Government impact on costs & affordability (11-26-2025--Hour3)

What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, I Daily Show prep with all of the links, become a patron, go to dpeatclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support. Chadduam's your guest host, having a blast as always. Democrats released this about a minute ago. House Democrats. Democrats are fighting to make life better and more affordable for everyday Americans. Republicans are cozying up to their billionaire donors and fighting to make life easier for the ultra wealthy. The Party of Soros. That's a lot of gol, right then, isn't it the guy who like single handedly funds most of their Antifa protests, who sat around while America burn and said everything's fine. There's no problem with this find to make life better and more affordable in what way? They're anti capitalists? Nothing about, nothing about being anti capitalist makes life better. They think government policies are making it better and again more affordable. It's not making it more affordable because all their policies are just redistributing wealth from one group to another and claiming it's making it more affordable. If I give you money that I took away from someone who earned it, that didn't make it. May make you things more affordable to you, but it didn't make life better. It did nothing to discuss why things were expensive. It did nothing. It's it's that And this is where they're going. The affordable. You're gonna see the word affordable and almost everything that drips out of a Democrat over the next I don't know, twelve months, well now eleven months. So for eleven months, you're going to hear that word affordable or the next poll tested word for affordable. I don't know what it'll be. They'll come up with one, because the word affordable will wear it be, and then they'll come up with another word for affordable to keep on the pressure that they somehow even though they were in power under Biden when inflation skyrocketed and they did nothing about it. But they're going to how can you fat that Rush used to say, how can you fool them? Today? How can we fool them today? They're doing something for the working class. What's fascinating is the working class turned on them last year. The working class did not believe Democrats were doing anything for them. And the Affordable Care Act, it's a subsidizing a broken system and there's no way that becomes cheaper or better. So until you address the broken system, I think Democrats would do well and Republicans both to figure out why the system is broken? What about the system can they fix? But I just read that. I was reading through that and I just thought it was just so funny. You know what they can what they can say in the way in which they're going to conduct themselves. You know, Senator Mark Kelly, that's when the made the video. He just he had released this is what is at stake for a typical family of for in youma Arizona. Come January, these sorts of increases will be felt by millions of Americans across the country. But there's still a chance to prevent it. Republicans could vote with us to extend premium support. And it's talking about the monthly premium for a silver HMO plan versus twenty twenty five versus twenty twenty six acl healthcare rate cost increases for a married couple making seventy four thousand a year, and it's showing it going from forty eight to six seventy three. Again, voting for to extend premium support does not address the issue of why, because health insurance is not health care. But Mark Kelly and Democrats again, what they're the sad reality. There's an old saying that Democrats are afraid that you're well. Republicans are afraid you're not going to understand what it is they're trying to achieve, and Democrats are afraid that you will. And I don't mean that this sounds so partisan, but what I mean is it takes a lot more from me to explain how the free market works. That the best way to drive down prices is to introduce competition, to let the best built mouse trap win, to allow it to proliferate, to allow a new challenge. When you look at where Kmart was and then Walmart, and you look at Taria and then you look at Amazon, you see who's going to replace Amazon? And each incremental change adds value, adds value, adds opportunity, adds access to you. It makes it better. You know, the reason you see advertised iPhone seventeens is because it's much better than iPhone four was. The reason you see Galaxy and Samsung and all these other droid droids, all these droids advertised, is because they want to compete with Apple. How do they compete with Apple by making a better phone, so it gets cheaper and better, cheaper and better, cheaper and better. That's the goal. And that's how free enterprise and capitalism works. And if free enterprise and capitalism was allowed to proliferate in medicine, think about that cheaper and better. So if medicine was cheaper and better, wouldn't more Americans be served by that? Rather than just saying, Hey, I'm Senator Mark Kelly, I'm a Democrat. I'm going to give you more subsidies to give to a broken system that doesn't really care about you, and make sure insurance go through the roof. But we're going to seizes so you'll feel better about what you're getting ripped off to get. Doesn't make it easier for you to get to the doctor, doesn't make it easier for you to get the care. And you know, when you watch a medical show, and you're like, hey, we're just going to order up an MRI and get a cat scan on that. Then we're going to get a spinal tap and go down and then like they show magically