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Confused Joe - February 27th, Hour 3
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All right, news roundup information overload hour 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, we've been talking a lot today about how we're now discovering the massive failure that is your federal government in instance after instance after instance.
And I discussed this earlier.
You know, remember, we were promised if you if you go along with Obamacare, you're going to keep your doctor, you'll keep your plan, and the average American family is going to save $2,500 per year.
Average family.
Now we have tens of millions of Americans lost their doctors.
We have tens of millions of Americans that lost their plans, and there's a fully over 40% of the country that has one health care plan option, Obamacare plan option available to them.
And the average price increase has been about 250%.
But yet people believe the lie.
You know, we were told, remember, if you wear a mask, the odds are much are far greater that you're not going to get covid.
You're protecting yourself if you wear a mask.
And now we find out that none of that turned out to be true on.
As a matter of fact, face masks during COVID that were worn made little to no difference in preventing the spread of COVID, according to this study that I referred to earlier.
Now we're finding that the Biden Energy Department, in fact, we were right.
They were all wrong.
Uh, that the Wuhan lab leak has now been confirmed.
What Donald Trump suspected at the time, what we suspected at the time was true.
And Anthony Fauci, we saw this very early when we saw the January 2020 emails between Fauci and high-ranking, you know, people within the NIH, and we saw that you know they were frantically concerned uh that maybe NIH money went to the Wuhan Virology Lab.
It turns out it did go to that lab.
And they knew the gain of function research took place at that lab, and they knew coronavirus research took place at that lab, but instead, and and we played the montage earlier.
Where do you where do you see the one we have tonight?
We got a great TV show tonight.
We've got uh Judge Janine Piro, we got Ted Cruz, we got the great one Mark Levin.
Um, but we'll show you this tonight.
I mean, it's it's just honestly that powerful.
Um now, Joe Biden went out this weekend and he's answering questions about East Palestine.
Now that they're trying to say about East Palestine that it's safe.
And and they even had some public officials drinking the water to show, hey, where we're even drinking the water.
Uh, which does not instill confidence in me.
Because you know what?
Until there is some outside group that does the type of testing that would be necessary to clarify whether the water is safe to drink, the air is safe to breathe, whether it's a community safe to live in.
I'm not gonna trust what Joe Biden who won't even get his ass on an airplane and fly to East Palestine and and have a look see at the situation himself.
You know, Pothole Pete's appearance really did nothing to inspire me.
Uh but anyway, you have Joe Biden now defending the handling of East Palestine, and instead he goes after the railroad company.
Now, this is after they've been going after Donald Trump, but as I pointed out earlier in the program, that's not working either because even the Washington Post said there's not one single regulation, not one that Donald Trump implemented as president that impacted what happened in East Palestine.
But anyway, now he's now he's deciding to blame the railroad company.
It's been three weeks now since the toxic train derailment uh in East Palestine, Ohio, as you know.
The mayor says he saw you in Ukraine, and he says it tells you he doesn't care about us.
They're asking, is the president coming to Ohio?
Do you have any plan to travel to Ohio and and have you talked with the mayor yet?
Let's put this in perspective.
Within two hours of that derailment, the EPA was in there within two hours.
Every major agency in the United States government that had anything to do with rail and or cleanup was there and is there.
In addition to that, I've spoken at length to the Congress persons, the governors, the senators from both states of Pennsylvania and in uh Ohio.
And I've made it clear to them anything they need is available we'll make it available to them.
Whatever happens, and we gotta understand this the responsibility of the railroad company, who's made, by the way, tens of billions of dollars in profits.
Tens of billions of dollars of profits lately.
Okay, big rail does not make a lot of money.
As a matter of fact, every time Joe got on uh Amtrak, uh we, the American taxpayer, help pay for his trip.
But that's that's a side note.
Uh and then Joe Biden, it gets even worse.
Uh, because he won't answer if he's ever gonna travel to East Palestine.
Why wouldn't he travel there?
