On the Eve of History

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Great, Did.
Is there another kind?

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You see, the useful idiots that
the Soviet Union that Lenin put

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into America are now the useful
idiots from the Chinese.

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They're coming down in America
like Batman eating a supper

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alive.
They're.

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Acting more as propagandists.
You know the Pac-Man game.

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Think of a Pac-Man game, out of
control, sucking away at the

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foundation of America.
If Russia pursues its

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aggression, it will face the
massive consequences.

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Because if they don't want you
to believe something and they

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can cast.
Doubt.

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Sometimes confusion can actually
be.

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The goal, the goal, the goal.
And as we've said all along,

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confusion can actually be the
goal.

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Trump had done it a game.
Have you seen the latest videos

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of DC?
The sidewalks are spotless, no

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trash on the streets, no crowds
of people stumbling around.

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It is peaceful, clean, and
honestly it is refreshing.

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The locals seem happy.
So far I haven't seen a single

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video of a resident complaining.
The only ones upset are people

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who don't even live there and
just hate Trump.

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That's true, and they did move
on rather quickly.

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Welcome to another edition of
America Today.

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I am your host, Jim Watkins.
We've got a full week of news.

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You know it's not going to stop
and it shouldn't surprise

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anyone.
Don't assume for a moment that

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the members of the European
leadership want this war to end.

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If you operate under the
assumption that everybody wants

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peace, you're off the mark.
The only one that wants peace,

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probably the only two people
that want peace is Putin and

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Trump.
And the people who back that,

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you know, people that want peace
because they're tired of, of

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war.
They're they understand that the

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industrial military complex is
alive and well.

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And you know, some would even
argue it's part of the

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depopulation plan by the
globalists.

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Who knows?
I don't know if I subscribe to

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that at all, but it is worth
noting.

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I thought it interesting that
Ursula von der Leyden and

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Mccrone, not exactly the best
chums of Trump, would rush

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quickly because they don't have
any faith in Zelensky.

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Zelensky appears to be a puppet
Zelensky.

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Zelensky just wants to make it
out alive.

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He's hoping he can have some
saving face because will he be

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re elected?
The first thing that will happen

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if the war does come to an end
is that there will have to be

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elections because that's
unsettled business.

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Zelensky canceled the elections
because of the war, and now it's

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going on what, over a year since
elections should have been held.

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So that will be the first order
of business.

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The 2nd order of business will
be who will replace Olinsky

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because I don't think anyone,
certainly in the United States,

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I don't think Trump wants
Olinsky there.

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So all of this is going to play
out.

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It's playing out as we speak.
The European leaders are here.

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They've they've, they're a
little nervous, I think, because

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Trump could pull this off.
It seems to appear, based on the

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latest evidence, that Trump is
telling Zelensky you're not

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going to be able to keep Crimea
because Russia wants a port

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city.
And also that you're going to

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have to give up a little bit of
Donetsk, which is the southern

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eastern region of Ukraine, which
is ethnically Russian.

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And it's hard to make the
argument that that they're

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already infiltrated there.
And if that's all that Putin has

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to give up or or Zelensky has to
acquiesce, we got a deal.

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And Trump goes down in history
as helping.

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What is this, his fourth war
that he's ended if he can, if he

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can pull through Now, what we
don't know is how powerful the

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people behind the scenes are.
That's really where we're at.

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We don't know.
And, and many of the people who

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are behind the scenes are not
really that obfuscated really.

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I mean, it's, it's actually more
apparent than you believe when

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you listen to the interchange
between Rubio and Raddatz.

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Martha Raddatz, who is anti
Trump, blue and blue through and

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through.
She is about as blue as you can

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get.
She is part of the

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establishment.
She is a part of the military

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industrial.
She has a $6 million mansion and

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she so she shows up as the
resident wise experienced

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journalist who is part of the
the globalist agenda to keep

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wars going.
I mean, listen, if it bleeds, it

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leads, right, Martha.
Anyway, here's Rubio and Martha

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on their interchange on Sunday.
Critics of President Trump will

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say the pomp and circumstances,
the pomp and circumstance, the

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red carpet, the warm handshake
that President Trump simply

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lost, that that Putin gained
there just by being on the world

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stage and knocking down a red
carpet with the president.

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Your reaction to that?
Well.

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I mean, critics of President
Trump are always going to find

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something to criticize.
You don't even pay attention to

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it anymore.
But I will tell you this, Putin

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is already on the world stage.
He's already on the world stage.

