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9-10: Is $5K Enough To Buy Your Midterm Vote? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: I promise you, putting together the pod for today, I
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Speaker 1: did not want to talk anything politics. Like, specifically the
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Speaker 1: day before the 25th anniversary of 9-11, I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to talk politics because, let's face it, it's just such
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Speaker 1: a serious week. It's a sad week. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of tension. There's a lot of, you know, animosity, obviously.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of bad memories torn up. Something light,
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Speaker 1: something fluffy. I'll be damned if they didn't do it again.
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Speaker 1: So the Republicans put together, spearheaded by President Trump, a
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Speaker 1: midterm convention in Texas. And I'm thinking, well, OK, well,
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Speaker 1: here's another political convention. Can't get any more political than that.
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Speaker 1: They're getting ready for the big midterm event. It's going
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Speaker 1: to happen. And I'll be damned if they didn't do
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Speaker 1: something spearheaded by him because he's such an energy creator.
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Speaker 1: That didn't bring something that. has got to get us
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Speaker 1: talking about this. And a question for today is $ 5, 000.
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Speaker 1: Like if somebody just plopped five grand in your lap,
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Speaker 1: assuming that you get it. I mean, there's still people
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Speaker 1: waiting for stimulus checks from a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: But if somebody gave you $ 5, 000 right now, but said
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Speaker 1: you have to vote a certain way anyway in the midterms,
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Speaker 1: is that enough to sway your vote? After reading the
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Speaker 1: reaction and spending a lot of time, that's why I'm
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Speaker 1: late today, reading reactions from this and looking at specific
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Speaker 1: people and specific followers and reading the room, as they say,
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Speaker 1: to see if this is effective or not. I got
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Speaker 1: to say, I'll give you my opinion in a second,
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Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people absolutely, assuming they
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Speaker 1: can get it, would absolutely be swayed by a $ 5, 000
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Speaker 1: stimulus check. And that's what President Trump promised at this
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Speaker 1: convention last night. Will it work? Is it enough for you?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll find out. One thing, though, and
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Speaker 1: the big takeaway is, Here's the good news. This means
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Speaker 1: that they're talking affordability, the A word, right? Gas prices
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Speaker 1: are still too high. Things are still ridiculously expensive, right?
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Speaker 1: And everybody points to gas. And there's a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of the very, very smart political talking
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Speaker 1: heads that are saying, if the Republican team over there,
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Speaker 1: if the red guys don't figure out something to do
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Speaker 1: with affordability, they are going to get absolutely wiped out
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Speaker 1: in the midterms. That's why this thing came to be
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Speaker 1: last night, which is why it's such an interesting question.
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Speaker 1: But is it effective? I don't know. Let's kind of
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Speaker 1: hash this out. I appreciate you. Wicked Radio live stream
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Speaker 1: and replay on X and YouTube and Facebook and the
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Speaker 1: audio podcast always available to you. Uploaded shortly after the
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Speaker 1: live stream. Let's get right to it. So it was
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Speaker 1: Texas last night. A little bit different kind of a thing.
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Speaker 1: It's like this is probably going to be the trend
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Speaker 1: going forward. Not for this time around, but you'll have
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Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans and whatever third party trying to come
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Speaker 1: onto the scene. We'll put together a conventions ahead of midterms.
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Speaker 1: That's how close these races are these days. So it means, yes,
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Speaker 1: more politics in your life. That's never a good thing.
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Speaker 1: But also, because this was the first one, really, that
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Speaker 1: they announced and they were going to do, some interesting
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Speaker 1: things came from it. Pretty much what you would expect
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Speaker 1: for the Republican team. They have all the future leaders.
