1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,359 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live 5 00:00:16,399 --> 00:00:18,719 stream I daily show prep with all the links. Become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpetclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,480 much for your support. The President is now making his 10 00:00:31,559 --> 00:00:34,840 announcement from the Oval Office. Let's listen in live. If 11 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:35,320 we can. 12 00:00:35,399 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 2: Athlete's the best athletes in the world to the cultural 13 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,840 center of our nation's capital. 14 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 3: I just left the Kennedy Center. 15 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 2: We're spending a lot of money wisely on making it 16 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:46,039 really beautiful. 17 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:49,799 Speaker 3: It's going to be beautiful again. It's like Washington, d C. 18 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:50,399 We had. 19 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 2: By the way, in Washington, DC, we have the lowest 20 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,320 crime numbers they've had in years. 21 00:00:56,759 --> 00:00:57,039 Speaker 3: Zero. 22 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 2: It sounds like it's a horrible thing to say, but 23 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,439 I might as well say zero murders in the last 24 00:01:03,479 --> 00:01:04,599 week since we've done this. 25 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 3: That's the first time in memory that that's happened. If 26 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:09,840 you can believe it, how pathetic. That is enough to 27 00:01:09,879 --> 00:01:10,519 even say it. 28 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 2: And I'm tired of listening to these people say how 29 00:01:13,519 --> 00:01:15,040 safe it was before we got here. 30 00:01:15,079 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 3: It was unsafe. 31 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,239 Speaker 2: It was horrible, and Mayor Bowser better get her acts 32 00:01:19,239 --> 00:01:21,760 straight or she won't be there very long because we'll 33 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,879 take it over with the federal government running like it's 34 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:27,920 supposed to be run. The numbers were horrible. It was 35 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,000 a crime infested rat hole, and they do have a 36 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,359 lot of rats. We're getting rid of them too, and 37 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,760 we've made a lot of progress. And it was extremely 38 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,680 unsafe and now it's extremely safe. 39 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 3: We had virtually no crime. 40 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,439 Speaker 2: The number was down eighty seven percent, and I'm trying 41 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:48,040 to figure out where was the thirteen percent, because I 42 00:01:48,079 --> 00:01:53,000 don't think it existed. The National Guard has been unbelievable 43 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,959 and they're working with the police and. 44 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 3: They have some very good people in there. 45 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: They have some people that shouldn't be police, actually, but 46 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:03,159 they have some great people there. And the Washington d 47 00:02:03,239 --> 00:02:05,879 C is a whole different place, and Johnny, I'm sure 48 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,240 you'll be happy to hear that too. Actually, yes, but 49 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:10,840 it's a whole different place. People are excited again. They're 50 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,080 going out to restaurants again, That was the other thing 51 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,159 I saw in numbers that restaurant businesses. 52 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 3: Down in the last week. I know restaurant business. 53 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: You can't get into a restaurant just really lying people, 54 00:02:23,479 --> 00:02:25,960 And that's why people don't understand how bad. 55 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,319 Speaker 3: And how dishonest the press is. 56 00:02:28,599 --> 00:02:32,039 Speaker 2: I saw one poll that had us set nineteen percent 57 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,560 favorable on what we're doing with Washington. Then I saw 58 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:38,960 another one as this ninety four percent favorable. And I 59 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,520 can tell you the ninety four percent is correct. The 60 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,240 others are fake, just faked. They got to get their 61 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,159 act together. So bad for our country, so sick actually, 62 00:02:48,039 --> 00:02:51,919 so Washington, DC is really doing unbelievably well. And the 63 00:02:52,039 --> 00:02:55,039 Kennedy Senator where fixed. I was just there all morning 64 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,520 with contractors. We're making it unbelieve. It's going to be unbelievable. 65 00:02:58,599 --> 00:03:01,240 It's got great bones, but it needs a lot of work. 66 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: More gold. The World Control. 67 00:03:03,039 --> 00:03:06,599 Speaker 2: Will set up the group stage of competition. Forty eight 68 00:03:06,599 --> 00:03:08,879 teams will play in one hundred and four games across 69 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:13,240 sixteen North American cities, from Seattle to Vancouver to Atlanta 70 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:13,879 to Miami. 71 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,719 Speaker 3: It's going to be so exciting for our country. What 72 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,319 is this the twenty twenty. 73 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,159 Speaker 2: Six feet for World Cup will be one of the 74 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,039 largest and most complex events. 