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Wicked Radio 5-23: One Big Beautiful Long Weekend, Food Stamp Junk Food, & Springsteen's Speeches · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Let me be the first to welcome you to, as
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  Speaker 1: President Trump would say, one big, beautiful long weekend. And
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  Speaker 1: just like the build, it passed the house. But we're
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  Speaker 1: onto a weekend and welcome to a Memorial Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We all forget what this is about. But who's to
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  Speaker 1: blame you. We've turned this into car sales and linen
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  Speaker 1: sales and barbecues and all this is good. It's all good,
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  Speaker 1: but let's remember what it's all about and the people
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  Speaker 1: that actually made the sacrifice to make this weekend happen.
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  Speaker 1: But I always think about it this way. You know what.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently there are over one point two million Americans that
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  Speaker 1: have lost their lives to defend our freedom. I always
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  Speaker 1: think of it this way. If they were here with
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  Speaker 1: us right now, they would also want to enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: weekend at the beach, at a pool party, having a beer,
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  Speaker 1: a barbecue with friends, maybe taking advantage of some of
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  Speaker 1: those sales. I don't know, But let's remember them and
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  Speaker 1: thank them for their service while we're having a great time.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of great times, thanks to find a Wicked
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  Speaker 1: Radio on the road version. Speaking of travel for the
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend. You can't see it right now because
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  Speaker 1: the view was going to be bad you live stream
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  Speaker 1: viewers and sorry audio listeners, but there's a beautiful beach
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  Speaker 1: right to my right. You're left. It was too bright
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  Speaker 1: to show you. But that's where I am right now.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of travel, I'll talk about that because it's thick
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  Speaker 1: on the roads out there. There are more Americans than
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  Speaker 1: at any point in our history traveling this weekend, so
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  Speaker 1: bring your patients. But it's also a good sign to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. We'll talk about gas prices as well,
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  Speaker 1: but that one big, beautiful bill did pass the House,
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  Speaker 1: that it's on its way to the Senate where it's
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  Speaker 1: expected to pass. What do we know about it? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we can't dig into all of it. There are people
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  Speaker 1: who make careers out of studying this stuff. But the
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  Speaker 1: main takeaways. We'll get into that a little bit as well.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to talk about this. Bruce Springsteen has
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  Speaker 1: decided to profit off his political rants at live shows.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of those shows, not even in this country.
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  Speaker 1: I have an apology to make because it was just
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  Speaker 1: was it last week or this week? I was the
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  Speaker 1: one sitting here telling you, oh, separate the man from
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  Speaker 1: the music or you'll go crazy. No, that. No, that's over. No,
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  Speaker 1: when you actually record and put on available for download
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  Speaker 1: your political rants. No, he's entered a different territory of stupid.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that as well. But welcome to it.
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  Speaker 1: Some business first, Thanks for finding the Wicked Radio live stream.
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  Speaker 1: All part of Wicked Wisdom with Bill Adams. All those
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot more eyeballs on the live stream,
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  Speaker 1: so you knew, folks, welcome here. Nice to have you.
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  Speaker 1: the news. Do me a favor and press the follow
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  Speaker 1: button as well so we can get this out to
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  Speaker 1: more people. Well, let's get right to it. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the Memorial Day weekend. What kind of numbers we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about here is telling you about the travel just coming
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  Speaker 1: down here to By the way, I'm in deep south
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  Speaker 1: Florida by the beach. That's where I am close to Miami,
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  Speaker 1: but not quite. What kind of travel we talking about? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's thick, all right, Let's go to Triple A, the
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  Speaker 1: Triple A newsroom. There actually is one. They have. Triple
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  Speaker 1: A publishes so much information, they have a newsroom. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to them. Here's what Triple A says, driving anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about flying. I would imagine flying has
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  Speaker 1: probably got to break some records too, But at least driving. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this always qualifies as people driving fifty miles or more.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, there's going to be even more people in
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  Speaker 1: that driving less than fifty miles. But the road trips
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  Speaker 1: the road, like you know, like me and maybe you.