You would think that, you know, with such an economic disaster and Democrats claiming a monopoly on on the love of all things environmental that this would be a top priority for him, but no, no committal at all.
Listen.
So do you plan to travel there and have you talked with the mayor?
I I I can't recall whether I don't think I've talked to the mayor.
I talked to everyone else there, and I'm multiple times.
Talked to both the senators, both uh both governors, and I've talked to uh uh everyone there is to talk to, and we made it clear that everything is available.
Oh, you didn't have time to talk to the mayor?
I talked to the mayor, the mayor was on my TV show.
Anyway, eight hundred nine four one Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program, Joe Concha is with us, uh, author of the bestseller Come On Man, Fox News contributor and the best uh media guy out there, uh who I think deserves his own show on Fox.
Uh I think you'd have a great Sunday media show.
I'd love for you to get that soon.
Uh how are you, sir?
Doing great, Sean.
You know, I can always fill in for you sometime at nine o'clock, and I'll have my people call your people.
What do you think?
Haven't we let you fill in on radio before?
Didn't I make that mistake at some point?
Uh uh dozens of times, yes.
So you have active test on it.
Can I can I tell you a truth?
I have never ever heard my radio show when I'm not on.
And people ask me, Well, how'd you think I do?
I did, and I'm like, I don't know.
My staff said you did great.
Um, but I never know because it's not a vacation day.
If I'm listening to my own radio show, I might as well be doing my own radio show.
So I don't listen when I'm not there and I don't watch when I'm not there either.
I don't either.
Uh when I when I have a WR show is the last thing I wanted to do.
I know, right?
Did you hear blah blah filled in for you?
You did great.
I go, I'm sure I did.
Congratulations.
I mean, I at some point you just have to have a little bit of mental rest in my mind so I can do a good show.
Um look, I don't like the answers.
Um I'm laying a foundation and a predicate here.
And that is that the government got everything involving COVID wrong.
If you got the vaccine, you're not gonna get COVID.
That turned out to be a lie.
You know, Anthony Fauci, masks don't work, masks really work well.
Maybe you should do double masks.
We may be wearing masks in perpetuity.
Maybe we can do without the masks after all.
It turns out we now have a study confirming the mass did next to nothing.
And now we discover that the you know Wuhan lab leak has been confirmed by the Biden Energy Department, and it always made sense that that's what it happened, but they lied to us the whole time.
So why said should anyone in East Palestine listen to any government bureaucrat?
Because I don't think they should.
And that's why when the EPA comes in, Sean, and they say, no, it's all perfectly safe, and they're like, no, I have nausea, I have headaches, I have respiratory issues, I talk to my neighbors, it's the same thing.
And and I think you're exactly right that the government failed us during COVID time and again, lied to us time and again.
So when they say something now, it used to have some credibility, it doesn't anymore.
And look, on masks, I can guarantee you, you're still going to see that person driving alone in their car with a mask on.
It's almost like a badge of honor.
It's virtue signaling, it has nothing to do with health.
And my wife's the doctor, you met her, and she would say, it's so ridiculous as far as the way people wear masks, always below the nose or their cotton masks.
She wore N95s for three years when she saw COVID patients, and i we see it, it sticks to your face, it actually puts a dent in your face.
That's the only thing that's really going to prevent any sort of viruses from entering your respiratory system.
Otherwise, that this was all symbolism, it was all BS.
And and and I got some quotes here, Sean.
You you gotta hear this.
These are great.
Uh Joy Reed called the lab leak theory debunked bunked them.
Uh Nicole Wallace, formerly the Bush administration, said it was one of Trump's favorite conspiracy theories, unquote.
New York Times headline, Senator Tom Cotton repeats fringe theory on coronavirus origins.
Now, how could it be fringe?
I did you ever see uh John Stewart uh his his whole um explanation around why he thought it came from a lab?
John Stewart, slightly liberal.
No, I I actually have it, and it uh look, I I think John Stewart is a hardcore leftist, but there's two things that he's done that I like a lot.