75 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,319 Speaker 3: This will be one of the greatest events, one of 76 00:03:24,319 --> 00:03:24,719 the largest. 77 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:26,599 Speaker 2: In a way, it's like Johnny said it better, it's 78 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,719 like having many super Bowls for a short period of time, 79 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:33,280 because each one of these games essentially is a super Bowl. 80 00:03:33,319 --> 00:03:36,080 Some of them are bigger than super Bowls actually, but 81 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:38,439 they're essentially each one of these games is like a 82 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,080 super Bowl. The twenty twenty six for World Cup will 83 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,360 be the largest, most complex set of events in sports history, 84 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,759 and the Kennedy Center will give it a phenomenal kickoff 85 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,000 and will be involved, and they'll be working over there 86 00:03:53,039 --> 00:03:55,000 for quite a bit of time. We have it all 87 00:03:55,039 --> 00:03:57,000 set that they can stay there for the big events, 88 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,639 the big press conferences and everything else, and they'll be 89 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,800 in a very safe capital that'll be nice to You 90 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,159 don't have to worry about walking down the street, Johney. Okay, 91 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,800 but you could handle yourself, I quote. Already, FIFA is 92 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,719 projecting six million loyal fans will attend the World Cup 93 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:14,159 events next year, and six billion more are going to 94 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:16,720 be watching back home. And they think the six billion 95 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:18,839 dollar number is going to be actually a low number, 96 00:04:19,439 --> 00:04:22,120 and this will drive more than thirty billion dollars into 97 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,000 the US economy and create one hundred and eighty five 98 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,160 thousand American jobs in a short period of time. 99 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:28,439 Speaker 3: Too. 100 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 2: No sporting event attracts more attention, more fans, more viewers, 101 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:33,439 are more revenue. 102 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,399 Speaker 3: Than the FIFA World Cup. 103 00:04:35,079 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 2: And again I'll just say, it's the World Cup, and 104 00:04:37,399 --> 00:04:39,720 it's the biggest thing there is in sports, and we 105 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,959 have it, and I got it in my first administration. 106 00:04:42,639 --> 00:04:45,680 And I was really somewhat devastated, as devastated as I 107 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:46,120 can be, I. 108 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,399 Speaker 3: Don't have time to get too devastated. I was very 109 00:04:49,399 --> 00:04:51,000 happy that today, as you saw. 110 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 2: The group that does this, a government group, radical left group, 111 00:04:55,360 --> 00:05:00,680 announced that Trump was right tooking forty trillion dollars worth 112 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,800 of tariffs, that the four trillion dollars are going to 113 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,480 reduce the deficit by numbers far greater than they ever 114 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,120 expected or heard them. And by the way, the stock 115 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:09,800 market went up a thousand points. 116 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:12,519 Speaker 3: That was as of ten minutes ago. I can't tell 117 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:13,120 you what happens. 118 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,079 Speaker 2: A lot of things happened, but the stock market's up 119 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,839 almost a thousand points, and it's basically on the news. 120 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 3: That the release. 121 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 2: It just came out from government that the tariffs that 122 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,319 everybody was talking about, that the whole world respects us 123 00:05:30,319 --> 00:05:31,800 for for the what we did. 124 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,879 Speaker 3: The tariffs are going to be at four trillion dollars. 125 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 2: They're going to reduce the deficit by four trillion dollars. 126 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 3: Mister Vice President wouldn't deserve it. Two minutes of five. 127 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:45,399 Speaker 2: It's had a huge impact and the stock market is 128 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:48,920 way up. But this will drive more than thirty billion 129 00:05:48,959 --> 00:05:51,360 dollars in US economy. It created one hundred and eighty 130 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,680 five thousand American jobs. No sporting event attracts more attention 131 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,240 or more fans or anything else. And I just look 132 00:05:57,319 --> 00:05:59,240 forward to the draw. So we're going to have the draw, 133 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:03,680 say actually, Johnny at the Kennedy Center, and by that 134 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:05,319 time it'll be an even better shape. 135 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 3: We're working on it. 136 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,199 Speaker 2: It'll take about a year project to make it. 137 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 3: It'll be great. It'll be fantastic. You see the way 138 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:13,639 this is looking nice. 139 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 2: I can't tell you how much that gold costs a 140 00:06:16,079 --> 00:06:19,040 lot of money. There's nothing like gold, and there's nothing 141 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,680 like solid gold. But this beautiful office needed it. It 142 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:25,879 had to be representative. When we took it over. It 143 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,759 was dirty, not clean. I immediately changed the chair and 144 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,759 had this beautiful desk renovated and brought out by the 145 00:06:33,759 --> 00:06:35,839 White House people that do this. 146 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:36,879 Speaker 3: They did a great job. 147 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 2: They said that we have a craftsman who's great, but 148 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,720 this was not appropriate for the Oval Office. 