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Speaker 1: This was smartly designed, by the way. They have the
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Speaker 1: future leaders of this party. They had Marco Rubio on there, J.D. Vance,
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Speaker 1: you know, proclaiming their brohood. They're not going to fight
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Speaker 1: against each other for whoever's going to run for the
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Speaker 1: next term around. That was all good stuff. Brendan Carr,
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Speaker 1: the congressman from California, was there. He's a young rising
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Speaker 1: star in their political party over there. You had people
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Speaker 1: like Adam Carolla, the comedian podcaster, showed up to lighten
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Speaker 1: things up a little bit, had some great things to
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Speaker 1: say about California, where we don't want to go. And
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Speaker 1: then you had, and this is interesting, this gave a
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Speaker 1: lot of Trump supporters a lot of hope. There was
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Speaker 1: a tone from President Trump I've said it for years.
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Speaker 1: You've noticed it too. There's something about him getting energized
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Speaker 1: when he either hits the road for somebody. He's going
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Speaker 1: to do that a lot in the midterms, he said
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Speaker 1: last night. Or he just says any kind of a
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Speaker 1: speech anywhere. It just charges his batteries up. It just
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Speaker 1: gets him revved up again. And whether or not you're
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Speaker 1: a Trump supporter, you tell me this doesn't sound.
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Speaker 2: Like.
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Speaker 1: you know, previous running presidential election, President Trump, right? When
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Speaker 1: he was super charged up, even more so than 2016.
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Speaker 1: And this is the big takeaway. There's two big takeaways
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Speaker 1: from last night. There's the stimulus checks we'll get into
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Speaker 1: here in a second, but also this line. We're never
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Speaker 1: going to get a guy like this in the White
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Speaker 1: House again who was able to drop a line like this.
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Speaker 1: Is it juvenile?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Is it funny as hell? Yes, it is.
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Speaker 2: He was also somebody that hated eating meat. But he
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Speaker 2: ran a campaign to beat meat. He called it beat meat.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell he meant by that.
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Speaker 2: These people are going to tell me, what the hell
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Speaker 2: is he? Wants to beat meat?
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Speaker 1: I always go back to this. Can you possibly imagine?
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Speaker 1: Here's the background of this. He was talking about James Tallarico,
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Speaker 1: the extreme progressive guy running for Senate in Texas. Trump
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Speaker 1: goes into Trump mode, which I think is actually funnier
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Speaker 1: than the last time around. Because he doesn't really have
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Speaker 1: anything to lose. I mean, the stakes are high for
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Speaker 1: the midterms. And whoever's going to run in the next
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Speaker 1: presidential election, obviously. But not even Trump was dropping lines
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Speaker 1: like that to get a reaction out of the crowd
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Speaker 1: in previous election campaigns. So that was a big takeaway.
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Speaker 1: But this was the big one. This was the big
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Speaker 1: one that got everybody talking. And I'm telling you, I'll
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Speaker 1: go back to this again. I know I said it
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago. I always try to, like,
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Speaker 1: read the tempo. But read the room and the temperature
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Speaker 1: of what's going on in the nation, what people feel
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Speaker 1: about this. Because I will give you my honest gut
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Speaker 1: reaction when I first heard about this. You read headlines
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Speaker 1: all over the place. People are community noting the posts
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Speaker 1: on this whole thing. Something about Trump, five grand if
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Speaker 1: you vote for Republicans in the midterm. And then people
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Speaker 1: are saying you can't buy votes, it's illegal, blah, blah, blah.
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Speaker 1: Other people are just whipping up a storm saying, I
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Speaker 1: never got my $ 2, 000, I'm going to have $ 5, 000. Just
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Speaker 1: give me my Save America Act. All of this legitimate.
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Speaker 1: All of this absolutely understandable. I totally get it. But
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, let's be honest. We're a consumer nation.
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Speaker 1: When you offer, assuming this is a big assumption, assuming
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Speaker 1: it's going to happen and assuming that you had $ 5, 000
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Speaker 1: placed in your bank account or a Trump account or
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Speaker 1: a check or whatever it was. If you don't think
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Speaker 1: that matters to people, I think you're crazy. The big...
