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Two updates for you. First of all, a confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth to be the Defense Department chief be held January 16th in the Senate. The word is that he's going to make it, Heggseth, but I'm not so sure about it. I can't predict it because I don't know what the deals are being made, but it's going to be close. There's not one Democrat that will vote for him.

But he's got to sweep the Republican side of the Senate. All right, talking points memo is the drones. Much hysteria, as you know, much speculation, unexplained things in the sky. There is an important aspect to the story, but it's not the drones themselves. We'll get what that is, and it's not men from Mars or Bulgaria spying on us. It's not.

I don't know what it is, but I know it's not going to adversely affect Americans. I could be wrong, but I doubt it on this one. However, we the people deserve an explanation. All right, this is Scott. What is it? But it's the Biden administration. Any other administration, I think we'd have an explanation?

But now with these people. Now, let me walk through it. So yesterday, there was a briefing, three hours. The Department of Defense, Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, met with members of the House Intelligence Committee. Okay, that's good. But it was all classified. that's not good nobody knows what happened but some congresspeople came out and made some

statements here's one of them there remains no evidence that there is any unlawful unidentified drone activity out there and most of the people who have expertise and sort of thinking about watching and mitigating the threats from drones are saying in as much as they've been able to actually look at specific events. Most of them turn out to be regular aircraft. All right, that doesn't do us any good, Congressman. It doesn't do us any good. What do you mean regular aircraft?

I have one in my backyard. It wasn't a regular aircraft. There's a drone flying around. For what? Who put them up? Surely our intelligence agencies know by now. So why don't we know? Look, classified information is designed to protect certain people.

How about protecting the citizenry? There's a bunch of bull. Okay. And I expect, if we don't know by the time of the inauguration, first thing Trump will do is tell everybody. But I think we'll know before that. Now, President Biden, they woke him up from his slumber, and he said this. Go.

nothing nefarious apparently but they're checking it all out because it's just one there's a lot of drones authorized up there I think it's one started and they all got everybody's want to get in the deal but I'll know what we're following so far no sense of the day you're following it closely good all right a lot of drones up there why are they up there who owns them what are they doing how come we've never seen them in this number before. Here's the deal. Really. I think you all agree with me, even Democrats. The faster this guy disappears, the better. He's just destroyed his legacy. I mean, you figure on the way out, he'd want to put up a couple of Ws.

He gives $10 billion to Iran. And then he, you know, a lot of drones. Jones up there. Thanks. Thanks a lot. That was great. I think he's at 33, 34 percent approval rating now. And what Biden has never understood, and I know he doesn't care, but this kind of a display is insulting and it's arrogant. And those are two of the worst things that a human being can be. Insulting and arrogant. So he insults the people by not telling us what the deuce is going on, and he's arrogant by holding it back. If there's somebody in my purview that's insulting and arrogant, they get confronted.

Okay? That's the kind of guy I am. So I can't wait for this guy to disappear, and he'll never come back. Biden will just disappear off to the sunset. Unlike Jimmy Carter, much younger man, okay. You know, he went to have a death of humanity. terrible president, by the way, but Biden makes them look like Abraham Lincoln, and that's the memo. Okay, let's say, here's an update and an interesting story. I'm playing it high in the broadcast,

but there's more to it than what meets the eye. So criminal migrants are all over the United States, thanks to Joe Biden opening the border. Gang members, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, they're all here. and a cause of mayhem. Colorado is one of the worst. So now, this week, police in Colorado have detained 19 people. So far, I think there are a dozen arrests because gang members from Venezuela terrorized an apartment complex

in a suburb of Denver named Aurora. I used to live in Aurora. It used to be a very nice place to live. It is no longer because there are migrant gangs terrorizing people. Okay? So here's the chief of police of Aurora. Go. It is an incredibly crime-riddled complex that I think we have been focusing on.

The city of Aurora has been focusing on. And without question, attention will not stop until every individual that victimizes somebody else will be held accountable or be removed from that complex. Well, this has been going on since August 18th, Chief. That's a long time. And you haven't gotten them out. Chief? Got it? You're not doing your job.

They're there. They're terrorizing people. There's been a shooting. There's been a stabbing. They're extorting people. Forget about the feds. Colorado can't handle it. Oh, but you'll remember when the story first broke in August, you had Colorado Governor

Jared Pallas, very progressive, very woke. Here's what he said. It's safer than it's been. And look, it's like any city, Chicago, L.A., mid-sized cities, Denver. Of course, there's been an issue with gangs for decades in Aurora. And I feel that we finally turn the corner. Oh, yeah, you turn the corner. Sure, Governor, that was in September.

