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Wicked Radio 8-21: Cracker Barrel's Rough Rebrand, Killer Trucker Couldn't Read, & Cops Pushing Back! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: I've always noticed this. This even goes back to like
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Speaker 1: radio days, like way back when everyone start to put
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Speaker 1: a show together or put the podcast together for the
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Speaker 1: live stream, you know, start collecting things last night, collect
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Speaker 1: some audio, collect some video for you. I'm like, what
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Speaker 1: ridiculous things are coming to us that we have to
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Speaker 1: deal with now? Through the news, what's going on. Quite
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Speaker 1: often there's a trend. There's always like they come in packs.
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Speaker 1: There's like a like a similar theme that shows up
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Speaker 1: in today's theme. And this might be a first. Are
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Speaker 1: retail stories. I think that is a first. Actually that's
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Speaker 1: kind of weird, but it's true and it's relevant because
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Speaker 1: we're a consumer society, right. So often what happens with
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Speaker 1: retail stores people that want to get our money for
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Speaker 1: goods and services. So often that reflects what you see
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Speaker 1: with retail stores. What's going on in culture and society.
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Speaker 1: And I'm here to tell you things are getting better.
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Speaker 1: We're starting to heal. That doesn't mean all these retail
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Speaker 1: CEOs get it, but the consumers do. We do the
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Speaker 1: regular people do. Yes, we're gonna talk about the cracker
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Speaker 1: barrel awful rebrand. Now you've seen the sign and everybody
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Speaker 1: seems to be reacting to the cracker barrel logo image redesign.
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Speaker 1: Oh it goes deeper than that, because now they're starting
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Speaker 1: to look at the rebrand inside the stores, which are ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: But now people are looking at who this CEO in
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Speaker 1: charge of it was. Oh, this is interesting. I'd put
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Speaker 1: her in the category of CEOs of retail that don't
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Speaker 1: get it though. That's, you know, from the restaurant side
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Speaker 1: of things. Here's another retail story for you. The CEO
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Speaker 1: of Target is stepping down everybody. We all remember the
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Speaker 1: bud like backlash, right of course, and affected everybody never
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Speaker 1: really went away. The bigger backlash in consumer world was
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Speaker 1: against Target and they never recovered and it's resulted in this.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that as well. But there is another ceo.
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Speaker 1: Here's another retail story of bed, Bath and Beyond. Remember
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Speaker 1: those stores they're coming back. But this CEO is amazing.
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Speaker 1: This guy's incredible. He has the novel idea of actually
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Speaker 1: listening to the consumer base on where they should open
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Speaker 1: up their new stores. We'll tell you about him. Oh
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Speaker 1: and by the way, he says, we are absolutely not
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Speaker 1: opening in California. Another balls, he moved news wise, and
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Speaker 1: update on the killer truck driver that killed three people
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Speaker 1: last week in Florida. Turns out he couldn't even read
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Speaker 1: road signs. Oh yeah, yeah, that was interesting to Sanders.
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Speaker 1: Wants him back. And we're going to wrap it up
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Speaker 1: today with a story about cops pushing back and feeling
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Speaker 1: comfortable enough to mock protesters. You get in the feeling
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Speaker 1: that things are healing, that things are getting better. When
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Speaker 1: cops are comfortable to be themselves and not afraid of backlash,
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Speaker 1: things are getting better. Oh yeah, we got all of
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Speaker 1: it coming up, but thanks for being here. First of all,
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Speaker 1: let's get some business out of the way. Thanks for
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Speaker 1: following all that crap. Let's get to it. You're ready
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Speaker 1: for this, We've all seen it. Trending news story in
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Speaker 1: fact number one yesterday must be a slow news day.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday was the number one for a while trending news
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Speaker 1: story in the country. The Cracker Barrel rebrand. Now, everybody
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Speaker 1: has seen the logo. It's it's it's this is mostly
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Speaker 1: a visual I get it. It's uh yeah, it's rough,
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Speaker 1: it's it's pretty bad. Now, I would agree with you.
