Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Federal Spending Controversy, Georgia DA Fani Willis Disqualified in Trump Case, Liz Cheney Investigation Portrayed as Revenge, Christmas Fun, & a Message from Holly the Terror Dog

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday, December 19, 2024. Stand Up for Your Country.   Talking Points Memo: Bill lays out the battle on Capitol Hill between Democrats, Republicans, and President-elect Donald Trump over spending. The press is portraying the investigation into Liz Cheney's alleged witness tampering as revenge by Donald Trump. Fulton County DA Fani Willis has been disqualified from her election interfereance case. What's next? A look back on the War on Christmas. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments involving the future of TikTok. Final Thought: An end-of-the-year message from Bill and Holly the Terror Dog.  In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Yo, Adrian!  Need a last-minute Christmas gift? Check out our Premium and Concierge Member gift cards!  THE ULTIMATE KILLING SPECIAL. Get Confronting the Presidents PLUS the entire bestselling Killing Series. All 14 books for only $325. SHOP HERE. Get Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Check out the Not Woke Shop! We've got Not Woke t-shirts, polos, bumper stickers, and our signature Not Woke coffee mug. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the New Spin News for Thursday, December 19th, 2004, stand up for your country. Last broadcast of the year, notice I said broadcast. This is not a podcast. Everywhere I go, go, oh, we love the podcast. I'm not doing one. A podcast is wearing a bunch of people sit around in sneakers and sweatpants and they just talk.

And it can be entertaining and people are making some money from podcasts and they're all over the place. I know that, but this is a broadcast. And we have it set up in a very interesting way. We are the most successful independent news agency in a world based on revenue flow and reach. Our reach is everywhere. I got a letter from Shanghai, China. The other guy yelling at me the other day. Okay?

We're everywhere. But it's not a podcast. It is a very disciplined newscast, 41 minutes. And then we break it up some of it and we put it on YouTube and we have the first TV and we have our distribution on direct TV and we have 300 radio stations and on and on and on and I am tired. It has been a wild three months with the election and all that. Why? Not a lot of sleep going on here. So it takes some time. And this is the perfect time of the year to do it. We will be back, okay, on Monday, January 6th, live, on radio and TV. So, and I hope you check

in with Bill O'Reilly.com because I'm going to be tweeting. They don't call it tweeting anymore. but I still call it, at Bill O'Reilly. Anything happens, I'm going to be right on it, boom. Because my staff, most of them are, you know, we alternate off, but they'll get it out there. And we have columns, and we have all kinds of stuff, photo album, really nice photo album on Bill O'Reilly.com, Holly, the Teradog, you know, we have everything. So I hope you check in with us. And there isn't going to be much breaking news unless the hostages are released in Gaza,

which I know they're working on. That could be the big breaker, but we are on top of it. The Talking Points memo this evening is the federal spending controversy. It never ends. Every three months we go through this, you know, that's boring. And let me just lay it out so everyone understands this. The federal government spends way too much money. President Biden, the biggest spending president in our history by far.

Trump's been a lot of money too. COVID played into that, but Biden totally out of control. Totally. And we got to stop. And the Democratic Party doesn't want to stop because they buy votes. We'll give you this, we'll give you that. How many times did Kamala Harris get out there? We're going to give you this. You know, kid, we'll go like that, health, on and on and on and on. Well, we can't do it anymore. Because if we continue to run up debt, the way we're running it up, we'll have a depression in the United States. So what's going to happen? And so we have to stop. Trump knows that. But Trump has got some big commitments.

It's got to rebuild the military again because Biden just let it go. And then we got Social Security and Medicare through the roof. They're going to have to up the age, not for people getting it down, don't panic, but for the younger folk. Instead of, you know, kicking in at 62 or whatever it is, it's going to be, you know, four or five years later. happen. Trump doesn't want to do it. No president does, because once you get into that, then people don't like you. All right. So this latest brouhaha, and today Congress is supposed to leave. The House supposed to leave today and Senate tomorrow. So I don't know what's going to happen. I mean, I'm taping this in late afternoon. It's still chaos. I don't know. Who knows?