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  Speaker 1: This weekend fifty miles or more. How many people forty
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  Speaker 1: five point one million people Americans like us. I got
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  Speaker 1: to travel at least fifty miles from home over this
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  Speaker 1: entire weekend. That's from last night Thursday night, all the
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  Speaker 1: way through trying to get home on Monday night back
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  Speaker 1: to work without a hangover. It is the domestic travel record,
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  Speaker 1: an increase of one point four million travelers compared to
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  Speaker 1: last year. Previous record was set back in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and five. What does that tell you? Wait a minute, now,
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  Speaker 1: it was six months ago. Six months ago. Remember, we
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  Speaker 1: were in the height of these political campaigns and there
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  Speaker 1: was just mud being slung all over the place. I
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  Speaker 1: remember one particular candidate telling us that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go into a recession by now. Gas prices are going
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  Speaker 1: to be through the roof by now, and you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be able to drive any I remember, specifically, Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris was saying Memorial Day twenty twenty five, you won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to afford gas prices. Remember that that was true.
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  Speaker 1: She actually said that. They said that. Well, that turned
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  Speaker 1: out not to be true. And all of these, all
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  Speaker 1: of these prognostications about recessions, they seem to have calmed
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit. You know what else is calmed down?
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  Speaker 1: So part and parcel to all this thing are these
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  Speaker 1: gas prices. Huh, let's get a check on where those are. Well.
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  Speaker 1: As an article that just got published two hours ago
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  Speaker 1: this morning in the New York Post that says gas
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  Speaker 1: prices heading into this weekend have hit a four year low.
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  Speaker 1: That interesting as we prepare to hit the road, Like
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  Speaker 1: Triple A was just saying, while adjusting for inflation, this
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  Speaker 1: is where it's kind of weird. US retail gas prices
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  Speaker 1: going into the weekend fourteen percent lower than last year. Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: That's also not what they told us what this first
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  Speaker 1: and second quarter of twenty twenty five are gonna be. Like, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: just maybe you gotta wait until you're there to protict
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  Speaker 1: what the country's gonna look like, because this is pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And here's another takeaway too. While you're sitting there frustrated
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  Speaker 1: in traffic and I get it, hate traffic jams too,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you are in the country, I understand. I totally understand.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it this way, though, it's good sign for
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  Speaker 1: the economy. If this many people are traveling, that means
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  Speaker 1: they have They're not just buying gas, They're headed somewhere
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  Speaker 1: to spend some money at a hotel or a theme park,
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  Speaker 1: or just with friends and family somewhere. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a good sign that you and your fellow Americans pretty
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  Speaker 1: confident about where the economy's going and the strength of
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  Speaker 1: the country. You know, they always talk about consumer confidence
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  Speaker 1: and they boil it down to a pie chart. This
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  Speaker 1: is what really matters. You want to get a sense
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  Speaker 1: for consumer confidence, just look around. Just look around and
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  Speaker 1: talk to people at the barbecue or at the beach,
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  Speaker 1: Rando's at the bar Just ask them how they feel
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  Speaker 1: about things going forward. Even the people that hate the
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  Speaker 1: current administration might secretly tell you things are a lot
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  Speaker 1: better than I thought they would be. Maybe who the
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  Speaker 1: heck knows or maybe not. I don't know. But we
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  Speaker 1: talked about let's get into a little bit of news,
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  Speaker 1: but not too much, because let's face it, who wants
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  Speaker 1: to break this thing down to all the nuts and bolts,
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  Speaker 1: But it's still important. Trump calls at the one big,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful bill, and he even went to the halls of
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  Speaker 1: Congress late left week to pressure them into passing this thing.
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  Speaker 1: And it did pass the House. Mike Johnson was all
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  Speaker 1: excited about it. Speaker of the House. This is him
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  Speaker 1: announcing it. There was a pretty good majority passing this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Democrats voted against it, and there was
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  Speaker 1: one vote of present. But this is him announcing it,
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  Speaker 1: and he was pretty happy. In the same present. The
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  Speaker 1: bill is passed. Yah, all right, So Trump is very
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  Speaker 1: happy about this. He's been all over social media saying beautiful, juh,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations Mike Johnson. Believe you knew he could be done.
