No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen - Fox host deals midterm news Republicans FEARED MOST

Episode Date: September 30, 2026

One Fox host issues some bleak news for Republicans ahead of midterms. Brian interviews the Democratic nominee for the most flippable district in Pennsylvania, Bob Brooks, and the independent candidate for the US Senate in Nebraska, Dan OsbornSupport Bob Brooks: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/brooks_btcSupport Dan Osborn: https://www.osbornforsenate.com/SPONSORS:https://www.shipstation.com Code: BTChttps://www.hungryroot.com/btc CODE: BTChttps://www.ziprecruiter.com/BTCWritten by Brian Tyler CohenProduced by Sam GraberRecorded in Los Angeles, CASee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

One Fox host issues some bleak news for Republicans ahead of midterms, and I've got two interviews, the Democratic nominee for the most flippable district in Pennsylvania, Bob Brooks, and the independent candidate running for the Senate in Nebraska, Dan Osborne. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. I imagine it's not lost on Republicans that this news is being delivered on Fox, of all places. Overall, Brad, I would say that the Republicans don't have much going for them this cycle. The polls all suggest that.

The mood of the country suggests that. They do have more money than the Democrats do, which could be spent wisely, one would imagine, to help them. But this 69% number that you show there on cost of living, I don't think much is going to change on cost of living over the next month. It could change a little. Things have turned around a bit in the Strait of Hormuz. but I think this,

Republicans have to worry about is that opinions have solidified and not in their favor. And that number suggests that that may be the case. And look, Fox's Brit Hume is correct here. At this point, the economic environment is largely baked in. So Republicans can take their desperate half measures like suspending gas tax in their states

until after the midterms, or like Trump claiming that as soon as the war ends, gas will totally be lower than ever, but at this point, the economy is the economy, and the Republicans are saddled with it. But here's the part that everybody should remember. There is an entire political party that had the ability to fix this, not four weeks before the election, but for the last two years, and yet it was always more important for Republicans to pander to Trump. So when Trump launched a trade war that sent cost surging, congressional Republicans had the ability to stop him. The power to impose tariffs literally belongs to Congress, but they didn't want to run a foul of Trump, and so they let him.

When Trump launched an actual war with Iran, which sent gas and fertilizer prices surging, congressional Republicans, again, had the ability to stop him. The power to declare war also lies with Congress. But again, they didn't want to run a foul of Trump, so they let him. On all of these issues where Trump is the least popular, remember that there is an entire branch of government, whose whole job is to serve as a check on another branch. And yet at literally every single turn, they contracted their own power out to Trump. So when Republicans like Maria Salazar release an ad

with tough talk for Trump on immigration, or when Republican Byron Donalds was running for governor in Florida scrubs Trump from his website, or when Republican Mike Rogers running for Senate and Michigan says that we suddenly need an end to the war, that's all well and good. But waiting until four weeks before an election to find your tongue, ain't going to cut it. And while they might think that their voters

are stupid enough to believe it, not stupid enough that they won't realize what these Republicans are trying to do now that they've gotten their hands on a poll. So I get that Trump gets all of the attention and that midterms are a referendum on the president. But in this case, remember that Republicans have full control of government and all the power in the world to rein him in any time they wanted to. And the only person who did on any issue was like Thomas Massey on the Epstein files. And guess what he got for that? Excommunicated from the party and ultimately lost his primary. So these Republicans saw the cost of speaking out and they chose their jobs over serving their constituents, which, hey, is totally their prerogative. But they've precluded

themselves from being able to play make believe now that they have to actually win an election and pretend that they have a spine. And in practice, here's what that. looks like, one right wing host tweeted, yesterday Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own posters that if you are in a plus 15 district, you're within the margin of error. And if you're in a plus 10 district, you're underwater. And that this might end up being an even worse midterm environment than 2006. Grim, if you are a Republican. Not sure, suspending the gas tax now, four weeks before the election, is going to do the trick in that environment. And frankly, when And even Fox News, which, mind you, is a network designed to serve as a space as a safe space

for Republicans, start saying this stuff out in the open. It's pretty clear which way the winds are blowing. Our job, though, remains exactly the same. Run like you are 15 points behind, take nothing for granted, ignore the polls, check your voter registrations, and make yourself responsible for three other people who otherwise would not have voted. Because most countries in the world do not have a path back from autocracy. We do, and so we should stop at nothing to make sure that we make the most of it.