like these tests happened in an hour in the patient's back of the room and they're discussing the results. Does that ever happen for you ever other than a trauma unit? Of course it doesn't. You spend weeks trying to get maybe the MRI, then you're hopefully you get the cat scan, then maybe you whatever whatever test they aren't instant? Does it work like that in the real world? Works really well? In like a one hour drama good friend, true story. Need he needed some test run? He actually needed He was in a horrid This is down in southeast North Carolina. He was in horrific pain. He had a bladder related issue. He needed a surgical procedure. They knew it was a bladderstone, they knew how to fix it. A month and a half in screaming pain before you could get the procedure done. That is a broken healthcare system. When he finally was able to talk to the surgeon after the delirium of the pain and the procedure. He said, why did it take so long? And he said, well, you could have called the emergency room and they said, well, the emergency room would have just called you guys. And it's a scheduling thing because there aren't there's no free market at work in healthcare. There's no competition in healthcare, so there's no obligation. And it's not that the doctors don't care. It's not that there aren't great nurses. It's because the system is broken and we do have hospital cartels and we don't have competition. You don't know what you're paying for healthcare unless you're with a health share kind of picture. But you know, you have no idea what you're paying, and your insurance companies aren't telling you, and you think they're negotiating on your behalf. They don't care. The insurance companies really don't care about you that much. You're just a number and whatever the hospital says they're charging for something, and then the insurance says that we saved a little money there. They didn't. Really. It's like saying, hey, we have a fifty percent off sale and things weren't really fifty percent of the price. Acted like it was. That's the lunacy that is our healthcare system. And so when you get a bill, oh, look how much you actually are responsible for, and your healthcare premiums are through the roof, and you look at how much money your employer, and maybe you add all that together and look at that on an annualized basis. If you're under the age of like forty or thirty, that's just tens of thousands of dollars that are just into the system that you probably never even used. And then when you do need it, there's questions about the test and whether you can get that test or not get that test. Is you're just a number on a table. And so Mark Kelly, with all due respect you and the Democrats, why don't y'all actually, if you really cared about people, you'd actually be concerned about bringing the actual cost down, not the subsidy. The subsidies go up to bring it to make it look like the costs come down. So spare me the false premise that you're helping with health care in any way, because you're you're not substanutally helping with health care. Make it. It's not better than it was when affordable health care Affordable Care Act. It's not cheaper, it's not better or not. But more doctors, not more access. So spare me anyway, that sounded like I was angry. I'm not angry. I'm frustrated because we're better than this. We're better than this as Americans, and here in Charlotte, this area, great doctors, great hospitals, but there is a cartel there and you know it. 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I went through the entire what happens when the dominoes start falling in that area of operations, and it's significant. Don't want to repeat that because we did that yesterday over the weekend. This is from issues and Insights. Over the weekend, we learned that the Golden State California, loses one taxpayer to another state every minute and faces an eighteen billion dollar budget shortfall, five billion higher than was projected just a few months ago. We also learned that now ten months after wildfire has destroyed thousands of buildings in the LA area, has the first home been rebuilt one The stories are yet more evidence. I say, those just those two lines alone should be pretty damned. So California, the geniuses that run the state, we're looking at the shortfall. What kind of budget shortfall we're going to have eight you know, we're just going to have a thirteen billion dollars shortfall now as the lineerrout June, it's stay thirteen eighteen billion dollars shortfall. By the way, north count of budget I think is now around twenty five could be wrong, twenty five twenty six billion, So that's how short. They're eighteen billion short and they're losing one taxpayer every minute, every minute, TikTok TikTok, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. That's how many people are leaving the state. And now, so all those wildflyers destroyed, why can't they rebuild? Because they're permitting process. Their approval process is so mired in regulations that they can't get stuff done. There's plenty of people that want to build. There's plenty of insurance, it's ready to help them build. You can build, but you can't because the government can't allow you, because they can't get their permits done. The National Taxpayer's Union Foundation used IRS data to calculate how many taxpayers are moving into and out of the state, but it found was stunning. California losing taxpayer at a rate of one every minute forty four seconds, fastest of any state in the nation. The report also cautions that even the outlook about California's optimistic because the current