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, said it, get it done. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: beat yep blah blah. Okay, fine, what's in it? What
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  Speaker 1: does it mean to us? Well, we can't break down
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  Speaker 1: everything that's into this, but here are some of the
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  Speaker 1: highlights that they are promoting anyway, in the one big,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful bill that passed the House and looks as though
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  Speaker 1: it's going to pass in that current form of the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: no tax on tips or overtime. We talked about that
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  Speaker 1: two days ago. That's big. That is big, and it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And just as reminder, you know how I feel about this, This,
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  Speaker 1: as corny as it is, kind of struck me in
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  Speaker 1: a patriotic kind of way because this thing got done,
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  Speaker 1: the no tax on tips from just an organic natural
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  Speaker 1: force in America. Since the idea was even put forth
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  Speaker 1: into the universe late into the campaign last year by
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  Speaker 1: President Trump and he announced it. It just it just
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  Speaker 1: put it forth that he wants wants to get this done.
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  Speaker 1: People like me and maybe even you and other people
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  Speaker 1: were saying, oh, that's not really gonna happen. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great idea. I would love to see it happen. No
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  Speaker 1: tax on tips. The service industry deserves that they needed.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a great ejection into the economy. But
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  Speaker 1: it actually got done one hundred to nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: Senate and on its way in some kind of form
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  Speaker 1: right here now with one big, beautiful bill. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: the law of the land. Love that. And that happened
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  Speaker 1: because regular people, service workers, bartenders, waitresses, catering people, whoever,
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  Speaker 1: everybody there, hairstylists rely on tips. Push this thing forward.
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  Speaker 1: And they kept the pressure on by calling their lawmaker saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: get this thing done. I love it. One hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy five billion for deportations and the wall, tax relief
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  Speaker 1: for seniors. Again, this is like you gotta parse this
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  Speaker 1: back and forth on what kind of tax relief, what
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  Speaker 1: it means, and the twenty seventeen this might be the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing you might remember, the twenty seventeen Trump
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  Speaker 1: tax cuts. Those are made permanent. So these are the
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  Speaker 1: good things in the highlights that are easy to promote
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  Speaker 1: for people like Speaker Mike Johnson, right, And they're jumping
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  Speaker 1: up and down and promoting this thing. That's why there's
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  Speaker 1: four green check mark bullet points for the one Big
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill. Is it still too much spending overall? When
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  Speaker 1: you look at this thing, of course it is. Of
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  Speaker 1: course it's too much spending. The larger issue here is
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  Speaker 1: we got to cut this spending down or we are
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  Speaker 1: in a debt spiral down the road. I'm gonna have faith.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put it in the hands of economists
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  Speaker 1: that know a hell of a lot more than this
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  Speaker 1: stuff than I do, and have faith that they're is
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  Speaker 1: a plan in the works for the next few years
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  Speaker 1: to cut the federal deficit and to cut spending. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe this is the first part of the plan, but
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  Speaker 1: so far anyway, that's what's in the Big Beautiful Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get out of Washington for a second. Actually, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, something important to happen in Washington yesterday. It
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  Speaker 1: was kind of fascinating and it leads to the MAHA movement.
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  Speaker 1: This kind of is like the no tax on tips
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  Speaker 1: proposition where I was like, I love that idea, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna happen. Well, here is another one
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  Speaker 1: with Maha. Bobby Kennedy Junior, the new Surgeon general. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, who is to be Casey means in the
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  Speaker 1: Agriculture department. We had all talked about it. We had
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  Speaker 1: all I'm sure lived this. You've been at a grocery
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  Speaker 1: store somewhere and you're like, why with the food stamp program,
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  Speaker 1: why am I paying for some of the junk that's
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  Speaker 1: being bought and some of the garbage food that's in there.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, it's a terrible thing for your health,
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  Speaker 1: but then it's tax subsidied. I've heard it throughout the years,
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  Speaker 1: people proposing this idea of like, there's no way that
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  Speaker 1: junk foods and the obvious kind you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like like hoes and ding dongs and sugary sodas and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff should go to food stamp benefits. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way, Shue. We've all kind of said that, or
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  Speaker 1: at least maybe if you weren't brave enough to say
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  Speaker 1: it out loud, you were thinking it. Did you ever
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  Speaker 1: think though, there would be at least a proposal or
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  Speaker 1: people getting it to the point where that wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: provided and you couldn't buy that on public assistance. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think. So maybe you're the same way. Well, here
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  Speaker 1: we are now. Yesterday in a talk about healthy food,
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  Speaker 1: and there were a lot of podcasters and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of influencers that were invited there to talk about MAHA
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  Speaker 1: Make America Healthy Again and all that stuff. Part of
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  Speaker 1: that was a panel discussion where the new secret Agriculture Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: Brooke Rawlins made an announcement that's pretty fascinating. Everything we
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  Speaker 1: just talked about. Everything maybe you've you've discussed or thought
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  Speaker 1: about in the pats where I don't really want to.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, maybe we can help out these people
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  Speaker 1: who are on food assistance. Maybe maybe maybe we can
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  Speaker 1: help it by not allowing that stuff to be bought
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  Speaker 1: with public funds. Despite the pushback, I think we're there.