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Speaker 1: affordability issue the big a gas prices totally understandable high
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Speaker 1: rent prices housing prices everything is up and that's a
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Speaker 1: big thing and there are a lot of people and
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Speaker 1: i will put myself in that category too saying if
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Speaker 1: they don't if the republican guys don't do something about
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Speaker 1: that these midterms are going to be ugly for them
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Speaker 1: it's most people not you i get it most people
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Speaker 1: in this country don't understand what's going on in iran
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Speaker 1: they don't they see a headline here and there They
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Speaker 1: don't really truly understand what's going on with the Save
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Speaker 1: America Act. They get the general gist of it. But understandably,
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Speaker 1: everybody's busy trying to make a living, trying to make
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Speaker 1: a life, raise your kids, get your kids through college,
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Speaker 1: save for retirement yourself, and it comes down to this.
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Speaker 1: This is what people think about. And this is where
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Speaker 1: politicians overthink this all the time. I can't afford to
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Speaker 1: fill my truck today. That's what people think. And it's
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Speaker 1: only been going up. and it hasn't gone down as promised.
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Speaker 1: A lot of factors go into that. We don't need
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Speaker 1: to get into that. That's the bottom line, and that's
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Speaker 1: where we are. So when they promise something like this,
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Speaker 1: this is just like reaction 12 hours later, me trying
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Speaker 1: to read the room and comments and reactions and people
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Speaker 1: commenting and posting about this and how this is trending. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I tend to think this makes a big impact. So
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Speaker 1: there's the question. $ 5, 000 bucks enough to buy your vote?
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Speaker 3: Because we've done so well, and because our country is making...
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Speaker 3: so much money that only I can make this promise
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Speaker 3: to you.
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Speaker 1: And here is my promise.
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Speaker 3: If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
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Speaker 3: United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic,
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Speaker 3: tremendous economic success, like in history we've never had anything
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Speaker 3: like what's happening, but because of our tremendous strength and
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Speaker 3: success economically, Well, now.
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Speaker 1: That's what got people talking. Here's a little media trick, too,
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Speaker 1: and how this thing gets spun and how they do it, whatever.
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Speaker 1: And this is a reason. This is one of the
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Speaker 1: things I was looking for this morning. And the 8 o'clock,
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Speaker 1: you know, morning news, national news programs. This is how
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Speaker 1: you know a statement is at least. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if anybody's ever going to get this. Who knows what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen in the midterms, truly. Let's start there.
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Speaker 1: But I know one thing as of this morning in
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Speaker 1: real time. Nobody saw that coming. And here's how you
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Speaker 1: know it's at least having an effect and getting traction.
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Speaker 1: People are talking about it. It's one of the number
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Speaker 1: one trending issues in the country right now. You'll see 5,000.
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Speaker 1: What was that all about? Then you look at the
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Speaker 1: other speeches and beating meat in the midterms and all
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Speaker 1: that other stuff. They don't know, the political opponents anyway,
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Speaker 1: specifically Democrats, they have no idea how to respond to
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Speaker 1: this quite yet. Usually, when they see something coming, Usually
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Speaker 1: they have the talking points out and the propaganda and
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Speaker 1: the counterpoints and all the arguments, and they put on
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Speaker 1: the talking heads in the morning news programs to talk
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Speaker 1: about this and shoot it down and all this other stuff.
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Speaker 1: They don't know yet, and it's been like 12 hours
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Speaker 1: since he said that from last night's speech. That's interesting.
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Speaker 1: They didn't see this one coming. And here's the thing,
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Speaker 1: if you're just a regular voter, maybe a voter for
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Speaker 1: Trump in the last election, maybe you traditionally vote for Republicans,
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Speaker 1: maybe you're an independent that doesn't vote too much, but
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Speaker 1: you just want to see wisely what's best for you,
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Speaker 1: your pocket and your bottom line. Again, this is a
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Speaker 1: big assumption here. And there's a big argument out there
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Speaker 1: saying people who were promised $ 2, 000 stimulus checks didn't get it.