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The guy's conducting a full
scale war in Ukraine.

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He's already on the world stage.
He has the world's largest

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tactical nuclear arsenal in the
world and the second largest

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strategic nuclear arsenal in the
world.

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He's already on the world stage.
When I hear people say that it

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elevates them.
Well, all we do is talk about

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Putin all the time.
All the media has done is talk

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about Putin.
All the time for the last four

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or five years.
That doesn't mean he's right

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about the war.
That doesn't mean he's justified

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about the war.
Put all that aside.

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It means you're not going to
have a peace agreement without

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between Russia and Ukraine.
You're not going to end a war

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between Russia and Ukraine
without dealing with Putin.

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That's not.
That's just common sense.

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I shouldn't have to say it.
All right, so after calls with

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Zelensky and European leaders on
Sunday, Trump posted that quote.

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It was determined by all that
the best way to end the horrific

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war between Russia and Ukraine
is to go directly to a peace

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agreement which would end the
war and not a mere ceasefire

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agreement, which often times do
not hold up.

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In a statement after the Trump
call, the European leaders did

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not address whether a peace deal
was preferable to a ceasefire,

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saying they, quote, welcome
President Trump's effort to stop

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the killing in Ukraine and end
Russia's war of aggression and

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it and achieve just and lasting
peace.

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However, and this is my
observation, that's not what

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they want.
And, and maybe they want, maybe

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that's the issue is because from
what I'm reading from people

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from alternative media, it's
Zelensky's out.

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They don't want him there.
They don't trust him.

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And, and, and on the other hand,
he serves a great purpose to

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NATO because they very
desperately want to minimize and

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marginalized Russia.
Their end game is to defuse

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Russia so that it's no longer
the the force that it is,

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especially with all the nuclear
weapons that they possess.

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Now, how they expect that to
ever get achieved, I'm not sure.

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But what I do know is Zelensky
is instrumental to the NATO

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alliance because he will do
their bidding.

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And if they say keep this war
going a little bit longer, so be

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it.
So once he has no options here

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other than to decide who he
wants to, you know, basically

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saddle up with what is Trump
offering him?

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That's the interesting question.
We don't hear much about that.

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We know that based on my
conversations with Michael Letts

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and others, that Zelensky could
just get out of this and retire

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and go off into the sunset and
spend his millions.

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And maybe he should.
But pride is, you know, a

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powerful motivator.
And in his mind, he wants to

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walk out of this with his head
held high, being a hero.

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And so by the end of the day of
Monday, not much will be

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revealed.
But there'll be a lot of

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discussions and there'll be some
back and forth.

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And we're not going to, we're
not going to bear out the fruits

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of this one until probably
midweek, later in the week.

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And in the meantime, Americans
are dealing with hot weather.

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We've got this hurricane, which
is just barely close enough to

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make people like me nervous.
I believe the weather people get

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it right about 60 to 70% of the
time.

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And, and, and believe me, I live
in an area in Southwest Florida

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where we didn't think we were
going to get hit and we did.

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And, and it sometimes it can be
a matter of it being that close.

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Right now, it's tearing through
the tail end of Puerto Rico.

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It's supposed to turn right
about 300 miles off the coast of

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Cape Hatteras, but they've
issued warnings there in North

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Carolina.
Watch out for flooding, possible

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high surf.
That's obvious that that's a

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result Bahamas is in the
crosshairs Bermuda.

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So we'll see how this thing
plays out.

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But man, it was pretty scary on
Saturday.

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It kicked up to a CAT5 almost
overnight and that and that

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concerns me.
On the other hand, you know, I'm

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I'm breathing a sigh of relief
because it is making a right

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turn.
So anyway, another thing that

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kind of popped up over the
weekend and, and I have to say

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I'm not happy about it.
Maybe we should save it.

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Yeah, let's save her for the
next break.

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What the hell is going on with
the NFL?

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It's unbelievable what they're
doing out there.

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They're gouging fans like
criminals, like Barrett's in it.

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And frankly, I'm, I'm wondering
whether I should invest any more

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time into football.
We'll we'll talk about that.

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Plus male cheerleaders.
What's going on with that?

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The econic economics, talking
about house pricing.

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What's going on there?
The Federal Reserve is meeting

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in Jackson Hole this week to
discuss how they want to

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continue to further manipulate
the American consumer.

