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