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Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. It's happy Hour. Marcus Lemonis is here.
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Well, why don't you sound happy? It's like you were very formal about
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that because you're in such a rush and I wanted to get the thing underway so we can chit chat and have a great time.
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When there's drinking involved, there's no need to be in a rush.
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Oh, well, cheers to that, Marcus Lemonis.
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Cheers.
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Hello. So this is a limoncello spritz. It is sparkling wine. It's not champagne because it's from Oregon, which means it's probably superior. And limoncello. That's it.
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Wait a minute. So it has to be from France to be called champagne.
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To be called champagne, it has to be from the champagne region of France.
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I don't think a lot of people know that, but it's good. Good to know.
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Oh, that's good.
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This is lovely place. We're meeting in a different place last time.
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I know the. The happy hour studio is different. It's vomit proof in case I over serve. And yeah, it turns into a frat house.
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We're gonna get that dark that fast, but okay.
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Welcome to Kennedy Saves the World.
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That's awesome. What you want to talk about today?
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I. I think it's fun to talk with you about anything. I want to continue our conversation about packing because up in the Air is. It's a great movie. Especially the montage at the beginning when George Clooney is laying out how he packs. Now, Walter Kern, who wrote it, he's on Gutfeld quite often, and I think he's a genius. But I am fascinated with what people take on trips. And so. And I go usually at least once a year we go on a girls trip and I have laid down the law. Like you bring a roller bag and four batchinis and that's it. Like you. I don't care how you configure things, but it has to be tight and bright. Are you an overpower?
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Why do you care about everybody else's packing situation?
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Because number one slows you down. It's a pain in the ass to put stuff on a plane.
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Okay?
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It's a pain in the ass to wait a baggage claim. You're wasting time when you could be at the swim up bar.
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So if we traveled together, that would be like rule number one.
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I think there would be a lot of questions that that would keep us from traveling together. But it's not rule number one. Well, you went with Guy, but it's Yeah, I did. And I married guy, so.
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Oh, okay. Well, that's lovely. So I have a little secret. I pretend to be a great packer because I'll show with my roller bag. But when I arrive at the hotel, wherever it is in the world, you've
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got a steamer trunk.
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There will be a FedEx box waiting for me. That is the truth. And then when I leave, I leave with my roller bag. But there's also a FedEx box headed back home.
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Okay, so you have logistics supply chain. Okay. But you have, you also have like a logistics crew. No, it's like a NASCAR pit crew.
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No, it's just me.
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Okay. But.
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Well, actually it's my wife.
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Okay, let's be clear. She's a packer.
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Like she, She's a packer. But when I met her, she refused to check a bag because of the things that you said. So you two could travel together. I'll stay home.
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Yeah, I. I don't think I've ever gone somewhere and gone. Oh, I wish I brought more stuff.
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What happens if you find great things to buy?
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I always leave room.
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You do?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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But I never want to buy anything bulky. There's never. Like I bought a Lovely ring in
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2023 when you went to Italy.
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What did you buy when I went to Milan in 2023? I bought a backpack.
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Okay.
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A beautiful Gucci backpack.
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Which you, which you carried home.
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I tossed the one that I brought with me.
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Okay.
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And. And just shoved all the other stuff. A men's sweater, a belt and a turban.
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Okay. So not much.
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Everything has to be meaningful. Like I'm a big Marie Kondo. Like it has to bring joy to your heart. And most things don't, you know.
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I'm buying the Container Store.
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Oh, yes. I love the Container Store.
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See, I organized you.
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I bought a Container Store in Westbury Common and I was like, the Container Store?
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Yeah.
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I was like, do we have time?
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You should get a little discount now.
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That is so exciting.
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Very exciting.
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So you're no longer a Camping World?
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Retired from camping world after 25 years. Took over.
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But I still love the flag.
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Me too. The flag belongs to Camping World as it relates to it being like it's position.
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Bright light, your legacy.
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But it is part of my legacy. And people have asked, am I going to put them up at all these other businesses that I'm buying? And the answer is no. I am putting one up down at the World Trade Center.
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Okay.
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And I'm working on that now. Big 130 foot flagpole.
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What's happening at the World Trade Center? Is that the Container Store World headquarters?
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No, it is not. Okay, it is. There's a. There's a gentleman here in New York who paints, Scott Beto, who paints all sorts of beautiful things about flags. He called me up and said, can you help me get a flag put up at the World Trade Center? Yes. And I said, I cannot help you get it put up, but I could help pay for it.
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Wonderful.
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I don't want the politics of New York City. Thank you. No, thank you. But if you get it approved, we'll put up 130 foot flag pole, 3200 square foot flag, the same ones you see at Camping World. It'll be the first one in New York City. Be the biggest flag in New York City.
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What?
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I know. And I'm just waiting for Mandami to say no.
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Yeah. Wouldn't that.
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He won't. He won't.
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No, I don't. I don't think that's the thing about Mamdani that people don't understand. He is politically astute.
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Yeah.
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You don't ascend to where he's at with so little intelligence, substance without, without political deafness.
