 1: on this. Byron Donald's making the point yesterday that this
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  Speaker 1: is because of the Iran deal. Now, let's talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: Where are we now? Told you in the introduction there,
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  Speaker 1: I have a rule of three that I've kind of
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  Speaker 1: discovered and developed over the years trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what the heck Trump is talking about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, all the time he has some tells.
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  Speaker 1: Usually when he says he's going to walk away from
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  Speaker 1: a negotiation deal anything, world market, you know, business leaders here, unions,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. He never really walks away, but that's
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  Speaker 1: his threat to do it, and usually gets what he wants.
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  Speaker 1: There's another method he does, and he said he talked
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  Speaker 1: about this years ago in the eighties. When did Art
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  Speaker 1: of the Deal come out in nineteen eighty four, where
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  Speaker 1: he says, you ask for in a negotiation the most
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous possible thing with anybody, no matter who you're sitting
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  Speaker 1: across the table with. That sounds ridiculous. Everybody mocks it,
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  Speaker 1: but he sounds dead serious about it. They come back
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  Speaker 1: with a counter off, which is more than actually what
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  Speaker 1: you wanted, but it's less than the ridiculous offer and
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  Speaker 1: he gets what he wants. That's another one, and it
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  Speaker 1: works like almost all the.
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  Speaker 2: Time for the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the third one that I've noticed over the years,
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  Speaker 1: just because I kind of filter through so.
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  Speaker 2: Many news stories and so many things he says.
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  Speaker 1: Usually I put it at about ninety five percent of
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  Speaker 1: the time when he says something three times in almost
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  Speaker 1: the exact same kind of way, something's up and he
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  Speaker 1: knows something and something, more likely than not has already done.
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  Speaker 1: And in this case, kind of like what China and
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  Speaker 1: the China trip the other day when he was talking
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  Speaker 1: about oil prices coming down, this is more about Iran
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  Speaker 1: now over the past three days, and we'll start currently
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  Speaker 1: and then go backwards on it. These are the three
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  Speaker 1: times he said that oil prices are coming down because
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  Speaker 1: something is going on with Iran. Let's hope it's not
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  Speaker 1: a major conflict. Let's hope they just play ball. No
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  Speaker 1: American lives are lost, that would be fantastic, But something's
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  Speaker 1: going on.
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  Speaker 2: This just yesterday from the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is all part of the negotiation with the
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  Speaker 1: EPA in there, and you know they're getting rid of
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  Speaker 1: that refrigeration rule, which is kind of choked out small business.
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  Speaker 2: This is the same press conference where they had.
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  Speaker 1: The guy, the guy from Pigley Wiggily, the Pigley Wiggly CEO,
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  Speaker 1: talking about how refrigeration is rising, is raising the cost
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  Speaker 1: of all of his goods and all this other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But inevitably, of course, the line of questioning in the
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  Speaker 1: Q and A at the end of this thing was
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  Speaker 1: about gas prices. This is what he said, and here's
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  Speaker 1: the first hand. Listen to what he says.
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  Speaker 4: That'll end soon, very soon, and when it ends, your
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  Speaker 4: gasoline prices will go down lower than they were before.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I left Iowa a few months ago and
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  Speaker 4: ghastline was at one dollar and eighty five cents a gallon,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll be hitting numbers like that again.
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  Speaker 2: So the president, all right, that's one.
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  Speaker 1: And you could listen to this and say, of course
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna say this, right, of course he's gonna say
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  Speaker 1: that gas prices an all time high near or our
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  Speaker 1: all time high in his administration.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fine, that's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's just like like said, that's just a messaging
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  Speaker 1: the pr that a president's going to get out there.
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  Speaker 2: But He also directly said that the Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Conflict, epic fury, the war, whether n how however you
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  Speaker 1: want to frame this thing is ending very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Playing devil's advocate, you could also say. He also said
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  Speaker 1: that two weeks ago. He doesn't really mean it, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well maybe, but just play along here for
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  Speaker 1: a second. It's not the first time you've heard this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back two days ago. Now, this is a
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  Speaker 1: tarmac one where he said almost the exact same thing
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  Speaker 1: on in the Iran I.
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  Speaker 4: Had no choice because they were gonna have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 4: We're not gonna give them a nuclear weapon. But that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna end soon one way or the other. Oil is gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Come tumbling down.
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  Speaker 4: There's so much we have sixteen hundred chips in the
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  Speaker 4: Strait that'll load it up with oil that are gonna
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  Speaker 4: be coming out very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's the second time we've heard this working backwards,
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  Speaker 1: but the second time we've heard it. He also said
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  Speaker 1: something very similar in that Beijing trip where he said this,
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  Speaker 1: so much oil is so much there that joking on it,
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  Speaker 1: they got to be able to release it soon. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine, let's go for the third time. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: rule of three with Trump when he says something, not
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  Speaker 1: just about the gap the oil prizes, but when he
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  Speaker 1: talks about Iran conflict ending soon. If he says this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost the same exact way three times.
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  Speaker 2: Something's up. This is from three days ago.
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  Speaker 4: We're blowing it away. We're blowing everything away, and we're
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  Speaker 4: going to end that war very quickly. They want to
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  Speaker 4: make a deal so badly. They're tired of this should
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  Speaker 4: have happened for forty seven years. Somebody should have done
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  Speaker 4: something about it, and it's going to happen, and it's
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  Speaker 4: going to happen fast, and you're going to see oil
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  Speaker 4: prices plummet.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to come down.
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  Speaker 4: There's so much oil out there, they're gonna come play.