But every three months, we've got this big short-term spending bill. That's ridiculous. Listen to some of this stuff in this present bill. All right, big raise for Congress. I don't, they haven't gotten a raise this 2009, and they're gonna bring them up about 4%. To about 180,000K, that's okay. I don't begrudge that. This is ridiculous, the Washington football stadium,

the commanders, goes from the control of the federal government at RFK Stadium to the locals. Well, the local D.C. can't do anything. They're going to, that's going to be a huge boondog, a lair, a total waste of money. So I don't want that to happen. Then the State Department's Global Engagement Center, we don't need that. We don't need that. That's just millions and millions of dollars are throwing it out the window.

There's no good at all. And then there's a whole bunch of other stuff in there that you can't do this, you can't do that, nothing to do with spending. So Trump is right. I mean, Trump said, I'm going to quote him in a minute, but Trump is right, going, look, this is just ridiculous. I don't want to start my term with this short-term budget thing. So here we said, quote, if Republicans try to pass a clean continuing resolution without all the Democratic bells and whistles, that will be so destructive for our country. All we'll do after January 20th is bring the mess of the debt limit into the Trump administration, rather than allowing to take place in the Biden administration.

Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should and will be primary. So that's a threat to Republicans in the House and the Senate. If you sign on with the Democratic bill, short-term spending bill, then you're going to get a primary challenge. It's going to cost you a lot of money. Okay. That's the way the game is played. So I think a deal will be made. and this always happens

on the last minute and then all of us oh we got to deal we got to it's boring to me and but it's important I understand so when you have

Joe Biden four years carries a deficit of two trillion that means under Biden's four year term the government

spent two trillion dollars more than I took in from the taxpayer can't do that and our debt now let me just get the exact number because it goes up

every second 36.2 trillion. You can't sustain it. On Biden's first day in office, it was $27.8 trillion. And now it's 36.2. You guys, a maniac. It doesn't care. They don't care.

They buy votes. That's what it's all about. We'll give you, give you, give you, give you. Stop. Stop. We need a balanced budget amendment, number one. That's got to be passed by the Republican Congress. Congress.

Number two, Trump's got to take a look at the military and the Social Security and the Medicare. Take your time. Everybody wants a strong defense, not everybody, but sane people. But you can't keep paying ridiculous prices for equipment. You've got to have discipline in there. Have to. And finally, look, any politician going to take on the entitlements, so.

Social Security and Medicare, it's going to be controversial. If I would Trump, I take that on the last two years. Get your border, get your prices down, get your Ukraine stuff, then take the, because that's going to be really a blowout. And that's a memo. 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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You can find us at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, Joe Biden did nothing today. And Donald Trump does nothing on the calendar. You know, they're both socialized, it's Christmas, people in, people out. Here's a very fascinating story. So you remember Fannie Willis, Fannie. Okay, she hates Trump. And she is the DA for Fulton County, Georgia.

And she did a lot of dumb and perhaps corrupt things trying to get Trump. Well, now the second division of Georgia's appellate court has kicked her off. the case the election interference case enjoyed it by fanny someone said about a year ago that this was going to happen roll it but summing it up is Fannie Willis thing gone and what's going to happen I predict is a judge is going to throw her off the case it was judge is threw up the case am I Nostradamus or why come on come Every prediction I made in 2024 has come true, I think everyone, every single one.

So finally out. So now a new prosecutor has to come in. This case is never, ever going to get anywhere. It's over. I don't know whether it should be or not. I don't know what, but it was obviously a hate Trump play. And so that just leaves New York with Trump. And Trump will beat them in New York.

You'll bait them. You wait and see. All right, media madness. Liz Cheney. How many of you like Liz Cheney out there? Anyone? Hello? Anyone like Liz?

So, Liz Cheney led the January 6th committee to try to hate Trump. Blame Trump for insurrection, all that. Liz Cheney is a Republican. Congresswoman from Wyoming. She lost the election. She's out. She teaches at the university. of Virginia now. Okay. So Liz Cheney is the most vehement Trump hater on the J-6 committee.

