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Speaker 1: And hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast

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on this Friday, the twenty sixth day of December, Year

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of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan.

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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and you're having

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a wonderful holiday. A lot of people obviously taking off

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if you can the rest of the year. So we

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have we have a few things to go over today.

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We've got We've got some I try to try to

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keep it light, harder, but I but there's still some things.

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We've got some economic predictions. We've got the powerball winner.

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We don't know who it is, but somebody is well

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not one point eight billion dollar Richard, but probably taking

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the cash. But that was eight hundred and thirty five million,

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So somebody, somebody's paying off their their their Christmas bills

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of no problem. Bring up Netflix. They had a big

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football game, man if two NFL games yesterday on on

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Netflix and man a lot. They're getting a lot of pushbacks.

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So we'll get into all of that as we go

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along today. I want to start though, with something it's

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not positive, it's it's negative, it's but it's important, and

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that is yesterday the President announced that he ordered a

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missile strike missiles on Boca Haran, the terrorist group over

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in Nigeria, and the reason for it was because of

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the fact that they're going around killing Christians. Well now,

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and don't take this problem get it twisted around or

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Tom's in favor of killing Christians. No, I'm not. This

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is not something new. This has not been going on

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for months or years. It's been going on for decades.

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And it's not just Christians. Boko Hran has been going

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around killing Muslims and Christians in just about equal numbers.

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By the way I looked up Nigeria their population, they

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are not officially a Muslim country. They are a diverse,

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religiously diverse nation with roughly equal numbers of Muslims and Christians,

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plus they've got some other people that are indigenous beliefs

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of some kind. Islam is the largest state religion. It's

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dominant in the north, and Christian Christianity is a dominant

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in the south. They're a secular state them with plenty

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of religious freedom. So this I don't believe this is

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about religion. This is just a terrorist group and they

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are killing people. But if you want to stir up

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and get people in a Christian nation like the United

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States and get some some rallying fever going. One way

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to do it is and I've seen the headlines now

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for a few probably a couple of months about Christians

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being killed in Nigeria. This is not something new. And

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like I said, they're also killing Muslims, and they're killing

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peopleeople that have indigenous religious beliefs. So I don't know

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what this what the what the motivation is here, But

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but you watch the news coverage of it, everybody's going,

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oh good, oh good, oh good, They're stopping the people

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that are killing the Christians. Well fine, I'm I'm good

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with that. But by doing a couple of missile strikes,

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that's not going to do it. Where this is taking place,

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Bocohran is not just in Nigeria. It's a regional issue.

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And I am surprised that we are ramping up our

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military and yet another country from a president who seemed

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to profess that he was anti war. Now will this

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lead to war? I don't know, but let's let's get

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some experts in here. Aaron David Miller, Farmer State Department negotiator,

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this is his view.

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Speaker 2: I think the strikes seem to me to be largely performative.

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I mean, the United States is confronting these insurgencies in

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West Africa. They feed on Nigerian government corruption, they feed

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on linguistic, cultural and religious differences, and on disputes between

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herders and farmers. So the roots of the insurgency are

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not going to be extinguished by US drone strikes, no

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matter how effective they may be. And you know the

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understanding the anger. Twelve thousand Nigerians have been killed over

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the last year, but as many Christians and Muslims. So

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the president's charge of genocide I think is not only

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rejected by the reality on the ground, but it's rejected,

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as you pointed out, by the Nigerian government. I'd also

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add that if in fact, the US is going to

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have any success against the Islamic state in Boko Haram

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in East Africa, it's going to also have to have

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soft power. Smantling of USAID, which was a critically important

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actor in Nigeria, agriculture, agricultural supports, farmers, immunization problems, shelter.

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All of this is critically important, I think, to a

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long term effective strategy, if there is one to root

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out these extremist and insurgeon groups.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's the expert. He's basically a former State Department

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guy who watched Africa. But this whole thing about you

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as aid, that's more political than anything else. But I

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will tell you this, Nigeria is one of the major

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oil producing countries in the world. What's another one, Venezuela.

