We won't cooperate, we'll only compete!

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My father once told me that the only thing that is perhaps more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose is a committee of 12 people trying to decide where to go for lunch.
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Welcome to Implicit Bias Radio, the show where we examine the things you're thinking but aren't allowed to say at the HR-mandated mixer.
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I am your host, Kavan Bordelon, and it is time for us to get to it.
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So here we go.
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This week, it's the great softening.
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We've managed to do it, folks.
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We have successfully transitioned from a species that fought saber-toothed tigers for the right to sleep in a cave to a species that holds a meeting to discuss the emotional ergonomics of a shared workspace.
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We have become obsessed.
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I mean obsessed with cooperation.
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Now, don't get me wrong, cooperation is great for, you know, building a bridge or surviving a zombie apocalypse.
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But as a governing philosophy for a civilization, it's a slow-motion slide into mediocrity.
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We've managed to trade the adrenaline of the hunt for the lukewarm comfort of the participation trophy.
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We used to want the gold medal.
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Now we just simply want a laminated certificate that says, we showed courage by arriving.
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We have gone from celebrating the man who wins the game to celebrating the man who didn't even enter the game in the first place.
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Look, Bobby Boucher was never celebrated as the water boy.
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It wasn't till he opened up a can of whoop ass and tackled someone that he became the main character.
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And the joke is that he was always capable.
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He just didn't do it because, well, his cooperation as the team's hydration engineer was all that was celebrated in his household.
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You can do it is a fine pep talk.
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It's not a substitute for actually doing it.
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We seem to have forgotten that the beauty of the game isn't just playing, it's actually winning.
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Crash Davis said it in Bull Durham.
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This is a very simple game.
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You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball.
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He did not add, and then we all get juice boxes and a participation ribbon because of feelings.
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If you can't handle the pressure, maybe maybe we don't belong in the big leagues.
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Today, everyone, unfortunately, is put in the big leagues, and the league is playing on a field of marshmallows.
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Even the ancients knew this.
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Open your Bibles to just 1 Corinthians 9 24, and you'll find the divine endorsing the hustle.
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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize?
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One.
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Only one.
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That's the cosmic truth of the universe.
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The universe is not a circle where we all hold hands and hum.
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It's a podium with one gold medal and a lot of people staring at their shoes.
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But we have decided the prize, well, it's too mean.
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We've decided the race is too exclusionary.
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And this isn't just little league.
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This cooperation ethos has metastasized into the economy.
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We call it synergy.
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We call it strategic partisanship.
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Let's call it what it actually is.
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A quiet corporate noose on the population.
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Look at the shipping industry.
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We're told there's a competitive market, but it's a monopoly between two people.
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That, by the way, is called a duopoly for those who don't know.
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It's a cozy little club.
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The USPS, the actual government postal service, is essentially just a massive customer for both of them.
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It's like having a race where the referee is paying the runners to let them win.
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It's the logistics version of The Godfather.
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It's not personal, it's business.
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Except in this version, nobody even gets offered the horse's head.
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They just get a tracking number and a shrug.
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Don't get me wrong.
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And don't get me started on the game that is the grocery store.
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You walk down the soap aisle and see 20 brands of laundry detergent.
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You feel like you have a choice.
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You feel like you're in a free market with competition, but look a little closer.
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Look at the parent companies.
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You're choosing between brand A, which is owned by Megacorp, brand B, which is also owned by Megacorp, and brand C, which Megacorp bought in 2012 and kept the old label on it.
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So you'd still think you were not being rug pulled.
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It's an illusion of competition.
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It's the corporate equivalent of the dad in Monsters Inc.
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pretending to be a monster under the bed.
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It looks scary and diverse from a distance, but up close, it's just the same guy in a different mask.
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When competition dies, the consumer is the one who gets buried.
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Prices go up, quality goes down, innovation stops.
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Why?
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Because they need to just invent a better mousetrap when unfortunately we've already bought the other mousetrap company and painted it a different color.
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We've become the students in back to school, trying to cheat our way to the finish line without doing the work, hoping the system is too polite to notice that we're just coasting.
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Ronnie Dangerfield didn't go back to school to find his authentic collaborative voice.
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He went back to pass and he brought a professional to write the paper, which frankly is more honest than half of the mergers we're actually applauding on CNBC right now.
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We've been traded and we have traded the will to win for the will to be liked.
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That makes for very polite dinner parties and a very stagnant society at the same time.
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We don't need cooperation.
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We need a little more friction.
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We need grit.
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We need hunger.
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We need to stop pretending everyone gets a trophy just because they found the stadium.
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Rocky didn't go the distance so Apollo Creed could feel included.
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He went the distance because losing hurt more than bleeding.
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Yo, Adrian is more than a love story.
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It's also a man who refused to stay off the canvas.
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The only thing worse than losing a fair fight is winning a fake one because everyone else was too polite to swing.
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We are not being threatened to be expelled, apparently, from the world of podcasting.
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You know, we'll we'll get to the whole L S U S E C thing at some point, maybe bonus content on this show.
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So, you know, I figured somebody would be upset that we were trying to recruit illegal whiskeys to the show at some point and then try and kick us out, but that's a whole different story.
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I'm Gavon Bordelon.
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This is Implicit Bias Radio.
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Welcome back to the Mr.
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Lester's top secret podcast layer somewhere in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Let me introduce you to the crew who's here this week.
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Nose humping that glass mercilessly is Caleb Morse.
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How do?
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Did you get the tip wet?
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I'm trying.
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I was about to say, because your nose, like your entire face is in that glass.
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I'm getting close.
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Is my mic on or am I just muffled in my own head?
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No, you're muffled in your own head.
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Making sure.
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No, but it's uh the aroma's wonderful, I'll tell you that.
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No, I really, really, really like this one.
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We're gonna talk about it in a minute.
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Let me introduce the rest of the crew.
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Quick on the bell.
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I thought I'd be dead.
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Grant Galatis at the bar.
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You know what?
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Fantastic job of actually catching that, Grant, because that was a little verbal sleight of hand that I didn't think most people would pick up.
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That was just nasty.
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That was not nasty.
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That was not nasty.
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Dove into the deep end naked, basically.
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That would be nasty.
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Me being naked.
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Trust me, y'all don't want to see that.
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Is there another way to dive into the deep end?
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That's a good point.
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Touche.
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Good to be here.
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Love it.
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Pleasure to have you.
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Football's back off to a rousing start.
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Yeah.
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Good whiskey soap called.
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Rousing or a rousing?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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And my my favorite is because I'm going, I'm thinking full dodgeball when he says touche.
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I'm like picturing Ben Stiller as Dwight Goodman.
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Touche.
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I told you, I still completely inappropriate.
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I can't get through that whole movie.
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I've never seen it.
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Ben Stiller just irks me.
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That I get.
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But it's still a funny movie, especially because he does, there's a lot of self-deprecating humor in there.
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Right.
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Gotcha.
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Good to be here, though.
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Pleasure to have you.
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At the bar, we have Chris Richard of Champines Market in Abbeyville.
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Pleasure to have you here, sir, especially since you brought the weekly whiskey.
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Absolutely.
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Thank you for having us back here on the show.
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Um, it's been a little while and looking forward to it.
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Okay, so why don't you tell us about the weekly whiskey that you have brought to the show?
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Because we'd love everybody to know that the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective, we only feature barrel picks on this show.
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For our New Orleans listeners and viewers for our Monroe, we're always looking for stuff from your area.
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We've done some things from New Orleans, but this time it's Champines Market in Abbeyville.
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If you want to take a bourbon hunting drive, great place to go.
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So tell us about this wilderness trail.
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Absolutely.
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So we have Wilderness Trail single barrel.
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Um, one of our first barrel picks that we did.
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Um it's really good.
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It's a high rye.
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Um, Dr.
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Pat does a really good job with his products that are coming out of Wilderness Trail.
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One of the things that we love on this show, we are partial to rye whiskey.
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A lot of people don't realize that they will call a bourbon a high rye bourbon.
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And it might not technically be high rye.
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To be a high rye bourbon, supposed to be what, 25% rye in the mash bill?
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I thought it was 35%, but it's you may be right.
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It's 25 or 35, but there is a minimum percentage of the mash bill that has to be rye.
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It can't be 10%, 12%.
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Somebody say, oh, it's high rye, there's a lot of rye in it.
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You might still get those rye flavors, but technically not a high rye.
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This one, if it's classified there, we know that it's there.
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We'll we'll verify 25 or 35% while Caleb starts to verbalize his thoughts.
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And I'm I'm I'm so tempted not to start with Caleb, but we don't usually start with Caleb.
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So if we're gonna let the ridiculous bourbon explanation that is almost always right go first, we're gonna let him go first.
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This one won't be crazy.
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I mean, on on the nose, I actually have some good notes with it, right?
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On the nose, I get honey, not honeysuckle, but like fresh honey, floral, and then you get like a beer, like that yeasty beer kind of smell at the end.
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Yeah.
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It's really pleasant.
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It smells just like I was sitting there nose hum in the glass.
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You want to enjoy it.
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And then on the palate, it's thin, right?
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Uh, it's not overly viscous.
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I get it light, so very, very light.
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Uh well, hundred and something proof.
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You'll can you'll can guess.
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Oh, I didn't even look at the proof.
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We're gonna let Chris hang on.
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Oh, Chris is like you look, go ahead, tell me.
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Um and then I I don't get a lot of a lot of that honey flavor through there.
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It's a very thin, light honey.
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This is a great summer whiskey, right here.
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And then it's hard to describe the actual flavor I get.
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But imagine that you're sitting in a tractor, bush hog in a field, right?
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You're getting ready to cut hay, do everything else, and you've got about 10 acres or so going down, and you get out in that first big whiff you get a fresh cut hay.
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That's the flavor.
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You taste it in the air, you taste it in the glass with this one.
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Uh so that's that that yeasty beer flavor I get at the end is that rye, it's that grain, it's that earthiness, and it really comes through very, very not overly pronounced, but present is what I want to use with this one.
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It it's it's light, it's airy, it's a fresh breath, uh, a breath of fresh air.
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This is a it's a damn good one.
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Okay.
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So this is interesting.
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AI is telling me that um high rye, there is no official legal definition.
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It's more of a an enthusiast or industry term.
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Um and it's a standard recipe for mash bills, is usually 10 to 15% rye, but most sources treat a mash bill as high rye once it reaches 20% or more.
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So we like a little bit more, right?
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We like that 25 to 35.
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Yeah, we we kind of like that pepper.
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We like just straight rye whiskey.
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But that that answers officially the question, assuming that AI actually got it right.
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Well, and this one's not the straight rye.
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Uh, do we know what the rye content is on this one?
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We do not.
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I do not see that on the mash bill.
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And like the end of your palette, you I get the corn.
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I get that uh that corn sweetness you get with a bourbon.
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I get at the end of it, which is kind of really surprising because normally uh if you don't have a lot of that rye to balance it out, do you get it more in the mid, the front or the mid palette?
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It's very, very abrupt.
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Right at the end, you're like, oh, there it is.
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There's that sweetness you're looking for.
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And I'm not gonna call it caramel because it's not a caramel, it is a corn, uh, what's the the sweetener we get from corn?
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High fructose corn syrup?
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Yeah, that's it.
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So uh it's that corn syrupy flavor right at the end of it, but it's not overly sweet.
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You're thinking of Kro syrup.
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Yes, yes, yeah.
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I'm like, what's that sweetener?
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Kro syrup is it is a sweetener, but it's it's more than it's not high fructose corn syrup.
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So there's more to it than that.
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Grant, I'm curious, because you have gotten a try of this.
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I'd love to hear what you think.
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And I'm curious as to what you think of the proof on this.
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Where do you think the proof is?
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And what would you guess is the age on this?
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Well, I uh I sneaked at the proof, so I know what proof it is.
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Uh I would never dare to disagree with Caleb, but I'm gonna disagree with Caleb a little bit.
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Uh when I when I first sipped on this, it tasted a little more full.
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It tasted a little more full-bodied.
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So I started tilting it on the glass, and it I mean, it clings to the side of the glass for a good bit.
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So I saw a little bit of viscosity to it.
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Not not severe, but uh my goodness, that's a lot of sweet flavor to it.
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I mean, I'm getting chocolates and there's a there's a little bit of a citrusy in there, but I'm getting a whole lot of chocolate and vanilla and not sure about camp caramel, but my goodness, that's a lot of flavors.