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Speaker 1: The Cracker Barrel, you know, they needed some help. I
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Speaker 1: haven't been to a Cracker Barrel in a couple of years,
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Speaker 1: but you know, I've certainly been there dozens of times
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Speaker 1: for sure. You know, the old style homye kind of
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Speaker 1: kitchy country cooking kind of feel never really the best food,
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Speaker 1: but I always kind of like Cracker Barrel for what
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Speaker 1: it was. And they always had the little lobby store
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Speaker 1: with all the nick nacky kind of things, the really
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Speaker 1: cheesy thing. Also, by the way, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: this is part of the rebrand, but also the place
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Speaker 1: you could only find certain types of old kind of candy,
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Speaker 1: like necko wafers. I'm the only person I know that
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Speaker 1: actually likes necko waivers, but regardless, that's where you could
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Speaker 1: find those things. Now, the rebrand everybody reacted to was
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Speaker 1: the logo. They went from the you know, the old
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Speaker 1: timey guy kind of leaning up against a barrel where
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Speaker 1: they got rid of him. He's too old timey, he's
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Speaker 1: too much of an old white guy. Had to get
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Speaker 1: rid of him. And now they just have They kept
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Speaker 1: the same yellow with a generic, bland looking cracker barrel.
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Speaker 1: Just this logo. Now that's rough enough. You may not
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Speaker 1: have seen the inside what they did for the rebrand
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Speaker 1: and the inside they took. They took what was never
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Speaker 1: really that exciting of an inside place. And if you've
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Speaker 1: been to a cracker barrel anywhere in a road trip
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Speaker 1: or near your neighborhood, you know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: And they actually made they took away all the collectibles things,
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Speaker 1: you know, the old timey kind of Americana inside. They
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Speaker 1: took that away and they made it as bland as possible.
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Speaker 1: That was the rebrand. But it goes deeper. So to
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Speaker 1: talk about the rebrand, the CEO, and she's really the
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Speaker 1: story here. Her name is Julie Messino. She went on,
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Speaker 1: I think this is good, good morning America. Yesterday, this
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Speaker 1: is where the news broke, and she said, all of
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Speaker 1: our managers love it. They love the rebrand. It's so exciting.
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Speaker 2: Mostly the feedback's been overwhelmingly positive that people like what
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Speaker 2: we're doing. I'll give you another SoundBite. I actually happened
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Speaker 2: to be in Orlando last week with all of our managers.
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Speaker 2: We bring them together and once every other year, and
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Speaker 2: the number one question that I got asked Michael was
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Speaker 2: how can I get a remodel? When can I get
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Speaker 2: a remodel? How do I get on the list? Really so,
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Speaker 2: because the feedback in the.
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Speaker 1: Listen to Strayhead, Really that's exciting, that's fascinating news.
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Speaker 2: I love.
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Speaker 1: I love TV people when they have to pretend they're
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Speaker 1: interested in the interviewer. Really, cracker meal remodel, that's fascinating. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: here's what your managers were saying. They want some help
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Speaker 1: and they want some marketing. That's what they're telling you, lady.
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Speaker 1: But the rebrand nobody can possibly be happy with, and
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Speaker 1: it's probably going to go now. If you're just listening
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Speaker 1: on audio, you couldn't really see that, lady. And I
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Speaker 1: really try. I try my best. I've always tried this
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Speaker 1: not to just judge people on looks. You know, we
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Speaker 1: should be better than that, right, But I think I
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Speaker 1: think her whole image is part of this story. It
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Speaker 1: just is now looking at her if you happen to
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Speaker 1: see it, unless you're an audio listener, do you think
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Speaker 1: that's a lady that grew up going to cracker barrel
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Speaker 1: stores in restaurants. Do you think she's somebody that's ever
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Speaker 1: like gotten some stocking stuff for knickknacks in the front
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Speaker 1: of the store, the old timey Americana cracker barrel kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. I don't know her exact background or where
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Speaker 1: she grew up, but she seems like somebody I would
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Speaker 1: never see in a cracker barrel. So she probably doesn't
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Speaker 1: get what the consumer base wants or what the manager
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Speaker 1: she was talking about wants. But here's the real story
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Speaker 1: that actually is relevant to it, where I can pick
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Speaker 1: on her background. So, like I said, her name is
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Speaker 1: Julie Messino. Despite the rebrand and the remodels that she
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Speaker 1: claims the managers wanted, this is what she did keep
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Speaker 1: because a lot of people now have dug into her
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Speaker 1: background and the corporate practices of cracker Barrel. Got rid
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Speaker 1: of the Americana on the side, got rid of the guy,
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Speaker 1: the old, the old timey country guy in the front,
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Speaker 1: because you know, he's too old and he's too white
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Speaker 1: and needs too you know, got to get rid of him,
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Speaker 1: but she did keep. Reportedly, the DEI hiring practices within
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Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel Corporate stated in their corporate outline identifying recruiting
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Speaker 1: and advancing hires by race. Okay, if you're talking about
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Speaker 1: a rebrand, that's what you need to remodel, lady, not
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Speaker 1: so much the old country cooker guy in the front
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Speaker 1: leaning on the barrel of rebrand. So now, of course
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Speaker 1: that's gotten the attention of the Tennessee Attorney General and
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Speaker 1: America first Legal for DEI stuff as they go after that,
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Speaker 1: because it's obviously illegal. It's racist, and it's sexist, and
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Speaker 1: it's that's the CEO that doesn't get it. Let's make
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Speaker 1: you feel better about things, though. I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about a CEO that does get it. This was amazing.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember a bed bath and beyond retail stores?
