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now it's time for our predictions of which we're not ready at all but go for it Scott you start and I'll think of one
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while you're talking uh okay so I'm just randomly picking three U and I can't help but play um a geopolitical
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commentator on television so um I've said this before I think that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel are
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going to normalize relations and I'm I'm I'm I'd like to think that peace and prosperity have a are going to have a
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second chance or new Newfound Vigor as the two largest economies normalize relations I think I think that President
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Biden sending these carrier strike forces has ring Fen the conflict I think the whole world is coming to the
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important recognition that you can have empathy for one side and that doesn't immediately prohibit you from having
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empathy for the other and I'm so I'm I'm just hopeful that uh the normalization of relationships relations between the
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kingdom and Israel will create a lot of economic incen to maintain something resembling a peace I'd also say that
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it's not possible with the current leadership on either side but anyways longer conversation normalization of
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normalization of relations in 2024 between the kingdom and Israel I believe that the world's largest tax cut or in
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history is about to take place in 2024 as the US and China and Chinese relationship relations thaw I think
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there's going to be a new bear hug I think that inflation in the United States is an existential threat across
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not only the United States but governments are overthrown if Roy weight is overturned people are upset about it
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but only a small very small number of households are actually impacted inflation hits people every day and it's
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literally the number one cause of why governments are overthrown or or political parties have thrown out of
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office so the US and the West have an inflation problem China has hit real roadblocks economically whether you look
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at their stock market some of their biggest real estate um companies going out of business
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and with a onep party system if you have economic Calamity you you you tempt or you risk Revolution and I think that
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while two years ago they were definitely feeling um very emboldened I think China
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now recognizes that uh they're they cannot take their economic growth for granted they have had real economic
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issues the last two years and the fastest way out of inflation and to renew economic growth across the largest
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and second largest economies in the world are for the two to kiss and make up and the IP and innovation of us
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combined with the industrial manufacturing might of China creates every single product in the world for a
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lower price and a higher quality and that chocolate and peanut butter of 88% of your toys under the Christmas tree
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which come from China being a little less expensive every year uh is going to uh the incentives are lining up for both
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parties to put their differences aside and re-embrace each other so normalization or or thawing of us Ceno
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relations in 2024 all right and I think my final one is okay keep going my final
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one is I think um I think that um we're going to see actually two more massive amount of
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disinformation from Ai and q1 and Q2 said this before around the election and uh my my I think travel stocks are
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ranging from Expedia to I don't know with another Airbnb I'm by the way I'm a holder on Airbnb not an not an Expedia
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are going to boom I think the travel industry is going to boom and unfortunately there's
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a very dark side to this and I think the reason they're going to Boom is I think
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people in their 20s a lot of them have just given up on the traditional uh dream of owning a home and because
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they're no longer saving two 3 five grand a year in hopes of moving into a home in the late 20s early 30s they're
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going to be they're going to have more disposable income and they're going to decide to spend it on travel is the
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traditional American dream of buying a home has just becomes kind of Out Of Reach for them and I think the travel
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industry is going to be the unfortunate beneficiary of all this additional disposable income that traditionally has
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gone into saving for People's First home 14 million homes have been formed in the
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last 10 years and only 11 million homes have been built average cost of a home pre- pandemic was 290 it's now 420 and
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then you couple that with interest rates going from 3% to 7% the American dream is now a hallucination for most people
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when it comes to home ownership and I think people are going to spend more money on travel travel stocks to Boom
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wow that's a lot wow that's a lot of them all right I have uh two I think one I think big one um I don't think Donald
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Trump is going to be the president of the United States I think Joe Biden's going to win and I'm going to say that
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now um I know these polls are going this way I think the American people have had
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it with him and the more you see of of uncle crazy the less you're going to like what you see and remind you of bad
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times I don't think you're going to remember the tax cuts I don't think you remember anything else and I think the
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people will start to feel better about the economy uh over the next year so I think um I think the age thing is a
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significant issue obviously but he's been doing so well and uh and I think people are just going to bite the bullet
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and and vote for Joe Biden and also the there's some real signs the Republican National Committee is way down in
