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He and I, he's three years older than I am, and we have a work ethic. I take more time off than Donald Trump. Donald Trump only plays golf. He doesn't have any other hobbies. I have a bunch. And as I said, he gave us 25 minutes. And, you know, when you hear the clips, just focus in on the difference. If you watch that ABC fiasco on Tuesday, I mean, it went nowhere, got nothing.

It just, they just don't get it. They don't know how to interview the man. But anyway, he did, I think, out of friendship to me. Give us the 25 minutes on Wednesday evening. Now, we began with the polling, which is, you know, at this point in history, because of the stock market, and that's what it's about, and the tariffs, not looking good for Donald Trump. Roll the tape. So, a series of rough polls this week, and I'm wondering how you process that.

Do you, does it hurt your feelings when you see numbers come in that are not what you'd like them to be? Well, first of all, they're fake polls, and if you take a look at the polls, they interviewed more, and for the most part, they interviewed more Democrats than they did Republicans, which is ridiculous and unfair, and Democrats aren't voting for Trump. And you look at him, John McLaughlin, who's the most respected pollster, said I'm at 50, 55, and maybe even higher than that. and he said that these polls are largely fake. When you say, am I bothered by it?

If I was, I'd be really helped by the fact that in the election, we won in a landslide. We won the popular vote. We won the swing states. We won the districts 2,750 to about 505. And the election took place just a short while ago, November 5th. I think it was a very big day for the country. What's different now is it.

tariffs, and that's what's driving your numbers down, that some people are panicking because the stock market is so up and down in and out. Would you agree that that has been a perception problem, the tariffs? Yeah, but I'm an honest guy, and we have to save the country. We were losing $5 billion a day with this man that we had as a president, the auto pen president. Nobody even knows who the president was. We're losing, think of it. We're losing five. billion dollars a day and a big chunk of it was from china okay so are the polls fake some of them are mclaughlin is a very good pollster so i didn't hear what he i don't think he said that publicly to president trump but i know john did meet with him um there's a new poll out today i'm going to give you

that uh it's pretty interesting and it's different than uh the polls that have him way down so you can't say to Donald Trump, well, no, the polls are fair. They're not fair. I mean, I've told you the polling at Fox News is terrible. The polling at NPR PBS done by Maris College is disgraceful. It's awful. Okay, anybody buying that poll is buying a fraud. And this is based on what their poll numbers were not only for this election last November, but on and on. Okay, They're awful. And whenever you ask Donald Trump about the wobble, which is in his administration now, which is the tariffs, he falls back on he has to do it.

He didn't have to do it. As he pointed out later in the interview, no other president took it on in modern times because they knew it was so risky. But he's doing the right thing on paper. You're a trillion-dollar trade deficit here. And that's outrageous. So this is undefined. And that's why some people who once appointed the president and now are a little scared about it.

Okay. The second one is also about economics because that is the key. President Trump has succeeded on the border. He succeeded in the deportation area. I believe that he'll succeed overseas. But economically is a big question mark. Roll it. When do you think, though, it's going to turn around economically

so that people aren't frightened? Do you have a time line on it? Yeah, I mean, it's a very fair question. Building plants, building equipment, building so much right now, you probably heard it could be $8 trillion, it could be more than $8 trillion of new investments outside in one of my offices waiting for me is the president and chairman of Eli Lilly and I had I just left you take a look IBM was here today IBM was

here they're spending billions of dollars I had some of the biggest the biggest Apple as you know is spending 500 billion dollars there building their plants and they've already started in the United States as you know they built most of them in China we had the biggest companies in the world I had a conference here just about an hour and a half ago and some of the people are still here they remain some of the people are watching your show tonight but they're spending it could be a close i think we're over eight trillion dollars of new investment that's unheard of but the folks don't see it they don't see it and they do see their uh statements stock market statements bonds and all that every day