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Speaker 1: I never it was one of the stores where I
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Speaker 1: would go with my wife or my family or whatever.
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Speaker 1: One of the ones I didn't mind going into. It
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Speaker 1: was okay, as a guy, I really want to look
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Speaker 1: at the interesting things, Okay. I always like the beyond
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Speaker 1: depart what's beyond the bed bath and beyond depart? That
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Speaker 1: sounds that sounds mysterious. Well, they didn't do too well,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of them closed. I thought by the
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Speaker 1: one near me closed, I thought the entire company had closed. Well,
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Speaker 1: they got a new CEO and they're going to reopen.
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Speaker 1: The goal is to reopen three hundred bed Baths and
8:25
Speaker 1: beyonds Now, that means they got a lot of funding,
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Speaker 1: but also it means one thing they've got consumer demand for.
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Speaker 1: It probably gonna look completely different than it did before
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Speaker 1: that we knew bed Bath and Beyond az right. But
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the new CEO they have
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Speaker 1: because this guy, to me is fascinating. His name is
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Speaker 1: Marcus Leones and he's done a lot of social media
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Speaker 1: because lo and behold, Marcus has a novel idea. Now,
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Speaker 1: I know this sounds crazy. You gotta think I'm making
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Speaker 1: this up. The new CEO of bed Bath and Beyond
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Speaker 1: came up with something crazy. You're ready insane. Here it is.
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Speaker 1: He actually listened to what the consumer base wants. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that's nuts for craziness, right, I know. In fact, he
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Speaker 1: went on I just saw this this morning. I had
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Speaker 1: to follow the guy on X because he actually did
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Speaker 1: a post where he said why don't you guys chime
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Speaker 1: in and you tell me where you'd like the next
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Speaker 1: bed Bath and Beyond to open your city or town.
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Speaker 1: And then he was offering like a gift card reward
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Speaker 1: or something amazing. But I will tell you where one
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Speaker 1: is not going to open the state of California. He
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Speaker 1: did a video that was released yesterday and he explained
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Speaker 1: why he will not open new stores in the state
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Speaker 1: of California. It's just too tough to do business there.
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Speaker 1: Here he is again, Marcus Leonis. This is a CEO
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Speaker 1: that gets we.
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Speaker 3: Made the decision to not open in the state of California.
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Speaker 3: And while it was a big place for business in
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Speaker 3: the past for Ben Bath and Beyond, it's just too
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Speaker 3: cost prohibitive. At some point, some business needs to take
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Speaker 3: a stand and remind the state of California that while
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Speaker 3: they keep reminding us that they're the fourth largest economy
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Speaker 3: in the world, well that's going to dissipate over time.
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Speaker 1: How about that? How about I think the most important
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Speaker 1: thing he said right there that got me excited was
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Speaker 1: he goes, at some point, these businesses need to take
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Speaker 1: a stand. Oh thank god, somebody gets it. Now. What
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Speaker 1: did I say in the intro. It's weird. It is
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Speaker 1: what it is. We didn't make the rules, but we
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Speaker 1: are a consumer nation. So often what happens with these
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Speaker 1: retail stores, what happens in you know, the commercial element
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Speaker 1: of our society reflects what's going on in the culture.
