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Wicked Radio 1-6: Time To 'Bud Light' Hilton?, Walz Quits, & Mamdani World Cup Price Fixing · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: We used to call it the power of the patent.
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  Speaker 2: Right, You'd be upset in a company or somebody in power,
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  Speaker 2: and you'd write an angrily worded letter. You'd type it
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  Speaker 2: out or you'd write it yourself. Well, now it's the
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  Speaker 2: power of the email, the cancelation policy, the social media post,
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  Speaker 2: the media tag, whatever it is. But it may be
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  Speaker 2: it just may be time. I'll say this often. You
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  Speaker 2: don't either two am using finger quotes here if you're
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  Speaker 2: just listening. Bud light the Hilton brand because of what
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  Speaker 2: they did yesterday. You probably heard the first part where
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  Speaker 2: they refuse service. No room at the end they refused
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  Speaker 2: service to DHS employees. But then it got worse somehow
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  Speaker 2: for them. And if they don't fix it, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's time to bud light them.
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  Speaker 1: How cool is it that bud light is.
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  Speaker 2: Now a term for canceling people. Anyway, we've got that
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  Speaker 2: to talk about. Tubby Tubby tampon. Tim Walls dropped out
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  Speaker 2: of the race as expected. There's a reason why it's
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  Speaker 2: looking though it's look it looks like the fraud in
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota is way worse than we even heard about. And
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  Speaker 2: then to wrap it up, Mom Donnie in New York
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  Speaker 2: now wants to put his greedy little socialist fingers into
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  Speaker 2: World Cup ticket prices. Oh yeah, because he thinks he
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  Speaker 2: has that kind of influence. Anyway, we'll get to all
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  Speaker 2: of it first of all, Before all that stuff, find
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the uh, here's the post that started the whole
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  Speaker 2: hullabaloo with DHS and Hilton Hotels. I kind of like
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  Speaker 2: that government officials now right creatively on Exit's like they
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  Speaker 2: learned how to do it, because this was the post
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  Speaker 2: and this is all in capitals.
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  Speaker 1: This is how they this.
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  Speaker 2: Is this is the Department of Homeland Security official X account.
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  Speaker 1: No room. At the end, they actually had like a
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  Speaker 1: like a like a hook, like a like a creative headline.
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  Speaker 2: And then they go on to say, and it's long,
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  Speaker 2: but it's important at Hilton Hotels is lung to coordinated
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  Speaker 2: campaign in Minneapolis to refuse service to DHS law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: Not good when officers attempted to book rooms using official
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  Speaker 2: government emails and rates. Hilton Hotels immediately canceled their reservations.
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  Speaker 2: You might have seen this like I did, and you said, what,
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  Speaker 2: hold on a second. I sure hope the DHS when
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  Speaker 2: they posted this has some proof and some screenshots.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen the posts too. Then they go
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  Speaker 2: on to say, of course unacceptable. Why is Hilton Hotels
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  Speaker 2: siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermined and impede
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  Speaker 2: DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce the nation's
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  Speaker 2: immigration laws. And sure enough, there are the screenshots that
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  Speaker 2: they posted right there in the same post on AX
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  Speaker 2: yesterday of proof of what they're talking about. Well, then
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  Speaker 2: this raged on for a little bit, and people were
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  Speaker 2: like upset about this. Then you had other journalists looking
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  Speaker 2: at it, and it raged on, and the entire country
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  Speaker 2: was saying, hold on a second. I'm a Hilton Honors member,
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  Speaker 2: I am actually a lot of people ready to press
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  Speaker 2: cancel unless something was going to be done about it.