and that's the problem now i'm not doubting what the president is saying i believe that he's going to bring in a lot more investment into the United States. I don't know if the tariffs, the amount of money that's coming in from them is going to override the negatives in the market. No one could tell you that with any certainty. And again, people believe what they want to believe. President Trump believes that this is going to turn the economy upward, and he's going to be a very successful president, a la Ronald Reagan. That's what he believes. Ronald Reagan believed that he was going to bring down a Soviet Union. Press didn't. Press hammered him for all the defense spending. Donald Trump believes he's going to turn

that economy around in a big way, historic way. Okay. Now, third soundbite. That picture of Zelensky and Trump at the Vatican at the Pope's funeral really affected me personally as a journalist. Very unusual. Rule of tape. What were you and Zelensky talking about when you were nose to nose in the Vatican? I was telling him that it's a very good thing if we can produce a deal that you sign it because Russia is much bigger and much stronger. Russia is just chugging forward. It's a big, strong country. By the way, not nearly as strong as the United States

because I rebuilt our military in my first term. They gave a lot of it away in Afghanistan. And Afghanistan is one of the reasons the incompetent. We had an incompetent president, grossly incompetent. He should have never been president. But we had a man that didn't know what the hell he was doing. and Afghanistan showed the stupidity of our leader and the weakness of the military.

We have a great military. I knocked out ISIS in three weeks. You got the deal with Zelensky on the minerals. That means the United States is going to have a presence in Ukraine. Is that going to inhibit Putin, do you think? Well, it's good. But the reason I did that is that we're in for $350 billion or close to it, whereas Europe is only in it for $100 billion.

So we get some of our investment back. And then the president went on to say that Europe, the EU nations, NATO nations, lent Ukraine the money, and we just gave it to them. So he believes that this mineral deal will bring some of that money back to the USA. Again, that absolutely could happen. No guarantee, but it could. But the real reason that the United States wanted that deal is because it gives us a presence in Ukraine, an economic presence that has to be guarded.

Okay? So if Putin sweeps in to our industries there, that opposite big time. All right. Now, the deal they made is not what it seems to be. you have not been told. So Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, doesn't reimburse the USA. It allows the USA preferential rights to harvest minerals, all right? And they're there, but we don't know exactly where they are, the minerals.

And the agreement says the future military assistance of Ukraine will count as an investment. Okay? So there'll be a fund set up. So we'll get reimbursed. What Trump wants to do is he'll give Ukraine the money, but he wants them to pay it back in the form of mineral sales. And I think that's a fairly good deal. All right. So that's what happened. Now finally, it was a pretty intense interview, and I'll tell you where you can see it all in a moment. So I wanted to use some levity. I want to, you know, because you don't want to leave everybody. All right, roll it. This episode is brought to you by San Pellegrino Chau. A new kind of flavor of sparkling water. The kind made with real fruit juice, a pinch of Sicilian salt, and the sparkle of the Italian sun. With no added sugar and just 10 or less calories per can, enjoy. With love from Italy. By San Pellegrino Chau now.

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Do you have any advice for Stephen A if he launches the run? No, Stephen A, he's a good guy, he's a smart guy. I love watching him. He's got great entertainment skills, which is very important. People watch him. You know, a lot of these Democrats I watch, I say they have no chance. I've been pretty good at picking people and picking candidates, and I will tell you, I'd love to see him run. No, there you go.

Now, will he run? At this point, no, but who knows, three and a half years down the road, Trump has opened the door for every populist candidate. So we are very grateful President Trump for giving us the time. I'm on one of these arrogant guys who goes, hey, I got to give it that. I told the president when I was booking him that this would be very widely watched all over the world, and the number of support that.

And then over the weekend, you get another surge of people who didn't quite understand what was happening. And I'll give you all the details about where you can see it if you missed it. So joining his now from Washington is Dr. Charles CupCham. He is a professor at Georgetown University, an expert in foreign relations. He's been everywhere, knows everything. He wrote a book, Isolationism, a history. of America's efforts to shield itself from the world. First of all, doctor, it's very nice to see you.