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Hey, Brian, thank you much for having me on here. I appreciate it. and I'm finally glad we got to connect. Absolutely. So I want to dig into a little bit of the polling, first and foremost. Where does that stand right now? I mentioned before that PA7 is the most flippable seat, the swingiest seat in the entire state. Susan Wilde won this seat a few years back.

Then Ryan McKinsey, a Republican, flipped it in this past election cycle. So where does the polling stand right now? Back to Ryan flipping it is he won this seat by one point over Susan. It was a really close-tight race. Donald Trump actually won by 3%. So he didn't even uphold the standard to Trump. Now we're looking at polling. I think the latest polling has us plus five that I saw come out.

I don't pay a lot of attention today because we're going to run like we're negative 20. Because if we don't run through the tape at the end, you're leaving yourself open. But I'll take plus five is better than negative five and off we go, you know. I know my team has a good plan and we're running it. Like, you know, I feel like the quarterback run to play here, right? You've got to run the play and be, you know, advancing the football here. So plus five is the number that I last saw, which is a good number. We want that to continue to grow.

So talk to me about why you decided to run in this district. And I should note for folks who are watching, I know this district well, Pennsylvania 7th, because I went to college at Lehigh University in Northampton County. I know that PA 7 includes Lehigh County, which was my university. Lehigh University. It also includes Northampton County. So talk a little bit about what folks are looking for in, again, one of the swingiest counties, one of the swingiest districts in the country. They're looking for cheaper prices. They are looking for things that be less expensive and more money to be in their pocket. I decided to run for Congress because, quite honestly, I got tired of waking up every morning and being kicked in the teeth. So way back when, when you were going to college, in design, I used to work security. It was my second job, third job maybe. The police department would hire firefighters to come up and work security at both the parties in the frat houses and the sororities and also in the football games.

So it was something we did then. We were struggling as firefighters to put the money in our pockets. And I think it's only gotten worse. And that's what we're doing out here talking to people of all ranks and rank and file. People are just tired of every day they wake up. and it seems like it kicked in the teeth all over again. I have a two-year-old, and if I have four children, all adults, and my oldest son has two-granddaughters.

So I have two-granddaughters. They're two-and-four years old, and I'm petrified for what this country looks like for them. And I always say, if grandpa's not willing to fight for them, who's going to? So we're in the fight for those reasons. And we're just looking to make things better, as I have for my union members for the last 20-plus years, I've made things better for them. I've made their pay go up. have made their health insurance get better, and we've worked on their working conditions in the

workplace conditions. So, you know, if I can do that for every normal, everyday people, I think they'll appreciate that. And that's my goal. So I want to dig into some of the work that you're into on the union front. I do have to apologize on behalf of probably myself and any other Lehigh University student 20 years ago for whatever we said or did at any of the football games or anything that you worked. I, yeah. But anyway, in terms of unions, look, I know that we're dealing with a Republican party right now that has been hostile to unions, hostile to workers, hostile to the Pro Act, for example, which seeks to offer up protections for unions. Can you give a little bit of color for

folks here in terms of your stance on all of the issues as they relate to unions? I mean, it really shouldn't be an issue at all. It should be a bipartisan matter. Oh, it does make people's lives better. The unions are strong. It's what built this country. We'll continue to make this country rebound. I've been a union leader for 20 years.

Bethlehem Firefighters Local 735. I've held one position or another within the local for my entire career, which I just retired from. And now I'm the president of Pennsylvania Professional Firefighters Association, where again, I've worked for better pay, better health care, better working in distance. We're working on a bill, actually, just before I. I got off, which is cancer screenings for firefighters and remove P-FAs from our fire gear. And we're having trouble getting that past and we're having trouble getting that out,

quite honestly, it comes out of a Democrat-controlled house every time and gets sent over to Republican-controlled Senate here. We have a split legislature in PA, and we struggle with it. And I don't know why. I don't understand it. I don't know the angst except for they like the money in their pockets better than giving it to their workers, you know. And we just want our workers get paid a fair wage.

