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You know, most Americans believe the country's heading in the wrong direction. All the polls show that, and by a wide margin. And one of the big reasons we are heading in the wrong direction is lack of accountability. Politicians and others are getting away with a lot. And the reason it is easier to be a miscreant is that the corrupt media doesn't really cover the news anymore. It does not tell you the truth. It's ideological. It slants the news.

It spins the news, all right, which is why we do the no-spin news. Anyway, the reason this is happening is because money has taken over from professionalism. And I'm speaking generally, but you know, because we've done a lot of reporting on this, in the media. And that is a subject of this evening's talking points memo. This is a very interesting story. So on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, I wrote a column. That's a Sunday. And the column said that on network TV, ABC, CBS, NBC, there are literally no conservative or traditional

voices heard. They've been banned. Talking late night TV, early morning TV, we're talking in the newscasts. You will not find a conservative voice on those three networks. And we told you in the column, it's because of the management. Okay, they don't hire people. And they won't even book a guest most of the time, particularly if the guest supports Donald Trump. So six days later, after that column, all right, NBC announces it has hired Ronna McDaniel, the former head of the Republican National Committee, as a pundit. I'm going to pay her to be on their air. Okay, almost immediately there was a revolt among NBC News personnel objecting to the hiring of Ms. McDaniel. And almost immediately, the president of NBC News, Rebecca Blumenstein, panicked and folded and said,

oh, Ms. McDaniel will never appear on MSNBC, just on NBC News. That did not calm the liberal employees of NBC News. So yesterday, Ms. McDaniel showed up on Meet the Press and was immediately grilled by Kristen Welker. Go. Did you not have a responsibility as the RNC chair to say before January 6th, the election is not rigged that Donald Trump lost, given that there were audits, given that there were more than 60 court cases that occurred on? all across the country. And that Donald Trump lost. The reality is Joe Biden won. He's the president. He's the legitimate president. I have always said, and I continue to say, there were issues in 2020. I believe that both can be true. Okay. So the crux of the matter is that Ms. McDaniel made

a mistake by trying to influence people not to certify the electoral vote. in January of 2021. That was a mistake on her part. Should she be canceled forever because of that? Banished? Because of that? According to the NBC personnel, yes. So she made a mistake.

She now admits that Joe Biden won the election, but no, no. You make that mistake, you're gone. Canceled out, banished. Okay, according to this people at NBC. But interestingly enough, if you are on the left side of the specter may make a mistake, no, that's okay. That's all right. So in a sane world, Ms. McDaniel admits her mistake, but you can't have an opinion that the election of 2020 was flawed.

You can't say it as fact, which is what she did and others did. You say it as fact, that's wrong, and the huge judgment against the Fox News Channel proves that. You can say it's my opinion that there was something wrong in that election. Look, Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into a few American counties. It's never been explained where that money went. Yeah, I got some questions about that because I hold that opinion. Should I be canceled? Yes, absolutely, on the part of the networks.

So, this was pretty bold. Chuck Todd, who was fired as meet the press anchor because of low ratings and his sneering condescension toward anybody who wasn't agreeing with him, he went on right after Ronna McDaniel with with Kristen Welker. Roll the tape. I think our boss is owe you an apology for putting you in this situation because I don't know what to believe. She is now a paid contributor

by NBC News. And so when NBC made the decision to give her NBC News's credibility, you've got to ask yourself, what does she bring NBC News? And when we make deals like this, and I've been at this company a long time, you're doing it for access, access to audience. Well, that's true.

NBC is hemorrhaging viewers. I mean, MSNBC, they don't even get two million people in prime time to watch it. It's insane. The 120 million homes with TV in America, they can't even get two million. That's how bad it is. So, yeah, they'd like to get some Republicans to watch them. That's why they hired it. And plus, guys like me are hammering them for being 100% liberal network.

