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Wicked Radio 5-29: Your Voice Saving DOGE, Poison-Free Skittles, & Why Is Gen Z Lonely? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Do you crazy kids try to tell me your voice
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  Speaker 1: isn't heard because your voice everybody's and man, this was
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  Speaker 1: everywhere yesterday. May have not completely guaranteed, but may have
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  Speaker 1: saved all of those doge cuts. I know, usually usually
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  Speaker 1: in any other given circumstance, talking about budget cuts and
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  Speaker 1: spending bills is pretty frickin boring. But this is probably
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  Speaker 1: the clearest indication yet, at least in my lifetime paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to this stuff, that the people's voice actually was heard.
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  Speaker 1: Does it mean you're gonna get everything you want? Or
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  Speaker 1: what I want to know? But what we do know is, boy,
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  Speaker 1: it made an impact, a big one yesterday. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that, but it's not all all gonna be about
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  Speaker 1: swampy crap. Howbouts poison free Skittles actually another example where
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  Speaker 1: the people's voice was finally heard. But this is a
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  Speaker 1: major step, and the takeaway on this is still to
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  Speaker 1: this day, the FDA is saying what was in this
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  Speaker 1: stuff is a okay? Does it make you trust the FDA?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we shouldn't rely on the Food and Drug Administration
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  Speaker 1: too or the food companies to tell us that the
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  Speaker 1: stuff and the food is okay. Maybe maybe that's the
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  Speaker 1: lesson we should finally learn. And then this is my
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  Speaker 1: favorite story of the day. Gen Z is lonely. Gen Z.
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  Speaker 1: You know kids eighteen to twenty eight. I got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of those. They're lonely and they're not having a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sex. Apparently you could take that as good
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  Speaker 1: or bad. But the world is changing because they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be the money making adult soon. You know who's speaking
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  Speaker 1: out against this, who's had to change their business model, tender,
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  Speaker 1: you can imagine how they're affected by this. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that as well. But in the meantime, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: finding me. Thanks my god. Short work weeks are awesome.
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  Speaker 1: friend forever if you do that. All right, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to it now. A lot of people are freaking out
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  Speaker 1: about this. Here's the first piece of news. It's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be all budget talk. I promise you I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: do that to you. But here it was. This was
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  Speaker 1: fully expected. By the way, Okay, from Elon Musk. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you've heard of him. Yesterday afternoon, as my scheduled time
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  Speaker 1: as a special government employee comes to an end, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to thank President Trump for the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: reduce wasteful spending. And goes on about that and then
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  Speaker 1: that A lot of freak outs about this, And I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people took this to mean mainly
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  Speaker 1: because this is how I was reported, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the lying mainstream media told you this. Elon is disgusted
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  Speaker 1: with Trump. The rift is real. Oh and then he
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  Speaker 1: had all the Democrats say, thank goodness, he's finally gone.
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  Speaker 1: We did it, people, we fired him. No, no, it's
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  Speaker 1: not exactly the case, because if you remember, he's got
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  Speaker 1: a little refresher here. I had to do it too.
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  Speaker 1: He was never supposed to be there permanently as a
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  Speaker 1: special advisor. And by the way, with all the work
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  Speaker 1: he put in, let's see, sacrifice his personal reputation, put
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  Speaker 1: his personal life at risk, had to add security as
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  Speaker 1: companies suffered. He was sleeping on the floor apparently of
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  Speaker 1: the Treasury Office. We all heard about that story. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what else happened. Put personally millions of dollars into
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  Speaker 1: this and yet didn't make a dime. Why Why was
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  Speaker 1: he all of a sudden an enemy of the left
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  Speaker 1: because he dared to work with the president, had to
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  Speaker 1: cut spending and waste and discover all this stuff that
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  Speaker 1: you know, after all that sacrifice. Well, I was never
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be permanent because, as you know, he has
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  Speaker 1: a couple of companies to run, and he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: get humanity into Mars. The SpaceX rocket launched the other day.
