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Nov. 23, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Battle for Georgia - November 22nd, Hour 2
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Different polls coming out of Georgia.
I just don't have a feel for anything right now.
Why is it that it took California to your congressional seats and new congressional seats in Florida that ended up with Republicans in the majority?
It's just very different than anything we had ever seen before.
So I can't, in good conscience, tell you I have a feel for this December 6th runoff between Raphael the radical Warnock and Herschel Walker.
I know Herschel Walker's out there pounding the pavement every day and doing a bunch of town halls, and he's got people in and out.
You know, every senator from Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, everybody is going in to help him out in Georgia.
It's an important race.
It's good to see the governor, Brian Kemp, now trying to unite the party.
And he's been out there on the campaign trail and endorsing Herschel.
Here's Herschel's latest ad slamming Raphael Warnock over the management of this housing project that he has, the one that is infested with rats and so on and so forth.
And they're throwing people out that only owe like 24 or 28 bucks.
They're behind on their rent.
And he's taking a lot of heat for it.
And it's supposed to be church related.
And it's apparently less than pleasant living conditions.
Anyway, here's Herschel's latest ad.
I'm Herschel Walker, and I'll approve this message.
Reverend Warnock prays on the poor.
Warnock's apartments are filled with mold, filth, human feces, even rotting corpses.
Warnock's church pays in $7,000 a month for housing while he leaves people living in filth.
Same on him.
I hate to say, you know, it's same on him.
Senator Warnock, what are you doing to address the situation with the mold and corpses at Columbia Towers?
Warnock exploits the poor and serves himself.
All right, joining us now, maybe they can give us a better take on where this race is headed.
Polsters John and Jim McLaughlin.
Anyway, this takes place in short order.
This is now November 22nd, and the end of this month is eight days.
And then on the 6th of December, that will be decided.
Now, either it will be a 50-50 Senate or the Democrats will have an edge 51-49.
It would certainly be better for the Republicans if they were able to pick up this seat.
I do think there is a possibility.
Something dramatic's happened in West Virginia, and that is Joe Manchin, who had the highest approval rating in his career when he was opposing Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer up to 70%, now in the 30s, because, remember, he did the infrastructure bill or the tax the poor, middle class, and people on fixed income bill, as we call it.
And he was promised that he was going to get a pipeline if he supported this, and that would help the energy industry and create jobs and help the people in West Virginia.
They were nigged on that.
They absolutely bamboozled and lied to him on that.
And then in the lead up to the general election this past year, we know that Joe Biden was out there saying he wants to get rid of all coal production in this country and stop drilling offshore and onshore in the country completely.
And maybe that explains why immunity was granted to MBS.
That's the guy that Joe himself said killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and that was the pariah nation, Saudi Arabia.
It wasn't bad enough that Joe went and kissed the ring in the ass of MBS, begging for them to increase production of oil.
Not only did they say no, they decided to decrease their energy production.
But now with immunity, we read that, oh, next month they're going to have another discussion about possibly increasing domestic, increasing their production of oil, which Joe wants because he wants to import oil.
But for some reason, he has this unexplainable position, which is beyond irrational.
It's reluctance that is beyond mysterious to anybody of drilling domestically and being energy independent.
Just insane.
What impact does it have in Mother Earth if you get the oil from OPEC nation, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, or if we produce it here in America?
Because we do it faster, cheaper, and cleaner.
Anyway, Jim and John McLaughlin are with us.
Welcome both of you.
John McLaughlin, I start with you.
Where is the state of Georgia?
You know, with early voting going on, I just, I don't know if enough Republicans have bought into the system, and that gives Democrats a decided advantage heading into Election Day.
Well, by the way, I spoke with Speaker Gingrich yesterday, and we were talking about the post-election finding nationally.
And Jim and I, fortunately, we worked for candidates across the country where we didn't lose a single incumbent.
In fact, in New York, we picked up three congressional seats with Lawler and in Long Island, and also two in Florida that we gained five seats for the Republican Party, taking Democrat seats.
And in Georgia, we worked for the late Speaker Ralston, who fixed the election laws that we don't have those unsecured drop boxes.
Everybody needs voter ID.
And basically, we kept, you know, no excuse absentees, and they've got secure drop boxes.
But let me tell you what this race is about.
You've got a polarized partisan country where the two parties are about even.
