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Wicked Radio 5-28: Big Beautiful Bill of B.S. So Far & Southwest Joins The Baggage Fee Brigade · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you put your own personal wealth
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Speaker 1: into a project, your reputation, your personal sift safety in
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Speaker 1: many cases, and many of your businesses were set on
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Speaker 1: fire for a certain cause, and then at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, when push came to shove, your cause
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Speaker 1: got completely ignored and all that went to waste. How
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Speaker 1: pissed off would you be? Oh, you'd be very pissed off.
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Speaker 1: And have you noticed that Elon and the Doge team
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Speaker 1: have gone really really quiet as President Trump's talking about
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Speaker 1: the one big beautiful bill. Have you noticed that, well,
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Speaker 1: without those cuts being codified and with just more spending,
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Speaker 1: and if it passes through the Senate the way it
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Speaker 1: is right now, let me tell you something. It's one
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Speaker 1: big beautiful bill of bullshit that means nothing. That just
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Speaker 1: adds to the deficit. If not. But but guy was
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Speaker 1: trying to tell you there's always something we can do.
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Speaker 1: Just Joe, just comment on the news, don't just react
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Speaker 1: to it. There's always something we can do. And we're
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Speaker 1: not done yet with this thing, not quite done. It's
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Speaker 1: not waste yet. But we're on like the two yard
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Speaker 1: line here, and I know there's a lot of pushback here,
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Speaker 1: and there's senators who are Republicans in the Senator who
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Speaker 1: are pushing back against this thing because they want more cuts.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear from a couple of those here in just
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Speaker 1: a second. But man, I tell you this thing is
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Speaker 1: this thing is a bunch of craps so far, I
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Speaker 1: will tell you that much, because we were in a
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Speaker 1: debt spiral of what they're telling us ain't cool. But
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Speaker 1: there is something you can do about it. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about that. We'll light it up at the end here though.
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Speaker 1: Some lifestyle stuff, well you know, really it's consumer stuff.
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Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines remember Southwest was selling us for years. We
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Speaker 1: will never have baggage fees.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: They may have been the last two institute them. I
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Speaker 1: think they'll last, but they're here today. They start. If
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Speaker 1: you have a flight on Southwest Airlines today, you're going
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Speaker 1: somewhere right now, you're gonna pay. They eventually caved. Something
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Speaker 1: you can do about that too, as a consumer. And
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Speaker 1: here's a little goofy thing to pop up yesterday. Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady has gotten really good at trolling the trolls. You
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Speaker 1: might have seen the booze got in Indianapolis for the
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Speaker 1: ND five hundred over the weekend. Well, he responded yesterday
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Speaker 1: on Instagram, which is where people responded things these days.
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Speaker 1: It was just pretty funny how he responded to that
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Speaker 1: he's getting way better at this way better. With all
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Speaker 1: that said, thanks for finding the Wicked Radio livestream wherever
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Speaker 1: it out to more people, because that's been growing great.
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Speaker 1: So thank you very much. All right, Like I said,
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Speaker 1: have you noticed Elon has been eerily quiet? In fact,
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Speaker 1: one of his recent posts on X was disturbing, talking
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Speaker 1: about the one big beautiful bill. People reached out to him,
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Speaker 1: and his one line response was I tried. I saw
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Speaker 1: that and I almost cried. I'm like, oh God, you
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Speaker 1: gotta be kidding me, because it's true. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: just said it right there. You can imagine putting your mean,
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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars into putting a cause for it,
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Speaker 1: your time. Your reputation stock took a dip but then
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Speaker 1: rebounded in a big way. Is I think he actually
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Speaker 1: knew it would. It took his focus away from his
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Speaker 1: other businesses like SpaceX in some of his dealerships literally
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Speaker 1: were firebomb Like that really happened, all of that. Can
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Speaker 1: you imagine going through that? And it's for a worthy
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Speaker 1: cause that actually has a direct impact for the country.
