I've Had It - MAGA's Little Shop of Horrors
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So are we supposed to start the podcast?
Ready, one, two, three.
Patriots, Gay, Trots, Thetriots, Black Triots, Brown Triots,
and all lovers of social justice, we love you,
and all of the triple Trumpers can do what, Pumps?
For God.
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Pumps, what have you had it with?
Okay, what I've had it with is you know how people advertise on little signs.
they put on the side of the road.
I mean, you may not have them in New York City,
but when you're driving around Oklahoma City.
Like roof or divorce.
Yes, roof, like, I want to buy your house or supporting a political candidate.
Okay, so the primary has been over for almost three weeks,
and every corner is stacked full of these signs.
I still see on one corner a Christmas light hanger sign.
Here's my thing.
Pick up your own shirt.
shit, pick up your trash. If you're a candidate and you don't win, or if you do win, pick up the sign
afterward. If you're trying to buy my house, do something other than advertise on the street corner.
I'm sick of it. After Christmas, pick up your lights advertising sign. After the primary, pick up your
candidate. If you put it there, pick it up, clean after your fucking, clean up after your fucking self.
That's my motto. Yeah, I would think the Christmas light stuff, I think those people wouldn't be super
ambitious to pick it up. But if I ran and I lost, I'd be like, go remove all the evidence.
You know, I would just get it all down. I don't want to see any of it. But yeah, that that just goes to the way a lot of
American cities are laid out. They're all car-centric. And then you have these cluttered corners.
You know, that's an American thing. Like, if you're in Europe or other places, you're not going to be at a street and see all
these ratchet, riff-raft, knick-knack signs, people hustling or running for, you. And, if you're not going to be in a street and
something. It's just not attractive. All right, let me tell you what I've had it with. I've had it
with scrolling on Instagram, right? And I think it's travel and leisure that has this or some other
travel mics, but I'm pretty sure travel and leisure is an offender. And it's like the top
city to go to summer 2026. And so there's this beautiful picture. And I scroll down to like the
caption. And it's like, we have discovered the top it city for 2026. It has. It has. It
has da-da-da and it gives a list. And then it's like to find out what the city is, go click the link
in our profile. And it's like that's not what Instagram is about. This is about brain rot,
instant gratification. I need to know what the city is. I need to know everything. I do not,
I'm not on Instagram because I want to go read an article. I'm on Instagram because I'm a lazy
instant gratification crackhead that is just looking for him.
hits of something to procrastinate about something ahead of me that I'm putting off doing.
That's what this moment is. Don't try to get me to go read an article. I do that in a different
mindset. Like, I appreciate that maybe they're trying to lure people off of Instagram. I think that's
probably good, but it's a bait and switch. Yeah. They post it and then they're luring you in it. And I have
completely had it with this. It happens to me all the time. And I'm not going to click anymore,
no matter how bad I want to know the information.
I just think it's criminal not to tell you what the city is after the buildup.
Here's the thing.
And I know this is going to shock no one who's a long time listener or viewer.
But when it says click on the link about the story, I can never figure out how to click on the link.
Like I've tried in different articles where it says, okay, more information here.
I can't figure that out.
So I will never know what the city is.
But I'm with you.
I just, I want it to all be, I have ADHD nowadays.
I want it just to be in a little blurb.
This is what I want to know.
And that's it.
No pussy footing around, no article, no link that I can't figure out.
Yeah.
And that's just, it's not the right space for that.
Instagram is not where you are trying to learn things.
Instagram is complete brain rot situation.
Market me with some racket you're selling.
Depending on if I've taken my melatonin at night or not, I may or may not.
I may or may not buy it.
And then the next day it arrives, some shit that I don't need.
But anyway, that's what I've had it with.
Welcome to I've had it.
I'm Jennifer.
I'm Angie.
Kylie, what's going on with the podcast?
I've got a couple comments on Spotify for you.
All right, let's hear them.
This first one is from Elijah.
And they say, every time Pumps retells the story of her shitting in the cup,
I have to go ahead and add another notch in my own fucking trauma egg.
That is good stuff right.
Yeah, it's my trauma, too.
It's bad.
Okay.
And then Bad Sojourner writes,
Stephen Miller is a cuck.
Yeah, he totally is.
He is.