And you have to win among the independents.
And in Georgia, the turnout was really the same as it was in 2018.
It was about just under 4 million voters.
And Trump got two and a half, almost 2.5 million votes, okay?
Even with all the irregularities and the unsecure drop boxes and the ballots that didn't have a chain of custody in Zuckerberg Drive, Trump got 2.5 million votes.
Herschel got just under 2 million votes.
This is now what we call with partisan parity.
You need a message where you go after Joe Biden.
He's a failed president.
You need that develops party unity.
And then what you do is you beat ballots by going after ballots with votes.
The Republicans, waiting till election day is a big mistake.
In Georgia, if you want to win, find the 2.5 million voters that voted for Trump.
Get out as many of those can for Herschel because they're all, they disapprove of Biden.
They disapprove what the Democrats are doing for the country.
Run an aggressive message to take the Democrats out.
You would talk about energy.
We talk about inflation.
We talk about groceries.
We talk about crime.
There's so many issues.
The unsecure border.
Play offense and get those voters out because the Democrats, what they're doing is they're getting ballots out with absentees.
They're getting ballots out every day with early in-person voting.
And they're not waiting for Election Day.
Our clients, whether in New York or Florida or other places of the country, they play the whole time you're allowed to vote.
Do not wait till Election Day to turn out the vote.
Turn them out every day and beat the Democrats every day in turnout because the math is there.
Warnock is going to try to get 99% of his vote out.
Herschel needs to get 99% of his vote out plus some.
It's really a turnout game and energizing the base.
And hasn't early voting just started, is my understanding?
Right, right.
So now you have to you and by the way, there's absentees.
I don't know what the counts are on the absentees.
And Georgia's not a registration state, but you have voter affinities.
You have a database.
You know what it is.
The Kemp people knew what it is, that they got out 2.1 million votes for themselves in the November 8th election.
So find those voters.
Drive them out.
They're there.
Just do a better job at them.
I know my audience really well, and I know there's some people listening to this, and they're not happy hearing what you're saying.
And let me say this to people.
I agree with all of you.
The best system would be to follow, believe it or not, Canada and France and Great Britain and so many other industrialized countries that have paper ballots, make Election Day a national holiday so everyone has access to the ballot.
You make exceptions for the elderly, the infirm, the military, people that are going to be away that want to vote.
They can apply for an absentee ballot.
But basically, then you have partisan observers watching the vote taking place.
They watch the vote counting taking place.
And then we have the result at the end of the night.
There's no questions about integrity.
Everybody has confidence in the results.
We all move forward.
Included in that is voter ID and signature verification.
That's not going to happen in this Georgia runoff race.
It's not going to happen by 2024 either.
So what I'm saying to the audience that is resistance to mail-in balloting, early voting, you're going to have to overcome it.
Now, while we're overcoming it, we want to improve the system and make it a more fair system and have more integrity in the system.
But the reality is this is the army that we have.
This is the system that we have.
And unless and until we change it, you've got to work within the system or you're going to start out 700,000 votes behind on Election Day.
And that then, especially in a runoff, becomes impossible to make up.
Jim.
And think about it, Sean, what the Democrats have done.
They actually went the legal route.
Their attorneys are always working.
They're opening up the early in-person system this Sunday.
They're going to start it up.
They're going to start opening it up even earlier than what it was supposed to be.
And a judge hasn't shut it down yet from our end.
Just as Jan was saying, these folks never stop playing and they never stop playing to win.
Whether we like it or not, these are the rules that they're playing by.
And as soon as early voting starts, as soon as vote by mail starts, we need to get out there.
Think about this.
Look what they did in Florida.
And we work with a lot of candidates down there.
Folks like Ashley Moody.
We work for some of the new members of Congress that are down there.
And what they did with the vote by mail was, compared to two years ago or four years ago, I'm sorry, similar election, we were up by about 20,000 votes with the early voting.
In this election, we were up by over 320,000 votes.
Why?
Because the folks in Florida, they get their people out to vote early, and then they get them out to vote on Election Day.
And the big key to this, by the way, one of the things the Democrats are also doing, they're trying to suppress the Republican vote because they're telling Republicans right now, hey, we've got control of the Senate right now, and your vote doesn't matter.