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  Speaker 2: Then a couple of hours later, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: timeline's important here, I was actually impressed by this. So
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  Speaker 2: the response from Hilton came out and said this, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought, honestly, I thought, not a bad response pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: I think they jumped right on it, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to get canceled. I was pretty impressed with
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  Speaker 2: the response from Hilton. There's more to the story, but
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  Speaker 2: this is the response. The franchise involved is ever Peak Hospitality,
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  Speaker 2: which operates from the Hampton in Lakeville, Minneapolis, the property
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  Speaker 2: at the center. Every Peak has issued a public statement
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  Speaker 2: on January acknowledging issue. Every Peak Hospitality has moved swiftly
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  Speaker 2: to address this matter as it was inconsistent with our
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  Speaker 2: policy of being a welcoming place for all. We were
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  Speaker 2: in touch with the impacted guests. Blah blah blah, we
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  Speaker 2: don't discriminate, blah blah blah, and apologize for those impacted. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty good. I thought that was
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good apology from this particular franchise.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that in a second.
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  Speaker 2: That's associated with the Hilton brand, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: how it works. So Hilton, they have so many brands
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  Speaker 2: in their umbrella, they operate on their franchise model. In
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  Speaker 2: other words, this particular franchise, ze ever Peak, owns a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of hotels that have the Hilton name on the
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  Speaker 2: side of it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's how it works right now.
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  Speaker 2: I always I'm always raging against this because I've just
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  Speaker 2: been aware of it for so long. When you're like
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  Speaker 2: in the media or you see how if you've ever
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  Speaker 2: worked with either ad agencies or publicists, you know exactly
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  Speaker 2: where I'm going with this.
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  Speaker 1: And you've heard me.
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  Speaker 2: If you've been with me for a long time, you're
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  Speaker 2: one of my ogs, you've heard me say it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the non apology apology, and there's two ways
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  Speaker 2: it goes. Usually public figures work the non apology apology
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  Speaker 2: by using this line, we're sorry you were offended. You
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  Speaker 2: know that one like they put the onus on you
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  Speaker 2: and the blame on you. Or the other option for
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  Speaker 2: the non apology apology is what they did here. They
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  Speaker 2: say we're very sorry, unacceptable, taking immediate action, and then
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  Speaker 2: nothing actually gets done. Those are the two angles of
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  Speaker 2: the non apology apology, the two directions as they take it.
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  Speaker 2: Looks as though this ever peak franchisee associated with Hilton,
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  Speaker 2: and Hilton by the way, took the do no action policy,
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  Speaker 2: and I get it. I'm actually, in my real life,
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  Speaker 2: I am a franchise myself, of a different kind of brand.
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  Speaker 2: I understand the damage that can happen when a franchise
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  Speaker 2: e goes rogue like tears the company of partic and
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  Speaker 2: very damaging to the brand.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be able to do something right.
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  Speaker 2: But after that apology and that lasted overnight, most people
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  Speaker 2: were like, like my reaction were in maybe yours who
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  Speaker 2: were like, okay, well all right, you know, they apologized,
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  Speaker 2: they take an action on it. These are different days,
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  Speaker 2: my friends, thanks to the greatness of independent journalists and
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  Speaker 2: in this case, Nick Sorder. I don't know if if
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  Speaker 2: you've ever followed him. Nick Sureley is the guy that
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  Speaker 2: discovered all the Minnesota fraud. Nick Sortera is another guy
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  Speaker 2: that happens to be in Minnesota because so much fraud
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  Speaker 2: has been there.
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  Speaker 1: Huh and that interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So Nick Sorder, God love him, decided to go to
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  Speaker 2: the actual ever peak Hilton brand hotel in Minneapolis and
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  Speaker 2: find out what the big deal was. And he did
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  Speaker 2: have a hidden camera and he talked up now again,
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  Speaker 2: let's get this out of the way. He asked some
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  Speaker 2: questions of the front desk. Kid, you're about to hear
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  Speaker 2: and see right here, it's not the front desk kid's
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  Speaker 2: fault like at all, He's just following company policy. Was
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  Speaker 2: Let's not get mad at him. But what Nick Sorder
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  Speaker 2: Independent Journalists found was absolutely incredible. Keep this in mind.