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Speaker 1: He loves that, that matters for the people he loves.
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Speaker 1: That's great. What if it was all for not what
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Speaker 1: if nothing happened. He'll always be something good to come
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Speaker 1: from it. But so he is talking and this is
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Speaker 1: a little clip that got released yesterday by CBS. He's
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Speaker 1: talking to CBS Sunday morning. This is coming up this weekend.
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Speaker 1: There's a little clip they released of it, and they
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Speaker 1: asked him directly about is Doge wasted with this one
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Speaker 1: big beautiful bill of BS. Well, yeah, so far he's
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Speaker 1: confirming that it is. This is what he said.
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Speaker 2: So you know, I was like disappointed to see the
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Speaker 2: massive spending boa frankly, which increases the budget deficit.
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Speaker 1: Not doesn't decrease it. And that reminds the work that
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Speaker 1: the Nose team is doing.
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Speaker 2: I actually thought that when this big beautiful bill came along.
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Speaker 1: I mean, like everything he's done on Doge gets wiped
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Speaker 1: out in the first year.
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Speaker 3: I think, I think a bill can be can be
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Speaker 3: can be big, or it can be beautiful.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know if it could be both. We'll
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Speaker 1: glad he's laughing about it, but he said it actually
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Speaker 1: adds to the deficit if he can believe that not
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Speaker 1: only is the DOGE cuts, but the actual spending in
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Speaker 1: the bill itself and how much. And I know that
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Speaker 1: the response from the White House so far and the
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Speaker 1: administration has been we're gonna grow the economy by so much.
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Speaker 1: And I love Caroline Levitt, the new White House Press secretary.
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Speaker 1: I think she's fantastic. Don't try to don't try to
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Speaker 1: put this on my back and tell me it's raining. Please,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna grow the GDP. We're gonna grow the economy
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Speaker 1: so much that it'll actually won't add to the to
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Speaker 1: the budget deficit. It won't add to the nation's deficit. Right,
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Speaker 1: No one would run their household like that. No, it's
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Speaker 1: like this, like if you tried to justify this, and
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people do, Hey, we want
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Speaker 1: to buy uh let's see uh season passes to Disney.
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Speaker 1: We want to buy four of them. Well, we can't
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Speaker 1: afford that right now, right, But what we're gonna do is,
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Speaker 1: I'm planning on making so much money this next quarter.
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Speaker 1: It'll cover all that. You can't run a household like
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Speaker 1: that unless you have money in hand. But yet somehow
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Speaker 1: that's how they're allowed to run our government. That like,
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Speaker 1: that's allowed. All right, So let's do just in real time.
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Speaker 1: Let's do a little experiment here, just in real time.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to and I'm just I'm just going to
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Speaker 1: grock on X because we were just talking about elon here.
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Speaker 1: But you can look it up in really any real
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Speaker 1: reference source yourself, and let me just let me just
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Speaker 1: ask how much it actually adds. All right, Ready, I'm
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Speaker 1: doing the voice I'm doing the voice check thing. How
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Speaker 1: much does the One Big Beautiful Bill add to the deficit? Searching?
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Speaker 1: Searching searching answer? By the way, grok is great, not
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Speaker 1: for all things, and don't rely on it to run
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Speaker 1: your life, but just to fill in the blank sometimes
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Speaker 1: for quick reference. It's really good. I use this so
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Speaker 1: much much more than Google. Anyway. What does GROX say? Answer?
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Speaker 1: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is estimated to significantly
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Speaker 1: increase the US federal deficit. Although the exact figures vary. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so and then this is why it's great. And then
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Speaker 1: it comes up with all the different research centers that
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Speaker 1: have estimated. Congressional Budget Office estimates it will add three
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Speaker 1: point eight trillion to the deficit over ten years. Oh great.
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Speaker 1: Penn Wharton budget model says it'll add three point three trillion.
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Speaker 1: Tax Foundation estimates that bill will add would increase the
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Speaker 1: deficit by two point six trillion. Well, that's looking better.