All right. So they go, oh, no, no, we have Ron McDonnell. All right. But Ms. Welker's participation in all, this is fascinating as well. Let's go back to the debate, the GOP debate, on November 8, 2003, where Kristen Welker was one of the moderators. Roll it. Chris, I'm going to use this time, because this is actually about you in the media and the corrupt media establishment, ask you the Trump-Russia collusion hopes that you pushed on this network for years. Was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made up disinformation? There you go. Welker didn't have any answer for that. NBC News embraced the phony Russian collusion thing at a level that has never been seen because of MSNBC. Every night they convicted the Trump

organization, the Trump campaign, Donald Trump himself, of colluding with Russia. Every blanket in night, they did it. So they should cancel themselves, right? Right? Didn't they push a false narrative? Of course they did. So if Ronna McDaniel pushed a false narrative, which she did, I'm not making an equivalency here. I'm just showing hypocrisy. And it really is, really is. So I wrote a message of the day on bill o'Reilly.com about this thing to clarify it in very specific ways. But you get it. NBC is in serious trouble. When the inmates, to use a cliche, run the asylum, you've lost control. Okay, we really have. And that's a memo. All right, Joe Biden did nothing again today. And this, of course, is nothing unusual.

He just doesn't do anything. Meantime, February was a record for migrant crossings up 18% over February 23. It's really stunning. Almost 200,000 migrants crossed into the USA in February, in the middle of winter, cold. There they come. Biden could do something. It doesn't do it. Doesn't even work. Doesn't care.

Said it a million times, and a million times it's true. All right, let's go to Donald Trump. You got a break today. An appeals court in New York State says you don't have to pay a half billion dollars just to pay $175 million in bond. He has 10 days to come up with the $175 million. I don't know. I guess he could do it. I don't know. I do know that trying to get, they being the Trump lawyers, the whole New York state case, which is a civil case, okay, into the federal system, saying this is cruel and unusual punishment, Eighth Amendment,

all of that. But today it was a good day for Donald Trump. On the other front, hush money, the trial is supposed to start April 15th. Okay, now this is a criminal trial in New York. The other one, the other judgment was civil. This would be criminal. Okay, that Trump forged documents to cover up Stormy Daniels, you know, you know the whole thing. But there's going to be appeal after appeal after appeal after appeal. Now remember, this case is in Manhattan.

So Trump has no chance. He has no chance in Manhattan, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. The case never would have been brought in 30 states. But in Manhattan, if the trial does start on April 15th, Trump is guilty. He has no chance at all in this. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and silver.

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Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, and even the president of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. All right, McLaughlin poll, interesting poll, about Trump's prosecutions. Thousand-likely voters, Democrat 36, Republican 36, and to bid to 28. Fair poll. First question, how much a role would you say politics has played in the indictments against former President Trump? A role, 67%. No role, 27%.

How much of a role would you say Joe Biden has played in the indictments of Trump? Roll 58? No role 33. Do you agree or disagree that Biden's Justice Department should stop targeting Donald Trump? Agree 58, disagree 34. Final question, since Donald Trump leads Joe Biden for president in many polls, do you think these investigations and indictment by the Biden's Justice Department are being done to stop Trump from running for president? Again, yes, 52, no.

38. So big pluralities shows you that Americans understand what's going on here. Okay, and that's good news. Now to Georgia. So this attorney of Fannie Willis, you all know, had an affair with her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, who just happens to be her top prosecutor that she hired for a lot of money, and then Wade and Fonnie go all over the place on trips, and this looks really bad. Really bad. But Fonni says, hey, I didn't do anything wrong. Go. I don't feel like my reputation needs to be reclaimed. Let's say it for the record. I'm not embarrassed by anything I've done. We were still doing the case in the way that it needed to be done. I don't feel like we've been slowed down at all. I do think that there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming.

Well, our train was almost derailed and still might be because of all these shenanigans down in Fulton, County, Georgia. And joining us is from Atlanta. As Congressman Barry Lattermilk, he is the chairman of the Sud Committee on Oversight in the House of Representatives. Mr. Lattermilk is looking into Fannie Willis, and we're pleased to have him on the no-spin news this evening. So why are the feds involved in looking at Fannie at this point, Congressman? Well, Bill, thanks first for having me on. Well, this has been part of a bigger investigation that my subcommittee has been leading at the direction of then Speaker Kevin McCarthy to look into what really happened on January 6,

how was there a security failure, but also the select committee on January 6th. So what led us into Fannie Willis was during our investigation, we uncovered information that the select committee on January 6 was actively working with Fannie Willis, sharing information during the course of their investigation. Now, this is highly unprecedented. It's not unusual for a House committee or a select committee to turn over a criminal referral to the Department of Justice or someone where at the conclusion of an investigation.

