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If you want to be a part of the program, I think the the greatest news that I saw today.
Well, certainly the progress in Congress is great news.
Um, but in many ways, America's prayers have been answered, and Bill's safety, Damar Hamlin, has now woken up.
He was intubated, he's no longer in debated.
He has his full faculties together.
Um and you got so many people you gotta thank here.
All of the the medical professionals and trainers, everybody, the you know, you had everybody there within a minute, all over this guy to save his life.
And he went into cardiac arrest, as many of you know.
And the greatest part of the story is Katie's a big football fan on call screener, is when he wakes up, what's the first question he asks, Katie?
Who won?
Who won?
Did we win?
Did we got the asked the other?
Did we win?
You know.
Um what a you know what?
What a great story.
Uh there was one story that made me think of Linda today.
I had no idea that Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You read the Damar Hamlin story, and you didn't think Linda.
No.
Yes.
You don't even know what cross the plane means.
I don't, but you know what?
I am getting uh my verbiage down.
Okay, you've got your your your fiance and you're he's up on football, so you've had to learn, but it's been a very long process.
Yes, but you know what?
He got me across the plane.
How did you like that?
Did you like how I used it there?
Was that good?
On football.
What is what is crossing the plane?
No, I don't know, but it sounded really good when I said it.
You liked it, right?
I liked it.
No one else liked it.
So I don't know.
If you're a longtime listener, you might remember that Linda had a cat.
Oh.
Okay, that cat weighed 75 pounds.
This is the fattest cat ever.
Yeah, no, you're not supposed to say the word fat, but what other word can you use?
It's not body shaming or easy cat.
They're feelings.
It's it was an obese feline.
Is that more politically correct and appropriate?
No, woke is a joke to me.
Okay.
Woke is a joke.
You had an obese feline that you had to send to an obese camp to lose weight because you were killing your cat.
And now she's a fine feline.
Okay, how many pounds did the cat lose?
Uh well, 35.
You you overfed your cat 35 pounds.
They say the best way to the heart is the tummy.
So get this.
Taylor Swift apparently has this cat.
And uh apparently this cat is worth a fortune.
97 million dollars.
Why?
Well, okay, so I I'm asking the same question as well.
Now there are other animals as uh, for example, Gunther the Sixth, uh, 500 million dollars is worth a German shepherd that inherited a trust that was a trust fund set up by a German countess who died in 1992, and now you have a group of managers that fund Gunther's progeny moving forward.
I mean, it's worth 500 million dollars.
Anyway, in the case of Taylor Swift, she has this cat.
Uh, it's now the number two most highly has a net worth, the highest net worth of an animal.
It's number two on the list, an estimated 100 million dollars um for this cat and I'm like how do you how does this even work I still don't know the answer to it all I know the answer what this cat is writing songs telling you right now he's laying down some fat tracks no the only songs teller usually tends to write are ex-boyfriends she eviscerates them have you ever gotten a cat mad let me tell you something a connection let me know I I got two right now I
don't like cats i'm not a cat person i'm a dog person i'm shocked to hear that that is news to this audience you know everyone's paying attention to i don't care about harry prince harry i don't care no one cares that's why they keep trying to make headlines i could understand having a complex about the air and the spare the air and the spare and he calls his book spare okay i got it um and his dad you know made some stupid joke about you know who the father might be because there had been speculation that his mom had an
affair.
just it's just you know both he and Meghan Markle I understand where Piers Morgan is now on this because they say they want privacy they move to Montecito they can have all the privacy of Montecito in Santa Barbara that they want uh but then they go ahead and and in seeking privacy they first do an interview with Oprah.
If you want privacy don't do an interview with Oprah and don't trash your family because that's exactly what they did.
Then they have this big Netflix series which they're being paid millions for and then it's all about them the whole thing and about how grieved they are you know how his brother once punched him to the ground oh my gosh two brothers fighting imagine that I'm sure that's never happened before or what he's calling the evil stepmother Camilla Parker Bowles you don't like her you didn't have to be friends with her.
It's just don't be friends with her.
Anyway all of these things blaming his brother for wearing that Nazi outfit that one time that he wore it just goes on and on and on and it's so narcissistic and self-indulgent I can't take it they have to sell one point seven million books to get back a recoup money that they paid this idiot for this book how many more how many more acts of privacy are they publicly going to demonstrate to us because it doesn't seem like they want privacy.
