WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.519 Attention. You're listening to the top Huff Radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:08.679 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.359 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:37.320 to the rights. Here's your Conservative but not Bitter host Todd Huff. All 5 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:42.039 right, my friends, welcome to this hour, this episode of the Tod 6 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:44.719 Huff Show. It is a pleasure to be here. I thank you for 7 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:50.159 joining us. You know, in a previous previously, a previous hour, 8 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:58.039 I had referenced something that I don't know, I just feel like is something 9 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.359 that I want to talk about here today. It's a message I got. 10 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:04.280 I don't do this often. We get a fair amount of messages and feedback 11 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:08.560 from those in the audience, but this one hit me a little bit differently, 12 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:14.599 I guess. And it came up just organically through the conversations that we've 13 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:23.040 had pertaining to just the problems that we have in this country. And I 14 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:27.560 was talking about some of the gubernatorial the governor candidates here in the state of 15 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:32.840 Indiana, and I see some of these campaigns and I think, man, 16 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:37.319 some of these things might be good to do. But we are facing a 17 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:44.439 much more I don't know, serious battle. We can't even get to some 18 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:48.239 of these things we have. We're in an all out battle for the survival 19 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.439 of this country. We really are. I mean, that's where the left's 20 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:57.159 not wrong there. The left is wrong about their faux outrage about the dangers 21 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:01.560 that Trump poses to that the real danger is the growing out of control government, 22 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:07.439 the weaponization of the Department of Justice, are wide open borders, the 23 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:14.879 inflation rate, the financial turmoil, the heavy boot that the government has placed 24 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:21.240 on the neck of the American taxpayer. That's the transagenda. All these things 25 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:27.159 are the real threat to this society, to this culture, to this constitutional 26 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:34.240 republic. And so I said, I said that I typically don't. I 27 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:38.520 never thought I would endorse a candidate during the primary, even though the primary 28 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:44.159 is unofficially over, because Trump's got enough delegates to be the Republican nominee and 29 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:47.919 Biden has enough delegates to be the Democrat nominee. As crazy as that might 30 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:52.400 sound to people, but we're going to have a rematch of Trump versus Biden 31 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:55.280 twenty twenty four, Trump versus Biden two point zero. I guess, although 32 00:02:55.319 --> 00:03:00.919 in many ways it's not going to be two point zero, and that seems 33 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:05.280 to suggest, imply that there's an improvement. There's definitely not an improvement in 34 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.280 one of those candidates, Joseph Robinette Bribery. But this is Trump v. 35 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:15.560 Biden two. Maybe not two point zero, but two. And so I'm 36 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:19.520 good with that. I'm good with the Trump part of that. I think 37 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.360 that in order to fix these problems, you have to understand the scope of 38 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:27.759 them. You have to understand what you're fighting against. And I brought up 39 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:34.159 the Indiana governors because I'm not always sure that these individuals really recognize the real 40 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:38.439 threat that's being posed to our constitutional republic. Again, some of these things 41 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:44.120 that are on their list of things to do as potential governors of our state 42 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:47.240 might be good to do, but you can't do any of it. It's 43 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:53.400 all academic. If the country is going to hell in a handbasket as it 44 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:55.520 is, you have to be willing to fight and ready to fight. I'm 45 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.319 talking not even day one, before day one. And that's what is appealing 46 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:05.719 to me about Trump is that he understands, really, especially after being there 47 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:11.759 for four years and now he's had a four year intermission to where he could 48 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:17.600 almost in a way, regroup and reorganize, restructure, and go back, 49 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.600 go back at it again. So that's what I want to talk about today. 50 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.319 And I want to read a comment that I got from a listener who 51 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.480 I did reach out to and say, well, let's talk about this. 52 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.079 I don't do that a lot, although that's something that might be coming more 53 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:35.360 here in the future, especially for those of you who want to call in. 54 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:39.879 There's going to be a way that we're going to let you do that 55 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:45.720 for some of you if you want to have conversations with me, raise questions, 56 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.279 that sort of thing. But for the time being, we're not there 57 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:51.959 just yet. Although we're knocking. 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He's my name Todd. 74 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:20.480 You'll save twenty nine to ninety five off your first order. So let 75 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:29.000 me read this. This what I want to say this message. I guess 76 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:33.720 that I got well over over the weekend. Over the weekend, this was 77 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:38.920 someone it's not it's it's not long, but it's not short, so it's 78 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.680 it's mid. I guess here it is the message. Hi, I listened. 