But they were working with her during the investigation sharing information. What's concerning to a lot of people is we have uncovered irrefutable evidence that this committee, the select committee, was suppressing any evidence that didn't line up with their preconceived narrative about Donald Trump organizing and executing the riots on January 6th. Okay. Let me stop you there because we want to keep it very, very vivid here, very simple. So Liz Cheney's committee, and, you know, we all know about that. And I think it's been established. They did suppress information. Anything that was a sculpatory, they didn't put, you know,

they put it at the end, and they diminished it. But this is a state beef in Georgia. And when you have a federal entity, the January 6th committee, House of Representatives, cooperating with a state beef, that is highly unusual, is it not? It is. It is. I mean, I haven't seen this happen before, but also engaging multiple times, including with Ms. Cassidy Hutchinson. If you remember, she's the one who came up with the sensational stories about...

Yeah, we debunked her. She was working directly with them as well. She was working with Fannie Willis, right? So we debunk Ms. Hutchinson. I mean, it was a load of garbage, and she made a lot of money on a book off of it, too. Now, there have been reports that Nathan Wade, the boyfriend, the top prosecutor for Ms. Willis and her paramour, visited the White House. Did you look into that?

Do you have anything on that? We are in cooperation with Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer, who's chair of the Oversight Subcommittee, we're looking into that aspect. We have multiple jurisdictional boundaries there, but Jim Jordan and I have teamed up together. He's looking into the visits to the White House while I'm looking into what information was given to Fannie.

And did she receive any of the exculpatory information that we ended up turning up that you never saw in public? But it would be very unusual for a state prosecutor, okay, Nathan Wade, to get admittance into the White House to talk to the White House. That looks like the Biden White House was coordinating. And that would be, talking about impeachable, that would be a huge story if it happened. Did it happen? Do you have evidence that Wade went to the White House and talked to White House people? according to my conversations with Jim Jordan, who's leading that aspect of it, he believes that it did happen. I don't have the efforts myself, but you're right.

I mean, your poll numbers are showing the American people know that this is politically driven. Well, that's true. But if Jordan, that's a headline for Jordan, and I'd like to have it defined. Now, the trial about the conspiracy, Trump is charged with the special counsel, all right, Smith. that he was involved with trying to overthrow the government on January 6th. I don't believe he's going to be convicted because there is exculpatory evidence all day long. But you have centered in on the valet to the White House. Tell us about that. Well, we started looking early on trying to look through all the documentation. The select committee turned over to us,

and we found out that we had a lot of missing documentation. We did, find some transcribed interviews have been sent to the White House. Now, these were White House employees that had direct access to the president and the vice president on January 6th. Now, some of the crazy tales that we got out of Mrs. Hutchinson included the engagements with the valet, the president threw food onto the floor. He was so angry about things, as well as that he agreed that Mike Pence should be hanged. And several comments that were supposedly made according to Ms. Hutchinson. Well, under the Valet's testimony, which was what we released was heavily redacted

because these were military personnel that were apolitical and they're just trying to protect the identity and I understand that. But there is enough information in the unredacted portions to show that that wasn't the case. And this is the person who was side by side with President Trump that day, who never heard him make these statements that, yes, Mike Pence should be hung or called him some very vulgar names. And so it basically debunked that portion of her testimony. And that was under oath, right? His testimony was under oath, the valet. Exactly. And when you include that with Tony Ornado,

who was the deputy chief of operations at the White House, his missing testimony, which we made public a couple of weeks ago, totally countered the narrative that President Trump did not order the National Guard to be readied, which he did, and he authorized up to 10,000 troops, but also the driver of the SUV. We have his testimony that will release sometime soon, where he actually said none of that in the grabbing of the steering wheel or choking a secret service agent. That was a bunch of crap. Well, logistically, it was impossible. Do you have any information given to your subcommittee that Trump did some stuff he should? should not have done?