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And I know a lot of people don't like when it's too sweet and too much uh that you can't really taste the whiskey, but um uh I'm gonna disagree with those folks though.
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I don't think this is oversweet.
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I really don't.
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What I think this is, for lack of the term, this to me, it's grainy.
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So for those that have had the grain to glass series, that's what this reminds me of.
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It's almost like you can taste the terra noir as wine people talk about.
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You can almost taste the where this came from.
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You can almost taste the grain in the glass, and you say, Man, I get the corn, I get the rye, I get I get some wheat.
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I mean, I don't know that even wheat's in the mash bill, but that's the flavor profile that I get.
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Like this to me gives you, and I know this is going to be an interesting comparison.
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This to me gives you a very close comparison to the Colonel Taylor four-grain that we had brought to us by our buddy Greg Trish from the Sazerac house.
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That's kind of what this reminds me of.
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You get those beautiful grain flavors, and to your point, Caleb, you almost get not beer, but almost bread.
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It's you almost get a bread-like taste on the palate.
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And that that's that dude, I believe that's due to the grain or the granular base for it, right?
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That's where I'm going with the hayfield because you taste the earth with it.
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Yeah.
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You don't you're not just sipping on it, you're like, oh, that's corn.
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No, no, no.
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You experience the corn.
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You get all the I'm trying to find the sweetness.
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Like, because it's it's it's there.
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I get it.
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I definitely get the sweetness, but I don't get oversweet.
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Good lord.
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I mean, because the uh the online description is is there's ten things in there that it says.
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But it it is saying wheat, but I mean it gives a full-bodied viscous, creamy, vanilla bean, caramelized pecans, orange marmalade, and the wheat recipe soft texture gives way to a pleasant tongue bite of heat.
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Orange marmalade.
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Who really buys that?
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That's charred oak.
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Charred oak, dark chocolate, and deep baking spices.
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I mean, that's uh when I first read it, I mean there's ten different uh tastes to it.
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And I tasted a just a whole lot of flavor to it, which I usually don't I'm not able to pick out and specify like Caleb.
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But yeah, I I got a little bit of overwhelm not overwhelming sweet, but a lot of sweet mixture.
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Fair.
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Okay, so my question is this how old do you think this is, Grant?
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Like if you had to guess an age on this, how old would you think this bottle would be?
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I would think seven years, six or seven years.
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What if I told you four years, one month?
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Whoa.
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Look, you you want to talk about one of the things that really jumps out when you know that the distillate is really just quality, is that it doesn't need all the age.
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I would love to taste this after it's been in a cask for eight years.
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I would love to see where it could go.
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On the same hand, pulling it at four years is absolutely 100% needed to be done because man, it's just it's so good.
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It is sweet, it is palatable, it is approachable, which is something you don't always get at 111.1 proof.
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Caleb, would you have guessed that this was 111?
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Never, never.
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It drinks like an 80.
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Yeah, I agree.
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It drinks incredibly soft.
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Now, to be fair, we are proofhounds on this show.
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Just a little.
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We are aware of this.
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We have always said life starts at 107 and begins going upwards from there, but not everybody on the show is always that diehard as we are when it comes to whiskey, bourbon, what we like.
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So I get to play again because Chris actually knows what this costs.
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So the what would you pay championship belt chain is up for grabs for myself, for Grant, for Caleb, and even Chris Castro, who's gonna join us after this segment.
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So if Chris comes in, we're gonna get a number from him.
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We'll we'll put it over the air.
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Maybe he will win it.
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I don't know.
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But we're gonna get what would you pay?
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And we're gonna rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code here in the TSPL.
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Red, I wouldn't drink it even if it was free.
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Yellow, I would only drink it if it was free.
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Green, I would buy this.
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Blue, I would seek this out.
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So I'll go first.
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I'm gonna say store pick four years, one month, single barrel.
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Uh, call it$59.99 on this, and we're you don't have to give us the answer yet, but I'm going$59.99, and I I hate to keep dishing these out.
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I really do.
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But we apparently have some really great bourbon palettes in Acadiana.
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This is a blue to me.
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I mean, this is something that uh I want on my bar, I need on my bar.
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I I would love to make an old-fashioned with this.
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I'd love to make a couple of bourbon-flavored cocktails, but to me, this is a blue.
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Caleb, we'll go to you, then we'll go to Grant.
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And I'm$59.99.
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So I'm$64.99.
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Okay.
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Uh I was I was worried you're gonna get too close to my number.
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Um I definitely don't want to be too close to you.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And uh you might touch me.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a green because it's it's it's wonderful.
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It is it is complex for what it is, it's different, but yet very familiar.
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It wants you to continue drinking it.
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But I need a little bit more, maybe a little bit more proof.
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Okay.
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Maybe something.
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I I feel like it's just it's on the cusp of greatness.
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Okay.
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You know, it's patent before his his big war.
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Okay.
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Makes sense.
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Grant.
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Uh I'm gonna give it a green also.
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I'd I'd like to see it a little more mature.
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Uh I know it's gonna be like a$49 bottle, so I'm gonna say$72.
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All right, Mr.
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Castro.
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I'm just curious, where would you put this on the Morse whiskey rating code?
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Oh, we have a microphone that he can dive into.
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Where would you put this on the Morse whiskey rating code?
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And what would you pay?
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You're gonna have to get close up to that microphone and eat it.
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I would make it a green and uh I'd say it's uh$70.
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$70.
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So we got$59.99,$64.99.
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You said$72 and then$70, Chris, who's the winner?
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Okay, so what happens if you hit the the price on the on the head?
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Oh, you get to assign who gets to wear the what would you pay championship belt chain presented by Box Drop.
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All right, well, price is$59.99.
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That means that no, Grant, I'm not gonna do it to you.
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You pass it to me, I will wear it.
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I'm not gonna do that.
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If you hit it on the head, which I think that is the first that we've ever actually in six years we've gotten closed.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I don't know what to say whenever you you you guessed it, you know.
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No, look, I will proudly wear the what would you pay championship belt chain presented by box drop.
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I'll have to put it on during the break because I will need a back brace while we do it.
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But that's a whole nother thing.
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We're gonna take a break, we're gonna come back, a beautiful wilderness trail.
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Go to Champines in Abbeyville, pick it up.
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They've got a great whiskey selection, find it there, find all the other stuff they've got, get yourself a pour and come back for more Implicit Bias Radio.
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Implicit Bias Radio back on the air from the TSPL, somewhere in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana.
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I'm Kavan Bordelon.
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Welcome back to the Mr.
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Lester's top secret podcast layer with Caleb Morse, with Chris Castro, the console Yeri, with Grant Galatus, who is known as KB.
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He's known as Big A Beta Diamonds for less.
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I was almost gonna say Better Off Dead because the B just started to roll, but Better Off Dead's not here.
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So, you know, we don't have Walker with us this week.
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And for those who get that joke, you because you've seen the movie Better Off Dead, I want my two dollars.
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That's where that's from.
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All right.
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So, Chris, first of all, we didn't get your full review on the whiskey.
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We got that you thought it was a green.
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What'd you think of this offering from Champagne's Market in Abbeyville, this wilderness trail?
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I I felt like it's got some uh heat to it, a little pepper uh on on the taste, you know.
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Um, the first you know, flavor out was you know a little sweet, but as I got into it, I in my opinion, it feels a little peppery on the uh tongue.
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So I don't know.
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Uh I'm not so much uh a an aficionado between the rye and the bourbon, but I do want to say that rye does have a little more kind of uh rye is known for being more peppery and having more of that.
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And this is rye, right?
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No, this is a this this is a high rye bourbon.
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So you will get so first of all, to be bourbon, it's gotta have a mash bill that is 51% corn, first of all.
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That's one thing.
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It meets all the other criteria to be a high rye, typically over 20% rye in the mash bill.
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So you get the sweet of the corn and you get the pepper from the rye.
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Definitely get the pepper in the back of the throat, gotta say, you know.
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And that's why tasty.
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Yeah.
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And like I said, it was a green.
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Yeah.
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Uh it'd be nice to have in my collection.
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Well, there you go.
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All you gotta do is go to Champlain's in Abbeyville to pick up a bottle.
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All right.
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Awesome.
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So let's jump into where you might maybe not want to go to pick up your groceries or a bottle or shop because I don't know about you guys, but this whole cooperation versus competition thing, it seems more and more often like the game that we are playing is rigged.
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And it's not necessarily rigged by one person, it's rigged by like three or four that got together and said, Hey, how do we rig the game?
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Now, I'm gonna reference something that wasn't even in the topics for this week, but this ties in perfectly, which is we are now seeing that the president of the United States is starting to go around what the big four meat packers and telling ranchers you can sell direct.
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Caleb, we know that you have a totally different thing.
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Earlier talking about hitting the back of the throat and now meat packing Joe is just killing me.
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Oh, we know that we're getting to cl to topics that are near and dear to your heart, Caleb.
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So, but right now there are basically four companies that own all of the beef slaughterhouses in the United States.
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Four companies.
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If you think these four companies aren't taking notes from each other and In quiet collusion, we'll call it, you're kidding yourself.
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There's no competition.
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They're not actually really competing.
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They're in competition with one another for their own benefit, right?
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But they are definitely 100% communicating and trying to say this is what we can do to help raise the water in everyone.
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I mean, we look at the advent of how many local slaughterhouses do you even know anymore?
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I know of one.
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I know of one.
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There are very, very few.
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But there are very but that's my point.
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There are very, very few.
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And we have a lot of cattle ranchers here in southern Louisiana.
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People, people, when they think of cattle, they think of Texas and the Dakotas and all that, but Louisiana is really big on ranching.
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Yeah.
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And farmers should have the ability to sell their beef direct to the public if they want to.
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It kind of ties into one of the other topics that you sent us how everybody's a massive swing away from vegan and all the uh the substitute meat alternatives.
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So is Trump actually trying to incentivize these guys to look stay significant?
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I mean, stay operating.
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No, actually, the the problem is hand in and what's he doing?
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I didn't hear about it.
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He's trying to enhance competition.
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He's basically said beef prices are overinflated because four major players are, he said it without saying the market, they are colluding to keep the prices of beef high.
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Let me give you an example of what this looks like.
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And I know because I worked for companies that did this.
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So if you are in the transportation business, there are basically three big players.
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One is owned by the US government.
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They don't do a great job, and they are massive customers of the other two that are in the industry.
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So you can probably figure out the two companies I'm talking about.
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One of those companies is known as the premier and industry leader in what's called ground transportation.
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We put it on a truck, we drive it around, we drop off your boxes.
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We take your boxes, we drive them from one location to another, and we drop them off, and you pay us for it.
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The other company is known as the leader in the industry in air transportation.
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You give us a box, we put it on a plane, we fly it across the country, we deliver the box, and you pay us for it.
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Well, this is how they work.
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Or to be fair, worked when I worked there.
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I'd be curious to hear from somebody out there who might know, but this is what was done.
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Say that they would come out with their new pricing model on January 1st of every year.
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Well, the ground industry leader would produce their ground rates on January 1st.
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The air industry leader would produce their air rates on January 1st.
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Then a month later, the air leader would show their ground rates because they also were allegedly competing in ground.
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And the ground leader would then release its air rates because they also competed in the air market.
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And take a guess how far apart those rates were a month later.
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Less than a penny or a penny.
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They were lockstep with each other.
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In other words, they said, hey, Caleb, you sell guns, I sell ammunition.
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But you also sell ammunition and I sell guns.
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I'm gonna release my ammunition rates on January 1st.
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You show your gun rates on January 1st.
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We'll get a chance to look at it.
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And then when you start selling ammunition, you're gonna sell your ammunition within a penny of me, and I'm gonna sell my guns within a penny of you.
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And between the two of us, we will make sure that no one else can enter the market and compete.
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So, quick question.
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I know there's monopoly laws, but no duopoly laws in this in this case.
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Well, there's no official contract with these.
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These are all backdoor, behind closed doors conversations.
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And what we need to look at and realize is that these meat processors and everything else, the farmers, the ranchers aren't making a killing.
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No.
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Right?
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When you look at down here in South Louisiana at crawfish, if you're selling crawfish at$2.50 a pound from the processor, that farmer is probably getting a dollar.
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Maybe.
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So the same thing when it comes to beef.
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If you're buying your beef at$25 a pound for a ribeye or whatever else you might be looking at, the the rancher is not pocketing that much money.
