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Speaker 2: Chadduam's your guest host, having a blast as always. Democrats
released this about a minute ago. House Democrats. Democrats are
fighting to make life better and more affordable for everyday Americans.
Republicans are cozying up to their billionaire donors and fighting
to make life easier for the ultra wealthy. The Party
of Soros. That's a lot of gol, right then, isn't
it the guy who like single handedly funds most of
their Antifa protests, who sat around while America burn and
said everything's fine. There's no problem with this find to
make life better and more affordable in what way? They're
anti capitalists? Nothing about, nothing about being anti capitalist makes
life better. They think government policies are making it better
and again more affordable. It's not making it more affordable
because all their policies are just redistributing wealth from one
group to another and claiming it's making it more affordable.
If I give you money that I took away from
someone who earned it, that didn't make it. May make
you things more affordable to you, but it didn't make
life better. It did nothing to discuss why things were expensive.
It did nothing. It's it's that And this is where
they're going. The affordable. You're gonna see the word affordable
and almost everything that drips out of a Democrat over
the next I don't know, twelve months, well now eleven months.
So for eleven months, you're going to hear that word
affordable or the next poll tested word for affordable. I
don't know what it'll be. They'll come up with one,
because the word affordable will wear it be, and then
they'll come up with another word for affordable to keep
on the pressure that they somehow even though they were
in power under Biden when inflation skyrocketed and they did
nothing about it. But they're going to how can you
fat that Rush used to say, how can you fool them? Today?
How can we fool them today? They're doing something for
the working class. What's fascinating is the working class turned
on them last year. The working class did not believe
Democrats were doing anything for them. And the Affordable Care Act,
it's a subsidizing a broken system and there's no way
that becomes cheaper or better. So until you address the
broken system, I think Democrats would do well and Republicans
both to figure out why the system is broken? What
about the system can they fix? But I just read that.
I was reading through that and I just thought it
was just so funny. You know what they can what
they can say in the way in which they're going
to conduct themselves. You know, Senator Mark Kelly, that's when
the made the video. He just he had released this
is what is at stake for a typical family of
for in youma Arizona. Come January, these sorts of increases
will be felt by millions of Americans across the country.
But there's still a chance to prevent it. Republicans could
vote with us to extend premium support. And it's talking
about the monthly premium for a silver HMO plan versus
twenty twenty five versus twenty twenty six acl healthcare rate
cost increases for a married couple making seventy four thousand
a year, and it's showing it going from forty eight
to six seventy three. Again, voting for to extend premium
support does not address the issue of why, because health
insurance is not health care. But Mark Kelly and Democrats again,
what they're the sad reality. There's an old saying that
Democrats are afraid that you're well. Republicans are afraid you're
not going to understand what it is they're trying to achieve,
and Democrats are afraid that you will. And I don't
mean that this sounds so partisan, but what I mean
is it takes a lot more from me to explain
how the free market works. That the best way to
drive down prices is to introduce competition, to let the
best built mouse trap win, to allow it to proliferate,
to allow a new challenge. When you look at where
Kmart was and then Walmart, and you look at Taria
and then you look at Amazon, you see who's going
to replace Amazon? And each incremental change adds value, adds value,
adds opportunity, adds access to you. It makes it better.
You know, the reason you see advertised iPhone seventeens is
because it's much better than iPhone four was. The reason
you see Galaxy and Samsung and all these other droid droids,
all these droids advertised, is because they want to compete
with Apple. How do they compete with Apple by making
a better phone, so it gets cheaper and better, cheaper
and better, cheaper and better. That's the goal. And that's
how free enterprise and capitalism works. And if free enterprise
and capitalism was allowed to proliferate in medicine, think about
that cheaper and better. So if medicine was cheaper and better,
wouldn't more Americans be served by that? Rather than just saying, Hey,
I'm Senator Mark Kelly, I'm a Democrat. I'm going to
give you more subsidies to give to a broken system
that doesn't really care about you, and make sure insurance
go through the roof. But we're going to seizes so
you'll feel better about what you're getting ripped off to get.