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Speaker 1: So imagine adding a deficit by two point six trillion.
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Speaker 1: It looks like good news. The Committee for a Responsible
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Speaker 1: Federal Budget says it'll increase three trillion to five point
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Speaker 1: three trillion, and then it goes on to say how
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Speaker 1: the White House is counteracting that, they will counteract that
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Speaker 1: by growing blah blah blah blah blah, one big, beautiful
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Speaker 1: bill of bullshit. So far, that's what it is. But
6:55
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, Maybe we're not done yet. Maybe
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Speaker 1: end game here. Because you've seen him and they've taken
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Speaker 1: a lot of criticism. It's amazing, and this is an
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Speaker 1: unfortunate thing. Now you've got Senator Rick Scott from Florida.
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Speaker 1: I know him well because i've interviewed him a couple
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Speaker 1: of times, and he is responsive more to that in
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Speaker 1: a second, even Governor Ron DeSantis. You've got Ron Johnson
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Speaker 1: in the Senate, a couple of others, and they're all
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Speaker 1: starting to like gather to not pass this thing. For
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Speaker 1: the reason supposedly is they want more cuts. Okay, all right,
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Speaker 1: so we're not done yet. So let's see. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Senator Rick Scott was I think Charlie Kirk was interviewing
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Speaker 1: him yesterday. This is what he said about it because
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Speaker 1: so far and he got he did a good job
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Speaker 1: in the interview. We asked him to commit to a no,
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Speaker 1: a yes, or a no, and he said no, I
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Speaker 1: will not be voting for this thing in its current form.
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Speaker 1: Here you go, is Rick Scott, Johnson, and Brand Paul
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Speaker 1: Mike Lee, all of us.
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Speaker 3: We want a build a pause, we want a good bill.
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Speaker 3: We want to build a SECURITSI of order. We want
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Speaker 3: President Trump's agenda. We want to make sure plus up
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Speaker 3: the military. We want to make sure we all the
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Speaker 3: doze opportunities to reduce costs are hard this bill. And
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Speaker 3: then let's go to the extent we can.
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Speaker 1: But guess what.
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Speaker 3: The Democrats have increased the budget by over fifty percent
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Speaker 3: in the last five years. The House bill cuts suspending
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Speaker 3: by less.
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Speaker 1: Than two percent over the next ten years.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't balance the budget, been close to balance in
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Speaker 3: that budget.
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Speaker 1: Well, okay, so he's a no. He committed to that
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Speaker 1: a little bit later on the interview. Well that's good.
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Speaker 1: So went on the Rick Scott x handle directly yesterday.
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Speaker 1: And this is why I say, well, what are we
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Speaker 1: going to do. We can't do anything. You can't fight
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Speaker 1: big government. You know the swamp one is did they?
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Speaker 1: Oh no, hold on, Let's go back about a week ago.
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Speaker 1: You and I were talking about this on a live stream.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about the no tax on tips idea.
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Speaker 1: You know how that got done because well I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I'm not in the service industry, but bartenders, waitresses, catering people, uh, valet,
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Speaker 1: anybody that relies on tips and not from unions. Millions
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Speaker 1: of people got together and they kept up the pressure
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Speaker 1: for about eight months when it was first introduced, and
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Speaker 1: they called their senators and they texted them, and they
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Speaker 1: kept a pressure on their House of Representatives people, and
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Speaker 1: they made sure it got done. That was a classic example.
