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The Approval Drop, The Drive Home, and The Spotify Deal · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump's approval ratings just hit a new low, and
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are the ones pulling it down.
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  Speaker 2: I voted for President Trump. I'd like to see the
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  Speaker 2: prices go down because it's it's really killing you.
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  Speaker 1: But Moorial Day weekend traffic is about to test every
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  Speaker 1: driver in America. No vacations.
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  Speaker 3: We must just stand around this area.
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  Speaker 1: Now and Spotify just change the rules how music gets
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  Speaker 1: made in the AI era.
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  Speaker 4: The top shot of Spotify today. There's a legitimate use
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  Speaker 4: of AI done by artists and we would have love
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  Speaker 4: for them.
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  Speaker 1: It's Friday, May twenty second from the Black Effects Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nimi Brown. This is front page and here are
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  Speaker 1: today's biggest stories plus today on the prompt page. Friday
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  Speaker 1: quiz three questions from this week and it could be
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  Speaker 1: your name. I calling out next Friday. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: The President's approval rating just hit an all time low,
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  Speaker 1: and the people pulling it down are not Democrats, They're
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  Speaker 1: his own voters. A new Fox News poll out this
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  Speaker 1: week shows Trump's approval rating has fallen among Republicans to
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  Speaker 1: eighty percent. That's the lowest number Fox News has measured
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  Speaker 1: for him since he returned to the White House. But
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  Speaker 1: here's where the numbers get interesting. Among non MAGA Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: the more moderate side of the party. Trump's approval is
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  Speaker 1: now at fifty four percent among white voters overall, forty
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  Speaker 1: three percent among rural voters, also forty three percent. Translation,
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  Speaker 1: the people who put him in office in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four are starting to back away.
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  Speaker 2: I voted for President Trump. The war in Iran and
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  Speaker 2: everything is, you know what's jacking the price everything right now? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I have mixed emotion. I don't like the war. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like bombings or killing civilians or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: I wish we could stop that somehow. The other thing
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  Speaker 2: is I'd like to see the prices go down because
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  Speaker 2: it's it's really killing you.
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  Speaker 1: The poll is clear on this one. It's the economy.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy four percent of Americans disapprove of how the president
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  Speaker 1: is handling the economy. That's up from five points just
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  Speaker 1: last month, and Republicans alone moved seven points more negative
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  Speaker 1: on him. Republican pollster Darren Shaw, who conducted the poll
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  Speaker 1: along with a Democrat, said it plane quote, make no mistake,
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  Speaker 1: It's all about affordability.
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  Speaker 2: Tomatoes are nuts. What used to be you know, half
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  Speaker 2: of what we used to pay is now like ninety
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  Speaker 2: dollars for a case of tomatoes.
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  Speaker 1: Independents jumped ship in twenty twenty five, and now non
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  Speaker 1: MAGA Republicans and other core constituencies are wavering. Inflation is
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  Speaker 1: also part of the reason why last month the Labor
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  Speaker 1: Department reported inflation hit three point eight percent over the
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  Speaker 1: last twelve months, the highest in nearly three years.
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  Speaker 5: My grocery bill has definitely increased about fifty dollars. We
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  Speaker 5: probably went over about one hundred and fifty two hundred
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  Speaker 5: dollars in a month with the same items.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's the war in Iran. Sixty percent of Americans
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  Speaker 1: now opposed military action in Iran, up from fifty five
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  Speaker 1: percent last month. Even with most Republicans still saying the
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  Speaker 1: US is winning the war, opposition to it is climbing.
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  Speaker 3: There is a material amount of oil that just can't
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  Speaker 3: get to market, and that is driving up prices everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I would expect this a lought to be paying all
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  Speaker 3: courts of five dollars a gallon here in these first
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  Speaker 3: weeks of summer.
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  Speaker 1: And here's where this matters. Republicans on Capitol Hill are
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  Speaker 1: six months out from November elections. They have a slim
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  Speaker 1: House majority. The White House has not commented on the poll.
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  Speaker 1: If you're driving this Memorial Day weekend, Triple A says
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  Speaker 1: nearly thirty nine million Americans will be right there with you,
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  Speaker 1: making this one of the busiest holiday weekends in years,
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  Speaker 1: and travel experts say the timing is everything. Friday between
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  Speaker 1: eleven am and eight pm is expected to be the
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  Speaker 1: worst traffic window of the entire weekend. Saturday afternoon could
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  Speaker 1: also be rough, while Monday's return to traffic is expected
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  Speaker 1: to peak between noon and five pm. Some specific stretches
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  Speaker 1: of highways are also going to be very painful. Triple
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  Speaker 1: A is projecting that I twenty five in Colorado, the
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Parkway in New York, and the BWI Parkway
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  Speaker 1: will see triple digit percent increases over normal travel times.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the part that hurts even more. Gas prices.