He said that, September 22nd. So it's August, it's December 18th. But he's turned a corner in September. You get the feeling incompetence may be around. And then there's the media, the national media, watching this. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes, and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems.

Oh, Martha, yeah, it's just a handful. You know, come on. Awful. Awful. Now, I'm talking to the people of Colorado because I lived there for two years and I loved it. What a fabulous state it was. It is no longer. Why?

Because the progressives have taken over the state of Colorado, primarily in and around Denver, which dominates the entire state. So Kamala Harris won Colorado by 3.5 million votes. I'm sorry. Not 3.5 million. She won. 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 stockpiling gold.

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to 998899. Power, politics and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, newsmakers, 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, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. She got 1,728, and Trump got 1,37777. So she won. by 350,000 votes. My math is terrible. I was always terrible in math. I always will be.

She won by 350,000 votes in Colorado. That's pretty big. Why? Terrible candidate. Biden's terrible president. Why are you voting that way in Colorado? Why? Coloridans to vote for progressives, what you're seeing in Aurora is going to come to your town, where you live. Got it? Voting against your own safety and self-interest. All right, there's another really interesting story. So you may remember that Liz Cheney was a top Trump hater.

And she was on the subcommittee, the January 6th Select Committee, investigating what happened at the Capitol in the riot. And she was one or two Republicans, both of whom hated Trump on the committee. No other Republicans would go because they knew it was a hate Trump situation. All right. So Liz Cheney allegedly witnessed tampered on the committee, allegedly. This is, according to House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight. They've released a report.

And the report says that it is, is possible, Liz Cheney, Congresswoman then from Wyoming, violated two federal laws. One, federal law 1622, procuring a person to commit perjury. The second, federal law 1512 tampering with a witness. Who was that witness? A woman named Cassidy Hutchinson. Remember him? Cassidy Hutchinson.

She worked for White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. said that Trump was so out of control on January 6th that he grabbed the steering wheel, the presidential limousine, and wrestled with Secret Service so he could get out there and do whatever Trump was doing. That never happened. Here's what I said when Ms. Hutchinson made that false allegation. Remember, the most explosive testimony was by Cassidy Hutchinson, who said Trump did all of this terrible thing on the grab steering wheel, was a poor Secret Service ages, but the committee wouldn't bring in the secret service ages. What does I tell you?

Wouldn't bring them in and testify under oath? This is a fraud. Now, Liz Cheney is accused of working behind the scenes to tell Cassidy Hutchinson how to testify in front of the J6 Select Committee. Okay? That's tampering. Witness tampering. Here's what it says.

There's a broad prohibition as tampering with a witness, victim, or informant. It prescribes conduct intended to illegitimately affect presentation of evidence in federal proceedings. So, the

Republicans on the Oversight Committee want her to be investigated by the FBI. Liz Cheney. And then Liz go, oh no, no, no, no. I want the investigation. I want it.

Not because I'm vengeful. It's because Cassidy Hutchinson was full of, you know what. And it looks like Cheney, beyond the scenes, was manipulating her. So let's see it. If she's not guilty, good. Due process. That thing was rotten. That whole J6 committee rotten.

there is a update on a very fascinating, another very fascinating story, that got totally out of control. You will remember the accusation against Donald, against Joe Biden, sorry about that, the accusation against Joe Biden, that he engineered a deal that enriched Hunter Biden. all right and that it went through russia and the guy that made that accusation was a fbi informant named alexander schmirkov shmiernav i got to get my names right okay so there's a sketch of the guy the guy's real shadowy and he told the fbii hey um the biden's got five million bucks by going to a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma. How many times did you hear Burisma noticed?

And Hunter Biden got $5 million, because his father, then vice president, put the arm on Burisma to give him the money. You remember that you have to remember. It was all over conservative media, all over. We never did it because I don't do stories based upon some shadowy guy what he says. We just don't do that, which is why you are here listening and watching me today.

But it was crazy, and it was taken as fact. Well, now this guy, the former FBI informant, Smirnov, has pled guilty to false derogatory information. And he agreed to a sentence of between 48 and 7.7. months in a federal penitentiary, and that will be handed down in Los Angeles on January 8th. The guy lied, made it up, Biden-Huntered, I guess they did benefit from Ukraine, but not in the way he said. He lied. And it was reported as fact, but not by us. and the guy deserves to go to jail.