Thank you for helping us out. Did I make any mistakes in my run-up to introducing you? No, I, you know, I think you got it about right. The one comment I would make about Trump in Canada, having written a book about isolationism, is that we've been here before. You know, we tried repeatedly in the 19th century to either invade Canada,

or by Canada from the British, and it failed. And Trump, I think, is looking at a map. He's a real estate mogul. He sees good property up there across our northern border, and he says, I like that. But I completely agree with you that it's backfired. It's turned Canadians into a people that want to stand up to Trump. And in many respects, as you put it, it led to the win of Mark Carney and the liberal party when the conservatives were actually set to win this election, and Trump undercut him.

But I don't think Trump cares about internal politics in Ottawa. What he wants is a better trade deal, and I think that's going to happen, even with Carney in office. I think that's likely. You know, I think the rollout of these tariffs has been chaotic. By the time you and I finished this conversation, policy on Canada, policy on China, policy. on Mexico may have changed. And that's because the initial rollout didn't go over very well, right? We're looking at a possible trade war. We're looking at a huge hit to the American car industry because parts and cars get passed back and forth across that northern border multiple times as they're being constructed. And so, yeah, I think Trump is getting a lot of

negative feedback. The poll numbers are going down. The bond market crash, the stock market crashed, he's now recalibrated. So I basically agree with you that we're likely to see trade deals with Canada and perhaps with a whole bunch of other countries. I think that'll happen. But it better happen fairly quickly because once a president gets on the wrong side of the American people, you know, it takes a while I get back on a right side. Now, there was a picture at the Pope's funeral of Trump and Zelensky together, close together in the Vatican. And I continue to believe that there is a good chance that this Ukraine thing will calm down. How do you see it? You know, Trump is doing the right thing by reaching out to

Putin. This is not a war that Ukraine is going to win on the battlefield. And I think Biden made a mistake in not having a strategic dialogue with the Russians to try to end the war. And so I think the proposal on the table right now has some real strengths, and one of them is ceasefire in place. The other is that the 20% of Ukraine that is occupied by Russia will for now stay in Russian hands. That's just the way it is. That's just a recognition of reality. Right. I think what we need to see Trump do now is. get behind the Ukrainians to ensure that the 80% of Ukraine that is still free, still controlled by Zelensky in Kiev, emerges as a success story. And that's going to take a lot of American

support as well as Trump saying to Putin, hands off. If we end this war, you need to keep your hands off the rest of Ukraine and allow it to prosper as a democracy that's anchored in Europe. Well, that's why they have the mineral deal, because they'll send in U.S. personnel to mine the minerals, and they don't have to provide security. And that deal comes along with the Ukraine ceasefire. Iran. So the Iranians continue to, I don't know what their goal is, because in the next three years plus, Donald Trump's never going to let them. progress any further on nuclear weapons. And he'll give the green light for the Israelis who just take out their ports, just blow them up. And the Mullets know that. So I expect there'll be

some deal there. You know, I think that's probably the case. If I look at the various conflicts and negotiations that Trump either is proceeding with or has U.S. Russia, West China, U.S. North Korea, U.S. Iran, Iran in some ways may be the one that's easiest to bring across the finish line. And that's because Iran is as weak today as it's been in decades. And that's simply because Israel has taken down Hamas, taken down Hezbollah, the Syrian regime that was in cahoots with Iran has collapsed. The Houthis are getting hit by the United States. And the Israelis have demonstrated to Iran that they can take out their air defenses at will. So in some ways, Iran is standing there with its pants down. And I think that