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All of that more coming up.
You're listening to America

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TODAY.
Before you get freaked out by

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these new male cheerleaders that
the Minnesota Vikings have

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taking the field today, just
remember that in Minnesota, this

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is pretty much how all guys act.
Case in point, the governor of

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Minnesota, Tim Walz.
Which one of them did it better?

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You've got this new male
cheerleader from Minnesota, but

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then you've got the OG male
cheerleader from Minnesota,

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Governor Tim Walz.
I wonder if the Minnesota

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Vikings put tampons in the
locker room.

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You know, I, I thought we always
had, there was always that one

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dude in high school and I'm
going back a ways, but there was

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always that one dude who wanted
to be a cheerleader.

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He knew he wasn't going to make
it being a football player

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because he was too effeminate
and he probably liked hanging

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out with a girl.
See, that's how I always

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thought.
It's like, oh, that guy, I know

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what he's after.
He's he's got him fooled.

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He thinks he's gay, but he's
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He's just trying to hang out
with the hot chicks.

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You know, I didn't give it much
thought.

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What I was a little bit
concerned about was the

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transgender cheerleader.
And a lot of women are upset

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about that because, well, let's
face it, you know, women's faces

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being invaded again.
That's what happens here.

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This is what, you know, the
left, they, they push it too

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far.
There's, you know, absolutely.

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Look, I, you know, we all have
to be careful, right?

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You don't want to be the one
that says something that goes

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viral and the next thing you
know, you're sitting in the

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unemployment line.
And I'm not too, too worried

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about that.
I have my opinion about adults

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who choose certain lifestyle
behaviors.

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Fine, whatever, To each his own.
You know, that's my American in

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me.
But you know, when you want to

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start hanging out, and I mean, I
just can't.

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Do you have any self-awareness
whatsoever that you got?

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You know, 100 guys out there all
weigh in 210 pounds, 250 lbs of

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pure muscle.
They're out there taking the

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hits, taking the bashes, taking
it as hard as they can take it.

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I watched this great film over
the weekend.

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I don't know what happened, but
on Instagram they have a lot of

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Tom Brady videos that are
playing constantly.

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You know, every other video meme
is, is a Tom Brady classic

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moment.
Or he's giving some advice to

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youngsters, which by the way, we
need more of those kind of

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people because they talk about
how hard it is to get to where

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you got to be and, and how much
grit you have to have and, and

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how many times you have to get
up at 6:00 in the morning on a

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summer morning and go out there
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It's tough and it's tough to be
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And then you got this trans guy
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him and you're, you got to be
staring at him and go, what the

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hell does this guy want so bad
that he has to first of all doll

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himself up like a woman?
He ain't fooling anybody.

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Then he jumps on the on the
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This guy is all about attention
and and what he's willing to do

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to get it, as opposed to being
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every morning at 6:00 in the
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the summer while the rest of his
friends are heading off to the

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beach.
So you tell me, which one do you

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think has better character?
The one with the lipstick or the

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one with the helmet?
It's about character, not about

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attention getting.
And that's what it appears to be

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with his whole movement is about
me, about me, my I mean mine.

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I mean mine.
I mean mine.

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Just like George Harrison saying
we should use that a bump as a

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bumper piece.
But that's not the only thing

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that NFL fans are upset about.
And, and I, you know, you could

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talk about the legitimacy of the
former, but let me tell you

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about this one.
NFL I know the bottom line.

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I know the bottom line is the
money.

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Y'all greedy?
Y'all gluttonous?

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Y'all want the billions on top
of billions but it should not be

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this hard to watch a game.
I feel like if we on all these

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streaming platforms, the people
that's dumb enough to to to buy

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all the the platforms, nothing
should be blacked out nothing.

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You know what y'all going to pay
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Your day coming.
It's getting ridiculous with

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everything.
I mean, I was fortunate this

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weekend.
I was able to see my two teams

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play and I got through about a
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Then I got somewhat
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he's right.
Like I have to travel and where

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I'm going, I'm not going to be
able to see my teams play

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because I'll be in the wrong.
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play because, you know, they're
my team and and I'm assuming

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they're probably going to get to
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I don't know, though.
But I can't watch it wherever I

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want to.
I got to subscribe.

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I got to subscribe to this.
I got let me give you a rundown

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of what it costs.
OK, if you want to get the NFL

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plus package, it's 4999 a year.
OK, that's 50 bucks a year.