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  Speaker 1: This was her announcement yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: The second thing is that you mentioned, sir in your
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  Speaker 2: remarks that we are on track to sign multiples of
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  Speaker 2: snap waivers to get junk food and sugary drinks out
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  Speaker 2: of our food stamp system.
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  Speaker 1: And I am wow again. Sometimes when people get elected
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  Speaker 1: or nominated and they're putting these positions, like you know
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  Speaker 1: RFK Junior specifically, you think, how much can he really
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  Speaker 1: get done? You know, working with the other secretaries, how
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  Speaker 1: much can he really what could really happen this. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the takeaway, and this is what you've got to
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  Speaker 1: prepare for. The pushback on this is going to be incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Look and the important thing that here's what you do
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  Speaker 1: with this information. Now here's the breakdown. Look to see
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  Speaker 1: who's the most vocal protesting against this idea to not
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  Speaker 1: allow junken process food to be bought with food snams
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  Speaker 1: public assistance, because you're going to see all of these
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  Speaker 1: food companies which have been pretty much the bad guy
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  Speaker 1: in all of this and pushing this process crap on
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  Speaker 1: our kids and us for decades, now them and I
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  Speaker 1: really really interested to see who the representatives, the elected
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  Speaker 1: representatives are of improverished communities, to see how they respond
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  Speaker 1: to this, because there's two ways they can go, and
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  Speaker 1: only two ways they're going to say. They'll say it,
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  Speaker 1: they'll use the R word, they'll say somehow, some way,
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  Speaker 1: they'll call this racist. They'll do that instead of caring
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  Speaker 1: about their constituents and trying to make them healthy as
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  Speaker 1: a first step to improve their lives. Or the brave
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  Speaker 1: ones who probably won't get reelected if they do this,
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  Speaker 1: so you're probably not going to see it, are going
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  Speaker 1: to say this is tough, but in the long and
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  Speaker 1: the long term, this is going to be the healthiest
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  Speaker 1: thing for you and your kids and your families. If
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  Speaker 1: you're on public assistance. Let's see if there's anybody who
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  Speaker 1: represent those impoverished communities in this country. Let's see if
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  Speaker 1: anybody is brave enough to do that. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be, but if they are, we got
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  Speaker 1: to find them when we need to congratulate them because
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  Speaker 1: this is a massive, massive move for the health of
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  Speaker 1: the country. Because it's usually you see it whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: whoever is on food stamp, public assistance, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough situation, and it's absolutely needed for people
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  Speaker 1: who need a leg up and to be able to
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  Speaker 1: do this. But what's going to help them is to
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  Speaker 1: be healthy, no doubt about that. But to actually implement
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  Speaker 1: that and make it so that they can actually do this,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be a brave, brave step. But the
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  Speaker 1: takeaway is now that this is happening, and this is
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  Speaker 1: actually going to be a thing, and they can't buy
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  Speaker 1: that junk on your diamond, My dim and everybody else's
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  Speaker 1: pushback is going to be unreal. The important thing is
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to who is actually pushing back, So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with that. But this all goes
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  Speaker 1: back to I mentioned the new surgeon in general who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be controlling a lot of this in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Casey means a controversial pick because she's always pushed for
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff, and she's been bravely speaking out
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  Speaker 1: against this stuff for a long time. Don't forget what
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  Speaker 1: she said. This was from about like two and a
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  Speaker 1: half three weeks ago. This is Casey means, you think
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  Speaker 1: this falls in line with everything they're saying now.
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  Speaker 3: So more than a health epidemic, which is what we
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  Speaker 3: have in this country, I mean health is getting destroyed
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  Speaker 3: in the United States, which you don't really talk about
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  Speaker 3: because it's not profitable to heal in this country. It's
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  Speaker 3: profitable to keep people sick and then drug them to
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  Speaker 3: drug them.