puts Iran in a position in which a deal is more likely than not, where like three rounds, the fourth round of negotiations is scheduled for this weekend in Oman. The experts are at the table. We're not there yet, but I think there's a good chance we'll get a deal. Yeah, I mean, that's what these polls don't reflect is that a lot of things, both economically and overseas, are going to change. We don't know when. Finally, China, China is the most difficult problem for the United States because she and the Chinese government don't care what happens to their people. So if they have to suffer for two years, three years, because their markets are soft and their exports, drop dramatically, then it's tough. These people are going to suffer and they can't do anything

about it because it's a totalitarian state. So Trump doesn't have much leverage there over Xi, or am I missing something? You know, in some ways I think Trump and Xi are in similar positions. They're both strong will. They're both playing to the nationalist crowd at home. and they both face a situation in which if these tariffs stick, we're talking like 145 percent, if they stick, our populations, the Chinese population, are going to suffer. Folks are going to go to Home Depot and Walmart and Lowe's, and they're going to see prices go through the roof. And so I think the fact that both Trump and Xi want to be political successes, they don't want to

blow up the global economy. They don't want to lose popular support. That would suggest to me that there is some trade space here. And in the end of the day, I think Trump is more of a transactional president than he is an ideological one. I don't know who's going to blink first. But I do think, or I hope that we get some movement on the trade front. Because if these tariffs stick, Americans are going to suffer, Chinese are going to suffer. And it risks blowing up the global economy? Well, if we get deals with India and Japan and the EU on trade within the next month, China is going to be under tremendous pressure.

So that's the thinking I know that to be true. Dr. I would underestimate the difficulty. A normal trade deal takes months, if not years. Trump says 90 days. Right. His team has a lot of hard work to do in the days and weeks ahead. Okay.

Dr. Thanks very much. We appreciate it. Now let's go to Media Madness. So there is a negotiation underway between Donald Trump, which is sued, who has sued, CBS News for like $50 billion, whatever, it's a crazy thing. All right, and the lawsuit is that Trump alleges that CBS News helped Kamala Harris in the campaign. That's a 60-minute thing that was edited in a different way. I do believe that 60 Minutes did try to help Kamala Harris. From what, you know, just the facts that I've seen, I believe they did.

But I could be wrong, but I don't think I am. Anyway, CBS is owned by Paramount, all right, the big Hollywood outfit. And Paramount wants to sell CBS to an outfit. It's called Sky Dance. All right? Now, Sky Dance is run by Larry Ellison's son. Skydance is a much more conservative outfit than Paramount CBS. So it's good for Trump if Paramount sells to Skydance.

In the meantime, though, there's all this angst. Now, Trump despises CBS because of Leslie Stahl. And in an interview on October 25, 2020, way back, way back, This is the tipping point for CBS News. Go. I wish you would interview Joe Biden like you interview me. It would be so good. You know what?

You like this, I thought. I thought you liked Spahn. I don't mind it. I don't mind it. But when I watch him walk out of a store and he's walking with an ice cream and the question the media asked him, what kind of ice cream, what flavor ice cream do you have? And he's in the midst of a scandal. He's not.

And he's taking, of course he is Leslie. Of course he is. It's the biggest, second biggest scandal. The biggest scandal was when they spied in my campaign. They spied my campaign, Leslie. There's no real evidence of that. Of course there is. It's all over the place. Leslie, they spy to my campaign and they got caught. Can I say something? You know, this is 60 minutes and we can't put on things we can't verify. You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden. We can't put on things we can't verify. Leslie, they spy to my campaign. It's been totally verified. I'm doing to my family because we're to go to Burlington

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Benjamin Moore, see the love. Yeah, it has. And Leslie Sloe should have known that the Russian collusion fraud, which was actively being investigated at, was zeroing in on the phony FISA warrants that were signed by FBI people to give the power to surveil Trump's campaign to the FBI. You remember all this? Maybe you don't because it's confusing. So an FBI lawyer named Kevin Kline-Smith was convicted of giving false information of federal judges to get the phony FISA warrants so the FBI could spy on the Trump election campaign. That's a fact. And the fact that Leslie Stahl had no idea that this was in play is stunning.