149 00:06:42,759 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 3: What I took over. 150 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,759 Speaker 2: And now you look at all those paintings, you're allowed 151 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,519 to turn back. All of these are great presidents, and 152 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:49,839 they were all in the vaults. 153 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:50,639 Speaker 3: They were in. 154 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 2: Vaults for some cases much more than one hundred years, 155 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,319 and now they're proudly hanging on the Oval Office walls. 156 00:06:58,319 --> 00:07:01,720 So I can't imagine anybody changed, but they were mured 157 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,600 in vaults for over one hundred years of any of them. 158 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 3: So it's very exciting. People come in. They really love it. 159 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: So he is now talking about all of the gold 160 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:13,120 that is in the Oval Office that people have been 161 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:18,279 mocking online democrats and media. But I repeat myself when 162 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:20,560 he had all of the European leaders come to town, 163 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,959 and Zelenski and the Zelenski and Trump had that meeting 164 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,920 again in the Oval Office and there's all this gold 165 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:32,439 behind them. They got like you know, gold frames and 166 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,800 like gold statues. The whole wall is just like covered 167 00:07:36,839 --> 00:07:38,800 with like all sorts of gold stuff, which I'm not 168 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,720 sure people are aware of this or not, but Donald 169 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:45,120 Trump loves him some gold plated stuff. Have you ever 170 00:07:45,199 --> 00:07:50,399 seen like literally anything he builds, right, he loves the gold. 171 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:54,439 And of course to all of the lefties, they're like, oh, 172 00:07:54,439 --> 00:07:57,279 it's so tacky, which is kind of ironic because now 173 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:00,839 have you noticed, like what the trend is. The brass 174 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,480 is back, that gold look on like doorknobs and all 175 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,079 that stuff. I'm not a fan. I prefer the the 176 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:13,399 nickel brush nickel. I like the silver look. I don't 177 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:15,519 like the gold look. But he likes the gold look. 178 00:08:15,519 --> 00:08:19,279 I've known this for ever since he came down the 179 00:08:19,439 --> 00:08:25,680 what golden escalator exactly. So this is not a surprise. 180 00:08:28,199 --> 00:08:31,480 So the big announcement the twenty twenty six FIFA World 181 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:37,120 Cup coming to America, and now we know what he 182 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,440 sold us out for with the Europeans, Now it all 183 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,879 makes sense. Why would you bring soccer here? I'm just kidding. 184 00:08:45,919 --> 00:08:50,320 I'm just kidding. No, it's a big deal. It is 185 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:55,360 a big deal. It's like Americans, like we are notoriously 186 00:08:55,679 --> 00:09:01,720 you know, anti soccer, but they're becoming less anti soccer 187 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:05,120 as we become infiltrated, you know, with all of these 188 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:08,559 people from all over the world. But no, look, it 189 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:11,519 is a huge sport. It will drive a lot of 190 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,320 you know, tourism and economic impact and all of that 191 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,240 stuff too. As long as every city that's going to 192 00:09:19,279 --> 00:09:22,840 host this thing isn't going to be, you know, going 193 00:09:22,879 --> 00:09:27,320 to the taxpayers to fund new Stadia, then I'm fine 194 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,639 with it. I'm fine with it. We'll see. And you 195 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,559 know what, it's part of America's two hundred and fiftieth 196 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,559 anniversary too, so that's a pretty good it's a pretty 197 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,080 good celebration. 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Your subscription then not 218 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,200 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 219 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:46,039 as they make the media landscape more transparent. Philip Wegman 220 00:10:47,159 --> 00:10:50,679 is a reporter for a White House reporter for Real 221 00:10:50,759 --> 00:10:54,919 Clear Politics, and he tweeted out about seventeen minutes ago 222 00:10:55,799 --> 00:11:00,200 that Mike Davis, a Trump confidant very much in the know, 223 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:08,279 reacting to the raid on former National Security Advisor and 224 00:11:08,399 --> 00:11:14,679 former UN Ambassador John Bolton's home and office today said 225 00:11:14,759 --> 00:11:20,559 quote my prediction, Democrats, Rhinos and reporters who think this 226 00:11:20,759 --> 00:11:24,200 raid on John Bolton is about his book will be 227 00:11:24,399 --> 00:11:35,080 very embarrassed when the search warrant becomes public. Oh that 228 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:39,919 doesn't sound good. I mean for Bolton, So anyway, we'll 229 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:44,639 see what happens there. We also have I got a 230 00:11:44,639 --> 00:11:46,480 bunch of different stories here, so I'm gonna kind of 231 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,080 plow through a lot of this stuff that I haven't 232 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,559 gotten to this week because it's Friday, and Friday is 233 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,320 it's when you dump all of the stuff that you 234 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,519 couldn't get to in the week, as well as scandalous stuff. 