And it seems to be a problem. I want to switch gears here and talk a little bit about the Latino population. Obviously, we saw in 2024 a major shift in Latino voters who they were supporting. Latino voters had long since been a pretty dependable voting block for Democrats that shifted in 2024 to Trump and Republicans. Talk about your efforts to connect with Latin. voters in Pennsylvania 7th District. I don't know if you happen to see we just launched about a week and a half ago, Bob El Bombaro. With a group of Latino leaders in the community, Victor Martinez, Cynthia Motta, and Matt Turk has been a huge, huge proponent for that.

And, you know, we're just getting into the community. Latino voters are not any different than any other voters. They're really, to be honest with you, a lot like my union block of voters, where they left to them, Democratic Party because they felt left behind. And now they feel lied to. So, you know, we're starting to see that change. And when we're out talking and in the community, going to events, you know, you hear that from people. They're excited about a working class person. Somebody that gets up, goes to work like them every day, works as hard as they can. That's, they appreciate hard work. And, you know, it's, it's amazing to get out there in a community. And again, I don't think

Latino voters are any different than any other voters. They're upset over the price of things. upset that they were lied to. And, you know, they're watching their gas prices skyrocket. You know, it's crazy. Health care, awful. So these voters, Latino, white, black, you name it across the spectrum, as you mentioned, feel like they were lied to at the hands of a Republican Party that campaigned on one thing, campaigned on affordability, campaigned on groceries, that old-fashioned word groceries. And now, of course, we're in a situation where those problems far from being fixed have actually been exacerbated. Your opponent, your Republican opponent,

Ryan McKenzie, what is he done on those issues to hold true to what he and Donald Trump said on the campaign trail? Zero, nothing. He has voted with Donald Trump every single time, six times for the war in Iran to keep the war powers resolution.

He votes every single time. I like to call him a lap dog. I got a couple names, but lap dog's a good one. He does whatever, right uh don't trump tells him the dude yeah we also like to call him the arsonist if i could right because what he does like with stuff like the big beautiful bill he votes for it and then you know the arsonist would fight the fire 15 minutes later he calls the fire department right mackenzie votes with

don't trump gives him all the power and then you know 15 minutes later he writes a bill to counter everything he just voted for and people are seeing him through it and and you can hear it them around the streets. You see it in the poll that said plus five, like people are seeing through the nonsense. They're tired and they're ready to make their lives better. On the issue of data centers, that's kind of become a lightning rod in these elections. I know that there are, you know, led by Trump, who is largely beholden to the billionaires who benefit from the construction of these data centers, who wants to kind of impose them onto communities with no say. What's your stance on this issue as it's going to become more and more important moving forward?

What I think we're seeing with a lot of politicians is they were on one side of this, and then they're realizing the public is on the other side. So they're starting to flip-flop, right? So, I mean, Ryan McKenzie himself voted to give giant tax breaks to these corporations that want to put these data centers in. And then at one point inside the big beautiful bill, he voted that the states couldn't overrule what the federal government was putting in a place. I think I'm good with local autonomy.

I believe the locality should be able to put in ordinances and control where these are going. They should not be in people's backyards. They should not be making our rates go through the roof. And they should not be sucking up all of our environmental resources. So, I mean, I'm going to be on the side of that. But while I say that, you know, they may bring some jobs. You could pay in union jobs if I have my way when they do get built. But I think it's about where we put them.

I really, I'm going to stay true to where I said, I'm not going to. a flip-flop like Ryan McKenzie does. And, you know, now he started, Ryan McKenzie's starting to see he was on the wrong side of this for a long time. And now he's changing his tune. It's too late. Yeah. You know, that, that does seem to be a recurring theme. Now, you know, when you have an entire political party that's predicated its identity on blind allegiance to whatever Donald Trump says he wants. And then suddenly, five minutes before the election are trying to create some distance, recognizing that, you know, with 29% approval, Trump is. now an albatross around their necks. Is there anything else that Ryan McKenzie is now trying to do

to show some distance between himself and an unpopular president now that voters are souring on that guy? To the contrast, he is hooking his wagon right to Donald Trump. He just went to Dallas and was up on stage. Of course, bad mouth of me because that's all they can do is tell lies about me because they can't stand on their own votes. So that's their whole game plan. I had to tell you, I was at an event for the International Association of Firefighters that had, it was our fallen firefighter memorial. So I was in Colorado Springs for a day or two when we had the memorial. And I'm watching them run ads against the candidate out there, Jessica Killen. And they're the exact same ads that they're running here.

