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Ep 1165 | Unpacking President Trump’s EPIC Plans for the United States in 2026 · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  of course,
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  Yes,
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  uh,
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  the Christmas magic,
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  if you haven't
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  before.
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  And of course,
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  if you have,
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  you already know what I'm talking about.
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  We're also going to start here though by doing Trump's 2026 plans,
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  big speech by Donald Trump,
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  uh,
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  last night.
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  A lot of people thought it was gonna be some big Venezuela,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  war announcement.
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  I'm not sure that's how you announce a war.
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  Hey,
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  we're scheduling this two days in advance,
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  just to let everybody know.
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  Uh,
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  that's not usually the way that works.
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  Uh,
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  it did not work this time.
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  It wasn't a super long speech,
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  but there was a lot going on and.
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  And when you're president of the United States,
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  there's a lot of stuff
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  that happens
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  in your,
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  in your presidency.
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  A lot of stuff that happened in your life at that time.
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  There are ups and there are downs,
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  right?
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  There are some real highs,
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  some real lows.
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  Right now,
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  Donald Trump isn't necessarily at the highest point in his administration,
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  at least according to the polls,
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  Trump's approval is down 8 points
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  since the start
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  of the year.
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  And,
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  you know,
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  they've been,
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  we've seen a lot of polls in the high 30s and low 40s,
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  right?
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  That's where he was mostly in the first term.
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  Uh,
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  of his presidency.
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  Second term started off a lot higher than that,
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  was much more optimistic.
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  It has ticked down a little bit since.
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  So when something like that happens,
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  you're usually going to make some decisions to try to kind of rejuvenate things,
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  get things going again,
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  try to kickstart something new in the new year,
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  and
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  that's what we had.
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  Trump attempts a domestic reset with fast-paced White House address last night.
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  Um,
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  I want to give you some of this,
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  uh,
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  here,
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  and I want to go through it with you.
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  Uh,
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  a couple of things I thought were pretty interesting.
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  Number one,
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  I think a change in tactics when it comes to talking about affordability.
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  This has been one of the things that everyone's talked about,
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  affordability.
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  Trump's tactic kind of before was,
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  look,
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  this is a hoax the Democrats are doing.
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  And I think what he meant by that,
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  if I may,
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  is to say,
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  It's not that prices aren't high.
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  The hoax here is that the Democrats are blaming us for it.
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  That's the scam,
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  right?
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  That's what I think he was going for there,
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  but he never really articulated it that way.
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  This is how he started the speech last night.
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  11 months ago,
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  I inherited a mess,
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  and I'm fixing it.
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  When I took office,
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  inflation was the worst in 48 years,
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  and some would say in the history of our country.
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  Which caused prices to be higher than ever before,
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  making life unaffordable
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  for millions and millions of Americans.
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  This happened during
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  a Democrat administration,
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  and it's when we first began hearing the word
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  affordability.
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  Our border was open,
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  and because of this,
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  our country was being invaded by an army of
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  25 million people,
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  many who came from prisons and jails,
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  mental institutions,
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  and.
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  Insane asylums.
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  They were drug dealers,
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  gang members,
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  and even 11,888 murderers,
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  more than 50% of whom killed more than one person.
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  This is what the Biden
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  administration
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  allowed to happen to our country.
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  And it can never be allowed to happen again.
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  We had men playing in women's sports,
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  transgender for everybody,
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  crime at record levels
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  with law enforcement and
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  words such as that just absolutely forbidden.
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  We had the worst trade deals ever made and our
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  country was laughed at from all over the world,
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  but they're not laughing anymore.
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  Over the past 11 months,
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  we have brought more positive change to Washington
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  than any administration in American history.
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  Uh,
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  kind of a strong start to a speech.
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  I,
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  you know,
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  there's some stuff in there.
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  There's some stats you can kind of quibble with for sure.
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  Um,
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  and,
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  uh,
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  I don't,
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  you know,
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  uh,
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  transgender for everybody,
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  even you.
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  That's right.
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  How many times did you change gender during
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  Joe Biden?
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  But you get what he's talking about here,
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  right?
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  It was all over the place.
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  It was all over the place.
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  And he's come in and set a kind of a guideline here,
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  set,
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  I think,
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  the tone,
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  certainly where he can control,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  whether we're paying,
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  the military's paying for surgeries for transgendered people.
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  He's been able to step in and do something about that.
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  I,
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  the main thing I want to focus on there though,
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  is he inherited a mess from the Biden
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  administration and he's fixing it.
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  That is,
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  uh,
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  a tactic that
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  at times can be overused.
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  Barack Obama,
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  most famously,
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  in like 2015 was still saying it was George Bush's fault about the economy.
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  Like I,
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  you know,
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  at some level that,
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  that
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  excuse does run out.
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  But it also is an important,
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  uh,
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  thing for a new president.
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  And that's why I really didn't like the approach of,
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  oh,
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  this is just a hoax.
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  Oh,
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  actually everything's already great and we solved it already.
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  Saying instead,
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  we had a real problem
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  that we walked in on,
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  it's why you elected me in the first place and we're in the process of fixing it.
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  You can see the progress.
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  Let me tell you about the progress,
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  is a much better message.
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  Now,
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  I will say,
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  he,
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  it has a,
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  a shelf life.
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  You can't just say forever,
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  you can't do the Barack Obama thing.
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  You're not gonna get away with it like he did.
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  You're going to have to at some point show
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  progress.
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  Now we did have new inflation numbers that came out today where inflation was lower
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  than expected and it's been as low as it really it has been in a long time.
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  I think it was 2.7%.
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  So that's good.
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  What I'm saying mainly here is this is much better messaging.
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  This is much better messaging.
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  And it's a key tool for a president.
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  You don't come in and turn these things around in a minute.
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  It takes some time.
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  I mean,
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  it's the same thing with Reagan,
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  the inflation
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  rate under Reagan was still going up,
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  if I remember right.
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  It wasn't until like mid
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  1981 where it really started coming back down,
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  early in mid 1981.
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  Um,
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  or 82,
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  actually,
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  82,
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  sorry,
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  yeah,
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  80 he was elected,
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  81 took office.
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  It was up high for
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  most of '81,
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  it started coming down in '82,
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  and that's when
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  things really turned around and obviously led to maybe the biggest landslide
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  election in American history.
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  Um,
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  and the reason this is,
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  this is an important thing for presidents to have.
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  You might say,
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  well,
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  it sounds like an excuse.
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  At some level it is.
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  It's,
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  it's not an excuse though without reason.
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  You know,
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  you don't get to just control,
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  you're not the king.
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  You know,
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  if you were in one of these other countries,
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  if you were Kim Jong-un coming into office,
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  you pretty,
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  pretty much got to get that,
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  uh,
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  all your changes can be implemented within the first week.
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  It's not the way this country works,
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  thankfully.