Doesn't make it easier for you to get to the doctor,
doesn't make it easier for you to get the care.
And you know, when you watch a medical show, and
you're like, hey, we're just going to order up an
MRI and get a cat scan on that. Then we're
going to get a spinal tap and go down and
then like they show magically like these tests happened in
an hour in the patient's back of the room and
they're discussing the results. Does that ever happen for you
ever other than a trauma unit? Of course it doesn't.
You spend weeks trying to get maybe the MRI, then
you're hopefully you get the cat scan, then maybe you
whatever whatever test they aren't instant? Does it work like
that in the real world? Works really well? In like
a one hour drama good friend, true story. Need he
needed some test run? He actually needed He was in
a horrid This is down in southeast North Carolina. He
was in horrific pain. He had a bladder related issue.
He needed a surgical procedure. They knew it was a bladderstone,
they knew how to fix it. A month and a
half in screaming pain before you could get the procedure done.
That is a broken healthcare system. When he finally was
able to talk to the surgeon after the delirium of
the pain and the procedure. He said, why did it
take so long? And he said, well, you could have
called the emergency room and they said, well, the emergency
room would have just called you guys. And it's a
scheduling thing because there aren't there's no free market at
work in healthcare. There's no competition in healthcare, so there's
no obligation. And it's not that the doctors don't care.
It's not that there aren't great nurses. It's because the
system is broken and we do have hospital cartels and
we don't have competition. You don't know what you're paying
for healthcare unless you're with a health share kind of picture.
But you know, you have no idea what you're paying,
and your insurance companies aren't telling you, and you think
they're negotiating on your behalf. They don't care. The insurance
companies really don't care about you that much. You're just
a number and whatever the hospital says they're charging for something,
and then the insurance says that we saved a little
money there. They didn't. Really. It's like saying, hey, we
have a fifty percent off sale and things weren't really
fifty percent of the price. Acted like it was. That's
the lunacy that is our healthcare system. And so when
you get a bill, oh, look how much you actually
are responsible for, and your healthcare premiums are through the roof,
and you look at how much money your employer, and
maybe you add all that together and look at that
on an annualized basis. If you're under the age of
like forty or thirty, that's just tens of thousands of
dollars that are just into the system that you probably
never even used. And then when you do need it,
there's questions about the test and whether you can get
that test or not get that test. Is you're just
a number on a table. And so Mark Kelly, with
all due respect you and the Democrats, why don't y'all actually,
if you really cared about people, you'd actually be concerned
about bringing the actual cost down, not the subsidy. The
subsidies go up to bring it to make it look
like the costs come down. So spare me the false
premise that you're helping with health care in any way,
because you're you're not substanutally helping with health care. Make it.
It's not better than it was when affordable health care
Affordable Care Act. It's not cheaper, it's not better or not.
But more doctors, not more access. So spare me anyway,
that sounded like I was angry. I'm not angry. I'm
frustrated because we're better than this. We're better than this
as Americans, and here in Charlotte, this area, great doctors,
great hospitals, but there is a cartel there and you
know it. You know, every one of you listening to
this know how difficult it is and how expensive it
is and how confusing it is when you get that
letter after you paid your cope and they're like, well,
actually you owe a little bit more. Wait, but I
thought I paid my cope. But I don't understand this
and why that's negotiation and you don't get a straight answer,
and they're like, that's just the way it is. Yeah,
Merry Christmas. You know.
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ladies didn't go to Ukraine. He should be in Ukraine, well,
secretary of war they're trying to end a war with there.