79 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:48.639 This is by the way. Melissa is the name of the individual writing 80 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:55.560 I don't have a I don't have a city. But Melissa, I wrote 81 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.439 in Hi, I listened to your show for quite a while. Yesterday I 82 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:02.800 came on when you were speaking about how our country was founded and how it 83 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:09.319 had gone away from a monarchy or dictatorship, and we were the first ones 84 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:14.439 to do that. Yeah. So basically what I was saying was we were 85 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:19.279 living under, of course, the King of England and his heavy hand, 86 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:26.639 his dictatorship. They were forcing the colonists to do all sorts of things against 87 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:31.000 their will. They were in impeding upon their liberty and so forth. And 88 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:35.720 our founders, once we fought and eventually won the declar or excuse me, 89 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:42.639 won the American Revolution, we did not do what typically happens. We didn't 90 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:48.800 have the group that won established themselves as the new ruling class, the new 91 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:55.279 Folks, the new Folks, or the new The Founders who rebelled against England 92 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:01.240 led the rebellion actually said you're not subjects to any to any crown. You 93 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:07.040 are actually citizens. You have freedom, you have liberty. You don't answer 94 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.800 to us, you answer to your creator. Your rights come from God, 95 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:16.680 they don't come from government. And so that was a revolutionary thing. So 96 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:18.360 back to her message here, she said, the whole time I am listening, 97 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:24.000 I'm thinking, this guy's really smart. See that is where if I 98 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.360 can just tell you, for those of you who are thinking of writing in 99 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:31.240 to this program, when I say the appropriate amount of adoration and praise, 100 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.559 I mean, she's hit the bull the bulls I hear. Really, she 101 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:41.039 didn't just say smart, she says really smart. This guy is really smart. 102 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:48.120 Talking about how the world has changed since Trump went into office. Now, 103 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.279 she says, I'm a lifelong Republican, by the way, sitting there 104 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:56.879 thinking the whole time, Yes, exactly, Trump feels that he is our 105 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.919 king, and somehow has all these people believing that he has that he is 106 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:05.559 what we need. Then all of a sudden, so she thinks, I'm 107 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.120 saying these things, and I'm saying that Trump is the danger. Trump is 108 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.559 the threat. So she's saying, that's right on target, You're exactly right. 109 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:15.600 But then I dropped something on her. She said, then all of 110 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.159 a sudden, you start talking about supporting Trump. So I was completely caught 111 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:26.559 off guard because everything you were saying seemed like you were definitely not pro Trump. 112 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:28.559 Now I want to pause there. Now, this is perplexing to me 113 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:35.399 because it really is. And I don't know if I just view this differently, 114 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.159 if it's just clearer to my way of thinking. I don't know. 115 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:41.120 I mean, I really don't don't know. But let me say a couple 116 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:50.600 of things. The founders, the founders were. The founders were some There 117 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.399 were some big personalities amongst the founders. I mean, you had to be 118 00:09:54.519 --> 00:10:00.399 to do what they did, right, I mean from I'm a big fan 119 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:05.159 personally of Samuel Adams. You know, you had the group of people that 120 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:11.440 were in the you know, in the halls, working out writing the specifics 121 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:16.679 of the documents, the Thomas Jeffersons with the Declaration, James Madison eventually with 122 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.879 the Constitution. Of course, they were all involved in some degree in these 123 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.279 conversations that shape this stuff. But then you had the people that were out 124 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:28.759 in the streets. And I love I love me some Samuel Adams. This 125 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.639 is the guy that was going to the bars. And it's in a way 126 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.399 I kind of feel more that that's how that's what we do. Now. 127 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:43.320 I'm not a drinker. I don't drink. Me and Trump that's something we 128 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:48.279 do have in common. We don't drink, But I do think that that's 129 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:54.559 my role, is to be out in amongst the common, everyday Americans talking 130 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.799 about these issues. When Samuel Adams went to the to the bars, to 131 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:03.519 the pubs, the taverns, wherever else he was going, that's what they 132 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.600 were discussing. He was meeting with people, he was call you know, 133 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:16.000 making the case for some of the you know response or the the moved independence 134 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:20.679 and all that. He was actually out there having the difficult conversations while some 135 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.279 of them were more behind. And I'm not minimizing it. There's a rule 136 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.639 for all of us, right, And some of them were out there crafting 137 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:35.919 things like the Declaration of Independence, which of course were incredibly important as well. 138 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:41.519 And so when I think about this, I think about it through a 139 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:48.840 very common sense sort of perspective. The founders when they were thinking about the 140 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:56.480 threats to our constitutional republic, the threats to our liberty, they weren't so 141 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:03.440 afraid of a personality type they were afraid or not afraid. They were concerned. 