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Speaker 1: They're still fighting over that. I get that. And that's
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Speaker 1: probably going to be the talking point for the Democrats.
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Speaker 1: It'll never happen. You'll never get that money in your pocket. Maybe.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But if you don't think this is
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Speaker 1: at least getting independents and conservative voters interested and just
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Speaker 1: people who can't afford things and maybe pulling over some
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Speaker 1: traditional Democrat voters who can't afford gas, like I said,
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Speaker 1: to put in your truck, I think you're insane because
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Speaker 1: this was a big, big, impactful statement. It sounds like,
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Speaker 1: and it's being attacked this morning already as, oh, it's
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Speaker 1: just pie in the sky. It's just a, here's the
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Speaker 1: big takeaway. Get off the $ 5, 000 number for just one second.
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Speaker 1: Let's figure out later on if that's ever going to
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Speaker 1: really happen. We'll see what happens in the midterms. Let's
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Speaker 1: see if it gets people off the couch and actually
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Speaker 1: in the voting booths to vote in November. Let's see.
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Speaker 1: That's one thing. Here's the biggest takeaway of all that
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are missing. Those guys
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Speaker 1: from last night holding their brand new midterm election, are
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Speaker 1: talking about affordability. This means they heard you. This means
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Speaker 1: they heard me, they heard everybody else, and they heard
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Speaker 1: Joe Pickup Truck, who can't afford to fill his gas.
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Speaker 1: They heard the soccer mom, who can't afford to put
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Speaker 1: her kid on travel team or anything. At least you've
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Speaker 1: got these guys talking about affordability. There are bigger issues
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Speaker 1: in the world. I get it too. But is there
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Speaker 1: any bigger issue when you can't put food on the table?
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Speaker 1: Whether or not this works, I don't know. But the
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Speaker 1: good takeaway is it's got them working on it however
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Speaker 1: they want to do it. And then the counterargument obviously is, well,
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Speaker 1: just listen, pass the Save America Act. That'll get the
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Speaker 1: borders more secure, elections more secure, and that'll bring down prices.
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Speaker 1: But immediately, right now, right here, a $ 5, 000 check, a payoff,
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Speaker 1: if you will, a buying of your vote isn't enough
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Speaker 1: to get it done. We'll see. But the good thing
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Speaker 1: is it got those guys talking about affordability to bring
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Speaker 1: down prices, which will make the other guys over on
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Speaker 1: that side double down on that as well, because that's
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Speaker 1: been their big talking issue. Americans can't afford things. Well,
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Speaker 1: now Trump's talking about giving you $ 5, 000. What do they do?
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Speaker 1: They're going to have to up the ante. That's where
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Speaker 1: we win. And that's a good news for the American consumer.
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Speaker 1: So is it enough? I promised you my take on
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Speaker 1: this as an American consumer. Um, I'm a little bit
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Speaker 1: different because I'm not somebody that wouldn't vote. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to vote in the midterms. Most of the
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Speaker 1: people I do know. Is it enough to sway my
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Speaker 1: vote if I wasn't going to be able to, though?
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Speaker 1: Comparatively speaking, looking at the other side. Yeah, for me,
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Speaker 1: it is. For me, it is. If they came through
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Speaker 1: with that and they could offer some kind of promise
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Speaker 1: that I'm actually going to get that money. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think it is. And before you're thinking that, oh, it's
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Speaker 1: terrible to buy votes, that's what these politicians do all
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Speaker 1: the time anyway. And that's another takeaway from last night.
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Speaker 1: At least they're being direct and honest about it. That's
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Speaker 1: all we're asking for, really. Just if you're trying to
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Speaker 1: buy my vote, give me the dollar amount. That's all
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Speaker 1: I'm asking for. And tell me exactly how you do
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Speaker 1: it and when I'm going to get the money. I
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Speaker 1: think that kind of honesty is appreciated these days. I really,
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Speaker 1: truly do. It leaves us with one other question, though,
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Speaker 1: because we know American consumers because you're one and I'm one, too.