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  Speaker 1: But he's walking away from that rule. So this, on
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  Speaker 1: top of all the news that apparently none of the
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  Speaker 1: DOGE cuts are in this budget bill and this, and
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  Speaker 1: that it worked everybody up yesterday, including me. Here's the takeaway.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I mean by our voices. Actually, your
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  Speaker 1: voices actually do matter, because this thing was everywhere yesterday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if all of these
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  Speaker 1: cuts that we all want is going to be in
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  Speaker 1: the one big beautiful bill, as Trump loves to call it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but they're aware of it. And now
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  Speaker 1: not only are these elected officials aware of it, people
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  Speaker 1: are aware of what can be done us normal folks,
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  Speaker 1: we the people, about what kind of impact you can
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  Speaker 1: actually have. Okay, So on top of this leads us
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  Speaker 1: into Stephen Miller, on top of the Elon announcement that
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  Speaker 1: as scheduled, he's going to be walking away from DOZE
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  Speaker 1: to do some other stuff. The work goes on. According
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  Speaker 1: to Stephen Miller, very important person officially Deputy chief of Staff,
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  Speaker 1: I think, but very influential and very smart, the patriotic
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  Speaker 1: guy in the Trump administration. So he responds to Elon
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  Speaker 1: by saying, the work of DOGE is done. To what
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  Speaker 1: they've done to a limited government waste. It is among
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  Speaker 1: the most valuable services ever rendered to government. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the important part. The work has only just begun. Dun, dun, dun.
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  Speaker 1: That led a lot of people to say, huh, maybe
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  Speaker 1: they are going to go back to the House with
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  Speaker 1: this bill and put the DOGE cuts will want in there. Well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe let's go to this and follow up with
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  Speaker 1: that Representative Marjorie Taylor Green MTG. Now, you may think
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  Speaker 1: she's a little kooky, and she is. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't agree with everything she does or says, but you
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  Speaker 1: got to give her credit on one thing. She's a fighter.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. She doesn't really care if
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  Speaker 1: she believes in something. She doesn't care what people think
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  Speaker 1: of her. She reports yesterday, I was just told that
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  Speaker 1: we are going to see the first Doge cuts bill
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. This had been going back to the House
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  Speaker 1: FOURGN eight NPR CPB on the chopping block. I've not
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  Speaker 1: seen the bill yet, but I'm just passing on what
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  Speaker 1: they told me. I want to pass every Doge cut
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  Speaker 1: Well really, so follow this up again with something else.
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  Speaker 1: Another report that was widely reported yesterday, Trump Whitehouse to
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  Speaker 1: send several Doge cuts requests to House gup next week. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why does this happen? This happens because there were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people in an uproar yesterday. I mean it
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  Speaker 1: was everywhere people talking about this and the number one
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  Speaker 1: trending topic on all social media, most importantly X where
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  Speaker 1: it got to the attention of the President and some
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  Speaker 1: very influential people and that guy Stephen Miller, advisor to
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  Speaker 1: the President I just mentioned there. I've never seen that
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  Speaker 1: guy out in public doing media appearances or writing like
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  Speaker 1: we just heard so much in my life. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he was on Hannity last night. Now, of course he
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  Speaker 1: was talking about the benefits of the big beautiful bill
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  Speaker 1: and what's actually in it. This is what he said
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  Speaker 1: to Hannity last night.
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  Speaker 2: Never, never, Sean, has a single piece of legislation had
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  Speaker 2: so many conservative pro American priorities all in one bill.
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  Speaker 2: You and I rattle so many of them off. This again,
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  Speaker 2: this is the biggest, the most significant substantial reform to
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  Speaker 2: America's welfare programs we've ever seen. This is the largest
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  Speaker 2: tax cut and reform in American history, including as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax
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  Speaker 2: on Social Security.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there's a lot of stuff in there, absolutely, and
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  Speaker 1: he was there. That was his job last night, is
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  Speaker 1: to promote exactly what's in it already that people seem
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  Speaker 1: to be forgetting about because we nobody wants Elon's work
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  Speaker 1: to go to waste. Nobody does, right, But at least
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  Speaker 1: they're hearing it. Now. Does this mean all of those
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  Speaker 1: those cutchers are saved. Does the is the will the
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  Speaker 1: work go on for all? For not no? But the
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  Speaker 1: takeaway this is what you got to remember. We're all
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  Speaker 1: aware of what can be done right if you actually
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  Speaker 1: work towards it. I know this is one golden opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: But we're also aware that they hear us. They one
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  Speaker 1: percent do because we're the voice. Now, we've got social media,
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  Speaker 1: we've got public pressure. You can actually do it. So
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  Speaker 1: remains to be seen. I don't know what the final
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  Speaker 1: tally is going to be on this thing or what
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  Speaker 1: it finally looks like, but got a much better chance
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  Speaker 1: than yesterday because of public pressure. That's the main takeaway.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ever think your voice isn't heard if it's organic
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  Speaker 1: enough and strong enough. So that was good. There's another
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  Speaker 1: example of that. Turns out you can taste the rainbow
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  Speaker 1: without poison in it. Big announcement from MAHA. This actually
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  Speaker 1: was another example of public pressure. Really it came from
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  Speaker 1: the So there's that whole healthy food community that really
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  Speaker 1: really has been pushing RFK Junior make America healthy again,
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  Speaker 1: that whole crowd to the forefront, and now actually has
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  Speaker 1: him in such a prominent position to get things done,
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  Speaker 1: like this announcement taking the poison and I mean poison
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  Speaker 1: out of Skittles. Now, I get it. If you are
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  Speaker 1: a healthy eating person anyway, you probably weren't eating skittles.