235 00:11:59,159 --> 00:12:01,440 So this way people know it's like the Friday night 236 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:06,440 dump that you do. It's a tried and true hack 237 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:11,879 among media hacks and government hacks. So Federal Housing Finance 238 00:12:11,919 --> 00:12:17,960 Agency Director William Poulty has referred possible criminal activity involving 239 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:23,840 Federal Reserve GOUVNA Lisa d. Cook to Attorney General Pam 240 00:12:23,879 --> 00:12:30,960 Bondi for investigation and action as appropriate. The accusation is 241 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:37,320 that Lisa Dinell Cook falsified bank documents and property records 242 00:12:37,759 --> 00:12:43,679 to acquire more favorable loan terms, potentially committing mortgage fraud 243 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:51,120 under the criminal Statute. I do have some audio. This 244 00:12:51,279 --> 00:12:59,080 was William Poulti appearing on CNBC the other day for 245 00:12:59,159 --> 00:13:01,399 a more for an interview. I think it's called squawk 246 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,120 Box or something. I don't watch the NBC, but he 247 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,919 did like a ten minute eleven minute interview with the host, 248 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,200 and he says, first off, that he's just doing his job. 249 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 4: We refer people every day criminally for mortgage fraud, and 250 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,159 no one is above the law. And in this case, 251 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:20,159 it happens to be a FED governor, and I have 252 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,200 an obligation to do something about it. So when we 253 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:25,960 received a tip, this is what we discovered. And it's 254 00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:28,720 very unfortunate because you know, a FED governor is supposed 255 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,120 to understand economic harm of mortgage fraud. You know, the 256 00:13:32,159 --> 00:13:35,480 FED is written all about the economic harm of mortgage fraud, 257 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,360 in particular occupancy fraud, and here she is allegedly committing 258 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,879 mortgage fraud. So I think it's a big issue. I 259 00:13:42,879 --> 00:13:44,679 don't think it's going away. I think she will have 260 00:13:44,759 --> 00:13:46,440 to resign or I think she will be fired. 261 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:51,039 Speaker 1: Okay. Speaking to the allegations. 262 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,559 Speaker 4: We alleged that she bought a condo in July of 263 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,919 twenty twenty one, and fourteen days before that, we alleged 264 00:13:56,919 --> 00:13:58,879 that she took out alone using a Fanny May and 265 00:13:58,919 --> 00:14:03,480 Freddie macform, stating that she had her primary residence in Michigan. 266 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,120 Fourteen days later, as I said, she went and purchased 267 00:14:06,159 --> 00:14:10,159 in Atlanta condo. To make it worse, she then went 268 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,639 on to eventually list the apartment and probably is renting 269 00:14:14,639 --> 00:14:18,120 it out. This is a very serious issue. It has 270 00:14:18,159 --> 00:14:20,879 necessarily nothing to do with the Fed Governor. It has 271 00:14:20,879 --> 00:14:23,080 everything to do with mortgage fraud in the United States, 272 00:14:23,639 --> 00:14:25,399 and if we see it, we're going to do something 273 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,600 about it. Just on that point too, I'll say, we're 274 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,840 also probing, and I would imagine that the Department of 275 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,840 Justice will open an inquiry into this. I'm hopeful about that. 276 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,279 But we're also probing some property that she has in 277 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,399 Massachusetts to see if there's something there, But I don't 278 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,440 have anything yet on that, and I only want to 279 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,720 stick with what's in the criminal referral so far. 280 00:14:43,919 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: All Right, So she claimed two primary residences in order 281 00:14:49,639 --> 00:14:54,039 to get better rates on a mortgage, and he says 282 00:14:54,279 --> 00:14:56,559 this is illegal for a reason. 283 00:14:57,159 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 4: Yes, when you have a primary residence or a principal residence, 284 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,559 it is essentially lower risk. And so what we do 285 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,559 at both Fannie and Freddie and our member institutions who 286 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:08,440 we buy loans from and we mandate from, is we 287 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,480 want to understand the risk if you are living in 288 00:15:10,519 --> 00:15:13,559 your home, it is less likely that you will be 289 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,240 foreclosed upon or not pay your payments in the event 290 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:18,919 of a recession. We saw this in eight. In my view, 291 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,440 many of this is what caused eight. You know, my 292 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,600 family founded Poulti Homes. I grew up in that business. 