Well, the oversight committee in the House now says that Liz Cheney may have tampered with a witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, who had testify under oath in front of the J-6 committee. This is the allegation. Now, we afford to. due process to everyone, all right, we'll have to see. But I went on a News Nation with Cuomo last night, and here's what happened. Liz Cheney is the biggest villain in Republican circles there could possibly be. Why? Because she's a traitor? And when the House of Representatives said, no, because she was so hateful to Trump. And the voters of Wyoming booted her out, Even though the Cheney family is one of those powerful families in that state.

But when the Republicans in Congress say she witnessed tampered, and then the press makes it out like this is some kind of revenge play, if Liz Cheney witness tampered, she deserves the FBI being all over her front lawn. I'll tell you that right now. And I think there's enough evidence to go in and investigate. What they're calling witness tempering, I mean, I've only looked at what they're saying so far. obviously they haven't produced anything else, not that that's some new standard. It's certainly not a legal standard of witness tampering.

And there is no small irony. It is. It's going to go after her for. Well, depends on what she did. And I don't know. So far. Oh, no, no. Cuomo, you're wrong.

I know what the law is. And you're a lawyer. I know I am. And I was damn good. What I'm saying is, we'll see. If she did it. We'll see. If she tried to convince.

Cassidy Hutchinson, yes, oh, you give her due process, certainly. But if she tried to convince Cassidy Hutchinson, all right, behind closed doors, which is the allegation, to testify a certain way in front of the J6 committee, then this woman violated federal law, period. And the FBI should be looking into that. That's fine. Well, that's not what I... They got to investigate.

You know, and the press is going on all his revenge. revenge, revenge, revenge. It's not revenge, it's justice. Can't have a congressperson. You know, the word, the legal word, is suborning perjury. I don't know whether she did that, Cheney, but the allegation, and I think they can back it up, is that she met with Hutchinson and guided her testimony. That's against federal law. You can't do that if you are a sitting congressperson. So, yeah, investigate it. But it's not revenge. You got to have this.

You got to have some standards of behavior in the federal government. But the press, oh, it's revenge. Oh, yeah. Does the press want to know what Liz Cheny really did? Do they? No, they don't. Okay. New study by the Media Research Center, very conservative group.

So you need to know that up top. So they looked at the NBC, ABC, CBS Nightly News coverage of Trump's picks for cabinet heads. All right, that's what they looked at, specifically Heggseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Cash Patel. And they examined it. And they came up with this number. 96% of all the network coverage, three networks, was negative on those three individuals. Anybody surprised? No, because the culture of the network news will never change.

Even though they've been defeated, humiliated, Seponopoulos, ABC has to pay $16 million, CBS 60 Minutes, being sued by Trump because of the alleged interview with Kamala Harris that they mis-edited it, and the ratings are going down everywhere, they're not going to change because almost everybody inside those organizations are left or far left. Now, the corporations are panicking. The front page in the New York Post today, it's got Stephanopoulos, you know, it's embarrassing. And Bob Iger, they had at Disney, made them settle the case.

I hear because there was emails between Stepanopoulos and producers at ABC, and a producer said to Stepanopoulos, don't say that Trump raped that woman. And Stepanopoulos said it anyway. That shows malice. If you could produce those emails, which ABC would have to do. That's what I'm hearing. Can I confirm it to be true? I can't.

I haven't seen the emails. But it comes from a very reliable source. It's an anonymous source. So I can't go and tell you it's a fact. But there was a reason that ABC Disney settled that case because they would have been thoroughly embarrassed. George Sophanopoulos is the poster boy for the left wing embedded into the news organizations

at the network level. He's a poster boy. He worked for Clinton. He was Clinton's top guy. It's not a journalist. I have nothing against George. I've known him for years. Treated me okay.