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  Speaker 1: Why three When he says something three times, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: more than three, I don't know, but I just look
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  Speaker 1: for the three and he's probably said it ten times,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in private and in public whatever, and written
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  Speaker 1: it down in truth, social whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It is fine.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough for me to gamble on the when gas
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  Speaker 1: prices are coming down, not the if it's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen eventually. On the Iran front, something's he's hinting at
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  Speaker 1: something here, either them giving up or they're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: go full boar because they're not behaving again. Something's happening here,
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  Speaker 1: and you hope it's not a conflict. You certainly hope
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  Speaker 1: not that this can be solved without certainly any American
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  Speaker 1: lives being lost, especially over a Memorial Day weekend, but
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  Speaker 1: any lives being lost. He doesn't say something like that
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  Speaker 1: that often in that exact same way unless something's up,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe something that is already on the way, And
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  Speaker 1: that's what the.
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  Speaker 2: Stock market also looks for. Something's going on.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm gambling on if they're coming down, not when.
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  Speaker 1: But apparently it's not stopping anybody from traveling. I just
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  Speaker 1: had the once again broken record triple A story there
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  Speaker 1: about the record number of Americans traveling by air and
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  Speaker 1: by car. Let me just tell you this as they
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  Speaker 1: sit here in the middle of New York City in
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  Speaker 1: Manhattan right now, streets are packed. Now that's New York.
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  Speaker 1: That's all the time, right. Yeah, airport was packed. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it was Leguardia. That's also busy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I left from PBIA in Florida soon to be DJT
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  Speaker 1: by the way roads were packed. Yesterday morning, airport was packed,
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  Speaker 1: full flight, every other flight I saw was packed. It's
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend. And this isn't stopping anybody's travel plan. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: he could look back at the COVID era where people said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it's gonna happen tomorrow. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: cancel my travel plans for anything. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: much travel costs, so I don't know. I don't Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's a factor, but also it's not enough to stop
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  Speaker 1: American consumer confidence. Something else is going on, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's this. I'm not the only one gambling on
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  Speaker 1: if not when gas prices are coming down, I think
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  Speaker 1: they are. But it's not stopping people from traveling right now.
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  Speaker 1: Big philosophy out there. And I've actually talked to people
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  Speaker 1: in the airport yesterday about this thing about gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: Trust.
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  Speaker 1: It all affects airline tickets and everything else, the price
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  Speaker 1: of hotels, everything is affected by this, right. I can't
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  Speaker 1: tell you how many times I heard this yesterday from
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  Speaker 1: fellow travelers.
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  Speaker 2: Talking to a lady on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday with me, Yeah, I know it's this is really high,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna get better soon. That's the
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  Speaker 1: main sentiment out there that's happening right now, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a good, positive thing. So much of this stuff is psychological,
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  Speaker 1: which is why it's important to look at somebody like
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  Speaker 1: Trump saying three times or more those other prices have
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  Speaker 1: come out, so it's gonna be unbelievable. Okay, maybe all
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  Speaker 1: consider this. Let's think about the leverage factor of this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. We're getting closer and closer and closer to
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. Do you think this guy wants these oil
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  Speaker 1: prices to stay where they are. In gas prices and
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  Speaker 1: Americans paying what we're paying right now. Yeah, we missed
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  Speaker 1: the boat on Memorial Day. We were all hoping that
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  Speaker 1: the gas prices would be better for this weekend and beyond.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wanted that.
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  Speaker 1: But more importantly, and I hate to do it, but
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  Speaker 1: you got to look at the politics of this entire thing.
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  Speaker 1: They really want the price of goods and services and transportation.
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  Speaker 2: To go down.
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  Speaker 1: It makes your team, in other words, way more electable.
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  Speaker 1: That's another factor. That's why I'm gambling. But you gotta
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  Speaker 1: make your own choice. You have to be able to decide.
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  Speaker 1: Are people curtailing their travel plans because of this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so I haven't seen it, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Didn't stop me. It's probably not stopping you either.
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  Speaker 1: But wherever you are, remember again, you know, I have
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  Speaker 1: to stop myself from saying Happy Memorial Day.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the word, it's memorial.
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  Speaker 1: They remember what the actual holidays all about. Coming up
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  Speaker 1: on Monday is. You know, we lost some great, great
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  Speaker 1: American heroes over this. Let's not forget them, but at
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  Speaker 1: the same time balancing that out with them.
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  Speaker 2: It a great time living your life.
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  Speaker 1: Not letting gas prices stop your travel plans, apparently because
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  Speaker 1: we're not alone in that.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for finding me. I appreciate you so much.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what you go going on this weekend, traveling
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  Speaker 1: or not, make it a safe one, make it a
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  Speaker 1: wicked awesome Friday, make it a wicked awesome weekend.
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  Speaker 2: And the takeaway you got to be able to read
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  Speaker 2: leaders like Trump. Look for that rule of three.
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  Speaker 1: You'll start to notice how often he does things and
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  Speaker 1: when he gets to the third point, something's up and
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  Speaker 1: something's going on.
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  Speaker 2: So just got to read the tea leaves with that
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  Speaker 2: guy or any of them.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for finding me in the live stream Monday through
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  Speaker 1: Friday eight am Eastern time, ex YouTube, Facebook, and then.
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  Speaker 2: The replay wherever you want, whenever you want.
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  Speaker 1: Those same channels right there, but more supportedly the audio
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  Speaker 1: podcast on Apple and iTunes and Spotify and spreaker.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know wherever hell else you'll find him.
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  Speaker 2: It's everywhere. Thanks for finding me. I appreciate you so
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  Speaker 2: much making a wicked awesome weekend. I'll Tellculator