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It has to go through that processor because that's what they're dictated to do.
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It's not really a time anymore where you can bring your cattle and bring it to one of these processors and have your own cow process.
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You do it yourself for the most part now.
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If you bring it to someone, well, you're gonna pay more.
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Why?
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Well, the ranch up the road's bringing me 500 head of cattle.
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You're bringing me five.
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So you're not gonna get their rate, and you shouldn't expect to.
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But what they're gonna try to do is they're gonna try to get you to group together a group of people and all bring them at the same time and work on your own little co-op and your own little collective.
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And then, well, now, yeah, they'll pay one person and then you're only gonna get about a dollar more per pound.
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You're not getting the same rate at all.
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And what'll happen is it will force competition at the consumer level because now the the ranchers will have to say, okay, Caleb wants to sell his cattle, he wants to sell his filet at$29.99 a pound, which USDA Prime Tenderloin goes for about that as of this recording.
00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:04.079
And Grant's gonna look at it and say, Man, I don't need to make that much.
00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:06.799
I can make$24.99 a pound.
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:09.599
Now all of a sudden,$4 a pound is a big thing.
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And it's gonna force Caleb to go, okay, maybe I was getting a little too high on the price.
00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:15.920
Maybe I should be at$21.
00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:24.079
Well, if Grant's still profitable at 19, and the market settles at$19 to$21, who wins?
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:24.880
The consumer.
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:39.119
As it sits today, though, you've got the big four who get together and go, Yeah, if we put everything and none of us refuse to go below oh twenty-eight ninety-nine a pound, we all make twenty eight ninety-nine a pound.
00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:45.839
And all of this is coming from we were talking about uh Target and Walmart communicating together and giving direction.
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:48.559
And how are they giving direction to each other and their competitors?
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:53.359
Well, they're tracking where you go, what you do, what you buy, how you buy, how long you buy.
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:55.200
And how are they doing that?
00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:56.799
Well, we call them buggies.
00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:07.839
What's amazing is the story that's out there, and you can you can see the actual Target employee, and he is on video and he is talking about what Target specifically has done.
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:18.000
And if you look at your basket, there's what looks like a little plastic, it just looks like a piece of plastic, a thick piece of plastic on your buggy, on the little basket that you bring with you.
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:25.200
And here's the crazy part it's taking all of the information off of your phone as you shop.
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:33.920
What aisle you're going down, where you're stopping, what's on the shelf in front of where you stop, it's tracking everything for you.
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.519
And we actually touched on where this could go because guess what?
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:44.240
Target, last time I was in there, did not have the old school static prices on shelves.
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Everything's on a target.
00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:53.039
Oh, it's on a digital readout, which means that they can change pricing how often?
00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:53.920
Immediately.
00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:55.279
Immediately if they want to.
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:56.400
Because they're all connected.
00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:00.640
And look, these the the baskets or buggies, whatever you call them, they're they're Bluetooth connecting, right?
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:07.200
So and Target originally launched this in 2015, is when they first, whenever you can find out that they first started doing this.
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:08.960
It's 2015 to 2017.
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:11.839
And they came out and they said, well, it's for location services.
00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.400
We want to be able to see where you are in the store.
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:22.720
That way, if you pull open up your phone and you're looking at your shopping list on Target's uh Target's app or whoever's app, they say if you have the app, it's even worse as to what to pull from your phone.
00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:28.079
Or you've signed off on the terms and conditions, which allows it to mine everything in your phone.
00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:34.799
So originally it was just for surveillance, well, just for tracking, but is tracking location really different than surveillance?
00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:43.440
So here's a question that I have, and this is where the consoliary comes in, because uh while I am not an attorney, I did not sleep at a holiday in last night.
00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:47.039
I there are certain parts of the law that I think I think I understand.
00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:49.519
You certainly understand more than us when it comes to any of this.
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:56.480
You know, in the state of Louisiana, your home, right, your car is considered an extension of your home.
00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:06.160
We recently got a ruling from the Supreme Court that said if the police want to go through your phone, they need a warrant because you have an expectation of privacy on your phone.
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:14.319
Can you sign that away in terms and conditions for them to mine everything on your phone while you are in their store?
00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:18.640
Because essentially, it's it's almost a search of your privacy.
00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:21.599
It's almost an invasion of your privacy while you're shopping, I would think.
00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:22.559
I would think so as well.
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.839
I mean, candidly, I'm not really I'm not sure exactly about it.
00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:33.759
And obviously, you'd have to read the terms and the conditions of what it is, particularly if you become a member of the Target store or use their app or whatever it may be.
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:44.480
But I'm I would be willing to say that those apps, if you buy into the Walmart, you know, app and whatever, any store app, uh, and you you're giving away all your rights.
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:49.279
And you who's gonna look through all of that information to see exactly what's in there.
00:30:49.519 --> 00:31:07.599
And you know, I I do believe that, you know, you just by tracking your credit card, I would think, just you know, by doing that when you go to make your purchase, um, obviously it didn't track where you were and how long you stood and what aisle and what you know items you might have been looking at, but they are definitely tracking what your purchasing habits are.
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:08.319
Oh, no doubt.
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:15.839
And um, and utilizing that, obviously to their advantage, um, they they're gonna say it's just to serve you better.
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:31.599
I'm gonna say, but I'm gonna say where I think this is going is really dystopian, and it's this they don't want to track what you've bought after you bought it, they want to personalize your price before you pay for it, which means that some people will pay more than others for certain products.
00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:42.079
And we have already talked about this on the show as something that these companies are doing, which is if Kavan walks through and Kavan has certain purchasing power, Kavan will pay one price.
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:44.640
If somebody else walks through, they pay another price.
00:31:44.720 --> 00:32:00.960
And I'll tell you the worst part of all this before we go to break is that typically the less financial record they have on you or financial wherewithal you have, the more the price is because you are more than likely going to be on government assistance and the government's paying for it in some way, shape, or form.
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:09.839
I I would just say that sounds like an awesome class action lawsuit because I mean, why should your price be any different than mine or anyone else's?
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:15.839
So that that I mean, to the degree that that could be proven up, that would be uh quite a uh a study.
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:18.319
And you know you are discriminating.
00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:21.599
We are discriminating on implicit bias radio, but we're doing it the right way.
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:23.759
Come right back for the next segment.
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:26.559
Nobody gives a if you're ready, Caleb.
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:28.880
We are just rolling with the final segment of hour one.
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:29.680
Okay, okay.
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:30.640
Yeah, that's what I thought.
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:31.920
I'm Kavon Bordelon.
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:33.200
This is Implicit Bias Radio.
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:34.480
Welcome back to the TSPL.
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:39.119
Real quick, Caleb, what we do give about is the special at Mr.
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:40.319
Lester's this month.
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:41.599
I wish I could remember what it is.
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:44.640
I love the way he's like, oh, it's so good.
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:45.680
I have no idea what it's like.
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:46.240
Yeah, I don't remember.
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:49.279
I remember I was talking to Willie uh last week when we were recording.
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:54.400
He's like, ah, yeah, I told Kavan I didn't really know what I was doing, so we just said, and you said what it was, and I was like, oh.
00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:55.279
All right, you ready for it?
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:56.319
It's 30 bucks, isn't it?
00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:57.519
It's a$30 flight.
00:32:57.599 --> 00:32:57.759
Yeah.
00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.720
And here's the flight Buffalo Trace.
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Okay, Eagle Rare, Stag.
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Not George T, but stag.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.079
At$30 for three pours.
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:12.240
You'll pay$30 for a pour of stag.
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:13.759
Oh, in a heartbeat.
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:15.200
In a heartbeat.
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:19.359
And you'll get the proof out of it because I think the stag release that they have is like$131.
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:20.079
It's fun.
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:22.000
Matt, have you had stag?
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:25.680
Matt is producing audio and Matt has no idea.
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.759
Earlier you were talking about how like this one, you get the flavor, you get the bacon spice and all that.
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:32.960
If you've had stag, stag hits you.
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:34.880
I'm willing to try.
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:37.599
Yeah, it's uh it's it's delicious.
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:39.039
As as Dora would say.
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Delicioso.
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:49.519
Please tell me we take that and we make that a button on the mixer where when somebody says something, we just hear Caleb go, please yes.
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:50.960
Whatever he just said.
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:51.839
It's awesome.
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:54.960
All right, sitting at the bar, we've got Grant Galatis.
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:59.279
He is known as KB because he's from Kennebra, and the console Yeri Chris Castro here with us.
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All right.
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Arcade.gov.
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Arcade.gov.
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Are you uh arcade.gov.
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.079
That is fantastic.
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:10.079
So, Chris, what did you think when I sent that over?
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:13.599
Because most people just completely missed this release.
00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:19.840
That now you can go to a government website and pay play their version of what Flappy Bird, I think, is one of the games, right?
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:21.360
Which is fly the eagle through the magic.
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.559
Flappy Bill, where you're flying a bald eagle down the national mall.
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:42.719
You have Rio Run, uh-huh, a Border Patrol uh theme game along with the real Gang Day, supply line, the sort school lunches around the administration's Maha Initiative, which actually I talked to a guy who's a big part of that, and the Trump Savings Tycoon, themed around Trump's account, uh Trump accounts for children.
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:44.960
And there's another game listed as coming soon.
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:49.920
Well, I have to say, quite honestly, I didn't really think that when you sent the link over that it was real.
00:34:50.239 --> 00:35:03.360
Because when I was clicking on it, I kept thinking that I must have been clicking on the wrong thing because it kept bringing me to this arcade game, which looked really, you know, maybe 1981 or so terrible, terribly rudimentary.
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:04.880
Yeah.
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So uh I don't know.
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I mean, my gosh.
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:11.679
I don't know what our government's getting into.
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:18.159
I guess we uh got more time to deal with a theory on this, but first of all, great, you brought up a game that they should have put in there, apparently.
00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:18.960
Sounds like it.
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:22.400
Well, no, there was uh there was a game from the 80s called uh Qbert.
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:23.360
Qbert.
00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:23.679
Okay.
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:24.719
Yeah, Qbert.
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:26.159
Well, what's the what's with the Q?
00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:30.960
No, I just I I think Qbert would have been a really interesting game for it was a little orange.
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:32.800
For game for what, arcade.gov.
00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:36.400
I I remember Qbert because you had to jump with the little funnel on the side.
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:38.320
And you had to jump from square to square.
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.320
Yeah, and the squares were kind of in a triangle, if I remember right, or a pyramid shape.
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.760
Yeah, just like similar to the the little blocks that they rolled out uh on that video.
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:47.360
I didn't know where this video was going, though.
00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:51.440
They so they really have where you can sit and play a government arcade.
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:52.880
What is what is the purpose?
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:54.719
I'll tell you my theory in a minute.
00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:55.519
We'll let Caleb go.
00:35:55.679 --> 00:36:04.239
Well, and like look, you can tell that they took it seriously because if I'd have done this, the the real run, you'd be like, oh no, cocaine, hippo.
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:07.360
Like you would have all these little things tossed into it, you know?
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:07.920
Right.
00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:16.960
So I I think this actually plays in, Caleb, into why this to me is important and why I think it's kind of a master stroke.
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:25.920
Look, I I've worked for companies that need new consumers at every turn.
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:37.519
Every day that goes by, they need to create new consumers day after day because it's the hearts and minds phase of where we are that has to be won.
00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:54.000
Pretty much everybody has figured out, except for extremely educated people who apparently can't figure out how to make money, everybody else has kind of figured out that economically the whole socialism-communism thing doesn't work.
00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:57.440
The vast majority of the population has figured that out.
00:36:57.760 --> 00:36:58.079
Right?
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:05.039
The Democratic Socialist of America thing, while it is a movement, if you really dig into the numbers, it's a movement.
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:13.599
It's one mid-sized segment in a relatively small movement that's big enough to get a few candidates across the line.
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:21.440
So once people have figured out that the numbers and the math doesn't math, now you've got to get hearts and minds, but you have to get them early.
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:24.639
You've got to number one force competition.
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:36.400
A couple studies have come out about, and I find this very interesting, that gamers typically have less of a propensity for Alzheimer's and degenerative brain diseases because it keeps their brain exercised.
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:41.760
So, number one, you keep people engaged and you keep a younger generation engaged.
00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:43.920
Number two, you force competition.
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:47.519
We love, as human beings, we are competitive.
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:48.159
No.
00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:54.400
The only people who stop being competitive are losers, consistent losers.