The only thing that we've uncovered is where he was angry, and you know, you can understand that. I mean, who wouldn't be angry in a situation where you felt like the election was stolen from you? But nothing that rose to the level of impeachment or even ethical violation or a legal violation. Everything that we've uncovered is he followed the law. Yeah, he was upset.

He may have said some things that people would have said. trial gets underway, you would expect that Trump will be acquitted and Jack Smith will be embarrassed. I believe so. If there was, it's an honest look at the evidence. There's enough exculpatory evidence. We have just released recently that there's no way that you could hold him accountable for what happened on January 6th, which means we've gone three years now without actually looking at what really happened and the security failure to capital, which the select committee never looked at at all or at least never reported. Yeah, I'd like to know about Nancy Pelosi's role. Now, you have been attacked, and you well know you have been attacked, for doing all of this in defense of Donald Trump.

One of the charges were you were in the Capitol on January 5th, the day before the riot, doing something there wandering around. Do you want to address that? Yeah, this was one of the most ridiculous things that ever happened. What they claimed is that I gave a tour of the Capitol on January 5th to some of the insurrectionists, the reconnaissance tour. Far from the truth, even the Capitol, police exonerated us in that, but that didn't stop the Senate committee. So it's just total BS. Who was the, where did that story come from? That came from Liz Cheney from what we've covered in our investigation. It was some people that visited my office and stayed in the Capitol office buildings the whole time, never got into the

Capitol. And they weren't even in the Capitol in January 6th. Most of them just stayed down by the ellipse and in the mall and then got on their bus and went back home to Georgia. None of them were in the Capitol. I believe they do. I just need to get everything on the record. The final thing is there is this gallows thing. I got to get this stuff. So apparently somebody built the gallows. What is this now? Yeah. And it's true. About 6 o'clock in the morning on January about five people show up and still under the cloak of darkness and they literally build a gallows.

And supposedly this gallows that the left claims was to hang Mike Pence when he doesn't do what Trump wanted him to do. Well, the interesting thing about that is Mike Pence never told anybody whether or not he was going to stop the certification until in the afternoon. And the gallows were set up at 6 o'clock in the morning.

My question is, how did these stay up all day long Yeah. How do they get built in the first place? Don't they have people outside? Ma! All right. So there's a lot of... Are you guys investigating the security breakdown in the Capitol? Is that one of your purviews? It is. Yeah. That is something we've really taken a hard look at. We've uncovered that there was intelligence failures. Intelligence was given to the Capitol Police Intelligence Division of the pending attack. But that intelligence was suppressed. It never got passed along to the chief of police. That really hindered a lot of the preparedness being ready. And we also have a lot of political influence on

the Capitol Police. We have had testimony, and I'm working to get verification on it, that the Secret Service offered fencing to Nancy Pelosi to be put up prior to January 6th based on the intelligence they had. She turned it down because she didn't like the optics. The irony is, on the evening of January 6th, she really liked the optics of having a security fence around the Capitol with razor wire and National Guard around for months. So, you know, she didn't want to prepare, but she really liked the idea of the optics being up to show. I think Pelosi, I think Pelosi's got some deficit. Are you going to testify in the trial? By the way, you think you're going to be called by Trump's defense lawyers? I don't know. The only thing that we have received in the past was

they wanted to subpoena for some of the documents we had, but drop the subpoena, they have full access to whatever we have, we're making it public. Really appreciate it, Congressman. If you get anything else, you know, we're always interested in this story. It's a huge story for the American people, and we thank

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on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Let's go to the corrupt media. So you will remember that on July 9th, 2018, President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Okay, you remember that, right? Three weeks later, a woman named Christine Blasey Ford wrote a letter to Senator Diane Feinstein of California saying that Kavanaugh had molested her, attacked her, done something when they were teenagers.