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He's got some street scrappiness to him. Street scrappiness.
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He, you know, and it's like only time will tell how far down into the gutter he allows the city to fall.
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Do you feel like the city's worse today?
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Yes.
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I can tell you by my house. It's filthy.
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Yeah.
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It never works.
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Everything's dirty. Like the snow was dirty. Obviously they didn't pick up garbage during the snowstorm. And so much of New York is about feel. And that's why. And people respond to the city based on how they feel. If they feel safe, they'll walk around at night, you know, they'll make an extra, extra stop at a gelato place or a bar on the way home.
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They'll spend money.
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Yes. And if they don't feel good, they're going straight home. And they are creating their own little den where they can feel safe. And that's not good because people retreat from the. The one thing New York has to offer, which is vibrancy.
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We measure the GDP as a country. I'd like to see the stats on the GDP of New York City. Yeah, I don't know if they're disclosed, but it'd be interesting to. For you and I to research that a little bit.
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Do you think that there will truly be an exodus the way it has been promised, out of New York and California, my house, based on these taxation.
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Okay, yeah, I don't want to be here, and I want to work here when I can, but I don't want a domicile or have my family here or have, more importantly, money invested in the city right now. And it's a tough thing to say, but it's true. And the reality of it is, is that if I can catch it while it hasn't fallen completely and I decide to come back after it's fallen more severely, then it's just really a trade. It's a swing trade at this point. But I do worry that it's going to happen. I do. In South Florida looks like a really great place to move your business.
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Why are so many people moving to South Florida? Is there somewhere else that people. I was thinking about today, I was thinking about Mark Zuckerberg.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, it's like, he's lived fairly humbly for one of the richest men in the world.
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He's not doing that now.
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No. He's like. Because he wasn't, you know, the $7 million Powell to like, oh, I like to wear hoodies. And now I think he's a baller. Yeah. His wife is like, we have $200 billion. Can we finally get, like, a $140 million, like, beachfront awesome playground?
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170.
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Wow.
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Largest home purchase in South Florida ever. I think what's happening with South Florida is there's two things. One, it is a beautiful place from a weather standpoint. It also has hurricanes. I'm from there, from Miami. But it also is a place where people want to be connected to other people that are in business. And so much like New York City has historically been a place where all the big financiers and all the big hedge funds and all the big private equity firms are here. As they move, people follow. They follow the talent, they follow the money. They follow where they think the influence is going to be. And that's really what's happened. And I don't know if you've seen this, but Ken Griffin from the Citadel and Steve Ross, who owns the Miami Dolphins and Equinox and SoulCycle, has put a $10 million marketing campaign out there to get companies to move. And so this idea that people want to be attracted to other people is true.
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Yes.
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From a business standpoint, I will move Bed Bath and Beyond to South Florid because we're involved in so many different parts of the economy. But I also know that there's lots of people to hire to do business with and it seems like a great place to be.
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Yes. And there, you know, but I was just wondering, like, will there be other hubs that are created? You know, I have a daughter in college in Ohio and I know that Ohio is making a big push to have, you know, data centers that power AI and, you know.
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She in Columbus, Engine?
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No, she's not in Columbus.
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Where did she go to school?
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She's not far from Columbus.
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Okay, so let's just say she's in school in Ohio. Thank you for protecting your daughter. I don't see Ohio being a rival to South Florida.
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What about Tennessee?
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But I could see Nashville, which is Tennessee. I spend a lot of time in Nashville because one of our businesses is a base there. It is.
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Do you own FedEx? No, that's in Memphis.
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That's in Memphis. But it's really growing and all that. You can tell by the famous restaurants. There's a Soho House there, there's a Craig's from LA there, There's the Pastis there. There's things that are.
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Man, I bet the Nashville old schoolers are pissed.
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They are pissed, actually, but they're not pissed about their property values.
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Yeah.
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So they're pissed for like a minute and then somebody offers them $5 million for the house they paid 400 grand for and they're not pissed anymore.
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I grew up in Oregon where Californians were leaving because they could buy a lot more land and have a better quality of life. Way lower taxes, safer streets, better schools. I mean, it's not that way now, but Oregonians hated Californians. Like there were bumper stickers, there were signs.
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Don't come here.
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Yes, they hated them because they were Driving the property rates up so much that they were pricing.
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But Oregon's a beautiful place, minus some of its politics.
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Yes, the politics are abhorrent.
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It's the only place in America where I. I happen to not be paying attention to my team. And they agreed to take the flag down because the city said that in Wilsonville, they were going to sue us.
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Wilsonville should not be a bastion of liberalism.
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It should be trying to keep your business open. It's not.
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Yeah, they should be attracting businesses that are leaving downtown Portland because workers are terrified and they can't get people to stay in Nordstrom and Columbia and, you know, even Target. That is so silly. It's such a different place downtown or
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downtown Portland, I don't know. The last time you were there is. Retailers have left in a flurry, and it looks a lot like a lot of the streets outside here in New York City and Chicago and Michigan Avenue.