Got to be very careful in this day and age. I learned that lesson way, way back when I was doing a factor. We made a mistake, one of the few we have ever made. And it was because we didn't check out who gave the social media the report. And I never made the mistake again. We are cautious here. All right, migrant, war, and San Diego. Now, San Diego, one of my favorite American cities.

Beautiful climate, easy to get around, not like L.A., manageable. Been there, I know, dozens of times. But San Diego has changed. So now the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has blocked three to one, voted three to one, to block any cooperation with Homeland Security in getting criminal. no migrants into the federal system. So if you are undocumented, you commit a crime in San Diego, they will not tell Homeland

Security anything about you by a three to one vote. The sheriff of San Diego says she isn't going to obey that law. Kelly Martinez is her name, that she is going to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs, ICE. And we invited the sheriff on the program, but for some reason she doesn't want to come on. I don't know why you would reach millions of people, Sheriff, but she's not coming up. Instead, we have a guy who knows a lot about San Diego. His name is Mike Slater.

I've heard of him. He's on the first. He does my hard news portion on radio, syndicated radio, all over the country, 300 stations. and he joins us now from Nashville, where, interestingly enough, Slater moved about a year ago from San Diego where he had lived for 12 years. Why did you move, first of all, to Tennessee? I don't know, maybe reasons like this, Bill?

Maybe they let illegal alien rapists take sanctuary in the city that I called home, that among other reasons. My wife's also from Tennessee, but you don't have to live in these progressive bastions. So you moved to out. of one of the nicest places climate-wise because you were fed up with the politics? Oh, yeah. Listen, the weather's only so nice and the beach is only worth it for so long.

It's wonderful. Seasons are beautiful, wonderful things. We like snow. It's good. It's good for the soul. And Nashville's a wonderful, beautiful place. It's good to be here with people who share your values. Okay. Now, a lot of people have done what you've done. It moved to red stays from blue states. But San Diego historically has not been San Francisco. Because of the military bases, the Marines are down there, and navies down there. It was a conservative place up until recently. Is that true?

Yeah. So when I moved there 12 years ago, San Diego was a bastion of conservatism in crazy, wacky, California. They had a Republican mayor, largest city in the country with a Republican mayor. The city council was five to four Republican, largest city council majority in the country and the county the board of supervisors which population-wise the county of san diego 3.3 million is bigger than like 23 or 24 states so it's you have five county supervisors who are in charge of a lot of people um that was five-nothing republican bill five nothing today nine-nothing democrat city council this just happened over a decade period nine-nothing democrat city council the wackiest mayor you can imagine if you have a minute of I'll tell you what I think is the craziest example of him. And the Board of Super Super Sanctuary City Bill you were speaking of

is now three to two Democrat, very soon to be four to one. So it is no longer a bastion of conservatism in any way. Why did that happen? Yeah, a couple of reasons. People go back and they blame the loss of the aerospace industry in the 80s, which lost a lot of its conservative influence. A lot of conservatives left for that reason. There's more people there.

So the military influence you spoke of is not as prominent as it was before. Price of housing has gone up so much that a lot of the military people who used to call San Diego home for years and decades after their retirement and leaving the military, they've left. So you don't have that legacy of military experience anymore as well. Then I believe you have a lot of people coming from San Francisco and L.A., where, as you said, it's not nearly as nice as San Diego. Things are much cheaper, easier, more manageable, as you said, to come down to San Diego. So you've had an influx. You also had a lot of illegal immigration. And there's two, a really interesting analysis before him, that Texas attracts a certain type of immigrant, Hispanic immigrants specifically, and California is a magnet for a different type of Hispanic immigrant.

Right now, a third of Californians are on some form of government welfare. Everyone may remember a story from a couple months ago where the Assembly voted to give $150,000 of a down payment to a house to, illegal aliens, things like that attract a certain type of immigrant versus maybe a Texas which attracts a more entrepreneurial and conservative-minded illegal immigrant or immigrant as well. So over decades, I believe California is a bit of a lost cause. There's much was made of the fact that 10 counties out of the 58 in California flipped from blue to red and people saw that as very hopeful and exciting while I was in this grade. A new conservative renaissance in California. Now, those were all inland California counties that have been historically read for a long time.

They should be read. And Tomola won California, 63 to 34. There is no conservative movement in California. Well, even if there were, the big cities are going to dominate. Now, Tom Holman, his job is basically to get tough on the border. This San Diego thing has caught his eye. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't.