142 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:11.080 They were concerned with certain behavior, meaning certain actions that the government tried 143 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:16.759 to take against the people, things that infringe directly upon their liberty. And 144 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:24.080 so while it is the case many times that authoritarians, dictators, tyrants, 145 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:31.720 they might have some of these personality traits, they might have a big ego 146 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.279 and so forth. I mean, they do. They think that they're basically 147 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:43.559 God's gift to humanity. They we shouldn't confuse the personality type with the behavior. 148 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:52.000 And the behavior the founders were concerned with, the behavior of a tyrant, 149 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.919 for example, is not to cut taxes. That's not what tyrants do. 150 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:01.240 Tyrants put the boot and apply it to the on the neck of the 151 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.039 American people, and they well upon the people that they're trying to control, 152 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:13.480 and they apply pressure. Cutting taxes alleviates that pressure. Tyrants don't try. 153 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.440 And by the way, Trump cut taxes. To complete that sequence of thoughts, 154 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:24.320 Trump also cut bureaucratic red tape. You'll remember Trump instituted a rule that 155 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.320 says, if you have a new bureaucratic rule that's introduced in our government, 156 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:33.120 you have to eliminate. I want to say it was three, it was 157 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.320 two or three rules. And so they came out one day at a press 158 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.919 conference and they had a bunch of paper stacked up and they demonstrated how many 159 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:48.279 pages of rules had been eliminated through that process. Dictators do not do that. 160 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:56.559 Dictators people who want to be king, do not vote people onto the 161 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:01.600 US or, I should say, nominate people to the United States Supreme Court 162 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:09.320 who have an originalist interpretation. See. Dictators are people who, in a 163 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:15.679 point I should say, they appoint activist judges. That's who they want to 164 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:20.519 appoint. They want people on the court who implement their policies, the policies 165 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.679 that are held by the dictator or the person who has a thirst for power. 166 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:31.559 They want someone there that will use the legal system to their advantage, 167 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:37.200 thereby circumventing the entire political process and actually implementing the policies. Have said, 168 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:45.320 tyrant directly to the American people without in this case of America, but whatever 169 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:50.519 country they're in, bypassing, bypassing the court, or bypassing the real process, 170 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.080 the constitutional process, which is legislation, has to come from Congress, 171 00:14:54.120 --> 00:15:01.000 not from a court. And see, tyrants will use the court any means 172 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:05.840 necessary, my friends, they'll use any means necessary to achieve what they want. 173 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.919 Tyrants demonize people. Tyrants pit people against each other so as to so 174 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:18.240 as to divide and conquer the people. Trump doesn't Now people will say Trump 175 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.320 does that, Trump will attack the people that are attacking him. But if 176 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.399 you're not attacking Trump, I mean Trump Trump is. Trump has an ability, 177 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.720 folks, to just find a way to connect with just about anybody. 178 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:33.159 He's pretty remarkable at it. Doesn'tn't get enough credit amongst some. But so 179 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:39.559 to me, this is an obvious, obvious reason why I'm not talking about 180 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:43.639 Trump. Trump. Trump wasn't even remotely in my mind when I was talking 181 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.080 about this. I'm gonna continue reading reading what she's written to me and share 182 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.960 that with you because I feel like there's some things in there that are interesting 183 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.480 and I just want to respond, and I thought this is a good way 184 00:15:54.519 --> 00:16:00.799 to do that while protecting her. You know her. I'd given her first 185 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.080 name, but that's it. I don't even haven't told you where she's from 186 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:06.080 because I don't even know. I have an idea, but I don't even 187 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:08.440 know. Anyway. We'll continue that in a minute, but let me remind 188 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:14.559 you, my friends, that my pillow is having a twenty five dollars extravaganza. 189 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.960 Mike Lindell, my Pillow. 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So back to this, 205 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:26.880 I'm looking at the time here, I've got time to go a little 206 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:33.559 bit further before I take a break. So she was surprised that I was 207 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:41.319 quote unquote pro Trump. I don't know specifically what she means by pro Trump. 208 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.240 I know that there's that that conjures up a lot of imagery, but 209 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:52.240 I'm definitely at I'm definitely an individual who is in favor of Trump being president. 