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Where is our military involved Venezuela and now Nigeria. It

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makes me stop and think for a moment, is that

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the real reason? Do we really are we really about

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stopping the killing of Christians because there's a couple of

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missile strikes, is not going to do it? Used Off

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Tugar is the Foreign Minister for the country of Nigeria.

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Speaker 3: It's not a Nigerian problem. It's not a Christian Muslim problem.

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It is a regional problem. But we're putting all of

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that aside. We accept that we need the support of

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other countries.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so he said, we need support from other countries.

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But like you said, it's a regional problem, it's not

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just in Nigeria. Colonel Cedric Clayton, former Air Force colonel,

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was as this observation.

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Speaker 4: Well, it certainly makes a big impact on the ground, Kate,

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And one of the key things here is that they

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went after two camps, like you mentioned, and now tactically

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it makes a big difference. Strategically, maybe not so much,

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so we will wait to see exactly what the battle

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damage assessment is. But launching Tomahawk missiles is kind of

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the preferred weapon of choice often by US administrations and

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especially this one. But they have a tactical utility, but

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unless they're part of a big campaign plan, they may

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have limited strategic utility.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can blow some things up, but strategically, are

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you going to be able to change the killing of

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Christians in Nigeria by doing this? Mike Pompeo also has

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a lot of knowledge in this area.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I think that's definitely the case. Recall, President Trump's

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been very consistent about attacking Isis from the fact that

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we took them off the map in Syria back in

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the first Trump administration when they were controlling real estate

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the size of Delaware. This is another reminder to extremists everywhere,

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a Muslim extremist islamis everywhere that President Trump is going

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to be ever vigilant. Whether it was the strikes in

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Syria just a few weeks ago, whether it's the work

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that we're going to do alongside the Australian government to

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push back on what happened in Bondi Beach, or now

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the attacks on Christians in Nigeria, where in the north

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next to Niger, Muslim extremists have been attacking Christians four

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years and President Trump is saying enough and he did

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it not unilaterally but with the Nigerian government as well,

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which is really important because that will allow not only

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these strikes, which sounds like they were pretty effective, but

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a real campaign to deter further attacks against Christians in Nigeria.

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Speaker 1: Pompey sounds like this is the beginning, just the beginning

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of something. There's got to be a campaign. Campaigns go

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on for some time and Bokoha Ram and Isis are

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not the same. In fact, they are enemies of each other.

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So I just thought I would lay out some other

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views on this other than the headlines, because everybody's going, well,

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that's good, this is a Christian nation, we're cheering for great,

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you're stopping the killing of Christians. But it's it's something's

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this is not right here. I don't know what was

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the spark and why it's being done, but we will

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we will definitely follow it. You want to talk about

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the economy for a minute, we got here. We are

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coming up now between Christmas and New Years. We're going

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to get nothing but predictions coming out our years. Let's

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start with Jared Bernstein, who kind of leans to the left.

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Economists are definitely nobody's in the middle of either lean

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to the left or the right, and Bernstein leans to

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the left. So let's see what his prediction is for

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twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 6: Well, it was much better than expect at a full point,

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and the consumer just keeps on plowing along. An investment,

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of course, has been pretty strong. It weakened a bit

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over the quarter, but AI investment continues to help the

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economy plow ahead. And the American consumer, as unhappy as

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he and she say they are, has been relentless. Look,

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there are risks to the outlook. The labor market has weakened,

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and in fact we've seen wage growth slow, particularly for

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folks in the bottom half. And if you talk to businesses,

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they will tell you that most of the spending has

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been driven by folks at the top. So there's this

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case shape story that I believe is pretty accurate. But

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you're talking aggregate numbers, and then the aggregate consumer spending

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and investment has been strong. Of course, there's probably some

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government fiscal oomph coming a punch there from tax cuts

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coming next year. So the forecasts are for growth to continue,

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continue to be moderate, if not better than moderate.