293 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:27,480 I saw the housing market crash. We cannot go back there. 294 00:15:27,679 --> 00:15:30,039 So it doesn't matter whether you're fed, governor cook or 295 00:15:30,559 --> 00:15:33,159 Joe blow on the street. If you commit mortgage fraud, 296 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,399 we are going to report it. And this is no different. 297 00:15:35,519 --> 00:15:36,320 We do it every day. 298 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: There you go one of the hosts, Carl Quintanilla, Quintinilla. 299 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:52,919 He then steps in it a bit and Poulty immediately 300 00:15:53,279 --> 00:15:56,080 smacks him back on that. Is it common for these 301 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,600 things not to get referred back to the OIG? 302 00:15:58,879 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 3: I mean, how does it want end up on your desk, 303 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,200 much less the social media account of the president? 304 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 4: Well, what do you mean, how does it end up 305 00:16:05,399 --> 00:16:07,759 on my desk? I'm the regulator of Fanny and Freddy, 306 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,279 and I'm the conservatory of Franny and Freddy. If it 307 00:16:10,279 --> 00:16:12,039 didn't end up on my desk, I wouldn't be doing 308 00:16:12,039 --> 00:16:15,279 my job, Carl. I mean's like asking how do news 309 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:17,639 stories appear on your desk. That's your job. My job 310 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,200 is to regulate these entities, Carl, and we have to 311 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,200 make sure that we have a safe and sound market. 312 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,440 And I'm not going to be intimidated by the media 313 00:16:24,519 --> 00:16:28,639 or politicians who don't want visibility into what's been going 314 00:16:28,679 --> 00:16:32,320 on behind closed doors. If somebody is claiming two primary residences, 315 00:16:32,559 --> 00:16:35,120 that is not appropriate, and we will refer it for 316 00:16:35,279 --> 00:16:36,720 criminal investigation. 317 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, he is doing his job. 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Since at least May twenty twenty two, 344 00:18:16,599 --> 00:18:21,440 Lisa Cook, who's on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 345 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,000 has been required to live in the Washington, DC metro area. 346 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:29,119 Her exact date of moving to d C is unclear, 347 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,720 but she was part of Joe Biden's Transition Agency Review 348 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:37,440 Team as of November twenty twenty, and then was nominated 349 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,079 for the Federal Reserve job in January of twenty twenty one. 350 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:46,920 The Shenanigans started in the summer of twenty twenty one. 351 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,480 June eighteenth, twenty twenty one, Cook took a fifteen year 352 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:56,319 mortgage for a two hundred three thousand dollars home in 353 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,799 ann Arbor, Michigan, which she said was to be her 354 00:18:59,799 --> 00:19:03,160 pl primary residence, and she promised to live there full 355 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:09,240 time for at least one year. Fourteen days later, she 356 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:15,480 takes out another mortgage for a condo in Atlanta's Above 357 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:21,160 the four Seasons building. That mortgage five hundred and forty 358 00:19:21,319 --> 00:19:26,400 thousand dollars, and on that application again she stated that 359 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,319 this would be her primary residence and she would live 360 00:19:30,319 --> 00:19:37,240 there for at least one year. Did she not know 361 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:42,559 she just bought the other house two weeks ago. I 362 00:19:42,559 --> 00:19:46,200 don't know. I guess this is just this is something 363 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,519 that I just cannot relate to because I have only 364 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:52,240 owned a single home at any given time, you know, 365 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,480 like generally I have tried to avoid owning two homes 366 00:19:56,519 --> 00:20:00,400 because then I would be in bankruptcy right, not being 367 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,279 able to afford both mortgages for an extended period of time. 368 00:20:04,519 --> 00:20:06,640 Like I was sweating one time when we were selling 369 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,440 one house buying another, and I was like, we don't 370 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:14,079 want to get caught paying two mortgages, right, And if 371 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,839 we have to do that, you can't do We couldn't 372 00:20:16,839 --> 00:20:19,640 do it for more than like a month, and in 373 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,440 exchange we would like not eat, you know. So I 374 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,519 don't know what it's like to be able to just 375 00:20:26,319 --> 00:20:30,480 go around buying multiple homes in different states within two 376 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:34,000 weeks of each other. So that was in June of 377 00:20:34,039 --> 00:20:36,960 twenty twenty one. A year later, a little bit over 378 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,119 a year later, September twenty twenty two, her condo in 379 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,799 Atlanta that she listed as her primary residence and she 380 00:20:44,839 --> 00:20:48,400 would live in for one year. It was listed for rent, 381 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,160 so that would be outside of the one year right. 