One of you stood up for the people that have sustained injuries um as a result of their recovery efforts at ground zero, and the second one is exactly what you're talking about.
He goes on with his buddy Stephen Colbert that very few people watch, and uh he talked about the Wuhan Virology lab, and he like he was like, Are you really that stupid?
They do they do coronavirus research, they do gain of function research, it is the Wuhan Virology lab.
Of course that's where it came from.
Listen.
The disease is the same name as the lab.
That's just that's just a little too weird.
Don't you think?
And then I asked some scientists, they're like, How did this so wait a minute?
You work at the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab.
How did this happen?
And they're like, a pangolin kiss the turtle.
There's been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania.
What do you think happened?
Like, oh, I don't know.
Maybe uh steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean.
Or it's the Chocolate Factory.
Maybe that's it.
You gotta tip your hat to him.
I mean, he was one of the few people to say this is transparent and obvious, open your eyes.
And one of the best analogies ever with the chocolate factory.
That was pretty funny.
Yeah.
And he's he's no fan of mine, but when he's funny, he's funny.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you know, at least he doesn't kowtow to what he thought that Stephen Colbert's audience wants to hear.
You know what Colbert said after that, too, instead of saying, like, oh, that's a good point, that's funny.
It says, Oh, have you been hanging out with Senator Ron Johnson too long?
In other words, you know, of course Colbert isn't gonna accept that in this situation.
But that's the thing now.
Uh when you just look back in the coverage and in the Washington Post calling it a a crazy conspiracy theory pushed by Senator Tom Cotton and Donald Trump, and now we see that, well, logically, that's exactly where it came from.
The question is, what is Joe Biden going to do about it?
And what is Dr. Anthony Fauci going to say now, who has insisted that this came from a wet market when almost no one thinks that now.
I'd love to hear his thoughts on this.
Yeah, I mean, they were telling us now these wet markets, apparently they sell like bats and exotic animals, and people I for whatever reason, I guess it's a delicacy to them.
The idea of ever eating a bat is repulsive to me.
But, you know, maybe people around the world think the fact that we eat cows and chickens and and pigs is not a particularly healthy thing to do either.
I don't know, But um and I would assume that some of these animals can have some diseases associated with them.
I wouldn't doubt that part either, but that's not the point.
And we knew from emails, look, we now have four sets of emails.
We have the Fauci emails in early January of 2020 with other NIH officials, and they're frantically panicked that in fact they may have paid or contributed financially through the Eco Health Alliance to the money at the Wuhan Virology Lab.
Then we had the Intercept, what, 900 plus pages.
Then we had Project Veritas got a hold of some papers.
Then we got the NIH emails where they pretty much themselves admitted it.
But it never really stuck or went public the way that I think it should have.
We covered it at the time.
Many others did not.
And what happens when these things don't go public?
We don't learn from what happens.
Maybe we shouldn't be doing gain of function research that if we have no way to control it, and these viruses get out that are still impacting people to this day.
And the thing was, on social media, if you tried to talk about a lab leak theory, uh, and as far as it coming from the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab, uh, the accounts would get censored, shut down the way they do things in North Korea.
We can't even debate things anymore like adults.
It's it's the other side which always screams, oh, we're all for free speech until they disagree with it, then it's squelch, censor, suppress.
That's the way things get done now these days from the left and from social media companies, obviously that are controlled by the left.
All right, quick break more with media guru expert, Joe Concha on the other side, 800 941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ben Ferguson, and I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
We break down the news and bring you behind the scenes, inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
All right, we continue with our media guru, Joe Concha is with us.
Now you're not as shocked as I am how bad things have gotten in terms of outright lying in the media or and the coordination between the media, uh, not just the media, but the media and the FBI, how the FBI manipulated, you know, big tech in the lead up to the 2020 election, directly warning them that they may be subject to disinformation campaigns from foreign countries about subjects like uh Hunter Biden.