AI stock bubble is masking the state's dire fiscal situation. It's ridiculously dependent on capital gains taxes. With so much enthusiasms surrounding enthusiasms surrounding AI, it now appears time to take seriously the notion that the stock market has become over here, eat it, it warns. But they're in trouble in California. Fiscally, they're in trouble. And yet the possible front runner for the presidency for the Democrats is Gavin Newsom. Charismatic, great on his feet, talking about stuff. Doesn't mean it has to matter, doesn't mean it has to be factual, doesn't mean it has to have there's no veracity to it, but it sounds good. So you'll see that that California isn't. Now I say that, why is Chad talking about California? Why do I care? Why should I care? Because Charlotte, which I used to think legitimately and I could be wrong, had Atlanta envy. In other words, whatever Atlanta had, Charlotte wanted to have. So there was kind of an aspiration, we need to get a lightrail system because Atlanta's got one, the Marta system in Atlanta, but you don't so lightrail, and it wanted to be like But I'm thinking more and more it's not that it wants to be Atlanta. It wants to be you know, someone said it earlier. It wanted to be like San Francisco with grits. The problem is that the cities, and maybe it's not even that Charlotte leader are aware that they seem to be becoming like Chicago or La or San Francisco. It's not maybe they aren't aware that that's the direction they're headed in, but nonetheless that's the direction the train is pointed the future of Charlotte. But for some actions like IRENA's law, is definitely pointed in the wrong direction for the citizens of Charlotte. Will they wake up from that? I do not know, So we'll see. And by the way, well, I was gonna talk about the La fires and what was actually very destructive, but I wanted wanted to get to that, just that California is not where Charlotte should aspire to be like. And once when people start identifying the similarities, they should point them out. Let's see. I did want There's a Psychology Today. I don't want to spend a lot of time on it, but it's talking about as the Democrats ramp up their rhetoric about affordability and tax the rich and the billionaires are bad. I was reading the Psychology Today article and it was kind of interesting. It said the headline said, are the rich really more selfish and mean than everyone else. Now, I don't know how they define the rich, but it said. Research suggests that wealthy people tend to be less altruistic and more selfish. I think that a lot of foundations would disagree, but okay. Studies of drivers have shown that the more expensive the car, the less considerate the driver. Now, the irony there is that doesn't necessarily mean you're rich. A lot of people live that have very nice cars, that don't live in very fancy houses. And it's because people see you in your cars, or as that was told to me one time, I said, why do you drive this car when you live here? Well, people see me in my car. Studies the driver show that more expensive car, less considerate. The desire to be wealthy often correlates with a state of disconnection. Often, okay, disconnection creates a sense of incompleteness and a deficit in empathy. In other words, whe they're trying to say is if you're wealthy, you're a psychopath. So we'll see now when you get to the end, they try to backtrack on the research a long article. I'm not going to go through it, but overall evidence suggests that wealthy people are unlikely to attain contentment they seek through money alone. Their wealth and status don't take away their sense of incompleteness. 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It is since we are heading into Thanksgiving, it's worth knowing that the reason we even have a Thanksgiving is really the repudiation of a socialism type structure and the adoption of capitalism. And I will say unapologetically capitalism is the greatest creator of wealth and security of any system that's ever been devised by humans on the planet Earth. Period end of discussion full stop. There's nothing even close. There's no form of government, there's no nothing that has come close. But let's let's try to kick things off here see how it goes. This is by This is Mark Perry's version of this one, and he's from AEI, and John Stossel has done one. Several people have done this, but it's based on William Bradford's diaries. William Bradford, the governor of that colony there four hundred years ago. He documented everything that went on with that colony, good and bad. It's it's it's it is. It is a first person account. It is it is biblical with respect to the documentation that transpired with that colony on this continent and the origins of Thanksgiving provides some very important economic lessons about the dismal failure of Bernie Standal or Sanders style socialism, collectivism and common property that resulted in the starvation and death of for the early pilgrims, the subsequent success of private property, the profit motive and capitalism that led to prosperity and abundance that we celebrate to this day. Here's some of the accounts of that lesson. So lesson number one from a capitalist Thanksgiving and Jerry Bauer wrote this part and it's based on Governor William Bradford's not Stuff. The first Thanksgiving was the celebration of abundance. After a period of socialism and starvation, the members of the colony, the Plymouth Colony, had arrived with a plan for collective property ownership. It's what their sponsors basically wanted collective, reflecting the current opinion of the