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Speaker 1: That's why I was so happy about it. Of things
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Speaker 1: getting done from the American people and making sure it
9:18
Speaker 1: got done because they wanted it so badly. Why aren't
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Speaker 1: we doing that with this? This is your chance. So
9:24
Speaker 1: I tried it myself yesterday. So I reached out to
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Speaker 1: the Rick Scott people x handle and just made a
9:30
Speaker 1: couple of comments and direct messaged and did it myself,
9:32
Speaker 1: you know, citizen Bill, because he is one of my senators, right,
9:37
Speaker 1: it was a little bit easier because he's definitely in
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Speaker 1: favor of that, you know, didn't have to twist an
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Speaker 1: ar and I got a response from them. And because
9:43
Speaker 1: I said do whatever you can to make sure that
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Speaker 1: these cuts are permanent, I said, we're working on it,
9:47
Speaker 1: We're doing this whatever. So they are responsive, you know,
9:50
Speaker 1: they do see that now the current modern day equivalent
9:54
Speaker 1: of call your senator is reaching out to them through
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Speaker 1: social media and making a big deal as much as
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Speaker 1: you possibly can. If enough of those, enough of us
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Speaker 1: do it, it does make a difference. In no matter
10:05
Speaker 1: where you are in the country, it's going to be
10:07
Speaker 1: tougher if you're in a state where you've got a
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Speaker 1: Democrat senators or you've got rhinos in there and they're
10:12
Speaker 1: not going to listen to you. I understand that. But
10:14
Speaker 1: if you make enough of a big deal to tell
10:16
Speaker 1: them you don't want to add to this deficit, they'll
10:19
Speaker 1: hear it. Absolutely they do. There's no doubt they do.
10:22
Speaker 1: Because somehow we get lazy. This happens all the time. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is what I voted for, and I'm all happy
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Speaker 1: November twenty twenty four went my way. Well then what'd
10:29
Speaker 1: you do? Because that's just the start of it. You
10:31
Speaker 1: have to follow up on these people and put the
10:33
Speaker 1: pressure on them. Here's the great thing. Unbelievably, I know
10:36
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem that way. Sometimes we actually still do
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Speaker 1: have a voice. So that's the pivot. That's what you do.
10:42
Speaker 1: I'll sit here and complain about it. And you shouldn't
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Speaker 1: complain about this deficit or the bill unless you did something.
10:47
Speaker 1: He spoke out against it, because you can. You know,
10:50
Speaker 1: this is another This was really interesting yesterday I think
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Speaker 1: it was Desatus. I don't know what the press conference
10:55
Speaker 1: was for. And going back to Florida here for a second,
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Speaker 1: it's interesting that they're both in this state. Governoran DeSantis
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Speaker 1: spoke out against this as well. Now it's long to
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Speaker 1: listen to. It's interesting to hear what he's saying in
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Speaker 1: this though, he's like a he's a tough edit. He
11:09
Speaker 1: really is, because he just kind of rambles into the
11:10
Speaker 1: next thing. But everything he said is right on point,
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Speaker 1: I believe. Now, is this another politician making talking points? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna run again and Dissanna's just if
11:21
Speaker 1: these cuts don't go through, this will be his running point.
11:24
Speaker 1: This will be he'll see, he'll he's just gonna attack
11:26
Speaker 1: on that. He'll say, you didn't do anything. You just
11:29
Speaker 1: in your administration ran on increasing the deficit again. But anyway,
11:33
Speaker 1: it's long, but listen to what he's saying here, his
11:35
Speaker 1: Governoran des Santas yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It's a little frustrating. You know, Elon Musk went into
11:41
Speaker 2: this doze effort. He was getting lampooned. I mean like
11:45
Speaker 2: they're fire bombing his Tesla dealerships, media smearing him relentlessly.
11:51
Speaker 2: His business has suffered all this stuff because he basically said, look,
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Speaker 2: we can't keep doing this and we need to moderate
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Speaker 2: and reduce the amount of money that the federal government
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Speaker 2: is spending.
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Speaker 1: And yet we have a.
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Speaker 2: Republican Congress and to this day we're in the end
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Speaker 2: of May, past Memorial Day, and not one cent in
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Speaker 2: doge cuts have been implemented by the Congress.
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Speaker 1: Ridiculous. He's right about that. Now again keep in mind,
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Speaker 1: just temper that a little. Is that a politician looking
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Speaker 1: for his next talking point? Yeah, but he happens to
12:25
Speaker 1: be right about it too. Just keep that in mind.