He's down to Dominican overseeing what the heck's going on
in Venezuela, off the coast of Venezuela. What happens next
in that one forum? So we'll see me again. I
went through the entire what happens when the dominoes start
falling in that area of operations, and it's significant. Don't
want to repeat that because we did that yesterday over
the weekend. This is from issues and Insights. Over the weekend,
we learned that the Golden State California, loses one taxpayer
to another state every minute and faces an eighteen billion
dollar budget shortfall, five billion higher than was projected just
a few months ago. We also learned that now ten
months after wildfire has destroyed thousands of buildings in the
LA area, has the first home been rebuilt one The
stories are yet more evidence. I say, those just those
two lines alone should be pretty damned. So California, the
geniuses that run the state, we're looking at the shortfall.
What kind of budget shortfall we're going to have eight
you know, we're just going to have a thirteen billion
dollars shortfall now as the lineerrout June, it's stay thirteen
eighteen billion dollars shortfall. By the way, north count of
budget I think is now around twenty five could be wrong,
twenty five twenty six billion, So that's how short. They're
eighteen billion short and they're losing one taxpayer every minute,
every minute, TikTok TikTok, twenty four hours a day, seven
days a week. That's how many people are leaving the state.
And now, so all those wildflyers destroyed, why can't they rebuild?
Because they're permitting process. Their approval process is so mired
in regulations that they can't get stuff done. There's plenty
of people that want to build. There's plenty of insurance, it's
ready to help them build. You can build, but you
can't because the government can't allow you, because they can't
get their permits done. The National Taxpayer's Union Foundation used
IRS data to calculate how many taxpayers are moving into
and out of the state, but it found was stunning.
California losing taxpayer at a rate of one every minute
forty four seconds, fastest of any state in the nation.
The report also cautions that even the outlook about California's
optimistic because the current AI stock bubble is masking the
state's dire fiscal situation. It's ridiculously dependent on capital gains taxes.
With so much enthusiasms surrounding enthusiasms surrounding AI, it now
appears time to take seriously the notion that the stock
market has become over here, eat it, it warns. But
they're in trouble in California. Fiscally, they're in trouble. And
yet the possible front runner for the presidency for the
Democrats is Gavin Newsom. Charismatic, great on his feet, talking
about stuff. Doesn't mean it has to matter, doesn't mean
it has to be factual, doesn't mean it has to
have there's no veracity to it, but it sounds good.
So you'll see that that California isn't. Now I say that,
why is Chad talking about California? Why do I care?
Why should I care? Because Charlotte, which I used to
think legitimately and I could be wrong, had Atlanta envy.
In other words, whatever Atlanta had, Charlotte wanted to have.
So there was kind of an aspiration, we need to
get a lightrail system because Atlanta's got one, the Marta
system in Atlanta, but you don't so lightrail, and it
wanted to be like But I'm thinking more and more
it's not that it wants to be Atlanta. It wants
to be you know, someone said it earlier. It wanted
to be like San Francisco with grits. The problem is
that the cities, and maybe it's not even that Charlotte
leader are aware that they seem to be becoming like
Chicago or La or San Francisco. It's not maybe they
aren't aware that that's the direction they're headed in, but
nonetheless that's the direction the train is pointed the future
of Charlotte. But for some actions like IRENA's law, is
definitely pointed in the wrong direction for the citizens of Charlotte.
Will they wake up from that? I do not know,
So we'll see. And by the way, well, I was
gonna talk about the La fires and what was actually
very destructive, but I wanted wanted to get to that,
just that California is not where Charlotte should aspire to
be like. And once when people start identifying the similarities,
they should point them out. Let's see. I did want
There's a Psychology Today. I don't want to spend a
lot of time on it, but it's talking about as
the Democrats ramp up their rhetoric about affordability and tax
the rich and the billionaires are bad. I was reading
the Psychology Today article and it was kind of interesting.
It said the headline said, are the rich really more
selfish and mean than everyone else. Now, I don't know
how they define the rich, but it said. Research suggests
that wealthy people tend to be less altruistic and more selfish.
I think that a lot of foundations would disagree, but okay.
