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Summary
Glenn and Stu talk about a California chef who is sick and tired of all the restrictions placed on outdoor dining and wants to open an outdoor restaurant. Joe Biden wears a mask for just 100 days, and you can trust him for some reason? Also, a video of people in New York City chanting and hollering in the streets.
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Welcome to the program. It is Friday, and it is Pat and Stu here for Glenn.
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A lot of great stuff today, including a great rant from a California chef
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who is sick and tired of all the restrictions on his business
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He's not even trying to open up the inside of his restaurant.
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He's so frustrated about the situation where you have these restaurant owners
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spending thousands of dollars to retrofit their places
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to try to get people inside and deal with these restrictions,
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That really is an amazing rant. I think you're going to like that quite a bit.
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Also, Joe Biden wants you to wear a mask for just 100 more days, just 100 more days,
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I don't know what the reason is, but you can trust him. It'll only be 100 days.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I don't know if you talked about it yesterday or not, because, I mean, I'm sorry, I missed it.
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But there was a video released from the state of New York where people are chanting and hollering in the streets,
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and I can't make out what they're saying, and I was hoping, especially used to, that you'd be able to,
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I know you understand New York lingo, that you could help me understand what they're saying in this video.
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Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks!
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Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks!
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It almost sounds like something like, Womo sucks?
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And it's interesting, because in New York, the governor of New York is Andrew Cuomo, and he sucks.
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I'm so glad I brought that in to figure that one out.
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I was talking to somebody the other day about this, a relative who lives in New York, and
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And of course, obviously, I believe Andrew Cuomo is awful.
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But we were talking about, like, it hasn't really changed in the polling, his approval
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It's gone from, like, at one point, it was almost like 80%, and it's gone down to, like,
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I mean, his daughter doesn't even like him anymore.
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The daughter had the boyfriend that was working at the mansion, and Cuomo shipped him off
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That actually kind of, something like that did happen.
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I mean, they're obviously so liberal, but at some point when, you know, you have a liberal
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governor who you might like some of their policies, but you realize, you know, they've
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That would tend to dampen your attitude towards him, I think.
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It definitely seems like New Yorkers are becoming more outspoken about how bad Cuomo is, but
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the polls haven't moved enough for my liking yet, Pat or Jeff.
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Also, I'm looking forward to the new, brand new streaming service.
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We don't have enough streaming services in our lives anymore.
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Discovery Plus is going to be a new streaming service.
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55,000 episodes, 2,500 current and classic shows.
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I mean, and it's going to be, all their networks, I mean, they have HGTV, Food, TLC, Own, Planet
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Earth, and of course the ever popular, and more.
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How much are you willing to pay for the streaming service for Discovery Plus?
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$4.99 a month, $6.99 ad-free for Discovery Plus.
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And look, we happen to be, there happens to be a Blaze TV that we all love and would love
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But it is, there is some sort of, like, how many different subscriptions?
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Most people have Netflix, although we dropped ours because of that child porn thing.
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You've got your Hulu, you've got your CBS, you've got Disney Plus, you've got AMC has
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And looking forward to the new Hillary Clinton broadcast she just announced yesterday with
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They've created a production company, and their first thing is going to be the book that
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And HBO Max just announced that they've got the new deal now where Warner Brothers, their
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movies, remember, they're going to do Wonder Woman in December this month, going to launch
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Now, all of 2021 movies on Warner Brothers will be released at the theater and on HBO
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Seems hard to overstate how big a deal that is, right?
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I mean, I've heard theater chain stocks are going in the tank.
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No, I mean, Universal just made that deal, right, where they were going to start.
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They made the deal with the movie theaters that they're going to allow their movies to
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be released at the movie theaters for 30 days before it goes to video on demand.
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But if it doesn't make, I think it was the $50 million mark, then it's 17 days and it goes
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And Universal is giving the movie theaters a cut of all of that, though.
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I knew as soon as they announced the Wonder Woman deal, and this was announced on Chewing
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the Fat, by the way, that it was going to be a done deal for the rest, for the near
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And they are saying that this is only, you know, creative solutions for 2021.