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Speaker 1: How about that. He didn't criticize the Big Beautiful Bill,

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but he did say, yeah, because of the tax cuts

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coming next year, that's from the Big Beautiful Bill that

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it's predicting that is going to help the economy grow

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even more. But he's right, and it's a head scratcher

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about people say that they're hurting and yet cons we're spending,

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which is two thirds of the economic engine. Consumer spending

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has been off the charts. So they say one thing

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and they do something else. They say they're hurting, but

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then they spend like they are not. One other economist,

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Peter Earl, he's from the American Economic Research Institute, is

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as if what this is his prediction.

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Speaker 7: Well, what we do is we try to think of

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a couple of things. First of all, the lag effects

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meaning how long they take to get into action, how

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long they take to hit the economy. We try to

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think about which may supersede others, those that are on

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say a federal level, versus those that are a little

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more patchwork, like where where where and how AI will

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enter a private business. And then you know, a little

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bit of it is also a historical president what happens

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when we have you know, structural technological change hitting cyclical forces. So,

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I mean, you know, it's it's a it's a hazardous

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business forecasting. That's what we get paid to do. And

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you know, you every forecast has us sort of hanging

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out there waiting to be exposed.

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Speaker 1: Shome up with Peter, what do you come up with

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for next year?

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Speaker 7: Well, for next year, what I think is we're gonna

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have We're gonna have continued GDP growth. You know, I think,

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as Jared said, consumer spending is resilient but uneven. I

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think we're gonna see investment broadened behind the or rather

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beyond the AI leaders. You know, as financial conditions ease

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on certainly diminishes, We've got a couple of different sources

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of fiscal stimulus. I think the ingredients are in place

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for investment to broad beyond the very narrow group of

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AI names. And so for that reason, I think that

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capital spending is likely to become a growth engine next year,

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and that is if it can overcome you know, as

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you just mentioned, there's other forces. If it can overcome,

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you know, the kind of slowdown we're seeing an employment

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which fed easing may assuage.

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Speaker 1: Okay, to translate it was he sees continued economic growth.

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That's good. One more guy. This is a tourist and slock.

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He's with Apollo. He's an economist over there. We'll see

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what he has to say.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, the One Beautiful Bill helps on two different fronts.

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It helps with immediate expensing for companies. So now you

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can do one hundred percent right down of your cabins

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expenditures right away. That's not normally the case you have

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so normally to do that throughout several years. The second

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thing that's also helpful is that we also have that

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the consumers is facing now a lot of tailwinds because

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we get a lot of refunds in the beginning of

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this year, because now you have a look back to twenty.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five, and that will help.

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Speaker 8: Also, the refunds will similarly be fifty percent big in

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twenty twenty six than what they were in twenty and

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twenty five. So both from the consumer side and from

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the corporate side, and the fact that the trade wall

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is getting further and further behind us, it is all

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very helpful for growth.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so there you go. Another economy is talking about

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how the big beautiful Bill is going to help the

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economy in twenty twenty six. And we've played a number

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of times the clips of the Secretary of the Treasury

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Scott Besen talking about a boom here next year. So

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everybody seems to be pretty much on the same page.

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That should be a pretty good year. And speaking of money,

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the powerball winner in Cabot, Arkansas, which is just a

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suburb of Little Rock, somebody won the lottery for one billion,

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eight hundred and seventeen million dollars. All of a sudden,

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you are a billionaire, almost a multi billionaire, the cash

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option eight hundred and thirty five million. So I know

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you're disappointed. You're not a billionaire. You're only an eight

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hundred and thirty five millionaire. Listen, when I had an

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investment firm, we handled an awful lot. I personally handled

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a lot of lottery winners, and it was an interesting

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experience because every single lottery winner is just like you

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and me. We're all unique and they are too. And

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the way they handle it, but it really, it really

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is one of if this is life changing. If all

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of a sudden you've got eight hundred and thirty five

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million dollars in cash in the bank, there is going

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to be more taxes. Now. I don't know what the

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tax law is in Arkansas. Some states do not tax

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their citizens lottery winners, most of them do. The federal

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government certainly does. And what the lottery group in most

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states will withhold just twenty percent for taxes on the

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check that they give you. Well, the taxes are going

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to be more than probably fifty percent, So it's going there.

