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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Dan, O'Malley, along with
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Trey Trendholm and Jerry called Well, this is the Treehouse
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Black Friday Special. We want to accompany you on your
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adventure of punching old ladies in the teeth for televisions today. Yeah,
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or if you're an old lady who got punched in
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the teeth over at television, you could use some Treehouse
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and we're here for you. We get you coming and going. Baby.
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So let's start today with something especially holiday themed. All right,
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let me pulled this up. A senior executive at Campbell
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Soup Company was allegedly caught making disparaging remarks about the company.
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We're looking at healthy brands, avocado based oil. Healthy. If
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you look at our fantry, we still we have four people,
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right we have that's for four people. Don't apply more healthy.
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The Michigan lawsuit claims executive Martin Valley was secretly recorded
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by a former employee.
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I don't know he said chicken. It came from a
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three D printer and you.
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The meeting was recorded by Robert Garz, a former cybersecurity
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analyst at Campbell who later filed a discrimination suit against Bally.
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Guarza said he met with him expecting to discuss salary.
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He alleges he was later terminated after raising concerns about
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the executive. Campbell said Bally was placed on temporary leave
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as the company conducts an internal investigation. Well, there's nothing
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like leading into a holiday and having one of your
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top executives being whistleblown all over social media and on
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the Washington Post. Fascinating there from Campbell's. Also, timing couldn't
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be better because new from Campbell's just in time for
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the holiday. Cream of Campbell's executive, full of hate and stupidity,
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a dash of corporate cover up, and just a hint
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of racism. If you're wondering where the racism comes in,
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I'll tell you. Martin Bally is a vice president and
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chief information officer at the food giant. He said, hearing
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a meeting that Campbell's products were highly processed food for
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poor people, that Indian employees were idiots whom he disliked
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working with. That's according to the employment discrimination complaint filed
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by Garza. Garza said in the lawsuit he was fired
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after telling a supervisor about the comments that he planned
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to report them to the HR department. So there's your
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dash of corporate cover up. And then the more hints
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of racism came when Garza's attorney provided The Washington Post
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with a lengthy recording other conversation which Bally can allegedly
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be heard complaining about an incident during which employees could
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not be reached in a technical emergency, saying, effing Indians
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they couldn't think for their effing selves. He can also
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allegedly be heard suggesting that the company suits possibly used
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bioengineered meat. A statement from Campbell's said these statements, if
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they were in fact made, are unacceptable. They do not
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reflect our values and the culture of our company. And
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they also said, no, we use real chicken in our products.
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Any claims otherwise or false. Hmm, I can't wait to
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rip open my can of Campbell's cream a mushroom from
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my green bean casserole. Well, happy freaking holidays. Sorry, you've
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got the look of discernment on your face. Do you
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smell a stinky?
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I mean the what was he he's the CTO.
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Basically, yeah, he's yeah, thank you, Jerry Cio, chief information
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officer and vice president I'm sorry, vice president and chief
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information security officer at.
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Campbell, so about as far away as from production as
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you could be, I am. I always find it interesting,
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you know, when people take recordings into meetings and then
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they go, oh, but there's more, Well, why didn't you
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really more so, either you're blackmailing the company or I
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don't know it just I mean, the guy's an asshole.
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He just hurts to be fired. I mean, how long.
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Does this internal investigation really need to be? I mean,
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this seems pretty cut and dry. Is that him? Bye?
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Is it not him? Then you're fine?
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But I also, I guess I'm at a point now.
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And you know you can get a can of soup
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for ninety nine cents. Yeah, I know. It's highly processed.
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It's m it is what it is.
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There is something to be said about saying the quiet
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part out loud is one of the ways to phrase
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it these days, which is another way of saying, well,
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we're just I'm kind of saying what we all already know.
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It's just not really said. It's more understood. I certainly
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don't expect, you know, some of Campbell's soup products to
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not be high processed. I mean it's canned food. I
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mean kind of by definition processed. I also know, and
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all the mushrooms I have handled in my life, I've
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yet to see one pump out cream. And if I do,
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I'm not gonna eat it. But I know the soup
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is tasty and it's an essential ingredient in my green
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bean cast role. So yeah. The thing is, though, as
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a high ranking company executive, you're not supposed to be
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the one that says that stuff. You're supposed to waive
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the company flag and go rah rah raie gay Campbell
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not not talk trash about the ingredients and the company
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to fellow employees, subordinates.