382 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,160 If she purchased that condo in June of twenty one, 383 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,680 then September of twenty two she turns it into a 384 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,400 rent unit. And so the idea there is that if 385 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,240 she was claiming that as her primary residence, then she 386 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:09,599 would have been outside of the one year window, and 387 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,480 that would have been fine if it actually was her 388 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:19,400 primary residence, which remember she is required to live in 389 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:27,559 the Washington, DC area due to her appointment, and she 390 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,960 got that appointment in May of twenty twenty two, so 391 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,960 that would be May, June, July August, so like four 392 00:21:34,039 --> 00:21:39,279 or five months before she listed the Atlanta condo for rent, 393 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,559 which means she wasn't living there as her primary residence 394 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,079 for like four or five months. I don't know what 395 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:49,680 the truth on any of this is. I don't know 396 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,720 where she was living because then there's also the property 397 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:56,920 in Michigan that she took the mortgage out on in 398 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,319 June of twenty one, as well. A review of her 399 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,599 federal government financial disclosures for calendar years twenty twenty two 400 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,359 and twenty twenty three indicate that she did not disclose 401 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:17,279 any rental income tied to the Atlanta address, which if 402 00:22:17,279 --> 00:22:21,200 she rented it, she would be making an income and 403 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:23,440 she would have to disclose that, and she did not 404 00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:28,960 disclose that. I wonder if the IRS is paying attention 405 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:38,319 to this later on. This is oh here it is again. 406 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:44,640 This is from strife at RedState dot com. You'll recall 407 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,640 Lisa Cook was outed as having plagiarized her published quote 408 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:55,559 unquote research. Cook is one of the world's most powerful economists. 409 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,839 This is a quote from a news article about her confirmation. 410 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:04,160 She taught economics at Harvard University and Michigan State University, 411 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,480 and served on the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisors. 412 00:23:08,799 --> 00:23:13,680 Despite her pedigree, questions have long persisted about her academic record. 413 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,680 Her publication history is remarkably thin for a tenured professor, 414 00:23:18,039 --> 00:23:24,720 and her published work largely focuses on race activism rather 415 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:29,559 than on rigorous quantitative economics. Her nomination to the FED 416 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,559 required Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie breaking vote, 417 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:40,599 which is very unusual. They usually get confirmed unanimously. In 418 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:46,279 twenty twenty two, investigative journalist Christopher Brunette pointed out that 419 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:51,519 despite billing herself as a macroeconomists, sorry, a macro economist, 420 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:57,880 Cook never published a peer reviewed macroeconomics article and had 421 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:02,640 misrepresented her publication history in her CV or her resume. 422 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,519 In a series of academic papers spanning more than a decade. 423 00:24:06,759 --> 00:24:10,880 Cook appears to also have copied language from other scholars 424 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:14,880 without proper quotation and duplicated her own work, and that 425 00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:20,000 of co authors in multiple academic journals without proper attribution. 426 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,240 This is a fantastic nominee by Joe Biden. Huh. The 427 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,480 FED has seven governors. One of those slots is currently vacant. 428 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,400 So you got jer own Powell appointed by Trump. His 429 00:24:36,519 --> 00:24:41,240 term ends in twenty twenty eight. Philip Jefferson Biden appointee. 430 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:45,519 His term goes through twenty thirty six. Michelle Bowman I 431 00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:50,039 believe the former congresswoman appointed by Trump. Her term goes 432 00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:55,319 through twenty thirty four. Christopher Waller trump appointment. His tenure 433 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,680 goes through twenty thirty Lisa Cook, Her term expires in 434 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,720 twenty thirty eight. Michael Barr Biden appointee through twenty thirty two. 435 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,359 And then there's the vacancy. But there's a guy named 436 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,920 Steven Moran who has been nominated but not yet confirmed. 437 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,359 So why is this important? 