210 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:55.960 Again, I made that. I made that pretty clear for a long 211 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.480 time. So she continues, the way you were speaking was as if you 212 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.960 were trying to make people understand that Trump was exactly what our founding fathers had 213 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:10.759 established our country against. Just letting me know that you had me really confused 214 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:15.759 because most of these things you were saying were wrong. We're describing Donald Trump. 215 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:21.200 So she's saying the things that and I've already addressed this largely with my 216 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:27.319 commentary there a couple of minutes ago. But she's saying that the problems I've 217 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:34.519 identified in the country should be ascribed to Trump, and she's confused as to 218 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:38.119 why I haven't done that, which again I've responded to. I wish we 219 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:44.359 had a better Republican choice this time around. You know, I'm this is 220 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:48.559 interesting. What does that mean? We had a primary? We had who 221 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.119 all do we have Nikki Hayley, Chris Christy. I'm not saying Mike Pince, 222 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:57.240 none of these folks should have run. Ronda Santis. Ronda Santis was 223 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:02.960 a very promising candidate. So this campaign came along and it's I mean, 224 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:08.720 he underperformed in every conceivable way. I was on this program saying because I 225 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.000 like Rnda's I know some of you don't. And look, I saw the 226 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:18.880 people that were kind of coming together and supporting him, and some of the 227 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:25.160 folks that were supporting him definitely are people that I'm not aligned with. So 228 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:29.480 that concerned me. But I'm not ready to throw Ronda Santis out of the 229 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.160 mix. I think he hurt himself incredibly badly during this campaign. I don't 230 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.119 think he ever should have run. I said that at the beginning. I 231 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:42.160 wish Ron would have listened old Todd here behind the microphone so that we would 232 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:47.359 have a better chance of having Ronda Santis maybe in twenty twenty eight, I 233 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:52.720 don't know, Or you could say maybe his lack of success helped us realize 234 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.960 he wasn't a good Canada politically on a national stage. I don't know. 235 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:00.799 I'm not prepared to go there. But he made some really, really bad, 236 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:06.640 bad choices and decisions in this campaign. But he's done a great job 237 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:10.279 as governor of Florida, and he's been right on a lot of things. 238 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:11.960 I'm not going to say right on everything. I mean, there's things that 239 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:18.160 you know, nobody's one hundred percent, not even yours truly here on the 240 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:23.480 Tod huff Show. I miss it on very very rare occasions. So anyway, 241 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:26.119 I don't know what the better choice would be. I mean, it's 242 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:30.480 I wish we had some I wish we had more conservative candidates who had fight. 243 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:33.119 I mean, I will define it that far and say, now, 244 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:37.759 where are they? You know, Vivek Ramaswami, I don't know. Some 245 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:44.559 of you have very serious questions about him because of his past connections to some 246 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:49.759 scholarships and all that with a George Soros organization and so forth. These are 247 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:55.759 fair questions, and we can't be bamboozled. We can't be blinded to the 248 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:59.039 realities that some of these candidates. You know who they are, what they 249 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:02.240 believe, but we can't. We've got to be understanding and give them the 250 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:10.839 opportunity to explain context here as well. So anyway, anyway, I'm gonna 251 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:14.440 pause here because there's a lot of good stuff here in this comment. So 252 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.720 this was well written, and she disagrees with me, Melissa hearing this in 253 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:23.599 her message to the show, which she's sent through the website. But folks, 254 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:26.400 all these come to my email Todd at toddhofshow dot com if you want 255 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.400 to do the same, if you want to share your thoughts and questions, 256 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:33.920 just you can disagree with me. By the way she's disagreeing, she's doing 257 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.759 it the right way. So we'll continue talking about this on the other side 258 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:38.640 of the break. But before we do that, my friends, let me 259 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:44.559 remind you of my friend Eric Wilson and I sell health. He's here to 260 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.319 help with individual group health plans, excuse me, individual health plans, group 261 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:53.640 health plans, or even with Medicare. He's been doing this around the country 262 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:57.880 since two thousand and four. He knows about the Affordable Care Act, he 263 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:03.759 knows how to navigate it, he understands that consumers have individual needs as well, 264 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:07.039 and he's just he knows. He's got a ton of experience done this 265 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.400 for twenty years. He's been an expert that's been invited onto various media, 266 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.319 including this show, by the way, to talk about health insurance and healthcare 267 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:19.480 at large. And he's willing to put this knowledge and experience to work for 268 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:23.359 you to find the thing, the plan, the situation, the scenario that 269 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:27.319 makes the most sense for you, your family, or even your business. 