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These whoever won this, if he got or she got

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eight hundred and thirty five million, I would think that

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you would probably pay another two or three hundred million

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in taxes before, but you'll still wind up with half

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a billion dollars in cash in your bank account. Here's

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Sharon Strong, she's one of the officials with the lottery

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in Arkansas.

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Speaker 9: I want that.

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Speaker 10: Person to visit with their attorney, with does it with

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their financial advisor, and when they come to the claim

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center to claim their winnings, to have a plan in

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place of how they're going to handle this life changing

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amount of money.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know why. That's kind of hard to hear,

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but what she was saying was, and it's something that

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I have professed for a long time she said. She said, basically,

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the lottery offices were closed yesterday because of Christmas. I

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don't know if they're open to day or not. But

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you take that ticket and I mean guard it with yeah,

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not with your life. Guard it carefully. And I know

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people that have put it in a safe deposit box

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until the lottery office opens up. But that gives you

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a chance. And by the way, in Arkansas, you do

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not need to say who you are. You can remain anonymous.

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I looked up the Arkansas law. It's an anonymity law

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and it applies to winners of prizes at five hundred

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thousand or more. Well, this is a lot more than that.

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So the winner's name, address, and other identifying information can

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be kept confidential for a period of three years. I

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think the family and the neighbors are going to know

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that something happened to you. Financially, when you start bringing

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home new cars going on worldwide trips. Most lottery winners.

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What I would do with the lottery winners is I

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would they all want to go have some fun with

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the money, So I would say, all right, let's carve

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off this percentage over here and go on a worldwide cruise,

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Go buy a new car, do whatever you're going to.

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But they many of them have eyes that are bigger.

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Not in this case, but most lottery winners have eyes

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that are bigger than their lottery winnings. They go through

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it too fast. I'm going to buy my mother a house,

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I'm going to buy my uncle a house. I'm going

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to know. You're going to run out of money. So

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what the lottery lady was saying was get a financial advisor.

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And I've always said get a good lawyer and a

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good insurance person and a good investment person, and have

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those three meet together with you. And I'll tell you

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why together, because if one of them wants to suggest

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to use something that's not the best for you, the

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other two should pipe up. So let's see, you need

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a good financial advisor, you need you need a good CPA,

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you need an insurance person, and you need a good lawyer. Now,

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the insuranurance person was one of the first things I

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would tell people to do is call your insurance person,

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especially your I mean you're talking about for this amount

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of money, you're talking about insurance people that are experts

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in the state planning. But for most people, it's just

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simply call your auto insurance and get your liability coverage

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bumped up. Because if you rear in somebody with practically

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no damage and they find out that you won a lottery,

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and they will they will find that out, they will

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sue you for that amount of money. So there's a

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lot of things that you need to do right away.

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But whoever it is, obviously their life has changed big time.

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By the way, they weren't the only ones to win.

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They won the one point eight billion dollar prize, but

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there were eight winners that won a one million dollar

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prize scattered around the country that don't make your that

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don't make your month happy. There were also thirty one

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people that won one hundred thousand dollars. I don't know

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about you, but an extra hundred thousand dollars in most

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households makes for a pretty nice, pretty nice Christmas gift.