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It's OK, it's not bad. 7 bucks a
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It includes live and local prime
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But then there's the NFL
premium, which is $100 a year

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and you got to get that.
If you want to get the NFL red

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zone, the NFL Pro, the replays.
Now they're charging you to

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watch replays.
OK, what else?

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The NFL Sunday Ticket, which is
YouTube which is horribly

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expensive.
Just the standard alone is $276

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a year.
Or you can make 4 or 8 easy

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payments of 3450 a month.
That's ridiculous.

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Then you have the YouTube TV
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which is 3450 a month, and then
another if you want the plus

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plus package, it's 59 a month.
And then of course you've got

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that's just for the first two
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Then it kicks up to 8299.
Then you've got the ESPN package

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which is 3990 a month.
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unlimited package from ESPN
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first year and then it kicks up.
Then you got Sling, which is 45.

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You see what's going on here?
You see how they have nickeled

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and dimed us and oh, Comcast has
$70.00 a month where you can get

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all of the NFL games in an
NBANHL if you're a real sports

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fan.
Comcast, right, $70.00 a month.

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But look, man, it used to be
free.

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I mean, we used to watch all
the, I'll tell you what I think

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it is.
It's partly the salaries.

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I'm pretty sure it's partly the
salaries when you consider some

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of these guys are making, you
know, money that I've never seen

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before.
It's also, I think the

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technicians, the unions, maybe
it's the advertising has dropped

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off quite a bit because there's
so much media and there's so

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many places for advertisers to
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It could be a whole host of
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But at the end of the day, the
person who's paying for it is

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you and me.
Because if you want to go to a

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game, that alone will cost you
at least a minimum of $150.00 a

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ticket.
Now my sons and I are going to

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go see another ball game this
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It's not going to be a playoff
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It's just going to be a regular
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That alone for four people to
go, it's going to run me.

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If you factor in the food, the
parking, throwing the gas,

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you're looking at an easy 1000
bucks for four people.

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That's $250 per person just to
sit in stands with 50,000 other

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rude people in those tiny
metallic seats that hurt your

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ass.
And you got to stand up and then

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the guy behind you screaming at
you, it's, it's not even fun

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anymore.
I mean, unless you watch the

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basics and you might get the
game you want to watch and thank

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God for that.
But then you got to sit through

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all the commercials, and, boy,
they're really, you know,

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another inserting.
I mean, look, I'm from old

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school.
But if I'm sitting there

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watching a football game, I
don't want to see a commercial

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with two guys kissing.
I'm sorry.

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It's just not where I'm at.
You know, to each his own.

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But I don't have to watch it if
I don't want to.

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But you got to because you got
no other choice.

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And so what's happening here is
that the American consumer is

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being nickeled and dimed to
death.

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And I wonder how long we'll put
up with it.

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I really don't know.
I do know that I read this

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online so it must be true.
But this is the problem.

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Jeff Bezos is offering a billion
dollar contract to Sydney

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Sweeney to push some clothing
line that he's involved with A

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billion dollar package.
Should human beings even be

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allowed to make that much money
just for being cute?

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It's, it's unbelievable.
It's like money is becoming

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like, you know, the old picture,
you know when you saw the

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Romans, the image in your mind
of them wheelbarrowing around

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gold coins.
And no, they can't afford

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anything.
That's what it seems like every

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single day.
And I even I haven't even

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touched Apple Music or these
online media conglomerates.

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I mean, ladies and gentlemen, we
are being nickeled and dime to

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death and I don't like it.
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Oh, man, I'm so starving for

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great music.
This is Mark Knopfler, who is

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the lead singer and guitarist
for the Dire Straits.

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Yeah, there's such a sense of
great musical ability with these

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people.
That's why when I heard that

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James Comedy, you know, the
former FBI directorate that sold

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out his country, the one that
lied to the American people

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because of somebody he didn't
like that somebody who was took

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his writ.
He, I'm sure that Comedy raised

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his right hand, had his other
hand on the Bible at one point

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and and said probably swore
allegiance and loyalty to the

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Constitution of the United
States, that James Comedy did

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that and he was sworn in at some
point in his life.

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He has a memory of it.
His family was probably there,

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his children, his wife,
relatives, who knows, maybe even

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his mom and dad, very proud of
their son as he stood there and

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swore an oath to God that he
would serve his country with

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utmost loyalty, courage,
faithfulness to the Constitution

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that guarantees the right of
every citizen in this country to

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live unfettered and not have to
worry about the criminal,

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criminal justice system being
weaponized against you because

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you desire to serve your people.
That's what James Comedy did.

