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I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio this week for a million dollar portfolio,

Jason Moser and Matt Argersinger and from Hidden Gems Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross.

Good to see you as always, gentlemen. We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street.

Best selling author Michael Lewis is our guest this weekend. As always, we'll give you an

inside look at the stocks on our radar. But we begin with the beverage industry. Move over soda.

There is a new leader in the US. According to the latest research, Americans drank more bottled

water in 2016 than soda and Jason. We've seen soda consumption on the decline for over a decade.

But I was still a little surprised by this news. I actually was not in the reason why is because I

look at myself and I think, wow, if I, I mean, I have been so ingrained in my diet coke habit for so long.

And if I have made such a drastic change in my diet coke consumption and I really have,

you look at the kids today. I mean, they're just soda is it does not maintain the same position

in the typical US household that it did perhaps when we were growing up. And I think that's just a

real proxies what's going on here. When's the last time someone brought a soda into this studio

for this show? Like, and just sat down like a coke bottle right here? Um, like, I mean, I see water bottle.

I'd like to see tea coffee. I feel like I did it probably at some point this week. But I mean,

to your point, I mean, this, this really was a matter of when not if and if you look at just one

example, look at the litany of Coca-Cola's earnings reports where it seems like every quarter,

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