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  Speaker 1: And it still exists and in Europe it's been banned already,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a major, major step to get this done.
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  Speaker 1: It's called titanium dioxide sounds delicious, a whitening agent. It's
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  Speaker 1: been banned in Europe since twenty twenty two. Like you
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  Speaker 1: can't get it yet, we were like stuffing the s
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  Speaker 1: into kids left and right, potentially causes DNA damage. They've
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  Speaker 1: proven well now it's gone over. Forty three hundred food
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  Speaker 1: products in the US still have it. But this is
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  Speaker 1: a big first step. I mean, skittles are everywhere, right,
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  Speaker 1: This is what I mean about the FDA to this day,
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  Speaker 1: still it is. They say it's fine. Europe says it's genotoxic.
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  Speaker 1: The AHHS RFKA Junior has flagged it as a health risk.
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  Speaker 1: And now this was the big win. Mars Wrigley quietly
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  Speaker 1: removed it. Not so quietly really because it's a big
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  Speaker 1: news story. But also that's a massive effort and good
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  Speaker 1: for them to finally bend to public pressure to get
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  Speaker 1: this done. So among the food people there's a whole
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  Speaker 1: and then, God love them, there's this whole cult sure
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  Speaker 1: of healthy food people that have been pushing for this
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  Speaker 1: for for years. Here's one of those people. Her name
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  Speaker 1: is I hope we're pronouncing her name correctly, Van hari
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  Speaker 1: v An. Her last name is h A. R. I.
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  Speaker 1: She's kind of marketed as she got a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: books out bestsellers, and she's a public speaker, the food babe.
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  Speaker 1: She's been pushing for this. Once you heard about this,
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  Speaker 1: she was on a plane and actually talked to her
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  Speaker 1: massive amount of followers about it. And she's happy about
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  Speaker 1: it and one small example of what can be done.
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  Speaker 3: But I just heard some amazing breaking news. Titanium dioxide
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  Speaker 3: is getting removed from skittles. This is one less toxic
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  Speaker 3: and the taste of grain boats. It is incredible to
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  Speaker 3: see us spiding against these chemicals that don't belong in
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  Speaker 3: our food.
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  Speaker 1: This has been banned in your you's been you know.
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  Speaker 1: She went on to tell the story exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: just said. Yes, and she's all happy about it, and
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  Speaker 1: the food people are all happy about it. And this
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  Speaker 1: is when this is not something that meat that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need let you didn't have to enact a bill to
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  Speaker 1: ban it. You didn't have to you know, get anything past.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have to politic You just put enough public
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  Speaker 1: pressure on to get this thing out of there. And
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  Speaker 1: good for Mars Wrigley, the massive company to get it
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  Speaker 1: out of there. Should they have done it years ago?
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  Speaker 1: Should they have never pushed this on this or any
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  Speaker 1: of their other products? And does it still exist? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a start chipping away at the stone little
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  Speaker 1: by little by little. And I'm as guilty as anybody
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  Speaker 1: else about eating this crap. You have the amount of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff that's probably still in my cells from you know,
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  Speaker 1: being a kid eating this garbage on. It's probably a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us. So I'm like everybody else. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: it's really done. Besides the public pressure getting it done,
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  Speaker 1: much like Doge, it's gotten us all to think about
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  Speaker 1: what we put in our bodies. Now. Again, it's true,
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  Speaker 1: it's like if you were a healthy eating person anyway,
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  Speaker 1: does this affect you? Have you been eating skittles? No,
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  Speaker 1: of course not. But a lot of people are that
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  Speaker 1: don't think about this at all. Kids, right, you think
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  Speaker 1: how many good God, I've handed them out too, Halloween
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  Speaker 1: little packs of family friendly packs of Skittles. I've done
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  Speaker 1: it too. So what we're really doing is ingesting and
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  Speaker 1: handing out and accepting and just looking the other way
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  Speaker 1: about poisoning all this stuff. In a small, small way,
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  Speaker 1: but an impactful way. This makes us all think about
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  Speaker 1: what we're putting into our bodies. This is another massive
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  Speaker 1: change that's happened it probably, I mean, honestly, here's the
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  Speaker 1: sobering part of it. In our lifetime. Are we gotta
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  Speaker 1: get all of this stuff, all of the toxins out
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  Speaker 1: of the food. No, at least be realistic about it.