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Speaker 1: And again, well, what can I do? They're not going
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Speaker 1: to listen to me, Yeah they are. Did you vote?
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Speaker 1: It doesn't stop there. Keep the pressure on these people
12:37
Speaker 1: where at whatever state you're in you're elected representatives, and
12:40
Speaker 1: tell them, hey, as this passes right now, it's got
12:43
Speaker 1: some good things, but if it goes through in its
12:45
Speaker 1: current form, this is one big, beautiful bill of bs.
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Speaker 1: This is bullshit. What they're trying to push through. You
12:52
Speaker 1: have to push back on. But the great thing is
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Speaker 1: it's still true today. The sad thing is we all
12:57
Speaker 1: get beaten down to the thinking he can't do anything. Well,
12:59
Speaker 1: my voice won't be heard. Yes it will. And again
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Speaker 1: I'll say this ten times. If I have to look
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Speaker 1: at the no tax on tips thing that became law.
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Speaker 1: Look at it. That was because people kept up the pressure.
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Speaker 1: It was a campaign promise that actually did happen, and
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Speaker 1: it would have fallen by the wayside. Trust me on
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Speaker 1: this one. Unless people kept the pressure up. That was organic.
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Speaker 1: It was beautiful, and that was from we the people.
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Speaker 1: Your voice does matter, but you can't complain unless you
13:23
Speaker 1: do something about it. Reach out to these people. I
13:26
Speaker 1: reached out to Rick Scott. Those people got back to me.
13:28
Speaker 1: Was it an auto response maybe, But if they get
13:31
Speaker 1: enough of those, they're like, yeah, we're we're on the
13:32
Speaker 1: right side of this thing. This is what my people want.
13:34
Speaker 1: They're politicians, they want to get re elected. So keep
13:37
Speaker 1: the pressure on them. They work for. You. Don't ever
13:39
Speaker 1: forget that. All right, here's another thing. Let's get out
13:42
Speaker 1: of the swamp for a second, because I'm feeling swampy.
13:45
Speaker 1: Get it, Washington, DC swampiness. Well, here's something that's starting today,
13:50
Speaker 1: and this kind of goes to the consumer part of things.
13:53
Speaker 1: Remember that I remember this clearly, clearly. Remember when the
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Speaker 1: baggage fee brigade started with all the air I don't
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Speaker 1: I can't remember who started at first. I might have
14:02
Speaker 1: been I don't know. It might have been one of
14:04
Speaker 1: the biggies, was he United? Was it American? Was I
14:07
Speaker 1: don't know, I can't remember. But we all said at
14:10
Speaker 1: the time, if you fly anywhere for business at any amount. Well,
14:13
Speaker 1: here we go. They'll all they will all be instituting
14:18
Speaker 1: baggage fees before you know it. And it took a while.
14:21
Speaker 1: Southwest I remember this directly said we will never have
14:23
Speaker 1: baggage fees. Remember that old ad campaign you can choose
14:28
Speaker 1: your own seat and no baggage fees. They ran commercials
14:31
Speaker 1: on this, or remember it. Well, sure enough they broke
14:34
Speaker 1: down and they made the big announcement. I think it
14:36
Speaker 1: was actually late last year that it was coming. Well,
14:38
Speaker 1: today's the day. If you've got a flight on Southwest Airlines,
14:41
Speaker 1: get ready for thirty five bucks and baggage fees for
14:45
Speaker 1: the first bag and forty five for the second. And
14:48
Speaker 1: if there anything like the other airlines, my god, don't
14:51
Speaker 1: go over that weight. Don't go over fifty pounds for
14:54
Speaker 1: check baggage by an ounce or you're gonna pay more.