And then Jennifer writes, people are dying.
So we can call Schittler, smoky eye,
pee, German, etc.
Pussies and cunts.
No one likes the PC police.
Stop being titty babies and get on board.
Dark, woke, bus.
Beep, beat, bitches.
This is, I mean, this is exactly
where the progressive party needs to be.
We cannot fight these people,
monitoring one another. My whole ethos right now is if you're voting for a politician that takes
money from any of the same donors that are funding fascism, no vote, primary the fuck out of them.
We have to fight this with everything in us. The clock is ticking. And Stephen Miller is indeed
a cuck. And the thing about Stephen Miller that's just so abhorrent is he is just a pure racist.
I don't even know that he has financial ambition that would even come close to his desire to extract harm and have systemic and institutionalized harm on minority populations that have melanin in their skins, which is interesting because, as we've pointed out multiple times, his wife doesn't look exactly Caucasian.
So it's like really weird.
And I don't know if she is or isn't, but it's weird as shit, like little Marco, man.
you know, a birthright citizen, but then he works for the administration that wants to do away
with that. Well, you know, on the whole Stephen Miller thing, he bases everything on appearances.
And like you said, we don't know what background his wife is. She says that she's white.
But she, if you judge by Stephen Miller's book, she's going to the detention center. She's picked up
by ICE. Yeah, the Kavanaugh rule of the Supreme Court, the Kavanaugh will. The Kavanaugh
she pulled over.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, if I'm a cop and she's running a red light and I'm on an ice, which would be
fucking horrible.
And then I see her and that's what you're like, hey, if you think there's a, you know,
Hispanic person or a person that shouldn't be here breaking the law, you get to pull them over
just based on the way they look.
Katie Miller's getting pulled over.
And so it's a really weird thing.
But see, I think a lot of these people, the people that they want to hurt are the people
they fetishize.
Like, it's the same thing with like, you know, people that.
are obsessed with drag queens and the people that are obsessed with trans people, the people that are
obsessed with porn, they're the ones that are all watching and fetishizing all of the shits
why grinders crashing all the time. But the thing about Stephen Miller that's so frightening is,
I mean, he literally has, does it, all these other people you know for them, it's all about money.
Letnik, dumb and dumber, Trump, Melania, it's all about money. Cushner, all about money.
But with Stephen Miller, it's all about like Hitler shit.
It's all about like he loved the concentration camps that alligator alcatraz.
He wants, now he's going fucking crazy on Fox News talking about like birthing tourism, which is not a thing, which is not a real thing.
He's got Jesse Waters all wound up.
It's just this movement is so depraved.
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stories i would like share with everybody um a couple climbed to the top of the empire state
building last week pop up this video
So they climbed to the top of the Empire State Building, and they wave a flag at the top of the Empire State Building.
Their names are Angela and Ivan, Russian nationalists living in New Jersey,
who have been doing an authorized skyscraper climbs around the world for years.
The couple bypassed security at the Empire State Building and climbed to the top of the spire, reaching higher than 1,400 feet.
They revealed a banner that read, when the power we love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.
a quote widely attributed to legendary guitarist Jimmy Hendricks.
Well, okay, so this story, whatever, you hear about the people do kind of nutty stuff.
It's not the way I'd want to get engaged and climb to the top of the Empire State Building and fly a flag around.
But whatever, on the list of all the stuff that I have to worry about, this is just something like, it's ambitious.
Okay.
And then I move on.
Then I move on to travel and leisure, trying to dick me over, not telling me what the point of their post is unless I click in.
But of course, Fox News sees this, and they are in a stage five meltdown over this.
And it's because their pedophile president has dementia, is grifting, has its own big plane now, tearing down the government, dismantling the rule of law, dismantling democracy, dismantling the Voting Rights Act.
And the Republican Party are the biggest bunch of pussies.
So, yeah, if you want to PC, police me in the comments, do it.
but they are pussies. The Republicans are pussies. Here's Fox News melting down over the couple
scaling the Empire State Building. He specifically has an anti-climing ordinance, by the way.
You can't climb a building over 50 feet high. That is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year
in jail plus a fine disorderly con. Oh, for God's sake. Great. Well, they can consummate the marriage
in jail. Oh, apparently long as they don't do it here. You can visibly see her taking
selfies of the ring. I was just told. So, oh my God. Oh, my God. What a travesty. America is falling
apart. This is sick. They're going to go to jail. Fuck off. I mean, seriously, this is a misdemeanor.