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So anyway, there's your money angle for the day. Netflix

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I didn't watch the first game, which was Dallas versus

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Washington Commanders, but the second game I started to watch

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that I don't know it was on Netflix. That was

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the big deal was that Netflix was going to broadcast

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live sports. Live sports are very valuable to broadcasters because

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people don't tape them. You're going to find out the

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score if you do that, and then then it's going

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to ruin the whole thing. So live means you're going

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to have a lot of live eyeballs. But currently, in

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the middle of the game, they started interviewing people while

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the game was going and they they don't have a

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down what There's a lot of complaints. A lot of

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people are pushing back on all of this. Segan Odo

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Lou it's a broadcast analyst, and he thinks that they're

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served pretty green and you are one correct.

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Speaker 11: Netflix as a streamer is dipping its toes into the

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live live broadcast, and it's been having problems because the

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system is crashing, especially with something as big as the NFL,

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as big as the Dallas Cowboys, and also the teams

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it's putting together to cover these games. I think because

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they only do a couple games ever, once one time

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a year. They need to go back to the drawing

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board and look for chemistry. The best NFL broadcasts have

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groups that have been together for a long time. They

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do it week in and week out, and Netflix only

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doing it on Christmas. Needs to figure out who's going

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to work best in the booth and who's going to

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work best on the feed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot more to it than just slapping

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a camera out there and putting a few people in

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front of the camera to talk about a football game

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or two. So they don't do it very often, but

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they desperately want to get into it. And it's all

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part of this whole rehash of television broadcasting right now

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with the Paramount buying CBS and Paramount trying in competition

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with Netflix on trying to buy a Warner Brothers Discovery,

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So this I think sets them back a little bit

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on that effort, But we'll see how that work for

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Warner Discovery works out for for both Netflix and Paramount.

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The illegal trucker's story is not going away. We've saw

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headlines and some videos of terrible fail little accidents caused

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by by people that are here in this country are migrants,

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whether they're legal or illegal who don't know how to

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speak English, don't know how to read the signs, and

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they've been giving commercial driver's licenses like they're candy. They're

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handed out like Canada. They used to be a lot

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tougher to get that, Sean Duffy that Transportation secretary ways in.

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Speaker 12: These are simple rules. These rules are not made up

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by the Trump administration. I didn't make them up. These

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are rules that are set up to make sure our

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roads are safe. And so if you can't speak English,

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if you haven't gone through the proper training courses, you

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shouldn't be hind behind the wheel of a big ring.

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These are eighty thousand pound vehicles that can be incredibly

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dangerous when things go wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're getting They're getting all the headlines. And

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so California which was criticized for handing these things out

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like candy, and some of the drivers even there was

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a truck in Florida. The guy got a had a

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California commercial driver's license that was given to him. He

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did not understand English, did not understand how to read

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the signs. In any case, the migrant truckers, I don't

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know if they have an association of what they're suing

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the California DMV. Because California, they just can't seem to

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figure out how to do anything right. They went ahead

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and canceled twenty thousand commercial driver's licenses held by immigrants.

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They don't know if they're here legally or here illegally.

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The ones that are here, if they have a temporary visa,

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they did not coordinate the length of the expiration of

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the driver's license with the expiration of their visa. So

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it's a mess. So California just took all of them,

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every one of them, and canceled their California their commercial

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driver's licenses. The problem with that is there's a big

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chunk of them that are here legally, can eat, read

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and speak English, and are doing everything by the book.

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But what this may have an impact is that twenty

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thousand commercial truck drivers that are not going to be

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on the road, and that will whether you agree with

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it or not, it's going to have an impact on

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how they move freight in this country. You may see

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some delays. Speaking of delays, we'll talk about Epstein. I

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know it's not going away. So they now yesterday on

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Christmas Day, they said, oh, we found a million, one

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million more documents. Hey had no idea, Nick Ackerman, old

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Washington lawyer, isn't buying it. Non sense.