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So those creative solutions are going to be for an unlimited amount of time now in the
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And you have this, like, weird chicken and egg thing going on with these movie theaters
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where you just, they're not releasing any movies, so there's no reason for theaters to
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And there's no reason to go to theaters because they're not releasing any movies.
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And there's no reason to release movies because none of the theaters are open.
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So there's no, there's like no real way to get this to work.
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This is a great, I think, actually a really good idea because they can guarantee a bunch of
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cash from HBO and they can still get into the theaters.
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Well, they were saying HBO Max was saying they only, on HBO Max specifically, only had like
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And many, many of those people that have HBO haven't flipped over to HBO Max yet.
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So they want everybody to flip over to HBO Max and they want new subscribers, which they're
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I mean, they're releasing 17 movies that they're going to online, that they're going to release
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And I mean, who doesn't want to watch Godzilla versus Kong?
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I got to say, I'm dumb enough to show up for Godzilla versus Kong.
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I think it was the last Godzilla movie, which was another like War of the Monsters.
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It was, I assumed that going in, the, the one before that was actually good.
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The, the, the original one with, uh, with Brian, with Brian Cranston in it.
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Uh, and that's not the original Godzilla, but the original of this latest string of them.
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You have the long, according to this release, you have the long awaited fourth Matrix film.
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And, and, and, and, and Matrix three was so bad and convoluted.
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A lot of money, a lot of money that he doesn't deserve.
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Speaking of Braun, uh, are you in love with the fact that he may stick around in the NBA long
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enough to see Bronny get into the league as well?
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Wouldn't that be great to have LeBron James and LeBron James Jr.
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Could it, could the kid be any more, is it possible that he's as annoying as LeBron James?
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Is it possible that LeBron would actually take a pay cut to get his kid on the team?
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Like he did for other teammates and he decided, no, I'm not, I'm not going to take a pay cut.
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And then you have, uh, the new, uh, interpretation of Dune.
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What was the, what was the, that movie was horrible.
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What happened was, it was like eight hours long, I think if I remember correctly.
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And what they did was they put a camera on a sand dune and then they showed that for
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There's also a, a, a prequel, I believe, of the Sopranos series.
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I hope they finally, I hope they finally put that together.
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And it, look, the Sopranos are still strong for HBO, right?
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I mean, there's some, some episodes during the series that you always have to go back
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One thing I know from listening to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher podcast, you can get
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right now if you're subscribing to podcasts at this moment, is you went over the transportation
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What was the, do you remember the details of that?
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Well, some of the details, they actually went up over the holidays.
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They had like three or four days that actually broke a million through the turnstile.
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So a million people who went through TSA security.
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They, well, the lowest it got down to was 86,000.
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And then it started going to a couple hundred thousand, 300,000.
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We're back up to about between six and 900,000.
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And then it has bounced back to roughly half right now.
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It's interesting to look at the theaters, which we're doing about $200 million a week
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So in February 14th through the 20th, they did $215 million in theaters.
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That dropped off to like, you know, it was March 6th, the week of March 6th, it went
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So it went down to like, you know, $5,000 for a few weeks.
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Then eventually, you know, once we got out of the six weeks to, you know, to stop the
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spread or whatever, a few opened up, got up to like $100,000, got up to like $500,000
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through the summer, finally broke a million in August.
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Then $3 million, $8 million, $16 million, $30 million in September 4th.
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And then it started kind of getting that flare up again.
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And it's been right around between $11 and $14 million for the past two months.
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That's still a 90% drop off from pre-pandemic numbers.
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And let me give you what's in a really nice theater near us right now.
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Elf is showing the Croods, Let Him Go, and The War with Grandpa.
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You forgot one huge movie that's been released for the next, started today, I think, maybe
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yesterday, and through the weekend, the Elvis remastered That's the Way It Is movie.
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Jeffy, that was egregious that I left that off the list.
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It really wasn't egregious, just so you're aware.
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There's a California chef that is, I mean, I think you're seeing a lot of this reaction
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to the ridiculous overreaches by these blue state governors, largely, and mayors, and they
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are, you're seeing a lot of it come from restaurants and bars.