Okay? Two months after that, the story broke, all right? And Ford ran around saying, Kavanaugh did X, Y, and Z to me, and he shouldn't be confirmed. Okay. Now, I followed that story very closely, and you heard about it. And the thing I couldn't understand about the story was she didn't know when it happened, Blasey Ford. People at the parties that she was referring to said, it happened. didn't know who drove her home, didn't know anything.

It was like, what's her name in New York, testifying against Trump? She didn't even know what year it happened. Okay, when I see that, I get a little, I don't know about this. All right, and there was nobody corroborating Blasey Ford's story. Her girlfriends didn't corroborate, nobody corroborated. Okay, so she writes a book, and it's out now, Blasey Ford. It's a bomb. It's a book's a bomb, all right?

It's, on Amazon, Kindle, it's rated 9,000. On Barnes & Noble, it's 7,000. Nobody's buying a stupid book because nobody believes her. The other thing is that Blasey Ford is a abortion zealot. Loves abortion. I'm going, so I'm putting a whole thing together, and I was extremely skeptical. Now, one of the people named in this, oh, by the way, Blasey Ford appeared on CBS Sunday morning, all Cupcake interviews, The View, NPR, all of that. Cupcake, Cupcake, Cupcake.

She didn't get the massive nighttime exposure I thought she might get, but, you know, it's still time. But a book, nobody's buying it. Good. One of the names mentioned in this whole thing was Mark Judge, who was a friend of Brett Kavanaugh. So I wanted to talk to him, but Mr. Judge is a very cautious man. He should be. He went through a lot when this broke. So instead of putting him on television, we've got him on a telephone from his home state. I'm not even going to tell you where he is.

He's a journalist, as I say, he knew Brett Kavanaugh. He got pulled into this as somebody. who did something. I don't quite know. Judge wrote a book called The Devil's Triangle, Mark Judge versus the new American Stasi. Stasi is the West is the East German secret police when they were communist. Mark, you on a phone? You hear me okay? I hear you, Bill. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. All right, so when Blasey Ford put a book out, I'm sure you haven't read it. I haven't read it. I mean, I know what her rap is. How would you describe that woman?

I'm not sure how I would describe her. I tend to stick to the facts being a journalist. And a lawyer friend of mine who stayed up all night reading her book had a very interesting takeaway. He called me the next day, he said, Mark, I stayed up all night reading this thing. You are only quoted via official government transcripts and congressional records, which is quite telling

because it means that they don't want to get sued. Now, the second thing is that my book, The Devil's Triangle, came out two years ago. I cite chapter and verse of little and big things I found that were mysterious and concerning. I'll give you one. And her letter to Feinstein saying that I was a witness to Brett Kavanaugh attacking her, I am referred to as Mark G. Judge. That's an old journalism byline I used when I was younger. Nobody calls me Mark G. Judge anymore.

it indicated to me that maybe they were researching me, that maybe this wasn't an organic thing. The day after Brett was nominated, she was meeting with Emma Brown, the reporter at the Washington Post, who ultimately broke the story. The next day, Emma Brown emails me, a very innocent, innocuous email,

hey, I'm doing a story about Georgetown Prep and you and Brett Kavanaugh. Nothing about Bazi Ford. Number three, I'll be quick. This is the last thing I'll say. Number three, Leland Kaiser, Blasey Ford's friend, who denied the whole thing, who Blasie Ford said was at this party and who, like me, was traumatized by this thing, was interviewed by Emma Brown of the Washington Post in Leland Kaiser's house the week before the Blasey story broke.

Emma Brown at the Washington Post left Leland Kaiser out of her story. I have an email from Emma Brown saying, do you know Leland Kaiser? you know and this is before the story broke and to keep it simple i don't want to confuse people but then the story breaks and leeland kaiser is not in this earth-shattering story and for two years i've been asking okay why did you call me mark g judge i have evidence that indicates you were using an op-a researcher on me all summer why was leeland kaiser left out of this story when she was denied the whole thing he wouldn't back up what emma what's her name wanted that's why Right. That's what they all do. Right. Right. They weren't looking for the truth. I mean, come on. And you know that. Everybody knows that. They're looking to convict Kavanaugh on whatever they convict them. This is the press. Now, what a disturbing aspect of the story is the FBI exonerated Kavanaugh. That they didn't find anything after their investigation. Remember that?