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Speaker 13: They had to know that these files existed right from

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the get go. First of all, we know that prior

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to May of this year, Pam Bondi had lots of

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FBI agents going through all of these files to determine

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whether President Trump's name was in these documents, so she

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knew where the documents were. But on top of that,

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even more glaring is the fact that all of these

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documents they had to know were in the Southern District

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of New York that prosecuted the Maxwell and Epstein criminal cases.

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Why is that because when you're a prosecutor, you are obliged,

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you commanded to return over to the defense exculpatory evidence

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under a Supreme Court decision known as Brady. And in

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order to do that, you have to get every file

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that's in the federal government, whether it's in the FAA

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or some other agency. They have to be under your

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control so you can comply with your Brady obligations. And

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certainly Todd Blanche, who was in charge of this whole matter,

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was a former assistant US Attorney in the Southern District

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of New York. He should have known that, so they

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had to know that these were there. There's no excuse

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for it.

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Speaker 1: Well, the excuse is a combination of incompetence and also

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they're trying to protect somebody or some buddies. But the

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more they try and hide stuff, the more they just

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look like they're hiding a lot of things. Who knows

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how this is all going to turn out, but it

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won't go away, and it is bipartisan phone calls. Phone

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number to reach the program leave your comment is eight

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five five two nine five sixty six hundred. Eight five

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five two nine five sixty six hundred. If you forget

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the number, it's on my website, which is Tom Sullivan

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dot com. You'll find the phone number there. Let's start

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with with Eric, who likes to call me comrade.

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Speaker 14: Here's Eric many Christmas song. This is comrad Emil. Anyway

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he to holdy about this. The reason I the other

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why I called. I was watching the news and they

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said that there's a gender International Airport Missles active case.

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And they said the person was vaccinated with MMURI vaccine,

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which has ninety seven percent efficacy or efficiency efficacy rate.

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So I guess he was one of those three percent,

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and now the whole country is under middle alert. I

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would suggest you before you setting on the plane, get

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another vaccination, get coupled just in case. Anyway, I'll guess

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I'll see you on Monday or on Friday or that

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is about the Solidays. You know, you don't know anything?

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Is it Monday? This holiday where the people who is

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the people? People going the nursing homes, exploiting, nobody smells

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the gas and everything and just crazy.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 14: My suggestion, just stay home, don't go anywhere, and be

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careful during the holidays DC. It's just a lot of

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non routine stuff can happen now with the people. And

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don't become statistics. I don't plan to become statistic myself.

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Speaker 1: Bye. Well, I guess that. I guess that's good advice,

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is don't become a statistic. I hope you don't, Eric,

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hope nobody does. But yes, things happen all the time.

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Things happen. They don't pay attention to the to the

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holidays calendar. They they just happened. But the measles thing, yeah,

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I see that. That makes no sense to me. Everybody

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should get their measles vaccine, but some people are just

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anti vas. Speaking of anti here's a renal homeless guy.

477
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I don't know if he's all right or not. It

478
00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:15,640
doesn't sound like he's very upset with me, and he's

479
00:31:15,759 --> 00:31:19,920
very upset with Kevin O'Leary, who people call mister wonderful.

480
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He's just I don't know. I'll play it for you.

481
00:31:23,119 --> 00:31:24,359
He sounds angry.

482
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Speaker 15: I don't know who mister wonderful is. But you've lost

483
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You've lost touches the whole thing. Tom.

484
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Speaker 1: You're ridiculous, bro, you gotta I don't know.

485
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Speaker 15: Man, I'm gonna keep listening and I'm gonna keep going.

486
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You can block me if you want, but your way

487
00:31:47,519 --> 00:31:51,960
out of touch with reality and uh, your way out

488
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,839
of touch with reality and Donalds. I don't know what

489
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,000
you people are waiting for, but he has to be

490
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thrown out off immediately like yesterday. I don't know what

491
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,960
you people are waiting for. He's a climb and you're

492
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,960
gonna climb us all down to nothing. We're isolated now

493
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in the world. We're completely isolated. I don't know where

494
00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:22,960
you're going with all this time, you know, I don't know.