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  Speaker 1: The price of a gallon of regular jumped thirty one
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  Speaker 1: cents in just the last week.
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  Speaker 5: Since gases are on let it causes me to, you know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe cut back on eating out driving certain places.
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  Speaker 1: The national average is now four dollars and forty eight cents.
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  Speaker 1: That's fifty percent higher than where prices were when the
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  Speaker 1: war with Iran began in February. No no vacations, pretty
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  Speaker 1: much just standing around this area now. Industry analysts are saying,
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  Speaker 1: even if the war ends today and the Strait of
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  Speaker 1: Her Moves reopens, it will still take months to get
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  Speaker 1: prices back to where they were before. If you're traveling
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, leave early, expect delays, and budget more money
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  Speaker 1: for gas than you probably planned. Still got to drive,
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  Speaker 1: so I got to get to work.
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  Speaker 2: Summer coming up, so just got to budget things to
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  Speaker 2: get around.
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  Speaker 1: It's quiz time. Three questions from this week's story. So
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  Speaker 1: Mimi Brown TV. The first three correct get a shout
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  Speaker 1: out right here next Friday. But first let's get to
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  Speaker 1: all three of you getting the answers right to last
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  Speaker 1: Friday's front page quiz. So here we go. We're going
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine years on Oklahoma's death Row, Kim Kardashian paid
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  Speaker 1: the bond to release a man we covered on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: What was his name? Question number two? The End just
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  Speaker 1: launched a campaign called out of Bounds, and it's asking
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  Speaker 1: black athletes to consider boycotting schools in seven southern states.
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  Speaker 1: Name three of those states. All right, y'all, this is
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  Speaker 1: the curveball from Wednesdays underplayed. The Department of Energy gave
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  Speaker 1: What was the amount? All right, Well, that's your quiz
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  Speaker 1: will be announced next Friday on the show. So front pagers,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about where the music industry is headed, because
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  Speaker 1: Spotify just made a move that could change the industry
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  Speaker 1: faster than a lot of people realize. So the company
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  Speaker 1: just announced a new partnership with Universal Music Group that
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  Speaker 1: will eventually let premium users create AI generated remixes and
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  Speaker 1: covers using license songs directly in the Spotify app. So
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  Speaker 1: that means subscribers could eventually use AI tools to remake
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  Speaker 1: songs connected to some of the biggest artists in the
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  Speaker 1: world like Taylor Swift, Drake, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish. Spotify
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  Speaker 1: says those artists involved in the program will have to
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  Speaker 1: give their permission to receive compensation and supporters, though they
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  Speaker 1: argue that this is better than what's already happening, where
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  Speaker 1: AI music tools are being trained on artists without their consent.
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  Speaker 4: If we look at the top shart of Spotify today,
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  Speaker 4: there's a legitimate use of AI done by artists and
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  Speaker 4: we would allow for them. And then there's the one
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  Speaker 4: where it's clearly as someone trying to steal someone's name
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  Speaker 4: or likeness, or even infringe on someone's IP, at which
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  Speaker 4: point we would say that is not okay, that is
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  Speaker 4: not what we stand for, and we would take that down.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the bigger conversation. Independent musicians are already suing
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  Speaker 1: major AI music companies, arguing that these tools are threatening
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  Speaker 1: the future of smaller artists who do not have made
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  Speaker 1: major label protections or negotiating power. So this is just
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  Speaker 1: raising a few questions for me, like who's actually benefiting
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  Speaker 1: from AI music Because right now, the biggest artists, the
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  Speaker 1: biggest corporations appear to be getting the deals. First they
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  Speaker 1: get first protections and the first payouts, while smaller artists
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  Speaker 1: they're still trying to figure out how to protect their voices,
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  Speaker 1: their songs, their livelihoods. So I don't know. It seems
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  Speaker 1: like the music industry is not trying to stop AI anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It's just trying to see who can own it first.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. What do you guys think? Email me
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  Speaker 1: front page with Mimi at gmail dot com. Let me
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  Speaker 1: know your thoughts. That's your front page. I'm me Me Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Have a safe and beautiful Memorial Day weekend, Take care
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  Speaker 1: of each other, and I'll see you on Monday with
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  Speaker 1: three new stories and a Monday Brief for the week ahead.
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