I mean, you know, not great, but he was, you know. But this is ridiculous. So 96% of the coverage on Heggseth, Gabbard, and Patel were negative. That's what we got in America. Matt Gates. So I thought I would have the ethics report now. It's going to come out any time. It's going to be hateful.

toward Gates. I feel bad for Gates. I don't like Gates. I thought he's a very destructive congressman. I think he's a showboat. I don't think he's looking out for you. Could be wrong, but I'm not. And Gates made a lot of enemies. A lot. And that's why this is all happening. But it's not really fair. You know, he's not in Congress anymore. They don't have to release this. It's going to make him look bad. It's going to hurt his family. It's Christmas. I wouldn't do it. 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

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Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is one of the most fascinating legal cases we have had in America. the last 20 years. Listen to this. TikTok, huge among younger Americans, enormous. I've never been on it. I don't even know how to get on it, but it's short videos, all right? And everybody's on TikTok. It's owned by the Chinese company. Chinese companies are not independent. The government of China runs all the companies. That's communism. Okay. TikTok is huge in America. enormous. Now, Biden signed a law that says, if the Chinese don't put TikTok up for sale

by January 19th, federal government's going to ban it. No more TikTok. Come in a fast. So either put it up for sale or your vapor. Biden signed it. Now, Supreme Court is going to hear this case on January 10th because it pits free expression, TikTok, free expression, against national security. Because once you go on TikTok, the Chinese have your information. And you go on any website to have your information. Something pops up on your dopey machine here. And right before airtime, something popped up on mine. Just delete it. Don't look at it. If you don't know what it is, gone. Okay.

So the Supreme Court has to decide whether the First Amendment overrides the security concerns. I can't call that. But I think what's going to happen is the Supreme Court's going to stay Biden's order. And they're going to throw it back to the lower courts for more analysis. That's what I think is going to happen. But this is big. Okay. I don't have anything else on the drones for you.

I wish I did. So outrageous. Isn't it outrageous in Biden administration? They got to know what it is by now. And then we'll tell us, oh, I'm so glad they're going to be out of there, aren't you? Oh, oh, whoa, whoa. All right, this is a great story.

So, 70 miles northwest of New York City is a place called Scotch Town, New York. So a guy goes out in his front yard, and he's rooting around in his bushes. And he finds two giant teeth. And then he starts to dig, and he gets two more teeth. And then he starts to dig, and he gets a skull. And it's a mastodon. A mastodon became extinct 13,000 years ago. It's kind of like a giant elephant with dinosaur qualities or something.

And it weighs six tons. So it needs to see the mastodon, if we're alive today, would have to see Marie Osmond right away. Big, big animal, right? So this guy on his front lawn is this big skull, this mastodon. And he gets it. What's it worth? About 10 grand.

Because there are dinosaur collectors who pay them about 10. There have been a couple of others discovered, and that's the ballpark. Fascinating story. War on Christmas. So let's go back to 2005, 19 years ago. I get a letter, I'm working a factor at Fox News, from an employee of Target. And the employee says, I have been told not to say Merry Christmas or I'm going to get fired. I couldn't believe that.

So I gave it to my crack staff. And I said, check this out. It says, that'd be true. Turns out to be true. And I go, no, this is not going to happen in the United States. And remember, the O'Reilly Factor was the most powerful news program in this country. And to this day, no one will surpass it in the influence of power. So I'm going to play you two minutes of what I did after receiving that letter.

Go. Factor investigation segment tonight, as you know, Christmas has become controversial in America. Public displays of the federal holiday are under attack by the ACLU. And some department stores even tell them. employees to avoid saying, Merry Christmas. So we decided to look at some retail policies this year, and here's what we found out. Sears Kmart would not answer our question. spokesman Chris Braithwaite simply ducked the issue, their website banners, Wishbook Holiday 2005. They were the worst we had to deal with. Okay, Sears Kmart. J.C. Penny says its catalog is always called Christmas

catalog. Federated department stores, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Burdine, says the words, Christmas will be used in most advertising. Same thing at May, Filene's, Lord and Teller, and Marshall Fields. But Coles refused to define how the company will deal with Christmas. Dillards, however, will use the slogan, Discover Christmas, discover Dillard. So there you go. Shop where you like the atmosphere. Just remember Coles and Sears Kmart. Basically, all right. With us now, Philip Nulman, author of the book, say yes extreme customer service that's what i like extreme customer service all right um

85 percent of americans say they're christians christmas a federal holiday signed at the law by u.s grant and we're living in a time or some retail outlets will not say merry christmas insane no no i don't think it's insane i think that it's good business practice actually And many organizations are trying desperately to be inclusionary. They feel that the use of Merry Christmas in their packaging, their bags, their messages, their environment is just the opposite. It's exclusionary to the 15 or 20 percent of the customer base that is not Christian. And you agree with that. I do from a marketing standpoint.