495
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I don't know. But it's completely ridiculous.

496
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't mean to be mean about it, but

497
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,400
he doesn't make a point very well. I guess he

498
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,480
he doesn't like Donald Trump. I must have said something

499
00:32:38,559 --> 00:32:41,240
nice about the president. Maybe that was it. He has

500
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a hard time articulating his points. But no, I'm not

501
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:51,480
blocking him. We'll play him. Here's TK, good old TK

502
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in Missouri.

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Speaker 16: This is TK and Missouri. I hope you and your

504
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,240
family has air and merry Christmas and a frosh first

505
00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:07,960
New Year. And I've not taken a dirt nap yet,

506
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So I just wanted to check in with you and

507
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let you know I'm still vertical. I hope you have

508
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:16,799
a happy holiday.

509
00:33:18,519 --> 00:33:18,759
Speaker 15: Bye.

510
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: Now, there's a classy guy, TK. He and I don't

511
00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:27,160
agree on everything. In fact, he's convinced that the twenty

512
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,880
twenty election was stolen and I don't, but we're civil

513
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,920
about it. We agree that we disagree with each other. Well,

514
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,920
what a nice man, and I'm really glad he's always polite.

515
00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:41,559
I love the fact that he's still he hasn't taken

516
00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:45,279
a dirt nap, and he's still vertical, which is a

517
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,559
very good position for all of us to be in.

518
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:53,240
So Merry Christmas. Back to you and yours TK and finally,

519
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,200
Laurie the comment line. Lady weighs in on the show

520
00:33:58,319 --> 00:34:00,240
on Christmas Eve, Tom.

521
00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:04,359
Speaker 9: Your Salty Christmas Show was one for the ages. I

522
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,440
enjoyed it so much. I hope you'll interview Salty next

523
00:34:08,519 --> 00:34:11,400
Christmas and every Christmas to come.

524
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Laurie. I listen. Salty's just a good guy,

525
00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:20,719
and I suspect I may be talking to him before

526
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,840
next Christmas. But I'm glad that you liked it. Salty

527
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,960
keeps adding more fans to his fan club, no question,

528
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:34,760
and I got a nice email from Darla. She writes

529
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,719
about yesterday' show on Christmas. She says, thank you so

530
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,639
much for sharing this episode with us. Loved it so much.

531
00:34:43,519 --> 00:34:47,280
The Tom and Rush episode. Yeah, I played yesterday on Christmas.

532
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,159
You can go back and listen to it with the podcast.

533
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:53,559
It's easy go back to yes Thursday, December twenty fifth,

534
00:34:54,239 --> 00:35:00,639
I found an old show from nineteen ninety six where

535
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,280
Rush and I basically commits for one full hour. It

536
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,239
doesn't last an hour when you take out the commercials,

537
00:35:08,519 --> 00:35:12,360
but it was Rush Limbaugh and myself from May of

538
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,239
nineteen ninety six, and it was hard to listen to

539
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,639
because it brought it right back like Rush was still here.

540
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,280
It's been almost five years since he passed away. So

541
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,760
on Wall Street today, Yes, the market was open full

542
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,239
session today, but very light trading. The Dow Jones Industrials

543
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:33,199
down twenty points to forty eight thousand and seven to ten,

544
00:35:33,679 --> 00:35:38,440
the SMP down two, the Nasdaq down twenty, price of

545
00:35:38,519 --> 00:35:41,679
gold way up fifty five dollars to four thousand and

546
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,199
five point fifty eight, and price of oil down a

547
00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:47,639
buck and a half, down to fifty six dollars now

548
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,440
for one barrel of oil. That's it for today. Thank

549
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,000
you for coming by, have yourself a wonderful weekend. We'll

550
00:35:55,039 --> 00:36:02,239
be back on Monday. I hope to see you then.

551
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Speaker 11: S