Yes, I do. Okay. But they never put- Because I talked to him for three hours. All right. So you were involved with that. So, but they didn't. I talked to the FBI for three hours. They never put out a public report on it, and they should have. I would have liked to have seen they could redact names if they wanted to, but how they arrived at their conclusion that Brett Kavanaugh was not guilty. I think the people deserve that. When the FBI talked to you, Mark, what did you tell them in a nutshell?

In a nutshell, I told them that I just have no recollection of this at all. I mean, I'm Catholic. I have a good conscience. I've been sober for 30 years. I said the Supreme Court is not important enough to me to lie about something like sexual assault. Handed God standing before Jesus. Had I seen this, I simply would say so. The truth is so much easier just to say so.

I simply don't recall this. That's what I told them. And here's an interesting point. They said this is either going to take three hours or seven hours. And I thought, well, that's quite a disparity. And I later understood that if you're lying, it takes seven hours because they got to keep drilling down on you. And if you're telling the truth, it's less time, which is three hours and mine. Obviously, they believe your story.

But when you say you don't recall it, any human being witnessing something like that would recall it, right? I think they, well, do you know how I learned of this story? Ronan Farrow called me. I'm sitting at home taking care of my elderly. mother in September 2018. I get a call from Ronan Farrow and literally he says this. He says you're implicated in this letter about sexual misconduct, sexual misconduct at the time involving Brett Kavanaugh, he's been nominated. And I hand to God, though, I said, who's the accuser? He said, I can't tell you that. I said, where did this allegedly take place? He said, I can't tell you

that. I said, when did this allegedly take place? He said, sometime in the 1980s. I mean, That's why I refer to the Stasi. I mean, that's literally what happened. And you guys were in high school. You were prep school guys. All right, final question, though. But my point in matter is this, no matter if you are older than 10 years old, all right, if you're north of that, and you see some kind of horrific conflict in a physical way like that,

you remember that. It's not like, well, I don't recall. I don't recall, you know, filling up my car. gas, but something like that stays with you. So I took, and you correct me if I'm wrong, your words to say it did not happen. Am I wrong to feel that way? Bill, there's a couple things real quick. One, it's much more sinister than you understand. There was extortion of witness tampering and opposition research. It's all in my book, The Devil's Triangle. And number two, we grew up in a tight-knit Irish Catholic Catholic school community. If a boyfriend and girlfriend had an

argument, it ricocheted gossip-wise around the community within hours. If somebody went to a party and this happened and couldn't remember anything, how they got there, how they got back, if something like this happened, everybody would have been talking about it. And Leelan Kaiser, her friend, who allegedly was there, would have known about it. Like, people in the community would have known about this. Sure. And that's all obvious. So I'm going to take it again that you believe it did not happen with Brett Kavanaugh. Okay? Yes, at this point, at this point, I believe it didn't happen.

I don't know what other point there can be, Mark. You keep throwing in those words. So I'm taking it that it didn't happen. But I'm going to give you five seconds to correct me if I'm wrong, because I always want to be honest. No, I think it didn't happen, and I think it was an extortion plot, and I think it was a witness tampering plot. And I think they found me as a weak link, as a former drinker, and they tried to use me.

I think that's what happened. All right, Mark. We appreciate time very much. Thank you. Smart life. Okay, so a number of our listeners and viewers are baby boomers, okay, like me. And we're in the retirement zone. Okay, I don't even know what that word means.

I've been working since I'm 10 years old, and, you know, I'm not going to retire any time soon. So anyway, you need, according to Wall Street Journal, citing a survey by Northwestern Mutual Bank, you need a million and a half bucks to retire on and live fairly comfortably. 1.5 million. That's what you need. Now that is up, all right, from 1.3 just a year ago. Thank you, Joe Biden. It's up $200,000 in a year. You need $1.5. If Biden gets reelected, you're going to need at least two, probably two, five, to retire comfortably because prices are still good. Do you read the McDonald's article today? I never eat there, but they like double their prices now at McDonald's.

