Join Dana Lash as she delves into the world of politics, art, and media funding. This episode covers an array of topics, from a deep critique of Kamala Harris’s political attempts and her recent book release to a compelling discussion on the cultural implications of public art. Dana’s bold opinions on the current political scene provide an engaging and critical view of today’s news cycle.
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Everyone thinks you’ve been kicking back, drinking margaritas on the beach, but really, you’ve been hard at work writing a book, meeting with leaders, thinking about the future of our country. Who said that?
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I just… I hate everything, especially her. Loathe, I should say. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That’s Kamala Harris, who is trying to sell her book. It’s a slow news day. She’s trying to sell her book. And I don’t think anybody’s going to buy it. I’m really interested in seeing sales after the first week. Aren’t you? Very interested in seeing what them sales look like that first week. Very much so. Because that just, why is she so like that? Why is she so awkward? She can’t help it.
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It’s just who she is. You either love it or you don’t. And we clearly don’t. But that’s just who she is.
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She shouldn’t be in politics. What was that even supposed to be? I don’t understand the meme of that.
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It’s a thing going around online where people say these like, quote unquote, existential things while they’re not looking at the camera and then turn around and be like, who said that? Like, who was that said that even though they were the ones that literally just said it. Like they were channeling some message from on high.
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I can’t deal with these people. I swear, if I have to endure another campaign cycle of this woman, no one’s safe. No one’s going to be safe.
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It would be self-destruction of the party, I think, if they did that. I couldn’t imagine them doing that.
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She was trying to tell Colbert, because she was on Colbert, his stupid little show. that the reason that she doesn’t want to run for reelection again is because she lost. It’s not because she lost an election. It’s not because she doesn’t, or the reason she doesn’t want to run for governor. It’s not because she wants to run for president because she lost. She said, I don’t want to go back into the system because the system is broken. And so wait, she just gave up, I guess. I mean, the system is you. The system is you. You’re the system. What does that even mean? You are literally the system.
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I just don’t want to go back into the system.
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Listen, Audio 7×3, listen to her.
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You announced yesterday, you made an announcement that you’re not running for the governor of California.
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Correct.
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Even though in early polling you beat every other candidate by double digits, you said you’re going to sit this one out. Why are you sitting this one out? Are you saving yourself for a different office that might be? No, no.
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That’s what everybody is.
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Obviously, people project onto their hopes and dreams.
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No, I understand. And honestly, it’s more perhaps basic than that. Listen, I am a devout public servant. I have spent my entire career in service of the people. And I thought a lot about running for governor. I love my state. I love California. I’ve served as just elected district attorney, attorney general and senator. But to be very candid with you, you know, when I was young in my career, I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with my family. And one of the points that I made is why is it then when we think we want to improve the system or change it, that we’re always on the outside on a bended knee or trying to break down the door? Shouldn’t we also be inside the system?
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I’m asleep. I’m asleep. I’m going to sleep. She’s putting me to sleep. I can’t deal. I can’t listen to her. I can’t deal with her.
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That’s how Colbert’s audience felt, too.
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Yeah. I mean, clearly, that’s just, oh, my gosh. So, yeah, they’re all falling asleep as well. So, you’re the system. And the system actually, I mean, what we’re learning, I don’t know, from some of the stuff that we’ve been seeing was irredeemably corrupt and was designed to actually favor you. I mean, I guess I don’t know if she I guess didn’t she didn’t catch that part with all of the collusion documents and everything else, all of this stuff. I mean, everybody is now really starting to understand how far the left went. To alter the course of an election. Taking charge of your health is easier with All Family Pharmacy. If you’ve been hearing about the latest in brain and cellular health, you’re not alone. Methylene Blue is making waves for supporting focus, mental clarity, memory, and mood. RFK Jr. has been talking about using it. And NAD+, that’s your body’s natural energy booster. It helps cells repair and potentially slows signs of aging. With All Family Pharmacy, you now have access to these cutting-edge treatments. Whether you’re interested in Methylene Blue, NAD+, or even an emergency kit for your family, this is a pharmacy that you can trust. No corporate gatekeepers, no big pharma middlemen, and no bureaucratic roadblocks. All Family Pharmacy uses 100% domestically sourced materials for all their medications, ensuring top quality and safety. So go ahead and visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off your order. And while you’re there, check out their full list, over 200 medications available, including ivermectin, antibiotics, and more. That’s allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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Did you guys see this? You guys are aware of the first statue that was in New York, right? And it was a heavyset woman in New York. Now in Ontario, there is a 12-foot bronze statue of a portly woman. And I’m assuming they say she’s a black woman. I mean, it’s bronze, so I don’t know. 12-foot bronze statue of a woman that went up, a portly woman that went up in Ontario. How did we go from David to that?