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He did it all.
He did it with love in his

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heart.
He did it.

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And now he's saying that he
loves Taylor Swift because it

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reminds him of how much he hates
Donald Trump.

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He said that and he's going to
go to jail one day, I believe.

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I believe he will go to jail.
He should go to jail.

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And if he doesn't go to jail, he
should go to hell.

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You know, to me, it's like the
most egregious thing you can do.

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And by the way, I don't wish
that on a lot of people, but the

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most egregious thing you can do.
And I think we learned that the

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lesson of this from a man who
walked this earth 2000 years

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ago.
I mean he took a bullet and he

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took 2 nails to his hands out of
the loyalty to his fellow man.

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So when James Comedy stands up
there and talks about how much

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he loves Taylor Swift, who is
the most vacuous, untalented

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human being, she knows three
chords.

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Now listen, I know by the way,
nobody mentioned it but Elvis

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Presley, August 17th I believe
is the day that he he died back

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in 1977.
We all remember that.

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That was also the first time I
got a kiss, which was kind of

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interesting.
But anyway, I was only 16 at the

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time.
But here we go.

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You know, comedy, sticking his
head out there trying to make

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the news.
And this man swore on an oath of

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Bible with his hand on a Bible
that he would be loyal to his

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fellow countrymen and serve the
Constitution, uphold the

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Constitution.
And he violated all of it.

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And he has no sense of remorse.
He's completely in his own mind,

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justified to me that that's the
definition of insanity.

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When you believe something that
you know is wrong, I guess it's

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like George Costanza once said,
if you believe it's true, then

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it must be true.
Here's also something else

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that's true.
We remember the the other day.

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Well, OK, we have two cases of
vigilantism, which is horribly

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wrong.
And there's no justification

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ever.
But it, it, it is a symptom of

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something that is egregiously
wrong and our our society and

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our, you know, earlier today,
let me play that, that I already

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dump it in that what?
Here, let me play this again,

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because it's not just sports.
It's not just sports.

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NFL I know the bottom line is
the money.

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Y'all greedy, y'all gluttonous,
y'all want the billions on top

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of billions.
But it should not be this hard

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to watch a game.
I feel like we on all these

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streaming platforms, the people
that's dumb enough to to to buy

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all the the platforms, nothing
should be blacked out, nothing.

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And, and it's the same way for a
lot of things, insurance,

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healthcare, I mean, we were
promised something that we would

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continue to get great
healthcare.

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And, and you see these people
that are out taking shots, you

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know that guy that took out
BlackRock, OK, BlackRock owns

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about half the real estate in
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People are pissed because they
can't afford a home and they

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can't even afford to rent.
The average place to rent when I

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was young, it wasn't that long
ago was maybe 3-4 hundred bucks

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you could get a studio.
Now it's 2003 thousand.

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People are pissed.
And then health insurance, A lot

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of people don't go to see their
doctor because the deductibles

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and they're worried about going
bankrupt at the first sound of

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the first sight of a white cell.
So there's a lot of stuff that's

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being driven by this insane,
insatiable, non remitting desire

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for extreme profits.
And I'm a capitalist, but my

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God, do they have to nickel and
dime us to death.

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And you got this, this
situation.

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Remember, a lot of people got
injured by COVID, both the virus

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that was developed in the lab by
in part by our own NHNIH, and

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then the damn vaccine that was
rushed to market without tests

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on efficacy or adverse reactions
completely.

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Fauci's another guy.
But the point is, is that a lot

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of people got injured and nobody
seems to want to deal with it.

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So last week when that when that
guy took out those people and he

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claimed that he was
neurologically damaged by COVID,

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the the press, which is bought
and paid for by pharma, they

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were quick to denote that guy
and and dismiss him.

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There's no there there.
I mean, people are pissed.

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00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,320
They feel like they can't even
complain when the system is

448
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,080
doing them wrong.
And here's a good case of this.

449
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,720
This is Kevin Lloyd's wife.
President Trump, Vice President

450
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,160
Vance and VA Secretary Collins.
This is Sergeant Kevin Lee Lloyd

451
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,880
of the United States Marine
Corps.

452
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,720
He has stage 4 colorectal cancer
that has spread to his brain.

453
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,400
He is currently sitting waiting
to be able to begin his

454
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,280
chemotherapy.
We've been waiting since Monday

455
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,800
when it has been cleared and
sitting at the pharmacy.