You know, this election isn't about control of the Senate, where it really is, because people don't realize the advantages you get if we do get a 50-50 Senate, not to mention the importance of us picking up and getting control of the Senate, which we have a really good opportunity in 2024.
If we get 50-50 control, it makes it much harder for the Democrats to pass their radical judges.
It makes it much harder for them because they can't give any of their liberal Democrats an out, just like what we saw with Kyrsten Cinema, just like what we saw with Joe Manchin.
And by the way, Kyrsten Cinema and Joe Manchin, they are not moderates.
Anytime the Democrats and Chuck Schumer ever need a Kirsten cinema or a Joe Manchin, they're there, whether it was on the Trump tax cuts, whether it was on the Judge.
Well, they resisted for a period of time.
They resisted on the legislative filibuster, and that was helpful.
But you're right.
We already heard from Chuck Schumer.
You know, he's going for full-on amnesty in this lame duck session before the Republicans take control of the House.
And, you know, they obviously weren't campaigning on amnesty because that would have had a profound impact on the race, in my view.
So they hide their true intentions.
But this is what they always do, isn't it?
And you know who we underperform with, Sean?
We underperformed with Joe Biden's negatives.
There were actually polls, some of the exit polls showed that in the House races, among voters that somewhat disapproved of Joe Biden, the Democrats actually won.
And here you have a guy, and you said it, you said it perfectly.
Radical Raphael, because that's what he is.
He tries to pretend he's one of those moderates, but you don't vote with Joe Biden 96% of the time and be a moderate.
That is extreme because when you're voting with them 96% of the time, you're voting with them on all the spending that's causing this inflation.
You're voting with them on all these crazy energy policies.
You're voting with them on open borders.
I mean, these guys are extremists.
And you want to send a message and stop the extremism, you've got to support Herschel Walker here.
And I think what you're seeing right now, you're seeing the Republicans, whether it's Donald Trump, you're seeing Governor Kemp.
Everybody is all in right now on supporting Herschel Walker.
Quick break more with our pollsters.
Jim and John McLaughlin, 800-941-Sean, our number.
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All right, we continue with our pollsters.
Jim and John McLaughlin, McLaughlin and Associates.
Let's get your final take.
What is the best messaging now going out?
And to what extent do you think Kemp plays a big role here?
I mean, he actually had a beatdown against Stacey Abrams four years prior.
He didn't do particularly well.
He barely eked out a victory.
But then she did say that it's the worst state to live in, and she did hurt the state with $100 million, and they lost the MLB All-Star game.
Sean, I would put Joe Biden on the ballot because every poll I did for the Speaker and the majority in the House that we kept in Georgia, Biden had a net negative rating.
And he can't get it better.
They're talking about open borders.
They're talking about another big spending package.
Put Joe Biden on the ballot.
The country's on the wrong track.
Let Herschel Walker attack, say that this, we need to, we shouldn't reward the Democrats with Raphael Warnock.
We have to straighten out the direction of the country, whether it's inflation, whether it's the price of gas going up, whether it's the open borders, whether it's crime going up.
You have to put Herschel there so he votes right and make this a referendum on Joe Biden instead of that unites Republicans.
It brings out Trump voters.
It brings out Kemp voters.
It brings out, I mean, that's how we won these races in other places.
Play offense, but drive that message to drive our vote out every day.
Because what you said in Israel, we just did Netanyahu's campaign.
You're right.
They have one-day voting.
They have paper ballots.
But even Netanyahu ran a negative campaign at the previous government.
So you need to.
Well, there's nothing positive to talk about, so he had no other option.
Thank God he's back in power, by the way.
Anyway, John and Jim McLaughlin, thank you.
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The Washington Post, you'll love this, Linda, accused of trying to destroy Thanksgiving dinner after listing holiday foods alongside their climate impact.
I'm not making it.
I'm sorry.
What did you just say?
That is insane.
That was out today?
See, there's a reason I'm going to read Bezos' paper.
Okay, go ahead.
Okay.
So, the Washington Post complaining about your Thanksgiving dinner, warning that some parts of the holiday feast will contribute to the climate crisis.
Now, this article written by a columnist, Tamar Haspel, I'm not sure if I'm saying the name right, not on purpose, but anyway, meaning I'm not mispronouncing on purpose.
Anyway, it's titled The Climate Impact of the Thanksgiving Meal Might Surprise You.