Studies of drivers have shown that the more expensive the car,
the less considerate the driver. Now, the irony there is
that doesn't necessarily mean you're rich. A lot of people
live that have very nice cars, that don't live in
very fancy houses. And it's because people see you in
your cars, or as that was told to me one time,
I said, why do you drive this car when you
live here? Well, people see me in my car. Studies
the driver show that more expensive car, less considerate. The
desire to be wealthy often correlates with a state of disconnection. Often, okay,
disconnection creates a sense of incompleteness and a deficit in empathy.
In other words, whe they're trying to say is if
you're wealthy, you're a psychopath. So we'll see now when
you get to the end, they try to backtrack on
the research a long article. I'm not going to go
through it, but overall evidence suggests that wealthy people are
unlikely to attain contentment they seek through money alone. Their
wealth and status don't take away their sense of incompleteness. Okay,
if you're Biblically based, you know that that's absolutely The
pursuit of money in and of itself will never make
you happy, and any kind of Christian ethic would tell
you that. But we'll see again. You're going to see
more articles like this. You're going to see more. It
is going to be a concerted effort to create the
class warfare leading in a next year's election.
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Speaker 2: It is since we are heading into Thanksgiving, it's worth
knowing that the reason we even have a Thanksgiving is
really the repudiation of a socialism type structure and the
adoption of capitalism. And I will say unapologetically capitalism is
the greatest creator of wealth and security of any system
that's ever been devised by humans on the planet Earth.
Period end of discussion full stop. There's nothing even close.
There's no form of government, there's no nothing that has
come close. But let's let's try to kick things off
here see how it goes. This is by This is
Mark Perry's version of this one, and he's from AEI,
and John Stossel has done one. Several people have done this,
but it's based on William Bradford's diaries. William Bradford, the
governor of that colony there four hundred years ago. He
documented everything that went on with that colony, good and bad.
It's it's it's it is. It is a first person account.
It is it is biblical with respect to the documentation
that transpired with that colony on this continent and the
origins of Thanksgiving provides some very important economic lessons about
the dismal failure of Bernie Standal or Sanders style socialism,
collectivism and common property that resulted in the starvation and
death of for the early pilgrims, the subsequent success of
private property, the profit motive and capitalism that led to
prosperity and abundance that we celebrate to this day. Here's
some of the accounts of that lesson. So lesson number
one from a capitalist Thanksgiving and Jerry Bauer wrote this
part and it's based on Governor William Bradford's not Stuff.
The first Thanksgiving was the celebration of abundance. After a
period of socialism and starvation, the members of the colony,
the Plymouth Colony, had arrived with a plan for collective
property ownership. It's what their sponsors basically wanted collective, reflecting
the current opinion of the aristocratic class in the sixteen twenties.
Their charter called for farmland to be worked communally. In
other words, here's all the farmland, you guys go out
and work it, and for the harvest to be shared.
So go out, you guys, work it very communal, and
y'all share and everybody will get what they need. You
probably won't be surprised to hear that they starved because
men were not willing to go into the fields and
work to feed somebody else's kids, and the women were
unwilling to cook for other women's husbands. The fields didn't
get tilled and didn't get planted. Famine came. As soon
as they ate through the provisions they had. After famine came,
plague half of the colony died. Unlike most socialists, they
learned from their mistake. Giving each person a parcel land
to tend for themselves, the colonists threw off the status
intellectual fashions of the day. The results were overwhelmingly beneficial. Then,
once they had property of their own, they worked their property,
even though before they had constantly said they were sick
and they couldn't do it. Fields were not only tilled
and planted, but all they were harvested. The colonists traded
with the surrounding Indian nation at the time it wasn't violent,
and learned to plant maize, squash, pumpkin, and to rotate
these crops from year to year. The harvest was bountiful.
The new colonists immigrated to the Driving Settlement. Why the
Pilgrims abandoned common ownership for private property? Larry Reid wrote
this portion. The first few years of the settlement were
fought with hardship and hunger. Four centuries later, they provide
us one of history's most decisive verdicts on the critical
import into private property. We should never forget that the
Plymouth Colony was headed straight for oblivion under a communal
socialist plan, but saved itself when to embraced something different.