Uh that to me was wow.
You talk about putting your thumb on the scales of an election.
They basically put, you know, bricks on the scale for the in favor of Joe Biden.
And they'll do it again, Sean.
They'll do it again in 2024, whether it's Biden, whoever the Democratic nominee is, doesn't matter who the Republican nominee, if it's Trump or DeSantis or anybody else, uh, they will pick a side and they will go from being journalists to being activists.
And I I just keep going back to this one poll that I I just can't get get out of my mind as far as I would always hear like a Brian Stelter say, well, journalists make mistakes and they're human and they always own up to them.
Uh that's not the way the public sees it, right?
Eight out of ten independent voters take Republicans out, take Democrats out, just looking at independence, those in the middle believes that the media reports news they know is false or somewhat false sometimes.
And that's the thing.
It's not a matter of we made a mistake, oh, our source burned us.
It's intentional.
In order to push an agenda, a narrative, a candidate, it doesn't matter, and they'll do it again in 2024 because there's outside of us, there's not many people talking about this and calling them out on it.
Oh, well, well said, Joe Concha, appreciate you being with us.
Thank you, sir.
Always a pleasure.
Thanks, Sean.
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Um there's a lot of other stuff in the news I have not had time to get to yet.
Um did you read the story about Dilbert?
Um I'm not a big comic person.
Are you a big comic person, Linda?
I actually love the comics, to be honest with you.
And now, when I was a kid, I used to that would be like the first thing I'd look at.
Then I got into sports, that became the first thing I'd look at.
Now I'm into politics, and that's pretty much the only thing that I look at.
Anyway, multiple newspapers around the U.S. dropped Scott Adams long-running Dilbert comic strip after the cartoonists called Black Americans, quote, a hate group and a racist rant that he posted online, apparently, the USA Today Network,
which includes hundreds of newspapers like the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the San Antonio Express News, the Washington Post, all these publications now are stopping their publishing of Dilbert, uh, which is, you know, it's known to have poke fun at corporate uh corporations, etc.
for decades.
Uh he said on Saturday, declined to comment, said he's not going to do any interviews.
And the former financial manager turned cartoonists made the comments on Wednesday in response to a Rasmussen poll that said a small majority of black Americans agreed with the statement it's okay to be white.
And in one of his regular talks that he records and posts online, he said, among other things, that white people should stay away from black Americans.
Uh then Elon Musk got involved in this, responded on Twitter and a social media company that he owns to coverage, you know, regarding Dilbert.
Um, you know, and said the media is racist in tweets early in the morning.
Musk replied, uh, who's summarizing so on and so forth.
I'm just trying to understand why he would make that comment.
Does that make sense to you?
I think it's a very strange thing to say.
I've read it a few times.
Um I I just don't think there's any coming back from it.
I I truly don't understand what he was trying to say.
I mean, is he does he really believe this?
I mean, sometimes you don't know what people, or is he just stupid?
I I mean I don't know, man.
I think somebody who says something like that's pretty bad.
I mean, this is the whole thing, though, that I feel is coming from all sides right now, which is that this blanket sort of statements about entire groups of you know, various races and genders and ethnicities, like just stop.
Like you can't say that because a person is a certain ex, they like X, or they do X, or they will do X. It's just that's not true anymore, especially when we have so many kids from mixed marriages and mixed homes of various races and creeds and backgrounds.
Like, you know, that's just wrong.
You can't say it anymore.
It's not a thing.
It's not just that.
I mean, you know, my Christian beliefs teach me that we're all children of the same God.
And the only difference between humans and and animals is we have this ability to know right and wrong.
And then that comes as right, but I don't think we have that right now.
Because what's being taught is first of all, they took God out of everything.
So there's no more God.
Second or something about what they what whatever is taught in school or whatever people have.
But it's not even taught in schools.
I mean, it's it's on TV.
All right, but now it's like but it's a simple truth that we were created by I believe the same God.
And we were created equal.