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And it's weird because like, they're just like the public face of this.
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It's interesting in that, you know, restaurants have seen real devastation.
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I mean, a state like Texas, because we had this metric set up of 15% of the hospitals filled
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with COVID patients means you go to, I think, 50% capacity in restaurants and bars close.
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There's so many restrictions and weird things like this.
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Like, it's hard to keep track of, but so, you know, that's happened a lot and they've
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You think about some of these industries, though, that have totally gone away.
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You know, concert, we have Eric July, who's a Blaze TV contributor.
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And he comes in for the News and Why It Matters.
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He's been on this show, my show, Studios America.
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Like, if you go to a concert venue, basically, you're just turned things off for the year.
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And the thing about that is that for these bands, that's now how they make their money.
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The concerts are far more lucrative than the record sales because the digital record industry
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has just pretty much destroyed the massive amounts of money they were making from that.
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So, they're not making the big bucks with the recordings anymore.
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They're making the big dollars at the concert venue.
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I mean, you know, we talk about professional sports.
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Obviously, you see these professional sports leagues who have gone from, I mean, you watch
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the games, you watch an NFL week of games, you know, half the games have zero fans and
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half the games have, you know, maybe 10 or 20% of the fans.
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I mean, they're talking about the Super Bowl at, I think, 20% capacity.
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It's something like 15,000 people, supposedly, in the stadium, which I can't imagine what these
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You know, what about, what about like the, you know, here, I think this is around the
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I've been to them with the kids and other places as well, but they have like trampoline
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parks and like these indoor sort of like, almost like indoor amusement parks in some
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ways where they have trampoline parks and they have like all these cool things for kids
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to do, go-karts and, you know, all these things where people are sharing the same space
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and doing physical activity or whatever indoors.
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You know, I mean, we, we have them around us and they're open again, again, limited capacity
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and we've gone to them, uh, you know, several times, but the crowd is one 10th of what it
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Well, you know, they're dealing with this, of course, at restaurants quite a bit.
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Uh, there's a California chef, a TV personality, Andrew gruel, uh, which is a weird name for
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I don't know the guy, but, uh, he, uh, he was talking about these, the, the, the madness
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Am I saying that we shouldn't close outdoor dining?
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At every single juncture along the way here from the beginning shutdown to today, we've
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listened to all of the advice from our government officials only to be shut down over and over
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and over again, and then not compensated for the elements that we put in place in our businesses
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I got a warehouse full of plexiglass right now.
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I just put thousands of dollars into outdoor heaters.
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There is zero scientific evidence that proves that outdoor dining is contributing to a
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I can go get a pink cockatoo for my Christmas tree, but I can't go and dine outdoors at a
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There is no, there's no evidence that says that outdoor dining leads to a major transmission.
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I mean, it's, it's very, very unlikely that you're going to get it and doing outdoor
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dining and you're killing these businesses because you're not only telling them they can't
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have customers, which is already a really big deal, but, and I've heard this from restaurant
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owner after restaurant owner, they are, you're doing these things to, to please the government,
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like putting plexiglass up and all these separators and to make honestly, some of the people who
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come to your restaurant who are scared, feel better.
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And you're spending all of this cash to do this.
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And then at the end of the day, the government doesn't come back and say, Hey, we know we
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We know we asked you to, to build these, uh, you know, bubbles for everyone to sit in.
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Uh, so they can basically, everyone can live inside of plastic wrap.
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Now there have been some programs that have helped with, uh, with shutdowns.
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We know, uh, you know, the PPP and there's going to be another stimulus package that comes
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At least, uh, it's either going to be, um, probably, uh, very soon or, uh, you know, late
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January, early February, but that's going to be another trillion dollars.
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And some of that money will go to restaurant owners and other companies to be compensated
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for this stuff, because it is the government forcing them to shut down.
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Um, yeah, I will say if, if it's a state regulation, however, that money should probably come from
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the state, not the governor, not the federal government.
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I think that we have, this has got to, this is, this is a little bit out of control.