Now, she could have said, well, it's not been fully adjudicated yet, but to deny the reality of what was happening, and Trump just went through the roof and never, ever forgot that. And remember, that was only a week or a little more than a week before the vote. That's 60 minutes piece. So that is a genesis of it all. I do believe that CBS, Paramount, will have to pay Trump, you know, $15, $20 million, just like Stepanopoulos, ABC had to pay him, and that money will be used for his library. And I think that deal will come soon.

And then Trump will okay the sale to Skydance. That's what I think is going to happen there. And then there's Chuck Todd. I don't pay attention to guys like Chuck Todd very much, but this is a good story. So we ran yesterday a clip of an Axios reporter at the correspondence dinner in Washington on Saturday, scolding his peers for failing to cover Joe Biden's decline, which they absolutely did. It was totally one of the worst things in American history as far as the press is concerned. Well, Chuck Todd gets on YouTube, where we are too, okay, and says this.

go this is not a media failure this is a failure of the democratic party and i just sort sort of the virtue signaling that some people have done to try to say that the media missed this story they didn't miss this story david ignatius wrote i i just refused to accept this this stupid premise because it's a right wing manufactured right wing premise in order to to stain the media that's insane they didn't ignore the story of course they ignored the story of course they ignored the story The corporate media was behind the Trump administration, the Biden administration, until the debate. And then they jumped right into the Kamala Harris campaign to try to boost that. And they never pointed any fingers at the Biden people for faking that Joe Biden was a competent president, which he was not.

so to say that this was a manufactured right-wing premise I just your mouth opens it's almost like Michelle Obama saying that the immigration executive order is racist but this is what's happening in this country all right pot now for years I have been suggesting to you that marijuana is not good, and I base this on personal information.

I've never smoked pot in my life, but I know people who got addicted to it, mentally addicted to it, and their lives crashed hard. And I also know that the THC level of pot is like 25 times what it was when I was in college in the Vietnam era. It's a serious drug you're ingesting into your brain. And if you're doing it every day, there's going to be. be unintended bad consequences for you. So there's a study presented at the European Psychiatric Association's Congress comes out of Australia that's that is stunning. This is prenatal effects of cannabis use disorder. 98% if the mom uses increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity

disorder on the baby when the baby is born. at risk of autism, 46% at risk of intellectual disability. Okay? And in Europe, about 4 million people smoke pot daily. It's much more in the United States, much more. About 1% of the population of the EU. Now, here are the countries that have legalized recreational marijuana. Not many of them. Canada, Georgia, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uruguay, and in the USA, 24 states, including and three territories in the District of Columbia. So I keep telling everybody, this is not good. This is going to hurt people. And if the moms are pregnant and they're smoking pot or taking the candy or whatever, kids are going to suffer.

Have you heard that in the media? Have you heard the media about it? I can't understand why pot is glorified in the media. I could never understand it. In the Vietnam War, I got the hippies, and I got the Crosby Steel's Nash and Young, okay. Willie Nelson, I talk part every day, Snoop Dog, all right, fine.

You guys want to do that, you do it. But to incur, where is the counterweight? There's no counterweight. So now you've got the pot shops all over New York City where I live. Thank God they're not in Nassau County, not many of them anyway. But the kids see this. And a lot of parents use pot in front of their kids. Oh, I think that's child abuse.

Joining us now is Dr. Peter Grinspoon. He's a cannabis specialist. list from the Harvard Medical School. He's up in Boston where he joins us now. So in my analysis, my setup, am I making any mistakes? Well, what you're saying is true, but it's only part of the story. I mean, cannabis or marijuana does have a lot of side effects and can certainly harm people like any other drug. It also helps a lot of people medically. And according to recent polls, about 93% of Americans support legal access to medical marijuana. So I think, like any drug, you could use it in a healthier way or less healthy.