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Right, You got to check out incentive trip 455 00:26:12,039 --> 00:26:15,880 Kit for your business. Visit incentive tripkit dot com because 456 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,880 great trips deserve even better returns from the text line 457 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:27,079 driven by a liberty buick GMC. This from Danny. This 458 00:26:27,279 --> 00:26:30,799 mortgage fraud scheme is another example of the hypocrisy of 459 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:34,079 political norms. Run them up in this country. The very 460 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,519 people who should be held to an even higher standard 461 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:40,119 than the general public because they are in positions of 462 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,839 influence over that same general public want us to look 463 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,079 the other way for them, but we'll use the bully 464 00:26:47,079 --> 00:26:52,119 pulpit to shame others doing the exact same thing. Yeah, 465 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,000 this is the same thing that Letitia James got busted 466 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,480 for after going after Trump for this mortgage stuff. She 467 00:26:59,599 --> 00:27:03,519 got for it, right. She went after Trump for lying 468 00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:06,519 on about loan that everybody was happy with that did. 469 00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:09,400 They did all their due diligence, there were no victims, 470 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,880 government wasn't harmed, nobody was harmed. And that's what she 471 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:19,960 went after Trump over. And then she's accused of doing 472 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,240 the same thing that this woman Lisa Cook who's on 473 00:27:24,279 --> 00:27:27,720 the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, that she's alleged to 474 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:30,599 have done as well that Adam Schiff has also been 475 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,200 alleged that he did the same thing, claiming multiple primary 476 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:39,039 residences in order to get favorable mortgage rates. It's illegal, 477 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,920 you can't do it, it's perjury. You're signing an affidavit, 478 00:27:43,599 --> 00:27:51,680 you're attesting to the veracity of your application claims. And 479 00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:56,079 what they're outrage what marilynd Moseby remember her out of Maryland. 480 00:27:56,519 --> 00:27:58,839 Was she the attorney general. I think she went after 481 00:27:58,839 --> 00:28:05,960 Trump too. It's like there's a pattern here people. Bill Poulti, 482 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:12,839 who is the Federal Housing Finance Agency Director, he was 483 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:17,119 on CNBC. I've got two more clips. He said that 484 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,480 they make referrals to the Department of Justice for this 485 00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:22,279 kind of thing. They do this all the time. 486 00:28:22,519 --> 00:28:24,519 Speaker 4: And I'll tell you one thing, Carl, you ask how 487 00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:26,480 it covers my desk, cross my desk. I think a 488 00:28:26,519 --> 00:28:28,319 lot of people look the other way when stuff would 489 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,519 cross their desk. It doesn't matter who you are. If 490 00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:32,279 it comes across our desk and we see it, we're 491 00:28:32,279 --> 00:28:33,880 going to look at it. And when we open up 492 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,839 a tip line, Carl, the floodgates opened. And I'm sorry 493 00:28:36,839 --> 00:28:40,799 to say for politicians, but politicians unfortunately sometimes think that 494 00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:43,680 they're above the law. And no one is above the law. 495 00:28:43,759 --> 00:28:45,599 And if we see politicians doing it, they're going to 496 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,039 get treated just like everybody else. I mean, Carl, the 497 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:50,200 DOJ often prosecutes people for this. 498 00:28:50,319 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: Very crime precisely. But did you hear what he said there? 499 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,160 When they opened up a tip line, it opened the floodgates. 500 00:28:59,359 --> 00:29:03,759 Because all of the stuff, this is all public information. 501 00:29:05,119 --> 00:29:08,880 This happens every day. He said, politicians and the elites 502 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,799 are just shocked when it happens to them. 503 00:29:12,039 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 4: If you commit a crime and you have a reasonable 504 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:17,480 suspicion that somebody is committing a crime, that is cause. 505 00:29:17,559 --> 00:29:19,960 I mean, I don't know what cause is. If that's 506 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,079 not caused. I mean, this lady, I don't understand how 507 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:24,839 she can be in charge of setting interest rates for 508 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,000 our country and here she is potentially lying on her 509 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,880 applications to get better interest rates. Like, you know, we 510 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,160 have a huge economy. Why are we letting somebody like 511 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,920 this do this? She needs to explain herself, but unfortunately 512 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:38,839 it's in black and white, and I don't think it's 513 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,839 going away, And think, to be honest, I think she 514 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:42,920 needs to resign quickly. 515 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:50,519 Speaker 1: In both cases with Schiff and Leticia James, they bought property, 516 00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:54,119 they certified it as their primary residence, they got the 517 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,400 better loan terms, and in both cases they apparently lied. 518 00:29:57,559 --> 00:30:03,039 In Leticia James's case, the paper trail shows she deliberately lied. 519 00:30:05,279 --> 00:30:08,200 Now with this woman Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve, 520 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:14,160 why does this matter and why are people saying that 521 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:19,319 this is you know, political retribution, authoritarian stuff? Whatever? Okay, 522 00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:24,359 First off, if the allegations are true, then it's not weaponization. 