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  Speaker 1: This is another dark thought, like, is this stuff in
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  Speaker 1: like somebody like me, somebody a middle age who's consumed
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  Speaker 1: this kind of crap in their earlier years. This is
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  Speaker 1: still in my cells. Yes, probably ly to some cancer
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  Speaker 1: causing agent. It's just what it is. But the fact
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  Speaker 1: of the matter is you can make the public aware
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  Speaker 1: of this kind of stuff and we can all become
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  Speaker 1: aware of what we're putting into our bodies. Now, you, me,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody else that would actually think about this stuff
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  Speaker 1: and try to make an empowering change. That's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different than what else is out there. Eighty ninety
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  Speaker 1: percent of the public doesn't think about anything. They eat nothing,
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  Speaker 1: just consuming. And this kind of ties back into taking
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  Speaker 1: the crap out of food snamps and public welfare assistance
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  Speaker 1: with the kind of food you can buy and taking
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  Speaker 1: the crap out of that. Whether they like it or not,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be helped by this. And I know
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying, and I get it out. I know
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  Speaker 1: what big Daddy government and you know, stepping in and
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  Speaker 1: deciding what I can eat and what I can't eat.
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  Speaker 1: But what if you didn't know? This is where I
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  Speaker 1: draw the line. I'm okay. I'm okay with public pressure
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  Speaker 1: and government stepping in when people weren't aware of this.
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  Speaker 1: Had I ever heard before Bobby Kennedy JUNR. Was involved
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  Speaker 1: in this whole process of titanium dioxide. Nope, had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I had heard generally about the news story because I
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  Speaker 1: remember talking about it during radio days that Europe had
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  Speaker 1: banned skittles and it was kind of funny we were
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  Speaker 1: making fun of it. Did I think twice about what,
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  Speaker 1: why why that was actually happening?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: I did not, But I will tell you something else.
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  Speaker 1: I'm aware of all this stuff. Now maybe you're the
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  Speaker 1: same and maybe not, But in my al of a
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  Speaker 1: lot more aware of ingredients, anything that's going in and
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  Speaker 1: I not there yet, But I'm trying to be cleaner,
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  Speaker 1: trying to eat cleaner because we're killing ourselves with food.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the takeaway. You absolutely, spite the uphill battle
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  Speaker 1: with the food industry, you absolutely can eat healthier. It
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  Speaker 1: can be done. Here's living proof of that with this
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  Speaker 1: stuff going away. Now. Now this is a company stepping
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  Speaker 1: in and taking it away for you because of public pressure.
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  Speaker 1: But should it get to that. No, No, one shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: get to that. We should all do our best to
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  Speaker 1: eliminate this stuff. Now we have to live in the
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  Speaker 1: real world and we're surrounded by this crap anyway, toxins,
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  Speaker 1: But just try to eliminate it and cut it out
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  Speaker 1: the best it can. It's not impossible. Seems like we
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  Speaker 1: could be doing it, so good good for you. That's
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  Speaker 1: a one small step, all small step for skittles, one
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  Speaker 1: giant step for health free kids. God, I can imagine
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  Speaker 1: how much titanium dioxide is still in my system that
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  Speaker 1: I'll never get out from eating junk food. But at
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  Speaker 1: least we're aware of it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first step to cutting this crap out. All right,
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  Speaker 1: this is the real story I wanted to get today
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  Speaker 1: because I'm fascinated by it. This is the sociologist in me.
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  Speaker 1: This goes back to my sociology classes at USF. I
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  Speaker 1: love this kind of stuff. I love looking at socided,
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  Speaker 1: how generations change, how different things are happening, and how
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  Speaker 1: companies respond to these kinds of things. Now, this is
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  Speaker 1: a new article about from Tinder. That's right, the dating app. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not on it. I don't know much about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just putting that out there. Happily married. But the
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: CEO of Tinder has had to go in a public
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  Speaker 1: information campaign because they're gonna have to change their business model.