aristocratic class in the sixteen twenties. Their charter called for farmland to be worked communally. In other words, here's all the farmland, you guys go out and work it, and for the harvest to be shared. So go out, you guys, work it very communal, and y'all share and everybody will get what they need. You probably won't be surprised to hear that they starved because men were not willing to go into the fields and work to feed somebody else's kids, and the women were unwilling to cook for other women's husbands. The fields didn't get tilled and didn't get planted. Famine came. As soon as they ate through the provisions they had. After famine came, plague half of the colony died. Unlike most socialists, they learned from their mistake. Giving each person a parcel land to tend for themselves, the colonists threw off the status intellectual fashions of the day. The results were overwhelmingly beneficial. Then, once they had property of their own, they worked their property, even though before they had constantly said they were sick and they couldn't do it. Fields were not only tilled and planted, but all they were harvested. The colonists traded with the surrounding Indian nation at the time it wasn't violent, and learned to plant maize, squash, pumpkin, and to rotate these crops from year to year. The harvest was bountiful. The new colonists immigrated to the Driving Settlement. Why the Pilgrims abandoned common ownership for private property? Larry Reid wrote this portion. The first few years of the settlement were fought with hardship and hunger. Four centuries later, they provide us one of history's most decisive verdicts on the critical import into private property. We should never forget that the Plymouth Colony was headed straight for oblivion under a communal socialist plan, but saved itself when to embraced something different. In the diary by William Bradford, you can read about their initial arrangement. Land again was held in common. Crops were brought for, brought to a common storehouse. In other words, whatever you raise, you put in the common storehouse, not for your family, but for anybody that wanted to eat it. And for two years every person had to work for everybody else, not for themselves as individuals or families. Did they live happily a rafter in that socialist phenomenon utopia? You know they didn't, because I just read the first version. The common property approach killed half of them. Governor Bradford recorded in his diary that everybody was happy to claim their equal share of production, but production shreank, slackers showed up late for work, and the hard workers resented. It's called human nature. The disincentives of the socialist scheme bred impoverishment, conflict, facing starvation, and extinction. Bradford altered the system, and he divided the property into private property. Basically a little bit even before John Locke recognized it. Private property is what saved them, had he not? Now, if just just think about the governor Bradford for a minute, had he they knew after two years they were going to die because they weren't. They didn't have any self It sounds like a selfish reason, but they weren't protecting their own families. And Stossel, and I think John Stossel to this day, if you ever want to look at the videos about that, Stossel had had done it beautifully. And what he said was that the answer to what the Pilgrims faced was to divide the commune into parcels, assign everybody their own property. As Bradford put it, they set corn for every man for his own particular, assigned every family of parcel. The pilgrim simply changed to private ownership, which Bradford then wrote made all hands very industrious. So as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been and sued they had plenty, They had abundance, They had thanksgiving, They had a lot to be thanksgiving, thanks thankful for so the original lesson and those are three different versions of it that you can look it up. You know why socialism failed to twenty eight They can look at updates on that. But the point is when they all got together and they first set it up. It was a the sixteen to twenty version of they again, we can revise history all we want, but that time the elites were like, hey, y'all be a commune. Y'all are going to work together as a communal And it did not work because people wanted other people to provide for them, much the way the welfare state works today. It ends up failing, and the only way it works is when you take stuff from people who work hard for it. So what we have in our society is a growing discontent because a certain group of individuals feel entitled to It's not that they that they want it, they feel entitled to. The welfare state. Obama Caralt has created a sense of entitlement within a significant portion of our society. Now that's bad enough, and that's dangerous because if that group, if those entitlements are ever taken away or removed, or people are forced to work for things, that could create a very violent situation amongst people that feel entitled. You find this with a lot of people that young folks. You see that sense of entitlement, and not with welfare but in general about what they think they're owed. They feel like they're eighteen, they're nineteen, they're twenty. They feel they're owed something. But the flip side of that resentment, which is to me just as dangerous, is the resentment from the people that are working, that are paying the taxes, that are getting up every day and working very hard to provide for their family, and some that have done well and they feel like they look at that paycheck