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After Purging Gays, Should Pentagon Pay to Make it Right?
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It was reported earlier this week that service members could receive up to 30%, a 30% raise in their pay, monthly compensation.
But because of fighting and childish games in the Senate and the House and the White House and the Pentagon and God knows where else in Washington, D.C., our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines may not get said raise.
Today we're going to have a discussion about some of the factors that I came up with that they claim are reasons to veto this bill or to stop even pushing for it.
I don't quite understand this, but maybe it'll be clear after we have a discussion, after I talk it out a little bit.
So anyway, stick with us.
Don't go away.
We start now.
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So, as I was saying in the, excuse me, as I was saying in the intro, our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen, and our Marines, Stand to benefit from a 30% pay increase this coming year.
Now, mind you, October 1st is the start of fiscal year 2024 for the federal government.
So it's not too far away that these soldiers could be reaping the benefits of a 30% increase in pay.
But, however...
The President has said that he will veto this bill for some...
I can't say the words I want to say.
You know how when you get in these situations and you have everything that you want to say is right on the tip of your tongue.
And right as you start to form your lips to say it, you gotta stop yourself.
This is a family program, or at least it's supposed to be.
Sometimes, I don't know if we fulfill that goal, but it is supposed to be.
And so, part of my thinking about this topic for today's show is not only to talk about the atrocious...
Activities or lack thereof going on on Capitol Hill and in the Pentagon in D.C. But also to show you what is being put out there.
What is the media putting out for you to see as it relates to whatever topic.
This topic just so happens to be What our soldiers are getting paid.
Now keep in mind that these are the men and women that voluntarily walked into a recruiting station, signed up to join, went and learned the skill, whatever job it is that they chose, and are doing it at a high level, hopefully a very high level, to defend our freedom.
Our constitution, our republic, our borders, our homeland, our democracy, whatever you want to call it.
But they're there for a reason.
Now, the advantages, in my opinion, of having a strong, well-rounded, elite, in many cases, military...
Is that we won't have to learn another language.
We won't have to work in sweatshops.
We can benefit from, you know, the, I guess, being a superpower like we once were.
People say we still are.
I would say maybe sometimes it's arguably we are.
I guess I don't know.
But the point is that there's a lot going on, guys.
There's a lot going on in our country.
There's a lot going on in our government.
And the things that are hand-picked for you to read, to listen to, to hear, to watch...
Sometimes I don't know that you get the whole message, right?
Right?
Because this story, for example, is about a lot more, in my opinion, than the soldiers not getting their 30% raise and the reasons why.
And so let's get into that.
There was an article on, this is from Fox News now.
Let's see, this was published on September 13th, which I believe was Wednesday of this last week.
We're going to go through this, and I've already read it a couple times.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and I feel like whoever wrote this and put this out assumes that a large amount of the people that are going to read it and take it in are stupid.
We don't see that there's something else going on here.
But anyway, let's get into it.
The White House is threatening to veto House Republican legislation that would give the military's most junior enlisted soldiers a 30% raise next year.
If the President were presented with HR 4365, which is the House bill, not the Senate bill, and the Congress, if the President were presented with HR 4365, he would veto it, said the Press Secretary, addressing this proposed legislation earlier this week.
At issue is the Pentagon Spending Bill.
Advanced by House Appropriations Committee earlier this year and scheduled to be voted on sometime in the next coming weeks.
Doesn't sound like it's gonna get voted on at all.
It just sounds like it's not even gonna, it's just gonna kind of die.
If it's something that can die, I mean, the Pentagon spending bill I'm sure has to be voted on, approved, appropriated, and paid out or whatever, so maybe it can just die.
But it doesn't seem like anybody's in too quick of a hurry to vote for this thing if the president's just going to veto it.
This bill includes language that would ensure no member of the military would make less than the equivalent of $15 per hour for a 40-hour work week.
Well, that's not bad because I'll tell you one thing.
Nobody that I know of anyway Joins the military initially for the paycheck.
Nobody's thinking to themselves, hey man, they're talking to their boys, their buddies in the lunchroom in high school before graduation, thinking and saying, hey, I think we should consider joining the Marines.
I think we'll make a lot of money.
You know, it'll be sweet.