Now, the good news is Haspel claims that it is that the mainstays of the meal, the poultry, the plants, make Thanksgiving a much more climate-friendly holiday than, say, the burger fest that is the 4th of July.
And then the author lists typical Thanksgiving dishes alongside how they stack up climate-wise.
And while turkey is described as having a higher footprint than chicken because it's slower growing, according to the author, it's still a good choice.
Potatoes are a win with climate-wise, according to the author, because they contribute about one-tenth of the greenhouse gas emissions of the poultry on the per-calorie basis.
And of course, the butter, the cream increase the tally of the climate damage.
Try roasting your behavior, your potatoes instead of mashing, go crispy instead of creamy.
Green beans, on the other hand, are met with a lot less approval.
Green vegetables are not quite as environmentally friendly as root vegetables, the author writes.
When it comes to greenhouse gases, virtually all plants are better than virtually all animal foods, but green vegetables have the highest per calorie emissions because they deliver nutrition with few calories.
Butter being an animal food is not so much a climate win.
And she said it admits, but telling you to make crusts with anything else is not going to work.
And while the holiday staples are basically good, the author turns out turns to what she describes as Thanksgiving climate villain.
You want to take a crack at what that is?
I can't even imagine.
Is it pumpkin pie?
That's a good question.
Poor old pumpkin.
It's food waste.
Various groups have tried to, their attempts at estimating how much food is wasted on Thanksgiving, but there's no real way to know.
Safe to say, though, that it's a lot.
By the way, I don't really like, you know, like turkey legs.
Like, I walk around on the times when I used to go to Disney when my kids were younger and see all these people with turkey legs.
You ever see that?
Have you taken Liam to Disney yet?
I will never take him to that liberal paradise.
I promise you.
You're never going to take this poor kid.
He's never had a happy meal.
First of all, no, first of all, has he ever had a happy meal?
He has.
But you didn't give it to him, did you?
I did not.
There are traitors amongst us, unfortunately.
So let me guess.
Anthony took him.
No, he had a cousin.
He had like a, you know, an uncle, a favorite uncle.
And he was like, oh, please, please, please, we please take me.
And that all the time.
Because I've been telling him that you get a happy meal and you get a toy.
You can choose between the cheeseburger happy meal and the chicken McNugget happy meal.
And he got the toy with it.
And first of all, everybody knows that chicken fries.
I got you to admit that he liked McDonald's french fries better than your air-dry French fries or whatever you air-cooked french fries.
What do you call it?
So let me keep it real with you for one minute.
It's called an air fryer.
It's amazing.
And I'm sure most of our audience would agree with me.
But I'm going to tell you right now.
Right now.
When you put french fries in front of a child, I do not care who that child is.
The best French fries they have ever had are the ones they are eating at that moment.
So my son will tell me that those french fries are amazing.
No, I'm 100% right.
No, I don't eat a lot of French fries.
And I've had your air-fried French fries, and they're not as good.
They're not as good as ones cooked in oil.
I'm sorry.
This is from the man who wants to lick a salt stick.
This is not a fair comparison, I don't think.
You have to put a lot of salt on any French fry, regardless of that.
You put salt on apples.
You put salt on everything.
I put salt on apples.
I've put salt on salt.
Thank you, Jason.
Sometimes I just eat salt plain.
You're right.
I admit to it.
You're not.
One of the greatest gifts I ever got for Christmas was from Ethan, who got me salts from all over the world.
I have to say that was a very good gift.
When he told me he got that gift, I was like, oh man, it's a home run.
That really is.
It was a grand slam.
And by the way, am I the easiest person to buy for?
No, you're the worst person to buy for, actually.
The absolute worst person, actually.
I sit around Christmas.
My family gives me a sweater.
Oh, thank you.
I give it to Sweet Baby James.
Another sweater, shirt.
Oh, I handed it to Sweet Bridge.
Do you remember what I gave you the first year I worked for you, right?
I have no idea.
Going back quite almost two decades.
So this is hilarious.
I came in your office.
Everybody's given all the things.
I have no idea what to give you.
I'm broke as a joke.
And I gave you a Starbucks gift card.
It was like 20 bucks on it.
It was a big deal for me.
And I handed you the card.
And I said, I know you like the French roast.
Here you go, boss.
And you looked at me and you went, really?
And I was like, yeah, you're like, please keep your money.