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Speaker 1: It's changing, guys, it's turning around and they're starting to
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Speaker 1: listen to people again. And that's all because of pushback.
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Speaker 1: Customers started speaking out, Guys like that started getting hired,
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Speaker 1: and now it's making a difference. Oh, by the way,
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Speaker 1: good luck California. Yeah great. They love to talk about
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Speaker 1: how big we'd be, the fourth largest economy in the world.
10:44
Speaker 1: Not for much longer. That's what he's telling you. One
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Speaker 1: more CEO story to talk about totally. They come in themes.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Do you see this Target? The Target
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Speaker 1: CEO Brian Cornell, he's stepping down in January of twenty six,
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Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. It's been there for eleven
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Speaker 1: years now. That's relevant to the story. Why think back
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Speaker 1: eleven years, the height of the wokeness in corporate retail
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Speaker 1: and he oversaw all of it with Target. Then we
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Speaker 1: all like to look back at a consumer pushback at
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Speaker 1: the bud light thing. Right, we all know the whole
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Speaker 1: bud light thing and people and it became a punchline. Basically,
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Speaker 1: there was a much bigger pushback and it happened with Target,
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Speaker 1: and they've never really recovered. And the result of it
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Speaker 1: all now is this guy stepping down. They've never recovered
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Speaker 1: from the pushback that happened with Where I'm going with this,
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Speaker 1: all the pride stuff in the front, specifically, the story
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Speaker 1: that put it everybody over the edge was selling the
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Speaker 1: kids transbathing suits that had the tuck feature. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm talking. I don't need to go into that,
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Speaker 1: it's too early for that. Never recovered from that. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the last fiscal quarter down another one percent from the
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Speaker 1: year before, still twenty five billion dollars in sales, but
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Speaker 1: what they were, And I've got some other problems. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Target drives me crazy. You can't first of all, you
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Speaker 1: can't get out of their under one hundred bucks. And
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Speaker 1: I can never find the same thing twice a Target.
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Speaker 1: It drives me insane. Regardless, this guy's stepping down after
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Speaker 1: all of that, they never recovered from. I will never forget.
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Speaker 1: And I've told this story a couple of Times twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three is when the big boycott happened with the Pride.
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Speaker 1: Was the start of Pride Month. It was the start
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Speaker 1: of June, I believe, and it was the story when
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Speaker 1: it broke about the bathing suits. I was talking about
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Speaker 1: in the thing and we were on the air and
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Speaker 1: I had heard the story. The Target overnight cleared out
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Speaker 1: their entire Pride section like or not, and I'm like, what,
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Speaker 1: that's an interesting reaction. And this was a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago. I'm driving home from work. I get off
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Speaker 1: the air and I said, let me see if that's true.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about it all morning long. Let me
12:49
Speaker 1: see if it's actually true. And I stopped by a
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Speaker 1: local Target that's kind of near my house and I
12:53
Speaker 1: walked into the front and it was incredible. They actually
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Speaker 1: cleared out a giant section, which tells you how big
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Speaker 1: the Pride section was. A giant section. Overnight called in
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Speaker 1: full staff to clear it out of the entire section
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Speaker 1: that was all the Pride stuff. That's when it first
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Speaker 1: hit me, much more than the bud Light boycott. That's
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Speaker 1: when it hit me that consumers have had enough and
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Speaker 1: they're pushing back, and sometimes it takes a while. Sure enough,
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Speaker 1: here we are a few years later and this guy
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Speaker 1: is gone. Brian Cornell stepping down. Can't lose that much
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Speaker 1: money in a corporate environment and expect to be CEO,
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Speaker 1: believe it or not. Throughout this and I just saw
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Speaker 1: this this morning. There's a pretty interesting human interest story
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Speaker 1: about this Target guy stepping down because they have to
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Speaker 1: name the new guy. The border directors have to name
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Speaker 1: who's coming in next. And this guy's name is I
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Speaker 1: don't know what he's all about other than his background.
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Speaker 1: Michael Fidelki. He's the new CEO of Target coming in.
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Speaker 1: Michael Fidelki. Listen to this story.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether he's going to try to bring
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Speaker 1: back all the woke stuff, not listen to the consumers.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I have a feeling anyway that he
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Speaker 1: actually kind of gets it because it's hard working dude.