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I mean, you have a lot of people who are laid off and those people, uh, you know, we have
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Uh, there's been talk about potentially another one of these sort of stimulus bonus stimulus
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is the wrong word for this because it's not stimulus.
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It's told you to shut down, uh, and they're supposed to compensate you for such things.
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Uh, you know, I have, there's a big libertarian part of me that does not like all of this,
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but I do understand it in this particular circumstance.
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When the government is responsible for your business being closed and you being on the verge
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of bankruptcy, then, you know, it's appropriate that they compensate you, I guess.
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Uh, but yeah, so you look at industries like restaurants and movie theaters and, well, cruise
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lines, when, when, when are cruises going to be acceptable again?
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You know, I've been seeing commercials for them lately.
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Most of them have, have pushed it off to 2021 sometime.
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I think they might be selling future cruises and trying to get people excited about that.
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I was surprised to see though, advertising for it at this point.
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You know, I mean, there's like, what about this live events business?
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Where you have these huge conventions like a comic con and there's a ton of them.
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Um, and it's like those, what, how are those businesses planning through this?
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Even if you're going to have them in the near future, you're going to have to have them
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in a, in a separated, uh, circumstance where you're not getting close to people and people
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You know, we went, um, you know, they had these six weeks to stop the spread or whatever
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it was, you know, two weeks and then another month and that ended.
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And I think it was right, right after that, or not soon after that in Texas, they opened
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up, uh, dining at 25% capacity, uh, in, in Texas.
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And it was like at the point where nothing was open.
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I mean, it really, I think Georgia had opened a little bit, maybe one or two other states
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and I was South Dakota kind of did the whole time.
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And a couple of other states had that, had it that way, but it was like big news at
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And the first day it opened, we went out to a restaurant here in Texas.
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Uh, and it was interesting in that it wasn't fun.
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You know, it's one thing to say you can go to a restaurant.
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It's another thing to go to a restaurant where everybody is masked around you.
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You know, if you're going to a bar or whatever, you can't go talk to someone across the bar.
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You know, you, you, you, you're freaked out because you're wondering what droplets are
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landing on your face from, from fellow, uh, diners.
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And it's like, I think people have, have loosened up a little bit since then.
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And we've, we've had, we've been dealing with this for a while now, but it wasn't enjoyable.
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You know, the whole point of this is it's not just going out and consuming food.
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It's an experience and these guys work so hard to design these amazing, you know, dishes
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and have a great atmosphere in their restaurants and even to work, to do it outside.
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And at the end of the day, it's impossible for them to provide the things that the, the,
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the, the people who are coming to the restaurants actually want.
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You know, you've, you've really just hampered this economy to a level that is, uh, I mean,
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we certainly never lived through anything like this before my, my favorite hamburger
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place in all of, uh, Texas, uh, twisted route still, still closed.
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They've been closed and they're continuing to be closed, uh, in most of their locations.
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I think in Shreveport, Louisiana or someplace, they've got a couple of restaurants open, but
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all, all of the restaurants in the DFW area still closed.
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And I think they've even filed chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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So, I mean, I, I don't know how people are surviving it.
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Uh, but when you once had such a successful operation that you have, that you now have
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restaurants all over the place, you've gone from one to 20 or 30 or whatever.
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So how do you ever, how do you ever get that back?
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Everybody who has declared bankruptcy and who has shut down, they're not, they're not
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all going to be made whole again by the U S government or a state government.
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And, and I really feel for people who've lost their livelihoods like that.
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We may have played this yesterday, but, uh, just as a reminder, uh, here's what Joe Biden
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Cause, uh, you know, everything's got to change now, right?
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We, you didn't, you couldn't have anybody over for, for Thanksgiving.
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I hope you all are listening as with all the trouble you're going through, you cannot
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be traveling during these holidays as much as you want.
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We, uh, you probably, you, uh, I used to kid me about it.
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I mean, everything for me is family beginning, middle, and then when one comes, everybody
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That is such a weird thing that he does all the time.
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He, he throws it into sentences all the time when everyone's sitting there like, they're
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My deceased son, before he passed away, uh, we'd all go away and we'd go away on
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Thanksgiving to be just a nuclear family, mom, dad, sons, daughters, husbands, wives,
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We, the first time we had a, we had a Thanksgiving with my wife and myself, my daughter in the
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region and her husband who's a doctor in the region.