But isn't that, aren't you deflecting doctor the real problem? Because with morphine, which is heroin, okay, that helps people. Nobody objects to opiates when you're having an operation or you have severe pain. But why do we always deflect into the medical marijuana area where I don't know too many people who object to that at at all if it's done? under the auspice of a doctor in a hospital. I'm talking about promoting recreational drug use. And you saw the stats.

I mean, they are really frightening to me. Am I wrong? Well, no, the study you, the hard part is we don't really know how dangerous it is with pregnant women. A lot of pregnant women use cannabis because they think it's safe and natural and they think it's harmless. And it works really well for a morning sickness.

I never recommend a pregnant woman that use cannabis. because we don't know how safe or dangerous it is. Most likely the smoking of cannabis is what makes it dangerous. Because when you smoke cannabis, just like when you smoke tobacco, you get dangerous combustion products. But I do, for the sake of fairness, need to mention that there are just as many studies that don't show any problems with fetuses or children if the parents use marijuana. Again, I don't recommend it because we just don't know.

But the data is all over the place. And the other point I wanted to mention is it's a very fine line between medical and recreational use. you take poles of people that buy marijuana recreationally, you know, three-quarters of them are using it for pain and two-thirds of them are using it for sleep. So I don't think there's like that clear a distinction between medical and recreational cannabis. Certainly some people misuse it. There's no question, but I think we had a lot more trouble when it was illegal and the supply was dangerous and people were getting arrested. And you might agree with this. Why criminalize something that people were going to do anyways? It was a disaster when criminalized

alcohol, and it was a disaster when we criminalized cannabis. We had 20 million arrests for nonviolent cannabis possession, and if it's legal, at least it's regulated, it's labeled. But it isn't regulated. It's not regulated at all. I mean, look, where you live in Boston and you're associated with Mass General, if you're to Roxbury tomorrow, okay, and you stand outside a marijuana clinic that's selling recreational pot. The hardcore heroin fentanyl addicts go in, they buy a bunch of pot and they come out and they sell it to kids because you have to be 18 to buy the pot. And they're selling it to 14, 15 year old kids. That's a big, big industry in every urban city in this country.

So I think you're being a little naive here. This kind of, I wouldn't be people in jail unless you were a big weight mover of marijuana. But if you're smoking marijuana, you know, small beef, I'm not putting you in jail. But I think that the media should be discouraging the use of it, not only because... Flying first class with Alaska Airlines isn't just about getting there. It's about enjoying the journey. Stretch out with industry-leading legroom, sink into an adjustable headrest, and cozy up with a custom filsome blanket on long flights.

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So I don't understand this benign, well, maybe it's not that bad, you know, self-medication. I think it's bad across the board, last word. Well, you know, it's hard to say how, no drug use should be encouraged. I think they should ban advertising for cannabis, alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals. I agree that no drugs should be encouraged. But at the same time, we don't want to magnify the harms or criminalize it, because that harm people as well. And I think with education, we could really teach people, for example, pregnant women, do not use cannabis if you're pregnant teenagers.

I'd be great for that if Bobby Kennedy Jr. who put those ads out and say, hey, you know, there'll be public service announcements. Your kid, you get autism if you smoke pot during the praying. I'm scared of all of these people. I'm before that. But I know the media doesn't want that. They like pot. I don't know why. I mean, I kind of do know why. But I just think it's wrong. And I'd say the same thing about alcohol. If you're boozing it up and you've got, you know, you're pregnant. You're not going to help your kid.

You're going to hurt your kid. If you're drinking every day and you're pregnant, you're going to hurt your kid. So stop it. Anyway, doctor, we really appreciate your point of view. Thanks for coming on. Smart Life. This is a riot. So the University of Nottingham in the UK, that's Sherwood, Faris, Robin Hood, all that stuff.

They did a study on Generation Z, that's 13 to 28-year-olds, all right, Generation Z. And they find that many of them are struggling with telephobia. I love this. They're afraid to talk on the telephone. Why? Because they have anxiety due to lack of visual feedback, and they don't know what to say on the phone. Because they're texting all the time. So it kind of makes sense.