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  You know,
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  if you're a,
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  uh,
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  your team,
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  uh,
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  goes,
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  you know,
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  4 and 13,
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  and you get hired as a coach,
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  you have a year,
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  right?
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  To,
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  I mean,
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  you might also,
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  you might go
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  2 and 15 the next year or 5 and 12,
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  whatever it is.
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  But you can say,
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  look,
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  we came in here,
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  things weren't going so great.
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  I need to have time to get things turned around,
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  so you have that time,
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  and that is an important thing.
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  Trump shouldn't abandon that time.
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  Take advantage of that time as much as you can,
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  and you're going to probably have to show real progress
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  by June.
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  Maybe the inflation numbers today
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  are the first step there.
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  Now another big announcement was this big uh
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  check to
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  military members,
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  $1,776.
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  Here is Donald Trump
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  explaining that.
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  Along with the
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  just passed one big beautiful bill
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  tonight,
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  I am also proud to announce
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  that more than 1,450,000,
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  think of this,
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  1,450,000 military service members will receive a special
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  we call
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  warrior dividend before Christmas.
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  A warrior dividend
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  in honor of our nation's founding in 1776,
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  we are sending every soldier
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  $1,776.
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  Think of that,
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  and the checks are already
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  on the way.
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  Nobody
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  understood that one until about 30 minutes ago.
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  It's,
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  it's an interesting time to be alive,
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  that I will say.
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  Um,
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  look,
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  nobody deserves more money than our military.
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  Uh,
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  they're fantastic.
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  I love the troops.
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  I love,
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  uh,
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  our military members.
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  We talk to them all the time.
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  They,
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  you know,
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  they watch this show,
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  they listen to the radio show.
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  You guys are awesome,
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  and if anybody deserves a big chunk of money like this,
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  it's you guys.
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  There's no question about that.
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  You know,
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  if I step back from that a little bit,
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  and just my emotional tie to the troops,
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  uh,
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  and my
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  pragmatic and logical tie to understanding that they
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  do such a great job,
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  they deserve more money,
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  I'm fine with that.
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  I do think we should step back and think a little bit about
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  um the other sides of this,
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  which is,
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  number one,
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  we don't really have this money,
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  right?
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  This is not real,
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  this is not like our money.
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  We're printing money,
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  we're borrowing money
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  to give this out.
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  We are not in a position where we have a surplus.
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  We're in a position where we have a massive.
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  The highest deficits we've ever had.
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  And you know,
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  look,
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  yes,
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  Biden's were really,
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  really high.
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  Trump's were really,
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  really high too.
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  It's not really a big part of his platform
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  to address the deficit.
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  So
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  we're just kind of,
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  he's like,
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  well,
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  you know,
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  we're spending the tariff money.
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  We'll get to a little bit more of that here in a second,
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  but
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  Uh,
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  you know.
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  It's just one of those things we don't actually really have that money.
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  The second part of this is
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  the,
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  the process here is a little unclear,
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  like why
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  can't he just give
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  money away to,
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  to the troops?
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  Like where,
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  where is that?
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  How does that,
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  look,
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  if you get a couple $100 billion in,
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  in tariffs,
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  uh,
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  oh,
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  that's,
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  um,
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  great if,
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  if you
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  like the idea of the government having more of your money,
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  that's,
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  that's fantastic.
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  The question though
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  is,
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  uh,
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  what do you do with that money?
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  Well,
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  the answer to that is not the president gets to pick.
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  That's not how that works.
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  The president has to go through Congress to spend that.
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  There might be just a pile of military money
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  sitting around in some budget that they weren't using,
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  and that's what he's paying for this,
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  uh,
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  with this for.
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  I don't,
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  I,
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  I don't know,
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  honestly.
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  I,
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  I,
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  I frankly,
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  I don't know.
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  And I will say the other thing about this is
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  nobody in Congress has the balls to step up and say,
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  no,
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  you can't give the troops more money.
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  If you want to put that through Congress,
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  it's going to pass.
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  So why not go through Congress and do it the right way.
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  Um,
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  maybe there's some other,
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  we,
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  we haven't,
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  we,
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  they didn't reveal what the funding mechanism was for this,
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  so we'll have to kind of speculate on that until
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  we actually know.
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  Uh,
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  here is Trump talking about a big tax refund,
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  maybe you're coming your way.
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  Next year you will also see
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  the results of the largest tax cuts in American history
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  that were really accomplished through our
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  great
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  big beautiful bill,
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  perhaps the most sweeping legislation ever passed in Congress.
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  We wrapped 12 different bills up into one beautiful bill that includes.
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  No tax on tips,
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  no tax on overtime,
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  and no tax on Social Security
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  for our great seniors.
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  Under these cuts,
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  many families will be saving between $11,000 and $20,000 a year,
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  and next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season
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  of all time.
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  Not sure those numbers will be that big,
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  but of course these tax cuts are in the Big Be bill.
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  Much of the Big Beautiful bill was just continuing previous tax cuts,
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  his own previous tax cuts,
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  which I think he deserves credit for.
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  And it would have been a disaster if we did not continue them,
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  though I don't expect a huge additional benefit from keeping them in place.
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  But there are some new tax
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  pieces there that of course are part of the Big Beautiful bill,
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  and he did talk about that.
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  Now Trump also proposed a $2000 dividend
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  funded by tariffs.
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  I guess it seems like we're spending this tariff money over and over and over again,
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  but
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  he says it's going to be.
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  You know,
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  more like,
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  you know,
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  more like standard stimulus checks as opposed to
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  what we saw
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  with the military,
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  which is more targeted at,
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  you know,
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  one group.
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  Again,
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  I'm not a fan of stimulus checks,
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  you probably know that,
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  so I'm not super excited about this,
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  um,
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  you know,
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  I think there is a part of the tariff situation and that is appealing.
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  That if you're going to charge higher taxes on,
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  on goods that you're buying,
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  and that's what a tariff is,
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  it's just an import tax
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  paid for by American importers,
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  um,
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  those people,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  wind up raising the prices.
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  We have seen some prices raised.
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  They're not,
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  they haven't been.
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  So dramatic that it's upended the economy entirely.
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  I think it's been a drag,
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  but I don't think it's been much more
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  than that.
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  New tariff
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  collection hits $200 billion
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  so this is a pretty large
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  tax increase,
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  and
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  you can say you like them or you don't like them,
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  but my point.
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  Though,
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  is,
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  you know,
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  you're going to take in $200 billion more.
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  What's going to happen?
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  Well,
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  we're still massively in debt,
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  so,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  giving it,
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  just giving it away
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  is a way to soften the burden,
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  right?
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  If you have,
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  uh,
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  if you're taking
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  a tax
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  increase and you're putting it on where it's going to
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  hit a bunch of people in the middle class.
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  Those people have problems because of that.