Yeah, but that truth is no good if They've never heard it.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, we have that belief because we were fortunate to be raised in a time when it was okay to believe in God.
And we belong to Bible studies and Christian groups and churches and you know communities where we work together and we say, Oh, hey, it's okay to love one another and put aside your differences.
You know, I always say the same thing that I hate everybody equally.
And you know, if you're a jerk, I usually use a different word, but if you're a jerk, it's I hate you because you're a jerk, not because of the color of your skin or because you're a guy or you're a girl, you're a Republican or you're Democrat.
It's just because you stink.
It really comes down to content of character.
It always does.
It's just, and you know, for people to make I just can't stand ignorant racist people.
I just don't like them.
And I don't and when people make remarks like that, I it just you know, but it's from all angles right now, and that's the problem.
There's no accountability, there's a lot of accountability in some places and not enough in others, and we end up causing a lot of drama because instead of just holding people accountable across the board and remaining consistent, like, hey, if you say something like this, it's cyanar, see you later.
And it's not, there's not an even hand but the problem on the justice scale.
He hasn't apologized.
He hasn't said what I said.
Yeah, he's not wrong.
Somebody who says that is not going to apologize.
I mean, I've read his comments like six times.
I'm like, why would you say something like this?
So I guess he really does believe that.
I don't know.
It's the only thing I can conclude.
It's horrible.
I read it, I was like, come on, man.
Why?
I I just it just drives me crazy because all it does is divide the divine.
100%.
Um, you know, James Bond, Ian Fleming's books now are being rewritten with modern audiences they describe in mind.
Uh they're using sensitivity experts to remove a number of references ahead of 007's 70th anniversary in the spring, and I guess they're gonna re-release it.
All of all of the the book.
I think most people know and understand that that mores and norms uh at that are acceptable at one point are not at another point, but yeah, I guess they feel a need to do it.
Um Tennessee is on track now to become not only the first state to ban drag shows, but the latest to ban health care for trans youth.
But you know, the only the only problem I have is if this is something that and I had we had a long discussion with um Caitlin Jenner about this, and she talks about kids especially.
If this is something a child wants, what frustrates me is the thought that there are people that have access to these kids and their minds and authority and power over them, such as teachers, they feel that they have the right to tell these kids uh that it's okay to pursue this and not bring the parents involved in this.
That is not what their job is.
And and that to me is where it crosses the line.
Now, if this is an issue between a child between a child and parents, that's where that that's where that issue should remain, anyway.
But and I don't understand the drag queens in school thing for kids in you know, kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth grade.
That I just don't get it.
First of all, I'm gonna say this as plainly as I can.
There's no reason for children that are in a this is a critical learning age.
This is when they're learning how to read and how to write and how to form um conjunctive sentences and to learn reading comprehension.
I don't even know what a conjunctive sentence is, but go ahead.
It's when you're using conjunctive words like ands and because and when you're learning how to make they've weave yes, yes.
I'm joking I'm joking.
Oh, okay.
Well, you know, I'm just making sure because you know, we were talking about Venn diagrams, and I got a lesson and a half from the audience, so I just want to make sure we're all on the same page.
Let me just tell you.
Moving right along.
But you know, like when my little guy goes and he has like story time in the library, why does it have to be done by uh, you know, someone who is dressed up in provocative night attire, and I'm being very gracious and very kind and saying that the way that I did, and somebody who is doing and and in a line of work, I mean, it's the same thing as having a stripper come and do library hour, re-story hour at the library.
Like, why?
Why why is that a thing?
Listen, let me let me be very clear here.
If parents have values that differ than mine, I'm I'm perfectly fine with that.
I don't expect that the world is gonna adopt Sean Hannity values.
I I I look at the world from uh from My Christian religious perspective that I I believe that there is a God, a creator that made the heavens and earth.
I believe that God created every man, woman, and child.
Uh I believe that but however I also believe in parental rights.