In the diary by William Bradford, you can read about
their initial arrangement. Land again was held in common. Crops
were brought for, brought to a common storehouse. In other words,
whatever you raise, you put in the common storehouse, not
for your family, but for anybody that wanted to eat it.
And for two years every person had to work for
everybody else, not for themselves as individuals or families. Did
they live happily a rafter in that socialist phenomenon utopia?
You know they didn't, because I just read the first version.
The common property approach killed half of them. Governor Bradford
recorded in his diary that everybody was happy to claim
their equal share of production, but production shreank, slackers showed
up late for work, and the hard workers resented. It's
called human nature. The disincentives of the socialist scheme bred impoverishment, conflict,
facing starvation, and extinction. Bradford altered the system, and he
divided the property into private property. Basically a little bit
even before John Locke recognized it. Private property is what
saved them, had he not? Now, if just just think
about the governor Bradford for a minute, had he they
knew after two years they were going to die because
they weren't. They didn't have any self It sounds like
a selfish reason, but they weren't protecting their own families.
And Stossel, and I think John Stossel to this day,
if you ever want to look at the videos about that,
Stossel had had done it beautifully. And what he said
was that the answer to what the Pilgrims faced was
to divide the commune into parcels, assign everybody their own property.
As Bradford put it, they set corn for every man
for his own particular, assigned every family of parcel. The
pilgrim simply changed to private ownership, which Bradford then wrote
made all hands very industrious. So as much more corn
was planted than otherwise would have been and sued they
had plenty, They had abundance, They had thanksgiving, They had
a lot to be thanksgiving, thanks thankful for so the
original lesson and those are three different versions of it
that you can look it up. You know why socialism
failed to twenty eight They can look at updates on that.
But the point is when they all got together and
they first set it up. It was a the sixteen
to twenty version of they again, we can revise history
all we want, but that time the elites were like, hey,
y'all be a commune. Y'all are going to work together
as a communal And it did not work because people
wanted other people to provide for them, much the way
the welfare state works today. It ends up failing, and
the only way it works is when you take stuff
from people who work hard for it. So what we
have in our society is a growing discontent because a
certain group of individuals feel entitled to It's not that
they that they want it, they feel entitled to. The
welfare state. Obama Caralt has created a sense of entitlement
within a significant portion of our society. Now that's bad enough,
and that's dangerous because if that group, if those entitlements
are ever taken away or removed, or people are forced
to work for things, that could create a very violent
situation amongst people that feel entitled. You find this with
a lot of people that young folks. You see that
sense of entitlement, and not with welfare but in general
about what they think they're owed. They feel like they're eighteen,
they're nineteen, they're twenty. They feel they're owed something. But
the flip side of that resentment, which is to me
just as dangerous, is the resentment from the people that
are working, that are paying the taxes, that are getting
up every day and working very hard to provide for
their family, and some that have done well and they
feel like they look at that paycheck and they look
at what's taken out of it, and they look at
where it's redistributed, and they look at what they're not
getting out of it. So is that an incentive if
you're on the bubble, is an incentive for you not
to work or to work harder. But it's also resentment
from those who have achieved success and feel like more
and more of theirs is being taken to give to
people who aren't working for themselves because it's it's not
a safety net anymore. And that's the sad reality it
was originally designed. I think there was an altruism there
that government. People in government felt that there would be
this altruistic government is a charity, and government's going to
help all these people, and it ended up becoming a crutch,
a wheelchair. It became a dependency. It is an addiction,
and we have an addiction to these entitlements that are
not screened for whether people can work or not. And nothing.
I mean, there's so much about hard work that makes
you a better person and makes you prouder that even
I can remember working in fields in the summer with
my nothing man, I slept better than ever. I remember that.