523 00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:27,279 It's not lawfair, it's not authoritarianism. It is enforcing the 524 00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:30,759 law right. And if it came in via tip on 525 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:34,200 a tip line, they looked at it. Public documents show it. 526 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,640 Then you refer to the DOJ. You don't get special 527 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,039 treatment because you're on the federal Reserve. That's what the 528 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,119 rule of law means. Now. One of the downstream effects 529 00:30:44,119 --> 00:30:48,960 of this, though, is that there's a vacancy that's about 530 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,039 to be filled. You've got seven members on the board, 531 00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:59,000 and the board determines the interest rates, and Donald Trump 532 00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:02,200 has been saying he wants the interest rate to drop. 533 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:11,119 Jerome Powell, who Trump appointed, has resisted this. And there 534 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:16,519 was a vote at the last meeting and there were 535 00:31:16,519 --> 00:31:21,480 two votes to drop it and what four or four 536 00:31:21,559 --> 00:31:26,599 votes to keep it at its current level. Cook was 537 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,680 one of the votes to keep it at its current level. 538 00:31:29,279 --> 00:31:33,519 If she gets removed, now you have another vacancy, which 539 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:35,839 means you have two people on the board that want 540 00:31:35,839 --> 00:31:39,119 to drop the rate. You have two vacancies. Then that 541 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,119 Trump makes those appointments, one of them is about to 542 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,680 be confirmed. So if Trump gets another person on that board, 543 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:50,359 he's got four votes to drop interest rates. And I 544 00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:55,319 just heard today driving in Jerome Powell now citing economic data, 545 00:31:56,039 --> 00:32:01,079 is open to cutting the interest rates. Chris, welcome to 546 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:01,440 the show. 547 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,839 Speaker 5: Hello, Chris hey Man, Happy weekend. 548 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 1: For you, Yes, sir, Yeah you too. 549 00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:09,119 Speaker 4: Hey Hey. 550 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 5: I was going to say, I mean, you know, you 551 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,359 got three black women that are Democrats, and I'm wondering 552 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,440 are they going to get the same treatment that Adam 553 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:19,200 Shipp will get. 554 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: That's a good question. I don't know if race plays 555 00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:24,920 any role in this, but you are. I never mentioned 556 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,920 Lisa Cook's race, but she is a black female Democrat, 557 00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:30,000 as is Letitia James. 558 00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:33,759 Speaker 3: Ed Moseley and Mo. Yeah. 559 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 5: Oh, and if I may use your phraseology of Jim 560 00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:43,000 Zaki back to your first hour about Bolton. Yeah, unfortunately, 561 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:48,839 my remote turn to Morning Joe today. Right, no, listen. 562 00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:55,400 It is hilarious how they were spinning the invasion of 563 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,640 Bolton's house, right, you know, I think it was Stone. 564 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,480 Didn't Roger Stone get yepo marched out of his house 565 00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:07,480 about six o'clock in the morning or his door busted down? 566 00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 1: He did? Indeed, And in fact, what an ABC reporter 567 00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:13,480 or CNN was there live streaming it the entire time 568 00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:15,160 they got tipped off that it was going to happen. 569 00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 5: Oh well, they said they were just driving to the neighborhood. 570 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,920 Look what we found. Yeah, But the funny part about 571 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,799 it is they were bringing legal people on here. Pete 572 00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:29,640 on their show talking about is this Donald Trump's retribution? 573 00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:31,559 You damn right? Retribution? 574 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:31,799 Speaker 2: Right? 575 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,599 Speaker 1: So if you asked that question, is this retribution or 576 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:38,680 if you make the allegation, I think it's incumbent for 577 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:45,440 you to say retribution for what? Yeah, right, Like, obviously 578 00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:49,519 he feels like he's been done dirty. What exactly would 579 00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:53,039 he be engaging in retribution against you for in the 580 00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:55,759 first place, Chris, it's a great point. I appreciate it. 581 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,359 Thanks for the call. All right, that'll do it for 582 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,079 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could 583 00:34:02,079 --> 00:34:04,359 not do the show without your support and the support 584 00:34:04,359 --> 00:34:07,240 of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if 585 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,280 you'd like, please support them too and tell them you 586 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,400 heard it here. You can also become a patron at 587 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,480 my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. 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