There'll be girls, there'll be vehicles, there'll be nice houses, there'll be all kinds of cool stuff.
Let's join the military.
Nobody's having that conversation.
So, we'll make no less than the equivalent of 15 hours a week for a 40-hour work week.
Now, here's what that translates to.
According to a report from Military.com, the legislation would mean that an E-1, so a fresh person in the military, with less than four months of service, or with at least, I'm sorry, with at least four months of service.
So these are folks that have enlisted, Usually four months is your basic training and your advanced training.
So by the time you get to your first duty station, this is where you should be.
An E1 with at least four months of service would see a pay raise to $2,601 per month compared to $1,918, what they're making currently.
And E6, so this in the Army would be a Staff Sergeant, with less than two years of service, would bring in $3,210 per month compared to their current $2,980.
Now, let me ask you this now.
What do you think is appropriate compensation for a service member?
Now, keep in mind that this is pay based on a 40-hour workweek.
Anybody who's watching this, listening to this, or whatever, I would love for you to comment below and let me know how many weeks out of the year do you work 40 hours or less?
For some people, it's pretty regular.
For many, it's There's way more than 40 hours put in per week.
But the White House has pushed back on this bill, claiming, now here we go, here's why the White House, the President, and his staff, whoever's running the President, whoever has their hand up the ass of Joe Biden and working him like a puppet, Is giving these reasons as why to not pass this bill or even have a discussion about it.
Claiming that the current language in the bill includes partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences, including harming access to reproductive health care, So that would be, in my view, that's abortion, probably.
Threatening the health and safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex Americans.
Endangering marriage equality.
Hindering critical climate change initiatives and preventing the administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
So Joe Biden is going to veto a bill because people hate their wieners.
In the military and they want a safe space to go and do that.
Endangering marriage equality.
Here's the truth.
Here's my truth anyway.
I don't know if it's the truth.
There isn't many people that give a shit about who you want to marry.
There isn't many people that care about whether or not you want to go and get an abortion.
I shouldn't say that because that's not true.
There's apparently a lot of people that care whether or not you want to go get an abortion.
Probably nobody should care.
But at the end of the day, none of these, None of these things should get in the way of the business of our military.
And so if this bill is...
If they're arguing about whether or not the government should pay for...
Samantha Brown, who is in the Navy and gets pregnant and would like to have an abortion but can't do it in whatever state that she's stationed in and has to travel two states over or whatever.
If this bill is about, and the reason for not passing this is because we're not going to pay for Samantha Brown to go two states over to get an abortion.
Okay, whatever.
But put it in something else.
Why is it that when our government puts together legislation and laws and bills that can really help people, Why is it that they have to cloud it with a bunch of malarkey?
Malarkey.
I can't believe I just used the word malarkey.
But why do they have to do that?
Can't anybody see that, hey, there's a couple things in here that are really good.
So why don't we just kind of put those in their own and take all this other shit that we're going to fight about and we'll put it in the HR... What is this?
HR 46, we're going to fight about this stuff, Bill.
And then go ahead and fight about it.
But the things that could probably really do some good for Americans, especially the men and women that are defending this country...
Go ahead.
Put it in something else.
Vote on it.
If there's a good reason not to pass it or not vote on it, okay.
Well, let's have that conversation.
But to just leave it dead in the water because the bill may talk about reproductive health care and LGBTQ rights in the military and endangering marriage equality.
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Here's the thing.
Here's what really grinds my gears about this whole thing.
Personally, I don't give a shit about any of that.
I don't care if you want to have an abortion.
If you want to have an abortion, go have an abortion.
I have my own views about whether or not it's right.
Whether or not it's right in the eyes of the big guy upstairs.
Whether or not it's just right in general.
I have my views about the LGBTQ community.
I have my views about marriage equality.
I have my views about all that stuff.
But none of my views on that stuff are bigger than doing something to take care of our soldiers.
And keep in mind that we also have a huge problem getting people to join.
Now, I will say that it was also reported, I believe it was earlier this week, that the United States Army, for example, crushed its retention goal.
They overperformed in retention, which means that people that were due to get out this year reenlisted.
Now, why?
What happened, do you ask?
Well, I'll tell you.
These folks were offered huge bonuses.