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Yeah. It is unrecognizable from the place I knew and grew up. And there are still pockets in the city where young people and gay people have businesses and, you know, they're working and they're cool smaller businesses. But, you know, the downtown area, which used to be awesome, where people would visit in summer and be like, I'm never leaving.
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Not anymore.
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What is the one business you would like to buy? What is something you look at and, you know, maybe you're like Ted Sarandos with. With Warner Brothers, and you go, it would be something nice to have, but it's not a must have.
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My answer is going to be terrible because it's not going to be a capitalistic answer. And the owner of it, Berkshire Hathaway, would never sell it. But one business I've always wanted to own is Dairy Queen.
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Oh, I love Dairy Queen because I
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think it really says America. It says summer. It says family. It says kind of everything.
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Yes.
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And I'm fascinated by it. And I also love See's Candy, which Buffett also has as part of Berkshire.
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Really?
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He picked up all the cool things, but my focus now is on the home space.
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Yeah.
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And. And. And really, can I help fix this whole idea around affordability in housing? And I am petrified about the ability to actually change the price of housing, but I am exhilarated by the possibilities.
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I love that things to make your house more beautiful have never been more accessible or affordable. Exactly. And what I also love is, you know, it's always been a hurdle for people to hire a designer to make their kitchen better or to maximize their
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spaces or to Sell their house.
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And now AI can help people do that. You can take a picture of different rooms in your house and say, okay, AI tell me, you know, whether it's Gemini or Grok or ChatGPT. How can I maximize this space? I've got $4,000. And it will give you pictures and it will tell you where to go and. And what to buy in order to accomplish that.
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Why are people scared of AI?
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They're scared of anything they think is going to control them. But there is so much about AI that is so incredibly helpful and useful and can cut things down so you can get right to doing the thing that makes you happiest, which is.
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Do you use.
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Yes.
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How do you use it? Do you mind sharing?
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I mean, I use it in a very rudimentary way. Like I will. I will use it for queries. I don't use agentic AI, you know, I don't. I don't need to interact with something that I feel is thinking and abstracting. But I use it the way you used ask Jeeves in 1998.
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Oh, you know, it's like Google for you.
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Yeah.
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I would encourage you and everybody else,
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but what we did, and I tell people this, we took our homeowners policy after the Pacific Palisades fire and put it into chat GPT and started asking it questions. And when the adjusters said no, no, no, I was like, actually, this section, that paragraph, you know, this portion.
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Focus on this.
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Yeah.
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It's like having your own lawyer.
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Yes.
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Here's the thing that I would like you to consider.
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Okay.
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And our. Our friendship is dependent on it. So you are known for lots of cool things like your glasses, your caftans. I. You can give Claude on your phone.
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No, not yet. I would like you very intrigued by Claude.
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I would like you to try it.
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Okay.
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And I would like you to have a conversation with Claude and about you wanting to open up a caftan business. And you want to build the website and you want to know where they're sourced from, and you want to know everything, everything that you love about it. And you can actually learn how to code a website and be.
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That is the thing that like, that will put so many SAS companies out of business because people will finally have the tools and, you know, there may be some downsides and you have to be careful. And there are normies like me that don't understand coding and, you know, may. May go down a shady Avenue.
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Caftan is spelled with a K, right?
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A K or a C, Both are acceptable.
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Which one's preferred for you.
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I usually use a C. You do? Yeah, unless I'm in Morocco, but I've never been.
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The Kennedy's caftan.
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Oh, I like that. Yeah, yeah. No, but that is absolutely.
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So if I'm going to build one, by the time I see you next, a website called Kennedy's Kaftans. You're going to do the same. You don't want to make extra money.
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I think it's. Of course I do.
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Aren't you a capitalist?
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Yes, I am. With a K. Okay.
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No, no, that one needs to be with a C. That one needs to
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be with a C. Yeah. Because then it's like Marx.
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That one needs to be with a
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C. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Well, speaking of Marx, Marcus, you have to get on a plane. Thank you for making time.
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Do you want me to bring you anything back? I'm going to Copenhagen.
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From Schweten. Yes. Gluten free chocolate. Or are you going to Norway?
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Well, I'm landing in Copenhagen and I'm driving across the bridge to Malto or Malo.
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Okay.
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Because I'm looking. I'm looking at a business here in the United States that I love and have a factory there. And I need to go touch it, because everybody that buys something should touch it before they buy it. And I'm gonna go find. At the same time, I'm gonna find a Swedish gummy candy distributor.
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Nice.
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Because I'm fascinated by it. I love Kennedy's candy.
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Oh, yes.
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Okay.
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Yeah, we don't need seas. We're gonna have those Swedish fish. Yeah. And then we're gonna soak them in vodka and we're gonna make people happy.
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Cheers.
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Cheers to you, Marcus.
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See you soon.
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And to I making all of our lives better. This has been Kennedy Saves the World happy hour along with Marcus Lemonis. I'm Kennedy. Listen. Ad free. With a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple podcasts and Amazon prime, members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News podcast network.