Anyway I got that off my chest.
Listen as soon as I saw the pictures I don't know if you remember this but I gave this to you when he said he was going to marry her there's six photos of Megan Markle dressed up like his deceased mother got restored in the matching outfits.
This is a this is a show for her this is all a game he has no idea that he has a pawn in this game.
I don't disagree with you but I will tell you it's it's beyond bizarre at this point.
Alright let's get to our phones 800 941 Sean our number if you want to be a part of the program uh Todd in Utah has a great question.
Hey Todd happy Friday and happy new year glad you called sir thank you Sean it's a big honor first of all I've got to say out here in Utah we love God family and our country and so we love you too.
Wow that's very kind God, family, country, Hannity and Crown burger.
Amen Crown burger in Salt Lake exactly that's what I'm saying.
Well if you ever out here we'll get you some good food and show you around just regarding this big vote um for the speaker huge issue obviously and it looks like it's happening.
You know last vote was 213 just minutes ago but um I think we owe a lot of gratitude to this conservative cadre of 20 Freedom Caucus Republicans and because you know it's the old story uh fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me for letting it happen fool me three times nah we're not going there.
And so Boehner was strike one.
You know, the conservative Tea Party, God, Country, Constitution, you know, swept him in.
He was terrible.
He was awful.
Right.
He did the happy talk, sounded conservative, promised things.
That lasted about 10 minutes.
We got back to his office.
It was business as usual, serving the establishment and the swamp.
Boehner's strike two.
Same thing.
Did the happy talk.
Sounded good, but it was all lies.
And so you can see why these folks, given this...
very important juncture in our country's history would say hey we're not doing this a third time and so they stood up and to their credit, they got a lot of concessions that would not have been there.
And so I think we owe them a lot of gratitude, and I don't think they're grandstanding.
I think they're sincere patriots.
And I I just think that that's that's very important.
And final thought on this.
Um in the Battle of the Bulge, America's biggest historical battle.
We had like I don't know, six hundred and ten to eight hundred thousand soldiers out there fighting, and it was the Nazis' last big desperate push.
And I heard that at one part that our line was starting to get weak, and and some of our soldiers went into retreat.
And some courageous kid started digging a foxhole, and his commander said, What are you doing?
He said, We don't win battles by giving up real estate.
And so I think he felt shame.
They start digging in and they helped their position and helped hold the line, and they were eventually victorious.
And I think that these guys have shown some of that character, and I think it's that that's very important.
And and we'll hope that with this written agreement that it will be binding.
And we don't know.
But again, I can support.
Well, let me let me just tell you why it's binding.
Because the motion and now you know, I probably should have told more about the th the this the discussions that I had and the lead up to all this.
All of this I have had on my plate in front of me and have talked to a lot of people about since December.
And I tried to warn everybody not to get to this point and to do it in pub in private, not in public.
I did try to do that.
I knew eventually we're gonna get to this this final point.
Everything that everybody said that they wanted now has been agreed to, and I think we're gonna be better off for it.
So there's there's not even a possibility for Kevin McCarthy to deviate away from the agenda or the investigations.
That's the good that's come out of all of it.
And you know, I never got into a fight with like a few people I've been very disappointed with because it's it's not about serving people, it became about a it became very personal.
You know, this it's sort of like the mob, it's you know what's it's not personal, it's business.
This is business.
And in this case, it's the business of serving the American people, and that's too important to me, and that's only my only goal.
I agree with, I think they should own the commitments they made to America and they signed on to.
I agree with the investigations, uh, I agree with the right to vacate.
It's time for everybody to get to work now.
I agree with the appropriations process, you vote on every spending bill separately.
I agree on the term limits side of it, I agree on the border side of it.
There's nothing I don't agree with the 20 on, but all of this has kind of been you know discussed in a way that was irrelevant considering it had all been agreed to.
And that's what frustrated me, and maybe I didn't explain that well enough this week, and if I didn't, that's fine.
You know, I I love when Donald Trump, Mark Levin, Newt Gingrich, uh uh, and every other conservative that says, no, this is this is a real agenda.