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  You throw $2000 their way,
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  they have fewer problems,
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  right?
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  That's the idea with the farmers as well.
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  We just,
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  you know,
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  like we're not selling soybeans to China anymore because of the trade war.
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  Well,
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  we'll just take the tariff money in,
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  we'll throw some of that at the farmers,
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  everything will be fine.
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  Now,
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  look,
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  Not,
• 12:46
  I would say,
• 12:47
  standard conservative thought.
• 12:48
  You might like it a little bit more than I do,
• 12:51
  but that is the thought of the president,
• 12:54
  and it is,
• 12:55
  to be clear,
• 12:55
  a redistribution of wealth.
• 12:57
  That's what it is.
• 12:57
  The money comes,
• 12:58
  it used to go to one place and now it's going to a new place.
• 13:00
  That's what this is.
• 13:02
  You know,
• 13:03
  you might say under these circumstances it's justifiable.
• 13:05
  You might say under these circumstances,
• 13:07
  uh,
• 13:07
  we have to do it.
• 13:08
  There's a lot of,
• 13:09
  uh,
• 13:10
  various
• 13:11
  conversations people have with themselves as to why this is an OK policy.
• 13:14
  I mean,
• 13:15
  I don't think we would have been OK with it with previous presidents.
• 13:17
  Uh,
• 13:18
  but
• 13:18
  that being said,
• 13:19
  you know,
• 13:19
  it's not my favorite.
• 13:20
  I,
• 13:20
  I'm not a fan,
• 13:21
  but that doesn't mean,
• 13:22
  you know,
• 13:23
  I,
• 13:23
  I certainly don't,
• 13:24
  I don't know,
• 13:24
  I don't know what the opinion is honestly
• 13:25
  of conservatives anymore on some of the stuff.
• 13:27
  You know,
• 13:27
  some of it is,
• 13:28
  I think.
• 13:29
  You just feel a
• 13:32
  little off with it,
• 13:33
  you know,
• 13:33
  but that doesn't mean you oppose it completely.
• 13:36
  Here is
• 13:38
  Trump talking about tariffs.
• 13:39
  Already
• 13:40
  I've secured a record breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States,
• 13:46
  which means jobs,
• 13:47
  wage increases,
• 13:48
  growth,
• 13:49
  factory openings,
• 13:50
  and far greater national security.
• 13:53
  Much of this success
• 13:55
  has been accomplished by
• 13:57
  tariffs,
• 13:58
  my favorite word,
• 13:59
  tariffs,
• 14:00
  which for many decades have been used successfully by other countries against us,
• 14:05
  but not anymore.
• 14:07
  Companies know that if they build in America there are no tariffs,
• 14:11
  and that's why they're coming home to the USA in record numbers.
• 14:15
  They're building factories and plants at levels we haven't seen AI
• 14:20
  automobiles.
• 14:21
  We're doing
• 14:22
  what nobody thought was even possible,
• 14:24
  not even.
• 14:26
  The interesting part about that is there is some money coming into the country,
• 14:29
  at least it has been promised to the country.
• 14:30
  Not much of it is here yet,
• 14:31
  and some of it does seem a little fantastical,
• 14:34
  like places like Qatar.
• 14:36
  You
• 14:37
  know,
• 14:37
  promising more than their entire GDP
• 14:40
  that they're going to invest here in America,
• 14:42
  probably not going to happen at that scale,
• 14:45
  but certainly there's a ton of AI money coming in.
• 14:47
  That's definitely real.
• 14:49
  We have seen a decline in manufacturing jobs since these tariffs came into
• 14:55
  place.
• 14:55
  That doesn't mean that doesn't turn around eventually.
• 14:57
  It could be that it's more overall weakness
• 15:00
  that's causing that rather than the tariffs.
• 15:02
  You know,
• 15:02
  one of the problems with building factories in America is a lot of
• 15:04
  the components you use to make for the equipment and in the factories
• 15:09
  come from overseas.
• 15:10
  So
• 15:11
  the actual building of American factories has gotten quite
• 15:13
  a bit more expensive since all this stuff started,
• 15:16
  and that might be also a drag
• 15:17
  on what's going on there.
• 15:19
  Trump is touting reductions in drug prices,
• 15:20
  blames Democrats for ACA premium increases.
• 15:23
  He's 100% right
• 15:25
  to blame the Democrats on the ACA
• 15:28
  increases.
• 15:30
  You know,
• 15:30
  it's not even questionable.
• 15:31
  I will say the drug thing that he keeps doing,
• 15:33
  let me play this for you.
• 15:34
  This is
• 15:35
  Trump talking about drug prices.
• 15:37
  In addition,
• 15:38
  I'm doing what no politician of either party has ever done
• 15:42
  standing up to the special interests to
• 15:44
  dramatically reduce the price of prescription drugs.
• 15:48
  I negotiated.
• 15:49
  Directly with the drug companies and foreign nations
• 15:52
  to which we're taking advantage of our country for many decades
• 15:56
  to slash prices on drugs and pharmaceuticals by as much as
• 16:00
  400,
• 16:01
  500,
• 16:02
  and even 600%.
• 16:04
  In other words,
• 16:05
  your drug costs will be plummeting downward.
• 16:08
  And I use the threat of tariffs to get,
• 16:11
  so you get,
• 16:12
  you get that.
• 16:12
  And now,
• 16:13
  of course,
• 16:13
  everyone's pointing out you can't,
• 16:14
  you can't slash a price by 500%.
• 16:17
  That means,
• 16:18
  that would mean that they're paying you to take it.
• 16:20
  OK?
• 16:20
  You'd only go to 100% is the maximum on the decreased side.
• 16:23
  I don't know what exactly he's going for.
• 16:25
  He keeps using that phrase over and over and over again,
• 16:27
  so I'm not exactly sure what he means by it.
• 16:29
  Um,
• 16:29
  but obviously that's just not a statistical,
• 16:31
  uh,
• 16:31
  possibility.
• 16:33
  Uh,
• 16:33
  but I think he is right that he's worked with these,
• 16:35
  uh,
• 16:35
  these companies and tried to bring prices down,
• 16:37
  uh,
• 16:38
  talking about,
• 16:38
  you know,
• 16:38
  the Trump RX thing.
• 16:40
  He talked about the GLP1 situation,
• 16:42
  uh,
• 16:42
  relatively recently,
• 16:43
  trying to bring those prices down.
• 16:45
  And some of those prices have come down,
• 16:47
  which of course is great for a consumer.
• 16:49
  Um,
• 16:49
  he's also,
• 16:51
  he's also,
• 16:51
  uh,
• 16:51
  hanging plaques mocking Biden,
• 16:53
  uh,
• 16:53
  Obama,
• 16:54
  uh,
• 16:55
  as well.
• 16:55
  Uh,
• 16:56
  in fact,
• 16:56
  he's got
• 16:57
  plaques all over the place,
• 16:59
  double plaques on some.