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Speaker 1: Where would you spend the money? Where would it go immediately?
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Speaker 1: Because prices aren't coming down, and it's the number one
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Speaker 1: issue everybody's talking about, by the way, this affordability issue.
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Speaker 1: In every single poll that comes out, every single trend, everything.
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Speaker 1: When they ask people on the street or a phone poll,
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Speaker 1: what are you most concerned about in the midterms? What's
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Speaker 1: your biggest issue right now? They all say affordability. And yet,
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Speaker 1: we're spending money like crazy on things like This that
13:53
Speaker 1: was just released yesterday. This is iPhone Duo.
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Speaker 3: To tell you more about the thinking behind the Duo's design,
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Speaker 3: here are Molly and Steve.
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Speaker 1: iPhone has just released the video. This was probably the
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Speaker 1: second trending thing. The iPhone Duo. It's their first foldable phone,
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Speaker 1: and it's fancy, and it's got all kinds of new
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Speaker 1: features and everything else. Immediately, one of my daughters said,
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Speaker 1: want this? The same kid who can't afford rent, right?
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Speaker 1: Exactly right. Well, let's ask a little simple Grok question here.
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Speaker 1: Let's jump over to X and ask how much that costs.
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Speaker 1: Keep this in mind when you get your $ 5, 000 payoff
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Speaker 1: midterm vote in your hand. Grok, how much is the
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Speaker 1: iPhone Duo expected to cost? Well, the 250G is $ 19.
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Speaker 3: 99.
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Speaker 1: The 512 gigabyte is going to be $ 21.
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Speaker 2: 99.
14:37
Speaker 1: Oh, they have four levels now. The third one is going.
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Speaker 3: To be $ 25.
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Speaker 2: 99.
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Speaker 1: And the two... Trigabyte, trilobite is going to be $ 31. 99.
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Speaker 1: Keep in mind what's coming. Things aren't getting less expensive.
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Speaker 1: So that's a factor in your $ 5, 000 stimulus check too.
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Speaker 1: Some kind of a college kid or some sort of
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Speaker 1: a new professional is wondering what they would do with
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Speaker 1: the money, how they're going to afford things. I love
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Speaker 1: this new iPhone foldable thing. I love the new iPhone Duo,
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Speaker 1: but I can't afford it. And then combine that with
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Speaker 1: Trump saying he's going to give you $ 5, 000 if the
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Speaker 1: Republicans win the midterms. It's a factor. It's a factor.
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Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. All right. A little program. I mean, no,
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Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out with me, by the way. First
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Speaker 1: of all, tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of 9-11. We
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Speaker 1: all know that. I've been trying to think about, like
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Speaker 1: I said, I was trying to keep it lighthearted, but
15:34
Speaker 1: politics kind of reared its ugly head again. But I'm
15:37
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what to do for tomorrow for
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Speaker 1: this entire thing. We can share some stories. You can
15:41
Speaker 1: put it in the comments. Where were you? Because we've
15:42
Speaker 1: all got a story about 9-11, where we were. But
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Speaker 1: I thought what we do, what's interesting to me is
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Speaker 1: the coverage of this entire thing. And tomorrow, I think
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Speaker 1: on the live stream, we're going to bounce back and
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Speaker 1: forth of different networks. and see how they're covering this.
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Speaker 1: At about 8 a.m., it might be a little bit later,
15:55
Speaker 1: because that's when things really get going, before they start
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Speaker 1: to read the names, and we'll see how the networks
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Speaker 1: are covering this thing, because we shouldn't ever forget. So
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Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see how it all works out. Actually,
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Speaker 1: hanging out. Wicked Radio livestream, 8 a.m.-ish. All right, 8.15 sometimes.
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Speaker 1: and the audio podcast. Thank you so much for following there.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Make it a wicked awesome Thursday. Think about
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Speaker 1: the five grand. What would you do? Is it enough
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Speaker 1: for you? Talk to you tomorrow.