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All right, on with a show. For the last few months, Lindsay Owen and our colleagues at the

Groundwork Collaborative Think Tank have been listening in on these phone calls. We combed through

and listened in on hundreds of corporate earnings calls. These are the quarterly phone calls that,

you know, CEOs and CFOs have with their investors and shareholders each quarter after they release

their quarterly report. It's like a corporate pep rally, right? It can be a bit of a pep rally.

Yeah, boosting up the investors, trying to juice the share price a little bit.

Lindsay's been looking for answers about our weird economy at the moment.

Specifically, she's looking for the origin of the inflation that's dogging all of us at the grocery

store, at the gas pump, just about everywhere. Are these corporations feeling pressed right now?

Like are they like, oh, this economy man, it's stretching us.

The main takeaway that we had from these earnings calls is these CEOs are saying that inflation

has been very good for business. I'd like to welcome everyone to the Coca-Cola companies

first quarter earning results conference call. Today's call is being recorded.

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