• 17:00
  You can show these pictures if you want.
• 17:01
  Um.
• 17:03
  I will say like I read some of the plaques for these presidents,
• 17:06
  um.
• 17:07
  I,
• 17:08
  I laughed at the Joe Biden autopen picture,
• 17:10
  honestly,
• 17:10
  when I saw it,
• 17:11
  I thought it was pretty funny.
• 17:12
  The plaques are a little bit overexplaining the joke,
• 17:14
  but it is very Donald Trump,
• 17:16
  as if I think Donald Trump actually wrote all of them.
• 17:18
  I would be shocked if Donald Trump did not
• 17:20
  write every single word of all of these plaques.
• 17:23
  Uh,
• 17:23
  it's a very funny situation.
• 17:25
  I mean,
• 17:25
  Trump is a funny guy,
• 17:26
  and I think,
• 17:26
  uh,
• 17:26
  you know,
• 17:27
  he's.
• 17:28
  He's being a little edgy.
• 17:29
  He's poking people
• 17:30
  with,
• 17:30
  with all of this stuff,
• 17:32
  but at the end of the day,
• 17:33
  what you got to look at is the policies.
• 17:35
  I think there's been,
• 17:36
  the first year has been
• 17:37
  filled with,
• 17:38
  uh,
• 17:38
  kind of a wide spectrum
• 17:40
  of,
• 17:40
  of policy successes and failures,
• 17:42
  and I think
• 17:43
  you have to look at this in context to say that
• 17:45
  there's been a lot of really good things that have happened.
• 17:47
  I,
• 17:47
  I don't think it's,
• 17:47
  uh,
• 17:48
  I don't think you can deny that.
• 17:50
  On the other hand,
• 17:50
  there have been some that I think have gotten in his way.
• 17:52
  He said his favorite word is tariffs.
• 17:54
  Of course,
• 17:54
  that's the one I'd like to bring up as well as my
• 17:57
  example of a policy I don't think has really worked out for him.
• 17:59
  The affordability thing,
• 18:01
  people see tariffs
• 18:02
  as a price increase.
• 18:04
  And when they're complaining
• 18:06
  about,
• 18:07
  uh,
• 18:07
  affordability,
• 18:09
  and you keep telling them the solution to that
• 18:11
  is a tax increase on imported goods.
• 18:14
  You know,
• 18:14
  even if you're right,
• 18:16
  even if you're 100% right,
• 18:17
  that long term what will happen here is all these factories will come in here and
• 18:20
  they'll build all this stuff and we won't
• 18:22
  have to depend on outside and those prices for
• 18:24
  whatever reason come down in the United States because
• 18:27
  of all that,
• 18:28
  maybe increased competition.
• 18:30
  Whatever your scenario is in your head,
• 18:33
  they're all long term scenarios,
• 18:35
  and a president should be motivated by the long term.
• 18:38
  When you look at long term politics,
• 18:40
  what's good for the country,
• 18:42
  that should be your motivation.
• 18:43
  On the other side,
• 18:44
  when you're talking about short-term political interests,
• 18:48
  uh,
• 18:48
  you know,
• 18:49
  I just don't,
• 18:49
  I don't know that those policies are going to
• 18:51
  give you the sort of burst you're looking for.
• 18:53
  As I mentioned,
• 18:53
  we're down in manufacturing jobs so far.
• 18:56
  So we will see,
• 18:57
  uh,
• 18:57
  if this turns around here in the next,
• 18:59
  you've probably got about 6 months before people are really
• 19:01
  forming their opinions on what's going to happen in 2026.
• 19:04
  And then after that,
• 19:05
  you've got,
• 19:06
  uh,
• 19:06
  a couple more years until probably JD Vance versus somebody,
• 19:09
  so.
• 19:10
  It's gonna be an interesting time.
• 19:12
  We'll talk more about it coming up.
• 19:23
  There is a quiet confidence in clothing that you
• 19:26
  don't need to shout to get your attention,
• 19:28
  you know,
• 19:28
  like something like,
• 19:30
  you know,
• 19:30
  a heavy knit that feels solid in your hands,
• 19:33
  seams that lie flat and clean,
• 19:35
  a sweatshirt
• 19:36
  that settles comfortably,
• 19:37
  uh,
• 19:37
  first time you pull it over your head and you know,
• 19:40
  keeps
• 19:41
  that.
• 19:42
  for months and months later,
• 19:43
  maybe years later.
• 19:44
  American Giant puts its resources into that kind of construction,
• 19:46
  slow,
• 19:47
  careful,
• 19:47
  and
• 19:48
  in US factories,
• 19:49
  staffed by workers
• 19:50
  who take pride in what leaves their sewing tables.
• 19:53
  I will say,
• 19:54
  you know,
• 19:54
  they,
• 19:54
  they've been doing this from long before there's tariff talk,
• 19:56
  right?
• 19:56
  They,
• 19:56
  they've just been doing this because they think it's the right thing to do.
• 19:59
  That's the whole thing.
• 20:00
  Instead of outsourcing to whoever can make it cheapest,
• 20:04
  American giant chooses the deliberate path.
• 20:05
  They use stronger materials,
• 20:07
  tighter quality control,
• 20:08
  and a commitment to domestic jobs.
• 20:10
  It's not nostalgia.
• 20:11
  It is an honest belief that well built is better.
• 20:15
  It matters more.
• 20:16
  Every piece that they make represents a choice investment in durability,
• 20:19
  in craftsmanship,
• 20:20
  and in the people and communities
• 20:22
  behind.
• 20:22
  The product.
• 20:23
  When your clothes align with that philosophy,
• 20:25
  you're not just buying another hoodie,
• 20:27
  you're buying something that is meant to stay with you wash after wash,
• 20:30
  year after year.
• 20:32
  American Giant,
• 20:32
  go there,
• 20:33
  American-giant.com.
• 20:35
  Save 20% when you use the name Stew in checkout.
• 20:38
  It's American-giant.com.
• 20:40
  The promo code is Stew,
• 20:41
  American-giant.com.
• 20:43
  The code
• 20:44
  is Stew.
• 20:47
  The Brown University shooter has hampered,
• 20:50
  uh,
• 20:50
  the,
• 20:50
  uh,
• 20:51
  the manhunt has been hampered by lack of surveillance video.
• 20:53
  Now it's weird because I've seen a decent amount of surveillance video.
• 20:56
  In fact,
• 20:56
  they released more video of someone else they
• 20:59
  were saying was not a person of interest,
• 21:00
  but someone who was around a person of interest.
• 21:03
  I don't know if they were talking or what.
• 21:05
  Uh,
• 21:05
  they think they were hanging out,
• 21:06
  so they think they might have more information on the shooter.
• 21:09
  So that's going on right now,
• 21:10
  and they have some decent video of that guy.