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I think it was years and years of people just accepting mediocrity.
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I mean, look at this. Look at the statue. Look at the statue. Those are sweatpants.
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Right.
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She’s in sweatpants.
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They put… It’s a t-shirt.
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What is the purpose of this? Look at this. She’s in. Those are that.
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They’re celebrating mediocrity. This is what has been going on for the longest. Mediocrity has been celebrated for so long that this is now what we see.
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It’s a nine foot sculpture. It’s by some. This is how it’s described. Acclaimed British. It’s an acclaimed British artist, Thomas J. Price. He’s an acclaimed. He sucks. He’s horrible. The sculpture depicts a casually dressed woman in front of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s entrance. Price said that he hopes that the sculpture can lead to greater empathy and connection. He says, quote, I want people to recognize themselves and feel valued. I don’t recognize myself in this because I don’t wear sweatpants in public. I’m going to tell you guys something. Mentally, I’m 90 years old. All right. I am so old school with things. I don’t think that leggings are pants. Cover your ass. Nobody wants to see it. And most of you don’t have a good enough backside anyway to just wear them as pants. Let’s be real. That’s number one. Number two, crop tops and muffin tops do not work. Any woman over the age of 30 should not be in a crop top. Sorry. I never want to see men in open-toed sandals unless you’re literally at the beach with sand on your feet. I’m sorry, but I don’t like it. Flip-flops are for beach. Sweatpants are for never. I subscribe to the Karl Lagerfeld way of thinking that sweatpants are just a sign of surrender. You are giving up in life if you’re wearing them out publicly. I don’t care. It’s not a matter of money. It’s just a matter of just valuing yourself. It has nothing to do with money. You don’t have to be rich to not wear sweatpants to go to the supermarket. Okay. Yes, I am a little bit like old southern lady in that thinking. Anyway, I… We went from this is the second like overweight woman. The first one was the fat black lady in New York. And then now this is the portly lady in Ontario. What is up with that as the subject matter for sculptures? Number one. Number two, she’s in sweatpants. I am not only do I not see myself in this, but I’m offended by it because she’s in sweatpants. And number three, how did we go from Michelangelo’s David to to this. There’s nothing remarkable about this sculpture. There’s nothing celebratory about her form. There’s nothing in her expression. No one even knows why she’s there. With David, you knew immediately why he was there. David and Goliath. And it was very different in that it wasn’t in the moment that he was launching rocks at Goliath. It wasn’t after he took Goliath’s head. It was the moment right before where he’s all tensed up so that Michelangelo could showcase his amazing artistic ability. And you could see the tendons. You could see every muscle. You could even see the one bone in his pinky that was raised and all his weight was shifted on his dominant legs as he got ready to hurl the first stone at Goliath. It was not just a story of David and Goliath, but it was also a celebration of Florence, Firenze. It was a celebration of that town standing up against all of the storms around it leading up to the unification of Italy. It was all of this stuff, all of this stuff from Renaissance on. And when I look at this, what story does this tell? What story does it tell? T-shirt, sweatpants. It’s a white flag of surrender. If an alien were to come to this planet and that was the first piece of art that it would see, it would see us as a people that it doesn’t need to conquer because we are already conquered. If this is what we consider a high ideal of art, we are already conquered in spirit first and second physically we will be. That’s what this is. I mean, it’s depressing. What is this? It’s not uplifting. It doesn’t tell a story. Just some fat chick in sweatpants going ho-hum. And you know what? The weight isn’t even an issue before people get upset. The weight isn’t even an issue. I don’t even care if it’s a portly person. It’s just a bad sculpture. And do you know why I don’t care that it’s a portly person? Because look at Ruben’s. Look at some of these other amazing masters. All the women were voluptuous back in the day. Our standards would, my concern, well, some of them maybe were poorly. They weren’t morbidly obese, but they weren’t, you know, heroin chic thin either. That was before the fat jabs, right? And it was celebrated. The female form was celebrated. That’s not even celebrating the female form. She’s in a sloppy t-shirt and sweatpants. She’s not, you know, dressed in