and they look at what's taken out of it, and they look at where it's redistributed, and they look at what they're not getting out of it. So is that an incentive if you're on the bubble, is an incentive for you not to work or to work harder. But it's also resentment from those who have achieved success and feel like more and more of theirs is being taken to give to people who aren't working for themselves because it's it's not a safety net anymore. And that's the sad reality it was originally designed. I think there was an altruism there that government. People in government felt that there would be this altruistic government is a charity, and government's going to help all these people, and it ended up becoming a crutch, a wheelchair. It became a dependency. It is an addiction, and we have an addiction to these entitlements that are not screened for whether people can work or not. And nothing. I mean, there's so much about hard work that makes you a better person and makes you prouder that even I can remember working in fields in the summer with my nothing man, I slept better than ever. I remember that. I remember being tired, but I remember the feeling of accomplishment when you work hard, so worth knowing. That's the original Thanksgiving, That's how it worked out, and that's why we have it. So all this colonialism and anti colonial all this gnashing of tea, look at what actually happened there. Read it for yourself. It was a very very different story than you were probably taught. 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I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. It's that's not on the wires, but it's certainly in social media. I don't know what it is, but I'll pass it along again. I'm not I can't. It says seen two National Guard soldiers have been shot outside the White House. Three casualties being reported shoot or reportedly still in the loose law enforcement racing all throughout the city. I don't Again, multiple people that I do follow and trust have posted that I don't know if it's true or not, but enough people are saying it, so I don't know. Just something to be aware of now, getting onto something that's kind of got a little bit of an ick factor to it, you'll you'll have to determine your own where you are on this sliding scale. By the way, Chad, I'm sitting in for Pete Calendard, News Talk eleven to ten ninety nine three WBT five to seven oh eleven ten, the calling number seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten. I want to give a special thanks for the past couple of days to Pam Pam the jam out there doing a great job. Also Keith Young who did a great job with news, and Scott Hamilton and all of you guys, just and and and special to Bernie and Nick who threw everything just make it, just make it so easy for someone like me who loves to be a host, and to make all of the other things that happen seem so seamless, seem so seamless, seem so seamless. But nonetheless, now, I don't know that you've given much thought to it. I'll throw it out there, but how much time have you kind of spent looking at your bed. So I had two stories I was gonna get to and one of them is about your bed sheets, and the others about UFOs. Now, the UFO i'll all say is the Age of Disclosure has been released now apparently on Amazon Prime. I'm looking for I'm going to check it out. Okay, it's it's you know, it's talking about a lot of names you would know they're in this from Chris Kristen gillibrand Marco Rubio and others that are interviewed about the UAP phenomenon UFO phenomenon for those who come from a little bit older than the age of twenty five, so it should be very interesting. I've heard a lot of great comments about it. I want to check it out and see if it's any good. So if you get a chance to check it out. Of the disclosure thing about ups, now, what do you the how often do you change your sheets? And how often do you think you should change your sheets? Says We're getting into the thanksgoing holidays and you're probably I did putting clean sheets on the bed for all the company that's coming. We'll all spend a third of our lives in beds, shedding skin sweating, depositing, and see this is not a pleasant conversation to have, but you throw in other things like pets and partners and account for factors like hygiene and illness. Our beds are micro environments in and of themselves, and so bed hygiene is just as important for your health. A twenty twenty two you Go survey of British folks found that a third thirty six percent change their bed sheets once a fortnight, while a little less twenty eight percent do once a week. A clean two percent do it more often than that. Twenty percent of Britain's report sleeping on the same sheets for three or four weeks, and four percent did so every two months. In the US, about one thousand people on average, the survey of a thousand found that the average American washes their sheets every twenty four days. Are you one of those folks? Are you one of that thousand? The average American washes their sheets every twenty four days. I'm not trying to be a clean freak or anything, but come on twenty four days. If they were to see their sheets under a microscope, they might have second thoughts. Our skin is home to millions of different bacteria and fung guy not to mention viruses, some of which make their way to your bedding, while most this is just not a pleasant conversation to have, is it. I mean, as I'm reading it now, it sounds much less skin bacteria is on their potential other things and tested dwellers, staff infections, respiratory viruses, rhinoviruses, gut viruses all there on