270 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:32.160 You can call Eric for an absolutely free, no cost consultation eight one to 271 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:37.559 five three seven two thirteen sixty three again eight one five three seven two thirteen 272 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.559 sixty three, or you can visit him online at iseellhealth dot com. Just 273 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:45.559 be sure you're telling me you heard about him here on the Todd Half Show. 274 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:48.359 So when we get back from the break, I am going to pick 275 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:53.200 up where we left off here with the message I received from Melissa, who 276 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:56.759 disagrees with me, by the way, but she's doing it the right way, 277 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.319 and so I want to talk about this a lot of good stuff there. 278 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:02.759 We'll do this on the other side of the break. Sit tight, 279 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:11.400 my friends back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. By 280 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:14.079 the way, this is probably a good time for me to remind you that 281 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:19.880 listening to this program may cause you to lean to the right. My attorneys, 282 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:22.279 which is a vast, vast team of attorneys. Let me tell you 283 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.519 they have gotten together and they have said, Todd, we have to make 284 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:30.799 sure that people understand that listening to this program can cause them to lean to 285 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.559 the right, and that science has spoken on this. Ninety eight percent of 286 00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:41.799 scientists agree that this is in fact the case. That's more scientists than even 287 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:47.839 say man is contributing directly to climate change. So I have an obligation to 288 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:49.799 let you know that, my friends. So if you're operating heavy machinery, 289 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:55.960 if you're driving a vehicle, if you're walking down a hallway, if you're 290 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:59.640 in a public space with lots of people, just be aware of what's to 291 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:03.039 your life, because chances are good that you will be veering that direction. 292 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.720 And I don't want you. I don't want you to veer to the right. 293 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.640 I am completely not liable for any of this. Whatever happens. You've 294 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:17.880 been warned, my friends, consider yourselves duly notified here. So attorneys, 295 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:21.759 there you go. I've done my duty. So let's get back to this 296 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.519 conversation or this I guess this message that I received from Melissa, which again 297 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:34.079 is again she disagrees with me on some things and I think, as I 298 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:38.440 said earlier, I offered to have this conversation with her on air. I've 299 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:41.640 not heard back, and some people just don't want to. I don't typically 300 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.160 do that, so if you write in thinking that the next thing is invitation 301 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:51.599 to come talk on the show, doesn't usually go that way. But I 302 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:56.119 did to her because I thought there were so many things here that we could 303 00:24:56.119 --> 00:25:03.160 discuss. We could certainly discuss, so let me pick up where we left 304 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:07.839 off. She says, I wish I mentioned that she said she wished we 305 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.400 had better Republican candidates this time around. Then she says this, I have 306 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:15.240 such a hard time understanding how so many people can still support him and believe 307 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:19.880 he did a good job running our country. I personally found his presidency more 308 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:26.839 of a joke or a theatrical performance than that of a leader. I did 309 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:30.720 vote for him the first time, and shortly after had major regrets. See 310 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:33.839 I would like to ask her why what were the regrets, Because here's the 311 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.440 way I see it, Here's the way I see it, and I would 312 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:40.680 say that this is the way I think, this is clearly the way that 313 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:45.000 it is. And I've said this on here before in I mean something like 314 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:48.359 this. But let me state this what I think is obvious. I want 315 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:57.279 to state this clearly Trump when he was elected Trump received the same sort of 316 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:03.680 pushback that any Republican gets, and that is this, that is, we 317 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:07.559 are going to come after you in the media, in the seven pillars of 318 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:12.720 propaganda. We are going to We're going to kind of coordinate our efforts to 319 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:15.880 come at you with everything that we've got. We're going to come at you 320 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.880 from every direction. We're going to have you know, entertainment is going to 321 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:26.759 mock you, the government, the bureaucratic state is going to work to oppose 322 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:30.599 you, maybe even target you. I mean that that gets ramped up over 323 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.599 time. Well, some of it happened initially. Some of it happened initially, 324 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:41.400 but what we've had in recent days with these political prosecutions, I guess 325 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:47.359 those things developed over time. Right, impeachment didn't happen day one, although 326 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:51.759 on day eleven we know that some of these leftists in Congress were calling for 327 