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All my other kids, everybody else in the family was on Zoom on Thanksgiving, which
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doesn't, well, Christmas is going to be a lot harder.
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And, you know, I want, I don't want to scare anybody here, but understand the facts.
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He doesn't want to scare anybody, but we're likely to lose another 250,000 people dead
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He doesn't want to scare anybody, but we are likely to have a quarter of a million people
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So you're basically looking at about 10 K a day, which would be high.
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And it's, you know, we will probably will break those records and it, you know, over the
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I will be very surprised if it hits that number.
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Uh, I, so I was trying to figure out where he got this number from.
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I'm like, it's possible he could say globally, 10,000 people a day will die, which is about
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If you look at some of these estimates, he says from now until January, does that mean
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Like, I mean, until January to me says till December 31st.
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I mean, if you include January in the estimates and take the worst estimates, you go all the
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way to January or January 31st and you take the worst case scenario, you might be able
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I mean, like if you're at, if the worst possible thing happens and you will get, which is really
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More likely he just screwed it up because if we give him till January 31st, well, now we've
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You would have to, in order for him to be correct, you would have to say until February.
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But like that University of Washington model says that that's possible.
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Now, of course, that also means that there's no vaccine, right?
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Like if you have a vaccine that inoculates 30 million people by that time, I mean, the number
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But don't they also say, uh, if you have to relax restrictions in order to do that and
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Think about the, I think about, that's a great point.
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It says, uh, it's an estimate that it revolves around, uh, easing mandates.
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Now, the effect of mandates is very overblown, very overblown.
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You go and look at the mask mandate states, forget even whether the masks work or not
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Just look at what happens in states with mask mandates and states without mask mandates.
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What's the difference in percentage of people who actually wear masks?
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I want to say it's like in a state like South Dakota, about 65% of people are wearing masks
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And in like Washington DC was, I think the highest.
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It was something like 80% of people are wearing masks, even though there is a mandate.
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And, and the same in South Dakota, a lot of people are wearing masks just because they
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You know, sometimes they're mandated in stores.
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There's, you know, there's, there's other reasons, but like when you look at statewide
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policy, there are really good personal liberty reasons to argue about those things.
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When it comes to pragmatic actual effects, people generally speaking, make their own
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And they're going to, they're going to err on the side of being cautious.
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I mean, like usually I, the mask thing is interesting because you could look at a lot of the studies.
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Like even the best, the most optimistic studies on masks will show like you might cut your chance
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of getting, of it spreading by like 50%, which is something that's significant.
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But when it's not, when you're talking about not, not letting people make their own personal
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choice and instead throwing a mandate on their head, right?
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The standard for a government to mandate something should be really high.
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Like I don't want any of it, but even if you do want mandates, it should be incredibly high
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You have to clear as far as benefit on the other side, for your personal use, it should
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Like if you think there's a 10% chance that it'll help and it's not really going to interrupt
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your life too much, you're probably going to do it.
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That's why a lot of people are, you know, there's, they're doing their dinners outside.
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They're standing, you know, they're standing a few feet away from each other.
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Even if they don't necessarily, they don't necessarily worry themselves, they'll take
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You know, and you could, that's, that's a much more sensible way for a country to deal
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You know, let, let, give people reliable information.
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Let people say, Hey, this might help, might not, but you know, Hey, if you want to take
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some steps that might help, I think most people would say that, right?
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Like if, if you have a safety feature on your car that might help in a few percent of
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cases, all things being equal, you'd probably throw it on your car.
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If it's cheap, if it's really expensive, you won't, you know, that's how you make decisions.
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You were able to take a cost benefit analysis and look at how your risk, you know, is in
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It's why we go 65 on the highway and not three, because if we went three, we wouldn't
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We also don't go 170, you know, whether the mandate is there or not.
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Now, Pat, of course, does go 170 is why he gets 15 speeding tickets a week.
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But that's, but you're, you're, you're, you're not in the norm on that one.