like silks and finery and it’s celebrating her curves. She’s standing there with bad posture in sweatpants and a t-shirt. So the weight isn’t even an issue. The issue is that it’s just bad. It’s not even art. It’s just a bad waste of bronze. That’s what this is. Those are the two, the New York statue and the Ontario statue, side by side. It’s a bad waste of bronze. There’s nothing celebratory. They’re not celebrating the beauty of it. Because when Rubens and other masters would paint women that were not heroin chic thin, they were celebrating their form. They didn’t just throw on a surrender shirt and pants and sweatpants. No, I’m not reading too much into it. It’s the decay of culture. How in the hell is that guy a celebrated artist? Celebrated British artist. He’s horrible. I want to see what this guy looks like. What’s his name? Hang on. No, no, no, no, no. We’re doing this right now live on air. Because this is bad. Oh, of course. He looks like a hipster. Oh, of course. He studied at the Royal College of Art. All of his sculptures are dumb. So he did a girl with bad posture looking at her cell phone. And it’s horrible. It’s just bad. There’s no muscle definition. There’s not even a celebration of form. It’s like the most basic thing. The hands have no details. The fingers have no details. If you compare this to actual, like, you know, magnificent sculptors, they, I mean, musculature, vascularness. It’s about celebrating the human form, not checking a box. This guy is horrible. I’m looking at all of his stuff right now. Oh, my gosh. Like all of his stuff. It’s like, you know, in the same way that Banksy just uses like a cutout and then spray paints. I mean, that’s basically what this is. It’s bad. As we move, our partners that bring you the program, it’s the folks over at Caltech. The PR57 is one of the latest from Caltech, a company based in Florida. It is a pistol chambered in 5.7 and it’s smaller and lighter than some of the other ones on the market. So it’s a good contender for concealed carry. They achieve the lightness and smallness, the new design, a number of different ways. First off, you have the rotary barrel, but then you also have a very unique top-loading design that replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips for a slimmer carry profile and a 20-plus-1 capacity. MSRP is only $399. It’s affordable. It’s simplistic and reliable. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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An interesting survey out of NBC News, a poll finds a decline in belief that minorities are facing racial discrimination to the like the way that you hear, you know, Burnley Martin, sorry, Black Lives Matter, the way that they present it. They said three in 10 people, however. believe that DEI does increase discrimination, increases discrimination against white people. And this is a survey that was conducted by the Associated Press. And they said that slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that black Americans face a, quote, great deal or, quote, quite a bit of discrimination in the United States. It’s a decline from a solid majority that was 60 percent in 2021. And that was after the George Floyd situation. There’s it’s it’s interesting, too, because the belief I think there’s probably more discrimination, particularly in collegiate levels for Asians than black Americans. So that’s very interesting. So also, Justin Timberlake says he’s having a secret health battle and says it’s because he has Lyme disease. I thought it was alcoholism. I mean, maybe it is. I don’t know. Apparently, Ben Stiller has it as well. It’s like one of those like mysterious things. I mean, I think from what everybody says, it’s, you know, what you get. It’s like a tick borne disease. You get tired. It affects you in a number of different ways. But he says that he was diagnosed with that. And so he’s had headaches, rashes, palsy, shooting pains, numbness and nerve pain. And so apparently that’s why he’s not been moving a lot on tour, because I didn’t realize there was a lot of discussion about why he was a robot on tour. Commuters are preparing to walk home in deluge as New York, New Jersey declare states of emergencies because of severe flooding. So this is… I mean, they had it, I think, three inches per hour across parts of the city in New York. Forecasters said that it’s going to make it. I mean, it’s rain, you know. I mean, so they have a serious thunderstorm. But widespread flooding? I don’t know. We’ll see. But some of the areas, sure, I would imagine. But they said it’s going to be raining a lot. Be careful. Blah, blah, blah. Today’s young adults are four times more likely to have rectal cancer. Colon cancer, rectal cancer, all the cancers. Not the back, though. Well, I do think with the colon stuff, I actually don’t think it’s necessarily related to that because this was spiking way before COVID. It was way before COVID. They already had plans in place to literally create an entire wing, I think, at Baylor and Houston.
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Well, not this bad in this age group. That’s the nuance here.