I think that I had read that a chemical war like Seaburn, so, you know, people that deal in chemical warfare and, you know, like tear gas and, you know, all that nasty stuff that people use in combat.
A person who is an E6, so an Army Staff Sergeant who re-enlists as a Seaburn NCO And I want to say it was with maybe like the Ranger Regiment or something like that.
But to re-enlist for six years was offered $90,000 to re-enlist.
Now, when the Army met and then exceeded that goal not too long ago, they shut it off.
So anybody else who was planning on re-enlisting before they get out at the end of this year, they don't get any bonus.
And so...
You know, that's one of those things where you should have reenlisted earlier.
Maybe you just extend for six months and see if a bonus comes back.
You know, you live and you learn on that one.
But this stuff...
Do you think that anybody who is teeter-tottering on whether or not to join the military...
And we've talked about this before.
Anybody who's teeter-tottering...
And catches wind that our government, our president, the man that sits in the Oval Office that makes a decision about whether or not you're going to send me to war to potentially sacrifice everything for my country, you don't know if I should get a raise
interesting interesting Let's move on.
The White House has also objected to the pay bump for junior enlisted members, saying it appreciates the concern for needs of the nation's most junior enlisted members' compensation, but strongly opposes making a significant permanent change to the basic pay schedule, while the administration is already in the process of reviewing military compensation.
I think that I heard in my almost 19 years in the United States Army, I think I heard that they're reviewing our compensation schedule.
I think I heard that a lot of times.
I don't want to say I heard it 18.
I want to say that I heard it 18 times, but I don't know that.
I don't think it was 18 times.
But so what?
Then review it.
But meanwhile, Soldiers need to feed themselves.
They need to feed their families.
They got bills to pay.
They have maybe ailing family members to take care of.
They got brothers and sisters.
I mean, there are some people that join the service because it affords them an opportunity to do things for their extended family or their immediate family.
That nobody else in their family has ever been able to do.
And so maybe that's very few soldiers, but I think that when these conversations are had, everybody needs to be talked about.
And I understand that when these decisions are made, None of these decisions are going to be made based on a very small percentage of the big picture, of the big population of soldiers, unfortunately.
But it all has to be uniform to one standard for everybody.
But again, these are the things that our adversaries Our enemies, and maybe even enemies that we don't know that we have currently, they're all watching this.
And when they are flipping through our media websites, Fox News and CNN and this place and that place and this paper and that paper and news networks and God knows what else...
And they're seeing stories about our government fighting each other all the time.
And then doing our military folks dirty.
And then doing our veterans dirty.
Doing the American people dirty.
If we're not willing to improve the life of our soldiers or our veterans...
That we like to say have made the ultimate sacrifice and they've done so much for this country.
But we don't want to improve their lives.
In my opinion, to all those people out there that want to see us fall, they're watching us crumble.
To fall soon.
And they're just waiting for an opportunity to jump.
They're waiting for an opportunity to attack.
And the more of this shit that we put out, the worse it's going to be, in my opinion.
And we are not going to be ready.
And my biggest fear is that we get caught with our pants down, sitting on the john, arguing about Whether or not, you know, private Schwartz should go get an abortion or not.
Or if the military is going to give a crap about who they marry.
I don't care.
What I care about is if you can show up on time to formation...
If you can do the duties as assigned in your MOS and by the commander and the first sergeant and whoever else is in your leadership chain and that you give it a good, honest effort every day and that we have success.
Because when it matters most, that's what matters.
When everything's on the line, nobody gives a shit if you hate your wiener.
Nobody cares if you're a woman and you want to marry a frog.
Nobody cares about any of that.
We just want to know that you are going to have my back and I want you to know that I'm going to have yours.
And that we're going to do everything we can To get out of a crappy situation to get you home so that you can marry your frog, a dolphin, a man, a woman, whoever.
I don't care.
It doesn't matter to me.
I'm not marrying you.
I don't got to sleep in the same room, or well, in the same room probably.
But I don't got to sleep in the same bed with you.
I don't have to share a home with you outside of the barracks or whatever.
So I don't care.
I don't care about any of that.
I just want to make sure that you're going to do your job, just like you want to make sure I'm going to do mine.
That's it.
We've run out of time in this segment, folks.