your sheets. Now you're gonna look at your sheets. You go, oh, listen to that during Chad and now like looking at my sheets. You know there'll probably be a record number of sheets being washed that are WBT listeners tonight. Our beds, along with carpets, curtains and other materials, also home to dust mites. The dangers of a dirty bed so when they paint a picture of it. Tube sheets and public toilets are cleaned every day, but your bed sheets aren't. So I'm done. I rest my case. Dust mites be you know. It's just I'm looking through it and I can't believe I picked this out, But I'm gonna keep going. Humidity supports bacterial growth. Our beds get sweaty even in the cooler months. Given we spend much of the day in bed. That's a lot pathogens. Diseases, viruses also transfer to your sheets, making hygiene important. Dirty bed can make you more susceptible to those pathogens if you're vulnerable as you get older, or if you're pregnant, or you have a immune condition, or you're in chemotherapy. But there's a price side. If you're in good health, you don't have much to fear from your sheets. It will not make us sick if we sleep in a dirty bed. It may even protect us, supporting growth of friendly bacteria and training up our immune system to respond onto threats. In this case, the biggest repercussion from sleeping in the filth that is our sheets is likely to be social. The way it smells, you don't like it much, But if you shower in the mornings, the sheets aren't a problem. The short answer, there's a strong case for keeping your sleeping quarters clean if the pleasure of drifting off in fresh sheets is an incentive enough. It's a matter of how gross is too gross, how clean is too clean. But you may not know how dirty your bed is in the first place. After all, if we're only sleeping, where does it all the bacteria come from? So they go through the good side, they go through the best. I'm trying to get to how often you should really watch your sheets, and it looks like, you know, ugh, it looks like about once a week is when you should try to do it, because it goes on when it starts talking about pets, I just can't read that because you would be really grossed out. You got to think about your cats, right, your furry cat that's in their bed and you're like, oh, you so sweet, it is so amazing. But remember your cat goes to a litter box and it scratches around in that little box because the greatest thing of the world, right, you put that new litter and they can't wait to get in it, and they're scratching around in the filth that is them, right, And then they take that to your bed and I don't mean to say the word right. I'm not going to say the word right again, but they scratch around and then they get in bed with you. Look up whether those feet had been your dog that goes out in the yard. What did your dog sometimes grab and eat and put and walk through that's in your bed. It's not just the pathogens that are with you and on you. It's them too, so and then how often do you shower? Do you get in there after you've been dirty all day? But you know, I why did I even? I don't even when I'm looking at this, I can't believe I picked that on Thanksgiving A twenty twenty five. I could have gone out on a really high note, good on it, something amazing, and I picked bed sheets. And if I read this to you, you guys would want to shower from now until Thanksgiving. You wouldn't even see your fan. The good news is put clean sheets on your bed when your company comes, and when they leave, promptly strip the beds and wash the sheets. And while you're doing it, wash your own sheets. That should be one way to do it. That would be an absolute way to do it. So I'm going to go back to the aliens. I do want to give you a final thing on the dal Joneses and p all of those up to day, Dow up almost a point, Nasdaq app almost a point, and the markets I mean, I mean a point a percentage point. So these are pretty tremendous gains heading into the Thanksgiving weekend. Back to the UFO discovery thing, because it's much more interesting as we get to the top of the hour. The UAPs formerly known as UFOs, have been visiting Earth for decades, and the US government knows about it. According to the new documentary The Age of Disclosure, it's one hundred and ten minute independently made documentary by Dan Farah. Farah, a debut director, spent three years making this seeking out sources with direct knowledge of the government's work in it. While the film could have been dismissed as conspiracy theory theory, he sought to boost credibility from interviewing thirty members of the US government, from high ranking folks that I just mentioned earlier, like Marco Rubio to people in that community. The film also includes clips from congressional hearings about UAPs and makes clear that there is a major by hype artisan support for the proposed Disclosure Act, and in fact, Trump or a subsequent president would likely have a massive impact by disclosing the truth of what is going on there. I think it's only a matter of time before the release of the film is followed by a sitting president stepping to the podium and telling the world We're not alone in the universe, said the director. It's the most significant moment a leader could possibly have. One of the key voices in the film is Jay Stratton, former Defense Intelligence Agency official and director of the government's UAP Task Force. I have seen, he said, with my own eyes, non human craft, non human beings, he says. And so if you I'm not trying to promote it, over it, but check it out if you can. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.