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  Speaker 2: This was about ten pm, Minnesota time last night. Right,
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  Speaker 2: this was supposedly after the story broke out went huge,
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  Speaker 2: number one viral story in the country yesterday and today now,
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  Speaker 2: and the apology quote unquote was already issued as of
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  Speaker 2: last night.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Audio is a little low because it was like a
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  Speaker 2: hidden camera kind of deal. But this is when Nick
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  Speaker 2: Sorder went into that particular Hilton location last night to
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  Speaker 2: find out what the deal was, and he posed as
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  Speaker 2: a DHS employee to try to book a room. What
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  Speaker 2: you'll hear here and we'll go over it again after
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  Speaker 2: is him asking the kid for that, the poor kid.
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  Speaker 1: He says, now it's a company policy. Is a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on, And what.
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  Speaker 2: He says important was I just talked to the franchise
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  Speaker 2: owners who said we don't have to make any changes.
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  Speaker 1: There's the reason why my eyebrows are raising it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go right to it. Skip right to the part
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  Speaker 2: where Nick sorder asked him that question. Again, let's not
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  Speaker 2: get mad at the front desk kid.
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  Speaker 1: He's just following orders. But that's the key to the story.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the orders from this franchise ee for Hilton,
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  Speaker 2: not changing a damn thing even after the policy was issued.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Is it what agency is up for? Could be a
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  Speaker 3: department homework security?
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  Speaker 2: So we're not accepting people from Immigration I agents, DHS
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  Speaker 2: into our property.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the part management ownership. Oh okay, I thought
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  Speaker 3: that changed today. I just talked to him, to my
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  Speaker 3: the owner of the building, and he didn't say there
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been any changes. So cool.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, that's just policy, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, that's not your fault, total.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not his fault.
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  Speaker 2: But he said it right there. That's amazing. That is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely amazing. And none of us would have known about this.
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  Speaker 2: None of us would have known that this was a
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  Speaker 2: non apology apology. I do nothing apology unless Nick's order
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  Speaker 2: and Nick's order alone. Independent journalists, God love him, went
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  Speaker 2: in there and he actually did that. And again, let's
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  Speaker 2: let's be clear, it's not that front desk kid's fault.
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  Speaker 2: He says right there, he says right to Nick, I
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  Speaker 2: just talked to the owners and the owner of the
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  Speaker 2: building and they say, we don't have have to change
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  Speaker 2: policy at all. I don't know what else you need
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  Speaker 2: all right now, again, I understand how independent franchisees can
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  Speaker 2: go rogue.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that world. I get it. It can be very damaging.
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  Speaker 2: But what we have here is a real problem now
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  Speaker 2: that is directly in the hands of Hilton. Now, there
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  Speaker 2: is a report out this morning that may be confirmed
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  Speaker 2: to be true or false by the time you watch
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  Speaker 2: this later on or listen to the podcast, we may
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  Speaker 2: get a definitive word on that.
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  Speaker 1: But as of.
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  Speaker 2: Right now and in real time this is just past
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  Speaker 2: eight am Eastern time, as we're doing a livestream, there
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  Speaker 2: is a report, unconfirmed out this morning that Hilton, the
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  Speaker 2: big brand, has completely cut ties with this franchisee that
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  Speaker 2: happens to run this particular location. That's the rumor this
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  Speaker 2: ever Peak Hospitality. Okay, if that's true, and you can
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  Speaker 2: do that as a franchise or you can completely cut
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  Speaker 2: the license, you can drop them, you can in other words,
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  Speaker 2: there would be a lock on this building because we're
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  Speaker 2: not associated with you anymore. I mean a franchise or
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  Speaker 2: can do that if you break the franchise rules. There
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  Speaker 2: is a rumor that they have, great that would be action,
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  Speaker 2: that would be the right thing to do for Hilton.
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  Speaker 2: If they have not, and if this still goes on,
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  Speaker 2: it's time. I just I can't tell you what to do,
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  Speaker 2: but I can tell you what I'll do. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: Hilton Honors member, and we're time to cut. Time to
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  Speaker 2: cut if this is allowed to happen, if they are
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  Speaker 2: allowed any one of their hotels into their umbrella, are
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  Speaker 2: allowed to refuse service to employees of the government that
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  Speaker 2: are doing their job. Whether or not you agree to it,
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  Speaker 2: you can't have that. You you can't have that. And
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are against prote You're against,
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  Speaker 2: you know, canceling anybody, even if it's a brand, And
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to boycott anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that.