14:58
Speaker 1: I think, if not now, it'll be there eventually. You
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Speaker 1: Sure enough they did it. But you could have seen
15:03
Speaker 1: this coming if you follow how the airlines are kind
15:06
Speaker 1: of put together for any amount of time. One of
15:08
Speaker 1: the news organisms now they're based still their main one
15:12
Speaker 1: of their big hubs is out West Oakland, airport. I've
15:15
Speaker 1: flown Southwest into Oakland, believe it or not. You know,
15:18
Speaker 1: before it was a time when you were sure to
15:20
Speaker 1: get stabbed. But they went to Oakland Airport and they
15:22
Speaker 1: talked to a bunch of people, one of the one
15:24
Speaker 1: of the news outlets out there, and they asked them
15:26
Speaker 1: how they feel about it. This is just random, like
15:28
Speaker 1: three people. But listen to the reactions, right, and who
15:31
Speaker 1: do you think is the best consumer in this? I
15:33
Speaker 1: think there's three of them. Listen to the lady in
15:35
Speaker 1: the in the middle, and then the guy at the end.
15:37
Speaker 1: Especially here. They are baggage fees with Southwest Airlines starting today.
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Speaker 2: And I'm used to paying for the forty five dollars
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Speaker 2: for the bags, so it won't make any of difference.
15:47
Speaker 1: To me as someone who flies and has to check bags.
15:49
Speaker 1: I guess that will impact how I think about choosing Southwest.
15:52
Speaker 2: Or other airlines.
15:52
Speaker 1: They've gotta do what they're gonna do. I'm not worried about. No.
15:56
Speaker 1: Oh well, they go to do what they're going to do.
15:59
Speaker 1: There's the problem. There's now that last guy. Especially We'll
16:03
Speaker 1: get to the lady in the middle of a second,
16:05
Speaker 1: but that last guy, I'm not worried about it. They're
16:07
Speaker 1: gonna do what they're gonna do. How much you think
16:08
Speaker 1: he's gonna shop around? Or he just says, whoa, Okay,
16:11
Speaker 1: well this airline's overcharging me by two hundred bucks, Well,
16:14
Speaker 1: credit card, I'll just go in. That's how they get
16:16
Speaker 1: away with it because nobody pushes back. Now, you have
16:18
Speaker 1: to do something about this, But he'll be the first
16:20
Speaker 1: to complain about it later, you know, to somebody somewhere
16:23
Speaker 1: at a party somewhere. But then sure enough, Well they're
16:25
Speaker 1: gooda do what they're gonna do. And in some cases, yeah,
16:29
Speaker 1: I get it when every single company in a certain
16:32
Speaker 1: industry does the same thing. Yeah, you try to fight
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Speaker 1: the best you can. But the lady in the middle
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Speaker 1: was the good consumer. Because we I'll think twice about that.
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Speaker 1: I'll think twice about it. Somehow, some way we're more
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Speaker 1: like the guy at the end than the lady in
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Speaker 1: the middle. We're not shopping around. Did you just shure
16:48
Speaker 1: got shoulders? No, they're gonna do what they're gonna do
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Speaker 1: because I'm gonna pay that. They know that there's enough
16:53
Speaker 1: of those people to make up their bottom line, and
16:55
Speaker 1: that's how they get away with it. Can you s?
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Speaker 1: But all right, here's the good news. As always, what's
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Speaker 1: the takeaway, what's the pivot here? You can shop around
17:04
Speaker 1: still and there's certain thing and they will actually have
17:07
Speaker 1: some in some cases they'll have promotions where they're waving
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Speaker 1: baggage fees. Not a lot, but they will. But it
17:12
Speaker 1: should make you look at who's got better prices at
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Speaker 1: better fares. Not everybody does it, but you can do
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Speaker 1: it everybody. There's always a way to fight back a
17:22
Speaker 1: little and you should look at this and say, could well,
17:25
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a better consumer. Then this will
17:26
Speaker 1: force me to be a better consumer. Not enough people
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Speaker 1: are gonna do it like the last guy, and that's
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Speaker 1: how they get away with it. That's what companies do.