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telling Homeland Security, hey, we just took into custody. So-and-so is here illegally for the charge of rape or homicide, whatever it may be. They're not even going to tell Homeland Security that. And it seems to me that's interfering with the federal investigation because the Trump administration made quite clear these people have to be deported. Yeah, it's always been very frustrating to me when you hear even congressmen say, we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Yeah.

No, no, no. All the laws are on the books. You just need to enforce the laws. And Tom Holman, I don't have it off the top of my head. I'm not the borders are, but he rattles it off, like U.S. Code, blah, blah, blah, blah. And we researched it. There's no doubt they don't have to pass new laws, but they should. Tighten everything out. But anyway, what do you think the odds are that the head of the San Diego Board of Supervisors is going to be in cops and charged with interfering in a federal agency? That would send the message to everybody. Yeah, I think it's her, and he's really focusing on the mayor of Chicago. I think that would be his first target, maybe a little less sympathetic. Brandon Johnson. Right. Yeah, he's less sympathetic than Nora Vargas would be in California. But if I made one thing, Bill, I want to make sure that your listeners don't think that the new sheriff of San Diego, who was just elected two years ago, replaced a guy who was there for like 20 years, that she's some sort of hero in this.

In California, there is no conservative influence. so you have crazy Democrats and radical Democrats. Pamela was a radical Democrat. Nora Vargas, a radical Democrat. This sheriff is just a crazy Democrat. So while she's saying she's not going, she's against the county decision to tell ICE about illegal alien rapists

and child rapists, that's radical. She's against that. She's no hero, though. Okay, but maybe that's why she won't come on the program. Maybe that's why she won't face me. Of course not. She has no reason to. The right doesn't exist to her. There is no common sense. All right. I did not know that. I'm glad you defined that. Okay, last question. So the mayor of San Diego is what? A loon? Oh, yeah. Okay. So there's a whole backstory. Todd Gloria is his name.

He was my favorite Todd Glory story. When he was an assemblyman in California, he passed a bill that said children in foster. care will get free sex change surgeries paid for by the taxpayer if you are in foster care. This was the beginning, him and another state senator Scott Weiner, another, which is total radical. This was the beginning of a system of encouraging children to talk to their school counselors to say lies to CPA to get their children into the foster care system in order to get sex change operations. This is a Todd Gloria movement. It has happened many times before. There are mothers who have told their story of how this has worked.

That was Todd Glory in the Assembly. And the people of San Diego, what used to be this conservative bastion, Bill O'Reilly, beautiful place. Like the pinnacle of just California, Lovin and California, everything's amazing. They voted him to be mayor, and they just voted for him to be reelected. We've lost San Diego. That's too bad. It really is. Hey, Mike, Merry Christmas.

Thanks for helping to sell. We'll talk soon, okay? Merry Christmas. All right. Smart life. You want to live to be 100? I do not. Okay.

I don't want to ever be dependent on anybody. So whenever I, as long as I'm healthy, as long as I'm functional, good. I'll do the best I can. But when I decline and when you're 100, come on. Okay? So I'm fine with San Adios Amigos. So health.com, they did a study of a bunch of people who are 100 years and older to find out what foods they ate to keep them alive. And here are the foods.

Beans, we all know that. Leafy greens, yep, we know that too. Nuts and seeds. You know, I eat cashies. They're good. Seeds, I'm not a big seed fan. whole grains okay controls blood sugar very important olive oil excellent that's a Mediterranean diet turmeric I don't know what that is but it's some kind of thing

you put in your food sweet potatoes love them seafood big on seafood okay fruit you know here's my dilemma I do eat fruit every day but I also drink fruit juice and that's loaded with sugar. So I'm trying to get a line on how much fruit juice I can drink without raising my blood sugar. It's hard. Anybody knows, let me know. And then tea.

I drink Japanese tea, show why. You can get it on the Internet. And I have nothing to do with the company. Okay? C-H-O-Dash-W-A, Japanese tea, raises your immune system. It tastes awful, okay? But you gotta tough it out. And if it's hot and it's cold outside, it's not so bad.

All right, the Reagan movie, Dennis Quaid, Penelope Miller, John Boyd. Big hit, did very, very well. And as you know, I produced a movie, executive producer, along with Ridley Scott and Scott Free, called Killing Reagan based on my book. based on my book, and that was very successful. But the Reagan movie did very well. It was released August 30th last summer, and now it's out in DVD for Christmas.