Nothing burger. They'll pay their fine. They'll take their lumps. But you're having a stage five
meltdown because you're a pussy. And your pussies that defend the biggest
whining, complaining, titty baby on the planet.
The one thing that Fox News, Donald Trump, and all of these billionaires all have in common,
the whining, the complaining, the grievances, the world's against me.
Fox News, if your life is such that you're triggered by that, that hysteric surrounding that
is so ridiculous.
But that's not all, pumps.
It goes on.
Nick Sorter tweets the following.
Pop this up.
update one of the degenerates on top of the empire state building spire just made a marriage proposal
marriage proposal for those of you listening is in cap locks to the other their dumbass stunt is
putting first responders lives in danger not to mention those on the ground all for some
performative BS BS locked them up interesting they care about this shit they don't know anybody
the first responders 9-11 first responders January 6 uh none of that shit
And then here's Matt Walsh.
This guy's the biggest nut on the planet.
Imagine risking your life climbing all the way to the top of the Empire State Building and getting arrested.
All for the sake of conveying the most cliched, pointless hallmark greeting card slogan message of all time.
Imagine being Matt Walsh and waking up every single day and going to Twitter and embarrassing the shit out of yourself because you worship a man that wears a full face of orange makeup every single.
day that cannot speak in complete sentences that has muffin top cancels and it's just overall
a hammered piece of dog shit and even some of the NYPD didn't care near as much as Fox did let's play
this clip all the hoopla going on over there two geniuses climb to the top of the empire
state building the top of the spire oh that's awesome it's a little hot for that isn't it just the
beginning of this week it's not some work or changing a light is it
Nah, it's a male, female, dressed in black.
They had some flag they were waving when they were up at the top.
I love this.
See, this is New York.
It's like big fucking deal.
Nobody died.
Nobody stole anything.
We're going to have to go arrest these jackoffs and blah, blah.
I mean, the first guy goes, oh, that's awesome.
I know.
He's like, that's a cool call to get.
But Fox News, because they can't tell you what the government that they have propped up
and all of their dipship viewers.
that they propagandized.
And I just want to say this.
I want to go on the permanent record.
I haven't brought out the permanent record in a long time.
I now believe with everything in me that the people that still currently,
currently watch Fox News are the lowest IQ individuals in America.
I see clips of Fox News on my Instagram when I'm not battling with travel and leisure.
And I see clips that somebody's clipped up.
I feel IQ points dropping because they're so fucking stupid.
These people are stupid.
Just the histrionics over the Empire State thing on the national news.
I mean, come on.
I completely agree.
And I'm thinking about the people in my family that watch Fox News.
And I really do.
I mean, because when I've watched Fox News before, I do.
I feel dumber.
And you really do feel like you're living in an alternate universe because you have no
idea what's going. They're talking about, you know, trans athletes, Joe Biden, and now the Empire
State Bill climbers when there's a war going on and all this other stuff. And I have to say
there, when I talk to them about, are you dumb or are they dumber? I think they are.
Yeah. See, this is the science will catch up with us on this. It is. And here's the thing too.
I just want everybody to know, I was captivated by this Empire State Building climbers.
I was so impressed.
Like, I was like, that is fucking terrifying and amazing and cool.
Have you how hot they are?
I was just going to say, did you see her body?
Yes.
I mean, no wonder she can climb the Empire State Building.
I was like, I love everything about this.
I love to flag.
I want Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfield to climb up there.
They would shit their pants.
I mean, it would be diarrhea oozing down.
Empire State building those two puss boys.
I mean, can you believe, Greg Gettfeld's breasts would get in the way.
His big old titties, he wouldn't be able to take one step.
Look at how hot they are.
That's the couple that did it.
They are gorgeous.
Yeah, they're hot.
And so the couple was arrested in charge with multiple felonies and misdemeanors,
but they still had one of the coolest engagements ever, I think.
All right, moving on, the next story.