So it's a game plan. And they're running them everywhere, the same exact thing. So he's not distancing himself. He did scrub his website a little bit, but not enough. Yeah, not enough. And they go out there and be a lapdog for Donald Trump in Dallas and do exactly what he wanted because he wants his money. Donald Trump spending his money everywhere now millions of dollars in these races. He did exactly what Daddy Trump wanted him to do and he's going to continue to do that.

Yeah. Well, look, again, as I said at the top, you know, I've spent four years living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I know that that is as a good a bellwether as you could possibly find in terms of what the election is going to look like moving forward. So I would highly recommend for everybody who's watching and listening right now. If you're able to contribute to any campaigns, this is chief among them. As I mentioned, this is the swingiest seat in Pennsylvania. It was with the Democrat, you know, two cycles ago. Last cycle, it was with the Republican. Now, as Bob mentioned at the top, the polling is in our favor.

but never run like your five points ahead, always run like your 20 points behind. So if we have the opportunity here to contribute to a campaign, this is chief among them, one of the most important that you could do. So I'm going to put the link to your website, Bob, right here on the screen and also in the post-scription of this video. For those who are listening on the podcast, I'm going to throw it into the show notes. And thanks for taking the time today, and best luck in the campaign trail here. All right. Thank you very much.

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Yeah, it was powerful. Brian, you know, meeting with the families and the survivors themselves of the Epstein files or the Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein. And I got to tell you, it had a profound impact on me. Going and see in the actual files up close and personal, the magnitude of the amount of files there are, and that's just the ones that have been released. And to me, it's a tragedy. It's an American tragedy. And the fact that, you know, my opponent, Pete Ricketts, he's said multiple times when he was governor and senator that, you know, sex trafficking is the worst crime against humanity.

And then he turns around and votes to not release it. And then they interviewed him about it. And he's like, oh, we just got a lot of other stuff going on. And it's like, man, it's just disgusting. People need to be in jail. you know, I know Maxwell's in prison right now. She's the only one and she gets to keep a puppy, I heard, while she's in prison. The fact that we're not taken these serious crimes is very serious. To me, again, this is an American tragedy. And that is one of the things immediately when I go to the United States Senate, it's going to happen. I am going to continually keep a spotlight on this until these survivors get justice. I want to change topics here. Another issue that has become especially important in this election cycle is the issue of AI and data centers. Can you, first off, explain your position on these

issues and contrast it with Pete Rickett's position? Yeah. Well, I'm all about putting guardrails. I just got back from D.C. You may have seen we did a press conference with Brian Bangs and Bill Hill a couple other independents. One's running in Alaska for the House District. One's running for Senate in South Dakota. And, you know, we basically were imploring Congress to stay in session and get some guardrails around AI. I mean, the warning signs are all there

and the fact that they're going home for fall. To me, it doesn't make any sense. You know, this is what the American people want. This is who you work for, your constituents, and they got to get it done. But they're not going to get it done because, you know, especially like Ricketts, he takes a tremendous amount of AI money. He's given data centers $519 million worth of tax credits when he was governor in Nebraska to come

build here. He even called Nebraska the Silicon Prairie. And, you know, it's for me, it's about guard railing from the things we know that are bad while protecting the things we know that are good, right? Is it, are they trying to cure cancer or, you know, are they trying to extinguish the human race? Right. Two very different things. So we need lawmakers that are going to go and fight for these things.