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:56.599 his impeachment already. So typically what happens when a Republican's in power, a 328 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.799 Republican that they really fear might try to undo some of the things that the 329 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:08.240 left has established in this country. Typically what happens is the media and the 330 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:12.720 other folks in the seven pillars of propaganda turn up, turn up the hate, 331 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:15.599 turn up the heat a little bit, the heat and the hate, 332 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:26.680 and typically typically the Republican who is in the metaphorical crosshairs here says, I 333 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:29.440 don't want to deal with this. I don't like negative press. I want 334 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:33.759 to go back to kissing babies. I like it when everything you know, 335 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.519 people people don't hate me. They did this with Bush, they did this 336 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:41.079 with Reagan, they did this with George H. W. Bush. I 337 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:45.279 mean, folks, they've done this for a long long time, a long 338 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:49.400 long time, and typically what happens, and they've done it with a lot 339 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.240 of other not just president, for other candidates as well, in Newt Gingrich 340 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:57.640 for example, plenty of others. Clarence Thomas, you don't have to be 341 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:03.200 even necessarily in politics, just someone who has a position that can impact the 342 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.920 direction of this country. The left hates this country as founded. That is 343 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.880 a core fact that you got to come to grips with. They hate it 344 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:17.480 as founded, and they are going to do whatever it takes. The Seinfeld 345 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:21.119 Newman strategy is whatever it takes as long as it takes them, so long 346 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:26.599 as it takes anyone from out of political office who is a threat to undoing 347 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:33.359 what they've accomplished. They don't want to seed one inch of ground to Republicans 348 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.599 when they lose an election. That's why this stuff about all of the spending 349 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:42.400 cuts that never materialize are maddening to someone like me and probably to the vast 350 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:48.400 majority of you as well. When the left is in control, they make 351 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:56.759 steps towards their absolutely morally bankrupt ideology. When Republicans take control, Republicans they 352 00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.680 there's too many whimps, there's too many people that don't believe in the ideas, 353 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.400 or it just cost them too much. They're not down. They wouldn't 354 00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:07.640 have signed that document with the Founders. They wouldn't have signed the Declaration of 355 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.720 Independence. They wouldn't have said we mutually pledged to one another our lives, 356 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:14.200 our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Maybe they would have signed it, 357 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:19.119 but the second the heat got turned up they would have They would have just 358 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:22.359 put their hands up, wave the white flag and given in. That's the 359 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:27.880 average Republican today, But it's not Trump. It is not Trump. Trump 360 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:33.160 is going to fight back, and so you have a media that, in 361 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.519 the rare event that someone else did punch back before Trump, which happened on 362 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.759 occasion, some of them would. Reagan's strategy was always to ignore it. 363 00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:47.440 Other folks tried to address it head on. And if you you know, 364 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:52.039 it's it's a dangerous thing, especially if you don't have, if you don't 365 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.720 have a connection to a group of people, a personal like a bond. 366 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.319 And Trump has that with his base, and it's all so ironically. The 367 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.119 reason he has it with his base. One of the reasons he has it 368 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.440 with his base is because they believe he's going to have this fight. And 369 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:11.880 these folks who voted for him, myself included, have been We were so 370 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:18.160 turned off by politicians we kept we were sick and tired of hearing about the 371 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.640 conservative, so called conservative candidate. The best we could get is a Mitt 372 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:29.400 Romney or a John McCain or whatever. It's just awful. Bob Dole was 373 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.680 my first he was the first person I voted for for president, was Bob 374 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:38.599 Dole or Bill Clinton. And so Trump's different. Trump fights back, and 375 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:44.720 so when we hear these things about he didn't do a good job running the 376 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.400 country, I mean, he cut taxes, the economy was roaring, the 377 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:51.799 stock market did well. There were not any wars. The first president that 378 00:30:51.839 --> 00:31:00.000 didn't get us into war. He appointed three justices to the United States Supreme 379 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:04.279 They were instrumental in overturning Roe versus Weight. I don't know what part of 380 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:11.000 this is not a good job running the country if you're a conservative. He 381 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.720 cut the bureaucratic red tape, which we talked about previously. He demonstrated American 382 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.720 strength on stage. Sure, you might not like the tweet, you might 383 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:23.599 not like the stuff about Rocketman and everything else, but there was a method 384 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:27.599 to his madness. You don't have to like his style to also simultaneously understand 385 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.240 that there were good things that happened in the country, especially when you can 386 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:36.079 compare it and contrast it to this absolute debacle that we're facing the day. 387 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:38.319 How is this hard? That's what I want to say, is how is 388 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:44.519 this hard to see? I'm perplexed if someone can't see this drastic change. 