Speaking of proposals, let's pop up the next story from Reddit's.
the asshole. So am I the asshole for saying yes to my boyfriend's public proposal and then turning
him down in private? So my 26 year old female, so the girl is a 26 year old female. The boyfriend
is a 28 year old male and I have been dating for about three years. Things have been good, but I've
been clear that I'm not ready for marriage yet. I've told him I need more time to feel comfortable with
such a big step. Well, a few weeks ago, we went to a big party hosted by his family for his dad's 60th.
I noticed that he was acting a little nervous, but didn't think much of it.
Then, during the event, he got everyone's attention.
He got down on one knee and proposed to me in front of all of his friends and family.
I was completely caught off guard and panicked.
Now, I've heard stories about how rejecting someone in public can humiliate them,
and I really didn't want to do that to him, especially in front of everyone he cares about.
So I said, yes, in the moment.
everyone cheered and he looked so happy.
I felt horrible for misleading him, but I didn't know what else to do.
After the party on the car ride home, I told him privately and explained that while I love him,
I'm not ready to get married yet and that I only said yes to avoid embarrassing him in front of everyone.
I thought being honest in private was the best thing to do.
He got really upset and said I humiliated him.
even more because now he has to go back and tell everyone that we're not actually engaged.
He said, I should have just said no at the party.
If that's how I felt, I feel terrible that I've hurt him and put him in this position.
But I also feel like he put me on the spot in front of everyone without considering my feelings.
We've yet to tell his family or anyone and they keep calling and texting to give their congrats,
which is upsetting him even more.
and I'm seeing videos in his friends posted online of him getting on the knee.
So it's pretty public now.
So Reddit, am I the asshole?
Should I have just said no in public?
Or was I right to spare him the embarrassment in the moment?
Pumps.
Here's the thing.
I would have said yes in the moment and told him in private because the human, I mean, first of all, the panic.
I would have been so panicked.
But I kind of feel like this is on him.
If she told him she didn't want to get married and he, I feel like he put it in public.
So she kind of had to say yes.
So I don't think she's the asshole.
I agree.
I don't think she's the asshole.
I think he's the asshole.
I think she was gracious and being put on the spot like that.
When you're going to ask somebody to marry you, there has to have been pre-conversations.
Yeah.
You have to have.
Yes, I think we're ready.
and, you know, the guy would say, well, I hope if I find the right time, you'd be willing.
You can't just bring that on, I think he's the asshole.
I think she is a saint to have put up with his.
But I think she needs to run and kept bait because you alluded to, he proposed to her
in a peer pressure kind of way because he probably felt some trepidation from her regarding
the relationship.
So I think not only is he an asshole, I think he's a manipulator.
And I think she's showing red flags.
I think she needs to cut and run.
No, I agree.
And I don't think you can recover from this.
If you tell everybody we're not engaged, I'm not ready to get married.
He's publicly humiliated now that it's on Instagram.
I mean, I think the relationship's done.
Yeah.
Do you think you can come back from that?
Huh?
No.
No, it's over.
It's completely over.
All right.
Here's the next story.
Pop this up.
Fake it tell you make out.
Gen Z New Yorkers are going on practice.
with people they don't even like.
Put up the screen grab.
The goal is simple.
Sharpen flirting skills,
build confidence, overcome dating anxiety,
and learn how to navigate awkward conversations
before someone they're genuinely excited about comes along.
Instead of holding out for a dream match on Hinge,
some singles are swiping right on people they wouldn't normally pursue
and meeting up for low stakes drinks.
Coffee dates or casual walks around the same.
city. Dating coach, Serena Kerrigan, shared why practice dates are important to finding the right
person. Play the clip. You should be going on dates even with guys you're not super attracted to.
And here's why. Let's say you go on a date with a guy and you feel like you're the more attractive
one. What are you going to do? You are going to show up like super fucking confident. Baddy energy,
just radiating fucking vibes. We're going to be so authentically 100% yourself. You're not going to
edit yourself because you are not trying to appeal to them. Then what you're going to you're
going to do is leave that date and copy and paste that exact energy to a day with the guy that you
actually might be really attracted to. Okay. I kind of agree. I don't think it's bad. Any practice.
Practice makes perfect. And I do think there's freedom in not liking the person,
even though that backfired in my case. But I do feel like not liking the person
makes it easier to communicate and so you get your practice. So I don't think this is a bad idea.
I think it's so sad. I think it's, to me, this whole story makes so sad.