456
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,520
But because the VA has declined
to pay for the $30,000 treatment

457
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,280
that he needs, he will die.
We have three children and we

458
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,320
are begging you to show us that
his life is worth more than

459
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,880
$30,000.
Now before I go off into my

460
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,080
tirade, Kevin Lloyd has a
GoFundMe page and a lot of

461
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,240
people apparently give a lot of
money to go GoFundMe on the most

462
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,880
inane things, including the
GoFundMe page set up for the

463
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,920
attorney for Kohlberger, the guy
that killed 4 people and people

464
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,480
were giving money to it.
Kevin Lloyd GoFundMe.

465
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,880
My God, this guy has served his
country and and insurance won't

466
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:24,240
pay for his medicine, which is
probably overpriced to begin

467
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,480
with because usually that's what
they do Big pharma.

468
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,920
Again, it's no different from
the guy trying to watch the NFL

469
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,480
games.
Do you have to nickel and dime?

470
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,400
Aren't you making enough
profits?

471
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,960
I mean, I, you know, it's for
our shareholders.

472
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,960
These guys live on ivory towers.
They're so disconnected.

473
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,640
Who do you think's renting all
or buying all that property on

474
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,120
the 50th floor or the 70th floor
of all these high rises?

475
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,480
People who are making tons of
money on, on other people's

476
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,640
suffering.
And it's it's pathetic.

477
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,720
And we wonder why there are
these egregious insane people

478
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,360
that go out there.
They're just, we need some, we

479
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:12,240
need Superman.
And let that be a metaphor for

480
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,760
good leadership.
We need somebody who actually

481
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,400
cares about the people and not
just about making a dime.

482
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,680
But the good news is that the
people end up saving the day

483
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,640
anyway.
So go to the GoFundMe if you're

484
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,880
hearing my voice.
This man is literally days away

485
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,840
from dying.
And I saw it over the week.

486
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,120
And I said, if I don't say
something about this, I have no

487
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:37,880
soul because that could be me.
And and frankly, with what I've

488
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,800
talked and who I've talked to
these last few months, it might

489
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,640
just very well be me in another
month.

490
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,800
You never know.
But the people are are good.

491
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,320
The people always come to the
rescue.

492
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,360
That's one thing I have learned,
you know.

493
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,560
So anyway, Kevin Lloyd, his wife
making a plea for his life.

494
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,640
All right, so I'm going to end
this segment on a on a good

495
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:01,200
note.
Tomorrow.

496
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,880
We're going to have Michael
let's on the program.

497
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,480
He's going to be here for the
next couple of days.

498
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,280
He's going to unravel.
He's a national security expert,

499
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,720
top cop for the state of South
Carolina, Special Forces Green

500
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,560
Beret.
He has met face to face with

501
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,680
some of the most powerful people
in this world, and we're humbled

502
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,480
and excited to have him on
tomorrow.

503
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,880
So he's going to break down the
whole peace talk and everything

504
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,600
that happens over the next 24
hours.

505
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,800
So we'll have Michael on the
program.

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00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,640
Join me.
If you miss it, I'll post it on

507
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,920
my website,
whichyoucanfind@jimwatkins.org.

508
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,200
jimwatkins.org.
Because we are in Oregon.

509
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,240
We're we're in Oregon.
We're an Oregon in the body of

510
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,440
America trying to make a
difference.

511
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,560
Let's get peace back.
Like John Lennon said, let's

512
00:29:48,560 --> 00:30:15,880
give peace a chance.
I hope the fires out in

513
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,640
California are starting to
abate.

514
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,160
I haven't been hearing a lot
about it.

515
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,360
I know that they're still there.
The firefighters are doing what

516
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,040
they can.
But this is that time of year,

517
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:28,280
you know, and it's, you know,
all we can do is is pray for the

518
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,560
firefighters and hope that
Mother Nature gets distracted.

519
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,200
It's it's always interesting to
watch.

520
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,800
And, you know, we, we know we're
kind of at the end stage of this

521
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,440
hurricane season.
And it's strange because, you

522
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:46,920
know, there's different elements
now with the Sahara dust, which

523
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,480
is having an impact.
It's unusual to go this long on

524
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,040
the East Coast without a
hurricane.

525
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,560
And we haven't, frankly, we
haven't seen much on the West

526
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,480
Coast either.
And so you ask yourself, will

527
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,120
Mother Nature unfurl her fury in
these final days?

528
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,200
It's hard to know.
Of course, we want to just tell

529
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,480
you it's going to be an
interesting chain of events.