Please don't give me a $20 gift card.
Please don't do that.
It's fine.
Don't waste your money.
You go, where do you live?
Where do you live?
Right.
Where do you live?
I'm like, I live on the Upper East Side.
You're like, how many square feet do you live in?
I'm like, $350.
And you're like, yeah, please keep your $20.
Thank you very much.
Get out of my office.
Thank you.
Merry Christmas.
Bye.
I wasn't being mean.
No, it wasn't mean at all.
It was hysterical.
It was hysterical.
I want people because especially people working for me, I always urge them to save money.
Like, we're getting close to bonus time, right?
Now, when I give bonuses, you know, sometimes I think I give the checks to you directly and then you give it to the staff.
They don't.
I am the disperser.
But it always has to come with the same message.
What's the message?
Save your money.
Money is freedom.
Money is freedom.
I wasn't done.
See, you were interrupting, and therefore you did not know where I was going.
Now, Jason always gets a little extra.
In other words, now that, but thank God his favorite nightclub is closed down, so he doesn't spend his money there.
But I tell Jason, especially you, right, Jason?
I still have last year's bonus.
And boy, boy, do I need it?
Well, is something breaking at your house again?
Oh, yeah.
The oven that's older than Katie broke down.
I'm telling you, it's 30 years old and it broke down like just before Thanksgiving.
So I'm getting a new one.
Were you able to find one?
Not before the not before the holiday, but it's we've send you a butterball.
I could send you a butterball turkey fryer.
No, no, I mean, no, we're just going to do two small turkeys.
So we're good.
We're good.
All right.
As long as you're going to be happy.
A couple of other quick things.
Activists are planning a Thanksgiving protest at Plymouth Rock against the genocide of indigenous people.
They will gather for a national day of mourning this Thanksgiving.
Who's this actor, John L-E-G-U-I-Z-A-M-O?
Who is this guy?
No idea.
That's probably why he's doing it.
He wants you to know who he is.
Led Guizamo.
Yeah, who is it?
You know?
Oh, he's a he's a comedian slash actor.
He's been around for like 20, 30 years.
Okay.
Well, he's so famous, I have no clue who he is.
Anyway, happiness Indigenous Survivors Day F Thanksgiving.
Oh, gee, you really 12 days of Christmas.
Get this.
What do you think the 12 days of Christmas will cost?
Take a wild guess.
Jason, give me your best guess.
What are the 12 days of Christmas cost?
Remember the 12th day on the first day?
How much did the 12 days of Christmas cost?
Yeah, how much do you think it costs?
It's up a whopping.
You mean like for all the items that you would that are in the sales?
Partridge.
Okay, what's your guess, Linda?
$3,763.
$37.63?
$3,763.
Because pears are very expensive, you know.
Produce is very expensive.
The 12 days of Christmas, and I'm just reading from this study: $45,523.23 of double digits from last year, according to the financial firm PNC, which released its 39th annual Christmas Price Index on Thursday.
And they measure the average change in prices for the 12 gifts in the Christmas carol, running even hotter than the more traditional consumer price index.
Both indexes share similar themes, et cetera.
For example, the cost of a partridge and a pear tree is up 26%, driven entirely by spiking fertilizer costs.
French hens, turtle doves are more expensive because their food, much like ours, has become pricier.
Investors rushing to store a value assets, including precious metals, cause gold rings now to skyrocket 39%.
And labor shortages and wage increases mean those lords are leaping and ladies dancing are earning 24% and 10% more, respectively.
I don't know if any of this is.
Quick break right back.
We'll continue and get to the phones as we continue.
800-941 Sean.
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When Linda started, what was your first score?
A six?
It was a very, very bad score.
That's what I was saying.
Out of 100.
What was it?
It was a nine.
It was annoying.
Let me explain what that means to people.
If you're aiming your firearm at a house, you would miss the house to get a nine.
Or you might be able to nick like the chimney.
And the burglar and the burglar would kill you.
Oh, yeah.
You're done.
You're totally done.
And so what are you up to now?
I'm honestly between like the 70, 80 if I practice like at least three times a week, which I do.
Okay, and what did I score on my first shot?
You're annoying.
You scored 100, which is not.
But I have the interesting thing is because my hearing loss for all these years on radio, I just don't shoot anymore.