• 21:12
  One thing I can't understand is we have video everywhere,
• 21:14
  right?
• 21:14
  There's cameras everywhere.
• 21:15
  Why don't we have more surveillance video of,
• 21:17
  of this guy?
• 21:18
  Why don't they have enough?
• 21:19
  And if they,
• 21:20
  when we do have it,
• 21:20
  why isn't it clear?
• 21:21
  Why do we,
• 21:22
  when we zoom in,
• 21:22
  it's always blurry.
• 21:23
  It's the same story every single time.
• 21:25
  The other part about this is if we're going to have a surveillance state,
• 21:28
  OK,
• 21:29
  I don't like the idea of a surveillance state,
• 21:31
  but if we're going to have one,
• 21:32
  shouldn't we be solving all these murders?
• 21:35
  Uh,
• 21:35
  quickly,
• 21:36
  that's like that's supposed to be the upside of the surveillance state,
• 21:39
  right?
• 21:40
  You get to actually solve the crimes.
• 21:42
  Seemingly the exact opposite is happening in our country right now.
• 21:44
  I want to show you this chart.
• 21:45
  It's one of the most shocking charts that I've seen in a long time.
• 21:48
  America's declining homicide clearance rates.
• 21:51
  If you look back in the 1960s,
• 21:55
  we're solving about 90% of the murders out there.
• 21:57
  That has dropped dramatically.
• 21:59
  In fact,
• 21:59
  it bottomed out in 2020,
• 22:01
  uh,
• 22:02
  at just over half.
• 22:03
  Now it's ticked up a little bit since to about 60%,
• 22:06
  so,
• 22:06
  uh,
• 22:06
  that's a good bounce back.
• 22:08
  But it feels like we should be solving all the murders or really close to it.
• 22:11
  Now I know this would affect everybody's true crime programming.
• 22:14
  We wouldn't have as many cold cases to solve,
• 22:16
  and that would be a negative.
• 22:17
  You need more documentaries on Netflix,
• 22:18
  there's no doubt about it.
• 22:20
  But outside of that,
• 22:20
  this seems like a really bad development.
• 22:22
  Uh,
• 22:22
  so it's very strange too,
• 22:24
  I would think for sure.
• 22:26
  You would at least have,
• 22:27
  if not even,
• 22:28
  I would say an increase in the percentage of homicide cases we're clearing.
• 22:32
  Now,
• 22:32
  sometimes there's just technical weirdness in this data.
• 22:34
  There's different things that explain some of that drop for sure,
• 22:37
  but not all of it,
• 22:38
  and it's a very strange development as we go forward.
• 22:40
  OK,
• 22:41
  Speaking of very strange developments,
• 22:42
  did you know that Kamala Harris once ran for president of the United States?
• 22:45
  In fact,
• 22:45
  she did it twice.
• 22:46
  What if I could sell you on a 3rd time though.
• 22:48
  Uh,
• 22:48
  she is definitely flirting with that.
• 22:50
  She's talking about it on a bunch of shows and she's out there now,
• 22:53
  now she's figured out a way to talk
• 22:54
  negatively about Democrats after the race is over.
• 22:56
  She says Democrats are very,
• 22:57
  very much stuck in the past.
• 22:59
  We're not speaking in the way that sounds authentic or relatable or just relevant,
• 23:03
  says a person who has never in her
• 23:05
  life said anything authentic or relatable or relevant.
• 23:07
  Uh,
• 23:08
  she says,
• 23:08
  we have to speak to this moment.
• 23:11
  And more just
• 23:12
  gibberish and word salad to explain that,
• 23:15
  but
• 23:15
  should you be surprised by that at this point?
• 23:17
  Now,
• 23:18
  the Democrats,
• 23:18
  they did this big review,
• 23:20
  um,
• 23:21
  of what they wanted to do.
• 23:22
  They had this big review that came out,
• 23:24
  uh,
• 23:24
  the 2024 election review,
• 23:26
  it was talked about widely.
• 23:27
  We never actually saw it,
• 23:28
  and now they're saying
• 23:29
  we never will.
• 23:31
  Democrats keep 2024 election review under wraps,
• 23:33
  saying a public rehash won't help them win in 2026.
• 23:37
  And I will say,
• 23:38
  Not the worst idea I've ever heard.
• 23:39
  I,
• 23:40
  I think people realizing how bad they are and focusing on that
• 23:44
  might hurt them in 2026.
• 23:46
  The best thing they can do in 2026 is say,
• 23:48
  which they surely will,
• 23:50
  uh,
• 23:50
  uh,
• 23:51
  Trump is bad and evil and Hitler and whatever.
• 23:54
  Like that's what they're gonna do.
• 23:55
  They're,
• 23:55
  they're gonna try to make this another Trump election
• 23:57
  without
• 23:58
  Trump being on the ballot.
• 23:59
  And we have seen success with that tactic.
• 24:01
  I mean 2018
• 24:02
  is a good example of it.
• 24:03
  In 2018.
• 24:04
  That was kind of their pitch.
• 24:05
  Trump is bad,
• 24:06
  he's evil,
• 24:06
  he's Hitler.
• 24:07
  But Trump wasn't actually on the ballot to get people to come out to the polls,
• 24:11
  and what happened in that election
• 24:12
  was a pretty big wave
• 24:14
  for the Democrats.
• 24:15
  That's what they're counting on again.
• 24:16
  Can they get there?
• 24:17
  It's gonna be tough.
• 24:18
  Uh,
• 24:18
  it's not impossible,
• 24:19
  of course,
• 24:19
  we'll be going over that stuff in the new year,
• 24:21
  uh,
• 24:21
  in much more detail,
• 24:23
  uh,
• 24:23
  but the House is very much at risk.
• 24:24
  I mean,
• 24:25
  it would be,
• 24:25
  it would be
• 24:26
  at this point to me.
• 24:28
  I'm trying to think,
• 24:30
  is a,
• 24:30
  is a shock
• 24:31
  the right term?
• 24:32
  I,
• 24:32
  I think
• 24:33
  so.
• 24:33
  I it's not,
• 24:34
  it wouldn't be the most stunning thing in the history of politics.
• 24:37
  It wouldn't be nearly as stunning as even Donald Trump winning in 2016.
• 24:40
  Um,
• 24:40
  but,
• 24:42
  I would say it would be pretty surprising if Republicans
• 24:45
  can overwhelm that historical deficit that they're at with their
• 24:50
  With their,
• 24:51
  uh,
• 24:51
  you know,
• 24:51
  um,
• 24:52
  first midterm and a new presidency,
• 24:54
  very,
• 24:54
  very standard to lose that election.
• 24:56
  And then on top of that,
• 24:57
  it's very,
• 24:57
  it's,
• 24:57
  you know,
• 24:57
  it could be worse.