And if you want to help me fight, you can go to OsborneforSenned.com, help us out to get to the United States Senate and fight for these very things. I don't take corporate PAC money. That's what separates me the most from Pete Ricketts is I'm not taking their money because I'm not going to do their bidding. I believe in the words Abraham Lincoln. This is a government by and for the people, not the corporations and the 1%. That's what I'm all about. And by the way, I'm going to put a link to your website in the post description of this video for anybody who's watching or listening right now who wants to contribute to this campaign. On that point of data centers, I know that we've seen we've seen Trump, for example, at the top of the Republican Party continue to embrace this stuff,

even amid concerns or outright worries from Americans about the proliferation of these issues without guardrails, as you've pointed out. What are Nebraskaans who you've spoken about saying on this issue, even as you've got the Republican Party continuing to embrace it and take their money? Yeah, I mean, you have two fronts, right? And Nebraska's are frustrated by both fronts. You have the physical data centers themselves. And then you have AI, which can't operate without the physical data centers themselves. And I think Nebraska is somewhere like six or seventh on the list for data centers to come to because, A, we have public power. So Nebraska's got cheap power. And we sit on the Ogallala Aquifer, which is the largest body of freshwater, I believe in the

world. It was 400 and 300 million years ago. And we're in a farm crisis and droughts part of it. and the Ogolala aquifer is depleting itself in parts, or we're depleting it, I suppose, also, six times faster than it gets replenished. And data centers represent, you know, utilizing this precious resource that we sit on in this state. And so, again, it's about guardrails. It's about community benefit agreements. It's about transparency with these companies. How much water, how much power. Nobody's power bill or water bill should go up because of these things.

and about being responsible operators in this space. Most of the people in Nebraska that I'm talking to, they don't want data centers in their communities. They just simply don't. Ord, Nebraska was one of the first, or the first city in Nebraska that banned flock cameras. They made them take them down. Yeah.

You know, they don't want to be surveilled. They won't, they, we have a right to our privacy. These data centers and AI represent a surveillance state. that, quite frankly, to me, that's some scary shit. Yeah. You know, Big Brother constantly watching over us. I don't know what that Tom Cruise movie was where they arrest people before they commit crimes, you know, that type of surveillance state.

I mean, that's the kind of stuff that's happening and people don't want it. You know, you had mentioned a farm crisis. There is a Republican plan to import foreign beef. Where do you stand on that issue? No. No, this is a massive mistake. I was up Saturday night, probably way too late talking to a rancher out by Lexington, Nebraska, where they just closed. Tyson just closed a beef manufacturing plant.

6% of the nation's beef came out of that plant, and Tyson just closed it, you know, putting 3,500 Nebraskaans out of jobs. And then they pay out, Tyson pays out a lawsuit. two of them of over $80 million a piece for price fixing. You know, they work with the other, there's only, there are four meat packers that have formed a monopoly. They work with the other ones. They target plants that are going to close down to manipulate for the prices, what they pay from the producers all the way to what we pay at the grocery store.

And this beef deal adds to the already problematic crisis of a thinning herd. But we've got to let our ranchers do their thing. They know what to do. And, you know, we got to break up the meat packers to create an environment that has competition. We got to rely on them to increase our herds. And this beef deal undercuts them directly. So they're, you know, I was the guy I was talking to out in Lexington, he's very frustrated with this deal. And he's a three-time Trump voter.

And he's pissed off. On this broader issue of what farmers are contending with, you know, a big, a big factor in all of this is the ongoing Iran war, a war that Trump himself said never would happen when he was on the campaign trail. And obviously, the impacts on gas prices, on fertilizer, have been impossible to ignore. Where does Pete Ricketts, your Republican opponent, stand on the continuation of this war in Iran? Well, he'll say it's not a war. So he's willing to play the same semantic games that the administration is playing. to be able to get. He just does his talking points. Well, I would argue, you know, that the,

the Pentagon just released new numbers quietly. 864 service members have been, have been injured. 19 dead service members. So I think if you talk to those families of those service members, they'll tell you that this is definitely a war and the fact that we're spending a billion dollars a day. Meanwhile, diesel fuels approaching $7 at a time where our farmers need to be harvesting. And this is, again, this is adding to the farming crisis at a time where this simply just didn't need to happen. You know, I'm going to have some generals and some admirals come out and endorse me. And I've been talking to them about this war and, you know, why we're in it. Nobody can really answer to me why we're in this thing.

I mean, we all agree Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon. Well, I was on an aircraft carrier, and I went through the Strait of Hormuz. Four times myself in battle stations, I spent six months serving in the Persian Gulf, both in 95 and 97. And that's why I was there, you know, with that aboard that aircraft carrier was a deterrence. That's why we've always kept an aircraft carrier battle group there. And the fact that we are now at war with them because of this, it doesn't make any sense. So the price is huge, both in service members and the costs of fuel and inputs. Man, I tell you what, I'm talking to farmers every day and they're definitely frustrated.