He can't deviate.
You know, to use Matt Gates' term, it's say he's in a straitjacket, which by the way is something that Paul Ryan and and John Boehner never had.
So we made the progress.
Now let's get to the business of governing.
That's my position.
Right.
And we need you to keep well, first of all, thank God that you're out there doing it, because you're doing and putting yourself out there where so many of us feel what you're saying, but we don't have the the the m the microphone, we don't have the the guts, you know, to be out there doing what you're doing, and so this is critical, but you keep his feet to the fire.
I mean, when when it gets along with the case.
I'm gonna promise you this, and I want you to hear me loud and clear, and I've said it many times.
If he doesn't keep the commitments to America promise, if he doesn't keep his promise on investigations, I promise you I will lead the charge to get him out of there.
Excellent.
And about every 30 days, have your producer or your associate producer who's fantastic, you ought to give her a pay raise, by the way.
I know I love when everyone kisses up and sucks up to my staff.
They just got a nice Christmas bonus.
Were you happy with your Christmas bonus, everybody?
You can talk.
I think everybody was happy.
I think he's specifically referencing Katie because he had the luxury of talking about it.
He's learning with Katie who's engaged.
Why that's not right.
Well, well, lucky man, she's a great lady.
And I I know it's easy for me to say you give her the money, you know.
So I I I don't want to be a a scoundrel there.
But I was just gonna say this this budget appropriation omnibus garbage has to stop.
And so what's the point?
But by the way, don't don't conflate Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell.
They're not the same people.
Now I agree.
But but what I would say if if you would check about every month, have somebody on your staff touching the base with your contacts and saying, How are the independent separate appropriation bills coming?
I see now why we need the raise because Todd has now given us a new list of uh of things to do every month.
Todd from you to hire me.
I'll come out and do it for you.
Or I'll do it from here if you'll watch it.
You're hired.
You call McCarthy's office every month.
You can be like Curtis Sleewa in New York has just been hired by Eric Adams to get rid of the rats in his house.
It's a hilarious story that's unfolding in New York City.
All right, my friend, I got a rolling.
Uh appreciate it.
Quick break, we'll come right back.
We'll get right back to the phones.
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We'll have the very latest on the battle for speaker, and we're doing a Hannity audience show tonight.
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That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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Joe is in California.
Hey Joe, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you, Sean.
Uh thank you for the great work that you're doing.
I believe that what we have now with the gang of seven that's left is a tyranny by the minority.
A minority tyranny that has gotten all the concessions, has gotten everything in position, and yet they keep uh not electing McCarthy.
Uh Gates nominated Jim Jordan and then Jim Jordan votes consistently for McCarthy.
I believe if if that's the way that Gates feels, then it's time for him to either resign his position or the voters in Florida to recall him.
This is the time to get to work, get things done, fulfill our agenda, do the investigations.
Our country, I have never seen our country in such sad shape as we are in now, economically, morally, fiscally, Any way you want to put it.
This is the lowest point I've ever seen America.
And I think it is time for us to elect a speaker and get Congress to work.
And I agree with you, Sean.
If McCarthy turns tail, then it's time to get him the heck out of there and beating them out faster.
I listen, the commitments are real.
The investigations are real.
If it turns out that he betrays the the people in this country and goes against what he promised, he'll pay the price.
He'll lose his job.
It's really that simple.
And that's why I'm not as all wigged out about this as everybody.
It's if I I don't see him deviating because he's locked in.
And on the commitments, that was his idea.
It's not like he said, Oh, you guys want to come up with this idea.
He did that on his own.
And he did it with the help of some people, but those are the things that he laid out that he's gonna advance as speaker.
It'll be more meaningful in two years.
Hopefully we have the Senate and the presidency.
But you know, we got a lot of work to do in the meantime, and I'm all about wanting to get to that point.
Uh anyway, I do appreciate your call.
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So Joe Biden announcing the big trip to El Paso.
Oh, finally, Joe.
Hasn't been there his entire career, but he knows everything about the border.
They have repeatedly said and lied to us, the border is secure.
Um, do you believe that right now there's a crisis at the border?
I think that the uh uh the answer is no.
Uh I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing.
So how can you say that's not a crisis?