You get stuffing stuff, right? Now, I did not know this because I didn't see the Reagan movie because I was too busy, and I had my own movie and whatever, but I'll watch it. Gene Simmons from Kiss provided some of the music for the Reagan movie. Roll it. I can't go on. Everything I have is gone stormy weather.

Since you and I and me and you ain't together keeps her raining all the time. Wow, a little Nat King Colish there. Mr. Simmons joins us from Los Angeles. So why did you get involved with this? When my mother came to America with yours truly, I was eight and a half years old. We are immigrants. We are legal immigrants.

And as far as I'm concerned, I was born in the promised land, but let me tell you something. America is the promised land. You came from Israel? Is that what you came from? I don't look Swiss, do I? No, you don't.

Not at all. That's right. That's where I was born, yeah, and came to America and discovered that anything is possible. There are no limits, no nothing, and despite the fact that people agree and disagree and all that stuff, this is still the light and will continue to be the light that shines the world. Did you admire Ronald Reagan? Did you admire him? I did. I was much younger, obviously, when he was president, and I knew nothing, almost nothing about the body of politics. but interestingly, in hindsight, it bears noting that the political and pop culture figures of any age were always about the impression, the ability to communicate a feeling, and perhaps that's more important, the power of the personality than what's written on a piece of paper. And now imagine a different president trying to communicate with Gorbachev and getting, and literally causing that wall to come down, which resulted in the fall of communism.

Did you take any heat, because you know how liberal and progressive Hollywood is where you live, you take any heat from doing, contributing to this film? How do I say this as nicely as I can? I don't give a spot. No, I know that. But did you take any? Yes. You see, but that's wrong. Isn't it wrong?

Well, everybody's entitled to an opinion. It doesn't, you know, it falls off. Yeah, but they shouldn't try to hurt you because of your opinion. That's what they do out there. Well, that is probably true. I think it is the bastion of a certain political leaning of the thing. But that's okay. You know, I have...

Not okay with me, Gene. John Voigt and I hangout. We trade stories and everything else. Right. And some people agree with this politics. Some not. But everybody gives the charity. Everybody loves children.

And so think about the stuff that we agree with instead of the stuff that we don't. Well, you're bringing a level-headed approach, but there's some malevolent evil people in the motion picture industry and the music industry to boot that I'll deal with them. You don't have to. You've seen it all. And the music industry has changed so much. Give my audience one big change that you have witnessed.

in the arc of your career? Unfortunately, the business model is dead. And new bands don't have a chance, especially rock bands. In a certain way, rock is finally dead. Rock and roll is dead because the freckle-faced kid next door to you, who's a good kid and good family and everything, has become entitled, feels entitled to be able to download and file share and get all this music for free.

Yeah. And, you know, it's interesting that people don't understand this. So what? You're too rich to care. Why do you care? Well, imagine you work for a living. You write a book. You sell groceries or whatever.

And people don't pay you for the work that you put in. Then you understand. Then you say, well, wait a minute. I work for this. How come I don't get paid? And that's what's happening with new artists. And it breaks my heart because they're not rich. They're creative.

And they're trying to get to a platform where they're self- that's right and you can't now because of the internet well very very fascinating i'll bring you back and once you start your tour uh let us know we'll take some uh video that we'll bring it back you're an interesting guy i've known simmons for a long time uh i never painted my face like kiss i have to admit it i'm much too handsome to do that see my theory is these guys had to do that i don't have to um i want you to have a nice honica and a very nice celebration on the west coast My best to everybody, Gene. Thanks for coming on. Thank you, young man.

Okay, cheers. All right. Another Enterprise News Nation is doing well. It's increasing its audience, and it's not ideological, and I am on it. That's not why it's increasing, because I don't do that many spots. I do a morning on Wednesday with Marky Martin. I do Leland Vitterd on Monday, and I do Cuomo tonight on Wednesday. day. So I want to show you three sound bites in case you haven't checked that out. The first one is I had to, when I started doing this, and this soundbites from June 5th this year, I had to kind

to educate Cuomo a little bit. Go. I know a lot, Cuomo, and you'd be very wise to listen very closely. So Hunter Biden and Joe, Joe. Hunter Biden and Donald Trump have one big thing in common. Do you know what it is? They both like crack cocaine. Ooh, that's a libel suit right there on you. I had a question mark at the end of it. They're both playing the victim.