So they have telephobia. Now, why did I put this in the Smart Life segment? Because there is a way to speak to people, and many, many human beings, Americans, Brits, whatever, don't know what that is. So I was at an event last night, a big dog and pony show for Next Star, which owns News Nation and CW.

And I had to talk to at least 100 people because I just want to, you know, say hello and all of that. When you talk to somebody, smart life, you look them in the eye. You don't stare at them like this, but you look them in the eye and you give a little smile. Hi, nice to meet you with you, my, I always try to control the conversation. They say, oh, we love your work or this and that. Nobody's mean. Nobody's true. And I said, thank you very much.

Where are you from? That is my opening question to almost everybody. Where do you live? Where are you from? Because when they tell me that, I know something usually about that place. Okay? So somebody says, well, I live in Manhattan Beach, California. I go, do you go to the Shellback Tavern?

Oh, yeah. So immediately I'm forming a bond with who I'm speaking to. Okay? because I'm asking them, you do that. It's easy. Where are you from? Or if you're in a context of anything where they have a shirt, that's why we have the not woke shirts and the hats. Because people come up and go, oh, where'd you get that? And start a conversation. Now, is that important? It is important. You want to be accessible to people because people can help you. And it's not a using thing. You just want to be accessible to your neighbors and people that

you meet. And it's easy. It's so easy. But these younger Americans, Gen Z, they had no blank and clue how to talk to people. They don't look at it. I mean, my kids, you look them in the eye. You know, look it down here and mumble, boom, bo, bo, speak clearly, speak up. But keep it light. Keep it light. And, you know, I can't tell you how easy it is. And if you're, and if you're If you do it, you'll have a better life. That's what the smart life segment is all about. Talker research, pretty good. 2,000 employed Americans about their money.

Now, I don't believe this first stat. And I could be wrong. 74% of those working in America are living paycheck to paycheck. I don't believe that. The reason I don't believe it is because a lot of us who work, We have money taken out of our pay to go into 401Ks and other things, insurance, whatever it may be. I don't believe that 74% of American workers don't have enough money to save a little bit. I think the number is 50.

50% of Americans are in dire shape financially. But that's a number that talk of research coming out. 73% of Gen Z, again, 13 to 28. are looking for other jobs. And 70% of millennials, 2944, are looking for other jobs. They want to change their jobs or their careers, mainly because they're not making enough money. That's good. That's good.

You know, when I got fed up with a job, I got another one, a better one. That's a good thing. Now, sometimes you can't. I could move. I was single, so I could go. and but sometimes you, you know, you got kids and a wife and a house, but you can always look for another job, a better circumstance. Don't just sit there and take it, but you've got to be smart.

Okay, final thought of the day, I've been saying that the Leland special on Friday is at 8. I was told that, but apparently it's at 9. This drives me absolutely crazy, right? So, I guess it's at 9. But I was told it was eight. Now, I'm going to be patient. I'm not going to lash out. Would like to.

I'd like to lash. I'm not going to lash. So I guess it's 9 o'clock on Friday. Oh, I can't tell you. I sat down, I looked. I'm not going to tell you who told me. He said, what time is this special? 8 o'clock.

Okay, so I look like an idiot, but it's 9 o'clock Friday, 10 p.m. Sunday. Now, this is actually a good final thought because, I don't know, 10 years ago, maybe 15, I would have really got angry. Yield, maybe use bad words. But now I'm inside. boiling but outside gonna let it go right but it happens to all of us doesn't it they ask you try to do due diligence you try to get everything in order try to be accurate and then somebody misleads you I don't think they did it on purpose they're just too lazy to check it out oh yeah no it's a nine anyway

Quite a week, huh? Hope you enjoyed it. Again, you want to reach me, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, name and town if you wish to opine. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News.

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