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Speaker 1: Listen to this guy's story. In two thousand and three,
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Speaker 1: he started at Target. He was an intern that but
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Speaker 1: let's give him some credit. That's a pretty amazing story.
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Speaker 1: And two thousand and three, Michael Fidelki interned at Target
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Speaker 1: and now he's going to be the CEO. Must have
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Speaker 1: worked his ass off hard work does pay off. Good
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Speaker 1: for him. All right, cool, all right, that's enough of retail.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to some Let's get to some news. Got
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Speaker 1: an update now in a horrific story. I won't spend
14:27
Speaker 1: too much time on it, but it'll make you feel
14:29
Speaker 1: better when this guy sees justice. Last week was a
14:32
Speaker 1: big story for two days. I talked about it. With
14:35
Speaker 1: a killer truck driver on Florida's Turnpike kind of near me,
14:39
Speaker 1: and I've said it. I've gone by that area of
14:42
Speaker 1: the road one hundred, maybe thousands of times, decided to
14:45
Speaker 1: make an illegal U turn in the official use only lane,
14:48
Speaker 1: killed three people. You know, no regard had no reaction
14:51
Speaker 1: when that happened. Hargender sing, right, we knew he was
14:55
Speaker 1: an illegal alien. That was the first piece of news
14:57
Speaker 1: that came out. Well, some more news. But Ron Santas
15:02
Speaker 1: Florida's governor. I know you may be still mad at
15:04
Speaker 1: DeSantis for running against Trump. I know there's still a
15:07
Speaker 1: lot of pushback against Dessantis, but it will tell you
15:09
Speaker 1: in areas like this, he's really good when he seeks justice.
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Speaker 1: This is what he said on Jesse Waters last night
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Speaker 1: about bringing this guy back to face justice.
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Speaker 4: Inlifornia. We had an issue where you had an illegal
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Speaker 4: alien truck driver that got a commercial driver's license in
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Speaker 4: the state of California, employed by a California company, kill
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Speaker 4: three people in Florida. This guy didn't even speak English.
15:35
Speaker 4: We're bringing him up on charges. He's going to face
15:38
Speaker 4: a lot and I can announce Jesse that I said initially,
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Speaker 4: the company needs to be held accountable. And we've been
15:43
Speaker 4: working with the federal government and they are pulling that
15:46
Speaker 4: company's license to do business because.
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Speaker 1: That's what has to happen. That's where he's really good,
15:51
Speaker 1: Justsanna's actually actually does get stuff done in that way
15:54
Speaker 1: the company that hired the guy. Not enough attention has
15:57
Speaker 1: been put on the company that hired these legal drivers.
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Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now, Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary,
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Speaker 1: I know you get a lot of you wearing a
16:05
Speaker 1: lot of hats, you got a lot of jobs. Drop
16:06
Speaker 1: everything you're doing right now. There's no more important issue
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Speaker 1: than going after these companies that have illegal, dangerous, incredibly
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Speaker 1: irresponsible drivers on the road driving massive commercial trucks. There's
16:22
Speaker 1: no more Can you think of a more important safety
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Speaker 1: issue that affects you every single day. Think of how
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Speaker 1: many trucks, how many tractor trailers, commercial drivers you pass
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Speaker 1: every single day that may not even be able to
16:34
Speaker 1: read the road signs. Oh, come on, Bill, that's hyperbole.
16:38
Speaker 1: You're just you're just, you know, you're tricking that up
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Speaker 1: for effect. No, listen to this story. The illegal truck
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Speaker 1: driver we're talking about har gender sing.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: As it turns out, it's a lot worse than you imagined.
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Speaker 1: He failed an English language assessment on his test. He
16:58
Speaker 1: eventually gave him a commercials drivers license. Anyway, he only
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Speaker 1: got two out of twelve answers right, identifying one out
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Speaker 1: of four highway traffic signs. Washington and California issued him
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Speaker 1: a commercial driver's license. Anyway, two things go after those
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Speaker 1: states that let this happen. And the second thing is
17:19
Speaker 1: exactly what to say us right there? You know who's
17:21
Speaker 1: to blame as well, whoever the hell hired him, that's
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Speaker 1: who's to blame as well. Couldn't speak English, couldn't read
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Speaker 1: road signs, had no interest in that hut. Do you
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Speaker 1: think he really actually went through all of the commercial
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Speaker 1: driver's license training? What do you think the chances are?