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  Speaker 2: But how else as a consumer who's upset about this,
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  Speaker 2: do you push back? You have to bud Light was
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  Speaker 2: one thing, and I know that's the term now. I
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  Speaker 2: even used it at the beginning of the live stream,
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  Speaker 2: bud lighting, you know, as a verb, bud lighting Hilton.
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  Speaker 1: I get that.
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  Speaker 2: That was one thing where people just were having fun
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  Speaker 2: with it, and they were upset at you know, the
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  Speaker 2: woke garbage and one of their favorite brands. This This
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: is something that's a different level. This is Department of
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  Speaker 2: Homeland Security for political reasons, employees for DHS and apparently
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  Speaker 2: ICE too being refused service. Like the original post said,
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  Speaker 2: no room at the end.
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  Speaker 1: If they don't take action.
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  Speaker 2: And this may be again by the time you hear
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  Speaker 2: this or watch this and real uh later not in
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  Speaker 2: real time, this may be.
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  Speaker 1: Confirmed true or not. If they don't.
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  Speaker 2: If Hilton does not cut ties with this particular franchise
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  Speaker 2: and close that place up and take their name off
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  Speaker 2: the side of the building, it's time to push back
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  Speaker 2: on that. You just you can't allow that. That's absolutely ridiculous, insane.
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  Speaker 2: So we shall see my friends other takeaway. My god,
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  Speaker 2: holy crap, Elon was right. I let's admit it. We
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  Speaker 2: are the media now, independent journal I'm not a journalist,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a commentator, but still independent journalists are the media now.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even know about this non apology about nothing
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  Speaker 2: getting done unless Nick's order goes in there with a camera.
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  Speaker 2: Happened to be in Minneapolis covering the fraud story and
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  Speaker 2: he goes into that hotel and finds out what the
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  Speaker 2: real deal was from that kid. It would have died
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  Speaker 2: yesterday with an apology that meant nothing unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: It's just these are different times.
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  Speaker 2: New media rocks telling you, all right, speaking of Minnesota, well, well, well, well,
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  Speaker 2: Tubby Tubby Tampon Tim. As expected, we were saying this yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: There was a rumor yesterday that he was going to
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  Speaker 2: not run for reelection as governor of Minnesota. Now, usually
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  Speaker 2: when something like that happens, it's not just the amount
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  Speaker 2: of fraud that he's overseen and is incompetence in his corruption.
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  Speaker 2: Usually there is something even worse coming down the pike.
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  Speaker 1: What do we know about politicians.
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  Speaker 2: It takes a lot for them to step out of
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  Speaker 2: a race, drop out of anything. He'll finish his term,
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: but he's not going to run for governor again. Well,
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  Speaker 2: as it turns out, there's a lot more coming. According
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  Speaker 2: to Caroline Levitt yesterday, she says they are like quadrupling
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  Speaker 2: down in their investigation of the fraud of Minnesota. This
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  Speaker 2: is what she said yesterday. And then we'll go to
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  Speaker 2: Tubby Tubby Tampon Tim's resignation. Now, resignation is announcement.
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  Speaker 5: He's quitting areay government effort. We are surging resources. You
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  Speaker 5: saw today the Department of Homeland Security announced we have
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  Speaker 5: nearly two thousand agents from the Homeland Security Investigations Team.
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  Speaker 5: The FBI is on the ground, and we're freezing money.
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  Speaker 5: HHS cut off funding for childcare centers and for daycares.
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  Speaker 5: USDA Secretary Rawlins has been asking Governor Walls to see
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  Speaker 5: the recipients of SNAP in his state. So this is
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  Speaker 5: all hands on dak rest as short.
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  Speaker 2: My sense of that is that means and who would
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  Speaker 2: know better Tim Walls does, of course, that they're about
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  Speaker 2: to discover the level of fraud that is way worse
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  Speaker 2: than we even imagined in our darkest dreams. That's the
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  Speaker 2: only thing that would have caused somebody like this to
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  Speaker 2: not run for governor again. But here he was yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Now watch him not taking blame, not taking responsibility at all.