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They lose everything.
00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:00.159
That's why they stop wanting to be competitive because they can't ever win anymore.
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:06.880
So you force the competition maybe back into the forefront because it's not always about competition with other people.
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:11.519
Sometimes it's like golf where most people play because it's competition with yourself.
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:34.000
But to me, it's about the next generation, the heart and mind generation, where you need to get five and seven and ten-year-olds, much like the Chinese were focusing on colleges for so long, much like you have all of these people who say, Oh, you know, it's not about the kids, but we have to be able to teach this to your kids.
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:44.079
You've got to combat what's being taught to children from one extreme with the other extreme, which is fun and competitive nature, Grant.
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.760
I think we lost that battle quite a long time ago.
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:53.280
Within our lifetime, it went from two sticks on either side of the screen, hitting a ball back and forth.
00:38:53.440 --> 00:39:03.360
And then in television, I didn't I didn't look at the video games, but it uh just a little bit that I saw, it reminded me of that in television, that transition from Atari to the much better uh video games.
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:17.760
But somewhere within our lifetime, it went from you know playing in television football and all of that stuff to world of war, where all of the kids now they're so enthralled with the the games where you get on and you're killing 650 people before dinner.
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:19.840
So I I like the concept.
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:25.039
But my idea would be get them more back outside playing uh sports.
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.079
I I don't disagree.
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:28.880
Which which that ties into it I'm just saying, is that what you were saying?
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:29.119
Yeah.
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:37.920
And it actually ties into you my point you're making it, which is this, which is the push for cooperation.
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:55.599
It's why there is such a massive push into the major American competitive sport that pushes full-on masculinity and real old school tough it out, suck it up men, which is why we now have all the political messages in football.
00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:57.280
Oh, I thought you don't want baking.
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.400
No, it it's it's it's football.
00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:01.280
I mean, think about it.
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:05.920
Now you've got a political message in every NFL end zone except for stop domestic abuse.
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:09.119
Well, we tried putting slap your mama up there one time and got all these fines.
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:10.880
My point exactly.
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:11.599
Right?
00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:12.719
It was a joke.
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:22.719
But you can't have that as the prevailing philosophy amongst men, which is, oh, you know what, we're gonna suck it up, we're gonna be injured, we're gonna keep going if you want to weaken a society.
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:25.599
If you want to weaken society, you take the competition out of it.
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:33.679
You take the strive to be the alpha and say, oh, we want to make sure everybody's happy being the beta and make it a cooperation thing.
00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:35.519
That's the everybody gets a trophy.
00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:39.119
It's you know, the political messages in the in the end zones, it's all of that.
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:41.840
Well, I mean, it it's we have watered down everything that we do.
00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:43.119
We look at real competition, right?
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:45.039
Like people like to win, no one likes losing.
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:46.239
You learn a lot from losing.
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:47.119
Except for losers.
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:47.760
Yeah, well.
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:49.199
You learn a lot from losing, right?
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:55.119
And you should come back and try to change the way you play the game of life and do better and not lose as much.
00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:59.519
When we look at people that don't b own businesses, do you win every day?
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:00.159
No.
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:03.920
If you win once a week, that's that's a W, right?
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:10.639
So, but we have this stupid idea of zero tolerance and all this other stuff.
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:13.280
Like, we're gonna go out and say, talk about football, right?
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:19.760
It's okay in these confines to put on pads and hit one another with all your might, but nowhere else.
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:21.199
Well, then let's have an argument.
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:23.440
Let me go smack you in the face with a football, right?
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:26.239
We need to have a we we need to let people exist.
00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:34.800
We have so much government control and so much societal overwatch on what we do that you can't yell at somebody on the phone anymore without having them press charges.
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:43.119
You can't tell your neighbor that if he if he walks outside Dakon in his front yard again and peas on your pet dog, that you're gonna uh you're gonna break his legs.
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:45.599
You can't tell people these kinds of things because they get hurt.
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:46.000
Why?
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:48.960
Because their emotions are more valuable than their physical form.
00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:51.440
Look, my emotions get hurt every day.
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:55.440
And if your emotions get hurt and you want to play football, don't play football.
00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:56.159
Wear a helmet.
00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:58.400
Yeah, wear a big helmet, Lord helmet.
00:41:58.559 --> 00:41:59.760
Like life hurts.
00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:04.719
It hits you hard, and you need to be able to bounce back from it and say, look, that was yesterday, today's another day.
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:07.039
And if your tooth gets knocked out, it gets knocked out.
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:13.440
But you just keep trying and you can't water it down to where we allow people to be hurt and bothered by arcade games by anything else.
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:16.800
Like make an arcade game about us drinking whiskey, make one where you do whatever.
00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:17.599
It doesn't matter to me.
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.320
They used to have one about drinking when we were a kid with beer sliding down the bars.
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:23.280
Remember that one, Grant?
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:23.679
Oh, yeah.
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:24.559
I'll recall that.
00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:28.159
I I I'm gonna have to look it up, but there was absolutely a game in the arcade when we were kids.
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:29.280
Yeah.
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:30.880
Yeah, it hit a it hit a turn.
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:38.239
Uh it's it's a shame though, because I mean, conceptually, look at the sp uh uh the the sport of football or any other organized sport.
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:40.639
Uh there are a lot of good qualities to it.
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:48.639
Organization, teamwork, leadership, discipline, uh, plans, how to execute plans, how to there's so many good things to it.
00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:56.880
It it's a shame that I mean you have a small percentage of of high school kids and grade school kids who actually play the organized sports because it's become so competitive.
00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:59.519
I mean, it's it's gotten so competitive.
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:02.800
You've got scouts out at little league games now.
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:05.119
And and when I was growing up, everybody got to play.
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.679
And by the way, the game, the game was tapper.
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:10.000
Connor absolutely on it.
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:12.880
He knew exactly the name of it the second that we started talking about it.
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:14.000
And why is that, Connor?
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:14.719
What were you doing?
00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:16.159
He's a video game guy.
00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:22.000
And look, Grant, like we're we're real big on being competitive, but you have people now playing pee-wee football.
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:26.159
Look, your six-year-old who drools when he talks is not gonna go pro, right?
00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:29.920
So if he wants to play and be on a select team or anything else, let him try.
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:30.239
Let him go.
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:31.519
It's okay if he doesn't get on it.
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:33.760
Same thing when we look at select baseball and all this other stuff.
00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:39.920
Yeah, you have scouts going out looking, but at the end of the day, if your kid likes to play because he likes to play, great, let him enjoy it.
00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:44.239
If you don't like the coach because the co the coach is a butt and it's not fun, don't.
00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:46.239
I I say this all the time.
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:59.679
The biggest favor one of the biggest favors that my father ever did for me was sitting down with me early high school and saying, Look, I know that you are a freshman.
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:05.920
And you are playing on the varsity baseball team, I want you to go take a good look in the mirror and tell me if you think you're playing pro ball.
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:07.599
I'm not saying it'll never happen.
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:09.760
What I'm saying is figure out the odds.
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:11.599
Understand where you are.
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:14.079
If you enjoy it, great.
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:15.519
Do it for enjoyment.
00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:26.159
But don't do it under this expectation that you are going to run the world as a baseball player because the odds, the odds are tough.
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:34.800
And understanding that, so having a winner is not nearly as important for competition as having the loser.
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:39.519
Because, like Caleb said, everything we learn, we learn from losing, not from winning.
00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:40.559
You know what you're gonna lose?
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:43.280
You're gonna lose hour one of implicit bias radio.
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:45.119
Hour two is always more fun.
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:48.000
If your radio station does not broadcast hour two, call them.
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:52.239
Tell them, hey, I want more implicit bias radio right after this.
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:56.719
Implicit bias radio rolls on hour two is always more fun.
00:44:56.880 --> 00:45:00.400
Yeah, we are not the garbage that you might be listening to somewhere else.
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:02.559
We are the crew in the TSPL.
00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:04.960
That is Caleb Morse, he is the Rustic Renegade.
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:09.119
That is Grant Galatis, he is KB, who also sells big a beta diamonds for less.
00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:10.400
As in Kennebra, right?
00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:11.679
You didn't wear the purple, Grant.
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:12.320
I'm disappointed.
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:14.320
Yeah, I don't have too many purple shirts, so it's not a good thing.
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:17.519
But you have purple socks, which I gave you for Christmas, which you just left on the shelf in your office.
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:18.159
Correct.
00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:20.079
But look, I must follow the channel about two weeks ago.
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:23.119
So if I try to show my socks, I'm going back, I'm going through this, though.
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:25.920
Trust me, the last thing we want to see is you putting your ankles in the air.
00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:26.480
All right.
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:29.840
Of course, we have the consillieri, Chris Castro.
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:31.199
Chris, it's great to have you back in the TSP.
00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:32.880
Good to be back in the TSPO.
00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:34.320
It is a pleasure to have you here.
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.440
We are talking about competition versus cooperation.
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:51.039
And, you know, we were mentioning, so for those who want pure transparency, which we do our best to give, we're actually having to re-record segment two because apparently Matthew, as the colloquialism would say, feels a little big-bonded behind the audio booth.
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:52.880
What you laughing at over there, Matthew?
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:54.960
That's how you that you told us you feel that way, right?
00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:55.599
That's facts.
00:45:55.760 --> 00:46:02.079
Yeah, and then you were trying to get comfortable and ended up turning off all the audio from the last segment that we were trying to record, which is this.
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I saw him.
00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:05.760
He went from like he opened his legs.
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:06.480
That's all about.
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:10.000
I did need a little more room.
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:11.840
And accidentally hit the switch on the floor.
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:12.800
Cheers to you, sir.
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:13.360
All right.
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:22.800
So let's dive into the the meat of this conversation is that there's that old saying, you know, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us that he didn't exist.
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:31.920
I am of the belief that one of the greatest tricks society has pulled on the American public is convincing us that we are in a competitive society.
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:34.320
When we're not, right?
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:35.440
Don't get me wrong.
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:41.039
At a micro level, at an individual level, we we do compete and strive every day.
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:47.360
At a macro level, the collusion is just so thick, it is not even funny.
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:49.679
Well, it goes to an argument that I've been making for years.
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:51.280
That's fair doesn't exist.
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.039
There's no such thing as fair.
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Because what's fair to anyone here isn't fair to the other.
00:46:56.480 --> 00:47:00.400
We if we had a hundred dollars and said we're gonna split this evenly, can we?
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:01.119
Yeah, no.
00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:01.679
No.
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:02.320
Right?
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:05.760
Well, once I kill one or two people, uh we're gonna split it evenly.
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:08.639
So it's the same way with any competition or anything else, right?
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:16.159
Like you have people that say my services are worth this much, and you have people who say that I only need to charge this much.
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:19.280
There's a difference in those two mindsets and looks in life.
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:23.440
So I I think you're looking at it in a different way than I look at it.
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:29.599
Because what I'm talking about is take a look at the political system that we're in.
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:40.000
We know it is factual that a lot of times they will interview a Republican, they will interview a Democrat on the exact same topic.
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:43.199
They will talk poorly about each other as if they are in opposition.
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And then 30 minutes later, they are both sitting at the exact same table having dinner with a lobbyist about how they're gonna pass whatever law it is, and that dinner might be three to five thousand dollars for two people that neither of those lawmakers has paid for, and they are yucking it up.
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:00.719
Well, that's that's where I was going with my statement.
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:01.840
You just got there a lot faster.
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:02.239
Sorry.
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:03.199
I no, you did not.
00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:04.239
Now you stole my thunder.
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:04.480
Yeah.
00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:04.719
Yeah.
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:06.800
Well, it won't be the first time I've stolen something of yours.
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:07.280
All right.
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:12.559
So, but but the the the other side of that is we were talking about, you know, X, for example.
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:19.199
I'm a firm believer that the money that's behind politics does everything it can to convince people that it's competitive when it's really not.
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:24.480
And look, prime example, people say, oh, Elon Musk supports conservatives.
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:31.360
He has he bought X, he spent$44 billion so that we could get the speech that we have on that platform.
00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:36.480
And they act as if the Democrats have no major funding behind them.
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.199
Um, I think Michael Bloomberg.
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The billions of dollars they have behind.
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Where who do you think's paying for those bricks that are on the side of the road?
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:46.480
I think Michael Bloomberg, Laureen Powell Jobs.
00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:47.760
Oh, we actually paid for the bricks.
00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:48.639
That was USAID.