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Speaker 1: I think nil. Here's the other horrifying thing. But it's
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Speaker 1: okay because now the attention, Like I said last week
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Speaker 1: when the story first popped up, once the attention is
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Speaker 1: on the story, we could start to fix the problem.
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Speaker 1: Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary. Go after these companies, find out.
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Speaker 1: I'm not so concerned right now about the guys in
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Speaker 1: back a home depot who are ill eagle, who want
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Speaker 1: to find some day work. Not so concerned about them
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Speaker 1: right now. I'm concerned about criminal, illegal gangs. I'm really
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Speaker 1: concerned because we actually are with them every single day.
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Speaker 1: I'm really concerned about illegals that don't even properly know
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Speaker 1: how to drive a commercial truck. That's a much more
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Speaker 1: relevant danger. And I think we're just realizing right now
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Speaker 1: how much of a problem that is. Go after that,
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Speaker 1: Sean Duffy. Not not the guys, look at looking at
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Speaker 1: you know, clean up the lawn or the retail plaza.
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Speaker 1: Go after these guys. It's what they're going to have
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Speaker 1: to do. I hope they do bring it back. Dessantas
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Speaker 1: will get that done. He'll bring them back to Florida.
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Speaker 1: That has to be fixed. But this will make you
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Speaker 1: feel better. There's another thing that reflects society when cops
18:45
Speaker 1: feel comfortable to be themselves the whole entire life. I've
18:50
Speaker 1: grown up around cops that would give you crap right
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Speaker 1: back right, the old Irish cops that I grew up
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Speaker 1: with in suburban Boston all the time. I mean they could,
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Speaker 1: they could get I could carry you down to size
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Speaker 1: just as soon as they look at you. And it
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Speaker 1: was awesome because they were comfortable to be themselves. Are
19:06
Speaker 1: you getting the feeling now? Are you noticing this that
19:09
Speaker 1: that's starting to come back? This is another example. We're
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Speaker 1: starting to heal and things are getting better. First case
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Speaker 1: example of this was in Rhode Island just the other day.
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Speaker 1: Remember the story we had of the drunk assistant prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: I'm a DA, I'm a DA, and the cops said,
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Speaker 1: right on his body cam, good for you, I don't
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Speaker 1: give a crap, Get in the car. He getting arrested. Fantastic.
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Speaker 1: You didn't see that a couple of years ago. Here's
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Speaker 1: another example for you. This just in Washington, DC yesterday.
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Speaker 1: It's the big event where JD. Vance and some other
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Speaker 1: Trump officials went to visit the cops and the some
19:43
Speaker 1: of the feds cleaning up Washington DC. Well, there were
19:45
Speaker 1: all kinds of protesters, of course, to tell them that
19:47
Speaker 1: they're horrible and they're Nazis and they're awful people, and
19:49
Speaker 1: then we go home and you're occupiers and all this
19:52
Speaker 1: other crap. Well, this one cop who was there providing
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Speaker 1: security or do you hear what he says to this
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Speaker 1: one protester who decided to make it an issue about
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Speaker 1: Gaza and Israel and Palestine, and he wasn't putting up
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Speaker 1: with any crap. It off. So she was wearing kafaya,
20:21
Speaker 1: you know, the Palestinian thing as part of her protest.
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Speaker 1: A cop decides to come out and say, well, you
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Speaker 1: know what you're doing. There is cultural appropriation, he gave her.
20:32
Speaker 1: And then she's totally flummihed and says, oh yo, you
20:34
Speaker 1: think it is? He goes, yeah, yeah, I do. It's healing, guys.
20:37
Speaker 1: The cops are starting to feel comfortable again. And when
20:40
Speaker 1: that happens, things are getting better. All right. The takeaway
20:43
Speaker 1: you do have a voice. Look at what's going on
20:45
Speaker 1: in retail America, where a consumer nation. When that starts
20:49
Speaker 1: to change, they're hearing your voice. Common sense is starting
20:52
Speaker 1: to reign free again, and that's the biggest takeaway, which
20:54
Speaker 1: is a great thing. All right, we're getting closer to
20:57
Speaker 1: the weekend. Thanks for hanging out with me as always,
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Speaker 1: making a wicked awesome Thursday. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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