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So rectal cancer, it’s apparently two times higher for colon cancer. So rectal cancer is increasing. Colon cancer, they’re attributing it to processed foods and antibiotics, which really does predate the pandemic. we’ve i here’s some let me get this news out of the way this has to do where did i go this has to do with uh ooh corporation for public broadcasting you have to talk about it like that because that’s how they all sound what do you think that they are front desk people before they got all cut sounded like was it similar so the corporation for public broadcasting
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says it’s going to end operations within months. The announcement being posted just minutes ago. This, according to CBS News, Cain. I’m asleep. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said they’re going to wind down operations.
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Wait. OK. My question. Here’s the lead. It says, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, they’re winding down operations after its funding was eliminated by the Trump administration and Congress. Why is it after its funding was eliminated and not because progressives refused to fund us to the extent that we need?
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Yeah, that should be the story.
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The left always claims to love this stuff, but then they don’t ever actually patronize it themselves, like WNBA. But then they don’t patronize it. If they loved Corporation for Public Broadcasting, if they loved all of this stuff as much as they say that they do, why isn’t George Soros, he’s literally made of money. If you cut him, he bleeds dollars. Why doesn’t he just write a check for this? Why doesn’t his son, Soros Jr., write a check for this? Why don’t the Clintons give up some of their money? Why doesn’t Barack Obama sell one of his beachfront houses and fund Corporation for Public Broadcasting? Why is it always, no, we have to force everybody through taxation to pay for it? I’ve never… I don’t care. I don’t get my news from that. I don’t get my news from any of that, nor do you. The only people who pay attention to any of that are… I think they’re progressive boomers, maybe. Maybe some progressive millennials who try to be hipsters, but that’s really kind of what it is. I could not tell you a single thing that they… I know that they did Sesame Street, and I know for a while they had Bear in the Big Blue House, and that was it. My kids watched that. But… Like, I don’t mind. Here’s what I’ll do. If there’s something I want to watch that’s on, like Corporation for Public Broadcasting or something, like say it was Downton Abbey when everyone was watching Julian Fellows’ Downton Abbey. Now, if you said like how you the way that they have it set up right now, like on your streaming, if you have Apple TV or streaming services, you could either get a subscription to Corporation for Public Broadcasting and then you could watch all their shows or you could just purchase the series and you could do it episodically or you could do the entire series. I’m fine with that. Like if it’s something I want to watch, I will purchase the series or I will spend $1.99 and watch an episode or something. I’m totally fine with that. But making me fund all of this stuff is asinine. That’s like making you – it’s like a tax to buy theater tickets for everyone even though you don’t really go to the theater. This is the same thing. We have a history of doing this with everything in government. That’s why our healthcare is absolutely heinous. Because people like Steve and Kane and even Juan, you know, they’ve got to pay for gynecological care, even though they don’t have wombs and any of the other stuff that goes along with that. But they have to pay more for their health care to cover that stuff so other people can get it at a reduced cost or for free. And that is not my that’s that’s no, that’s not our obligation. Families struggle just to pay. I mean, good grief. Most people can’t even make their deductible. Don’t even meet the deductible that they have for the year. Sometimes it’s like, what is the point of insurance? I mean, and that’s the point. It’s asinine. Oh, then you’re fine if you don’t have it. They do this with everything. They do it with literally everything. So we have this executive order. And this is one of the reasons why Congress needs to do something so that if we, heaven forbid, get a Democrat in office in 2028, they don’t turn the spigot back on. Because as it stands right now, that’s all they got to do. it can be reversed with another executive order. And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, their CEO said, despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote and petitioned Congress to preserve the federal funding, we now face difficult reality of closing our operations. Wait a minute. So all of these people called, wrote, did they write checks? Oh, apparently what they wrote didn’t include checks. I used to do, back when we lived in St. Louis, I would do, I had a good relationship with the local PBS station there, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And it’s weird because that was around downtown St. Louis, just outside of downtown limits. The PBS studio, that’s where they did, oh, what am I thinking of? Donnybrook, that’s where they, I did that a couple of times. And they would do some of their little local programming there. But really, they made a lot of bank off of acting like a satellite they had a hotspot for all the networks. So if CNN wanted to have someone join their program, that person would go to the PBS station, and then CNN would hire them out to run the cameras and light, and they would get a makeup artist and all that. CNN did it. All of the networks used it. That was the place to go to. So whenever you see anybody in Missouri, anybody on the east side of it, And they have the St. Louis background. They’re at the PBS station. That’s where they all are. Everybody goes there. Anybody. That’s where it all happens. I have been in that green room before with some of the craziest people. And I told you once how I was in there. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And she let my youngest son play with her phone, play Angry Birds on her phone. And it took 80% of me wanted to snatch that phone and run out. But I didn’t. 20% of me was like, Dana, that’s your son there. You know, take him too. Anyway. I’m joking about the last part, but not the phone. So anyway, everybody always goes and they use that. And they get a lot of money because those hits, those satellite hits like that, or those hits through those other stations, those are thousands of dollars. So whenever someone joins a network, like you’re watching Fox News or something or whatever, And you see, you know, the three paneled and they have the different people. If they’re joining from another city, that’s thousands of dollars. That’s a couple thousand dollars just for that hit. And it’s usually like five minutes. And that doesn’t include bringing in. They always bring in makeup artists for people because they want them to look nice on air. People started relaxing their standards a little bit after COVID. Because previously, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, you were never allowed to use Skype or Zoom or any kind of mobile device unless it was an emergency and you were there on the front lines. That was never allowed, ever. You were never not allowed to have good lighting. You were never not allowed to like not be Foxified or CNNified or whatever. Now it’s a little bit different. But still, those costs for those little those hits like that for those stations remain the same. And so PBS in St. Louis, I every time they had an event. And I’m not saying – and kudos to the people that actually support the stuff that they believe in. That’s great. You can support the stuff that you believe in and you can write the checks. Just don’t force everybody else to. Because I have had hits there before where they have had like a big donor thing happening the same night. And – It was always I was always fascinated by the old money that was there. Right. Wealth, wealth whispers, you know, money screams or money shouts. I was always very interested in the old money, the old St. Louis money that showed up there at these events. And I mean, they were always very elevated in age people. But they would come in and you could the parking lot would be full of like Mercedes and Cadillac and Jaguar, lots of Jaguar, all of that. And you knew I mean, they they that was about as loud as it was, but they all were very nice looking. And, you know, but they would have these big events there. So people would come and they would support it. But apparently they never had enough people there. that believed in it enough to support it that they could actually get by without the taxpayer funding. And that’s not your problem. That is not a you problem. It is not a me problem. It is a them problem. And every, multiple times a year, didn’t they do funding drives? And they would have people I don’t even think they do this anymore. Gen Z may not even know what this, Juan may never have seen anything like this. So do you remember the old school like telethons where they would have like one row here and then a second row and a third row? And sometimes like for big things, they would have famous people sit there and answer the phones and people would call in to donate. They used to do things like that at the PBSs and they would do different local PBSs. They would do like big, you know, a couple of times a year. These fun, one was always around Christmas, these big fundraising things. And so I don’t know why they feel like the failure is because the government won’t fund it when clearly the demographic that they are targeting, the people who watch their programs apparently don’t find enough value in it to fund it themselves. That is the issue. You can project it onto government or this administration all you want to, but that’s not an accurate reflection of the real story. The real story is that your own people clearly don’t find enough value in it. Like, I will tell you this. The last thing that I purchased… It was a series to watch. And it was from PBS. It was Marie Antoinette. It was like a new series. It’s actually a really well done series. And it was a new, there’s two seasons of it out. And I purchased that. And it was pretty well historically accurate. The costumes were great. The lighting was really good. The scoring was very good. The casting was very good. Yeah, it was a masterpiece theater thing. And I have no problem with, you know, I’ll pay $12.99 for a season. I’ll do that. If it’s something that I value and something that I find interesting and I want to watch, but I sure as hell am not going to sit here and pay for an entire season of an entire network where they have kids shows and they talk to kids about trannies. Not going to do that. So that’s one of the things that I like about streaming services. And have you ever noticed, like, Cain, have they ever done an actual breakout of what people are doing a la carte purchases for on streaming? I would be very interested in seeing that.
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I’m sure there’s some way to find that data.
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That really is, I think, probably the most accurate snapshot of what people are really driven to. Because money does not lie. One thing that I know about people is that they are not going to part, even if it’s like $2, $2.99. They are not going to part without money unless it’s something they really want to watch. They’re not just going to be like, eh, no. They really want to watch it. they’re not going to part with their money because when you look at it think about it it’s not anything tangible that you could touch you’re sitting there you’re looking at it like do i want to pay 2.99 for this series do i want to do that like you you sit here and go back is anybody else did that or am i the only person i’m like 2.99 what you know what i mean but like if you’re at the ballpark you’re like oh okay i’ll get a small tiny soda for 2.99 whatever Right? Yeah.
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