00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:56.880
Bill Gates, Dustin Moskowitz, George Soros, Reed Hoffman, James and Marilyn Simmons, Melinda French Gates, J.B.
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Pritzker, as in Hyatt Hotels, and the governor of Illinois, his brother, Tom Steyr, Farland Capital, Univision, Michael Moritz.
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:08.800
I mean, the list just goes on and on.
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Netflix, Reed Hastings, what's that, Grant?
00:49:11.599 --> 00:49:12.400
Don't forget Oprah.
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Oh, yeah, Oprah.
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:15.280
I mean, the list just keeps going.
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And the numbers, the numbers are not$2,500 a person.
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They're not small.
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The numbers are 150 million, 120 million, 100 million, 100 million, 100 million, 60 million.
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I mean, there's so much money behind a very small group of elected officials.
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And again, this is this is what's been dem donated to just the Democrats.
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:46.960
The Republicans, and what's going to be interesting, and I would love to see is who on this list has also donated to Republicans.
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:48.559
And let's let's be truthful about it.
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:49.760
Let's let's look at it locally, right?
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:51.039
The state of Louisiana.
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Why do you think that a government position that pays$34,000,$36,000 a year, right?
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:07.360
Why do you think a campaign for a state legislator has to be in the millions of dollars for a job that pays$36,000 a year?
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:09.440
Well, that's the rule of$32, I believe.
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:12.320
There's no like the math doesn't add up.
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Why?
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Because people want favors.
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:17.840
They want they want answers, they want secrets, they want projects.
00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:20.239
And we've had this for a long time.
00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:21.679
And it's not just here in Louisiana.
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It's everywhere.
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Everywhere, everywhere has it and does it.
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We as the voting populist just never called in and out on it.
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What I I really think here is that that collusion level of donations is what leads us to kind of where we are today.
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:45.599
It's collusion in business, it's collusion in politics, and the list is gonna be short, right?
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:56.480
When you really think about who controls the United States, we are getting a master class in control of the United States right now.
00:50:56.719 --> 00:50:58.239
What do I mean by that?
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The Save America Act.
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You need an ID to vote.
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:08.800
Any idea what the polling, and I'm not real big on polls, but all of these polls are almost unanimous.
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:12.239
Caleb, that I'm sorry.
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:14.159
Again, I'm trying not to.
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:16.400
Apparently, I am not big on polls.
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:17.519
Apparently, you are.
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:20.079
So here's here's my question.
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What percentage of the American people wants an ID to vote?
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And this is across all demographics.
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Any idea what percentage when you put them all together?
00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:30.480
Take a guess.
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It has to be in the 90s.
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:33.599
It's not quite that high.
00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:34.960
Come on, it has to be.
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It's 75 plus.
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:42.079
It's 75% plus of Americans polled want an ID to vote.
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:44.559
Do you know why we don't have that as a law?
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:46.800
Because they can't get 60 people.
00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:52.559
They can't get 60 people to say, yeah, we agree with and we're gonna do what the American populace wants.
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.039
Any guess who those 60 people are?
00:51:58.000 --> 00:51:58.800
They're all U.S.
00:51:58.960 --> 00:51:59.360
senators.
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:01.519
They are all U.S.
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:02.320
senators.
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:06.880
What percentage of the American population stands to suffer if the Clarity Act doesn't get passed?
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:08.719
It got passed in the House.
00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:13.599
200 plus votes that you needed, right?
00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:16.079
To get it out of the House, to get it to the Senate.
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:30.400
But there's this dumb little rule called clocher where they can put in this thing they call the filibuster, which mark my words, will get nuked if the Republicans don't get this through, or will get nuked the next time the Democrats get in control.
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:33.679
But at the end of the day, you need 60 people.
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:49.920
Which means if the majority of Democrats stick together, even though they don't have control of the Senate, if you have a 53-person majority in the Senate, so you are 53-47 in the Senate, with the U.S.
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:51.920
vice president as the tiebreaker.
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:58.960
All you need to control the entire fing country is seven sellouts.
00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:01.280
That's all you need is seven.
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:03.599
Those tend to be easy to get to.
00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:11.440
Well, I'm sure Pocahontas is holding out for an honorary appointment to a Native American tribe, so she can actually claim that she wasn't lying.
00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:13.360
We'll never see her, Mr.
00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:13.760
Lester.
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:15.119
So that's no.
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:17.599
But this therein lies the point, right?
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:21.599
And one side or the other, the collusion here.
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:28.239
Even when you get into and you actually watch who votes for what, you will see they start taking turns.
00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:30.159
Well, I'm gonna vote for it this time.
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:35.280
Well, I I can't, I'm gonna get in trouble with my constituency if I if I don't vote for it.
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:40.719
So that next time I need you to not vote for it, so I can vote for it, so I can say on the record I did.
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:43.440
Well, and like you're saying too, it's not just the Democrats doing this.
00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:44.079
Republicans do this.
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:45.119
Republicans do.
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.119
It is both sides of the fence on all of this.
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:48.079
Like it shows you that.
00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:50.480
And Caleb knows because he's always on both sides of the fence.
00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:52.880
Look, sometimes you lean forward, sometimes you lean backwards.
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:57.039
And the reality of it is that there is no fence.
00:53:57.360 --> 00:53:57.679
No.
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:03.679
They're they're just all playing on the on the national mall and they're trying to hide who does what and how they do it.
00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:09.679
So three out of four people walking the streets uh say that this is just, I mean, it's it's almost common sense.
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:11.440
Save America is what you're talking about.
00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:23.039
I would I would love to hear the rationale for the other 25%, what what their main rationale is for not thinking that this is at its basic root is is not a really good idea to just have you show up.
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:24.400
It's it's like a simple concept.
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:25.840
Here's the biggest problem.
00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:30.639
The words that you're gonna use are not applicable because you use rationale.
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:32.960
The root of rationale is rational.
00:54:35.039 --> 00:54:39.119
Their objection is not going to be rational, it's going to insult people.
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That's why I'm saying that's a good idea.
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:42.800
It's going to say, oh, these people aren't smart enough to get an ID.
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:43.360
Wait, what?
00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:53.119
There are people that that 100% believe that there are groups of individuals out there that are too poor to get an ID.
00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:56.079
There are there are people that believe that.
00:54:56.320 --> 00:54:57.599
It's not that they're also too poor.
00:54:57.679 --> 00:54:59.360
They believe they're too dumb to get an ID.
00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:02.000
And that's that should be offensive to people, right?
00:55:02.159 --> 00:55:03.280
It should be highly offensive.
00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:08.159
You should be offended by the fact that someone thinks you're too ignorant and too poor to get an ID.
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:10.719
Like that should be a problem.
00:55:11.039 --> 00:55:11.840
But you know what?
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:13.519
Eh, I'm too busy working.
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:16.639
And look, the reality is they're going to give you that as a reason.
00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:20.079
And the funny part is the populace will give you that as a reason.
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:32.960
I am in firm belief that the real reason you have not seen it passed is because there are Republicans who will end up not getting elected once the voter fraud is called out, just like there are Democrats who will end up not getting elected once the voter fraud is called out.
00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:38.639
If you put an end to it, I believe there are people on both sides of the aisle who will no longer have a job.
00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:39.199
Right.
00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:52.079
Did you hear there was a vote just recently where there were four Democrats who crossed crossed the aisle and voted, and it was a couple of them in Maine because they were voting for their constituency, protect something with the lobster, with the lobster industry.
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:56.639
And Hakeem Jeffries got on TV and said, we will have a committee to see what went wrong here.
00:55:57.760 --> 00:55:58.239
I'm serious.
00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:02.079
I forget what the vote was, but they actually said, we will find out what went wrong here.
00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:05.599
What went wrong was this person was elected to represent their constituency.
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:09.360
So they voted this way, but you just happened to cross the aisle on this.
00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:12.800
And shame on you, is conceptually what they're saying.
00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:16.960
And that's that's just a huge problem, right?
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:20.559
I mean, it it is not there, there's no longer competition there.
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:26.719
They don't want the competition, they want collusion, they don't just want cooperation.
00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:29.760
That collusion is everything.
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:36.239
And look, I believe it's why we see so much corruption in so many places today, because they all know too many secrets on each other.
00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:37.519
So what do they do?
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:43.280
They all get together and they go, I tell you what, I won't tell your secrets if you won't tell my secrets.
00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:48.079
And when you want something, we're gonna talk about your secrets versus my secrets.
00:56:48.159 --> 00:56:56.800
And when I want something, we're gonna talk about my secrets versus your secrets, and we'll figure out how we win and everybody else loses.
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:02.719
And look, we've seen it locally in Louisiana, all over the place.
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:18.960
If you just go look at the number of politicians who get city equipment used on their property, when you go look at stuff done from one parish to another where people are upset because it was done legally, but somebody didn't like the other person and they're now trying to prosecute.
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:20.960
I mean, it's it's insane.
00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:24.400
The games that are played in those little rooms.
00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:27.199
But at the end of the day, it's them against us.
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:27.679
Right.
00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:37.119
Well, and that and as you you talk about that in Louisiana and uh our our influx of of business that wants to come here, which everybody wants business.
00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:37.519
Agreed.
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:46.239
And that's a great thing, but these uh non-disclosure agreements seem to be, you know, uh that that's contrary to, you know, open public records.
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:48.239
And so I agree with you.
00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:53.599
Is there a um is there a move there to not to say collude in there?
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.760
Because you're not gonna get the business unless you sign this document.
00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:00.719
Well, so number one, nobody's getting the business unless they sign the document.
00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:01.440
Right?
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:03.280
That's gonna happen no matter what state you're into.
00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:05.679
No, but it's a disclosure as far as that.
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:08.960
I can't go tell my constituents how I feel about what is being proposed.
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:11.840
Well, I am a firm no, it it's pretty good.
00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:13.760
I can't talk, I can't talk about the deal.
00:58:13.920 --> 00:58:17.119
Yes, and but here's at the end of the day, kind of what I'm I'm wondering.
00:58:18.239 --> 00:58:22.079
I think there's a middle ground with non-disclosure agreements.
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:29.280
Let's face it, SpaceX didn't just decide to do business in Louisiana a week ago.
00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:30.159
No, this has been years.
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:40.079
This has been years in the making, the negotiations, and if it gets out, and look, we have we have Walt Disney and as legend has it, Edwin Edwards to thank for this.
00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:44.239
Because Walt Disney was buying land on the North Shore of New Orleans, right?
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:53.039
And when the politicians found out he was buying it under his own name, when the politicians found out he got called into a politician's office, as legend has it, and was told, what's in it for me?
00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:53.679
Yeah, pay up.
00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:54.320
That's correct.
00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:55.280
You got to pay up.
00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:58.559
So I understand the non-disclosure and the need for it.
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:09.840
My thought is the non-disclosure should be, but at that point, there should be a record of every meeting from that point on, and there should be a non-disclosure termination date.
00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:10.559
Agreed.
00:59:10.719 --> 00:59:17.039
And when it's terminated, everything that happened prior to the non-disclosure that's in those records should then be released to the public.
00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:18.880
That that to me is where it's used to.
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:25.199
That's going into an agreement thinking and knowing that we want this to be open and upfront about it afterwards.
00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:27.920
That's not how why most of these people enter these agreements.
00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:29.440
They don't want everyone to know.
00:59:29.679 --> 00:59:30.079
Fair.
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:41.039
That's I mean, if we were going into an agreement, if we were politicians and doing that kind of thing, if we were gonna, if we found out Walt Disney was gonna put up a Disney World on the North Shore, we would be like, hey, it's great for the economy, let's try to build this and go with it.
00:59:41.360 --> 00:59:43.920
Less so what's in it for me.
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:44.880
Right?
00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:46.719
And that's that's the point of view in the anchor.
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:47.519
We have to look at it for real.
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:49.679
I I don't disagree with you at all.
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:58.079
Is that the the non-disclosure is usually issued on the side of the solicitor, not the solicitee.
00:59:58.239 --> 00:59:58.880
Right, right?
00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:04.320
So I get if I am Elon Musk saying, you know what, we need NDAs on everything we sign.
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:05.199
I get it.
01:00:06.239 --> 01:00:11.280
With a public official, you start to get into that gray area where the public official, and we it's a simple fix.
01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:19.039
It's a law through the legislature that the governor signs that says any state employee that enters into a non-disclosure must have a firm termination date.
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:25.039
And at that termination date, if the deal is not completed, it can be extended.