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  Speaker 1: This is I think this is amazing. Now, why is this,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: he says the CEO of Tinder in a bunch of interviews.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing. We're changing the way that we do things
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  Speaker 1: because gen Z doesn't have much sex. How about that
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  Speaker 1: for a change. Like we all grow up thinking that
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  Speaker 1: the next generation of kids after us were just lunatics. Right,
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  Speaker 1: not so much. Let's look at the factors among this.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, what's gen Z kids eighteen to twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of those. Maybe you do too. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he says, the hookup reputation is way different in how
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  Speaker 1: they approach things. But he also gets into another aspect
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  Speaker 1: of this, and maybe the pandemic was a factor of it.
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  Speaker 1: Mostly the biggest factor, though, is this right here. The
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  Speaker 1: phones We all know. I mean, I'm on my phone
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  Speaker 1: a lot too, but not as bad as my kids
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  Speaker 1: or probably your kids or kids you see everyday life.
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  Speaker 1: That's affecting everything and how they do it. But they
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  Speaker 1: have different attitudes as well. So here's the CEO. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to what he says about this. A little long, but
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  Speaker 1: it's important. The CEO, Spencer Raskoff of Tinder Boy, you
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  Speaker 1: think they were in a panic when they discovered this.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna have to change their business.
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  Speaker 4: This is a generation that experiences a loneliness epidemic. They've
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  Speaker 4: been online for the last couple of years. Even when
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  Speaker 4: they're not online, they're still online because they're looking at
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  Speaker 4: their phones constantly. Sure, and so this is a generation
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  Speaker 4: that needs IRL in real life connections, and companies like
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  Speaker 4: Tinder can help provide that if we provide them with
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  Speaker 4: the types of products that they're looking for. Looking at
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  Speaker 4: a photo and judging it that is cringey for a
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  Speaker 4: lot of gen Z people like it just it makes
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  Speaker 4: them feel bad about themselves to look at a photo
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  Speaker 4: and say thumbs up, thumbs down.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot to unpack here. It's very interesting. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly how that changes their business model because
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  Speaker 1: outside of gen Z, I'm sure there's a massive amount
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: of people on Tinder that are older than that that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: are you know, and the population is aging as we go,
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  Speaker 1: So they still have to satisfy those people's interests. But
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know how exactly they're going to do it
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  Speaker 1: with the gen Z people, because they still want to
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  Speaker 1: stay in business and people still want to hook up.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Apparently they just do it in a different way. What
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  Speaker 1: he got to there though, that was fascinating to me.
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  Speaker 1: What he said about the most important part is that
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  Speaker 1: gen Z, these eighteen to twenty eight people are very lonely.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, think about it. Doesn't that make sense
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  Speaker 1: that they are. It just seems like they would be
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  Speaker 1: in a disconnected kind of, you know, kind of way.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't help but think this somebody, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe just people in that generation are going to be
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  Speaker 1: absolute rock stars if they know how to break through that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, be in that generation, but they know how
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  Speaker 1: to connect with other people in their generation. Like he said,
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  Speaker 1: they're IRL in real life and to break down that barrier.
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  Speaker 1: I think the kids who understand those social skills and
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  Speaker 1: those communication skills for their generation, they're going to be unstoppable.
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  Speaker 1: They really are. I mean it, and I know I've
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  Speaker 1: said this in the past. I think throughout all of
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that it's never been more important to have these communityation skills. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the most important skill of all time.
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  Speaker 1: So if if people are more isolated now and the
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  Speaker 1: end product, the end result of that, as you said
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  Speaker 1: there as they're having less hookups. But the people that
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  Speaker 1: can actually connect in that age group with their other people,
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  Speaker 1: not just online, just like I r L in real life,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, they're gonna be unstoppable. They're gonna they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna run the world. So if if you're like me
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  Speaker 1: and you have kids in that generation, encourage those interpersonal
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  Speaker 1: skills as much as you possibly can. And if you're
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: hearing me and you're in that generation, work on them.
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  Speaker 1: Figure it out. We're old, but figure out what works
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: with your generation, what connects with them, because you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: that's the most important thing you can ever ever discover.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Those are the those are the absolute superstars of the future.
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  Speaker 1: It's all gonna be about communication and the present. So wow.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: But public pressure works, that's the first takeaway. May not
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: result in all the doge cuts, but public pressure worked.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: With this skills story, we know that it actually works.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what goes on from here. I don't know.
• 20:05
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• 20:26
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• 20:30
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• 20:31
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