With the farmers that you're speaking with, with the Nebraskaans that you're speaking with, what is traditionally their political affiliation and how has the war or, you know, the prospect of importing foreign in beef or, you know, the unwillingness to release the Epstein files or the surge in cost thanks to these trade wars. How had those issues impacted the otherwise historic partisan affiliation that these folks have held? Yeah, it's from, I'll talk about what I'm seeing on the ground, but to explain Nebraska in a nutshell, you have three congressional districts. You have one, two, and three, one is Lincoln, two is Omaha, and three is the rest of Nebraska. And it's, from what I understand, the third or fourth Reddest district in the country.

And, you know, these folks have been Republican. They're their grandfathers, their great-grandfathers, their uncles, their aunts, everybody's Republican. And, you know, they have conservative traditional values. But this, what's happening right now isn't traditional conservative values. you know, the costs of the war and seeing people like Pete Ricketts family double their wealth in 2025. They went from $4 billion to $8 billion. That's not a conservative. Those are not conservative values, right, especially fiscally. So they're, you know, the vast majority of I talk to,

they say, I hate my party, but they hate their party a little bit less than the other party. So a lot of them are just frustrated with the status quo, the two-party system. Nobody seemingly to, you know, everybody talks like they want to help them out, but nobody actually does anything. So they're definitely frustrating. That's where I come in, right? I'm going to give them another option and fight for them because I don't take corporate money. I don't do corporate bidding. Again, I want to work for them. And by the way, the polling is bearing that out. There is a new poll out of Survey USA. It shows you up four points, 46. to 42, winning 14% of Republicans, and 24% of those who consider themselves somewhat conservative,

and 7% of those who consider themselves very conservative. This is the seventh straight survey that shows you either statistically tied or ahead. So again, to your exact point, I think that in terms of what Nebraskaans are looking for, you represent a change from that status quo and certainly a change from, you know, this this unending cycle of self-serving politicians who are looking out to serve the moneyed interests as opposed to the constituents that they were elected by. Yeah. And that's why, you know, I'm on a, you can see the poster behind me. I'm on a 93 county tour. You know, we're building the biggest ground game Nebraska's ever seen. And we're doing it with people, right? People who are concerned, people who

are fed up, people who are angry and people who just want to change. And, you know, that's certainly what my campaign represents in my town halls. You know, we're, we're, people are, people are coming out in big numbers to hear what we have to say. And a lot of times people, people like what we have to say. So we're, we're going to continue to do that. We're going to continue to build, you know, we're going into this thing in October, essentially tied, if not a little bit ahead.

So we need to execute, you know, and I think if we execute properly, this phrase, is ours to lose. And for folks who are watching right now, again, can you name the website where they can go to? Yeah, you can go to Osborne for Senate. That's OSB-O-R-N. There's no E, not related to the coach. Unfortunately, I apologize for that. But yeah, Osbornefor-Sennet.com, we have a very big website that shows all our policies, because that's the fundamentally hard thing about running as an independent, right? If I had a letter next to my name, a D or an R, people would know where I stand on everything. And, you know, my opponent just is he's spent probably close to 30 million. He'll probably spend 50 million by the time this is over trying to define me. So, you know,

that's our part about executing is we need to go out there and define ourselves, define myself, to the people in Nebraska. We do that. We win. And Dan can use all the help that he can get. So for folks who are watching right now, who are considering contributing to a campaign this cycle, there is no more important race than the Senate race in Nebraska. If Pete Ricketts loses this race in Nebraska, it is all but certain that Republicans will lose the U.S. Senate. And they'll actually be able to focus on policies that are going to be able to help regular Americans instead, as opposed to, you know, cozying up to folks who are trying to suppress the Epstein files, continuing this trade war, perpetuating the war in Iran, and on and on.

So again, I'm going to put that website right here on the screen and also in the post description. Dan, thanks so much for taking the time. Best luck in these last five weeks on the campaign trail. All right. Thank you. I appreciate you, Brian. Thanks. Thanks again to Bob and Dan.

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