See, I think you're crazy. And here's why. I think the backlash against stores that don't say Merry Christmas is enormous. because now people are aware of the issue. So I just called the guest crazy. That's why the show was so powerful. So we won. We won, and it was a brawl.

You saw the little sticker media matters. They co-opted that, illegally, by the way, took it from Fox News, and then they stamped it and played it and said, Oh, Riley's making it up, O'Reilly, this, this, this, rally, that. But today, 2004, every retailer says Merry Christmas, there than any of it. That was the biggest victory that I had, and one of the proudest moments that I could change the culture, which was rapidly diminishing Christmas back then, thanks

to the ACLU, the worst organization in the world, they were, you know, going into the courts, the crutches, all of this. It's all done. You don't even hear about it anymore. And it was dumb because of me and my staff and the Fox News Channel. And we are so much of a better society because you might think it's a little thing, it's not a little thing. It isn't. And people don't remember how it went down, particularly younger viewers, because we're on YouTube now all over the place. And some younger viewers, they weren't around 2005.

That was enormous, but it was a brawl. It was an absolute brawl. And I remember fighting these people hand to hand. But we prevailed, and now it is Merry Christmas as it should be. So where is Christmas banned? Some places in the world, you cannot celebrate Christmas. Here they are. Afghanistan, the Taliban, no shoot you.

Algeria, Bhutan. Now, Bhutan is Buddhist. They're not going to hurt you, but there's no Christmas there. North Korea, they'll hurt you there. Libya will hurt you. Mauritania, that's Muslim.

Saudi Arabia, same. Somalia, same. Tajikistan, same. Tunisia, same. Turkmenistan, same. Uzbekistan, same. Yemen. So the Muslim countries forbid.

No Christmas Okay You don't want to be there How about the ones that are on the bubble That would be China Now there are Catholics, Christians in China There are festive lights

But you don't want to be running around dressed as Santa Iran, there you go Oh boy, watch yourself Cuba People rebelled against Fidel Castro When he tried to ban Christmas So they do it over there.

Laos, very communist nation, south of China and west of Vietnam, and Turkey. You've got to watch yourself in Turkey. They portrayed themselves as the modern place. You're okay in Istanbul. Nice town, by the way. But you're out in the hinterlands of Turkey. You don't watch yourself. So I wouldn't be going Caroling, okay, in Ankara.

Now, how about some interesting traditions, Christmas traditions all over the world? In Italy, they have a kind witch called La Bafana, kind witch. And it says she flies around on a broomstick delivering toys to children. This is in addition to Santa. So they got Santa, and then they have the kind witch La Bafana. I'm not sure about that, but Iceland. Okay? You got the Yule Lads. Does anybody out there know what the Yule Lads are? I love this. They're trolls. See in the Norwegian culture, which Iceland is part of, trolls are little people that run around.

So this is Lila. In Iceland, children leave shoes under the window for 13 mischievous trolls called Yule Lads. The child has been good, they get sweets in their shoe, they've been bad, they get a rotten potato. Iceland. Austria, this is great. So they have St. Nicholas in Austria, okay? That's Santa Claus. But they also have St. Nicholas's evil twin. His name is Crampus, the evil twin.

So this tradition dates back to Middle Ages, and people would dress up like crampus and chase children down the street in a menacing way if they didn't behave. Can you imagine doing that in America? You'd be in a penitentiary, right? Crampus in Austria. And finally, Sweden has the giant Yule goat. Now, this smacks some paganism to me, you know, owed in a virology. Vikings and all that. Okay. So the Yule Goat is 40 feet and it's made a straw. It's a statue. I don't know what they do with the statue, but it comes out of the town of Gavla. And it's a big deal.