01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:28.320
But upon completion of the deal, everything becomes public.
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:29.199
That's easy.
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:34.000
But Caleb, to your point, I mean, let's be honest.
01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:40.880
I'd love to know if there were purchases of property in Vermilion Parish within the last eight months.
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:52.239
I'd love to know every person who brought property in Vermilion Parish in the last two, three years that's close to Pecan Island, where you've got property that's worthless that all of a sudden sold for no reason.
01:00:52.639 --> 01:01:00.960
I would just say, wouldn't it be interesting to know how this uh settlement that happened with Exxon, which is which is the neighboring property basis?
01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:06.400
That is exactly the basis for how the land got appropriated to allow for this project.
01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:06.880
Hey.
01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:17.280
Um, and that's just this particular project, not considering data centers up in North Louisiana, the port in New Orleans, all that stuff, and things like that that you know affect residents and affect the the people that are there.
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:22.320
Uh that they should have at least some voice, whether or not it matters, they should at least get to voice it.
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:23.280
To a degree, right.
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:28.159
Not to say it doesn't matter, but at the end of the day, they should be heard.
01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:28.800
Agreed.
01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:32.480
And I think that's a great way to close out this segment of Implicit Bias Radio.
01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:35.519
More fun, more weekly whiskey on Implicit Bias Radio.
01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:37.119
I'm your host, Kavon Bordelon.
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:41.679
Welcome back to the TSPL or Caleb, the special at Mr.
01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:42.960
Lester's this month.
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:49.519
I mean, September's September's gonna be rolling down at Louisiana's only five-star restaurant between New Orleans and Houston.
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:52.880
You know, this is the time of year to go down there, starting to cool off a little bit, getting comfortable.
01:01:53.039 --> 01:01:53.599
What is wrong?
01:01:53.760 --> 01:01:55.119
It is not starting to cool off.
01:01:55.280 --> 01:01:57.840
It was 77 degrees the other morning.
01:01:58.800 --> 01:01:59.599
You're funny.
01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:00.239
It was.
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:00.719
Yeah, no.
01:02:01.039 --> 01:02:03.679
I sat outside and only sweated after 10 minutes, not after two.
01:02:04.159 --> 01:02:04.960
It was amazing.
01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:05.440
Mr.
01:02:05.519 --> 01:02:13.199
Lester's, though, has AC, so you can go have a steak and a stogie and smoke a cigar in air conditioning because your wife won't yell at you.
01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:15.119
Depends on who your wife is.
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:17.199
Hopefully, you've chosen wisely.
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:22.559
Anyway, the the the fun part of this is that whiskey special is just nuts.
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:25.599
Like it is SEC trying to throw LSU out insane.
01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:27.760
It is Buffalo Trace.
01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:28.559
What else?
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:29.599
Eagle Rare.
01:02:29.679 --> 01:02:30.079
Uh-huh.
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:30.880
Stag.
01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:32.239
For how much?
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:33.039
Front.
01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:36.800
Most people don't speak Cajun French, Caleb.
01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:37.039
30.
01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:37.920
Yes, there we go.
01:02:38.159 --> 01:02:41.679
$30 for a pour of Buffalo Trace Eagle Rare stag.
01:02:41.840 --> 01:02:43.280
Not George T, but stag.
01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:47.840
Remember, this is while supplies last because as you can imagine, they won't last long.
01:02:48.079 --> 01:02:50.400
Look, if you play your cards right, you'll get there in time.
01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:51.199
Absolutely.
01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:55.119
Make your reservation before you go down because the restaurant is packed now.
01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:56.880
So go to Mr.
01:02:56.960 --> 01:02:59.360
Lester's, get your whiskey special, and don't miss it.
01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:00.960
Willie sent me a picture a while back.
01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:04.079
Uh they had a guy order uh the prime rib bone in.
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:05.039
Yes, I saw that.
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:08.639
Like uh 72 ounces or 74 ounces.
01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:11.519
And he said this one guy like ate the whole thing.
01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:14.000
It was 72 because it was 236 ounce.
01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:14.800
Yeah.
01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:19.280
One guy, like 115 pounds, I'm making that part up, ate the whole thing.
01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:21.760
Like that, uh, just meat sweats.
01:03:26.159 --> 01:03:26.480
All right.
01:03:26.559 --> 01:03:34.159
So, you know, speaking of the what you might spend down there, if you were in Texas, you could actually bring, you'd get a lot of change if you brought a gold bar.
01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:34.880
Yeah.
01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:40.480
But in Texas, gold and silver are now officially the law was passed.
01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:43.280
It was implemented in the last two, three weeks.
01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:45.280
You know, Louisiana has that law too.
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:45.599
Yes.
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:49.440
It's still in Louisiana legal tender for gold and silver.
01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:49.920
Yes.
01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:53.920
Have you has anyone here seen um the I don't know what to call them?
01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:55.280
I don't call them a gold back.
01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:57.920
It's a uh it's paper, right?
01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:01.840
But it has gold foil for the tune of however many dollars in it.
01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:02.800
I have not seen that.
01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:08.079
I have a two-dollar gold, I think I'll call it a gold back, but out of Florida, because they're produced, they have some Florida ones.
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:10.320
And like, I'm not gonna spend that damn thing.
01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:11.440
It's just cool.
01:04:11.599 --> 01:04:11.920
Yeah.
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:14.960
Well, first of all, you'd have to figure out what kind of weight was on the gold.
01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:16.079
It tells you.
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:17.039
It tells you.
01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:19.840
The price of gold fluctuates for those who don't know.
01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:21.920
And it might be worth more than two dollars.
01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:22.880
Yes, is the point.
01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:23.920
It will be, right?
01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:31.280
Which is the beauty of where I firmly believe we have to go, not just as a country, but as a planet.
01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:35.119
Grant Grant is not on board with us going back to a backed currency grant.
01:04:35.199 --> 01:04:36.480
I mean, Bricks is out there.
01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:39.599
He is on board with it because all of a sudden he's sitting on a cache.
01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:41.440
It's just funny.
01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:48.000
I read the comments on this one, and then somebody was like, Yeah, I can't wait to see somebody bring in a half-ounce gold coin to buy a Slurpee at 71.
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:48.880
I don't disagree.
01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:55.440
And you have the problem of testing it and all of the the uh counterfeit coin.
01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:56.800
So you've got the problem of testing it?
01:04:56.960 --> 01:04:58.880
Not ever yeah, not everyone knows what they're looking at.
01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:00.719
You've got the problem of making change for it.
01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:03.519
So say it is real, they recognize it's real.
01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:07.440
A half ounce of gold today is worth what,$23,000,$2,400?
01:05:07.760 --> 01:05:08.480
In that neighborhood, yeah.
01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:09.039
Right?
01:05:09.199 --> 01:05:12.400
And a slurpee, I mean, what, a dollar ninety?
01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:22.239
So making change for that, which is making the complete case for tokenization and the digital rails that are proposed to be out there.
01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:25.679
I know a lot of people think, oh, this digital currency thing, it's not gonna happen.
01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:26.639
I don't get it.
01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:29.360
I'm gonna make this argument on digital currency.
01:05:29.599 --> 01:05:32.239
Caleb, do you use a debit card at all?
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:33.199
I do.
01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:34.480
Do you use a credit card?
01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:35.280
I do.
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:37.360
Grant debit card, credit card?
01:05:37.519 --> 01:05:38.239
Yes, absolutely.
01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:38.719
Every day.
01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:39.679
Chris, what about you?
01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:40.800
Debit card, credit card?
01:05:40.960 --> 01:05:42.639
I use my debit card as a credit card.
01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:44.320
Okay, use a debit card as a credit card.
01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:46.239
Matthew, debit card, credit card?
01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:46.880
Yes.
01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:47.840
I'm shocked.
01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:49.679
I figured you'd have been like the pure cash route.
01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:50.239
Tap.
01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:50.719
I use tap.
01:05:51.039 --> 01:05:51.440
Oh, tap.
01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:51.920
Okay.
01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:52.960
So it it's tap.
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:53.920
Guess what?
01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:55.519
We're all in digital currencies.
01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:56.400
Yes.
01:05:56.559 --> 01:06:08.000
I mean, how many of you have actually seen the Dollars that transfer, other than on some digital ledger, the money that transfers when you use a debit card or a credit card.
01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:08.639
You're right.
01:06:09.519 --> 01:06:11.119
I mean, it's it is electronic money.
01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:11.840
Say that again.
01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:12.400
You are right.
01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:13.199
Say that one more time.
01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:17.519
Nope, twice as much as you know, it's electronic transfer of funds.
01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:24.559
I mean, if you look at the account and you know, whatever your points are, whatever your this is, your balance is, you've you don't see that physical cash.
01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:27.920
Because the bank doesn't have that much physical cash, and they'll tell you that right now.
01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:28.800
No, they don't.
01:06:29.119 --> 01:06:31.440
So it's it's electronic money.
01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:34.000
But there's, you know, in this whole gold of what you're talking about.
01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:34.559
Turn that mic.
01:06:34.639 --> 01:06:34.960
Turn that mic.
01:06:35.280 --> 01:06:39.440
But the gold and silver that you're talking about, and Louisiana is part of uh accepting gold.
01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:48.480
I'm gonna say silver and uh platinum, um platinum bouillon, if I'm not mistaken, and that's Florida, I know, Texas, Louisiana, and other states.
01:06:48.639 --> 01:07:03.039
Um, but there's the and I wasn't quite clear on it because I'm not that economically savvy, I guess, but there's you can use a a credit card or a debit card that is attached to the gold fund or whatever it may be, and that's where you start to.
01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:04.480
That is tokenization.
01:07:04.639 --> 01:07:04.880
Okay.
01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:08.400
Essentially, and this is what people don't don't necessarily know.
01:07:08.480 --> 01:07:09.519
Look, it's a new technology.
01:07:09.599 --> 01:07:13.679
I have learned I have learned a lot about this over the last several years.
01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:17.440
Um, and I still know just a fraction of what I probably need to know.
01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:34.000
But essentially what happens is when you tokenize something on a ledger, you take, imagine a notebook, and you say, All right, in my notebook, I am writing down that I have one ounce of physical gold.
01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:46.000
And today, that notebook is worth$4,500 for a round number, which is pretty close to today's value of one ounce of 24 karat gold grant.
01:07:46.079 --> 01:07:46.480
Is that correct?
01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:47.039
Correct.
01:07:47.199 --> 01:07:47.519
Correct.
01:07:47.599 --> 01:07:48.320
Okay, thank you.
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:53.119
And then saying, so now you are on my ledger.
01:07:53.679 --> 01:08:05.840
I am going to give you, Chris Castro, the amount of gold needed from my ledger because you're doing business on my ledger, the amount of gold needed to buy a slurpee.
01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:06.159
Right.
01:08:06.320 --> 01:08:11.519
So I'm giving you$1.95 worth of gold to buy that Slurpee.
01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:16.319
You have now given that$1.95 of gold to 7-Eleven.
01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:18.239
Right?
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:22.000
But it never actually took the physical gold.
01:08:22.159 --> 01:08:24.640
I still have the physical gold, but the ledger is out there.
01:08:24.720 --> 01:08:44.399
And the person that's 7-Eleven can say, strange things are afoot at the circle K because we now have enough gold to cover the$1.95 Slurpee on Kavon's ledger that if we want it, we could physically go get it, or we can have our bank reconcile it and put a connected cash equivalent into our account.
01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:47.520
Well, that's Texas thing, is it's Texas's ledger, right?
01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:49.760
Yeah, I was gonna say you don't really have that gold.
01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:51.760
You bought in to buy the gold, you're gonna be able to get the gold.
01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:52.079
Correct.
01:08:52.159 --> 01:08:53.920
Texas has the gold to buy the gold.
01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:54.319
Correct.
01:08:54.399 --> 01:08:55.199
Texas has the gold.
01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:59.119
But that's the way banks worked in the 1800s when they all had their own currency.
01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:02.239
Because the the cash was there and they physically transported it.
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:02.640
Correct.
01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:06.159
And when we look at it, I've had people come in my store and want to pay with silver and gold.
01:09:06.239 --> 01:09:07.039
I'm like, yeah, sure.
01:09:07.119 --> 01:09:14.319
You know, we'll we'll take silver and gold, but I need to check, make sure it's actual, like, make sure it's legitimate, because there are a lot of really good fakes out there.