Well, uh, I think what uh Ambassador Jacobson and Secretary uh Miorkis were conveying, and what I've conveyed is it it doesn't matter what you call it.
It is an enormous challenge.
We don't feel the need to uh you know play games with what it's called.
We turn now to the growing humanitarian crisis on the southern border.
A new wave of migrants is flooding across the Texas border.
Border officials in El Paso, Texas are asking for more federal money after more than twenty four hundred migrants crossed the southern border there over the weekend.
The border patrol in El Paso now reporting an average of more than twenty four hundred illegal border crossings every day.
The surge of migrants, mainly from Central and South America, overwhelming border officials.
Migrant facilities at capacity here, forcing border patrol to transfer migrants to other parts of the border.
A senior homeland security official calling the situation quote an absolute mess.
I've been reporting in this exact spot to see that Juarez for years now on migration.
I have never seen anything quite like this.
I I've heard you and the judiciary commission committee recently in the summer testify that the border is secure.
Secretary Myorkus, do you continue to maintain that the border is secure?
Yes, and we are working day in and day out to enhance its security, Congressman.
Well, we did a little research as we always do on this program, and what did we find?
Uh so far, under Joe Biden, four point three million illegal immigrants Have entered this country.
Four point, that is by far a record.
Uh this year alone beat last year's record.
Over two million people this year.
It's crazy.
Uh and then we did a little bit more.
Even the Department of Homeland Security, even they themselves recognize at least 500,000 known getaways since Joe Biden became president.
And by the way, uh approximately, I'm sorry, approximately 900,000 getaways uh since fiscal year 21, uh bigger than the population of San Francisco.
So it's really, you know, five point three million people when you talk about the gotta ways.
Then we have other interesting things.
You know, if we support immigration, I support immigration.
I'm not anti-immigration.
I'm the product of immigration.
My grandparents came from Ireland at the at the turn of the last century.
And they came here with no money, and they had very hard lives, and they were poor uh their entire life.
And my parents grew up poor.
And the hope was that the dream of America that every generation would have a better opportunity and a better shot uh at the American dream.
Uh and then you look at some of the other issues involved in all of this, uh, and you find out that according to Border Patrol, you have five hundred and just this year alone, five hundred and forty-seven thousand and forty-eight pounds of illegal drugs, fentanyl, heroin, meth, cocaine, human trafficking on top of that.
I mean, the number just fentanyl alone, twenty-six thousand six hundred and thirty-seven pounds of fentanyl.
Enough to kill every single solitary American.
I mean, it's it's unconscionable.
You know, cocaine, heroin, meth, four hundred and seventy-four thousand four hundred and eighty-five pounds under Biden.
And by the way, that does not include all the drugs that got into the country that are killing our children every single day.
And yet they tell us the border's secure, and now Joe Biden's saying he's gonna what?
Oh, we're gonna reduce it to 30,000 illegal immigrants a day.
So you're still aiding and abetting the law breaking, and then you provide preferential treatment because there's no background check.
We know a hundred people in the last year were on the terrorist watch list, they got through and got caught.
We don't know how many people got through and didn't get caught that were on the terrorist watch list.
We have no idea.
They're not doing background checks, no health checks in the middle of a pandemic.
You know, with you have thirty plus trillion dollars in debt.
It's not like we can afford not to have a means test if people are allowed into the country legally, they got to show that they're gonna be able to take care of themselves.
I don't think there's anything uh strident about that position in any way.
Uh but anyway, here's uh your president Joey Biden talking about it.
Today I'd like to the vice president I'd like to talk to you about uh how the my administration is dealing with our situation in the Southwest border.
Now uh these actions alone that I'm gonna announce today aren't gonna fix our entire immigration system, but they can help us a good deal in better managing what is a difficult challenge.
Look, we need me we need more resources to secure the border.
Yet again, extreme Republicans have said no.
Many Republicans agree we should do something.
But it's time to stop listening to their inflammatory talk.
But if the most extreme Republicans continue to demagogue this issue and reject solutions, I'm left with only one choice to act on my own, do as much as I can on my own to try to change the atmosphere.
Yeah.
Okay.
By the way, I don't know what's going on with our voice.
Uh it sounds he's got something going on in there.