389 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:49.319 It's crazy. And let's see. I'm going to continue reading here because she 390 00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:52.799 says something else that I really feel is important to address. She says, 391 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.359 I did vote for him the first time she says she had major regrets shortly 392 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.640 after. Our country has been more divided since he came in to office then 393 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.599 probably since the Civil war. So ask yourself why. Actually, that's the 394 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:07.759 question that I probably want to talk about the rest of the time here. 395 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:12.200 Let me actually let me read the rest of this, but we're probably going 396 00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:14.920 to circle back to that, just so you get the totality of what she 397 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.079 says here. I feel that everything becoming so political as actually heard us as 398 00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:22.359 a country. I agree with that, by the way, that's true. 399 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:25.599 Please go back and listen to maybe the twenty minutes before you started discussing in 400 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:29.759 pr and then being biased, and listen to yourself again and see if you 401 00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:34.079 picture Trump and a king's crown as I did. We can all be biased 402 00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.200 in some way. It's so true. Just wanted to say that I enjoyed 403 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.240 your show and I felt like we were on the same wavelength. So maybe 404 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:45.720 she doesn't now, and that's okay, that's unfortunate. That's unfortunate that you 405 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:50.680 would like a show until there's a point of differentiation and disagreement. So I 406 00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:54.960 would say that's not on me. But regardless, regardless, I appreciate the 407 00:32:55.000 --> 00:33:00.240 message here. It's a kind sentiment, Melissa. But I want to talk 408 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.319 about that one comment she made what I'll set up in our final segment when 409 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:06.559 I get back from the break here. But let me remind you our friends 410 00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:09.039 at Nicknack Naturals. My friends are here to help you crush your vice. 411 00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:15.359 If you're using If you're using nicotine based products that are that involve smoking, 412 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:22.480 chewing, tobacco, vaping, Nicknack Naturals has a better alternative for you, 413 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:28.240 and these are cleaner alternatives. They don't have smoke, they don't involve spitting, 414 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:34.960 they don't involve any slimy pouches, bad breath. These are discreete odorless 415 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:39.440 mints that fully dissolve in your mouth. 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Melissa liked 425 00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:37.320 some of what she heard, and then when she realized I was not, 426 00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:42.760 I don't know, an anti trumper, maybe she was a little dismayed, 427 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:46.119 confused, perplexed. And so I've been responding to the message. These things 428 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:52.000 are to me teachable moments. I love hearing. I know this may come 429 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:57.559 as a shock to some of you, but I like hearing if it's done 430 00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:02.679 right, if it's done respectfully. I like to hear alternative perspectives that are 431 00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:07.639 different than mine. Sometimes you teach me some things. Sometimes you inspire me 432 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.440 to address it directly, because I know, first of all, I don't 433 00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:15.639 agree with and I don't agree with this one. Although I appreciate it, 434 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:17.239 it's not personal. I just disagree with it. She disagree with me, 435 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:22.159 I'm going to disagree with her in return, not because she disagreed with me, 436 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.079 but because I'm not persuaded by the merits of what she's saying. Here. 437 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.800 I see where she's coming from. I think she's I don't think she's 438 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:36.599 far from really getting it, but she's not there yet. But I appreciate 439 00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:38.760 hearing from people with different viewpoints, so you don't have to write in to 440 00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:44.079 agree with me. I do throw in there the adoration and praise thing, 441 00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:46.000 but really, what I mean is just be just be respectful. If it's 442 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:51.440 if it's written like you're a jerk, which most of these are not, 443 00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:53.840 ninety nine point nine percent, I just don't. I won't read it. 444 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.639 I just won't, So you're just waste. I've gotten some. I see 445 00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:02.599 how long they are, but there's so condescending and arrogant, self righteous and 446 00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:07.760 hateful at the beginning. I just don't read them. It's just an utter 447 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.199 waste of your time. But you can do it. You're free to send 448 00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:14.000 whatever you want. But I'm free to do what I want to do too. 449 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:19.000 So let's go here. Back to what she says that I think needs 450 00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:22.079 to be addressed. Our country, she says, has been more divided since 451 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:28.440 he came into office than probably since the Civil War. Now I would say 452 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:32.159 she's right, but the connotation