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Speaker 1: But the person, like the lady in the middle, she will,
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Speaker 1: she'll be a good consumer. There is still opportunities out
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Speaker 1: there to get it done. All right, enough of that,
17:43
Speaker 1: segueing again to Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Pacers just actually
17:49
Speaker 1: had a big win last night. Looks like they could
17:51
Speaker 1: be going to the conference finals in the NBA, but
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Speaker 1: that's not what this is about. They also have the
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Speaker 1: Indy five hundred that happened this weekend. But more Ell
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Speaker 1: Day Weekend. Sure he saw this. It was big news.
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Speaker 1: It was a big deal, so they had it was
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Speaker 1: on Fox, so it was the biggest personality on Fox
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Speaker 1: right now. Tom Brady. Yes, so of course they're gonna
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Speaker 1: have him. They did a little video of him in
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Speaker 1: the pace car and all this, you know, driving around
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Speaker 1: the track and all this, and then they introduced him
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Speaker 1: along with legendary driver Jimmy Johnson. You probably saw this.
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Speaker 1: He got booed Brady did, and a distinct difference when
18:23
Speaker 1: they introduced Jimmy Johnson. All kinds of cheers and they
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Speaker 1: booed Brady terribly, and it went on and on and on.
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Speaker 1: It sounded like this if you didn't.
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Speaker 3: He's driving seven times Super Bowl Champion and five time NFL.
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Speaker 1: MVP Tom Brady and our Peace car driver for the
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Speaker 1: one hundred nine to one of the Dan all right,
18:41
Speaker 1: so that's one thing. So then Brady, uh, you know,
18:44
Speaker 1: gets back home, he kind of you know, from the
18:46
Speaker 1: big event, and he and he reconvenes and I'm sure
18:49
Speaker 1: that's when he because you don't really see it or
18:51
Speaker 1: hear it on stage. It's just it's just you know,
18:54
Speaker 1: white noise in the background. But I'm sure he saw
18:57
Speaker 1: the clip and people said it to him and all
18:58
Speaker 1: his friends were giving him a bunch of rap about that.
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Speaker 1: So he responded yesterday on Instagram, which is where people
19:06
Speaker 1: respond apparently now, and he's getting really good at this.
19:08
Speaker 1: This is what he said. And I thought this was funny.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible experience. Blah blah blah. Thank you Fox Family,
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Speaker 1: thank you Jimmy Johns, and blah blah blah. Here's the
19:15
Speaker 1: good part. Ps, it was great to get in one
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Speaker 1: more successful drive in front of a bunch of Colts fans.
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Speaker 1: That's really he's getting really good at this, by the way,
19:29
Speaker 1: as a lifelong Brady fan, because you know, I'm a
19:31
Speaker 1: Pats fan, as you know, for so long. He didn't
19:33
Speaker 1: used to be like that. He didn't used to like
19:35
Speaker 1: punch back ever. But he's really good at it now.
19:37
Speaker 1: He ain't getting asky about it. He just did, which
19:39
Speaker 1: shows that you can always troll the trolls if you
19:43
Speaker 1: do it in the right kind of way. We don't
19:45
Speaker 1: have his kind of platform, but still you can always
19:47
Speaker 1: fight back. But the main takeaway do what you can,
19:51
Speaker 1: and I mean this, none of us has a right
19:54
Speaker 1: to bitch and complain about the one big, beautiful Bill.
19:56
Speaker 1: If we don't do anything to contact your representative, I
20:00
Speaker 1: guess you can still call. But the main thing is
20:02
Speaker 1: through social media. Right now, all of their social media accounts.
20:05
Speaker 1: Get to them. Put the pressure on to institute these cuts,
20:09
Speaker 1: or it was all for a waste and we're just
20:11
Speaker 1: adding to this debt spiral. We don't want to do that.
20:13
Speaker 1: You can always do something. That's the main takeaway. Don't
20:16
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