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  Speaker 1: Now not profitable, is right. Now. Think about those food
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  Speaker 1: companies for a second, the junk and it's all food
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  Speaker 1: companies by the way, all the big ones. They all
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  Speaker 1: produce Yeah, they'll call a lot of their stuff healthy,
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  Speaker 1: but they all produce stuff that's absolute crap because they
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of money off it. So that thing
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  Speaker 1: I was saying about the pushback There's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of it over this very
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  Speaker 1: same announcement about not allowing public assistance to include junk
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  Speaker 1: food and crap and sugary stuff and poison and garbage.
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  Speaker 1: Because the food companies, which is a massive part of
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  Speaker 1: the economy, is gonna be pushing back hard against this.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna have their lobbyist work in overtime on this.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. There's gonna be a real This is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a really interesting thing to see who pushes back
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  Speaker 1: or who supports it. It's gonna be You're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: be brave to support this because it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: lot there's gonna be a lot of hate against it.
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  Speaker 1: Not about that, all right, speaking of speaking out and
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: pushing back, all right, I have an apology to make.
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  Speaker 1: Was it I can't even remember. Was it even this
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  Speaker 1: week or is it? It might have been the end
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: of last week. But anyway, when Bruce Springsteen the Boss
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: had a lot of headlines because he did some shows
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  Speaker 1: over in the UK, one in particular, which was recorded
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: now recorded and available for download from him. But more
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: than that, in a second, whereas in Manchester, UK. We
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: said all kinds of things about the administration and people
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: were all upset. And as a reminder, this is what
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: he said of.
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  Speaker 2: A corrupt, incompetent and treeson this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's my apology first and foremost, because I was
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: the guy saying here the day after all right, I
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: get it, okay, but here's you know, all your favorite
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  Speaker 1: celebrities and we all, at least I did. I've always
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: loved Bruce Springstey's music and then he turned into this guy.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It was me, and I'm going to backtrack off this.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It was me saying, you've got to separate the artist
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: from their words. Just enjoy the music or they're acting,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: or they're writing, or their you know, whatever it is.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Or you'll drive yourself crazy and you'll get to a
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: point where you can't enjoy any entertainment anymore. So whatever,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: just just put his words aside, and you know, just
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: enjoy Bruce's music. I would like to backtrack off this
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: because he's reached a point and it's his fault. It's
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: not our fault, not my fault, it's his fault. Bruce
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Springsteen now has taken his level of cluelessness to a level.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't think any performing artist would actually take it,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: especially a music artist. I really didn't. So that little
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: speech there that was from Manchester, UK, some show last
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: week whatever it was, I think it was a weekend show. Okay,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: So he's taken that and others recorded. We all know
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: that we heard the cell phone video, but the soundboard
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: at the show, the sound but clear so that you
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: don't mistake what he was saying. The clear recordings and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: video of his anti Trump rants now will be made
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: public available for download right now if you want to
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: go over there and get him on streaming services, including
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: four songs and two attacks against Trump, so now for all.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So now he's making a profit off of his what
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I think are clueless and totally misguided rants and political
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: speeches on a stage where people just wanted to hear music,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and he's profiting off them and taking it a step further.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: So we've gone from some artists have gotten smart. They
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: just don't you know, they don't want to divide their
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: audience because it's always fifty to fifty and they just
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: don't talk about politics at all. The smart ones do that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: That's this end. Springsteen's taking it the whole other end.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Not only is going to preach politics during his live
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: shows when people want to be entertained, he wants to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: download so you can share him forever. Like what are
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the TDS? People who are Springsteen's supporters do. So they
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: listen to Bruce's anti Trump rants on the way to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: work and they listen to it over and over and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: over again in the car, Like how twisted would you
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: have to be to be able to do that? But
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you know it'll be a segment of the audience who
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: will Okay, that's fine. So I'm changing my stance because
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: there's only a few artists that I just absolutely can't
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: stand anymore and I can't put it. I can't like
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: even deal with him. De Niro is one of them
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: because he's just so he's just so twisted and broken
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you punch you, bob. The other one Stephen King, who
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: hates Trump too, because I used to love Stephen King books,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: but reading is a different thing. It's like, you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: it's a really intimate thing when you're reading the book,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and you used to love those books, but you're inside
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the mind of the authors as he's writing him. I