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No less chief information security officer didn't keep that very secure,
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did your brother?
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No, stay in your lane, bro, You need to be
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worried about the site. Which that's another angle on this story.
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Campbell's soup has a cybersecurity department. Oh, twenty first century.
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It's a beautiful thing.
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But yeah, you know, and then also anything a can
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that it's gonna last five years, what do you want?
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Yeah, you're right, it's ninety nine cent cream of something
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that doesn't typically have cream in it.
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So I'm not shock regardless if I want soup or
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have there's a recipe that calls for soup. That's my
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first you know, I'm probably going towards you grabbing a
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can of Campbell's mm hm hm.
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Honestly thought roast it's very important part of the recipe.
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Okay, yeah, I mean, honestly, at the top of my head,
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I don't even I can't even think if Progresso or
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I think that's the only other soup competitor I can
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come up with. At the top of my head, I
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don't know if they have cream of product lines or not.
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No, they're usually like a full blown you know, it's
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MINNESTRONI it's vegetable beef.
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You know.
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And that's the other thing about what this guy said,
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He's like lofing food for poor people. That's what soup is.
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That's what soup has always been. It's you know, it's
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it's the table scraps that we got from the monarchs
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and the rulers and the lords, and then we just
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throw it in some water or throw it in some
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stock and tried to make it taste as good as
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we could.
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Yeah, I mean chicken stock literally is you know. Oh,
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they took the bones that the royalty weren't gonna eat,
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and they pull it stock and took whatever meat was
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going to be left off the bone.
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Yeah, and marketing is not a brand new thing. They
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called it chicken stock even back then because bone water
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doesn't sell as well. Sure, that's what it is, but
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let's not call it what it is. You know. Ah,
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Campbell's just out of nowhere, just stepping in it. The
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angle on this that does bother me at a real
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authentic level is if what this for seeing whistleblower in
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terms of a Campbell's Soup controversy. But here we are
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if what this complainant is saying is true that he
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went in had to have some sort of salary negotiation
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and he ends up recording the conversation because the executive
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is just just dogging the company left and right, and
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he's saying bad things about the Indian employees. And then
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if it's also true that he went to another supervisor
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to report it and was fired, that's a severe problem.
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And that's something that unfortunately is not limited to Campbell's
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Soup that's something that happens at corporations. I think every
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single day I've seen it happen where the company you
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think you might be doing something right, and then about
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halfway through the entire process you realize, Oh, the company's
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not helping me. They're just protecting their executive yep. And
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that's a realization to make.
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I mean that that is an unfortunate realization. And corporate
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America and government everything is that a lot of a
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lot of positions could be eliminated. But otherwise, you know,
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people protect their position by screwing other people.
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Yeah, mm hmm, corporate one on one baby, Uh, I
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had something else and now I just lost it because
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I got I got stuck in a memory. What was that?
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I could something in my ear? Get all. That's an
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odd flutter in the audio stream. I don't know what
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that was. Maybe we can fix it and post.
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Yeah. If there was ever an industry where this rings true.
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It's the media industry, without a doubt. And the sad
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thing is, is your only recourse, like this guy, this
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employee again, if all this is true, his only recourse
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really is to go to the media and say, all right, look,
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this is what's happening because I had a problem with
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this guy, and I went to this guy to say, hey,
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there's a problem with this guy, and that guy fired
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me for it. So now that we got corporate cover
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up type of situation, and the only recourse if you're
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not being treated fairly by the company is to go
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to the media. And you got a whistleblow and everyone
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looks at you funny because number one, you're whistle blowing
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on Campbell's soup, and number two, it's the first time
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they've heard you actually say out loud that you work
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at Campbell's Soup because it's not exactly high on people's
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LinkedIn profile.
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Well, there's also there's another factor to this, which is
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you may not be popular with the company overall because
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if their employees a lot of them are vested in
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Campbell's stock, stuff like this tended to be uh, not
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so good, So you may have cost everyone some money.
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You said, vested in Campbell's stock.
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Transportation Secretary is not a position inside any presidential administration
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that gets much attention unless there's been some sort of
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tragedy or if he or she wants to tell everyone
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what to do, especially while traveling over the holidays. And
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that's exactly what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy did recently out
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of Prescot on Friends Again.