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  Speaker 2: What got me on this though, is how we scurried
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  Speaker 2: out of the room and wouldn't take any questions here.
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  Speaker 2: He is tough guy, tubby, tubby, tampon.
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  Speaker 1: Tim.
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  Speaker 6: I'm proud of the way we treat our neighbors. I'm
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  Speaker 6: proud of the way that we welcome people to this state.
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  Speaker 6: I'm proud of the way that we innovate, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: proud of the way that we are optimists for the future.
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  Speaker 6: No one's taking this away from us, not the fraudsters,
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  Speaker 6: certainly not this president. Not on my watch. Tomorrow, I'll
• 13:53
  Speaker 6: be back with you. I'll give you an update on
• 13:55
  Speaker 6: America's best paid family medical leap program that is now
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: a week into it. And at that time I'll take
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: all your questions.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you all, But not right now, because I have
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: to go in the corner and cry, not this.
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  Speaker 1: Pressent, not on my watch.
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  Speaker 2: The reason why, and I try not to, you know,
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: do the name calling thing, but I did with him
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: because do you remember happen to remember that one clip
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: during the campaign where he was talking about Trump supporters.
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  Speaker 2: This was the era when he was calling all everybody
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: who didn't agree with him weird. I mean, you would
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: talk about projection, that guy and his wife calling other
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: people weird. Yeah, okay, but memory.
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  Speaker 1: Said Trump supporters. I thought I could, I could kick
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: most of their asses.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I feel no shame and I feel no
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  Speaker 2: guilt and no hesitation of calling that guy every name
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  Speaker 2: in the book. He's just an absolute clown show that guy.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going away.
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  Speaker 2: But again, like Carolin Levitt said, they're quadrupling their efforts
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  Speaker 2: and doubling down on what the investigation we'll find in
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: that state. And I think what we're gonna find is
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: going to be so shocking.
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  Speaker 1: That's it's going to take us a little to process
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: all of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only thing I can imagine that would make
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  Speaker 2: a guy like that a career politician not run for
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  Speaker 2: reelection again. I mean, even the Democrats are looking at them.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Going, yeah, gee, Tim, this is looking really bad. He
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  Speaker 1: can't run.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Nobody circles the wagons like Democrats. They protect their for
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  Speaker 2: him to be ousted. Wow, man, that's something, all right.
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  Speaker 2: This was a lighthearted story of the day. It doesn't
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: sound like it's lighthearted. It never seems lighthearted when you
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: are talking about mom Donnie the new communist and I
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: do mean communists. Don't let him fool you, communist mayor
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  Speaker 2: of New York City. But I laughed out loud when
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I heard this, because now he dedicated a portion of
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  Speaker 2: his outside press conference. Oh and by the way, Letitia
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: James right right to his right, isn't Isn't that perfect?