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fundraising both small donor and big donor everybody people don't want to give money that it's going to help
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Donald Trump I think and people are very nervous about so I would I'm gonna go out on limb he's not going to be the
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president I think we should calm the [ __ ] down I don't think he will I think it'd be a disaster obviously uh but I
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don't think the American every time there's that Kansas thing happening or what happened in Michigan
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with the judge or they always go the other way that everyone is predicting and these right-wingers are like we've
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got it now Glenn yunen and they and I said the same thing about Glen yonen I was talking to a lot of people I think
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people want to move on and there should be a the only caveat is this is these third party things and we'll see there
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could be issues around that um but I have I just have this feeling people are like let's just stick with the captain
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you a good gut on predictions around politics let me ask you a couple follow-ups do you think Trump go do you
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think Trump goes to jail yes yes every lawyer I talk to there's no way pre or post election well as long as he gets
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convicted before the election if not he can pardon himself or there'll be a whole mess of things but that'll be his
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whole Administration is him parting himself and not getting anything done so it'll be about him he'll be just
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outrageous and it'll be a useless waste of our time and I don't think people want to waste their time anymore um so
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what about these third party candidates do you think Joe mansion going to run do
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you think R I think he doesn't have the set I don't speaking of small no I don't
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think he has the set I think he's a egomaniac and a narcissist but I don't think he has what it takes I think he
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likes to be in the middle of things but not the hard work of of being a president and uh doing the things it
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takes I even think Trump has got more of a stamina than Joe Mansion I think both
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of them do I don't think he has stamina I don't know but I think RFK will fade as people get to know more about him uh
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I think young people being n I know a lot of people posted about going home and all these young people saying I'm
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not going to vote for Joe Joe Biden because of the Israel thing that's a year from now I think when they're faced
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with Donald Trump they're not going to pull the they're not going to stay home and they're not gonna they know what
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that means I think people will man up and do the right thing anyway that's my on that um and in Tech um I I I think
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the justice department might win this case with Google I don't know it's looking that way isn't it I think they
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will I think uh got a good case I think it's a backward-looking case and they should be focusing on forward-looking
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things but that's not the Justice Department's job here um so I do think they're going to win it I don't know
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what the real repercussions will be because it's a it's a it's a it's a story of the past and um search
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certainly has changed that shouldn't be Google's defense here from what they did
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then right it can't say well murder's legal now or whatever you know uh they they don't have a excuse what happened
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happened and I think they'll probably have an issue I think they will lose this case and then it'll just keep keep
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going on and on um but I do think the government might Prevail here uh I don't know about these Facebook cases but
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definitely um uh they've got a higher bar to prove on things but they they C it certainly looks like maybe a good
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year for for for at least the Justice fit not so much for regulatory uh bodies necessarily just a prediction on top of
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a prediction if if they are in fact found guilty and the remedy may be the breakup and it's not entirely clear even
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if they are found guilty if that would be the remedy but if the remedy looks like it's going to be a breakout Google
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stock will outperform every other big that's prob in 2024 you are 100% right sir YouTube is a juggernaut on its own I
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mean obviously search is just the ultimate toll booth and if they were to spin their Ai and Cloud division
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together the some of the parts Google on a multiple of Revenue basis is cheaper than every other Big T Tech you're 100%
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right there you're 100% 100% right about that I think that'll be interesting you're right it could be I would spin
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off YouTube If I were there um they've got plenty there to work with um so we'll see those are my predictions I
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like basic hope you're right hope you're right on all of that uh I I shall be I am good on the on the political stuff
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seem to be good on the I just think people will be once they see that guy again they've seen little bits of him
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they'll be like oh that guy that guy oh I hate I hope you're right the data says
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we're both wrong every time does no the data doesn't the polling does the polling was wrong about everything and
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I'm sorry I just don't believe polls I think there's a silent majority of people who just want to move on from him
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first might want to move on from Biden but they really want to move on from him last night as I said I'm I'm alone I was
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alone had an edible and I took a poll and stuck it up my ass all right and we're going to do that I'll be here I'll
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we try the be let me tell you one other prediction Scott will continue to make tasteless jokes no matter what I do and
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I'm thinking of call in the Justice Department