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: can't so I got I gotta stay away from that now.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Now Springsteen's on my list too. So despite the fact
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that earlier I was the one saying separate the artist
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: from the eagle great No, No, I can't do no.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Once he's taken this step, Now he's on I can't.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I will just me is only my perspective. I can't
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: listen or see a Springsteen performance now and not think
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of his anti Trump rants because now they're saved forever.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: This isn't just a one off now, this is like
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: his thing. So you know what's coming. You know what's
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: coming next. Some kind of documentary. We're like, uh, you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: uh uh pick anybody in the meat. It could be
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Jake Tapper doing some sort of series of Springsteen interviews
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: where he tells tries to tell the audience how bad
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Trump is and how bad Maga is and Americans are
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: dumb and all this stuff, and they'll be books and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: they'll be Springsteen not performing anymore, but but just speaking
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: on stage with his politics. You know what's gonna come,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: because they never stop. If he's willing to record his
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: blit rants and put him available for download, you know
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: what's there will be some sort of a recorded album
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: from Springsteen or an entire like Democrat benefit concert he'll do.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Then it's just all politics because it won't stop from here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I'm done with him. I'm absolutely dumb. Apparently Trump's done
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: with him too, because Trump, you know, being as in this.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I've always found it entertaining. I know there's a lot
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of you who think, well, that's not very presidential. I
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: think it's hilarious. Did you see the video that's viral
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: now that Trump posted himself. Somebody made it, but he
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: posted it himself of him taking the golf swing and
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: it goes further and then it cuts to Springsteen getting
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: hitting the head on stage and when he fell and
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: took a tumble. It's just that's a great way to respond.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's not presidential or not. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: find it hilarious all right. By the way, Springsteen, I
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: told you this before, when I was telling you that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: like separate the man from the music, and I was wrong.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: This I'm right about. Keep this in mind. Here's your
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: takeaway when you think about Springsteen, right, here's always you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the persona and the marketing has always been I'm a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: man of the people. I'm the working man, Okay, just
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: keep this in mind. Whenever you hear him put that
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that's all marketing. Since he was twenty four years old.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I know I'm repeating this story, but it's true. When
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he was twenty four years old, when Born to Run
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: came out in nineteen seventy five, Bruce spring Springsteen has
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: been a multi millionaire ever since he's fifty years This
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: guy has not truly understood the pain of the working man.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And if you want to question that too, just look
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: at the prices of the most recent Springsteen shows, especially
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: those New York residencies he did, how much those were,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: And you tell me this guy represents the working man right.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And he's always been dune this. He's clueless about everything
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: but gets on stage and it's his right. I'm not
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: saying it's not his right. I'm just saying, if you
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: want to listen to him, good luck to you. But
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this guy's been in a bubble where he doesn't understand
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: what's really going on in America for over fifty years now,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. I'm done with him, all right.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Let's not forget what this is all about. Memorial Day.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: That's the main takeaway, and there's another one too, when
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you are stuck in traffic because, like the Triple A says,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: it's going to be record travel this holiday weekend. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: know this is a bit of a stretch and it's
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: kind of corny, but here's what helped me when I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: was driving down to Miami yesterday. Wow, this traffic on
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: ninety five sucks, But you know what this means. People
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: are actually feeling pretty good about the way things going
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: right now, and gas prices are down. It may help
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but just be safe. Remember what this
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: is all about. Enjoy your barbecue, Enjoy your friends, the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: theme park, the hotel, the time off, not having a
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: work on Monday. But let's remember what it's all about. Really, truly,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: we can do both. We can enjoy it and party
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and remember who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: We should never ever ever forget what they did. And
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: think about this too. If all of those patriotic Americans,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: those warriors that lost their lives defending our freedom, were
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: here with us right now, they'd want a party too,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: So remember that as well. Thanks for finding me with
• 24:04
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• 24:06
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• 24:08
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• 24:11
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• 24:14
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• 24:16
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• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So thanks for being with me. Have a great, safe, awesome, awesome, wicked,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: awesome Memorial Day weekend. We'll be back on Monday doing something.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to go on, but we'll
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: do something, so we'll see enjoy it. Have fun, boy,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: what's all about.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you