Because the reason Gen Z doesn't have skills and they need to sharpen their conversational skills and
navigate awkward situations is because all the communications they have with people are on Snapchat.
And back in the day, and I'm going to sound like on my day, but, you know, we had to talk on the phone and have all of these interactions.
and then what she said about you copy exactly what you did there and then you put it there,
that just sounds so performative to me.
It just, I like the practice dating part, but then like to make a note to yourself,
oh my God, I nailed it with the guy I didn't like.
So I need to act exactly like that with a guy that I really do like.
And it's just like there's such a authenticity is just gone and awkwardness.
there's something for me, something attractive about vulnerability or, you know, like when my sons have dated,
I'm like, you know, you just be vulnerable. Like it's, it's vulnerability is something that to just say,
hey, I'm new to this whole dating thing and, you know, communicate as you go along, but trying to,
oh, I nailed it with this, you know, ugly guy. And now I'm going to take that nailed behavior.
And then I'm going to transfer it to the hot guy. I don't know that I would ever advise my son.
to date in that regard. I do agree about face-to-face interactions that this generation has lost,
but I really disagree with what that influencer lady said about trying to like take your
behavior and make a note of it and a screenshot of it. This is exactly what I did. I'm not just
to me that's like not human. It's robotic. And the pushback against AI, there's something attractive
about stumbling over words and being nervous.
And those are the best stories later in life that, oh, my God, when I first met Josh,
I was so nervous and I stepped all.
You know, those are the best experiences.
All of that is to look back on so fondly.
Yeah.
And also, I think when you're dating, like for me, first of all, you know, I haven't, it's been
just a big fat minute since I've dated.
But you kind of get nervous just because it's a new person and a new conversation
I don't know how you lock in something.
But I also think, let's say you go to dinner with somebody that you really don't like and
you're just being yourself and you click.
You never know who you're going to click with.
You just never know.
So ruling it out.
So I say go for it.
And I'm like you, get off the internet.
When this headline come out, I thought we were talking about AI.
I thought people were, you know, this was a dating AI person story.
So I'm glad to see it's people.
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disclosures. All right, Kylie, let's do a voice memo. Okay, up first we've got Gen F.
Hey, Jen and Pumps, the beautiful Kylie, Seth and Ryan.
Jen here reporting from Minneapolis, aka the land of 10,000 ice tragedies.
What I've had it with is people that think it's perfectly normal to walk into somebody's house with their shoes on and proceed to march into any and all rooms they please, up and down the stairs, carpet and all.
I'm sorry, were you born in a barn?
Do you have a concept of where those fucking shoes have been?
dirt, snow, fucking public bathrooms, airports,
stepping in dog poop,
who fucking knows where these shoes have been?
And all that shit is getting ground into my floors and carpets
underneath the weight of your fat ass.
Then when you ask them,
hey, do you mind taking your shoes off?
They look at you like you just ask them
to cut off all their fucking hair or something.
I've had it with these rude fuckers
and their goddamn shoe filth.
So this thing,
Roman and I, my son and I were just talking about this because in Oklahoma, everybody wears their shoes in everybody's house. It is not a part of the culture that you take your shoes off at all. In New York, everybody takes their shoes off when you go into anybody's apartment because the streets are filthy. Dogs pee and, I mean, my dog's pissed right in the street. And so I'm not a big germaphobe at all. Like, I don't have any sort of qualms. And oftentimes, like, I find myself trying to be responsible.
okay, this is the New York way. The streets are filthy. So I take my shoes off in the entry.
And then other days, I forget. And then my feet, you know, are just all over the apartment.
But a lot of it is kind of a cultural thing. When I was younger, I went to Japan and stayed there for three months.
You take your shoes off everywhere. And it's a polite manner germ thing. And something else about Japan that I remember is so interesting.
So I went with my friend. Her name was Kazuwe, Kazua Okamoto. She lived.
I'm in Yokohama.
And everybody, this was in the 90s, the mid-90s, and everybody, it was winter.
A lot of the Japanese people were wearing masks.
And of course, this is, you know, decades before COVID.
And I asked Kazua, I'm like, why are they wearing masks?
Like, why do all these people have unsurgical masks?
I'd never seen that in America, unless it was like a doctor in a surgery room.