530
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,280
Everybody has got their eyes
focused on what's happening with

531
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,240
Solinsky.
I know today it's a big Newsday

532
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,880
and you're going to be
distracted by a lot of it.

533
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:25,120
But it is unbelievable that
Hillary Clinton this past

534
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,120
weekend actually said, and I'm,
I'm shocked.

535
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:34,640
Maybe she's a part of me thought
maybe she's trying to kiss up a

536
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,240
little bit because she came out
on Saturday and said if Trump

537
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,680
can pull this off and he can get
a a deal and Witkoff and Marco

538
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:47,200
Rubio, who is shining like a
diamond right now, she said if

539
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,160
he can pull this off, I would
vote for him to get a Nobel

540
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,880
Peace Prize.
That is unbelievable.

541
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,120
This is a woman who single
handedly was responsible for

542
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,400
eight years of living hell for
this man.

543
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,240
And, and strangely, but the
Bushes are very quiet about

544
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,520
this.
So it's, it is going to be

545
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:12,480
historical nevertheless.
And I think I honestly believe

546
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,440
this.
I think Putin knows, you know,

547
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,720
I've been hearing a lot about
people dying.

548
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,480
And I don't know if you've,
you've experienced this.

549
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:25,560
I had two people I know tell me
over the weekend that they

550
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:30,520
either knew somebody or they
themselves could be dying within

551
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,720
a matter of months.
It's shocking.

552
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,760
And I've been hearing this, I
don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

553
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,720
If you think I'm wrong, go onto
my website, jimwatkins.org and

554
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,200
there's a comment.
Just click a comment and you can

555
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,200
leave a message or send me an
e-mail jimwatkins.org.

556
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,560
But it just seems like, or it's
because of, of age.

557
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,640
As you get older, the, the days
get shorter, the weeks get

558
00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,520
shorter, the, the perception of
time changes.

559
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,240
And I, and I realized the other
day I said I've got 1/7 of my

560
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:11,960
life left, one 7th if I'm lucky.
And so, you know, maybe Putin is

561
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:17,040
coming to the end and he wants
to go out like a hero, somebody

562
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,120
who brings back the integrity
and the respect of Russia.

563
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,560
Maybe.
I mean, we, we are, we all

564
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,640
operate, whether we like it or
not, over the same basic needs,

565
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:35,600
desires, pride, envy, the the
characteristics of, of human

566
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,040
beings are quite common and we
are all driven primarily by our,

567
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,800
our love, our hate, our fear and
our passions.

568
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,760
And maybe he wants to go out
like a soldier.

569
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,080
You know, it's like that line
from Apocalypse now, not like

570
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:57,040
some, you know, wuss ass.
Maybe he he thinks he could earn

571
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,720
a rightful page in the the
annals of history by doing

572
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,560
something right.
And you know, another thing that

573
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,480
didn't get played a lot this
weekend.

574
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,400
And I thought I had saved it.
And I don't know where it is,

575
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:12,719
but Melania Trump wrote a
wonderful letter to Putin.

576
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,280
And it got little play.
And it was not even a very big

577
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,600
letter.
It was maybe 300 pages, 300

578
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,280
words.
And she talks a lot about the

579
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:28,239
children of Ukraine and in
Russia who deserve to grow up in

580
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,560
peace.
She said This is your

581
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,400
opportunity to do the right
thing.

582
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,120
And you know, the the the way
that she articulated her points

583
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,679
to him.
You could be the coldest son of

584
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:45,040
a bitch on the planet.
And and there you could not

585
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:50,600
possibly read that letter and
not be moved by, I don't know,

586
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,159
the insight.
And she got no credit for that.

587
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:57,120
And that really upset me because
I was reading it on Saturday

588
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,080
morning and I kept thinking, oh,
somebody's going to mention it.

589
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,960
And I watch all the network news
and I didn't hear a damn thing.

590
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,120
So maybe this is about end of
life and coming to reflections

591
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,240
about what really matters.
And I think Melania Trump

592
00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:15,200
deserves great credit.
And I wish that, you know, even

593
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,480
I don't even I had I don't watch
Fox News and all those on the

594
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,960
weekend.
I take a break from all that.

595
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,560
But she really deserves.
Another thing that's kind of

596
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,840
popping up, which is sort of
unexpected, is that President

597
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,280
Trump may be considering down
grading the federal ban on

598
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:36,680
marijuana and Canada stocks
skyrocketed by 40% on the news.