I remember being tired, but I remember the feeling of
accomplishment when you work hard, so worth knowing. That's the
original Thanksgiving, That's how it worked out, and that's why
we have it. So all this colonialism and anti colonial
all this gnashing of tea, look at what actually happened there.
Read it for yourself. It was a very very different
story than you were probably taught.
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Speaker 2: It's that's not on the wires, but it's certainly in
social media. I don't know what it is, but I'll
pass it along again. I'm not I can't. It says
seen two National Guard soldiers have been shot outside the
White House. Three casualties being reported shoot or reportedly still
in the loose law enforcement racing all throughout the city.
I don't Again, multiple people that I do follow and
trust have posted that I don't know if it's true
or not, but enough people are saying it, so I
don't know. Just something to be aware of now, getting
onto something that's kind of got a little bit of
an ick factor to it, you'll you'll have to determine
your own where you are on this sliding scale. By
the way, Chad, I'm sitting in for Pete Calendard, News
Talk eleven to ten ninety nine three WBT five to
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don't know that you've given much thought to it. I'll
throw it out there, but how much time have you
kind of spent looking at your bed. So I had
two stories I was gonna get to and one of
them is about your bed sheets, and the others about UFOs. Now,
the UFO i'll all say is the Age of Disclosure
has been released now apparently on Amazon Prime. I'm looking
for I'm going to check it out. Okay, it's it's
you know, it's talking about a lot of names you
would know they're in this from Chris Kristen gillibrand Marco
Rubio and others that are interviewed about the UAP phenomenon
UFO phenomenon for those who come from a little bit
older than the age of twenty five, so it should
be very interesting. I've heard a lot of great comments
about it. I want to check it out and see
if it's any good. So if you get a chance
to check it out. Of the disclosure thing about ups, now,
what do you the how often do you change your sheets?
And how often do you think you should change your sheets?
Says We're getting into the thanksgoing holidays and you're probably
I did putting clean sheets on the bed for all
the company that's coming. We'll all spend a third of
our lives in beds, shedding skin sweating, depositing, and see
this is not a pleasant conversation to have, but you
throw in other things like pets and partners and account
for factors like hygiene and illness. Our beds are micro
environments in and of themselves, and so bed hygiene is
just as important for your health. A twenty twenty two
you Go survey of British folks found that a third
thirty six percent change their bed sheets once a fortnight,
while a little less twenty eight percent do once a week.
A clean two percent do it more often than that.
Twenty percent of Britain's report sleeping on the same sheets
for three or four weeks, and four percent did so
every two months. In the US, about one thousand people
on average, the survey of a thousand found that the
average American washes their sheets every twenty four days. Are
you one of those folks? Are you one of that thousand?
The average American washes their sheets every twenty four days.
I'm not trying to be a clean freak or anything,
but come on twenty four days. If they were to
see their sheets under a microscope, they might have second thoughts.
Our skin is home to millions of different bacteria and
fung guy not to mention viruses, some of which make
their way to your bedding, while most this is just
not a pleasant conversation to have, is it. I mean,
as I'm reading it now, it sounds much less skin
bacteria is on their potential other things and tested dwellers,
staff infections, respiratory viruses, rhinoviruses, gut viruses all there on
your sheets. Now you're gonna look at your sheets. You go, oh,
listen to that during Chad and now like looking at
my sheets. You know there'll probably be a record number
of sheets being washed that are WBT listeners tonight. Our beds,
along with carpets, curtains and other materials, also home to
dust mites. The dangers of a dirty bed so when
they paint a picture of it. Tube sheets and public
toilets are cleaned every day, but your bed sheets aren't.
So I'm done. I rest my case. Dust mites be
you know. It's just I'm looking through it and I
can't believe I picked this out, But I'm gonna keep going.