Who knows?
Uh it sounds to me like he might be on predict.
And I'm just guessing.
I by the way, I wish the president good health.
I mean, I wish he knew that today was Friday.
I don't think he does.
If he does, he's probably gonna forget it in about five minutes, but whatever.
Uh all right, let's get to our uh busy phones.
Chad is in Texas.
Chad, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, happy Friday to you, and also uh happy new year to you and all of your uh wonderful staff.
I wish you guys great uh success and uh radio and also television.
So happy new year to you and Linda and uh everybody, even Katie.
She's awesome.
So why is everybody in this why is everybody flirting With Linda and Katie these days.
Why are you sucking up to Katie who by the way they're both engaged?
First of all, Chad sounds like a good Christian man who's just wishing some good happy new year love.
No, you just love to get sucked up on.
Absolutely.
I'm alive.
I'm human.
Hello.
Katie, you know, is your boyfriend fiance loving all this attention you're getting?
Oh, yeah, he's all on board.
Oh boy.
Figures.
Well, Sean, because Linda is the twin sister to Marissa told me, Miss Monolita Vito, and I'm a big fan of that.
Yeah, do you mean my new year?
Happy New Year.
What are the one of the greatest movies of all time?
My cousin Vinny.
I love that movie.
Yeah, quickly on that.
If I'm doing stuff around the house, I got on TNT or TPS, that movie comes on, I'm done, I'm ruined.
I will not move from whatever scene it is in the movie.
The real reason I called him really lucky to get through the busy phone lines.
You touched on it earlier this week, even on uh Tuesday, or was it Wednesday when you had your friend Stephen A. Smith coming on talking about DeMar Hamlin really quickly?
His progress has been phenomenal.
He's already talking with his teammates.
He opened his eyes yesterday, or was it late Wednesday?
But the reason why I'm calling about it, uh I've talked with sports with you before, before Super Bowl, Monday we got the national championship.
I live in Fort Worth, TCU's in it.
But Sean, the reason why I hate to tell you this there's no way TCU is gonna beat Georgia.
You know what?
I I'm an Aggie.
That is not true.
I'm sorry, I saw that game.
That game was incredible.
That was against Michigan, that was ridiculous.
They spanked them.
Okay, are you uh you don't even know across the plane means, huh?
Why am I listening to you on football?
Listen, that game was incredible, and and they had some incredible defense.
What happens if somebody gets a safety?
They're gonna do the best they can.
What is it?
What is the safety mean?
Keep people safe on the field.
No, good try.
So I'm not listening to you on football.
All right, go ahead, Jazz.
Anyhow, I'm your I'm like your friend Rick Perry, I'm an Aggie stuck here in Fort Worth.
I hope they win.
I'm I got 39 to 23, Georgia.
But back to the reason why Well, I'm just mad that they beat Blue.
I'm mad that they beat Michigan.
So I have a personal uh vendetta in this game as well.
Right.
The reason I brought up sports with uh that because I've talked with you sports before in the years past, and this very unfortunate situation took the country and also the world by storm because everybody across the world can watch Monday Night Football.
But the severity of the situation, how he collapsed on the field, and basically his heart stopped.
And thankfully, that expert medical uh uh uh the both the Bills and Cincinnati on the field were quick to revive him.
The statistics of surviving that.
Uh Camito Cortis, uh what obviously it got to be a cardiac arrest, what have you, but I cannot imagine being a player, even if you're a fan and saw that there's gonna be some type of psychic, especially the T. Higgins of the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver.
And uh I mean I Sean, I've uh let's see, I don't know sports and talk about it.
I do sports commentary, but also in this situation here, who's 24 years old.
Then now he does not the big name of like you know, Tom Brady or Prescott or Patrick Mahomes, that's your relative, but unfortunately, the the America as that watches football NFL and the world knows this name now.
They won't ever forget it.
And thank the good Lord for the best medical care that could happen, and I'm thank goodness that you see University and Cincinnati Medical Center is a great facility.
And but to see an an ambulance, me and Chris.
It's heartbreaking.
It is heartbreaking.
And um, but it was but it was also it, you know, thank God he's healthy.
And maybe I'm asking for too much here.
