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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday, February 14, 2022

It is Valentine's Day and it is my sister Ruthie's birthday happy birthday Ruthie.

Yes, born on Valentine's Day with me as always executive editor Abe Wienwald. Hi, Abe.

Hi, John. Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And associate editor

Noel Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John. So we just want to say if you watched the Super Bowl last night,

here is the narrative about America that you got from the Super Bowl. You should take your

harder money and you should gamble it on your phone. And then if you should happen to have any

winnings, which you won't, you should invest those winnings in cryptocurrency because Larry, David,

and Ben Affleck and others are telling you to do so because they of course have,

they live paycheck to paycheck like you do and therefore are you know really in danger of losing

all their money and becoming you know becoming a poor and losing their homes and stuff if they

happen to go the wrong way with these investments. And then after you make money on crypto, you're

supposed to buy an electric car and then drive it through the metaverse. I don't really think

I think and drink gluten free hard celtzer. I don't really think these are good messages about

the condition of the United States in 2022 unless you believe that we are to take nothing away from

what we're being pitched by by the Super Bowl. And of course we have history of getting pitched

all kinds of insane crazy stuff during the Super Bowl that ends up blowing up speculative

businesses and that sort of thing you know monster.com and pets.com and that kind of thing. But does

anybody have any feeling about this narrative because of course these ads cost about $5 million

in ad or something so every one of these ad buys the $10, $15 million ad buy. I mean only that I

don't know that it was ever any different. I mean it was different but never any better exactly

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