It's erected every year on the first day of Advent. And it's even on TV in Sweden. The Yule goat. so if you guys are interested in crampus or the yule goat or the kind witch now you know back here in the u s a 2024 holiday spending expected to reach about a trillion dollars 9773 billion that's a 5% increase over last year you know that's interesting people spend them more money they don't have any money but they are 10% of Americans don't give any gifts and you know who you are um everybody else does and uh let's see Canada gives more gifts they spend more nearly $1,000 more in Canada and gifts than Americans do okay and what else half of Americans shop online now you know I have a hard time shopping online because I'm six four 200 pounds and if I order any clothes and they never fit

I got a good tailor but just a jacket or something I got a and you want to feel the fabric right so I'm hesitant on that that's my problem most watch Christmas movies in America okay before I put them up see if you can guess which do you think here they are most watch Christmas movies home alone how the Grinch stole Christmas Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, all kids' things. The best Christmas movie ever is a Christmas Carol starring Alistair Sim, S-I-M. Best. Trust me. Now, everybody watches It's a wonderful life. Not me. Way to Maudlin and I like Donna Reed.

She had her own show in the 50s, James Stewart. But we have a big brawl in my house. Every Christmas time, oh, you know, you're going to watch a wonderful life. Not watching it. Lucky, you have a couple of TV sets. The stay in history, December 19, 1777. General George Washington leaves his force of 11,000 men into Valley Forge. Valley Forge is only 24 miles away from Philadelphia, where the British

army was vivouac for the winter. Valley Forge was horrible. Now, if you read my book Killing England, we go into great detail. But what Washington did was he erected huts and the 11,000 men, and there were some women and children along as well. They camped out, and it's freezing, and they didn't have enough food, they didn't have the right clothing, and 3,000 of them fell ill and couldn't fight, and 2,000 died. Some of them starved to death in Valley Forge. Now, George had the best cabin. And Martha Washington, this is a little known historical fact.

Martha came down from Virginia, came up from Virginia, from Mount Vernon, stayed with George at Valley Forge. Martha was not around in the Revolutionary War very much, but they bivouacked there. And then they broke out and chased the British out of Philadelphia up to New York City in the springtime. You can still go to Valley Forest Day. It's a good park, good historical park. Okay, I have a final thought starring Holly the Christmas Dog.

Holly will make an appearance right here. Back in a moment. Okay, final thought of the day. I am going to change, not my personality. I'm going to change my clothing. This is like instantaneous because in about 40 seconds through the magic of videotape

we are going to bring you Holly the Teradog but I wanted to set it up because this is what I'm doing here in my tie-in jacket but I can't do that with Holly the Teradog because you just shed all over it, shed H-S-H-H-G-D. So, you're going to see a transformation, all right? It is about to come your way.

And before we get to it, I want to wish everybody a blessed Christmas. All right, take it away. And the final thought today is the Christmas dog. I'm in my Christmas shirt. The Christmas dog is going, why are you torturing me? Why am I here? Here, the payment to the dog union, I got a treat, I got to treat Christmas dog. So Holly's had a rough year in 2024, two brain tumors removed, and she's really been a good dog.

So we pray for Holly, St. Francis, right, Holly? We're big St. Francis fans here. and she's going to have a better in 2025. She's nine years old, Corgi Pure Blood. Got her in Georgia. They don't have a lot of corgi breeders up here in the Northeast, and I'm a very nice woman down there. And we got Holly nine years ago.

Remember that, Holly? You got on the plane, he came up to Long Island. And she's a very, very sweet dog. I know, I know. You're not getting after-wage. used to be on TV. Just let everybody see you. Okay. I want you to meet. Wish everybody a Merry Christmas. All right. And we are going to have a good one here because Holly is relatively healthy. So thank you all for your letters and kindness. I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.

You guys are really the best. You've been very loyal to me and Holly. We really appreciate it. And we'll be back Monday, January 6th. Have a good, you know, New Year. keep it under control. Be very generous on Christmas if you can. Okay, Holly, that's it. We're going. See you on Monday, January 6th.