The research I did for this episode took a very, very different course than I expected.

It seemed like the more things I looked up about today's topic, it just opened up more

questions than it did answers.

Because I'll be honest, this was going to be a hatchet piece of just against Walmart.

I've never been a big fan and I wanted to just illustrate how there's just this huge

problem, this blight on the American economy, these evil robber barons of retail that exploit

their workers.

If we could just get rid of them, then we could go back to the small monpastor, Main Street,

idealistic fifties, retail world.

I know there was a lot of problems back in the fifties and sixties and seventies with

racism and sexism.

But I thought maybe there was a chance we could get back economically to a better outlook

for the middle class.

I thought Walmart was one of the main impediments to get back there.

You know the problem with the American economy is a lot deeper than Walmart.

However, Walmart is part of the problem for sure.

Walmart's the one in the only store I've ever boycotted.

For the last seven or eight years, I've done everything I can to avoid them.

It started when I did a few college tours.

I did a couple hundred colleges, shows at colleges.

Probably around 2007, 2008, 2009.

In that range there.

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