599
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:41,200
The pot industry had hoped that
Joe Biden would make this pro

600
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,560
marijuana change during his
presidency, but they never

601
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,440
expected it from the Republican
side.

602
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:51,120
And and last N3 Republican
states defeated heavily funded

603
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,640
ballot initiatives to legalize
recreational marijuana.

604
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,840
So, you know, it's not something
anybody was expecting from

605
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,200
Trump.
It wasn't part of his promise on

606
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:05,040
his on his tour.
But someone may be nudging Trump

607
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,960
towards the idea and, and part
of it.

608
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:12,840
It probably has to do with money
and, and I've out long

609
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,760
suspected.
This is my own opinion, but I

610
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,920
believe that the reason
marijuana is not legal today is

611
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,720
because of pharmacies.
Pharmaceutical companies do not

612
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:27,480
want marijuana legal because if
they did, probably 3/4 of the

613
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,920
drugs that they prescribed would
be pointless.

614
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,360
Think of all the pain relief
that they you know, and, and,

615
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,080
and marijuana in its medicinal
form offers a lot of benefits.

616
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,400
It's it's nature's it's one of
them, probably the one of one

617
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,280
drug that has the least amount
of side effects.

618
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,520
But people will argue it has
mercury and it can cause late,

619
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,280
late term dementia, but that
remains to be seen because they

620
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,560
haven't really done a whole lot
of studying on it that I'm aware

621
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,000
of.
But what I do know is that Trump

622
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,680
is considering lowering it so
that it becomes legal so that

623
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:07,760
banks can do business with
distributors and sellers and

624
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,160
clinics.
And frankly, I don't understand

625
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,440
why it's not already available
at pharmacies.

626
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,760
If you can go in and get a
potent, mind altering

627
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:22,360
psychotropic drug that that
makes you unable to function

628
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,920
normally in society, why the
hell can't you go get a

629
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,560
marijuana gel?
You know, it makes no sense to

630
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:29,760
me.
And it's always been that way

631
00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:32,640
anyway.
So be on the lookout for that

632
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,440
because that could happen.
And it it might happen sooner

633
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,400
than you think.
Certainly.

634
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,840
He's got three years.
What else is going on in the

635
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:42,920
news today?
So we've got, oh, here it is.

636
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,560
OK.
So you want to know why the

637
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,080
economy is stuttering?
It's because people can't afford

638
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,080
a house.
And the reason they can't afford

639
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,440
a house is for a number of
reasons. 1 is that interest

640
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:59,680
rates are 5% and the Fed refuses
to lower the interest rate.

641
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,320
Now, maybe they'll make a
different decision come this

642
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,720
week out of Jackson Hole,
Wyoming, where they're meeting,

643
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,240
but we don't know.
But current, currently, just to

644
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:12,120
give you a few numbers, 27% of
homes listed on Zillow have had

645
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,000
price cuts, giving buyers more
negotiating power than they've

646
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,560
enjoyed in years.
But the advantage depends on a

647
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,200
couple of things.
Number one, confidence in your

648
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,240
work and confidence in your
money.

649
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,440
And these are the two issues
because homeowners themselves

650
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:32,040
are taking it in the shins with
higher taxes, property taxes,

651
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,400
and certainly in areas prone to
disaster, which is everywhere

652
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,160
from insurance.
Insurance is really killing

653
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,600
many.
Homeowners in Florida, just at

654
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,640
the edge of the precipice of the
final phase of the hurricane

655
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,400
season, have been told that
their insurance companies are

656
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,840
leaving the state.
And you've got 30 days to figure

657
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,720
out something else isn't that
atrocious.

658
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:59,520
So it's it's taxes from property
to pay for local services, which

659
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,640
is going up.
And then we also have the

660
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:08,720
increase in, in insurance rates
and a high interest rate and

661
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,160
lack of confidence.
So that's what's happening in

662
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,680
the economy right now.
Now, much of this is a fallout

663
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,480
from, believe it or not, post
COVID.

664
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,200
We haven't completely and a lot
of it has to do.

665
00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,720
And I have to say this with the
insurity of all the tariffs,

666
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:26,400
it's it's done a real number on
supply chains, but those things

667
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,800
can be fixed in a relatively
short period of time.

668
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,640
The feds need to decide to lower
the interest rates down to about

669
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,120
3.5%.
They do that that'll kick

670
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,640
throughout the economy and you
can quote me on it.