And she's like, oh, Jin, son, we Japanese are very polite.
And if we have a cold, we wear a COVID, not a COVID.
mask. We wear a mask. And I was like, oh, that's so polite. And then fast forward to America.
And you have everybody, stage five, melting down when there's a, you know, a virus that killed one million people in the United States.
But I agree with the caller. Like if somebody, if those are somebody's house rules and you're a guest in their house, then you have to abide by them.
You have to take your shoes off. And you have to, you're a guest. And whatever their rules are or whatever their rules.
rules are. I completely agree. And here's the thing like when I go to your apartment in the beginning,
like the first day, I'm really good about taking my shoes off. But then I just forget because like
it's cultural. I mean, in Oklahoma, you drive everywhere. You pull up. You walk in. You just don't.
I've never thought about taking my shoes off. So, but if somebody asked me to take my shoes off,
I'm like, oh my gosh, I need to do that. It's such a good idea. But I don't ask people to do it to me in my
house. All right, Kylie, let's do one more voice memo. Okay, up next we've got Janine.
Hey, friends. This is Janine. What I have had it with are crowdsourcing bachelorette. So let me
explain. I am a blue dot in the red state of South Carolina. I live in Charleston. And thanks to
Condé Nast and all of these other travel entities, everyone in their fucking mother wants to come visit
or have their fucking bachelorette here.
And so as a happily married bitter hag,
I try to do my part when I see these gaggles of girls.
I'm like, don't do it, don't do it.
But in the last week, I haven't seen the gaggle.
I've seen the vehicle.
And on the vehicle is the bachelorette's Venmo.
And it says something stupid like treat the bachelorette to a drink or some shit like that.
And like, go fuck yourself hard.
I completely agree with her on that.
People that have their Venmo.
Yeah.
Like, here's the deal.
Don't ask strangers to buy you a drink.
Just don't.
Just don't do it.
And then there's a whole other thing.
And I'm not a big worry word about this step.
But like, this is just an invitation to get roofied.
I mean, you know, it's just a bachelor.
This goes back to one of our long-term grievances.
Bachelor parties, Bachelor parties, Bachelor.
bachelor's particular bachelor's parties.
Weddings, showers, gender reveal parties are performative, over the top.
Instagram is exacerbated, made them a million times worse.
A bunch of drunk people doing a bunch of drunk shit.
The only way that's fun is you have to know those people and be equally as drunk as they
are.
There's nothing fun about being sober around a bunch of drunk people.
It's miserable.
Here's the thing.
I remember, like, again, get off my lawn back in the day.
My bachelor's party was in Oklahoma City where I lived and it was at a hotel room.
That was the big night out.
But now, like, the money that, and when you get married during your early 20s so you don't have a lot of money, here's the thing.
I am 100 million percent against the Venmo on the side of the car, all that.
But I will say, I got a couple graduation announcements that just had the Venmo of the person like a card.
I agree with you.
I didn't have to write a check.
I immediately picked up my phone.
I Venmo checkmark.
It's done.
You're right.
Delighted.
You're 100% right about that.
I need to retract.
That is such a gift to be able to go.
This person wants this, wants money.
I Venmo them.
It's done.
I agree with you.
And honestly, for wedding gifts, I would be, I would be prompt.
I'd be the first person that paid it.
Or if it's like, in lieu of wedding gifts, we want, you know, Venmo for our honeymoon.
Because you get all this shit.
Like, who actually, like, eats off their wedding china?
Never.
I've never, never eaten off my wedding china.
I have four cabinets full of, like, crystal and all this.
And my, Emily's always like, you need to put this on cricks.
I've never used it.
Not one time, not once.
What a waste.
I mean, you know what I mean?
It's just all this shit.
I think the money for people to buy house or have a,
savings account or pay rent, go on a little trip, maybe buy health care. I agree with you. I've
gone full circle. The Bachelorette that wants somebody to buy her a Rufie Venmo drink, we oppose.
Yeah. If you're having a birthday party, a graduation, and you want gifts, it's a gifted thing.
Put your Venmo on there. And then you can go buy what you want. All right, that's all we have,
you guys. We have to cut it a little bit short today because we are filming this over the 4th of July weekend.
of you had a safe and fun 4th of July and we will see you guys soon.