Stick with us.
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Hey guys, welcome back from the short break.
I want to just continue on now, and I got to tell you that this is the part of the article that really kind of upset me the most.
It grinds my gears the hardest.
Because I think that, now this is just my opinion, and I could be an idiot for saying this, but I believe that If you are an individual who successfully completes your obligation, whatever obligation it was that you made to the United States military, there are things that should not be as big of a problem for you as they are others.
There are some things that you should be exempt from.
And I don't believe that soldiers are Exempt from some of these things.
And maybe it's unavoidable and maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, but that's just where my opinion lies.
But let's continue on down here.
This is the last paragraph of the article.
The White House also raised concerns about the bill creating a pay compression in some areas of the enlisted military basic pay table, removing an important incentive for enlisted members to seek increased responsibilities and earn promotions at the grade of E6 and higher, which will harm military readiness.
And so, therein lies the rub, right?
The White House thinks that if we pay the soldiers more, they're not going to be as motivated to continue to climb the ladder.
They're not going to be as motivated to seek out more responsibility, which will get them promotions, which will give them A bigger paycheck and more experience and more things to build their resume when they decide to leave the military.
And I think it's crap.
I think that's bullshit.
I'm going to tell you this.
I drive a Dodge Ram pickup truck.
Right?
A 21-gallon gas tank.
It cost me like $104 the other day to fill up my truck.
Now, if I'm a E5, if I'm a soldier, and, you know, I'm making $2,800 a month, When I'm married and I got two kids or one kid, I still gotta buy groceries.
I still gotta pay my bills and all that stuff.
I guess what I'm getting at is that the motivation for soldiers to keep climbing the ladder if they wanna make a career out of the military is not gonna go away because you give them a pay raise.
Just not.
It'll make them a little more comfortable.
But nobody's, like we said before, nobody's getting rich.
Nobody joins the military to get rich.
Life is expensive.
Everything's expensive.
I just bought dog food for my dog.
I have a 98-pound Bernadoodle.
This stuff is expensive.
Poor guy.
I saw the price of dog food and I went, man, we're going to have to cut back on Gus's daily intake.
Which you can't do, right?
I mean, you've got to feed the dog what the dog needs to eat.
And so you're left without a choice.
And so...
I don't understand this mentality that if we throw the soldiers a bone, they're going to just stop working.
I don't get that.
I don't understand that mentality.
I seem to think that if you throw the soldiers a bone, they're going to work harder for you.
They're going to train harder.
They're going to be more proficient.
They're going to be...
The consummate professionals that we want them to be when it matters the most.
But we can't just operate under this assumption that if we do A, then we're not going to get B out of these guys and gals.
They're just going to stop doing what they do.
And it all comes down to this, like we've talked about before.
If passing this bill and providing a pay raise to soldiers is not just about LGBTQ issues, marriage equality, abortion rights, and those things that we talked about maybe should go in the, hey, this is HR, we're gonna fight about this over here bill.
Why?
I mean, why is that so hard to understand?
I just don't get it.
I got to tell you, it puts me at a loss for words.
Because what I want to do is cuss.
I just want to start cussing folks out that aren't even sitting in front of me.
Because it doesn't make any sense.
And then I think that all these folks just think that we're going to just take what they have to say and go, okay, yeah, well, you know, do what you got to do.
You know, you were elected.
So somebody must want you to be doing this stuff if, you know, I mean, you were put there for a reason.
When the reality is that I think...
These people are out to save their own necks.
And there's an election season just starting.
And all these people may be thinking about whether or not they're going to be reelected.
But here we are.
Again, the soldiers are paying the price.
As if they don't pay enough already.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
What else do these men and women owe this country?
What is it?
What have they done to deserve not being thrown a boned?
To make life off-duty a little easier?
If we made it a little easier to go home and be comfortable for 12 hours a day or 10 hours a day or whatever it is, that might just be a motivating factor for these folks to work harder, to climb that ladder, not stop working.
I just don't see it.
But, but we can certainly, facetiously, of course, I'm going to say this, but we can certainly spend billions and billions of dollars on the war in Ukraine that we have no business being a part of.
There was talk that there's not enough money to fund this pay raise.
Well, We have money to fund weapons for the Ukraine.