• 24:58
  Now,
• 24:59
  if you think of things that could be worse,
• 25:01
  and you think of a way,
• 25:01
  what's the path for the Republicans to actually do a good job and somehow win
• 25:05
  in 2026,
• 25:07
  this might give you a little bit of hope.
• 25:08
  Congressional Democrats' approval rating,
• 25:10
  the lowest since 2009.
• 25:11
  How low?
• 25:13
  Just 18%.
• 25:16
  Of respondents approve of the job.
• 25:18
  Congressional Democrats are doing 73% disapprove,
• 25:23
  so that is not,
• 25:24
  not solid,
• 25:25
  I will say.
• 25:26
  When you talk about approval ratings,
• 25:27
  maybe the highest approval rating of all time,
• 25:29
  you're just about to run into that because
• 25:30
  we're talking about the holiday classic film,
• 25:33
  The Christmas Twist.
• 25:34
  We play it once a year.
• 25:35
  It's a movie starring myself,
• 25:36
  Glenn Beck,
• 25:37
  Pat Gray,
• 25:37
  all your my wife,
• 25:38
  all your favorites.
• 25:39
  Uh,
• 25:39
  it's the Christmas twist,
• 25:41
  and,
• 25:41
  uh,
• 25:41
  be sure to stick around after that.
• 25:42
  I have a few things I want to say about the coming
• 25:44
  year and some exciting things to expect from myself and my team.
• 25:46
  There's a lot of cool stuff coming up,
• 25:48
  but maybe nothing cooler
• 25:49
  than the Christmas twist,
• 25:50
  that's next.
• 25:58
  A good night uh doesn't fix everything,
• 26:02
  but it does fix a lot.
• 26:03
  When you sleep deeply,
• 26:04
  you think more clearly,
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  And
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  with only 3 reported deaths,
• 27:22
  organizers say
• 27:23
  the annual children's flammable toy exhibition
• 27:27
  will be held again
• 27:28
  next season.
• 27:30
  Finally,
• 27:31
  the city has announced plans to go ahead with its proposed combination handgun,
• 27:36
  cigarette,
• 27:37
  and pork rind factory.
• 27:39
  The site for this slice of heaven on earth is our own historic hometown square,
• 27:46
  and so far
• 27:47
  all 300 existing tenants have decided to sell,
• 27:50
  except
• 27:52
  for Noel Anderson,
• 27:54
  owner of local cookie store,
• 27:57
  The Christmas Twist.
• 28:30
  When the magical night of Christmas.
• 28:31
  Honey,
• 28:32
  turn off the TV.
• 28:33
  I've got amazing news.
• 28:37
  I just closed another business deal,
• 28:39
  since,
• 28:39
  you know,
• 28:40
  I'm a businessman,
• 28:42
  and now I'm officially getting that big business commission.
• 28:45
  Uh,
• 28:46
  I wish you wouldn't always talk about
• 28:48
  money around the holidays.
• 28:49
  But honey,
• 28:50
  now I can afford the one thing I really wanted.
• 28:56
  And Noel
• 28:59
  Will you marry me?
• 29:02
  Dad,
• 29:03
  that's the biggest diamond I've ever seen.
• 29:07
  Of course it is
• 29:08
  from the richest boyfriend you've ever had.
• 29:11
  What do you say
• 29:13
  to a lifetime with Thad?
• 29:17
  Well,
• 29:17
  I guess so.
• 29:19
  Did you hear that world?
• 29:20
  She said,
• 29:21
  I guess so.
• 29:22
  Oh,
• 29:22
  this is the greatest day of my life.
• 29:24
  We're gonna have the best Christmas ever,
• 29:26
  like a family.
• 29:27
  Me,
• 29:28
  you,
• 29:29
  and my money.
• 29:34
  wow,
• 29:34
  is it cold out there?
• 29:37
  I bet Santa himself will get frostbite.
• 29:39
  Did you finish decorating at least?
• 29:41
  I sure did.
• 29:42
  I hung up so much tinsel
• 29:43
  that now I've got
• 29:44
  tinsels instead of tonsils.
• 29:50
  Guys,
• 29:52
  are you watching TV?
• 29:54
  OK,
• 29:54
  just because I was driving here
• 29:56
  and I was then parking and then walking in doesn't mean
• 29:58
  that I didn't understand that news was about to break.
• 30:01
  Quick,
• 30:01
  turn it on.
• 30:03
  And in case you just happen to turn your television set on,
• 30:07
  there is
• 30:09
  breaking news.
• 30:10
  In an attempt to
• 30:11
  go ahead with the new handgun cigarette pork grind factory,
• 30:15
  the mayor has officially made public an offer to buy the lone holdout
• 30:21
  local cookie store,
• 30:22
  The Christmas Twist.
• 30:25
  The mayor
• 30:26
  announced his offer for the 600 square foot cookie store.
• 30:32
  $11 million
• 30:37
  but
• 30:37
  he did place
• 30:38
  one condition
• 30:40
  store owner Noel Anderson
• 30:42
  only has 24 hours
• 30:46
  to decide.
• 30:48
  It's now safe to turn your television off again.
• 30:51
  In other news,
• 30:52
  my kitty cat Noodles is still missing.
• 30:57
  $11 million for this dump.
• 30:59
  You bought it for $1,800,000.
• 31:00
  I know,
• 31:01
  but how can you put a price tag on Christmas?
• 31:04
  Um,
• 31:04
  you're not selling Christmas.
• 31:05
  You're selling a
• 31:06
  meaningless collection of bricks and asbestos walls covered in toxic lead tinsel.
• 31:10
  Thad,
• 31:11
  how can you say Christmas is meaningless?
• 31:14
  I,
• 31:14
  I didn't say that.
• 31:15
  Just listen to me.
• 31:17
  Maybe if you just ran a cookie store,
• 31:18
  or you ran a Christmas cookie store,
• 31:20
  or you just ran a
• 31:22
  butter cookie store,
• 31:23
  but you only sell the pretzel-shaped butter cookies.
• 31:26
  Uh,
• 31:27
  Nobody likes the pretzel shaped butter cookies.
• 31:29
  Oh,
• 31:30
  really?
• 31:31
  Then why did I sell 3
• 31:33
  to customers this year?
• 31:35
  Well,
• 31:35
  2 of them were me,
• 31:36
  and the other one was a guy hiding from an Amber Alert.
• 31:39
  This is the worst business model of all time.
• 31:42
  It's not a business model.
• 31:45
  It's my dream.
• 31:47
  I am far too businessy for this.
• 31:49
  You have 24 business hours to decide.
• 31:58
  It's OK,
• 31:58
  Noel.
• 31:59
  It's OK.
• 32:00
  You know,
• 32:02
  my grandpapa used to say,
• 32:03
  if it's all about the money,
• 32:05
  then it's all about nothing.
• 32:07
  Of course,
• 32:08
  when he said that he was talking about $1.38.