But Biden and his people, oh, if prices are coming down, the prices aren't coming down. If people are willing to pay what the prices are, they're not going to come down, right, unless someone else comes in and it cuts them. Okay. So you need 1.5 million to retire comfortably. It depends where you live. You live in New York City. You need a lot more than that. You live in Montana. You probably need less. The average amount in a retirement account today for working Americans is $88,000, long way from $1.5. Now I've got letters all the time when people going, hey, I don't have the money. I got. Social Security coming in, all right, but I don't have retirement plan, I don't have IRA, you're hosed. You are absolutely screwed, all right, if you don't have the money, because nobody's going to give it to you. So Bernie Sanders is growing around, you know, what he wants, the government to control all this, and then he would dole it out, but still you couldn't do it. The country doesn't have enough money to fund all the retirement pensions here.

They do in Holland, they do in Norway, not here. It's 350 million people here, including illegal aliens, which get all the entitlements down. Okay. So anyway, you see commercials for reverse mortgages and things. These are people who don't have enough money, but they have a home. This is a smart life segment now. Be very, very careful on the reverse mortgages or any other. What sounds good, you've got to run it by a financial advisor that you trust.

You have to. You're going to get right between the eyes. Okay? So if you don't have enough money, but you do have a property, you can derive cash from that property. Refinance, second mortgage, whatever it may be. Okay? Reverse mortgage.

But you've got to get it in writing, it is and the financial advisor who you know to sign off on it all right i don't want you guys to suffer as you age that's the worst thing in the world okay but so many americans are in that position okay so this weekend i took a road trip to new england Connecticut and rhode island my son was playing lacrosse and uh i was in the monsoon what a good father i am I stayed for the game, okay, and he played very, very well, and it was worth it for me to drive up there. On the way up, I'm in eastern Connecticut, okay, just coming off 95 heading east to Rhode Island. I'm hungry.

So I get off on one of the exits, and there's a Chili's restaurant. There's a Chili's. Okay. Now, Chili's has 1,300 restaurants across the country. Most of them are company owned, but about 20% are franchisees, which means Chile's doesn't own them. They rent the name. Now, in any, and I'm picking on Chili's because I went there, but in any restaurant, anywhere in this country, when you walk in, and you've never been there before. You look at the restaurant. Number one, is it clean? Number two, do they seem to have enough help? Okay, enough people in the restaurant to get the food on the table in a reasonable

amount of time. Number three, you look at the menu before you sit down. Because if you're not familiar. I mean, it might be $30 for a hamburger and you're out of there. So I go into Chili's in Eastern Connecticut. I'm not going to tell you what town. It's just I don't want to bust them like that. And it's dirty. But I'm not clean. And the waitstaff has tattoos all of their neck and face. Now, my first instinct was to out of there. Okay. I'm not prejudice or bias against people with tattoos. but the appearance was not what you would want for a public job. But I was hungry.

And there wasn't a lot of, there weren't a lot of choices, okay? Because I had ridden around just to see what my options were. So I sit down. Huge mistake. And it's my fault. My fault. I chose and I knew because I'm a veteran traveler. I said, you know, this is not where I should be or anybody should be.

So I got through it, but it was not easy. And essentially, the server couldn't take the order. And the order was easy. What? And then I tried to pay. with cash, they didn't have change. If you can imagine, I said, you tell me you don't have change? This is a restaurant. So they had to go to the bar area. I mean, I was, I didn't get angry. I snapped once when I had to repeat for the third time, a very simple order. I said,

you want me to write it down? That's what I said. But it was my fault, 100%. And I left a decent tip because I feel sorry for the poor woman. I did. I said, boy, boy. But when I got out, I was walking out, I went, never again. I'd rather go hungry. So that was my road trip.

And be careful. Be careful out there. okay thank you very much for watching and listening to the no spin news see you tomorrow