Even if I have, you know, inside muffs and outside muffs, I just, it just, you know, I'll end up.
No, you're hearing shot, man.
After 30 years, forget about it.
It's shot.
I mean, if anyone heard my headphones, how loud they are, they'd be like, whoa, man.
Yeah, they would.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
You know what?
Let's say hi to Wendy.
Wendy.
Oh, this is Wendy, our restaurant friend down in Florida, who came up with the O'Shanity drink, isn't it?
Oh, yeah.
We're celebrating you today.
So you actually, what is the O'Shaughnessy drink?
So.
So we know that you like beer only if it's got ice cubes in it.
That's true.
It's basically whatever anybody wants to drink on draft with an ice cube in it, and it's the Shannon because we love you.
Well, I love the love that I'm getting from you, and I appreciate the love.
How is business?
Because I remember we spoke during COVID and we spoke once afterwards.
And, you know, you guys were struggling a little bit for a while.
I hope a lot of people from this show keep going in and saying hello to you.
Well, we have very great customers, and a lot of them are loyal listeners of the Hannity show.
So when they come in, they always tell us, we heard you on Hannity.
We love Hannity.
So we still have guests that came in that heard on the show a year ago, which is amazing that they even remember that far back.
But it's pretty busy.
We're staying busy.
My family works every day.
We finally closed on Mondays to take a break and we're taking Thursday off for Thanksgiving.
By the way, it's Outpost 611.
And where's the location?
It's on McMullen Booth and Enterprise in Clearwater, Florida.
Everybody needs to go and have a good time there.
And this would be the perfect weekend to go.
But you're closed on Thanksgiving Day.
We're closed on Thanksgiving.
But I hate to say it, you're missing a big day because the Giants are playing the Cowboys, and I think a lot of people would want to watch it and drink your specialty beers at the same time.
Drink a beer.
Drink the beer.
They can come on Black Friday and watch whatever they want.
Yes.
We're going to have all kinds of specials.
And Linda, I'm having french fries, chorizo chili, beer cheese, and sources.
Wait a minute.
Real french fries, not this air-fried crap that she has, right?
Wendy, we have an air fryer too at home, and it's really good.
It is really good.
Wendy, can I interrupt you for one second?
Can you please share the story about your husband and Veterans Day and the flag?
We did put it on Hanny.com, but it really is just such a great story.
Okay, so really quick, he was cleaning up outside on Veterans Morning, Veterans Day morning, and the flagpole had fell down because we just had that tropical storm come through Florida.
So he was cleaning up and there were two guys that were doing the electric and fixing the electric outside of the store.
And so the gentleman asked my husband, do you have another flag?
And he said, I'm going to go to Home Depot and get one.
And he said, hold on a minute.
He went to his truck.
He came back with a folded flag in a plastic bag that he's from the American Legion and he fought, I think it was Vietnam.
And he presented Ian with a flag and said, this flag has flown in another foreign country.
And I want to give this to you.
So let me tell you, when I come into work every day, I look at it.
It's got a couple of little tiny, you could tell, like worn areas on it from flying really high somewhere.
But it's such an honor to fly that flag every day.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
You know, look, somebody sent me a scripture today, and Sweet Baby James gave it to me.
And it talked about, you know, how, you know, if you believe in God and you can increase this and increase your prosperity and happiness, you know, and let God fill you up more.
And I'm like, I don't know.
I'm kind of in the Thanksgiving, like, I'm pretty grateful for what I have that I don't deserve mode.
And I should be there more often than I am.
But I think that this Thanksgiving, we have so much to be thankful for.
And, you know, we.
We get locked into hard times and we, you know, things spin and spiral out of control.
You know, maybe your Thanksgiving is not going to be as, I don't know, festive in terms of food, which is good for your diet anyway.
But, you know, being around the people that you love, you know, they may not be there next year.
They may not be there three years from now.
You know, I lost my parents a long time ago.
You know, my father died in March of 97.
My mom, not long after that.
And so my advice to people all the time is I try to give good advice, you know, spend as much time with your family as you can because you just never know.
And you'll never regret the time that you spend with your loved ones and be grateful for them.
Wendy, we love you.
God bless you.
It's, by the way, Outpost 611 in Clearwater.
And I hope people go and say hi to you.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
We love your staff.
I like half of them.
No, I'm kidding.
They're all great.
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