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:19.439
And that's why bouillon is what I like because you know, 1963 quarters, dimes, that kind of stuff.
01:09:19.760 --> 01:09:23.760
You have uh that's what 0.7% or 70% uh silver in those.
01:09:24.159 --> 01:09:25.119
Which would be 0.7.
01:09:25.680 --> 01:09:25.920
Right.
01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:26.479
Yeah.
01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:31.920
So 70% silver in those, and it fluctuates, so you're gonna get what the market dictates on that.
01:09:32.159 --> 01:09:38.239
Here's the fun part the ledger does all of the qualification for you.
01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:42.000
So there's no more, oh, I brought I brought physical.
01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:48.079
Making this, making this um a digital electronic funds argument, you're doing such a good job.
01:09:48.159 --> 01:09:50.159
Go do this in front of Congress and get the Clarity Act passed.
01:09:50.319 --> 01:10:00.960
Oh, look, if they would listen, I would gladly I don't want to say that because I You don't want to go up there and testify in front of Congress because the next question is gonna be well, how can I get five cents off every transaction?
01:10:01.119 --> 01:10:02.399
Well that's what someone's gonna ask you.
01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:05.760
Senator Warren, you can't, and that's the problem for you, right?
01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:08.000
And and therein lies the issue.
01:10:08.319 --> 01:10:29.279
I firmly believe the biggest reason we have not seen the Clarity Act passed, which gives us the guardrails, so that all the qualification that says, yes, we certify this gold is real, we certify it is 24 karat, we certify there is this much, and it's all taken care of on the ledger, means that fraud becomes that much more difficult once this is in place.
01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:36.960
Because now, while it's all visible, it's visible on a private ledger, not a governmental ledger in the U.S.
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Why are y'all like pointing at me?
01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:40.079
I'm gonna give y'all the finger back.
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I can tell you what I was gonna say.
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Article one, section 10 of the Constitution.
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Congress shall make no thing but gold and silver coin and tender for payment of debts.
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The big question now becomes is what we've been using unconstitutional.
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Think about it during the break on implicit bias radio.
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Implicit bias radio has not been kicked off the NASDAQ.
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I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon.
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We're with Caleb Morse, the Rustic Renegade, here in the TSPL.
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We're with Grant Galatus of William S.
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Nakall Jewelers, otherwise known as KB and Big Abeda Diamonds for less.
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That's correct.
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That's what I thought.
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And we have the console Yary, Chris Castro of Castro Law, Chris.
01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:19.600
It's a pleasure to have you here in the TSPL.
01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:20.479
Good to be here.
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Okay.
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When you think of iconic brands, there are a few that come to mind.
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The Coca-Cola script.
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It is their own font.
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Santa Claus was defined by Coca-Cola, an iconic brand, right?
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When you think of iconic brands, to me, the next one up is the swoosh.
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The swoosh has been universal on the planet since I mean, I hate to say Jordan in the late 80s or middle eighties, but let's face it, Jordan, Jordan put him on the map, and when he did, he put him on the map in a big way.
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And unfortunately, the gods of consumerism giveth, and the gods of consumerism taketh away as soon as you start to collude with other people to undermine your brand.
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And now Nike, a publicly traded company, has lost so much value, it is being delisted off of the NASDAQ 500.
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SP.
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S I'm sorry, SP.
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Thank you.
01:12:29.359 --> 01:12:32.399
The SP 500, not NASDAQ 500, the SP 500.
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So Chris, I'm I'm curious, did you ever think you'd see the day when Nike was delisted from the SP 500?
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Uh I first of all, I never knew they were on the SP.
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But uh I can't really say that I would ever expect that Nike's uh value was so depreciated over the past, I don't know, five or seven years.
01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:57.199
Um but I I have to say that you know I had to look a little deeper on this question.
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So you brought it up.
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And uh so I looked up Adidas and I looked up Under Armour and I looked up Brooks and I looked up all of these other athletic wear things, and um they've all gone down in value over the last five years.
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In the five-year window that we're talking about here, every one of those products has taken a hit.
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Maybe one has um has really taken a hit.
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What's the one that didn't take a hit?
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Is it under armor?
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No, they didn't take it a hit.
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Um a lot of it too is is how business has evolved, right?
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So it used to be if you thought sneakers, you thought Nike and Adidas.
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Right.
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And then Reebok.
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And you know I didn't look up Reebok, but I can and when you became a dad, you were like, oh new balance, yeah, right?
01:13:40.319 --> 01:13:40.640
Right?
01:13:41.039 --> 01:13:43.119
So like the brands just kind of existed.
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And then Sketchers has done well there.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And then now you have uh brands like Haka and Owen are on that are they doing better and more on cloud?
01:13:52.159 --> 01:13:53.119
Yeah, yeah.
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So um where Nike really hurt themselves wasn't just with Kaepernick and all this other stuff, right?
01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:01.279
So let's let's explain that.
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A lot of the people are thinking that the reason Nike is going broke is because they went woke.
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And and the timelines do absolutely 100% coincide, but it's not the whole story.
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Some of it does.
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Like Nike, uh, whenever they did their their their stupid political stuff, right?
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And everyone was kneeling on football.
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I stopped watching football.
01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:21.520
I'm not gonna lie to you.
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I think I've seen five games since then.
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Um and but Nike also shifted at that same time and they said, you know what?
01:14:28.640 --> 01:14:35.199
We don't need retailers, we don't need distribution, we don't need all that we're gonna do direct to consumer.
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And that's what they started doing.
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And they started pushing, hey, we're gonna sell our own stuff.
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And you started having less and less stores carry the full line.
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You started like, I don't even know.
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I'm I couldn't tell you the last time I've been in a footlocker, but all these places brought in less and less of their product because there was no money in it.
01:14:51.119 --> 01:14:54.000
And now all of a sudden, like he says, we made a mistake.
01:14:54.239 --> 01:14:56.560
So this is part of the collusion instead of the competition.
01:14:57.119 --> 01:14:58.399
Competition versus collusion?
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You're thinking about a manufacturer, and the old school model was manufacture, let distributors handle distribution, and they get a markup.
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And then they got in greedy.
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They all got greedy because they said, wait, we don't want to sell at a wholesale price where someone else gets to make some money.
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We want to sell direct to consumer where we make all the money.
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Now, I'm gonna throw another wrinkle into this.
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The real massive decline in all of these brands.
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What else does it coincide with the decline of?
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Being active.
01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:38.800
No, well, being active is is is part of it, but look, sneaker culture is a thing.
01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:39.439
Oh, yeah.
01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:44.079
And you would think sneaker culture would still maintain some of the sales.
01:15:44.720 --> 01:15:48.720
Where does the money come from to maintain some of those sales?
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Not just in the US, but globally.
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China.
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U.S.
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AID.
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Think about all the money we were funneling into other countries and even into the US.
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So we've seen the decline of 7-Eleven, we've seen the decline of Frito Lay, we've seen the decline of grocery store sales, we've seen the decline of things that are wants, not needs.
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With the decline of USAID.
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Essentially, the US tax paper, taxpayer, not tax paper, the US taxpayer, and this is the argument that's made, was subsidizing these companies through the redistribution of wealth.
01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:51.199
And now that that money is not being redistributed or that money has been cut off, let's face it, the the$300 pair of Nikes and the$200 jumpsuit and the the$70 t-shirt, which Nike is famous for, now all of a sudden people are going, uh, you know what?
01:16:51.359 --> 01:16:52.479
I might want one of them.
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I don't want four of them.
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I don't need it in every color.
01:16:54.960 --> 01:16:56.079
I just need one.
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And people are starting to get discerning with their money again now that supply of federal funds got limited.
01:17:02.960 --> 01:17:08.640
And I'm wondering if that's not part of the collusion that was out there because look, it happened to colleges with student loans.
01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:12.560
It happened to, like I said, everything else that I walked through, including 7-Elevens and all that.
01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:13.920
I'm wondering if that affects this.
01:17:14.159 --> 01:17:17.119
You're having more consumers that aren't exactly brand loyal, you know.
01:17:17.279 --> 01:17:18.800
Like you used to have a lot of brand loyalty.
01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:20.640
Like you had guys that all they wore was Nike.
01:17:20.960 --> 01:17:22.880
I wore a Adidas, I liked Adidas.
01:17:23.199 --> 01:17:24.239
My uh Adidas.
01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:24.800
Anyway.
01:17:24.960 --> 01:17:25.119
Yeah.
01:17:25.279 --> 01:17:26.560
Well, the corn song, too.
01:17:26.880 --> 01:17:27.039
Okay.
01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:28.960
Uh so yeah um.
01:17:29.840 --> 01:17:31.359
No one, thank you, Connor.
01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:47.760
So uh, you know, certain brands resonate with certain people, and then now we're getting to where you have a more educated consumer in some parts, and other parts we have a less educated consumer where we're like, wait, hold on, the same factor that makes this does this, this, and this, and this, and this, and it's all made by the same company, and but they just put different names on it.
01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:58.479
And we have people that are more discerning and they're like, you know what, I don't need, I mean, if you're not out there running, you know, eight miles a day, do you really need the newest Nike shoes or new newest running shoes?
01:17:58.880 --> 01:18:04.000
We have people who realize that like collecting some of these things aren't necessarily the biggest thing they could or should do.
01:18:04.239 --> 01:18:07.359
And here's another factor into the conversation.
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The more you see growth by majorly publicly held companies, majorly public, major publicly held companies, the more you see that growth, the bean counters who sit in Wall Street start to scrutinize things and go, you know, your costs are too high.
01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:28.720
And companies fall into the quality trap, which is what's been a problem for like five guys.
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They will not stray from the quality.
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And as their prices start to escalate because of that, it becomes a problem.
01:18:35.359 --> 01:18:36.479
Nike didn't do that.
01:18:36.640 --> 01:18:37.520
What did Nike do?
01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:43.520
Nike said, Yeah, we're still gonna charge$140 for the same pair of tennis shoes, but those tennis shoes are not gonna be the same.
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They're gonna be a lower quality.
01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:50.560
We're gonna have some poor seven-year-old in Malaysia working 40 hours every two days, right?
01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:52.720
In order, oh, they got two hours of sleep.
01:18:52.800 --> 01:18:53.279
That's enough.
01:18:53.439 --> 01:18:57.279
We're gonna have them continue to make our tennis shoes and sweatsuits and all that stuff.
01:18:57.520 --> 01:19:00.159
And they tried to reduce cost way too much.
01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:07.119
So what you see is you see prices stabilize to a point, but you see the quality start to drop.
01:19:07.359 --> 01:19:13.680
You'll heard you'll hear that reference to shrinkflation a lot of times, but it's shrinkflation in the quality of what you get.
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I know this.
01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:18.640
When I was a kid and you got a pair of Nikes, they would last you.
01:19:18.880 --> 01:19:19.600
Oh, forever.
01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:23.199
I mean, a pair of football cleats would last you a couple of seasons.
01:19:23.359 --> 01:19:29.520
Yeah, and look, some name brands, even though they might be made by someone else, their quality of product is much better.
01:19:29.680 --> 01:19:30.000
Agreed.
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:38.319
We there was a brand we said earlier uh that I didn't say that I tried their shoes on one time for Aerosalt School, and I bought these brand new shoes because everybody was talking about them.
01:19:38.479 --> 01:19:43.039
And the first run I did was a three-mile run, and the sole came off of one of the shoes.
01:19:43.199 --> 01:19:44.640
There's no way during my run.
01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:47.119
Did that one start with a U or an O?
01:19:49.119 --> 01:19:56.880
And uh I I the sole came off, and I finished my three-mile run barefoot, and I have never bought another pair.
01:19:57.840 --> 01:20:06.720
It's unfortunately where we fall today with these products, and when you start looking at the whole Nike scenario, there are so many factors that went into that.
01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:08.399
Going woke didn't help.
01:20:08.479 --> 01:20:08.800
Right.
01:20:09.039 --> 01:20:15.840
Government funding and the destruction of USAID and social support finances, that didn't help.
01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:19.199
Their destruction of quality of their own product, that didn't help.
01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:24.000
The fact that they got ridiculous on the price of some of their products, that didn't help either.
01:20:24.159 --> 01:20:27.039
I mean, you put all those things together and it's like, hmm.
01:20:27.199 --> 01:20:34.560
Let me think about how to destroy a multi-billion dollar a year company over time.
01:20:35.600 --> 01:20:38.560
That recipe, it's flawless.
01:20:38.720 --> 01:20:39.439
It's flawless.