• 32:11
  This is $11 million.
• 32:14
  That's like
• 32:15
  John Kerry wife money,
• 32:16
  right?
• 32:17
  What's wrong with you?
• 32:19
  Well,
• 32:20
  it all started one night when I was
• 32:22
  looking at the Christmas lights.
• 32:25
  And I ran over a homeless person.
• 32:29
  Wait,
• 32:30
  You ran over what?
• 32:39
  Don't worry,
• 32:40
  you're gonna be OK.
• 32:42
  Well,
• 32:43
  You've crushed every bone in my body.
• 32:47
  My pancreas is still in your wheel well.
• 32:50
  I'm
• 32:51
  pretty sure I'm not gonna be OK.
• 32:54
  Oh,
• 32:54
  homeless vagrant,
• 32:55
  what can I do to make your pancreasless Christmas
• 32:59
  spirit live on?
• 33:00
  There's only one thing.
• 33:03
  You know,
• 33:04
  other than calling 911.
• 33:08
  I really always wanted to open up a
• 33:11
  Christmas cookie store.
• 33:13
  I can do that.
• 33:14
  I'm an amazing baker.
• 33:16
  I can make snickerdoodle,
• 33:17
  chocolate chip,
• 33:18
  molasses,
• 33:19
  the store.
• 33:21
  Can only sell those.
• 33:23
  Pretzel butter cookies.
• 33:26
  The ones that nobody likes.
• 33:29
  That's the worst business model
• 33:32
  I've ever heard,
• 33:33
  like in the history of mankind.
• 33:35
  No,
• 33:36
  no,
• 33:36
  it's,
• 33:37
  it's not a business model.
• 33:40
  It's.
• 33:42
  It's
• 33:44
  3
• 33:52
  So
• 33:53
  you killed a homeless person,
• 33:55
  huh?
• 33:56
  Well,
• 33:56
  I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles,
• 33:58
  huh?
• 34:03
  They good?
• 34:08
  I.
• 34:16
  Hey,
• 34:18
  oh,
• 34:19
  I hear you got a crapper to be plunged.
• 34:21
  Yes,
• 34:22
  I stopped up the crapper.
• 34:23
  I've just been so stressed with my store closing
• 34:26
  that last night I binged on fig pudding.
• 34:28
  Oh,
• 34:28
  that'll stop up a crapper.
• 34:30
  All right.
• 34:31
  I love fig pudding
• 34:33
  and the crapper.
• 34:35
  Really,
• 34:35
  we have so much in common.
• 34:38
  I love fig pudding
• 34:39
  and I clogged up my crapper last night too.
• 35:05
  Oh,
• 35:05
  and I suppose we're all supposed to believe that my cat Noodles
• 35:09
  ends up dead
• 35:11
  the same weekend George Soros just happens to be in town.
• 35:17
  And in other news,
• 35:18
  we finally find out the future of our new
• 35:21
  handgun,
• 35:21
  cigarette,
• 35:22
  and pork rind factory
• 35:24
  in just 12 hours,
• 35:26
  12 hours from now.
• 35:28
  Mark
• 35:29
  your calendar.
• 35:30
  Noelle Anderson will make her big decision.
• 35:33
  Still no word on why the mayor decided to make the deadline a national holiday
• 35:39
  or
• 35:39
  why the mayor would
• 35:41
  present the offer on the TV,
• 35:43
  honey.
• 35:45
  Did you make your decision yet?
• 35:48
  Look,
• 35:49
  I understand that this story is your dream,
• 35:52
  your heart,
• 35:52
  your soul,
• 35:54
  your deal that you made as you committed what a
• 35:56
  jury would likely consider manslaughter and killing a homeless man,
• 35:59
  hallucinating about cookies.
• 36:01
  But it's $11 million.
• 36:02
  Don't be an idiot.
• 36:04
  How can you talk about
• 36:05
  dollars and manslaughter at a time like this?
• 36:08
  We can't sell the store.
• 36:09
  Where would all my pretzel cookies go?
• 36:12
  Uh,
• 36:12
  they're not alive.
• 36:13
  It's,
• 36:13
  it's not materially where they would go.
• 36:15
  Where will people buy their pretzel cookies for Santa?
• 36:17
  Santa loves these cookies.
• 36:18
  Noel,
• 36:19
  Santa wants chocolate chip cookies.
• 36:24
  Yeah.
• 36:25
  You take that back.
• 36:27
  Take it back.
• 36:28
  Well.
• 36:30
  You wanna think about your pretzel cookies?
• 36:34
  It's not about the money.
• 36:37
  It's about how dumb you are.
• 36:40
  I mean it's,
• 36:40
  it's a little bit about the money,
• 36:41
  but it's mostly about how dumb you are.
• 36:43
  I can't
• 36:44
  marry someone
• 36:45
  this dumb.
• 36:47
  Unless it's a Kardashian,
• 36:49
  maybe,
• 36:49
  I
• 36:50
  look,
• 36:50
  sell the store
• 36:51
  or I'm calling the engagement off.
• 36:53
  You now have
• 36:54
  12 business hours to decide.
• 37:05
  Ho ho ho's here.
• 37:07
  It's Uncle Billy.
• 37:09
  Oh no,
• 37:10
  what's wrong,
• 37:10
  Noel?
• 37:12
  I might lose my store.
• 37:14
  My businessman fiance gave me an ultimatum and I think I'm in love.
• 37:19
  With a common laborer.
• 37:21
  Oh
• 37:21
  boy,
• 37:22
  who looks suspiciously like the homeless man that I ran over,
• 37:26
  except he's wearing glasses
• 37:28
  and I'm so torn.
• 37:31
  Well,
• 37:32
  you know,
• 37:33
  Noel,
• 37:34
  my grandpappy
• 37:35
  was once faced with a Christmas choice,
• 37:38
  a choice
• 37:39
  just like yours.
• 37:40
  Should he marry his male lover
• 37:42
  or a
• 37:44
  Really fat homeless man plumber he met when he stopped up the crapper.
• 37:48
  Well,
• 37:49
  who did,
• 37:50
  who did he choose?
• 37:50
  Uh,
• 37:51
  neither.
• 37:51
  He was
• 37:52
  hit by a blonde woman in an SUV and left to die on the road with no explanation,
• 37:56
  but
• 37:57
  that's the moral of Christmas time,
• 37:59
  right?
• 37:59
  So what you're,
• 38:00
  what you're saying is that I should marry my mean fiance?
• 38:03
  No,
• 38:03
  stupid.
• 38:04
  Oh,
• 38:05
  you're so stupid.
• 38:06
  How can you be this dumb?
• 38:08
  I mean,
• 38:08
  that's stupid.
• 38:10
  So then what you're saying is that I should.
• 38:13
  Choose the plumber.