And if parents want to teach their kids that transitioning at a young age is okay, that is I am perfectly fine with that.
And I'll tell you why, because it's none of my business.
I am not the parent of that child.
If they asked my opinion, I would say maybe the child is a little bit too young to have, you know, such a life-changing physical um operation as such, if they were gonna go forward with this, if they asked my opinion, otherwise I'm not gonna weigh in one way or the other because I don't think it's my business to.
I believe parents should have the right to make the decision for their kids, and that government through teachers or advisors in schools, they should focus on reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers.
First of all, they're not even doing that good at the big five.
So putting that aside for a whole three seconds and not getting annoyed and hearing how difficult it is to teach children.
No one's saying it's not difficult to teach children.
We all agree with that.
Maybe you should focus more on teaching children and not talking to them about their sexuality and drag story hour and all this other stuff.
What I what I'm trying to understand is how this even became a conversation, why this is a conversation with kids as young as five, six, and seven.
That makes absolutely no sense.
To me, it seems to and I've been doing this radio thing since 1987.
It seems to have come out of nowhere.
That's what's surprises me.
Look, I never thought I'd watch a congressional hearing and have a elected official asking a so-called expert that is testifying before Congress whether or not biological men can bear children.
Now, unless they have a uterus, my understanding of science is they cannot.
Now, if that's changed, maybe you can enlighten me and educate me.
But as far as I know, biological men cannot have children, but that is now being discussed in the halls of Congress.
And not for nothing.
If you think back to when you were a kid, when you were a teenager, the things you wanted to be, whether it was an astronaut or you were gonna fly tomorrow.
I wanted to be a bartender and make money.
Okay, so that's actually a feasible goal.
But at the end of the day, you know, there are kids, you know, I'm gonna be a rock star, I'm gonna be, you know, a baseball player, I'm gonna, you know, things that happen to like one percent of the population.
But you led kids let kids have those dreams.
You know, at no point in time when I was growing up, you know, and I had friends, you know, from every race, every background, you know, I was in music for a very long time, you know, had a lot of different types of people in my world, and nobody ever talked about transitioning out of their gender.
Not once was that ever a conversation.
I I I learned more about it from Caitlin Jenner who I was friends with Caitlin when Caitlin was Bruce.
You know that.
He at that time when he when she was Bruce, she was on this show.
But at the end of this is an adult who made a decision.
Let's go to Bobby in Nevada.
Bobby, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Sean, my brother, how's it going?
My brother, what's going on in uh beautiful Nevada?
Uh, just another beautiful day, brother.
Hey, so you know, I'm a big Trump fan.
Big, big Trump.
I love the guy.
And ever since the beginning with the impeachment, COVID, January 6th, the laptop, the FBI raid, the gas, prices, inflation, border, uh, balloon, spies, man.
What am I supposed to do as an American citizen?
I mean, do I just sit here and just take it?
Or what what do I do, man?
I I need to go out there do something.
Can I go out and control the border myself?
I mean, what do I do?
Just walk Congress myself and what I don't know what to do.
Listen, I I'll tell you what I think everybody should be focused on now, and that is right now things are so bad economically and socially, you know, in terms of raising kids, it's harder than ever.
I'm I'm I'm glad my kids are older.
Uh I would not want to be raising young kids at at this point in in my life with the with culture the way it is.
Um my advice to you is focus on yourself and your family and your finances and the things that you can control.
That's my advice.
And if you can spend less, that's great.
Save money.
If you can bring in more money, that's even better.
You know, and and try and save for your family's future.
Uh I know It's kind of cliched, but right now I think people have to focus on their own unique situation because I think things as bad as they are, everything that I read every day tells me they're gonna get worse.
And maybe that's not what you want to hear.
That's my advice to my audience is focus on ways to save money, bring in more money, and try to just ride out this tough economic time we're running, we're we're living through.
There's nothing we can do with China, Russia, Ukraine anyway, as much as we'd want to.
We need a new president for that.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
We are loaded up tonight.
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