01:20:39.680 --> 01:20:43.439
It makes sense to try and decrease your costs, find a way to cut costs and all this.
01:20:43.520 --> 01:20:51.520
Uh, but it seems like the easiest category that it is uh the easiest to avoid is let's not jump into the political realm.
01:20:51.680 --> 01:20:52.079
Please.
01:20:52.159 --> 01:20:54.239
Now that now there's quite a few shining examples.
01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:55.439
Uh, what was it just recently?
01:20:55.600 --> 01:20:56.399
Jelly roll.
01:20:56.479 --> 01:20:56.720
Oh, yeah.
01:20:56.800 --> 01:20:57.680
Jelly Roll the Singer.
01:20:57.840 --> 01:21:00.079
All of a sudden, overnight he lost like a million followers.
01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:01.199
And he should have lost more.
01:21:01.520 --> 01:21:03.279
Because he was making jokes about Trump.
01:21:03.359 --> 01:21:06.159
I mean, yeah, it's it's easy to avoid the political.
01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:07.279
Don't shoot yourself in the head.
01:21:07.359 --> 01:21:08.319
There's enough you have to worry about.
01:21:08.640 --> 01:21:14.319
Self-inflicted injuries are not something we're into here on implicit bias radio, which means we have one more segment.
01:21:14.399 --> 01:21:16.000
We're gonna have fun with this topic.
01:21:16.239 --> 01:21:18.159
Do not miss it when we come back.
01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:25.199
Implicit Bias Radio will absolutely follow the blue law and not work on Sunday.
01:21:25.279 --> 01:21:26.399
We won't be on on Sunday.
01:21:26.479 --> 01:21:28.000
Well, we're only one day a week anyway.
01:21:28.159 --> 01:21:31.680
But the blue laws, we believe, are important on implicit bias radio.
01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:32.640
Welcome back to the Mr.
01:21:32.720 --> 01:21:36.399
Lester's TSPL, which by the way, do not miss.
01:21:36.479 --> 01:21:39.199
And I don't know how many tickets are even left.
01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:43.359
Do not miss September 17th at Ambassador Wine and Spirits.
01:21:43.760 --> 01:21:49.760
Because, man, that is going to be a night with implicit bias radio and Heaven Hill.
01:21:50.079 --> 01:21:52.079
Tickets are$30 or$50.
01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:56.640
The$50 ticket, you walk out with a bottle of whiskey, plus all your tastings.
01:21:56.720 --> 01:22:03.840
And man, the lineup for that night is absolutely like it is full on Caleb Morse ignorant.
01:22:04.800 --> 01:22:07.439
Well, they they have that sportsman's paradise one that we tried.
01:22:07.520 --> 01:22:09.039
So which was a banger.
01:22:09.279 --> 01:22:11.600
Dude, we are talking a Heaven Hill grain of glass.
01:22:11.680 --> 01:22:13.840
We're talking um of Old Fit 7.
01:22:13.920 --> 01:22:15.359
We're talking a McKenna 10.
01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:17.600
We're talking a Larceny barrel pick.
01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:20.319
We're talking a Widow Jane Lucky 13.
01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:27.279
I mean, and on top of that, yes, the Sportsman's Paradise, Elijah Craig at 130 proof.
01:22:27.359 --> 01:22:28.399
That's all in the tasting menu.
01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:31.119
There's gonna be stuff you can buy, and the crew is gonna sit there.
01:22:31.279 --> 01:22:33.119
Renee's gonna give you cigar recommendations.
01:22:33.359 --> 01:22:35.119
And come in from out of town.
01:22:35.279 --> 01:22:35.680
Yes.
01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:38.399
So but hurry because you got to buy tickets there.
01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:39.760
You gotta buy tickets at Ambassador.
01:22:40.079 --> 01:22:40.880
And there's not many left.
01:22:41.199 --> 01:22:42.079
So call them.
01:22:42.159 --> 01:22:43.279
I don't know if they do that over the phone.
01:22:43.359 --> 01:22:43.680
Try it.
01:22:44.079 --> 01:22:44.960
I don't know if they can.
01:22:45.920 --> 01:22:46.479
They might be able to.
01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:48.159
There's an extra 50 in there for you.
01:22:48.319 --> 01:22:50.000
So try something.
01:22:50.159 --> 01:22:50.880
Give it a shot.
01:22:51.039 --> 01:22:52.079
Yeah, absolutely.
01:22:52.239 --> 01:22:54.880
Gonna be a fantastic night, September 17th.
01:22:54.960 --> 01:22:56.319
The OG crew will be there.
01:22:56.399 --> 01:23:05.279
A lot of the crew will be there as well, just to say hi, to have a sip, to have a pour, to sit around and just shoot the breeze with everybody who's out there.
01:23:05.359 --> 01:23:05.840
What's that?
01:23:05.920 --> 01:23:06.880
What's funny about that, Grant?
01:23:07.039 --> 01:23:07.600
Something funny?
01:23:07.760 --> 01:23:08.640
Am I a clown to you?
01:23:08.720 --> 01:23:09.680
Is that what's is that what you're saying?
01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:10.640
No, it's my funny.
01:23:10.880 --> 01:23:11.760
Look, am I funny?
01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:12.239
Ha ha ha.
01:23:12.319 --> 01:23:12.880
Am I funny?
01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:15.920
So I'm away at this job in Sea Caucus.
01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:16.399
Yeah.
01:23:16.640 --> 01:23:17.439
That's a great scene.
01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:18.000
I watched that.
01:23:18.079 --> 01:23:22.159
Uh no, it's it's a it's a good event because we went last time to the the whistle pig.
01:23:22.239 --> 01:23:22.479
Yep.
01:23:22.640 --> 01:23:23.279
Uh taste.
01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:25.039
And it was, I mean, it's nicely put together.
01:23:25.199 --> 01:23:26.079
Got a little food, walk around.
01:23:26.239 --> 01:23:27.039
Oh, have that airbox.
01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:28.239
I forgot there's food there.
01:23:28.399 --> 01:23:28.640
Yes.
01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:28.880
Yeah.
01:23:29.359 --> 01:23:30.479
Which there needs to be food.
01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:33.520
Because this is Yeah, we well, I drank a fair amount.
01:23:33.600 --> 01:23:33.840
You know.
01:23:34.079 --> 01:23:38.239
This is going to be one of the first tastings where the lowest proof is 100.
01:23:38.399 --> 01:23:39.600
Everything goes up from there.
01:23:39.840 --> 01:23:40.720
Oh, yes.
01:23:41.039 --> 01:23:48.000
So, yep, fellas, you better get them up because this is going to be a difficult one for us to do an implicit bias radio and ambassador wine and spirits.
01:23:48.159 --> 01:23:49.119
No problem getting it up.
01:23:49.359 --> 01:23:54.399
I you can't just let it go and have fun with it.
01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:54.640
No.
01:23:54.800 --> 01:23:59.039
You just gotta sometimes you gotta let people catch the joke five seconds after they've heard the joke, Caleb.
01:23:59.359 --> 01:24:02.880
Look, they got it five seconds afterwards, and I drove it home again six seconds afterwards.
01:24:03.840 --> 01:24:04.319
All right.
01:24:04.560 --> 01:24:06.560
Last story that we need to do on this week's episode.
01:24:06.800 --> 01:24:08.720
I'm serious about the whole blue law thing.
01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:11.439
I know that Grant, you will remember blue laws.
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Chris, you will remember blue laws.
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Caleb, do you remember blue laws in southern Louisiana?
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Do you remember what they are?
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No.
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I didn't think so.
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Okay, so do y'all want to explain?
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I will let one of you at the bar explain what a blue law was.
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Well, I would just say a blue law, but those are the those were the days when stores were actually closed on Sundays.
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By law.
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By law.
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And you know, you just it life was a lot more relaxed.
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There was no no uh department stores, no uh Home Depot store, and there was no none of that was actually in place.
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And it was time to to relax and and um, you know.
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So there were certain stores that were open, sure, and they were deemed necessary stores too, but like grocery stores and drug stores.
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They had they they could be open, they had to be open because you know, if you need Benadryl because you're allergic to bees and you got stung by bees on a Sunday, you couldn't have a drugstore closed and die.
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You didn't want that to happen.
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If you needed to eat on a Sunday, you would want a grocery store or a restaurant open.
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But uh no, alcohol was actually part of the blue laws.
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Alcohol was part of it, even even at the grocery stores, I believe.
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Correct.
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You could not buy, especially, I think in New Orleans it was before noon, you couldn't buy alcohol.
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I do remember these laws because I went into stores and they were like, you can't buy that, it's not noon yet.
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Yes, that that's that's exactly part of it.
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Lafayette had that not very long ago.
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If they still don't, if I'm not sure if they still don't have that as far as it relates to alcohol.
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I can't tell you the last time I attempted to buy alcohol before noon on a Sunday, uh which would technically be after midnight Saturday night, right?
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It would fall into that period.
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So, uh, but I guess my question is uh have we gotten over commerced?
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Have we gotten over consumptionized?
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I love that word.
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I just created it.
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People now want the they want the Amazon.
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They want 24 hours, they want unfettered access, they want to be able to buy what they want to buy on one day.
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But is that a good thing?
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No, it's not a good thing.
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Like I want to go hunting on the weekends during hunting season, but because on a gun shop, I have to be open.
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Right?
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Yeah, look, it's almost a rhetorical question because it was almost, I mean, being closed on Sunday, it was almost a forced day for a family.
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What it forces you to switch?
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Yeah, which is really not a bad idea because we've gotten we're we're so far past that now, it's a shame.
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But we came up in the era when it when it actually was a thing.
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Great.
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Oh, absolutely.
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How often do you actually get to relax with your wife?
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Truthfully.
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That's a really good question.
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Because look, she's waiting on this.
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She's like a shark.
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If she stops swimming, if she stops swimming, she goes to sleep.
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I am dead serious.
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This woman is hyperkinetic.
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She she just does not stop.
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And even, I mean, even with football season now, every once in a while I try and tell her it's it's a day off, just stop and and and unspool.
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But she my wife's an exception because she just she refuses to.
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What I would argue is a couple of things.
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We need blue laws.
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So Sunday is a day for family.
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If it's not a necessary business, the business is closed.
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Period.
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End of story.
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We also need evening blue laws from corporations.
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An email does not get processed after 5 p.m.
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Central Standard Time.
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Because after that, you legally are not on the clock.
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And they, oh, but you work 60 hours because you're no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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A salaried employee is salaried at 40 hours a week and they are responsible to you during working hours.
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Now, depending upon your industry, you can set different working hours.
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Well, here's my argument, right?
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I don't think we need more laws.
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I think that we need corporations that stand up for their beliefs.
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That's why we need the laws.
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No.
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Like, look, I'm not going to be open on Sunday.
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I remember when I was first starting to work as a young man, uh, outside of manual labor, and they're like, you have to work on Sunday.
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No, I'm not working on Sunday.
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And I didn't get the first five jobs.
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And I tell my I tell the people that work at the shop, don't put the email on your phone.
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Why?
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Because when you leave here, I don't want you to work.
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Right.
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But Caleb, you are the exception, not the rule.
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And the collusion here is so big because literally, so I worked for a company that sold this to their employees.
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You work here.
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Hold on.
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Hold, but unfortunately, at times we do need some common sense regulation.
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I worked for a company that sold.
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You come to work here, you will not have to contribute to your own retirement because we will take 18 to 21% of your annual salary every year and put it in your retirement account, right?
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It was graduated up until your fifth year when you became fully vested and got your full 18 to 25%.
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In my fifth year, new CEO takes over and they said, Yeah, we're not doing that anymore.
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Right?
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But and and you know what their you know what their reasoning was?
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Well, it's not as good as it could be.
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We're still in the top 10% of all companies.
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That's the collusion that happens, right?
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The collusion that happens is they look at the bar that's set and go, you can't go anywhere else and get anything better.
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Why are we giving you better than you can get?
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And that's what's jacked up about it.
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Well, and the fact that they could and did provide that benefit and it kept employees for decades.
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Now all of a sudden they're like, Yeah, we're giving you the finger because you can't do any better, that doesn't make it right.
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And consumers are gonna still do that too.
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Like I get messages at 10 o'clock on Sunday afternoon.
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I'm like, I'm no one answer that.
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I'll text our group.
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Do not answer it because you know what?
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We all need time to rest.
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You are the exception, and so are you.
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