We have money to fund humanitarian aid for the Ukraine.
We have money to send soldiers to somewhere over by the Ukraine to be ready in case they're needed or to train other soldiers that may not be as proficient As we are at their jobs.
There's money to do all of that.
But there's no money for the troops.
There's no money for the veterans.
And it's not just money to put in their pockets.
It's just money to pay their bills.
To send their kids to a great school.
Because I'll tell you one thing.
My wife and I are, at the end, my kids are grown or pretty dang close to it.
If we had small kids, we already discussed it, they would not be going to a public school.
Not today.
Not unless some major changes are made to the education system in this country.
So if we can fund all that other stuff, we got money to keep up whatever operation is happening on our southern border to allow people we got money to keep up whatever operation is happening on our southern border
Whenever you see pictures or videos, there's government officials, whether it be Border Patrol agents or police or people in suits or whatever.
You see them down there ushering folks across the border, helping them step over the water.
Whatever they were assigned to do, they're doing it.
There's money for all that.
There's money to build places for them to lay their heads.
There's money to give them health care and provide them medical aid.
And so maybe the answer is...
Maybe the answer is, well, but all this money's budgeted, right?
So the money they're spending on that was already set aside.
And so the money for this thing that we're talking about here is just, it's just not there.
We can't just take it out of nowhere and put it in there.
Well, that's bullshit too.
Reappropriate it.
Why don't we tell the Ukraine, you're not getting another dime.
Fight the war?
Or concede?
But why do the American people have to fund it?
Why do the Americans have to fund this crap and then watch soldiers go without?
Or watch veterans go without?
Or watch our elderly folks go without?
Or watch our kids go without?
Why are Americans compromising Why are Americans compromising on their needs and their comfort and their health and whatever else?
Why are Americans compromising those things?
For the needs of people who wanna funnel into this country illegally.
And I'm gonna tell you what.
I'm gonna tell you what the answer is.
Or at least the answer you would get from somebody.
I bet.
Well, you know, the people at the southern border, they don't have anywhere else to go.
Bullshit.
We're just one country.
The world's a big place.
And if you didn't come from Mexico, you had to get through Mexico to get here.
Did you stop and claim asylum there?
Doesn't the law state that you have to stop at every country's port of entry before you get to ours and claim asylum and be denied?
Where's proof of all that for all these thousands of people?
There's not any.
And I hate to be the guy that's the conspiracy theorist.
I hate to be the guy that's the conspiracy theorist.
But at the end of the day, I don't know that this is a conspiracy theory.
I think it's all right there in front of our faces.
And so when we talk about things like a pay raise for the military being shut down for all this bullshit initiatives, I can't help but bring up these things.
And I hate to be, I don't hate to be, but I try hard not to be super political on my show.
Because I believe, again, that veterans and military issues should be virtually nonpartisan.
It shouldn't be something that crosses any part of the line to one side or the other.
It just shouldn't.
It just shouldn't.
But this stuff here is not about...
If you ask me, it's not about marriage equality.
It's not about climate change initiatives.
What did they say?
Climate change initiatives in here?
I mean, folks, we're going to need to start wearing waders every day.
Climate change initiatives, critical, critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
It's all malarkey, again.
The United States military is probably one of the most diverse organizations in That the government has.
I don't know that there is a more diverse department or organization or whatever you want to call it than the United States military.
I once read somewhere that the United States Army, and that might be true across all branches, recognizes like 84 or 82 different religions.
Well, they wouldn't say that.
They wouldn't recognize 82 of them if somebody wasn't practicing it.
So how do you get more diverse than that?
Can you even name 82 religions?
I certainly can't.
I don't know that I can name 15.
But I think that this is all just smoke and mirrors, right?
This is what they want you to see.
And even...
And it doesn't matter.
The network, even Fox News.
Of course, they're here trying to make the president look like the bad guy and the Democrats and this and that and the other thing, right?
Because it's Fox News.
But the truth is that they're all...
All of them are shady.
So I don't know that it matters if it's just...
One side or the other.
We need to do better.
The people that are put into office need to do better.
And I would say that we need to do better when we go to the polls.
But as we know, the jury's still out on whether or not any of that is legit.
The jury is still out on whether or not our votes even matter, in my opinion.