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Dedicated this part of it too, talking about World Cup
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: ticket prices. So now you've got the communist mayor of
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: New York ready to price fix or thinking he can
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: world Cup tickets. Don't forget the World Cup in twenty
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: six this summer is coming to cities across the US
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: US Miami, New York City, it's actually Meadowlands, Jersey, New
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: York City, Metro, Miami will get it, La Chicago. I
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: think I think Boston's getting one too.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Trump's all excited about the World Cup, which is part
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: of this story. But this is mom Donnie yesterday talking
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: about price fixing like he is with rents, price control
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: for World Cup tickets, you know, one of the highest
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: ticket prices in the world because of demand. But he
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: doesn't think that's right because you know, well he's a communist.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: But this is what he said. Anyway, laugh out loud.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Seeing you know. I had a New York in the
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: other day come up to me and asked me if
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: there was any way I could help him get World
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Cup tickets because he was saying that the cost that
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: he saw for a game was six hundred dollars. Right,
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: this is increasingly out of reach. We have made what
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: used to be a working class game into a luxury experience.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: We've made what used to be a working class game
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: into a luxury By the way, side note is another
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: thing that drives me crazy about him. I'm sorry that
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: audio was kind of low. Every press conference this guy's done,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: they can't figure out the audio. They've screwed that up
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: already in New York. They can't even figure out press conferences.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: It's already that bad.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: But anyway, so there he.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Is complaining about the World Cup prices, like I have
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: the kind of power to fix that, this working class game. Okay,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: this is the funny part. I don't think it's gonna happen.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: First of all, he has no influence over that whatsoever,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: and he's not going to. You know, he can't understand
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: that the reason why the ticket prices are so high
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: is because worldwide, maybe not in the States yet, because
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: we're not that attuned to soccer yet. Worldwide, the most
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: coveted ticket in the world is a World Cup ticket price.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: That's why they're averaging six hundred dollars and only going up.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: He doesn't understand that because this is a communist that
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: doesn't understand free market, but once to put his greedy
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: little tentacles in that and screw that up as well.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: How corrupt would that be?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: You know, if it's all of a sudden you have
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: a World Cup game in the Middle Leans and there
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: he is getting his free tickets and all his buddies too,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: but thinks he can actually, you know, get involved with that.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: He thinks he has that kind of influence. Here's the
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: funny part to me, and I don't think it's going
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: to even get that far, but play along for a second.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: How great would it be if Trump got a hold
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: of this disinformation and commented on it and threatened to
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: take the World Cup out of the meadowlands met life
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: because we know one thing. Do you remember the announcement?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: My god, he dedicated a day to it. Trump was
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: so proud, and he should be. It's a big deal.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: He was so proud.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: He had the FIFA officials, there were past World Cup
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: champions there in the White House when he announced that
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the US was going to get World Cup and World
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Cup games in the tournament.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: He was so proud. And I don't know what it
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: is about Trump we joke all the time. I've said
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: it many times.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Whatever the Trump Presidential Library is going to be wherever
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: it is, and whenever it comes to be, I swear
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: to God, in the inside it's going to look like
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: a sports bar.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: You know. You know you walk into a sports bar.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: There's all kinds of memorabilia, football helmets and hockey sticks
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: and soccer ball.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: He just I think he loves that more.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: There's only two things he loves more than the country itself,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: sports memorabilia and probably the Trump brand. But the country
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: still comes first.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: But he loves it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: So I would love to see him actually respond back
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: to Mom Donnie and just say it wouldn't happen.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: But if he just said, well, you know what, maybe
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: New York shouldn't get a World Cup game.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll move it to Columbus, I don't know.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I'd love to see it.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'd love to see it, But it won't. This
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: will all calm down Trump's probably. I think Trump's strategy
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: with Mom Donnie is just to ignore him.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I really think that's the case. He knows he's a
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: clown anyway. That's it. Biggest story of the day.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: The feature story this Hilton story is one to keep
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: an eye on, and again, by the time you're listening
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: to this or watching this later on replay, maybe it's
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: been settled already and the rumor turns out to be
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: true that Hilton the Umbrella brand.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Has cut ties with this ever peak.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Franchise hotel chain and they've completely cut ties and took
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: their franchise license away, or what they did in Minneapolis
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: at this hotel.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe that turns out to be true. I don't know.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I hope it does. I hope so if not, I,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, completely justified to boycott Hilton, completely justified.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Power of the pen is now the power of the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: email and the cancelation policy and the social media post.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: That's how we do it these days.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: But don't doubt for a second that that's not effective.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: You saw what happened with bud Light. It can happen
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: here too.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I'm the last person in the world who wants to
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: cancel or boycott any private business, but you do something
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: like this like Hilton did, we'll say balls in their court.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: But the other important takeaway is we would not have
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: heard about this fake apology from the Hilton franchise e
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: unless independent journalist Nick Sorder actually went in there and
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: he found out what the real deal was. All credit
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: to him. That's fantastic. So we'll see what happens with it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: All right, it's only Tuesday. Make it a wicked awesome Tuesday.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Be safe, be good, get ready to get ready to
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: pay attention to the Hilton story. Yes or no, we'll
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: find out by tomorrow. We'll be talking about it. Until then,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I have a wicked awesome one. I'll talk to you
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: later