But now that he they took out the his breathing tube, he's off the ventilator and he's communicating and he had no uh apparent cognitive impact in all of this because they they work so quickly on him.
Um I look at every single person on that field and all the fans in Cincinnati and all the people around the country that have donated to his charity, and what a great story he wakes up, did we win?
That was his first question, which is amazing.
I maybe I'm asking too much, but I'm I'm kind of hoping and praying that Hamlin gets back on the football field one day.
If if that's his desire, it has to obviously come from him.
And meaning that he's healthy enough that if he chooses that he could do it.
I hope that's the case.
If he walks out of the hospital, everybody is gonna love it if he gets to play again.
Uh that'll be great if not, no worry.
Two last thing, Sean's.
I know we gotta wrap it up here.
Hopefully the NFL can somehow, some way, if the Bills don't uh get to the Super Bowl, but let's say they don't.
Hopefully they can get him to Glendale, Arizona, where it's gonna be played, and either by air or by travel to get him there, especially if he's physically able to do so.
Last thing this has only ever happened twice, and that I can recall American sports, 1971, Chuck Hughes.
He died.
He collapsed and died on the field with 60 seconds left in the game.
And most recently, and uh uh formerly Dallas Stars player, Rich Peverley, March 10th, 2014.
He collapsed on the bench and in the first period and a cardiac uh cardiac event as well.
They revived him so things like this can't happen, and doesn't ever uh you hardly ever see it, and there's much, much more physical violent hands on football and also hockey.
This was the wrong place the wrong time, and it just went of those one in a million.
I think a lot of people share your opinion, my friend.
God bless you.
I appreciate the call.
I hope you have a great weekend.
In all seriousness, good luck to your team on uh Monday night.
You deserve to be there.
You beat a uh undefeated uh Michigan Wolverines, and I'm pretty pissed off about it, but I can live uh it's just not gonna ruin my life, I promise.
All right, uh let's go to Doug in North Carolina.
Doug, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Uh and thank you for taking my call.
You want to ask Linda a football question?
Go ahead.
Yeah, how about them dogs?
How about 'em?
Do you know what he's talking about?
Do you have any Bulldogs?
The Bulldogs, the Bulldogs.
That's the team.
That's how they say in Georgia, too.
Bulldog how you bulldogs.
Doug, am I right?
That's the team, right?
It is.
Georgia Bulldogs.
There you go.
You're welcome.
What university is it?
University of Georgia.
Getting lucky.
I'm just saying, two for two.
What's the safety, Linda?
Keeping people safe.
Stick him with my original list.
What does it mean to cross the plane?
I truly don't know.
I wouldn't lie to you, I wouldn't.
You don't know.
I'll I'll let Doug have his call.
I don't want to take up his time.
How many uh how many points do you get for a touchdown?
You get six.
Wow, we've made progress.
And you got that inversion thing where you get those weird threes.
That's fun.
The inversion thing, the weird threes.
What inversion thing?
He just looked at me and said, Katie, what's that?
What a what inversion thing?
What does that mean?
No, you know how like sometimes like you get those weird points, and it's like, oh, they're up by three with the field goal.
What is a field goal?
She doesn't know what she's talking about.
Doug, go ahead.
What's on your mind?
Well, I appreciate the call.
I you've answered my question.
I know you started in the South.
I'm glad to hear you're a Bulldog fan.
Oh, listen, I uh I I think it's Georgia's year, but I gotta tell you, TCU did a number on and had a really good game against Michigan, and I gotta tip my hat to them.
Um I'm a little partial to Michigan because I know people that go there, but uh short of that, I can accept the loss like everybody else.
You gotta learn in life.
You win, you lose, you don't always win.
And uh but I think it's Georgia's year for sure.
I'd like to come back in for a second thought.
Why because Katie just told me the answer I watched I saw you talking about.
I used I asked her, I'm like, please there is such a thing as a field goal.
And she said, yeah.
And Jason said, yeah.
They said, but nobody's ever used the word inversion.
I said, you know, the thing where you get like the two or three points, and then she was like, two-point conversion.
And I said, Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
The inversion, you mean the conversion.
The inversion means.
I had a Biden moment, and I apologize to America.
Unbelievable.
Uh uh, we gotta take a quick break.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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