here is that he is responsible for it. 453 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:37.239 No, my friends, I'm telling you the responsible party for this are the 454 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:43.039 people that are in the I call it the seven Pillars of propaganda. You 455 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:45.599 can call it the bureaucratic state, the deep state, but it involves all 456 00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:51.960 these people that have invested interest in the success of the Democrat Party, the 457 00:36:52.000 --> 00:37:00.840 advancement of the leftist ideology so called progressive, which is actually regressive worldview and 458 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.480 ideology. By the way, a lot of Democrats don't want anything to do 459 00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:07.039 with the term progressive. By the way, I saw that in some of 460 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:15.119 these folks running for office here in twenty twenty four are distancing themselves from from 461 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:21.679 that term. But anyway, but the reason it became it had been divisive 462 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:27.880 behind the scenes for a long time. It was it was only pushed out 463 00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:30.639 into the mainstream when somebody fought back. So I look at it this way. 464 00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:37.679 If I'm mining my own business, if I'm mining my own business and 465 00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:42.199 there's a bully in the mix, a bully is someone who wants to force 466 00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:45.800 their will upon me, and I stand up to that bully, and that 467 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:50.400 bully, you know, instead of just backing down, Let's say the bully 468 00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:54.119 pushes me. Let's say the bully takes a swing, and I swing back 469 00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:58.920 and then suddenly you say, why did you swing back? Well, because 470 00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:02.599 someone got to stop the bully. Someone's got to stop the bully. I 471 00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:06.079 remember a couple of years ago when I was in Washington, d C. 472 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:12.039 I saw with my son and my brother and my sister in law and another 473 00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:16.440 friends from actually from Albania, friends of my brothers that we met, just 474 00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:20.519 great people. Anyway, we were in DC. We were going to dinner. 475 00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:23.039 We were walking down the sidewalk and I saw this young man and this 476 00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:29.440 young woman and this man was they were. She was trying to get away. 477 00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:31.719 She would he was facing her. He was kind of walking backwards and 478 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:36.320 she was. He was walking sideways, trying to block her, going back 479 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:37.920 and forth, and she was just trying to get away, and he kept 480 00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:42.679 grabbing her. And I see this. I see this on the sidewalk, 481 00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:45.719 and I'm looking around and there's lots of people walking around. No one's to 482 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:49.519 doing anything about this but me. I don't know, small town USA, 483 00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:52.199 I don't know sort of thing. I just go up to the guy. 484 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:57.239 I walk right up. Actually I walked up to her and well, both 485 00:38:57.280 --> 00:39:00.760 of them, and my son was with me. My son was a lot 486 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.639 smaller. If he was as big as he was now, the guy definitely 487 00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:07.599 would have probably backed off, because my son's become a pretty good sized fellow. 488 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:13.360 Anyway, So go up to him to the girl, and I pointed 489 00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:15.280 to the guy. I was right in his face pretty much, and I 490 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:20.280 said, is this guy bothering you? And she didn't say anything to me, 491 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:23.679 and I asked her again, I said, is this guy bothering you? 492 00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:28.280 The guy then proceeds to tell me she's my girlfriend. We're just having 493 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:30.400 a disagreement. And I said to him, I said, it doesn't look 494 00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.480 like your girlfriend. And I put my hand up to him and I asked 495 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:37.199 her one more time, is this guy bothering you? Because see, in 496 00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:39.840 my mind, I don't want to find this could have been something that went 497 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:44.679 really bad. I don't know. It was an intense It was pretty intense. 498 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:47.559 And she didn't respond as she walked away, and there's nothing I could 499 00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:52.280 do. But the point is, the point is you can't blame the person 500 00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:58.920 for intervening, for standing up for something that's good and right. You can't 501 00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:02.400 blame them for the prime And look, Trump is no, ain't us an 502 00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:07.679 angel or saint or anything like that. None of us are. But the 503 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:13.920 reality is is that's what's erupted here. So what has divided our country is 504 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:19.440 that the side that stands up for truth and justice and goodness has finally decided, 505 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:27.000 finally to fight back. And so how in the world is that Trump's 506 00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:30.880 fault? Yes, everything has become political. Yes, everything that has had 507 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:37.320 a very detrimental effect on our culture, on our society. I wish it 508 00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:39.920 weren't so. I don't fight every battle the way Trump does, but there's 509 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:45.199 a time and a place for it to absolutely be fought the way that Trump 510 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:50.960 is fighting it, and to blame him, to me is beyond naive as 511 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.599 to the real cause of the problem. I've got to go, but Melissa, 512 00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:57.159 thank you for your message. Quick I gotta go, SDG.