Okay. The second sound bite is about Kamala Harris, not answering any questions. As you remember, when Brett Baer at Fox interviewed her, he got, I think it was 24 minutes. He was able to ask 11 questions, and the vice president did not answer one of them. Here's what I said. That's insulting to the audience. You see, if you ask somebody a question in your personal life, hey, Mabel, what kind of car is that?

and they go, um, I, I like pancakes. What? No, I asked you, what kind of car that was? You see what I mean? Okay. So we like to have some humor and stuff like that going on in these segments. And the third one, uh, Stephen A. Smith, who you saw there, is on again. And Stephen A, uh, he gets serious, you know, with Cuomo.

And he said, look, I, I, I, uh, he gets serious, you know, with, with Cuomo. And he said, look, I, uh, I, uh, he said, like to be around smart people. And then I replied, go. That's my phrase. For, yeah, for Stephen A. I don't want to be surrounded by smarter people. That's why I do the Cuomo show. All right, if I wanted to be surrounded by smarter people, I wouldn't be sitting here tonight. Great. Present company, Stephen A, excluded. Good, smart move. Okay, so we'll be on tonight. You might want to check it out. It's a good flow back and forth. And News Nation, I appreciate the fact that I'm on there.

And it's a network that has a lot of potential. Smart life. So 6.5 million Americans have second homes. I didn't know that. And that's not a lot. All right, that's less than 5% of population. I mean, it's cost enough to keep one home. But 6.5 million have second homes.

Some of them vacation homes. some of them are rental properties, whatever it may be. There are certain states that are friendlier if you want to buy a second home. And so as of 2022, Florida led to Lee. So a million Americans of second homes in Florida. Wyoming was last. Only 16,000 second homes. Wyoming's spectacular state.

And the real estate is reasonable, a little tip for you. Smart life. But anyway, here are the top 10 markets for people buying swanky second homes. First, number one, Cape May County, New Jersey. That's the tip of New Jersey. That gets New York and Philadelphia money. Gulf County, Florida, they're going for the weather in proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. Walton County, Florida, very reasonable to live in Walton County. Barnstable County, Massachusetts, that is Cape Cod. Collier County, Florida. Cucanino County, Arizona. I don't know much about that. Maui County, after the fire, though, that's fallen off. Buford County, that's a low country in South Carolina, very reasonable, very

pretty, a little humid. New York County, New York, that's Manhattan, peditaires. People buy small apartments there. And Newport County, Rhode Island, Newport, Rhode Island, a premier destination. You haven't been in Newport, put it on your list. So if you're looking for a second home, those are the top ten. And the reason I'm telling you this in a Smart Life segment is, number one, you can visit. And number two, if you buy a home, you want to make money on it. Okay, you don't want to buy, you know, in the middle of a, you don't want to buy it right now in Aurora, Colorado. You don't want to go there.

There's a lot of gangs. Okay, you want to go to these places. smart light. These astronauts, boy, there's an update Sunni Williams, Butch, Wilmore. So they go up on June 5th, right? They were supposed to spend about a week in space. It's still there. They can't get home. Boeing can't get them out of there. And now they say that it'll be March or even April before they're back home. And they've been up there. Well, we're packed for a week and we're gone six months. Now this again goes back to the Biden administration. They run NASA and Boeing out of problems. They're stranded up there. They're okay. They're safe, but they can't get them

back. Boy, I mean, you know, is this federal government screwed up? Yeah. So here's a final thought confronting the president's number five is coming Sunday on the new york times list after 13 weeks it's actually 15 weeks in the marketplace because the times lags behind a little bit on their list and it's still a fabulous bestseller the reason is very simple all of my books from killing lincoln the first one then all 13 killing books and now confronting is a new series we will have another confronting book out in September. And I'll tell you about it, you know, because we can't tell you now because somebody will steal the idea. That's what they do. But anyway, the reason these books are so successful, and again, I will tell you, we are the most successful nonfiction

authors in the world, is because they're fun to read. That means you're not bored. You're not, oh, do I have to pick this up again? Fun. and you learn something on every single page. So today, I was on the Travis show and Buck and Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. They took over for Limbaugh. They guys do a good job. I was on. And I'm explaining to them how Donald Trump is going to govern the second time around

is much different than the first time around because he's taking the Franklin Roosevelt model and he's doing what Roosevelt did. Who knows that? No one knows that. I don't know if Trump knows it. But if you reconfirting the president, you'll know it. So anyway,

go to the bookstore, pick it on up, give it to somebody alike, read it yourself, whatever you want to do. And we will be back Wednesday and Thursday with fresh shows and doing what we're doing. do okay so we hope to see you again