Humidity supports bacterial growth. Our beds get sweaty even in
the cooler months. Given we spend much of the day
in bed. That's a lot pathogens. Diseases, viruses also transfer
to your sheets, making hygiene important. Dirty bed can make
you more susceptible to those pathogens if you're vulnerable as
you get older, or if you're pregnant, or you have
a immune condition, or you're in chemotherapy. But there's a
price side. If you're in good health, you don't have
much to fear from your sheets. It will not make
us sick if we sleep in a dirty bed. It
may even protect us, supporting growth of friendly bacteria and
training up our immune system to respond onto threats. In
this case, the biggest repercussion from sleeping in the filth
that is our sheets is likely to be social. The
way it smells, you don't like it much, But if
you shower in the mornings, the sheets aren't a problem.
The short answer, there's a strong case for keeping your
sleeping quarters clean if the pleasure of drifting off in
fresh sheets is an incentive enough. It's a matter of
how gross is too gross, how clean is too clean.
But you may not know how dirty your bed is
in the first place. After all, if we're only sleeping,
where does it all the bacteria come from? So they
go through the good side, they go through the best.
I'm trying to get to how often you should really
watch your sheets, and it looks like, you know, ugh,
it looks like about once a week is when you
should try to do it, because it goes on when
it starts talking about pets, I just can't read that
because you would be really grossed out. You got to
think about your cats, right, your furry cat that's in
their bed and you're like, oh, you so sweet, it
is so amazing. But remember your cat goes to a
litter box and it scratches around in that little box
because the greatest thing of the world, right, you put
that new litter and they can't wait to get in it,
and they're scratching around in the filth that is them, right,
And then they take that to your bed and I
don't mean to say the word right. I'm not going
to say the word right again, but they scratch around
and then they get in bed with you. Look up
whether those feet had been your dog that goes out
in the yard. What did your dog sometimes grab and
eat and put and walk through that's in your bed.
It's not just the pathogens that are with you and
on you. It's them too, so and then how often
do you shower? Do you get in there after you've
been dirty all day? But you know, I why did
I even? I don't even when I'm looking at this,
I can't believe I picked that on Thanksgiving A twenty
twenty five. I could have gone out on a really
high note, good on it, something amazing, and I picked
bed sheets. And if I read this to you, you
guys would want to shower from now until Thanksgiving. You
wouldn't even see your fan. The good news is put
clean sheets on your bed when your company comes, and
when they leave, promptly strip the beds and wash the sheets.
And while you're doing it, wash your own sheets. That
should be one way to do it. That would be
an absolute way to do it. So I'm going to
go back to the aliens. I do want to give
you a final thing on the dal Joneses and p
all of those up to day, Dow up almost a point,
Nasdaq app almost a point, and the markets I mean,
I mean a point a percentage point. So these are
pretty tremendous gains heading into the Thanksgiving weekend. Back to
the UFO discovery thing, because it's much more interesting as
we get to the top of the hour. The UAPs
formerly known as UFOs, have been visiting Earth for decades,
and the US government knows about it. According to the
new documentary The Age of Disclosure, it's one hundred and
ten minute independently made documentary by Dan Farah. Farah, a
debut director, spent three years making this seeking out sources
with direct knowledge of the government's work in it. While
the film could have been dismissed as conspiracy theory theory,
he sought to boost credibility from interviewing thirty members of
the US government, from high ranking folks that I just
mentioned earlier, like Marco Rubio to people in that community.
The film also includes clips from congressional hearings about UAPs
and makes clear that there is a major by hype
artisan support for the proposed Disclosure Act, and in fact,
Trump or a subsequent president would likely have a massive
impact by disclosing the truth of what is going on there.
I think it's only a matter of time before the
release of the film is followed by a sitting president
stepping to the podium and telling the world We're not
alone in the universe, said the director. It's the most
significant moment a leader could possibly have. One of the
key voices in the film is Jay Stratton, former Defense
Intelligence Agency official and director of the government's UAP Task Force.
I have seen, he said, with my own eyes, non
human craft, non human beings, he says. And so if
you I'm not trying to promote it, over it, but
check it out if you can.
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