I don't want to get down to the stolen election stuff.
But, I don't know.
I don't know if it's as innocent as they make it out to be.
But we just need to do better.
Thank you.
I don't know where we got off the rails when it comes to taking care of our military members.
And maybe some of you would argue that we were never on the rails because military members have been getting screwed over for centuries.
Maybe that's true.
But I can say that in my time in the military when we got screwed over there was never any crap like this that was so blatant that it was just it was clear as day.
Nothing like this.
This is just blatant This is childish stuff.
And I would like to think that we're better than that.
I'd like to think that we're better as a country than that.
Because when it all comes down to it at the end of the day, I don't know if these are the initiatives that are going to keep us safe, that are going to hold up.
As we discussed last week on the show, nobody wants to have the discussion about what's real and what's ugly.
We only want to talk about what's real if it's pretty or if it's sexy or if it's fun.
Nobody wants to talk about the truth, the things that are ugly, that their truth is ugly.
And the truth of the matter is that the game that the military plays when it comes to actually putting forth a defense of our country can turn really ugly really fast.
They do a lot of great things.
Humanitarian aid.
Disaster relief.
There's all kinds of great things that our military does.
Research, medical stuff, care, provide care.
All kinds of that stuff.
But when it really matters, where it really counts on the battlefield, it's ugly.
It's sad.
It's scary.
And most people want nothing to do with it.
So when we have recruiting crisis like we do, when we have division amongst our communities like we do, When we have what seemingly is impending conflict slash war with other countries in this world and us?
When we have seemingly an invasion at our southern border?
And I say invasion because when I see pictures or when I see videos or I see news coverage...
I mean, you see some women and children, but you see a lot of military-aged males.
I mean, look, we just had an illegal guy murder some people.
He got arrested, he escaped, and now he got arrested again.
Shouldn't have even been here.
But when we don't want to have those discussions and we want, when the news wants to put out these things that push us away from what actually really matters, right?
Just to come full circle.
This whole article is about, what's the title of it?
Biden White House pushes back against GOP bill, including military pay raise, saying he would veto it.
What this is all really about is not the pay raise.
It's not about taking care of our service members.
This whole argument is about right here.
It's all in this one paragraph.
This whole article is about The devastating consequences that this legislation may have on harming access to reproductive health, threatening the health and safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex couples, endangering marriage equality, hindering critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
That's what all this is about.
This is not about pay raises.
This is not about...
The new fiscal year and whether or not the House Republicans and the Democrats can get along.
Because they don't care to get along.
They don't care about any of that shit.
What they care about are these things.
And when somebody stands up to it and says, nope, we're not going to do this, the president says, well, okay, then we'll just stop all of it.
If we're not going to talk about this, we're not going to talk about any of it.
Well, included in all these things is things like pay raises for our soldiers.
But nobody has ever taken the time to say, hey, these things are, maybe they're important.
Maybe they need to be discussed.
Maybe they need to be hashed out.
But things like pay raises or childcare or school stuff for, you know, school...
What is the word I'm looking for?
Just having anything to do with your kid's education, those types of things, why can't that be taken out, put somewhere else and have that discussion first?
Because to me, and I think that a lot of Americans would agree that those types of things are a whole lot more important than marriage equality and critical climate change initiatives and, yeah, abortions and all this other crap.
Let me ask you this.
Does anybody even really care anymore if a dude wants to marry a dude or a girl wants to marry a girl or two dudes want to marry three dudes?
I don't think anybody really cares anymore.
So why are we even making laws about it?
Why don't we just tell everybody, marry who you want.
You want to marry an aardvark?
Go do it.
Whatever.
Do what you got to do.
But leave me out of it.
Go do your thing.
There's more than enough space in this world for you to have all your aardvark babies.
I mean, I just, I don't understand it.
Anyway, folks, that's about all the time we got today.
I don't even feel like I got everything out I wanted to say.
Man, the time flies.
Take care of yourselves.
Take care of each other.
Thank you again for joining us.
I really appreciate it.
We will see you again next week.
Have a great evening.
And hey, by the way, if you're up here in the Midwest, we got about four or five weeks till we get snow.
Snow is coming.
How about that?
Anyway, have a good night.
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