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New York Grandmother Alisa Goods Found Dead in Las Vegas, Walmart Rolls Back Prices on 11,000 Products, and YouTube Is Offering Top Creators Millions for Exclusivity · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: A New York grandmother who vanished during a trip to
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas has been found dead near the airport.
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  Speaker 2: It's spent ten days, It's spent ten days. Where is she?
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  Speaker 1: And Walmart is cutting prices on eleven thousand products, using
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars in tear refunds as shoppers pull back.
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  Speaker 1: And YouTube is offering top creators to post millions exclusively
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  Speaker 1: on its platform, but turning down the deal could come
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  Speaker 1: with consequences. It's Monday, August twenty fourth, from the Black
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  Speaker 1: Effect podcast Network. I'm Mimi Brown and here are the
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  Speaker 1: day's biggest stories. Stay with me. A New York grandmother
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  Speaker 1: who disappeared during a trip to Las Vegas has been
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  Speaker 1: found dead. Her name was Alisa Goods. She was sixty
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  Speaker 1: three years old. Alisa went missing on August eighth after
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  Speaker 1: leaving a friend's apartment to take a bus to CBS.
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  Speaker 1: She never returned and was reported missing two days later. Then,
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  Speaker 1: her family started receiving strange messages from her phone asking
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  Speaker 1: for bitcoin help and gas money. The gas money request
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  Speaker 1: immediately raised concerns because Alissa did not drive. Her family
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  Speaker 1: began wondering whether someone had kidnapped her and taken control
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  Speaker 1: of her phone. Her family says they reached out to
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas police but were told that Alissa was not
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  Speaker 1: a priority.
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  Speaker 2: Reaching out to the detective only for her to tell
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  Speaker 2: me my aunt wasn't a priority. How could a person
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  Speaker 2: go missing in your city while visiting on vacation and
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  Speaker 2: she not be a priority. We want to find her.
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  Speaker 2: We want to find her well and live. We want
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  Speaker 2: her home. It spent ten days, It spent ten days.
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  Speaker 2: Where is she?
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  Speaker 1: Early Thursday morning, Las Vegas police were called after someone
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  Speaker 1: spotted a woman's body inside a drainage ditch near Henry
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  Speaker 1: Reid International Airport. That woman was later I did as
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  Speaker 1: Alisa Felisa. Airport surveillance video showed her falling down an
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  Speaker 1: embarkment on August eighth. She managed to get back up,
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  Speaker 1: but then collapsed. According to police, there was no further
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  Speaker 1: movement and the spot where she fell could not be
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  Speaker 1: seen from the street. Alisa's daughter had traveled to Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas desperate to find her mother. She previously told the
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  Speaker 1: News that Alisa had gone under several surgeries that made
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  Speaker 1: walking more difficult, especially during this trip. Las Vegas was
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  Speaker 1: also experiencing extreme heat. The Clark County. Cordiner has not
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  Speaker 1: yet determined how Alissa died. Her family said in a
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  Speaker 1: statement that she was deeply loved and that her absence
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  Speaker 1: lisa space that could never be filled. We are sending
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  Speaker 1: love to the entire Goods family, and Walmart is cutting
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  Speaker 1: prices on eleven thousand products as shoppers become more careful
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  Speaker 1: about how they spend their money. The company just reported
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  Speaker 1: as slow at comparable sales growth in six years. US
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  Speaker 1: sales rose two point six percent last quarter, falling short
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  Speaker 1: of what Wall Street expected. Now, Walmart is trying to
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  Speaker 1: bring customers back with what it calls aggressive price investments,
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  Speaker 1: and it has billions of dollars to help pay for them.
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  Speaker 1: Walmart received two point nine billion dollars in tariff reefunds
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  Speaker 1: after the Supreme Court ruled that certain tariffs could not
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  Speaker 1: be imposed under emergency powers law. The retailer is now
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  Speaker 1: using part of that money to lower prices. Walmart's chief
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  Speaker 1: financial officer says consumers are now softer than they were
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  Speaker 1: in February before gasoline prices jumped. He says once gas
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  Speaker 1: prices rose above four dollars a gallon, people started making
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  Speaker 1: choices about what they can and cannot afford, and the
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  Speaker 1: numbers support that Retail and food service sales fellt six
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  Speaker 1: tenths of a percent in July. Walmart also expects to
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  Speaker 1: spend an additional two billion on fuel, beyond what it
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  Speaker 1: originally projected. Other major retailers are receiving tariff reefunds too.
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  Speaker 1: Target received nearly one billion, while Home Depot received about
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and thirty million dollars. Walmart says it's making
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  Speaker 1: the biggest public push to pass some of that money
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  Speaker 1: back along to customers through lower prices. Wall Street was
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  Speaker 1: not impressed. Walmart shares dropped more than nine percent Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: wiping out over eighty billion in market value, its largest
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  Speaker 1: one day decline since twenty twenty two. To the bottom line,
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  Speaker 1: if you are feeling pressure at the pump and the
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  Speaker 1: checkout counter, you are not alone. Walmart says they see
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  Speaker 1: it too, and they are cutting prices to keep you
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  Speaker 1: from shopping somewhere else. And lastly, on this Monday, YouTube
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  Speaker 1: is offering some of its biggest creators millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: to post exclusively on its platform. According to Business Insider
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  Speaker 1: and Bloomberg, the offers have been made verbally to a
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  Speaker 1: small group of top creators. The terms vary, but there
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  Speaker 1: is reportedly no firm deadline as of yet. But the
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  Speaker 1: deal is straightforward, take YouTube's money and stop posting your
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  Speaker 1: content anywhere else. That would be a major change. For years,
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  Speaker 1: YouTube did not pay creators upfront. Creators bought the audience,
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  Speaker 1: YouTube sold advertising, and both sides split the revenue. That
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  Speaker 1: model helped build creator economy, but now YouTube is facing
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  Speaker 1: new competition from Netflix. Netflix has been moving aggressively into
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  Speaker 1: creator content and video podcasts, two areas YouTube has dominated
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  Speaker 1: for years. Netflix has already signed creators like Miss Rachel
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  Speaker 1: and has reportedly pursued exclusive deals with video podcasters. Now
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  Speaker 1: YouTube is trying to lock down its biggest names before
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  Speaker 1: Netflix can get to them. But there's another part that's
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  Speaker 1: getting attention. Business Insider reports that creators who reject YouTube's
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  Speaker 1: offer could potentially lose promotional support and future brand opportunities
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  Speaker 1: on the platform. That means this may be more than
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  Speaker 1: a generous offer. It also could be leveraged for creators
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  Speaker 1: Diarte money, maybe tempting. Advertising revenue changes every month and
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  Speaker 1: the algorithm can shift without warning. But exclusivity also means
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  Speaker 1: giving up the ability to build an audience, and negotiate
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  Speaker 1: deals across several platforms for viewers. It could mean the
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  Speaker 1: Internet starts looking more like streaming television. Your favorite shows
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  Speaker 1: and creators may soon be split across several platforms instead
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