• 38:15
  Yes,
• 38:16
  wow,
• 38:16
  jeez,
• 38:16
  I'm really starting to see where your fiance is coming from.
• 38:19
  You are stupid.
• 38:22
  Stupid
• 38:24
  You're really dumb.
• 38:26
  OK,
• 38:26
  well,
• 38:26
  I hope I have enough time to go stop up the toilet again,
• 38:29
  right?
• 38:30
  Well,
• 38:30
  I mean,
• 38:31
  you are stupid.
• 38:33
  Can you do it?
• 38:34
  I don't know,
• 38:36
  stupid.
• 38:37
  I mean.
• 38:40
  Oh,
• 38:40
  should I marry my mean fiance?
• 38:42
  Yeah,
• 38:42
  dummy,
• 38:43
  go ahead.
• 38:49
  So did you make a decision?
• 38:50
  I have a businessman meeting to go to in the business world.
• 38:54
  Yes,
• 38:54
  I did.
• 38:55
  I,
• 38:55
  I did make a decision.
• 38:56
  I choose
• 38:58
  the Christmas spirit,
• 39:00
  and I choose this plumber
• 39:02
  with potentially no future.
• 39:04
  He's homeless,
• 39:05
  but I just met him,
• 39:06
  and he believes in me
• 39:08
  and he believes in my store.
• 39:09
  Uh,
• 39:10
  good luck with that.
• 39:11
  Good luck with your stupid store with the
• 39:12
  pretzel cookies and this pointless plumber idiot.
• 39:15
  It's all of it's,
• 39:16
  it's a big pipe dream.
• 39:19
  You know,
• 39:19
  because
• 39:20
  Because the pipes,
• 39:22
  he happens to work with pipes and then that's his,
• 39:24
  his chosen profession.
• 39:26
  It's a pipe pipe dream.
• 39:28
  I think it worked.
• 39:28
  I don't understand why you didn't.
• 39:30
  Now,
• 39:32
  let's go fix that crapper
• 39:34
  together.
• 39:41
  You know,
• 39:43
  Before I get started fixing your crapper,
• 39:45
  I just wanna say this.
• 39:47
  I might not be a businessman like your businessman boyfriend.
• 39:52
  I might not have the intelligence,
• 39:54
  the pleasant odor,
• 39:55
  or
• 39:56
  the lack of mouth sores.
• 39:58
  I can't even afford a big fancy ring.
• 40:02
  But I can't afford this.
• 40:09
  Wait,
• 40:09
  did you just find that on the floor?
• 40:11
  Well,
• 40:12
  yes,
• 40:13
  but
• 40:14
  that doesn't change the question.
• 40:16
  Will you marry me?
• 40:23
  I can't,
• 40:23
  I can't,
• 40:24
  I can't,
• 40:24
  I can't do this.
• 40:25
  I can't do this.
• 41:18
  All right,
• 41:18
  uh,
• 41:19
  I hope you enjoyed the Christmas twist.
• 41:20
  We'll have that up on the YouTube page,
• 41:21
  uh,
• 41:22
  as well,
• 41:22
  if you want to watch over the holiday season.
• 41:23
  This is our last show of the year.
• 41:25
  Uh,
• 41:25
  we are excited,
• 41:26
  I think,
• 41:27
  to take a break from the news.
• 41:29
  It's been a tough one,
• 41:30
  hasn't it?
• 41:30
  There's been a lot that's gone on.
• 41:31
  Uh,
• 41:32
  I'm ready to do some family stuff,
• 41:33
  kind of pick up the Christmas spirit here in the next week.
• 41:36
  It never takes long,
• 41:36
  of course,
• 41:37
  before I'm ranting about some news story off the air,
• 41:39
  so maybe check in on social media and such before my wife,
• 41:42
  you know,
• 41:42
  wants to throw me out of the house for continuing to do it.
• 41:45
  Uh,
• 41:45
  if you listen to radio,
• 41:46
  you've probably heard that I'm going to be leaving the
• 41:48
  radio show at some point in 2026 for something new.
• 41:51
  I can't talk about really what that is yet,
• 41:53
  uh,
• 41:53
  but I am pretty excited about it.
• 41:55
  I've been working with Glenn directly for something like 27 years,
• 41:59
  uh,
• 41:59
  and I will be onto my 28th year next year.
• 42:02
  It's gonna be a big change in my life and,
• 42:03
  uh,
• 42:04
  you know,
• 42:04
  in the show at some level.
• 42:05
  I'm sure it's gonna be fantastic,
• 42:06
  but,
• 42:07
  uh,
• 42:07
  yeah,
• 42:07
  I have mixed feelings,
• 42:08
  of course,
• 42:08
  about leaving,
• 42:09
  but excitement as well
• 42:11
  on the other side.
• 42:12
  Um,
• 42:12
  more on that in the new year.
• 42:13
  But take a second to go to our YouTube page and follow the page,
• 42:16
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• 42:17
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• 42:18
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• 42:21
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• 42:24
  I promise you that.
• 42:25
  Um,
• 42:26
  now,
• 42:26
  some,
• 42:27
  some inside baseball here.
• 42:28
  Uh,
• 42:28
  both Glenn and the Blaze have been
• 42:31
  great to work with.
• 42:32
  Uh,
• 42:32
  this is something I like to make fun of Glenn all the time,
• 42:34
  um,
• 42:34
  but they have been great to work with throughout this
• 42:36
  entire process and super encouraging and supportive throughout everything.
• 42:40
  And honestly,
• 42:40
  I expect nothing less.
• 42:41
  It is a great place to be.
• 42:42
  I've had a great time.
• 42:43
  Uh,
• 42:44
  throughout,
• 42:44
  uh,
• 42:44
  my time with Glenn and of course here in The Blaze as well.
• 42:47
  Uh,
• 42:47
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  Come here.
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  They'll let you say whatever you want.
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• 42:55
  and that's really what the most important thing is.
• 42:58
  This show,
• 42:58
  uh,
• 42:58
  marks the end of my 6th year doing Studios America.
• 43:02
  Uh,
• 43:02
  we started up a few weeks after COVID and we've given
• 43:05
  you more charts per capita than any show in television history.
• 43:08
  I just wanted to thank you so much for tuning in every day.
• 43:11
  I,
• 43:11
  I love this community we've built together over the years.
• 43:15
  We've got some of the greatest conserv nerds ever assembled in one place,
• 43:19
  and we'll have some great stuff for you in 2026 as well,
• 43:21
  right here on Blaze TV.
• 43:23
  It's gonna be a very important year,
• 43:25
  the election,
• 43:25
  and
• 43:26
  of course,
• 43:26
  more importantly,
• 43:27
  the Eagles working to defend their Super Bowl championship.
• 43:29
  So,
• 43:30
  we will see you then in the interim.
• 43:31
  Thank you so much.
• 43:32
  I love you and we will see you soon.
• 43:34
  Merry Christmas.